The Hate Thread

[Flying Arrow]

Saying that the story is inherently worse than cinema or books because it's in a video game makes me want to smack you both.

My fault for being unclear.

The fact that it's a video game's story doesn't make it inherently worse, it's just worse because it smurfing sucks. I called it a 'video game story' because, despite being longer than most games', XIII's story is just as trite, shallow, and clearly written for those with the mentality of an intellectually stunted 15-year-old as most others in the medium.

After that scene I vividly remember thinking "why did they even include that in the game?".

It's absolutely maddening to sit through scenes like these, although this is arguably the worst so far. General comic relief turns into the most mind-numbing exchange in the whole game. Who is running the writing staff over at SE? Did anyone even watch this before release? I refuse to chalk this up to cultural differences (as so many gamers these days tend to do), it's just plain garbage. This isn't good work on the part of SE and nothing can convince me otherwise.

Need to breathe now.