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    Economics of Game Prices

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    I'm an atheist, simply, because atheism is the default position in the universe. You don't DISPROVE something, you PROVE it, and theists of any kind haven't presented sufficient empirical evidence to prove the existence of a god of any kind. Just wanted to point that out, since apparently all it takes is someone saying, "You're not logically sound" for it to be true on the internet, as opposed to illustrating WHY with valid deductions.

    Tangential, I know, but I wanted to clarify that.

    what about voodoo and all that stuff.

    Final Fantasy XIII..... 2?

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    The biggest mystery lies in...the user score

    Because why is it so high? Why is it that people I know in real life don't like it, yet the "user score" is high? Did someone make a bunch of accounts to boost it up? It's possible. Have we all just been coincidentally exposed to the people who hated it? Possible. Are the ones who enjoyed it too shy to speak up? Maybe. Or maybe the people who like it are the ones who don't forum.

    I haven't played the game myself. Naturally I can't judge. But it's just interesting how, not just on the internet, there are people who will got at length to explain to you why it sucks, and yet on a survey (user score), most people loved it. I thought it's supposed to go the other way around, the survey number is low because only those who hated it would bother to take the survey, while most people who you ask about it would enjoy it. Statistics class fails again.

    tl;dr we might as well be debating abortion.

    Final Fantasy XIII..... 2?

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    alright here's how it is. both zircon and phoenix are right (actually i havent read any of zircon's posts they're not emotional enough)

    They're both right, I'm guessing, based upon the sides of the argument that they represent. The critics loved it, yes, and the user score is pretty high too, as well. However, the whole thing with people returning the game and the price dropping really fast clearly means something. As you guys might remember, FF13 sold shit tons the day it came out in Japan. If many people shortly thereafter sold the game, then it's not like Squeenix lost any money from that, a sold unit is a sold unit (Unless they had to recall it, which they didn't, therefore irrelevant). But it does represent consumer dissatisfaction.

    So yeah the critics loved it, but there's a reason why many of us hear people complain about the game, and it's not just because fans are a bunch of whiny bastards. And really anything could be used to explain the high critic score, maybe they appreciate non-absolute shit games more than we do. Or maybe they were "bought off". Or maybe they're otakus. Or maybe. With the user score though, think about how much effort it takes to make an account and then vote on something. I actually think there'd be less of an incentive to make one as a person who hated the game versus someone who loved it.

    Final Fantasy

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    it may come down to taste, but...too much of anything can kill its awesomeness. when cloud first omnislashed, im sure those of us who were 6 or 7 when that game came out were like "whoa awsum". but now that essentially every character can omnislash it's not cool. i found the fight scenes in advent children to be completely boring.

    his death in the original was a bunch of soldiers chasing him down and killing him

    his death in crisis core was a bunch of soldiers chasing him down and killing him

    ‾\(º_o)/‾

    like, two or three soldiers in the original.

    but yeah that last line pretty much sums up video game/literature related arguments in general. i could care less if someone thought my favoritest vidya game was shits (see: sonic 3), i just want to hear someone else's opinion.

    Final Fantasy

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    grr why would we make anything more new and better this is a terrible choice especially if square is doing it because square is now cool which makes me hate it

    wait what the

    actually a lot of the stuff in the prequels and sequels that people thought were retcons are things that were mentioned or developed outright in the japanese script but then not translated well or at all in the english translation

    the best example is reno's personality "change"; this is the way he was always supposed to be

    i think he's talking more about stuff like zack getting killed by an entire army and all the high flying azn fighting in advent children. it's dumb.

    3DS Preorders Starting 12/26

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    really with the 3ds it seems like it would be wisest to wait the next couple years for the obligatory redesign. by then glasses-less 3d will be more refined, the price will have gone down, and yeah maybe they'll get a better battery. not to mention there'll be a ton of good games on the market by that point.

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