Is it even worth playing FF XIII?

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#51 vincent380
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I will never understand all the 13 hate i thought it was a fantastic game. Its not the best FF but its defiantly worth the name. Its better than 12 which i thought was pure garbage.
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#52 deactivated-5b78379493e12
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It's a great game. It's not among FF's best, but it's still quite good.
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#54 SapSacPrime
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Go finish FF VI... it sounds like you don't even like the genre that much so I doubt FFXIII is for you, but you really should finish FFVI. That said if you managed to some how get lost in the sixth game maybe you will like this one up until chapter 11 (when most people think it improves).

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#55 codezer0
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Go finish FF VI... it sounds like you don't even like the genre that much so I doubt FFXIII is for you, but you really should finish FFVI. That said if you managed to some how get lost in the sixth game maybe you will like this one up until chapter 11 (when most people think it improves).

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I certainly didn't like it then, with FF 6 being the first one I was really exposed to. It was much later in the SNES's lifecycle, when I got my hands on SMRPG, that the RPG genre finally "clicked" for me, and I could get into them. 4 (a.k.a. FFII here in the states) holds a special place in my heart, because it was the first, and only, Final Fantasy I could do start to finish, and even did all the sidequest stuff, without any strategy guide to help. At least my usage of strategy minimized my need for any arbitrary grinding beyond just whatever I needed to fight along the way to advance the plot. My absolute favorite boss battle became the Magus Sisters in 4 because once I had the strategy down, it was almost like hitting the "I win" button before they could mount their special attack. I suppose one thing that bothered me with 6 is simply that the game doesn't really spell out who is supposed to be the main characters. Yes, there's a ton of good character development among each and I rather applaud that they were able to get enough plot in for each of those that mattered (Gau doesn't count :P). But it also felt like the story was all over the place, trying to follow at some points up to three separate plot points at the same time, not including relevant villains.
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#56 DJ-Lafleur
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[QUOTE="Dahaka-UK"]

If your going to buy it, think of it as buying a movie rather than an RPG. Then you possibly might like it.

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Thats going a bit far.

You shouldn't really buy any game as if it were a movie. The main point of a game is the gameplay which I thought was great in FFXIII, so yeah...

That and there really wasn't an excessive amount of cutscenes, or it didn't feel like it anyways.

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#57 DJ-Lafleur
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[QUOTE="SapSacPrime"]

Go finish FF VI... it sounds like you don't even like the genre that much so I doubt FFXIII is for you, but you really should finish FFVI. That said if you managed to some how get lost in the sixth game maybe you will like this one up until chapter 11 (when most people think it improves).

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I certainly didn't like it then, with FF 6 being the first one I was really exposed to. It was much later in the SNES's lifecycle, when I got my hands on SMRPG, that the RPG genre finally "clicked" for me, and I could get into them. 4 (a.k.a. FFII here in the states) holds a special place in my heart, because it was the first, and only, Final Fantasy I could do start to finish, and even did all the sidequest stuff, without any strategy guide to help. At least my usage of strategy minimized my need for any arbitrary grinding beyond just whatever I needed to fight along the way to advance the plot. My absolute favorite boss battle became the Magus Sisters in 4 because once I had the strategy down, it was almost like hitting the "I win" button before they could mount their special attack. I suppose one thing that bothered me with 6 is simply that the game doesn't really spell out who is supposed to be the main characters. Yes, there's a ton of good character development among each and I rather applaud that they were able to get enough plot in for each of those that mattered (Gau doesn't count :P). But it also felt like the story was all over the place, trying to follow at some points up to three separate plot points at the same time, not including relevant villains.

I always considered Terra to be FFVI's main character. She's the first one you see in the game, she's one of the ones to get the most character development, and also she was the choice for FFVI's main hero in Final Fantasy Dissidia.

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#58 fueled-system
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Its worth playing but like many have/will say its a love it or REALLY REALLY HATE it kind of game(I fell in the latter and I love FF)

Just be warned its flaws are far more clear in this one compared to past Final Fantasy's

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#59 hakanakumono
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I always considered Terra to be FFVI's main character. She's the first one you see in the game, she's one of the ones to get the most character development, and also she was the choice for FFVI's main hero in Final Fantasy Dissidia.

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I agree.

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#60 codezer0
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Maybe, but I have to say that at the time I played it on SNES and later on PS1, it certainly felt like the story was being narrated or told by a game designer with a bad case of ADD, with the forced fragmentation here and there. Some of those just having me scratching my head and asking myself "now why did it make me play this?" and similar questions. Being fresh to RPGs at the time, it was difficult to wrap my head around it, I guess. I was doing good for a while on the GBA copy; I was following an online guide that had some good reference images as well, which made it quite easy to go through... well, it would have, if it had actually finished what it started. There was a HUGE gap between about halfway through the second world and endgame, which were referenced in the ToC but never actually "done" on the site. That had turned me off damn near completely there. Yet even now I suppose I still feel a nagging desire to "finish what I started".
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#61 verbtex  Moderator
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Uh, well, there's not much to see here folks (refering to FFXIII) if you revisit our old attractions, it's just a prequel (and slightly better than) to now.

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#62 dovberg
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if 4 was your favorite then 9 is the way to go. The main part I like about it is that it's similar to 4.

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#63 GrandTheftDog
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Only reason to play it.

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#64 dreman999
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[QUOTE="codezer0"][QUOTE="SapSacPrime"]

Go finish FF VI... it sounds like you don't even like the genre that much so I doubt FFXIII is for you, but you really should finish FFVI. That said if you managed to some how get lost in the sixth game maybe you will like this one up until chapter 11 (when most people think it improves).

I certainly didn't like it then, with FF 6 being the first one I was really exposed to. It was much later in the SNES's lifecycle, when I got my hands on SMRPG, that the RPG genre finally "clicked" for me, and I could get into them. 4 (a.k.a. FFII here in the states) holds a special place in my heart, because it was the first, and only, Final Fantasy I could do start to finish, and even did all the sidequest stuff, without any strategy guide to help. At least my usage of strategy minimized my need for any arbitrary grinding beyond just whatever I needed to fight along the way to advance the plot. My absolute favorite boss battle became the Magus Sisters in 4 because once I had the strategy down, it was almost like hitting the "I win" button before they could mount their special attack. I suppose one thing that bothered me with 6 is simply that the game doesn't really spell out who is supposed to be the main characters. Yes, there's a ton of good character development among each and I rather applaud that they were able to get enough plot in for each of those that mattered (Gau doesn't count :P). But it also felt like the story was all over the place, trying to follow at some points up to three separate plot points at the same time, not including relevant villains.

It's Terra but it's a good thing that the game doesn't hold you to just one perspective. The later FF have character growth problems because they force you into only perspective the whole game.
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#65 dreman999
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[QUOTE="GrandTheftDog"]

Only reason to play it.

Can't see anything.
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#66 jasonharris48
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I do not think it's worth a play. But to each their own right? I say give it a try you may like game.

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#67 mmmwksil
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If you can borrow it from someone you know, I say give it a try, see for yourself. I found it to be one of those games you enjoy as you play, if only because you badmouth the game as you play it. So bad it's good, maybe? I enjoyed my 80 hour romp through Cocoon/Pulse, but I don't think I'll be paying another visit.

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#68 ImaPirate0202
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The negativity this game gets just shows how high of standards the Final Fantasy series has.

And yes, it is worth playing.

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#69 mtradr43
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i couldnt stand it, the only reason i stuck with it is cause it got halfway decent after the longest time. the first 20 hours of this game was the most boring thing ive ever had to play in my life