Final Fantasy XIII - A Storm Gathers (And FF XIII & XIII-2 ship 9.6 million units)

[Runa216]

Khuutra said:

Runa216 said:

Khuutra said:

Egoraptor is a silly man who says silly things but provides a good platform for discussion about game design.

Tell me, what do you see as the primary difference between Sequelitis (particularly this and the Mega Man X video) and what you end up writing in your itemized FF13 hate lists?

as a major fan of sequelitis, I can assure you my 'haterants' are not the same as his comparisons.  mostly because he's not assuring that one product is shit, he's just comparing what works and what doesn't.  

Castlevania 1 vs Castlevania 2 was a good example.  He certainly had some complaints about 2, which were detailed and inclusive, which is somewhat similar to what I have to say about XIII.  The stuff about the agonizingly long animation as the world shifted from night to day or the indecipherable clues to the puzzles are similar to my complaints about the unfair inconsistency in the Paradigm shift animations or the impossible to predict instant death moves of some enemies. 

Now you've hit upon the crux of the issue.

Do you think you can take that knowledge and apply it in a way that makes your own article a better platform for discussion?

The difference is that he's just comparing what works to what doesn't.  I'll be comparing what works and what doesn't to explain why one is shit and the other is a masterpiece.