Someone explains this to me : FFXIII outsells Mass Effect 2 by 1'632'195 in the west

[Runa216]

RolStoppable said:

Xen said:

Runa216 said:

Sir, you have no idea how right you are.  Can I add "broken gameplay mechanics", "No sidequests/minigames", and "A Completely stupid and dumbed down fighting engine"?  

YES! How did I not say that?

I would say "no minigames" is actually a plus point considering that they usually completely sucked in the FF series. Aside from the Chocobo digging game in FFIX there was really nothing that was fun.

I greatly disagree with you.  The Final Fantasy VIII card game was epic, the 9 card game was decent but not as awesome, The Gold Saucer was great, Blitzball was phenomenal, etc...most FF games had some sort of minigame that was a lot of fun and it's a shame to not have one in XIII.  If you don't like them, you don't have to play them (the rewards are good but not necessary to complete the game).  I'd rather have the option and chose not to use it than not have the option and later decide I want it.