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Post subject: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
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Criticism of blockbuster RPG Final Fantasy XIII has rapidly mounted, with the initial observation that the game is almost comically linear giving way to a litany of further dissatisfactions, many quite unavoidable even for the game’s many staunch defenders. Quote: The whole game is completely linear until halfway through [approximately 20 hours].
There are hardly any towns.
The party is always fixed. The whole game just repeats the movie-battle sequence over and over [In fact the progression is closer to movie-run-battle-run-movie-boss-movie-run-battle…].
There are rather a lot of movies.
Moving around is like a long marathon.
The whole game system is just a clone of FF10.
You can’t flee battles [You can’t avoid most battles either as there is no sneaking past enemies, including weak ones].
Your party is completely healed after each battle.
If the main character in your party dies it is game over [There are only ever 3 characters in battle, often less, and often fixed].
The best tactic is almost always endlessly attacking. There is next to no strategy or skill involved.
The summons’ transformation scenes are a joke [i.e. Odin turning into a horse].
The story is rubbish… [Spoilers omitted, but complaints centre on Snow’s constant and cringe inducing insistence that he is a hero and will “protect” whatever it is the antagonists are menacing this time]
Shopping is only done at “online” shops on save points, with no proper shops to be found.
However, this doesn’t matter as you hardly ever get any money [and you can never buy anything more powerful than what you already looted].
There have been next to no changes from the demo.
The status screen displays no real information.
There are only 8 items usable in combat [For that matter, there are hardly any weapons or accessories, and the “crafting” system mostly consists of spending drops to upgrade their 2 stats].
There are no levels.
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:49 pm |
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this is why I have no hope for the game. go back to FF9 (which was thier last good one). graphics were good even if it were cartoony but, the cut scenes were amazing the story line was good. the gameplay was not the best but it IS better than 10 or 12.
if this is the best they have got to put out a FF game its time to put RIP in front of all the square/enix shit. either square has to get enix out of making the FF series or all hope is lost.
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:06 pm |
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I think that the nail in the coffin is the excessive amounts of in game movies and that what little gameplay is left has now been crippled by the game being as linear as a piece of string.
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:41 am |
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I wish I had more time and money to write reviews, but unfortunately I end up writing a whole damned NOVEL instead of a summation when I write, plus I rarely buy games new and renting new releases is an effort in futility.
Anyways, I watched the IGN video review of Final Fantasy XIII and it's almost laughable. They scored it an 8.9 for the following:
- Great Visuals
- Great Cast
- Great Story
- Too Linear
- Great Combat System
- Can only play 1 character at a time
They kept re-iterating the phrase "not the best Final Fantasy game" which makes me suspicious of whether or not that .9 at the end of their rating was due to one of the following:
- FF fanboyism/bias
- SquareEnix wrote a check that pushed that reflected that '0.9' but with the decimal point pushed about five or six places to the right.
Now I haven't played the game, but it's getting substandard reviews (for a FF game anyways). Has anybody had a chance to actually play it? What are your thoughts?
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:45 am |
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It looks and plays like Final Fantasy 12 so far but it isn't bad at all.
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:30 pm |
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Ooooh fuck is my girlfriend going to be disappointed.
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
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I'm going to be disappointed. I miss the turn-based system...
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:08 pm |
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Day 1 purchase! FFXIII kicks serious ass. It aint really a RPG anymore and plays like an action game but the action is intense. Reviewers say that the game looks bad on the XBOX but thats crap. FFXIII is spectacular.
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:32 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Final Fantasy XIII is a bad game
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:58 am |
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gambit69 wrote: Day 1 purchase! FFXIII kicks serious ass. It aint really a RPG anymore and plays like an action game but the action is intense. Reviewers say that the game looks bad on the XBOX but thats crap. FFXIII is spectacular. it only looks bad if you compare it to the PS3 graphics. 
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