It's nice how, when I get you, you suddenly expand your points. First it's "XIII doesn't have this or that! It sucks!". Then I say it does, and you go "Yes, but it's not like how I want it! Whine whine whine!". What's next?

And here we go again with you saying I buy whatever SE throws at me just because I like XIII. Well, I say you hate everything SE does because you hate XIII. Happy now? If we're going to exagerate, might as well take that route, too. Two can play this game.

No, I will never stop using other games as examples. After all, you draw reviews, OTHERS' opinion, in as defence for YOUR opinion, so I can do the same with games. And have more base for it, too. You just want XIII to be a movie, and you don't give a damn if it is or not. While in fact it is nowhere near a movie, and there are games out there that are far more movie. It's a baseless, and utterly stupid argument to make, because it's not true. But you, just because you want to hate XIII and make damn sure everybody knows it and you can call everyone who does like it mindless smurfs, keep using this argument.

I'm not emotional about the game in itself. I'm annoyed by YOU. Yes, you very, very personally, because you are throwing around baseless hate here, that basically comes down to "SE didn't make the game like how I wanted it and now I'm gonna rage about it and spread my hate! Raagh! You are all stupid for liking XIII!". Yeah, excuse me for having my own taste.

Watching it on youtube doesn't count. There, I said it, what are you going to do? If you only watch on youtube, of course it's going to be a movie. Surely you must have realized this? By only watching or reading reviews, you can not have a true grasp of the game and how it feels to play it, how involved in it you are or aren't. That you base your buy on reviews, that's your choice. But if you haven't played it, keep shut about how you don't like how it plays, because you haven't played it. You've only seen it played. And yes, if you can understand this or not, there is a big difference. It's like, if I were to watch somebody play Doom, would I get the same sense of scare, the nervousness of when the next monster is gonna attack? Nope, no way. Unlike when I play it myself.

Likewise, if you haven't played XIII, you can not say if not controlling all party members is indeed as bad as you seem to think. You haven't tested the system yourself. You're just blindly sucking up whatever reviewers throw at you intead of finding out yourself. Who is the blind following sheep here? You. At least I bothered to play and form my own opinion based on the game, not on somebody else his opinion.

The cap on the Crystarium is a moot point anyway, as in the first part, you won't reach the cap unless you grind and there is no need to grind. Later, in chapter 11, when grinding is required, you'll appreciate the cap, for reaching it means you're all set to move on. Of course, you, having not played the game, wouldn't know this.

Every FF has things about its plot that don't make sense unless you check a guide, so don't go pointing at how bad XIII is for this. Unless you can explain me where Necron comes from, or Ultimecia's background story. Or what exactly NeoExDeath is. Or how exactly the Emperor became the lord of hell. Or... See? Point invalid, moving on.

How is it dumbed down and less involved? I seem to remember in X having only 2 slots, and some stupid upgrading system one never used anyway. Again, you blame XIII for having something other FF's have had. And also, you need to explain to me how giving 5 pieces of the best equipment to a character is any more involving than upgrading equipment. Point invalid, moving on. I'm starting to notice a patern here. I'm not weedling out of a point, you just wanna hate XIII so much that whenever I make a valid point you call it "weedling out f it" or call it "it's dumbed down" to avoid giving a valid reason for your dislike.

I don't know about scan being a good thing, but you said you had no control at all. Which is ignorance showing because you haven't played it. I just proved you wrong. That you don't like how it works, is your problem, and I don't care. People can dislike a new system. You can't hate a system for not existing when it does, like you do, though. That's just stupid.

And now suddenly you're talking about replay? No no no boy, you said XIII had no gameplay. It was a movie, remember? Well, I proved that it was not, you don't like having one less reason to hate XIII so you draw something new in. I bet you're gonna draw something new in after this post, too, just so you can keep hating XIII instead of finding a game you like (and I find it funny how you ignored this point. Proof enough to me that you are just trolling, and hating for the sake of it).

I'm not trying to defend the makers, or do whatver. I'm saying YOU are wrong when you're ignorantly screaming XIII has no towns. Because it has. As for the rest, that you don't like the take on it, that's your opinion which you can have. SE tried something different, some like it, you don't. If all the rest of your hating had as much logic as this, I wouldn't have to type this.

Yeah, because FF I NPCs had SUCH sophisticated things to say. Please.

No, you miss the point. You screamed XIII had no exploring. It has. And now when I point this out, and you discover that you wrong, you dislike this, so you bring up a more elaborate point that actually has some base, namely: "it is different and I don't like it". Fine, don't like it. But don't scream it's not there. It's stupid. And even then, you can't really judge, you haven't played it.

Yes, sidequests are more battles. So? That wasn't the point, you screamed there were no sidequests at all. There are. You were wrong. That's all there is to it.

Regardless of how the minigames are, they ARE there and so your scream of "XIII has no minigames! It sucks!" is also invalid and wrong. That's all there is to it.

I do not defend this game with straw men and half thruts. It is you who is attacking it with lies. And when those lies are exposed, you suddenly return with a post that is more logical, but basically comes down to this: "SE made a game I don't like, and now I'm gonna hate and call everybody who likes it stupid mindless sheep! Yeah, go me!".

You screamed things weren't there, I said, having played the game and thus knowing it, they are there. What your opinion on those changes is or isn't, I don't give a rat's ass about that. What annoys me about you is ignorant claims of "XIII is a movie!" "XIII has no sidequests!" "XIII has no minigames!". So next time you go on your hate rampage, since you seem to find that so much more fun than talking about a game you do like, actually do it with arguments that make sense and aren't laughable. Like: "XIII has a type of sidequests I don't like!" or "XIII has minigames I don't like!". If you did that, I wouldn't give a damn.

That's nether emotional or whiny of me, or defending the undefendable. It's sheer annoyance at you flat out lying. And that's all. So start hating XIII with some real arguments whenever you type down your hate, or do something more productive with your time. You don't see me in the VI board screaming lies at VI because I hate it, now do you?