| Kresnik said: I really wonder how many of those people who "universally hated" XIII-2 actually played it. I really disliked XIII but I absolutely adored XIII-2. Fixed pretty much all the problems I had with XIII. |
This intrigues me. I by no means hated XIII, thought the paradigm system had a lot of potential and kept you on your toes in battle, and obviously it looked great, but after 45 hours or so I just lost interest. Which has NEVER happened before with a main FF title. I have gone back and restarted on two separate occasions, and both times (as well as the first) I finally get to Gran Pulse and play around for a bit and it's just mehhhh. It also had my least favourite characters of any FF game so that probably didn't help. But I've seen FF XIII-2 as low as $7.99 over the holidays, perhaps I should give it a shot.
As for X, I love everything about it. I'd say it's tied as my series number one with IV. Played through 5 or 6 times (only one 100% completion but overall probably have put 500-600 hours into it) and can't wait to get my hands on the remaster. I really liked the characters, the world, the battle system, and ESPECIALLY having the aeons as playable characters. I think they were executed really well and I would love for them to return to that system in the future. The summon system in every other FF game sucks now in comparison. Never really cared for Blitzball but I remember my brother put 30 or so hours into that mini game alone during one of his playthroughs (and aided me when trying to upgrade Wakka lol).
It's all about the game.
