What's Final Fantasy?

[ZephyrAM]

XIII is a hell of a lot more of a Final Fantasy than XII could ever wish to be, XIII has great characters love them or hate them (I'm looking at you Hope.)

Sadly, I wouldn't really know, as I played XII farther. Didn't quite beat it, but got close.

Much as I really, really want to explore the story and characters in XIII, I just can't get past that blasted battle system...


Edit: And now I'm more inclined to go back and replay older FF's for the umpteenth time then to play the newer ones I haven't completed. *sigh*

... And it doesn't show a spell check error on 'umpteenth' O_o

[SuzakuCMX]

Sadly, I wouldn't really know, as I played XII farther. Didn't quite beat it, but got close.

Much as I really, really want to explore the story and characters in XIII, I just can't get past that blasted battle system...

I couldn't get past the Crystarium and hallways.

At least XII was completely open to customization and had an open world :L

[ZephyrAM]

At least XII was completely open to customization and had an open world :L

^ this * 10

Mainly the open world point. I mean, I 'love' character customization, but I can handle the lack thereof in an RPG for the sake of character lore. FFIV and VI portray this quite well, as does IX, though it has a bit more freedom.

These were actually the two big downsides I found to FFX: lack of any open world(though the world you could explore was large enough, and more importantly 'free' enough, that it wasn't too bad), and entirely too much character development freedom. It was great that you could take any character any direction... up until you took 'every' character 'every' direction. A team of gods is only neat for a very short time .

[Scherwiz]

I couldn't get past the Crystarium and hallways.

At least XII was completely open to customization and had an open world :L

Indeed, it was a great open world. Too bad it has the worst characters and story in the series.