I think it and you type it.

:P

XIII was a joke, it had to be.  There's no other excuse why EVERYTHING in the game went down the shitter.  The story was bland and generic, it's presentation was atrocious (seriously, you should not have to read an encyclopedia just to get the story, as Yahtzee said, you need to weave the narrative into the exposition), the Combat system was broken (I have a whole rant about the subtle problems with it.) The characters were flat and boring, comprised of generic stereotypes, the plot was remarkably linear, and not in the simple "This is the chain of events, follow it" way, the completely restrictive "go here, do this, fight that guy" way.  Equipment upgrading was a total flop, no sidequests or exploration, completely forgettable bad guy....The list goes on.  Even the graphics were unimpressive, and a jarbled mess if you had the misfortune to play on an SDTV (you couldn't read ANY of the words or numbers)

The only GOOD thing about it was the lore involved.  I felt the world they created had a lot of potential, and the stuff about the elder gods and stuff has all the makings for a classic...but they ruined it with atrocious gameplay, boring characters, and a completely unoriginal and uninteresting plot.  

That said, every other Final Fantasy Game I've played has been really good, most of which are some of my alltime favorite games.  For this reason I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, hope they FIX the damn game's flaws.  If they can give me a fixed version of the battle system in XIII, it could be awesome.  If they give us towns and cities and sidequests and hidden content, and give us interesting characters and a good story, then count me in!  until then, they can go die in a fire.  

Did you know that Final Fantasy X-2 has  a better metacritic AND gamerankings score than either version of Final Fantasy XIII?  Sad, eh?  

and in case nobody noticed, this is clearly a joke thread, it was obvious becuase NONE of his 'facts' have proof, and there's the whole part with "Final Fantasy X-2 and VII were the best games becuase they were sequels" nonsense, which he capped off with "and they went back in time to make..." referring to Final Fantasy VII.  

Yeah, not to be taken seriously. 

will buy when its cheap

Did I just read that FFX-2 was the perfect sequel and Crisis Core was a horrible game...??

I'm more excited about Final Fantasy Versus XIII....

What I don't understand is... why do you say it's a spinoff (Versus XIII)? It's part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis mythology too... or at least it's supposed to be... all XIII games are supposed to be about the same mythology.

This sounds too silly to be sincere, but given the author's well-documented bad taste, I am just not sure.

I'm excited for FFXIII-2 as its the sequel to FFXIII, a great game that fell short of being a classic due to a few glaring flaws.

No game should be as linear as FFXIII was (or as linear as FFX was for that matter). At least XIII-2 should have areas for rest like X did.

FFXIII-2 should have a non linear structure like FFX-2, for all the hate I see FFX-2 get, it was packed with minigames for diversions, had side quests with actual story content, was pretty non linear from the start. I liked FFX-2 a lot due to this, it was one of the most fun Final Fantasy titles at the core (It had its own glaring flaws that stopped it from being a classic however).

If they improve the writing which hampered the scope of the story and what I mentioned above we have the makings of a classic.

I'm offended.

aaaha, you were serious?  I thought this was a joke!