JRPG's are dead

[lestatdark]

RageBot said:

Xoj said:

twesterm said:

So I'm playing FFXIII and watching the opening cut scene.  We have all this fantastic crap going on and I'm sitting there thinking damn that's cool, can't wait to do that!

And then I get control and I get two basic attacks and whatever the hell blitz (which looks just like a basic attack).  In the meantime the guy I'm not controlling is doing cool stuff, meanwhile, I'm not.

So while I was bored tapping the X button picking auto-battle because there really wasn't much else to do I started thinking-- what would I be doing in a good game?

I started thinking about Uncharted 2.  In Uncharted 2, all that fantastic stuff going on in that cut scene at the start of FFXIII, I would be doing that shit instead of sitting there with my hands behind my head watching it happen and then doing boring stuff when I do get control.

Now, so why do I say JRPG's are dead?  They love to rely on those crazy cut scenes doing fantastic stuff because that was just stuff you can't do in games.  Now, we can do that.  That means we're sitting there watching Lightning be some sort of action hero asking ourselves why we aren't the ones doing that.

Instead, I get to do auto-battle and then I'm greeted with 30 pages of a datalog?  This is the best JRPG's have to offer me?  JRPG's can't even tell me a story anymore, they have to have me read it in a datalog?

battle system evolves more later on especially when u get skills like army of one. FF13 it's about strategy. later on if u think fast u will oblirate in seconds on a rentless assault

What is Army of One? I finished the game and I have no idea what that is...

It's part of the ultimate skills designed for a single character's role, which are unlocked once you reach Crystarium Level 9, after defeating Barthandelus at chapter 11. 

Lightning's Ravager Army of One, Fang's Commando Highwind, Snow's Commando Sovereign Fist, Vanille's Saboteur Death, Hope's Ravager Last Resort and Sazh's Ravager Cold Blood. 

Each skill takes a full ATB to execute (having 5 or 6 bars varies the damage done), and some are invaluable in the post game, like Army of One for certain marks, as it's useful to bring up the stagger bar to 999% in a few seconds or Highwind, as it's the most damaging move in the entire game, able to do 999.999 damage.