Hey, did any of you pick up Dragon Quest 8 today? I got it this afternoon, and just from watching my roommate play around with it while I was doing some work it looks like it'll be a very fun classic RPG. It looks like it's going to be very hard too.
It also came with a playable FFXII demo which I just played and it looks amazing. I personally didn't think FFXII was going to be that great, but the graphics look good, and the battle system is a real time almost MMO WoW type interface which I think really works. You control 3 guys, but mostly you control the leader of the group while the other 2 party members randomly attack or cast spells, but you can manually force the other characters to heal or cast a magic spell or what not. The magic spells in the game aren't that visually stunning. Nothing really stuck out in my mind, but the one summon monster they gave me looked amazing.
Of course, the good graphics and pretty fun gameplay may still be flawed. I want to know how skills are learned and what not, and whether the story is any good or not.