BraLoD said:
Runa216 said:
Nah mate, you gotta understand that there's more to the arguments than just 'one is linear, so is the other, therefore they're both bad'. Almost every complaint boiled down to the idea that the problems with FFXIII went way too far in the wrong direction.
FFX is linear, with side paths and exploration and room to do shit on the side like minigames and side questing.
FFXIII might as well have been on rails. Outside of chapter 11 there was almost no side content or exploration or minigames or quests. Outside of one small bit of the total length, the game might as well have been an on-rails RPG both for its world exploration, character choices, and even level progression (the Crystarium).
FFX is a linear game that balances out its linearity with side content. IT balanced it with well explored characters and a more realized world. It balanced it with so many other features and distractions. FFXIII went WAY too far off the deep end with making the game way too linear with little to nothing to do on the side. The difference is the matter of degree, and that matters a lot. you seem to agree with this point yet still seem to think that people are wrong to criticize XIII but praise X despite them havining many similar design aspects.
The reality is, one of them does it well. The other does not. I also think you're just hilariously wrong about the writing and characters not being good in X. I felt that the writing and characters were some of the best parts of X, but in XIII you needed to read an in-game encyclopedia to even know half of what the fuck was going on at any given time. There's depth in world-building, then there's homework.
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Huh? FF 10 exploration is really damn bad. I honestly disliked even thinking "oh damn, I have to walk through here again..."
I mean, yeah, it's more than FF13 as it had virtually not until the Gran Pulse, but to say that FF 10 did it well... I honestly rather not have it like 13 than what 10 had.
The best part about 10 was the possibility of having a full turn based combat system.
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For me, the biggest slap in the face the game gave me when I first played it was when we finally get the airship... Only for it to be a fucking map that leaves all the fun of controlling an actual airship and zip through the world from above to the oubliettes.
The story was great. But I disliked the look of the world, and the character design was uneven. Music was good, but there was too much elements from the series that were left out for me to really be content with what they gave us with X.
Here’s hoping these elements make a proper come back in the Remake project.
