What are the chances for FF13 being the best Final Fantasy game?

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MontanaHatchet said:

twesterm said:
Considering SE's track record in the last 10 years, incredibly slim.

I'm guessing it will be really high in the huge flashy cut scenes and pretty graphics and probably even have decent to good gameplay but it will fail miserably in the parts that really matter: story, characters, and music.

That speaks for a lot of games. Also, do things like story and music matter more than gameplay now? People seem to be really out of touch with JRPGs or something.

People meaning...you? JRPG's are the one genre where gameplay often takes a backseat to story, characters, and atmosphere. Who the hell slogs through thousands of tedious random battles for the fun of it? Why are JRPG's with lame gameplay like FF7 but intriguing, involved stories and well-loved characters so phenomeonally popular? Are Bioware games so damn good because of the, uh, gameplay or excellent writing and sharp plotting? If that's how you think RPG's work than I dont think you're really a true RPG fan.

If games ever want to become art (which I think is incredibly possible in so many different ways), I think RPG's are the closest they've come yet.