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		<title>I Should Be The Only Game Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clint Blizzard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game design]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been playing Final Fantasy XIII lately after receiving it from Gamefly, and I will say I&#8217;m enjoying it enough. (Moreso than the last game I received, Bioshock 2, which completely failed to grab me in any manner.) It&#8217;s not as special or gripping as Final Fantasy IX or Kingdom Hearts II, but it&#8217;s enjoyable.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the problem. I&#8217;m still working my way through its decidedly <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/4/14/" target="_blank">33-hour tutorial</a> and I&#8217;ve realized that, while making the experience smooth to ease into (or possibly easy to smooth into), I now have no reason to buy their sixty dollar game because I will <em>never replay it from the beginning.</em></p>
<p>When it takes five hours to get to the part of the game where you can do something besides run forward into battle and select Auto-battle, never will I have the patience to sit through that again knowing that I could be experiencing the excitement of <em>switching paradigms</em> AND selecting Auto-battle.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to mention that I had Listerine in my mouth for the entire duration of writing this post.</p>
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