The OP has been far too kind, this isnt even a game, its 6 hours of f***ing cutscenes, filled with overtheatrical melodrama. Lightning is ridiculuous, shes too hormonal, unrealistic and seems like a 45 year old women going through menopause.

the rest of the cast isnt as bad, but still the dialogue is so camp at times. if you look at FF12 the characters talk to each other realistically, they even have regional accents to signify their class background (which is why Baltheir speaks in well spoken English).

the game is so boring, its like we're led down the narrow corridor so we can watch another cutscene about "its our focus, Serah said so". this is the only plot point in the entire game, nothing happens in the cutscenes, all we see is poor dialogue, poor script and abysmal melodrama, which amounts to......."its our focus Serah said so". Sakaguchi would have never allowed this imo, and i think The Last Story is going to put FF13 to absolute shame!!!

The OP has been far too kind, this isnt even a game, its 6 hours of f***ing cutscenes, filled with overtheatrical melodrama. Lightning is ridiculuous, shes too hormonal, unrealistic and seems like a 45 year old women going through menopause.

the rest of the cast isnt as bad, but still the dialogue is so camp at times. if you look at FF12 the characters talk to each other realistically, they even have regional accents to signify their class background (which is why Baltheir speaks in well spoken English).

the game is so boring, its like we're led down the narrow corridor so we can watch another cutscene about "its our focus, Serah said so". this is the only plot point in the entire game, nothing happens in the cutscenes, all we see is poor dialogue, poor script and abysmal melodrama, which amounts to......."its our focus Serah said so". Sakaguchi would have never allowed this imo, and i think The Last Story is going to put FF13 to absolute shame!!!

The OP has been far too kind, this isnt even a game, its 6 hours of f***ing cutscenes, filled with overtheatrical melodrama. Lightning is ridiculuous, shes too hormonal, unrealistic and seems like a 45 year old women going through menopause.

the rest of the cast isnt as bad, but still the dialogue is so camp at times. if you look at FF12 the characters talk to each other realistically, they even have regional accents to signify their class background (which is why Baltheir speaks in well spoken English).

the game is so boring, its like we're led down the narrow corridor so we can watch another cutscene about "its our focus, Serah said so". this is the only plot point in the entire game, nothing happens in the cutscenes, all we see is poor dialogue, poor script and abysmal melodrama, which amounts to......."its our focus Serah said so". Sakaguchi would have never allowed this imo, and i think The Last Story is going to put FF13 to absolute shame!!!

It is the developers fault they said that FF13 is NOT an RPG, and that FF13 was Inspired by Modern Warfare 2 and Lost. and it is the developers fault they've spent 5 years on a game engine so we could watch 6 hours of cutscenes, very, very boring cutscenes. so its the developers fault they've made something i dont think is a game, but more an 'interactive movie' and not an RPG. and yes its the developers fault because Sakaguchi would never have allowed this, and the Last Story will put this awful game to shame.

m really sorry to say u missed my whole point the game is what it is not what u want it to be.in all threads of FFXIII all i hear is people wanting this people wanting that but they always forget that every FF is different and thats the success of this franchise.

I have played the older games, just after I played FF13. If the older games are "so much better" it shouldn't matter if I played them before or after FF13, and no FYI I didn't find them so much better and VIII I found terrible. And your post is ridiculous, how far into the game did you get? Vanille is "Oh ha" all the time? Did you even get to chapter 6 in the game when Vanille stops being chirpy after a "truth" is revealed. Lightning and Hope both develop a lot from Chapter 5 to Chapter 9, if Hope is still whiny where you left the game I doubt your that far in. Fang and Vanille haven't known eachother? Lets just ignore their time spent together on Pulse. And "focus" thing, none of them  know their real focus in the first place, how will they know what they want, its obvious you never got the the point where their focus is revealed? Two of them decide to run away (sazh/vanille), 2 of them decide to go to the centre of things and attack (Lightning/Hope). There were differing opinions. And I still say the characters are no less interesting than characters in the older games. This wasn't my first RPG, I am a WRPG veteran, and this "worst game" will always be one of my favourites in the JRPG genre. Whats clear is you simply haven't played much of the game and have no idea about the story, not only me but others pointed this out too.

bah it seems i'm being misunderstood (i do word things poorly most of the time so i don't blame you)

i actually don't "Hate" the game. i'm just largely disappointed especially the storyline part , its very very cliche , and having read the "Episode Zero" mini novels released before the game, i've expected something else, like i said, i don't care much about linearity , since i love FFX and that game was very linear, and the battle system in FFXIII is almost perfect , its very well thought of and one of the most enjoyable i've played in the past years, but like i said the storyline is what turned me off to, and like others pointed out and i pointed out myself , I HAVENT FINISHED THE GAME YET , but i did play a huge part of the storyline and i did get past that spoiler (honestly ,wasn't everything very obvious from the start?, i mean the only part that wasn't obvious was that you'd expect a plot twist ) .

so in the end, i don't hate this game nor like it , its just a major disappointment (i've been religously following it ever since it was announced)