CellNecrosis

How about the ability to choose maps in public multiplayer matches? Would make getting those last achievements a little easier.

I wonder if the Helghast will now have one red eye and one green eye.

Let me perhaps echo Baba-Jii's sentiments in a little less troll-ish fashion...
I've played VI, VII, VIII, X, and X-2 before this one. I'm about 13 hours in. Never have I felt that I was so unnecessary to what is happening on-screen. Many people may like the fact that the game can basically fight the whole battle for you, but I do prefer the earlier games where you chose your targets, whom to heal, who would defend instead of attack, etc. There's no strategy (thus far) in the battles in FFXIII. All you have to do is rapidly tap A through everything. When you get the paradigm ability a few hours in, all you have to do is...still tap A, but then just switch to a paradigm with a medic once someone gets hit, then switch back when they're healed. This is not strategy, folks.
Of the course the graphics of better, but this game's story, mood, and music doesn't hold a candle to the Super NES FFVI that came out in 1994. But most of you were probably too young to remember or play it.

Many of you are acting the same way that people acted when FFVII came out...that it's the best thing ever.
FFXIII's production values are great, and even its story is just now starting to become a little tugging.
Having said that, I have played VI, VII, VIII, X, and X-2, and I am about twelve hours into FFXIII right now. I must say that out of all of them, this one takes the cake for giving me a sense that very little of what is happening on the screen is due to my actions. Some people like the fact that the game chooses all your battle actions, characters to heal, restores your status and HP after a battle, but I don't think I've felt I was so unnecessary in a game. I've practically gone throughout all the battles just mashing on A, with the occasional paradigm switch when someone drops below half health. Sorry guys, but this requires NO strategy. For games like FFVI (which most of you were probably too young to play or remember), you had to think about who to heal, who would attack or defend, etc. More work, but a hell of a lot more fun.
Again, I'm enjoying FFXIII's story, but that's just about it. I will keep playing, though. But it's not just nostalgia. With the obvious exception of graphics, FFVI was superior in every way, shape, and form.

360 owners, just get Perfect Dark instead. Two-thirds the price of this map pack for like ten times the value should be a no-brainer.

Jeez,
Lost Planet 2, Alan Wake, Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and ModNation Racers are all coming out within a week. A very expensive time to be a multiplatform owner.

"...$50, a modest discount for anyone who didn't pick up the original RE5 when it dropped last March."

I don't see how. You can pick up RE5 for $30 (or as low as $20 some places), and then two $5 add-on DLC packs do not add up to $50.

Haha...when Microsoft announced last June that PD would be available in winter, they weren't kidding!

I came.

I never owned an original Xbox so I don't care, but I wonder how strange it will be for some that you can play Perfect Dark and Super Street Fighter II over Live, but not Halo.