I'll have to agree with this. Other then the 1000 Years of Dreams (which were pretty outstanding) and Jansan, there was nothing special about Lost Odyssey in my opinion. The Last Story should at least have engaging gameplay. I don't expect much from the storyline and characters to be honest.

I am tired of all these stupid FANBOY threads hating on FFXIII. EVERY FF Game is DIFFERENT from the last that is the point of FF. to say that an FF Game is a bad FF Game is an Oxymoron because like all other FF Games FFXIII should be judged as an individual game in its own right. IF you do not wont your Favorite Game series to CHANGE with every new Game then DO NOT PLAY FF GO PLAY DQ instead.       

I agree, even for 20$ I thought it was horrible.

If you interpret the genre widely, Valkyria Chronicles is still the best jrpg this gen.  ;)

i loved final fantasy 13, thats why i own all the versions released on both the 360 and ps3. i even own pillows,wall scrolls and figurines too show off my love for the game. also final fantasy 10 is a great jrpg and my 2nd favorite ff game only behind final fantasy 8.

i am extremely happy to see final fantasy selling as much as it has up to this point, also the 360 version over 1.7 million sold is a very good amount these days and i also believe versus will go on the 360 as well, but square-enix will do what they did with ff13 and give the game a 1 year exclusive in japan only and releasing the game on the 360 in america and europe on the same day as the ps3 version .

Seriously some of you think FFXIII was better then LO??... what a sad day for RPG fans

I concur.

No, FF is a series and should not be judged individually. People look forward to it because it is FF not because its new. All FFs had a lot of things similar. FFXII-FFXIII had the least similarities. To me FF13 felt rushed despite taking so damn long to develop. 

FF7-10 practically had the same battle system except the method of getting skills were different (eg. Materia, Junction, Weapon Learning, Sphere Grid). FF7-10 was the result of combining the freedom of skill specialties and a driving story which was turning into the cinematic experience.

FF3,5- had job systems but weak story

FF4,6- had a strong story component

FF1,2- was more like a beta phase.

FF13- lower level of control over characters, specialization that forces similar builds for every player, lack of freedom, slow starter despite most FF games having a slow start FF13 had the slowest. FF was about finding your own path in defeating the game, FF13 was like a linear path that forced players to have the standard presets. The lack of classes and breaking system were huge flaws that contributed to this. I did like the break system at first but realized that it was shallow and created the loss of freedom over battles. FF12 had a lot more freedom in battles.

Year later and smaller fanbase do the math.

FF is a series in name only but that is it. if FANBOYS can not except  that FF is ABOUT CHANGE THEN THEY SHOULD NOT PLAY FF they SHOULD play DQ instead.