The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Squaresoft (nevermind the series) currently has less soul than modern-day Michael Jackson. They've turned this long-running series into a franchise within the last 2-3 years. They're dead to me!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I would say the same but I just bought it an hour ago. :P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I haven't finished a Final Fantasy game since VII, and I only played IX for about 2 hours. I also think the RPG genre as a whole has been hopelessly stagnant for the past three years. So, no, I don't care about FF X.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>Looks like a recycled FF8 to me.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Seriously though, I'm still looking foward to the the game, which will be my first game for the PS2 when I finally get one this week. It does annoy me that Square seems to be cranking these things out more than once a year now, but as long as they're enjoyable (the general consensus among friends is that FFX kicks some gluteus maximus), I'll keep buying 'em.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>FF8 is probably the closest to FF10 in terms of the feel of the game, especially with the graphic style.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Baskerville; text-align: left; '>Bought it yesterday...can't play it until tomorrow..</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No PS2 means no FFX........or MGS2, or SH2, or GT3...... :-(</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't have a PS2, so I can't play it, or MGS2, or GTA3, or any other good games for it. Might and Magic 9 for the PC's coming out in March, and I can't play that either. Current minimum specs call for a P II/400 MHz, and I only have a 300 MHz Celeron. Dammit I need some money..............</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>It's different from the others, but I'm loving it so far. Battles are the best the series has seen yet.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>They're a corporation. Their purpose is to make money. It's always been a franchise.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Because the characters look like people? Try it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Of course it is, but they kept up the whole false pretense of affectionate romanticization until 2 years ago.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Uh.... right. I don't recall the company's intentions ever waivering (well hell, who knew their intentions?)... they're just more sucessful now. (drunk message)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>And what prompted this conclusion?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>This gradually accelerated successive releases until the point where it's currently one game per 10 month period. Of course it's always been a franchise, Detective Friday, but you weren't hearing news and seeing advanced storyboards of FF9 during FF8's initial release as you did with FF10. They have the goddamn games working simultaneously, now. It's a well-publicized situation akin to an assembly line.

If you find something particularly romantic about mass production, let me know.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It just really sounds like "Bah! Kids these days."</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Actually, my gripe with it is that they've broken the number one rule of the entertainment biz - always leave your audience wanting more. That's why I have little to no interest in FF10.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Hmm. How have they done that?</div>