Mass effect 2 or FFXIII who will win?

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Pristine20 said:
To sum up this thread:

360 fans: ME2 may not win NA but it will be better than FFXIII

Everyone else: FFXIII will sell more than ME2 everywhere and will be better too.

Personally, I really don't care what the sales of either games are but I know I'm picking up FFXIII and skipping ME2 even if it came to PS3. I simply prefer JRPGs to WRPGs.

People seem to think it's a crime for games to be linear nowadays. Everyone is looking for multiple endings, multiple paths etc. Movies are all linear but we still watch them multiple times. I've played ffxii(the awfully boring one) 3 times over. I didn't need multiple endings for motivation. I prefer straight forward storylines where all the effort goes into pushing that path not multiple half-assed paths. I'd also rather have 60 hours of playthrough in one storyline than play the game multiple times to get 60 hours because I want to see a different ending.

I generally enjoy WRPG's more, but I agree to an extent RE the multiple endings and linear comments you made.  For me, Mass Effect offered the perfect balance.  Just a couple of alternate endings, and only a few, very well done, winding paths.  But Oblivion for example, I did not enjoy.  The title gave me far too much freedom.  On the other hand, I loved Lost Odyssey, which was extremely linear, and I loved Fable, which was also quite linear.  I adored Fable 2, which was not linear, but also did not throw you into a world and say do what you like (story-wise at least, you could do anything else).