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Rob-Ot on 08 December 2010
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A203D said:
Rob-Ot said:
A203D said:

Rob-ot, yeah the dialogue was cheesy, and utter tripe.

Yeah very disappointing. It seemed like they said the same things again and again. Then vanille would make some crappy melodramatic monologue/narration. The worst part was the writing on the loading screen made sense but the story in the game never made sense like the writing on the loading screen or datalog did. Its frustrating when they have a good story but kill it with tripe dialogue and horrible in game story telling. The game has thousands of cut scenes, but fails to put accross the story, thats the games biggest failure. They made it linear to tell a compelling story according to Toriyama, they didn't achieve that at all even though they had a compelling story stuck into the loading screen/datalog. That makes me even more angry at the game. I hope what I'm trying to say came across properly.

No i feel the same way, i understood what you said. all they did in each scene was talk about boring stuff, nothing to do with the mythology or the world. just about how, its their focus, and Serah said so. then they talk about Ragnarok, and its so obvious, predictable, from the beginning that they actully become Ragnorok, or something to that extent. and all the dialogue in each scene, recycles the same point over and over and over again.

i did have hope when we got to Gran Pluse everything would be revealed, but it obvious why they've made the game like this anyway.

they're following this western idea now that you have to make sequels or a series of games. the Fabula Nova Crystalysis compliation is meant to be much bigger than the FF7 compilation. it seems to me they have all the story and everything worked out, but they want to put it over several games, like Versus and maybe FF13-2.

imo this worked with FF12, and the Ivalice Alliance because theres lots of material to work from, Ivalice is a world with a history and culture over thousands of years. but it didnt work with FF13, because a games story cannot be about 6 hours of melodrama, and melodrama alone imo.

I agree they shouldn't have recycled the same things and left out some plot info in the datalog. Why they made such rookie mistakes I do not know. I have heard rumor's of a FF13-2 and you know what I want it to happen. Toriyama and his team doesn't deserve to make FF15, they had their chance with FF13 and for me blew it, FF13-2 is their chance to redeem themselves and fix the mess that they created, especially because it was mess made out of something that could've been much more. FF13-2 won't sell based on its name as FF13 got a mixed response among public, the team will have to make the game good for it to get a good word of mouth and sell well (make a profit etc). So I actually hope they go on to make a FF13-2 so that they can redeem themselves because I am sure they are not satisfied with their final product after reading the developer gaming article. Whats your opinion on this?