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Alex Donaldson: "Hindsight is a hell of a thing, however, and in the years since Final Fantasy XIII, my respect for the decisions its developers made has skyrocketed. In the two Final Fantasy titles since we see both the brilliance and the folly in alternative approaches - and in Final Fantasy VII Remake, we get a more nuanced understanding of what FF13 was trying to accomplish from many of the same development leads."
FFXIII is actually one of the best Final Fantasy games.
I also sort of was disappointed at the time, never as much as the bandwagon. But really all the fantastic 3D rendered cutscenes and I actually liked the characters and the story though convoluted was actually fantastic and the ending was extremely emotional. So much budget and time were put into that game Square had such big plans, I actually have always felt kind of bad for how things played out.
I have been thinking for years how great it would be to get all three games on one disk for PS4 or 5.
Gotta take off the nostalgia glasses. It's the worst FF. Shiva as a bike, I mean come on.
Shiva as a bike is strange but saying FFXIII is the worst FF is not at all a fact, that's simply your opinion.
When I got my series X a year ago, I bought FF13 for nostalgia reasons but ended up being disappointed. When I first played it around the time it launched, I didn't have a lot of experience with final fantasy games, so I enjoyed it. Fast forward to when I played it again, I found that the game had many unnecessary filler moments instead of just giving us meaningful content.
The game is also very linear and a quote on the article said it best. "It is like a sewage pipe that leads to the ocean until it opens up on Grand Pulse."
The story didn't make much sense either and I believe it is my mistake as I played the FF7 remake on PS5 prior which is a night and day difference in terms of pacing, storytelling and likeable characters even though cloud is aloof.
Probably was a mistake to play any of the golden era FFs first (e.g. FF6 through FF10), it makes it harder to enjoy some of the FFs that aren't as good. I think FF12 was where major issues with the series started becoming apparent, and it just got worse from there.
I didn't really care for it that much, the only saving grace was that it had a better story than 15 (overall it was better than 15) and possibly 12, and even then, you had to read some of it through primers, like reading a book. Plus the battle system was reasonably fun for what it was, even if it was more the spectacle that was exciting for me (e.g. summoning). And to be fair, the 13 trilogy got better with every games, I still don't like Snow though.
Ff13 is only good if you haven't played a ff before, or any other games that are decent for that matter.
It is in fact no way the best Final Fantasy game, it's one of the worst
Linear corridors, Cutscene, Fight, Cutscene...rinse and repeat
Dialogue and characters are pretty bad, especially Lightning as the main FF hero, they literally said they tried to make a "Female Cloud" and they failed.
Story was pretty awful
I could go on
I think the only alright thing that came from the game was the music.
That's not a fact that's your personal opinion. The game sold 11 million copies between its 2009 release up until 2014 including critically reviewed as an 8 out of 10 or an 80 out of 100. The game does have some issues but it's not at all a fact as one of the worst FF games.
i liked the game alot but i didnt like how they handled the terminology.
i dont mind reading data logs but it had soo many.
but i always loved the music and how it looked. the battle system wasnt too bad either.
but i like 13-2 more :)
i still dont understand why we never got a remaster of the trilogy
Xbox kinda did. Besides the video files of course which are still best on PS3 due to bluray.
XIII is a pretty solid game, but XIII-2 is WAY better. XIII-2 was one of the few games I decided to go for a Platinum trophy in, early on. Had so much fun the entire way through getting it too!
I hated this to when it released. I haven't much liked a ff game since ff10 as much , aside from ff7remake. I decided to give it another shot on my series x since it's not on a current ps and was liking it quite a bit(just takes me some time to get over things ) until star ocean 2 remake came out I was all over that.
Square should definitely remaster it or something for ps4 ps5
Brilliant feature idea. I like the question-answer setup.
Horrible article...it seems like you are trying way too hard to defend FF13. Some things you use to counter arguments are terrible.
FF13 was a bad Final Fantasy game, it was and always will be. The argument against it are just to much to try and defend it.
Oh not to mention immature crap aswell like
"SHUT THE F*CK UP. Any ass-wad that decides to bitch and moan about how linear this game needs to take a LONG, HARD LOOK at FINAL FANTASY X."
or
"Get over it you stupid fan-boy."
Wow...really professional /s
Yes keep mentioning FF10 but at least FF10 was a better FF game then FF13 could ever be. No one minded the some of the changes because it was still a FF at heart, had a great story and some good characters.
We shouldn't be trying to defend Square f*ck up or supporting more games about FF13s universe.
We should be moving on now and just remember this as the worst FF game in the franchise as it should be.
FF15 or FF Versus please...and this time DON'T mess up Square
My main modern complaint is that things done in cutscenes aren't represented in-game.
Where the scene showing Cloud getting on a bike lead to a road battle mini-game in FF7, Yuna could only summon and use a summons during one special scene in FF10.
And really, nevermind all the BS indications that there should have on-rail flying/shooter segments in FF13.
There are some people that think FF-XIII was a bad game & there are some people that enjoyed the game like I did,this discussion will never change.The people that didn't like it better get over the fact that another one is on it's way & when they start having discussions on this site about the next installment they shouldn't bring their negative comments to a discussion about something that they claim they don't have any interest in,people that are interested in the next saga of FF-XIII would like to hear good things about the game not comments from people with nothing but negative sh*t to say. I know some haters will give me disagrees & of course I could care less.