Mirson said:
I take it you haven't played FFXII. The maps were open for the most part. This is just straight line; just move forward and that's it. Four years of waiting and we get a game that goes backward. No thanks; I'm renting it but will probably buy it if the side quests are good. |
I played all of FFXII. And while you could technically say it was less linear than past FF games, it wasn't exactly 'open ended'. The story was extremly linear. And aside from the main story, the only thing to do was hunts, search for espers or grind in the same areas you had already been to. So in other words, you could say FFX or nearly any other FF game is 'Open ended' by the same definition. Since in those games, you could return to the past areas and grind/do side quests. But the bulk of the game was still extremly linear, pointed you in one direction on a set path (via cutscenes and NPC direction) and was the majority of the content of the game.