Why People Are Not Liking FFXIII

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

ZenfoldorVGI said:
I think a better question, OP, is "why are people loving FFXIII?" and the answer is, because it's great, I'd assume, and so do many players. Every FF, from VII on out(as is made perfectly clear in this thread) is "love it or hate it." If you've loved them all so far, good bet is that you'll love this one.

Every FF except XII has been very linear, and everybody hated XII(but me) so WTF, lol? That's the big complaint? The game isn't even going good at 20 hours, and all the minimaps are linear on all the FF's except for the random chest cubbies and crannies, for the first 20, jeez.

More people love it, than hate it, and that means it's already doing better than every FF since VII.

I think you have a very warped view of Final Fantasy.  Or, more likely, you're mixing the American Western extremist view with the Japanese fanbase.  Which they loved FFVIII and X.  It can be argued that the reason FFXIII might be showing signs of being more of a conglomeration of all the past PlayStation Final Fantasy games (from FFVII-XII) is because the Japanese fanbase has been a strong supporter of all the major Playstation Final Fantasy games across the board, except FFIX.