| The_Joker_Product said: It was all very much a Star Wars wannabe. Vaan the poor orphan was Luke Skywalker, Ashe the tough princess was Leia, Balthier and Fran were Han Solo and Chewbacca, Basch the old warrior was Obi Wan Kenobi. Gabranth the fully armoured villain who turns good is obviously Darth Vader, was also related to one of the hero characters. The whole evil empire plot device, the finale where the good guys and bad guys have a grand battle in sky ships on the battlefield. It was all unoriginal. FFXIII story wasnt that great either but at least it was original. Auron was supposed to be the strong silent type warrior, he was faithful and would have given his life in Jechts place, thats why hes likable. Kimari doesnt talk but hes the very loyal bodyguard who again would give his life for Yuna thats why he was likable and Lulu was just a dark character to be the polar opposite of Rikki. The settings were boring, too many dungeons and indoor areas. Only really one major city in the game. The levelling system wasnt so great, made overly complicated with the bandits was it called? where you could edit characters so they did certain things under a certain criteria. It had a weak villain who for the most part didnt seem that much of a evil guy. FFXIII's villain as even worse though. Music wasnt particulary great. So yeah, no good characters except Gabranth at a push, Star Wars copy, forgetable music, bland settings, complicated and boring battle system. Is why it was one of the weakest ones. In comparison to FFXIII it had a few likable characters, wasnt a great story but was original, good music, settings were very linear but some parts looked nice visually at least they werent dungeons and a pretty decent fast paced battle system. |
Man, you seem to have had a problem with every aspect of FFXII. You're the polar opposite to me as the game is my fave game in the series.
I agree with you that the story of FFXIII was more riginal than FFXII. I agree woth you that it is a clone of Star Wars. However, I'm not somebody who plays video games for their stories. I play them for their graphics and gameplay.
As I said before, all the characters were likable in FFXII. There's nothing any of them do that makes you totally hate them. None had a cold hearted personality apart from Ashe and she even loses it during the course of the game. The characters being similar to the world famous Star Wars characters should make one like them more and not hate them. Being unoriginal is not a reason to hate a character. Lightning was a female Cloud but you seem to love her. Sazh was basically Barrett 2.0 and Dajh was Marlene 2.0 and yet there's no hate from you. Same goes for Snow, he's a cardboard cutout of anime heroes used in thousands of anime with all his hero lines and needing to save Serah, but you don't hate him. I feel as though you're having double standrds, bro.
I loved the setting of FFXII as it felt like a video game world and not an interactive movie world. FFXII has a very open world where you can go where you want whenever. You can go back to places you've bee to before which FFXIII didn't even let you do. FFXIIII is basically a starght line with no exploratuon and some nice vistas. FFXIII was boring to play in but looked pretty, while FFXII looked pretty and was fun to play due to the open world. Also, FFXII had two massive cities with people to talk to and shops and houses to enter. FFXIII had none of that.
I think we simply play FF for different reasons and as a result I love FFXII and you love FFXIII.
