| darkknightkryta said: I've always said this, FF13 isn't a bad game. It's a bad Final Fantasy. BUT to me bad games have to really screw you over (Star Ocean 3 and Breath of FIre 5 come to mind) to be bad. You can tear FF 13 apart and you can objectively say it's bad though. I mean, I know you didn't but read what Runa wrote; there was nothing wrong with what he wrote and they are all valid criticisms. The game structure isn't balanced and bad. The combat is only as good as your enemies, which weren't balanced and left you OP'd through 90% of the enemies in the main story (Minus bosses, they killed you good). Story telling is bad and you have to be completely ignorant to what's said in the game to say otherwise. Characters have little development that disappear after it happens (Seriously, look at Hope who got a bit stronger, only go cry on Pulse like a little baby). You literally have to ignore all those criticisms (Which are a lot) to actually enjoy FF 13. If you can you'll be left with a "good" RPG with a very bad story telling. I can safely say though; everyone I talked to who actually liked the game's story and story telling don't actually know what happened in the game. The game's true purpose, why Bartandalus wanted everyone dead, etc, very few people actually know. You actually misunderstood what was happening in the story until I corrected you in this very thread, for instance. Though you know more about the story than most people I've talked to about it. |
I did read what Runa wrote.
But I don't effectively believe that you could put XIII on a arcade machine and make it on-rails -_-"
You can tear the game effectively and discover...that it is still a game. Not good nor bad. A game. Everything that you say or believe after tearing it apart is purely subjective. Unbalanced game doesn't mean the game is bad objectively. A muddled story doesn't mean the game is bad objectively. It doesn't. Not all games need Catherine level of difficulty to be enjoyable. What if the characters were OP? What if the game was mostly easy? That doesn't make a game bad, objectively.
Easy, difficult, confusing, simple, entertaining, annoying, enjoyable, boring; all those are opinions you get after playing a game. But to say that a game is objectively bad is a paradox within itself, because saying something is bad is ultimately a subjective approach.
