FF XIII-2 PS3 sells less than FF III on the Famicom

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VGKing said:

XIII did have side quests.......
Anyway people complain games like COD are copy & paste, yet here you people are encouraging Square Enix to do just that.

I say let them experiment. XIII wasn't as bad as people said it was. XIII-2 seems to be a much better game so I will be picking that up next year.

What side quests?  There was the mark hunting (which I enjoyed, in fact it was the only part of the game I even remotely enjoyed) and a few scattered tasks to do, but nothing like the side quests of yore.   Gone are the lengthy quests to get ultimate weapons, gone is the element of exploration, gone are minigames (no cards, no blitzball, no golden saucer, etc), just one linear story with a few largely inconsequential things on the side. So what side quests do you refer to? 

And...what a logic fail.  Nobody is saying Squeenix should copy paste, but they had a formula that worked, tweaking it, trying it from a different perspective, or altering it is awesome.  Completely abandoning basically everything that made that series special is just dumb.  Keeping the same gameplay elements is important to making the games good, like how mario has always basically just been running and jumping.  Final Fantasy VI and IX have basically the same gameplay elements and are both very similar, but they're unique in their own way.  Call of Duty is different in that, there's only one action: point and click.  you can change up the story and setting, it's still point and click (and even the settings are basically the same with almost no differentiation).  

You're right, it's not as bad as people say, it's worse.