| WiiBox3 said: I was fortunate enough to never play this game, though I did play a lot of stinkers on the NES, at least most of them were ones that my friends owned. My brother and I only got about 3-4 games for our NES a year, since we had to buy them ourselves. It took us a long time to save up for them. As for the amount of people who say FF XIII is their worst RPG experience, that really surprised me. I also did not like FF XIII, the game is visually linier, they could have at least hidden how lineir it was by making the road curve a little. And the story was uninteresting and convoluted, at least up to the point I stopped playing 10 hours in. But the combat system was really good and the art design wasn't bad. So the question I have, is it that you haven't played very many bad RPGs, or was it that this game so undelivered to the hype that was built up that it caused the game to be your worst RPG experience? |
I can't speak for anyone else but FFXIII was definitely the worst RPG I've played. I've been playing RPGs since FFVII in '97 and since then it's pretty much become my favourite genre. The only RPGs I don't really play are strategy based JRPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics.
For me, Final Fantasy XIII basically did the bare minimum for an RPG and sugar coated it with a cliched story, masses of artwork and a fast paced battle system. There was just nothing else to it. I've never played such a poorly constructed and designed RPG. All the areas were extremely linear and only towards the end could you revisit any of them.
The storytelling is also terrible in that it relies on only two basic mechnisms for storytelling; cutscenes and linear datalog entries. I can't think of any other RPG which limits the discovery of the world and story so much. Reading a menu based Wikipedia isn't good storytelling for a video game. What's most annoying is that if you read entries in the datalog you find the lore and background are full of potential, yet the storyline and general storytelling doesn't show it.
I wasn't particularly hyped for this game but regardless of the hype and the name, it's all style and no substance.
