FFXiii gets my vote from what I've seen (live streams). Ultimately, we can only judge by playing the games ourselves. Who's to say that FFXIII would be significantly affected by such a thing as a lack of NPCs and towns? People ae really sipping on the anti-FF kool aid this time around.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler