Final Fantasy XIII Denied Perfect Score: “Too Linear”

I think you mean Moral, morale is how good the troops feel.

That is why I have guns aimed at my subjects heads so I don't have to ask them nicely.

By the way, It was a kid who told everybody that the king is naked. That kid suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

I don't recall that latter part with disappearing from when I was little.

Who's the OP artist? Pin"E"? What is that?

"... the King is naked."

Pics or it didn't happen.

Finally fabricate focus free finales Final Fantasy.

"Pics or it didn't happen"

The scene was to sudden so nobody took a picture, but they were ready when the king tried to take his revenge:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/jdude93/the_king.jpg

Wouldn't people usually read that as "pine"?

ahh you must be referring to the "king of pop" michael jackson, that would also explain why he was naked, why a kid saw him, and why the kid was snatched up.. er.. disappeared.

How can anyone be so retarded as to not know about the story of The Emperor's New Clothes?

Haven't played any Final Fantasy since 8 but I agree 8 was great. Its personally my favourite one and I think people give it way to much flack and is a lot better then what others make it out to be.

@Anon 3:24 you appear to be one of the people who inexplicably liked FF8, the game where conveniant plot devices were used, over used, then used again like used sperm covered tissues. No I did not like FF12 either.

I liked FFVII, but the GF and magic systems in FF8 were a major pain for me. >_<

Anon 4:04 If you reuse your sperm covered tissues then you're pretty fucked up

Anon 4:04 = so basically like every other FF then? then yes and it turned out fine.

I liked FFXII.

You are so right. That is so me. FFXII was the best.

I liked FF8, and I've played all the rest of final fantasy including the fakes(FF mystic quest) >_<

All of you FAIL.

FF6 was the last GREAT one in the series.
FF7 was decent.
FF8 sucked monkey nuts
FF9 slight redemption
After FF9, it was all crap, especially 10.

Hear hear, Anon @ 13:44 speaks the truth. FF6/Tactics ftw! (And I mean the original Tactics, not the half assed Advance ones)

Ugg. I hated FFVI. It's in the bottom of the barrel for me along with FFII(which had a good story that was killed by the terrible leveling system), and FFIV which was just bad overall. FFIX was my favorite, but I'm looking forward to FFXIII. It's the only reason I'm breaking down and finally getting a PS3.

Anon @ 4:13 - IV + VI, bad? How dumb/young do you have to be to actually believe this? Those aren't just 2 of the best FF games, they are 2 of the best RPGs ever made.

Yeah! FFIV was my favourite out of them all so far.

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Does ANYONE here even look back past FFIV?
You have to admit the GBA remakes were pretty badass.

Looks like it was one rater who took off a point. I don't know if they're rating different things, but the other raters gave 10's.

Nothing wrong with linear in my book. It's better than having a game where you can't possibly do everything you want to do in a single playthrough.

lol. so it's not better to have a game with lots of additional plots/endings? ...a game you can enjoy and play over and over? replayability.

Not if the game sucks balls. Plus who says it doesn't have replayability. How many people have replayed Zelda OOT like a thousand times. If it's fun you don't need to have 30 endings, plus it's possible that because there are so many endings that the endings it does have are lackluster.

An open-ended game doesn't necessarily mean it has multiple endings; it means it doesn't have you dealing with one specific objective at a time, without giving you an option as to how you go about it. The Ocarina of Time is a good example of an open-ended game, along with "sandbox" games like the GTA series and even the Mario platformers.

The Final Fantasy series is actually somewhat open-ended in its design. There are always side quests and optional bosses to deal with, along with mini-games within a number of the titles (though this is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it thing, especially among reviewers). My guess is that FFXIII lacks in those features that are a staple in the FF series, or the reviewer is just being finicky.

I agree with you there nocturne, I was mostly speaking about the anon before me who mentioned that games always benefit from multiple endings and that linear games lack replay value.

Damn, now I'm reminded of OoT and the good old times, where games were about having fun. Well, than I just have to play OoT again, maybe this time I use the japanese language in the menu. After all, I played it like 20 times already and pretty much know what each character is supposed to say. No need for new crappy games or new consoles. I save my money.

I'm really surprised it even got such a high rating. It really looks like a crappy game.

That, Chen-03, is the sign of a real 40/40 winner.

Yeah, to second the objection that in and of itself "too linear =/= fun or lacks replayability" - by that logic, reading a novel or any other kind of book lacks re-read-ability to the same reader, since it has the same story, with the same ending each time you read it.

Chen-03 has the right idea, though personally, I liked the raving insanity of going into Majora's Mask fucking clueless.

Play, beat, don't play until you can't remember, play, get own'd, LMAO until you play better.

The only final fantasy I really liked (and played for that matter) was named mystic quest (gameboy). But no one cares, so spare us with your personal favorites unless it includes a punchline or some other fun things.

Not too sound like a douch, but Chen-03's right.

Punchline or GTFO

Yea right? I can't believe it even got 39....

No. 12 is better.

It means the first game deserved it and with any following game that received 100% the score lost a little of it's worth. After all, there can only be one game that deserves it to be called best game. (At least in one decade) The best game of the nineties was OoT, for the eighties it was tetris.

Truth, to the point, but effortlessly futile in the face of America, the "premier gaming empire" of the new age of gaming.
Most of the games that make it out to a non-biased review--Disgaea series from Nippon Ichi Software, among other non-advertising developer companies to be in th' US--were bashed, ripped apart, and raeped by most "Pro Gaiming Mags."

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