Final Fantasy Showdown Round #8 -- Rate FF12 & FF13! (Last round)

[PureDante]

FFXII:

FFXII was a major let down, imo. I as well preordered the LE, had insanely high expectations, considering I was addicted to FFXI and the previous 'normal' FF was fantastic, and was hoping for something to blow me out of the water. I appreciate the time put into it, the ingenuity of the Gambit system, the designs, art etc; it was all wonderful and what an FF should be, according to its roots. But the first 5 hours of gameplay reminded me way too much of XI, felt copy/pasta'd into single player form, and not to forget, it was boring as hell. It had forgettable characters, in which I only enjoyed Balthier, if that was his name, and Fran. I tried to finish it, but just couldn't care for it. Considering my time dedicated to FFXI, which was roughly 60-100 hrs a week (yeah pretty sad lol, I know), I just couldn't have time to care for XII. I truly hated that the entire game wasn't..playable..so to speak, simply because the macros, ahem, gambit system played the game for you, which completely turned me off. I didn't even bother finishing it, just couldn't give a s**t for it.

6/10

FFXIII:

Too early to comment, but, all I can say is that the beginning 69% of the game was wasted. Then Chapter 11, I've been in the same g*d damn area for 10 hours just leveling...such a broken system of applying open-ness to the game. But whatever, we'll see how it all wraps up soon enough.