Does this also mean that bad movies make good movies less deserving of the label 'art'?

I think you lost me there...

The only real gripe I had about it was not being able to skip cutscenes. I know they are trying to build a strong story line, but I got tired of hearing about Oden pretty quick.

What really matters to me is the loot/item/store/crafting and I didn't get a chance to dig into that.

I don't think gizmo games are a novelty that will go away, as you see the market open up to a larger variety of people you will see more of a variety of games (not less).

Also, navigating the movie downloads on the xbox is only difficult if you're retarted.

Sam, what does MS have to do with Too Human. The game is developed by Silicon Knights. Yeah, MS is publishing it, but the suckiness of the demo is not their fault. On the graphics front, I remember hearing reviewers discuss the quality thereof, so either they're still living in 2001, or the demo has toned-down textures and meshes to better fit on the intertubes.

Finally, I don't understand the "Microsoft could use a boost in Japan" statement wrt FF. I've heard it elsewhere, and it just doesn't compute. Perhaps for an already-owns-an-Xbox Japanese person, this makes sense: they'll grab the Xbox version. But the number of 360 owners is so diminishingly small in Japan that I can't help but think that this will do nothing to change that. The PS3 version will sell well, and the Xbox version will just be there for the Japanese that already own an Xbox but not a PS3.

The Xbox FF is most important for American fans.

As for the "turn a key" thing--I've never had a problem with that function. However, I've only had to use it a handful of times with WarioWare and Lost Wind.

FF character design is all kinds of cheesey since Yoshitaka stopped doing it. That said, if FF doesn't have "Tactics" in the title, I'm not interested.

But it will make it fun to play WoW on a Wii.

That would be fun too.

But I doubt it will be Wii-capable, more likely the old PC/Mac/Linux paradigm.

http://myweb.cableone.net/eluttmann04/projects/vmcNetFlix/default.htm

Oh, and just for the record, there were no cat ears in FF12. Great voice acting, interesting dialogue - and they lost the standard Japanese stand-in-a-line combat. It was my first FF game, and I absolutely loved it. I'd love to hear what games you would put above it in a RPG genre, because frankly I think there hasn't been much out that compares.

I suppose the other question would be, and I ask this as a grown-ass gamer myself - have you actually played them?

I totally agree with wench above.

@18: If you want a better formulaic RPG, I'm fond of Lost Odyssey (made by a lot of people from the original FF teams). Allegiant to the old guard, yet somehow refreshing, and--at least at the outset--full of good acting, a good script, and compelling mini-stories tucked into the "dream" sections. Some people absolutely love to be sucked into 50-hour quests, even if the payoff is in the grind rather than a series of great stories or moments. But FF games have been doing the same thing for too long to get me jostled anew (FF12's "active" battle system is just a boring version of WoW without the fun of the latter's massive co-op). I'm happy being outside the fence on this issue with the Slog core gamers (nothin' new).