A Neil Goldman-lookalike and soundalike has posted a video on Youtube expressing his ... dissatisfaction with yesterday's announcement that Final Fantasy XIII will be go multiplatform. This "expert" in Japanese culture offers to the "gaming community" the consequences of Square-Enix's actions. He encourages us all to sign an online petition requesting an apology from Square-Enix and changing FFXIII back to a PS3 exclusive. Watch especially for the toast he offers at 1:38! Some real comedy gold here.
[Yes, we are aware this is Kevin Bowen of Something Awful. It doesn't make it any less hilarious. Apparently the people at PetitionOnline.com caught on as well, as the petition has been taken down.]













Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
7-15-2008 @ 8:50PM
SpiderMike said...
Waste of time. The decision has been made and no amount of signatures will change anything.
Pathetic.
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7-15-2008 @ 10:23PM
brad L said...
dude whoever wrote this petition is dumb. no matter what the playstation owners say, all square enix cares about is whether or not the xbox version is goi ng to sell, which it is going to do no matteerr what. i mean i understand you're pissed. because so am i, considering its one fourth of the reason i paid twice as much for a ps3, the other three fourths being metal gear solid 4, gran turism 55, and socom confrontation . i mean what are you going to say to square enix to convince them to keep it exclusive? that you arent going to buy it if its multi plattfform? they'll say fine, miss out on the best and only true blooded rpg on the ps3. fuck that. im pissed, but at least ill still be able to play it. also, ill actually be able to talk to myy friends and people i work wiith aboutt the game, because i dont even know anyone who owns aa ps3, except in cyber space. GOOD LUCK WITH WASTING YOUR TIME!
7-16-2008 @ 12:03AM
KarlW said...
brad: Not at all. If Square can get a good number of sales in NA/EU, without spending extra porting everything over to the 360, they'd take it in a heartbeat.
That said, they'd look like idiots for announcing it, if they later changed their minds.
7-15-2008 @ 8:54PM
TypeF said...
wow....
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7-16-2008 @ 3:37AM
Deadpool said...
Wow, Indeed.
It's almost as if I can feel him spitting on me through the computer screen! o_o
7-15-2008 @ 8:59PM
Dwag said...
A waste of time wasn't even funny.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:02PM
clif said...
Technically, final fantasy games have gone multiplatform before ff13. I mean look at the ps 1 re-releases. I clearly understand that they had been out as first nintendo exclusives on the snes but really nobody complained about those games on the ps 1.
It's still on the ps3 and will probably have trophy support, maybe even it's own home room. I don't understand why people are so upset. I mean multiplatform helps the brand out. It's also good to point out that it's just been announced it doesn't mean it's going to better.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:03PM
koolkid said...
he looks and sound like niel goldman from family guy
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7-15-2008 @ 9:04PM
Jangaboo said...
lol i thought it was hilarious
it is a joke video
its the same guy who voiced the joke post of this http://ffxiii360.ytmnd.com/
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7-15-2008 @ 9:04PM
XeroKool said...
I saw this vid this morning before the Nintendo/Sony e3 conferences. This guy is hilarious.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:07PM
Psy said...
But seriously. F*ck Square.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:23PM
Christopher said...
I'm glad 360 is getting it too. Beside, PS3 is getting Versus and 360 isn't, so stop whining.
7-15-2008 @ 9:26PM
Psy said...
I could care less if 360 gets it or not. What I care about is that we have to wait until it gets ported to 360 before we get it.
7-15-2008 @ 9:15PM
Nick said...
Obvious troll is obvious.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:23PM
Christopher said...
Gah, giving this goon airtime is giving him what he wants. Keep this idiot and all of Something Awful off these boards at least in the official article spaces.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:26PM
dirtypop said...
FF7 and FF8 were released on PC. Maybe FF13 will be too.
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7-15-2008 @ 9:34PM
Albanian_Killa said...
He looks more like the guy from Beauty and the Geek lol
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7-15-2008 @ 9:43PM
MartyK2500 said...
F*ck em man, i feel the same as when ff7 was supposed to release on N64 , ps1 made me mad as hell.I bought the ps1 for the square franchise.Just hope i wont have to change my ps3 now for the new jrpg console(x360)...
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7-15-2008 @ 9:45PM
Riley Freeman said...
i dont get why the petition was taken down?
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7-15-2008 @ 10:12PM
tenten said...
i dunno..however there is a petition here :D
>> http://www.petitiononline.com/ffstate1/petition.html