BraLoD said:
Farsala said:
Except they aren't that similar. I loved both FFX and FFXII but not FFXIII. Any game like FFXIII would be thrown in the trash.
And to play devils advocate:
FFXII and FFXIII had an auto battle system if you felt the need.
FFXII and FFXIII both had 6 characters. Smaller then my preference.
FFXII and FFXIII both had hunts.
Both had mostly pointless summons.
Both had really bad minigames. Blitzball much more thought out and expansive.
I could go on about more subjective things like story and characters but I think you get the point.
FFXII conveniently gets as much of a pass as FFX if not more due to being less played.
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About the auto battles, you actually have to set how it would be yourself in 12, you had to develop the system your chars would follow to, kinda like in a strategy game, KINDA.
FF12 had guest chars too.
And 12 and 13 have total different scopes, FF12 is all about freedom and exploration, while 13 is not.
In my eyes 10 and 13 share a similar way of presenting the game, can you really say that about 12 and 13?
Anyway, 10 and 13 are on a similar level and share their story focus linear presentation IMO, so I don't get why 13 gets as much hate as it gets and 10 doesn't, I do see some similar hate to 10, but on a way lower scale. Even if 10 edges 13 as being a better game, the fan reception shouldn't be such a disparity.
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I know all this I played FFX and FFXII extensively.
However thats not my point. FFX is more different then FFXIII then what most believe. FFX is as different as FFXII is. FFXIII gets all of its hate for reasons hammered down a million times.
For example many times during FFX you can go back, and even find special items. After the Calm Lands, which is only about halfway through the game you can do sidequests and unlock extra stuff. Gran Pulse is about 80% through FFXIII and you cannot go back. The sidequests are largely meaningless. The battle systems are vastly different. The stories are vastly different. The minigames are vastly different (with close to nothing in FFXIII). Summons, weapons, customization, the list goes on. Even the leveling system is pretty different despite similar aesthetic looks. Characters are largely subjective.
The difference between the 2 is like night and day, as different as Digimon world 2 and Digimon world 3.
