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@trickybuz93

Shipped is fairly close to sold. Retailers are not in the habit of stockpiling product, they attempt to maintain a just in time system. Storage and financing of large volumes of product make it too expensive for that 10.5 million shipped to be significantly larger than what was actually sold. Businesses are in it to make a profit, and large volumes of unsold merchandise = less profit.

@FuzzyPierce

It looks to be made from physical models, not computer graphics. That's probably why it looks generic.

Things like the OBL killing require a significant portion of the population to lack any kind of personal emotional connection to the events before such things tend to be OK to talk about. Events like 9/11 are incredibly emotional. But kids who are starting to enter middle school have no memories of the events. They'll be watching them unfold on the silver screen in dramatizations and playing video games based on the war in Afghanistan with little to no controversy surrounding them.

Making Schindler's List would have been impossible to make and market in 1950, but because it waited 40 some years, it was a classic. Today's events aren't going to be any different.

@(Unverified)

It's usually OK by the time anyone who can remember OBL is in their 80s.

No matter what kind of game it is, always buy the rope.

@marumarumaru

RPGs are supposed to be interactive films. Story is THE main reason for them to exist. Without a solid story then what's the point? A meaningless trudge through endless battles? That's what MMOs are for. If I just wanted to grind through battle after battle that was strung together with a barely coherent story I will just ignore, I'll re-up my subscription to World of Warcraft.

A RPG, especially a chance and equation based one like Final Fantasy, REQUIRES a strong story. The game is barely interactive as it is, if we want to just skip through all the dialogue and cutscenes, then why bother at all?

It's all in the balance. If you're making a game whose main mechanic is to press a button then sit back and watch a 30 second summoning movie, it had better have something worth following in the story department. If your story is just a thin McGuffin (glazed or otherwise), you'd better have an intensely interactive gameplay element, such as Skyrim or Amalur.

The holy grail, of course, is both, but one of them at least has to have some degree of solid interaction or the entire game will fail. As it stands, Final Fantasy and many other JRPGs have started to combine the rapid fire action of the Ace Attorney series with the deeply philosophical narrative of Unreal Tournament.

@Fruity Pebbles

If Hope or Snow died, I would probably cheer. I wouldn't have to deal with them from that point forward.

@KGameLover1

Forced alliteration.

@Styli

I wish I could reset the PS3 with a rockin guitar power chord.

@Traptz

Try picking something other than the blue dialogue option and you'll get the story. Also read the in-game books.