Best game ever

[Belugn]

X-2 had a vibrant game play and soundtrack, but that was all really. Why didn't they do something EPIC instead now that they just COULDN'T leave X alone as it was, a perfect game. (Imo.)

..I keep forgetting that there actually is a Dirge of Cerberus game, I don't know like. ANYTHING about that game at all. Except that it's got Vincent in it, heh.

To me FFXII had lots of replay value, since I got really attached to Ivalice and wanted to learn more, and luckily there is more to learn about that world everywhere in the game! And the esper hunts were fun, even though the espers themselves perhaps could've been a little more useful than...just plain useless. That you had to summon Belias at a certain point in the game to get further was kinda cool though, it'd been fun if they could be used as "keys" at other places in the game too.

[Locke4God]

I'm going to go ahead and reassess my love for this game, and as you'll note at the request of several early posters.

I'm not going to call it the best game ever. I think I'll have to fall back to my personal ongoing debate between 7 & 8, although this one might still make that conversation by the end. I'm not quite done yet, but at the start of this posting I was about 18 hours in, and now I'm at 100. So pretty far along.

I still love the towns. I am so happy to have had a game with living towns with dozens and dozens of people running around and different things to do on occassion. I think the way the Hunts are orchestrated by the townfolk really help bring them to life as well, and there are little things you can do to help with various NPC's that are fun.

But the downsides are 2 fold. Every area is a 7-8 section map with more or less the same thing over and over in each area. I didn't mind any one section, but you walk into an area, and you know right off that you have to walk through 7 more areas just like it.

Second is the Espers & battles. Neither were very interesting. I have rarely, and I mean just once or twice found a battle that I actually had to strategize for. Most, even the big battles, you just let your guys fight with their gambits, and occassionally tweak one or two things. And of course the Espers aren't very useful in most circumstances, so I'm going to have to reconsider my overall score for this game, and it's going to slide a bit I think. We'll see.