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Final Fantasy 10 158 65.83%
 
Final Fantasy 12 82 34.17%
 
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Areym on 06 November 2015
BraLoD said:
Areym said:

Thank you good sir, I was far too lazy to look them up. 


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fatslob-:O on 06 November 2015
BraLoD said:
So it's going like I thought it would.
It's kinda hard to understand why people hate 13 and love 10, it has to have to do with age.
Seems like most people that love 10 were teenagers while they played it, but things like linearity and a more emotional approach get a pass on 10 while it's hardly criticized on 13.
I felt 10 was more alive than 13, had a stronger char than 13 (Auron beats any 13 char), and it has more customization than 13 as well, but all those are not that much more standing on 10 to the extent of hate 13 gets.

I wonder if 13 would have a way easier time if it was a PS2 game and most people had played it before turning into adults.

Also am I the only that love 12 OST? Okay that 10 had some strong tracks but 12 OST is great all over it, it sounds epic and powerful when it want and smooth when it needs. Seriously, go listen to some of those, guys xP

Final Fantasy often does get new audiences so it's no surprise that those who played FFX were younger ... 

I also liked FFX more than FFXIII but I didn't see any reason to hate twice as much since many of the complaints that were in FFXIII could also be applied to FFX ... 

Your theroy about how adolescent people want to fit in with critics is not unfounded when all they want is to be seen as cool so maybe FFXIII wouldn't have gotten as much flak if it was a PS2 game. These days it's cool to be the critic instead of handing out honest analysis ...



deskpro2k3 on 06 November 2015

I hate everything in 10, EVERYTHING. So, 12 wins.



fatslob-:O on 06 November 2015
Ka-pi96 said:

Bit of a problem with that though, didn't XIII actually rate pretty highly with critics?

Yes and no, there were critics who gave it a fair review but then you have what used to be a vocal minority around the internet gaming community winning out so what we have now is a consensus that FFXIII sucks ...



JWeinCom on 06 November 2015

FFX. Certain points in FFXII were just such a grind that I couldn't take it (sandsea for instance). The battle system was good, but I didn't particularly like the characters.



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Farsala on 06 November 2015
BraLoD said:
So it's going like I thought it would.
It's kinda hard to understand why people hate 13 and love 10, it has to have to do with age.
Seems like most people that love 10 were teenagers while they played it, but things like linearity and a more emotional approach get a pass on 10 while it's hardly criticized on 13.
I felt 10 was more alive than 13, had a stronger char than 13 (Auron beats any 13 char), and it has more customization than 13 as well, but all those are not that much more standing on 10 to the extent of hate 13 gets.

I wonder if 13 would have a way easier time if it was a PS2 game and most people had played it before turning into adults.

Also am I the only that love 12 OST? Okay that 10 had some strong tracks but 12 OST is great all over it, it sounds epic and powerful when it want and smooth when it needs. Seriously, go listen to some of those, guys xP


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.



Azuren on 06 November 2015

Strongly dislike 12. The character design was just... Just awful.



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BMaker11 on 06 November 2015

X was so good, it made them do something they had never done before: make a direct sequel.

The impact of such a move is diminished since SE has since made direct sequels for FFXIII (something nobody asked for), but at the time, it was a big deal. There was so much fan reaction to know "what happens next" that they did something they'd never done before. Nobody (and by "nobody", I mean, "not enough people") cared enough about the stories of FF I-IX (sans VII, but they made a whole universe of spin offs and stuff on that game), but X? I think you get the point.



Nem on 06 November 2015

Neither one.They both represent the FF series going astray. But if i must... FFX. FFXII managed to bore me fast and its one of the few FF's i never beat.



Farsala on 07 November 2015
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.

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.

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.