How is FFXIII's story?

[Aeolus451]

alternine said:

Aeolus451 said:

I depise that game and it's sequels. It's an rpg that's not really an rpg. There's no town, shops, inns to explore. The so called game world is utterly empty. There's not many characters. It's more linear than a typical FPS game. That's just the gripes I had with it that I can remember.  

You're better off buying the game used, give it a couple of days and if you don't like it, take it back for full credit. 

There's nothing wrong with being linear.

The majority of rpg's aren't linear for a good reason. It doesn't work well with that genre. Some rpg games are more linear than other rpg's but the more linear types do things to distract you from it like focusing more on story, gameplay or interactions with npcs. Rpg's should never be equal or more linear than most shooters. I'm not gonna pretend that it's fine if some rpg's are balantly linear. That's where I draw the line.  

XIII is everything an rpg shouldn't be except that it's pretty. If you happen to like that game and it's sequels, to each their own but don't pretend something is fine when most players of that genre don't like it.