[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"]
I've never played something so well paced and artistically beautiful as FFXIII.
Though the story is a bit weak the battle system makes up for it in every way shape and form.
Consistantly having to shift causes consistent and new strategies through out the whole game.
Also want some challenge do some hunts. THe game has over 65 of them, some of which can equate to a few hours a piece.
So the games got length beauty an incredible battle system.
I mean it's just got everything going for it.
So Lighting I say enjoy your throne as best RPG of all time!
ianuilliam
FF13 is good, but from what I've played so far is not even in the top 5 FFs of all time, let alone the best RPG of all time. As for challenge? What? In a game where you auto-heal after every battle, healing items don't use a turn to use and hit the whole party, save points are encountered every 5 feet, and if you SOMEHOW manage to wipe, you can retry the battle, no save needed. Give me the old school FFs where you don't just need to be able to survive one fight, you need to be able to make it through a whole dungeon full of enemies. FF13 is nowhere near the worst FF, but it is most certainly not the best, either.But the result was that the normal battles were never challenging. By making it about micromanagement, you're really just encouraging grinding because "better" playing doesn't leave you free of the need to heal. The original games were always less challenging because they needed to be to compensate for that "micromanagement" element - which isn't micromanagement at all, it's just buying a bunch of items to survive the fights in a dungeon without any real "managing skills" required. FFXIII fixes this problem by isolating the fight to individual battles, and is able to make them more challenging and engaging because of it.
Thta being said, I don't think it's the best JRPG of all time nor the best FF of all time. But I do think that it has some smart gameplay decisions that the series has needed for some time now.
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