Very well, I’ll follow your advice. “RPG, role-playing game –noun a game in which participants …

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Comment on Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced by HouseLife:

Very well, I’ll follow your advice.

“RPG, role-playing game
–noun
a game in which participants adopt the roles of imaginary characters in an adventure under the direction of a Game Master.”

This type of definition has never changed, except change Game Master to Director here. As I’ve said countless times, yet few people wish to actually think and/or listen about reality outside their perceptions: it was your EXPECTATIONS which ruined the game. There was absolutely nothing about FFXIII that was not a role-playing game in the standard definition that has existed from day one. Everyone’s CONNOTATIVE definition changed, and that changes from person to person.

What you have come to expect is the ability to explore and do erroneous things that has little to do with the actual plot, or really the actual gameplay of the game most of the time if you think about it. It is there to help you connect to the world and characters a little more, nothing else. What you seek is the illusion of expansiveness, something I also pointed out. In every case it’s an illusion. Daggerfall is the only one to really push that illusion, but that was still an illusion.

And the reason for believing FFXIII-2 will be better? Actually only a completely jaded person who thinks the world is out to get them would believe otherwise based on all the information about it. I’m also a game designer, I know the politics of it. I also know the way game designers feel about what they do (the good ones at least), especially in the big boy companies. SquareEnix being one of them. Actually they’re already proving it by making a sequel as far as I’m concerned. If you think about it, their one success with it was some relatively memorable characters and a very well designed lore system (even if the way they told it sucked).

Now with the resources already in place for a strong start, they can bolster their strengths, and adapt their weaknesses into strengths. Something I can tell you from personal experience is a daily, even hourly thing they go through for years at a time.

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  Would you rather I had given no credence whatsoever to your argument in the slightest? I like how you attempted to make me an idiot for listening to you, it’s actually pretty impressive. I could have left your wikipedia usage as useless, but I listened to your point and found the flaws in it, as you found a few in mine. It is a plausible explanation that someone for the company would defend it, or perhaps I’m so sick of hearing whiny gamers define games as either ‘awesome’ or ‘shit’ with no …

• Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced:
  

  I used the dictionary definition from Dictionary.com. It still hasn’t changed. And did you even read what you told me to read? “Generally, the player controls a small number of game characters, usually called a party, and achieves victory by completing a series of quests.” Check. “Players explore a game world, while solving puzzles and engaging in tactical combat.” Check. Don’t pretend because everyone loved the word ‘linear’ that you weren’t exploring a game world. “A key feature of the genre …

• Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced:
  

  @Lawdence Codye “Please don’t let FFXIII-2 be an actual sequel…” “…even though I haven’t played the first game.” Stop. Now. I cannot stand this level of stupidity and ignorance. It’s not even about FFXIII being a good game or a bad game anymore, it never really was. It was about so many idiots saying exactly that same thing. And yes, that does include the people who stopped after a few hours because they didn’t find it appealing. If they did, that’s fine, but they have absolutely no right …

• Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced:
  

  Excellent. I look forward to seeing what they can do with it. I personally liked the concepts of FFX-2, even if the delivery wasn’t really appreciated by many. I still love the idea of seeing how a world recovers afters its cataclysmic events. Plus, we have a certain few characters that need some resolution. Anyway, everyone can be stupid if they want and say it’ll be the same, or they can recognize that game designers aren’t stupid and will pay attention to the fact that many people had issues …

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