Final Fantasy XIII

[BumblebeeCody]

(01-19-2013 09:47 AM)Ouberry_13 Wrote:  I've already mentioned on other threads my feelings towards FF13: I hate it. Plain and simple. My reason for hating it has to deal with the characters and story. The gameplay is ridiculously easy and almost pointless due to the auto-battle option (which begs the question why have gameplay if you're gonna put in such an option), so there's no real issue I have with that...

Honestly, Sazh is the only character I can stand, mainly due to the fact he's the most human of all the characters. Plus, he has guns. Any FF character who uses guns is automatically placed in my 'not as stupid as the others' list.

The only other issue I have with the game is that the game never explains anything. You're just supposed to know what a Fal'Cie is and what it does, because the game never tells you. Same goes for what being turned into an L'Cie means in this world. Same for just about everything. The only source of information is either the internet or the in-game datalogs, which is such bullshit. An in-game library like that should never be used for explaining everything, instead it should be used to expand upon what the player learns from the story.

Auto battle wasn't as simple as people though. You had the role of Commando and only a few moves, so selecting auto-battle would select those attacks available to you instead of wasting time. If you were a Ravager, auto-battle would use your default Ravager techniques and so-on. Auto-battle was a smart system and really didn't take away from gameplay since you could manual select the moves.

Everything else though I agree with. Sazh was a cool dude and hard to dislike. Snow was OK but a serious knobhead that was seriously...dumb. I liked Fang as well. Mature and had a good role in the series. Knew what her fate was but also carried the burden of what she did to Vanille. Fang and Sazh seemed normal. Never really in your face. EVERY character in FFXIII really matures into a great character(apart from your personal favourite (@ Xannidel)).

The story Fal'Cie, L'Cie etc etc is all BS. It was explained in the back story of the chapter notes but meh. It's a meh story even if you read that.