Final Fantasy XIII series sold over 10 million games, do they deserve it?

[The Fury]

Pristine20 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
No imo... I don't think FFXIII was the FF we all wanted to have in the 7th generation... Its Auto-Battle, mostly terrible characters (Looking at you Snow) as well as no real party system (in the sense where you can control more than one person during battle) and many other reasons, I don't think it deserves that many units at all...

Just out of curiosity, do you like Kingdom Hearts? It's a beloved series but does everyone know that you can only control one character in battle? It would be nice if you elaborate as to why the game is bad including how much of it you did play.

KH never claimed to be anything else though. Main character was Sora, you played as Sora. Final Fantasy was a turn based JRPG, what people expected was that.

FFXIII was bad because of what it didn't do, didn't give you control of your entire party, didn't allow your party members to revive your main character if they were knocked out, it didn't allow freedom of character building/leveling (you were pretty much stuck with their 3 main skills), magic seemed to have little real value, MP was gone, lack of random encounters, lack of exploration, no airship, health regenerated after battles, weapons upgrading seemed pointless.  I didn't connect with the characters, the only good one was Fang as at least she knew what she was there for. It didn't explain what the hell anything was, it expected us to read about it in the datalog instead of telling us in the game narrative like good story telling (and most previous FF games). I would easily say it was just 'press X to continue', you pressed X in battles to win, leveling characters you just pressed 'X' until you ran out of leveling points.

I say all this and I think it's a solid 7/10, graphics were excellent. But that's the issue, it was a poor Final Fantasy game, easily the worst I've played. (I know I'm not the guy above but want to give my view).