Serious character = Better game?![]()
Yes - FFXIII was a good game.
No - FFXIII was a bad game.
Well, as games are utterly useless, they would be considered art (according to Oscar Wilde and many other art critics). And art is not judged merely by technique, but also on meaning (look at Guernica for example). So characters -> story -> meaning -> part of art.
That is my viewpoint at least.