Who has fallen the lowest? Final fantasy or Resident Evil?

[Scoobes]

Runa216 said:

Scoobes said:

Runa216 said:
I don't understand people saying Final Fantasy sucked after IX. X had some things it was missing (world map, mostly), and XII did things a little different, but both were fantastic games with tonnes of things to do, fantastic gameplay, and awesome characters. X has one of the best stories in the games, and when it comes to sheer volume of content, I'd say XII is the best in the series.

Don'tknow why people don't like them.

XII had great gameplay and an amazing world with lots of freedom. The problem I had was there were what appeared to be 2 main characters that didn't seem to matter in any way, nor did I care about them (can you guess which ones? ). Lots of depth to the story and world but the execution could have been better plus the pacing was all over the place. By the end I'd stopped caring about what I was doing.

I know this will shock you, but that was by design.  the original story had only the 4 main characters, but in early testing they found the more mature characters weren't vibing well with the younger or female demographics, so they added Vaan and Penelo as player surrogates, deliberately making them kinda ineffectual to give the player a sense of immersion by giving the other characters someone to explain the plot to, rather than explaining it amongst each other in an oddly specific expository way.  

Though I agree, Vaan and Penelo are lame. 

By forced design from my understanding. It certainly felt forced throughout the game. They would have been better off keeping the focus on Basch and Balthier from the start. As I explained in my post to ishiki, I didn't dislike the game like I did XIII, I just felt it had more unfulfilled potential.