FF13 Sucks... here's why.

[Runa216]

"Don't bother having an opinion on the net, for as long as someone disagrees with you, you are wrong. simple as that."

The reason I am so passionate about my hatred of Final Fantasy XIII is that I do not, under any circumstances, want to see another game like it. Final Fantasy was literally the most dominant force in JRPGs from 1987-2006, 19 years of dominance in its market, and I loved every one of them that I played. To see the overall direction of the series shift into something that is shallow, poorly written, fundamentally flawed, and is a prime example of style over substance kills me inside.

Many people would simply go "boo hoo, if you don't like it, don't buy it", or "it's just one game", but it's not. When a game sells as well as Final Fantasy XIII, it doesn't MATTER how much I hated it, the developers will say 'hey, that sold well, let's do more of it!" and we end up with an entire genre destroyed in an instant. I don't want this to happen to FF and RPG's in general, because I KNOW it can happen. After the N64 came out and Mario 64 dominated the charts, almost every platforming game on that generation and the next was a 3D collect-a-thon, and I HATED IT. It took over a decade for sidescrollers to get back in vogue (thanks to New Super Mario Bros and a few others.) MY favorite genre went dormant for what was, at the time, half of my life because one game set the precedent and all others followed.

I do not want more games like Final Fantasy XIII because they are shallow.
I do not want more games like Final Fantasy XIII because it was linear to a fault.
I do not want more games like Final Fantasy XIII because the battle system was barely interactive
I do not want more games like Final Fantasy XIII because it took everything good about its series and shat on it

And don't bother whining "baw, you just don't like change", because that's a rare form of Ad Hominem (attack the opponent, not their argument) Or a strawman (loosely interpret the argument to its base form and reform it in such an absurd way that you can't help but laugh at it, and tarnish the idea by association.) I Absolutely love change, I love innovation, I love it when games try new things, but I like GOOD change. I like unique change. Idon't like "Stripping it down to its barest form and making it flashy to make up for the lack of depth", which is what FFXIII did.

I so vehemently and openly oppose Final Fantasy XIII's existence and influence on the genre BECAUSE it's Final Fantasy. if it was just some random new IP with these mechanics, I'd shrug, ignore it, and move on. But the fact of the matter is that it's Final Fantasy, and Final Fantasy has a LOT of pull in the RPG world, so if Square-Enix decides to go in the FFXIII direction, then the genre will be ruined, and I do not want to see that happen.