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Who has picked this up so far?

And how are you finding the game?

I got it a couple of days ago.. bought Duncan's duplicate copy from him. I'll let him tell you guys about how Future Shop burned him.

Anyway... I played for about an hour and the CG is awesome. Not much gameplay yet, but the little bit that I did play, it was pretty good. Gameplay is solid and seems "simpler" to get used to than the previous ones. The screen moves around to follow the action though, but it moves too much for my liking. It makes me motion sick, so I can't play it for long periods of time at once.

Great graphics, great gameplay... annoying sub-main character though.

played about 8 hrs in so far. I find it very simple. There's not much challenge, and the game funnels you through the game play and force feeds you the story. I haven't played many of the recent final fantasy games but the last one i played was FFX i think. FFXIII just seems like a "my very first final fantasy" type intro game. There isn't any open world exploration, and not being able to control other characters in your party kinda sucks. Things seem to have been dumbed down quite a bit. Everything is super simple and very easy to understand. Not that a game should be complex, but this seems like a little overkill. Maybe i'm just a hard core ff fanboy. Although the paradigm shift functionality is admittedly pretty cool.

The game play is fun nonetheless, and the graphics are the best i've seen of any game i've played so far. I like the battle system. It's pretty ingenious how they've set it up.

All in all, it's not what i expected, but it's still fun. The characters are a bit emo though.

P.S. Futureshop should redefine what "Pre-Order" means. WTF... how can a preorder be out of stock on release day!? WTFF...

LOL isn't pre-ordering's purpose to make sure they have enough stock on release day? fail.

What's funnier is, on the day that FS told Dunc they didn't have enough stock for his pre-order, Alicia walked into Superstore and picked up a copy just like that.

and then a day after that, FS said they shipped me a copy and i got the FS copy a couple days later... WTF.. AWESOME communication...

yeah, same thing happened to me when i ordered a kid to show up on april 15 but came on april 2 instead. ruined my week. i missed the auto show. so anyone want to go this year?

Sure, I'm game

sweet. set it up.

haha, way to hijack the thread...

when's the autoshow?

auto show is end of this month.
you can google "auto show vancouver" and i think there's a countdown timer.

i wonder if they'll have 2011 models on display...

sometimes they have concepts and stuff, but not always. it's nothing like the ny show or even toronto show (neither of which i've been to, btw).

stop being a pretender... haha

when are the 2011 models out? june/july?