Rahxephon91 said:
Why because I like XIII and VI? Sorry can't help that. I sure hope I find out that you like some supposedly terrible game. Your not a Heavy Rain fan are you? But the truth is, I've been playing a lot of old FF games because of the recent release of 4 and well now I see a lot of these problems people have with 13 exist to a sometimes worse extent in these old games. And quite honestly I don't get what people want or expect from FF. I don't see how XIII is some offensively bad game in the series compared to other installments. Story? FFVIII and FFIV are pretty terrible. Ease of battle system? X is basically pick the corresponding character and the older games are pretty basic as well. Towns? Exploration? The older games may not be straight lines and when they are they hide it better, but it's not like they are some open worlds filled with mighty treasures and side quests. Most side quests are just extra monsters to attack and hell in 6's case a lot of the towns are boring and look the same. And it's not like these old FFs have fantastic dungeon design either. Character desgins? While nothing touches the desgins of VI and VIII it's not like XIII is at all terrible compared to the stuff in VII. Is it the leveling system? Look at XII it's leveling system might as well not exist. The license board is terrible and boring. Everyone will become the same, the only way for them no to is to gimp them yourself. Till this day VIII still makes no sense to me and I just become overpowered anyway. I just can't wrap my head around why XIII is considered so terrible when it shares many faults that it's peers have. Well I mean I get why some dislike it, but not why it's some terrible unforgivable installment.
Older FF games give you linear goals in open levels.
FFXIII gives you a literal linear level design. Hours and hours of a straight line. They don't even hide it.
Older FFs had "bad stories" in the sense that they were simplistic fantasy plays (IV) or teenage fantasy animes with insane plot twists (VIII).
FFXIII has a bad story in that scenes are only dramatic in the sense that characters say things angrily and dramatic music plays. The story does not earn these moments.. they're badly manufactured because the producers mandated "drama" be cobbled out of the random elements their artists had been generating blindly for years.
Old FF games had saturday morning cartoon villains.
FFXIII has villains that read like unsophisticated parodies of anime villains from people who hate anime. The villains motivations are tossed out in two or three lines that are borderline nonsensical even if you're invested with the attention of a fanboy.
FFXIII is
different from the others... lacking
a lot... that is so much a fact. Even my FF fanboy ass turned on it after a point, you may remember... I don't
hate it. I still valued my time with that flawed game. But yes, the hate is justified. You shouldn't be surprised by it.