[POLL] Has Final Fantasy XIII disappointed you?

[Mummelmann]

A203D said:

Mummelmann said:
It disappointed me immensely. Almost all depth has been tossed in favor of action cutscenes, like most other new RPG's. I still haven't finished it and I'm not sure I ever will. This will be the second FF game I never completed next to FFX-2.

I think this is more accurate!

Well, I don't quite agree with that. FF games always had a lot of cutscenes, especially FFVII and VIII, which started the whole FMV craze in the PS era. All the other FF games still had depth to their gameplay though, cutscenes be damned. Imagine playing Baldur's Gate (or, hell, Final Fantasy X) with one tenth the equipment, one tenth the spells, two stats and direct control over only one person in the party.

To me, it seems meaningless to make a RPG an action game or to make an action a RPG. In the end, the products won't appeal to neither action fans nor RPG fans.