*incoming without a bunch of screencaps*
What they showed this time was thankfully much less glitchy and buggy. I was a bit worried yesterday.
Oooh, I can't wait to play this game. >__< If there was no delay it would just be a couple more days to wait.
I think I'm pretty much the opposite of everyone else but I'm glad the game goes into a linear structure. I like pushing on towards the end of the story. I actually appreciated that about XIII. Can't wait to finish the first half of the game.
It depends on the kind of linearity. Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) is a good example. It too switched it's wide open levels for more linear, circumscribed ones towards the end of the game and you somehow felt the urge to push ahead in the story. Still you had the choice or the illusion of a choice to do/experience some other stuff.
I don't ever want a FF like FFXIII again where you are forced to run down corridors for 20 hours. Where towns and shops and NPCs are floating terminals. That was horrible and imo not what a Final Fantasy is about at all. That's a whole different kind of linear action adventure genre.
I'm hopeful the second, more linear part of the game is more like Xenoblade and less like FXIII.
Aso one tiny screenshot.