The Final Fantasy XIII Saga is the Best Video Game Trilogy of the Decade - Criminally underrated, the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy is the best of the decade.
God No FF13 still the only video game i've ever traded in to gamestop. This game was so bad that i picked up 15 way later because of the taint 13 left.
His standards are low... This game has some of the worst storytelling in any FF game. And not just storytelling, but the way the story was presented was even worse! All the key information needed in order to understand the basic concepts of the story are in text logs from the options menu. None of it was actually explained in-game. You were forced to read through the long data-logs of boring text in order to get an idea of what's going on.
The reason a lot of people play RPGs is because of the story and characters. And those are aspects the game failed to deliver. Not to mention, everything about it felt less and less like Final Fantasy. Past games were set in medieval, steampunk, and even cyberpunk settings. There were always hints of traditional aspects in the world-building, whether it'd be architecture, enemy designs, weaponry, etc. But FF13 didn't have any of that. Everything felt WAY too futuristic. The monster designs and overall artstyle didn't "feel" like a Final Fantasy game.
And don't get me started on the ridiculously cringe-worthy dialogue and voice acting.
Yup it's the ONLY Final Fantasy game that I stopped playing half way through I was that bored.....I even managed to finish FF12 and that game is very tedious.......
Been notice a lot lately in so called journalism no one seems to use editors anymore, I'm pretty sure that they meant that it was the worst trilogy of the decade.
I'm having trouble thinking of many trilogies that released this past decade. Some started the prior decade and ended this decade(or 2010-2019). I'm sure there must be some.
I liked FF13 trilogy well enough, but I would like to know the contenders before claiming it's the best trilogy. It kind of not even a trilogy because it wasn't written to originally be as such, and each part is not even properly a continuation of the one prior.
I think it's better to judge games based on the generation of consoles they were released in, rather than judging them through decades like 2010-2020. It doesn't make sense to do this considering many first entries of series started before 2010. A lot of amazing trilogies on the PS3/X360 started off prior to 2010. Games like Gears of War, Uncharted, Batman Arkham games, Mass Effect.
But even if we were to say that FF13 series was the "best trilogy of 2010-2020," that's not saying much. This is because most of the best trilogies started a few years prior to 2010. Saying that FF13 trilogy is the best of the decade isn't much of a compliment since the games were still greatly flawed in many aspects. And there's hundreds of better RPGs worth your time.
No doubt. A decade is just an arbitrary time frame based on a calendar made centuries ago.
I liked FF13, but I think ME was a better trilogy. There are likely even one's that I forgot about, or just can't think of off the top of my head, or I never considered them what I'd call a trilogy.
I disagree. I'm a fan of FFXIII it's one of my top fav FF games. I've played the game numerous times & still own my PS3 copy but imo the 2nd & 3rd installment were lackluster,there really wasn't any need for the last 2 titles.
I played through most of the first one and quit as soon as I realized that I wasn't having fun. I was forcing myself to have fun because I enjoyed the FF series. I'm "supposed" to like this game, but I couldn't bring myself to enjoy it. It had no redeeming qualities that I enjoyed about previous entries. This game may as fucking well be called Star Ocean or something. It had no place in the FF main-line titles.
FF 13-2 is one of my favorite jrpgs but I disagree. I can't think of a trilogy of a decade though because there aren't many trilogies where all 3 came out 2010-2019. Forza Horizon 1-3 I guess?
I liked the first two games. I never did play Lightning Returns, although I might pick it up for PC in the future. The games get a lot of hate, but they were actually good games.
Well, as bad as the trilogy is, I actually finished all 3 games, while I could never bother to finish some of the most liked fan favorites like 7 and 12 (I finished every other numbered offline games in the franchise), so I guess they're not the worst...
The FFXIII trilogy to me was a truly awful, sad reminder of the state of the once great Final Fantasy series.
I remember thoroughly enjoying the amazing Final Fantasy entries up until 12. These games used to have truly mind-blowing adventurous stories, with incredible music and genre-defining gameplay.
Today the makers of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts have forgotten how to tell a cohesive story. Everyone’s constantly overly dramatic and full of angst, it’s all over-the-top and completely unrelatable.
That was my first thought, but the original came out in 2007. If we confine the nominees into just between 2010-2019, then I'm having a hard time thinking of any other trilogy that could compete.
I don't really notice anyone else offering up alternative winners in their efforts to say how much they hate the series.
Edit:
Just looked it up, and the first FF13 released 12/17/2009.
So, if that's the case, I'm going to side with you on Mass Effect. Otherwise, I still don't see anyone offering alternatives besides the souls games, which isn't really a trilogy.
I’d go as far as to say XIII-2 is genuinely underrated and Lightning Returns has some interesting mechanics and ideas, but the best trilogy? Not a chance. The entire narrative arc is complete drivel and Lightning becomes an utterly dislikable character by the end.
There sure are a lot of clickbait sites these days. Gamingbolt, ccn, this one..... FFXIII is in NO way the best trilogy of any timeframe. I was so disappointed with it. Kind of started a string of disappointments from many games and multiple publishers. Now I leave those publishers alone and have had so many great games to play since.
Technically it came out in Dec 2009, so not only does it fail at being a decent Final Fantasy, but it fails at being a trilogy released within the decade. Therefore your opinion piece is made moot. Sorry. *shrug*
It doesn't matter where in the world it was first released, fact stands it was out and available to play in 2009. Just because you personally can't read it or understand it doesn't mean it hasn't been released. Was it officially first released in 2009, yes it was, point still stands.
God No FF13 still the only video game i've ever traded in to gamestop. This game was so bad that i picked up 15 way later because of the taint 13 left.
That's pretty debatable tbh.
NO, HELL NO , F No seriously