FruitFcker

WHOA!

World Map? CHECK.
Towns? CHECK
Airships? CHECK
Great Music? CHECK
Chocobos? CHECK
Moogles? CHECK
Original FF Summons? CHECK

The Combat System looks like a Crisis Core/FFXII Hybrid--awesome--and the RTS elements actually look like fun.

HOLY CRAP GUYS IT'S AN ACTUAL FINAL FANTASY GAME. Day one buy.

First facebook game ever that I'll play. I had a great DnD group before I moved from America to the UK, and this might let us play together again.

@edofyingfilms

Tell me about it, man. It's like, I'm entitled to all these things, but I have to use my time and money in a responsible way to get them. What's up with that?

It seems like Ubisoft keeps making quality titles, in spite of their short development time. While I applaud it, and am sure Revelations will be good, I won't be buying. Why? I simply can't keep up. The last AC I bought was AC2; I missed Brotherhood, intending to pick it up, and now this is coming out. I can't get this until I finish 2, play all the way through Brotherhood and by then who knows how many AC games will be out?

Man. Life is hard.

Love the dev photo. The guy on the right has no idea what's going on and the guy on the left just crapped his pants.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I think this looks all right. Maybe it's because I'm not all invested in Dante as a character--he hardly has any character traits other than being and looking cool. Maybe he's "emo" looking, whatever that means, but the original Dante was just an anime stereotype anyway.

I really loved the original DMC, hated the second one, loved the third and never played the fourth. This, at least, has me interested.

Let's wait to play it and then judge.

@FruitFcker

Addendum:

This could also be a good game if they:

1. Give us back towns

2. Get a different composer. (The music in FFXIII was, at best, forgettable, and never synced with the environments).

3. Not have "Game Over" if your lead character is KO'd--just switch to another character.

4. Write a good plot.

Well, the combat looks all right, but the dialogue and writing are still absolutely terrible. The writing in XIII was so bad it made it nearly unplayable--luckily I hate a mute button on my TV.

Writing in FF games has never been fantastic--it's always been this melodramatic overuse of platitudes--but it wasn't a big deal when we could distance ourselves from it by reading the dialogue instead of being forced to hear it.

Ever since FFX, we've been forced to listen to manure pour out of character's mouths, along with every little loli squeak and sigh, and it's getting really old. (FFXII: you get a pass. Voice acting and writing were actually pretty good). And while SE has always given us the option for subtitles, there's never an option to turn off the voices and have *only* subtitles.

I'll make a deal with Square Enix. If they let me play this old-school--give me an option to turn off the voice audio but leave the music and SFX on--I'll buy this on day one. If not, I won't buy it at all.

Can't see myself playing hardcore games on this thing, and if I want casuals, I already have a wii. Maybe I'm getting old, but I just want to play video games without buying seventy controllers.

@Shadowbender

You've either got Abe's Oddysee or Abe's Exodus, the two original games in the series. Both really are fantastic--give them a try!