Let’s sit around the warm and cozy internet fire and have a litttle nerd time, shall we?
I will admit something that may or may not come as a shocker: I love Final Fantasy. I know I’m not the only one. My love all for Final Fantasy is about as deep as they come. I’ve played FF for years: I have many adolescent and adult hours hours glued to my SNES, PS1, PS2, Nintendo DS, and now my PS3. Now that I have extolled my deep and historic love for the series, let’s change gears. Oh ye Game gods, open-up the flood gates and let the nerd rage flow in… I HATE FF XIII.
First, way too many cut scenes. For example, during chapter 3, I’d play for about 3 minutes, be interrupted by some very fancy looking scene that would last another 6 minutes, and then go back to have the same cycle repeat. Sure, it was pretty. But it gets old, fast. Especially if you die during battle and have to watch the whole cut scene over again.
Next, there seems to be a lack of skill required. You walk along, you fight mercilessly and without strategy, you survive, and your health is restored at the end of the battle. YAWN. Try again, Square Enix.
Last, the architecture seems weird. There are no levels. There are no shops (you just buy materials at save points). And that whole linear-progression until you are deep in the game.
It felt like a giant disappointment. But don’t get me wrong, you know I’ll be playing FF XIV in September. I just don’t know when to walk away.
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” I have many adolescent and adult hours hours glued to my SNES”
once again why weren’t we friends in highschool?
Seriously for me FF was a big snooze fest after 8 on the ps2. That started my hate deep and long for the FF series. Seriously the monster would level up with you, begs the question WTF IS THE POINT OF LEVELING UP. Grrr. Maybe I am just older now, I feel like im wasting my life finally WATCHING 80 hours of shit.
Really, been so done with FF since 8
You pose good critiques. I still stuck with it because of legacy – 7 was so amazing that I kept hoping that it would achieve its former glory.
it was gorgeous for the time on the PsOne, but ARG pointless gameplay drove me nuts.
I just cannot stomach the turn based RPG’s anymore, saddly must be my old age. Adventure games like Red Dead Redemption, hells yes! Even action RPG’s like fable YES and even ones that are semi action like Fallout on the xbox360, oh my god such a good game.