(07-04-2013, 06:56 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I actually don't even completely understand WHY people disliked it. I mean, it had everything that should have made a good game. Interesting revisions of old monsters, gunblades, cute girls, a token black guy, TRANSFORMERS, a baby chocobo, the Soul Calibur, amazing visuals, a decent story, tons of back story and information about the world right in the game.
I'll bite, since I didn't really like XIII. I played all the way through to Gran Pulse before giving up, because I disliked it that much. The only other FF game I just outright gave up on was 12. All the rest of the non-MMO ones I've played through to completion, including 2, 3, and 5 *wince*.
While I liked the character dynamics and was actually okay with the story in aggregate -- it's an Abyssal Exalted game in disguise
-- I really disliked the mechanics and what wasn't in the game. XIII was missing towns, an overworld map (yes, yes, I know you sort of have that in Gran Pulse, but I mean all the time, like in older FFs), and branches and side areas in dungeons (though I realize that's been on the way out since VI).Mechanics-wise, I really didn't like how the Auto was optimal most of the time, how alternate paths in the Crystarium were exceedingly expensive (and unavailable for quite a while), how you could only control one character at a time, how you had to wait until you got quite a ways into the game to even change what character is in the lead or the composition of your party, and how your progression in game was directly affected by how quickly you completed fights (thus reducing the strategy elements you had in the ATB FFs). Also, I thought the break system was annoying, even if the Paradigm system was strategically interesting.
The one thing in the plot that really rubbed me the wrong way was...
Also, um... it's blasphemy I know, but I don't like Lightning. Fang is much cooler.
EDIT: Oh, yeah, on topic. More costumes, hairstyles, and weapon models are good. I'm not a fan of a cash-in promotion that directly brings characters from one FF into this one (as opposed to homages), so I'm curious to see how it's explained in game. Done properly, it could prove to be an interesting lore tidbit, or it could fit entirely into existing lore.
Done poorly, yes, it'll twist lore into a knot and promote people from <Insert World Here> appearing in this game, which is just... not good.
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