Vaguely I know of Perfect works, I just don't care.Originally Posted by tony12
No, I don't need to get over the text dump complaints. That was the games single worst aspect. The entire point of playing through a game is to experience the story, not be told it. This was exactly the same way the smurfed up in FF XIII, is rather then experiencing it, Barthadalous dumps about 60% of the games plot points on you at the very end.
And even if you are playing a game for the story, the text dumps are still aweful. A story is more then just the plot. It's the characters reactions to it, the little events that lead up to the climaxes, the atmosphere of the different areas. Feelings and emotions that happen along the way, character developement.
All of this is completely lost in the text dumps.
And I know what the whole story of Xenosaga is about,I found they did an amazing job at wrapping everything up they had started. (Well, the Realins were kind of shafted by the end, which was sad.)
I really don't see where that complaint is coming from.
Edit: I admit it was troutty that Xenogears didn't have time to finish, as I think it would have turned out great otherwise. However, sad as it is, it didn't finish. They made the same mistake with Xenosaga, in that they tried to put to much into a game that just didn't have the time to finish properly.
Your argument is irrelevent then. Even if you didn't like the text dumps the text dumps still gave you a good overall vision of what the entire story was supposed to be about. Xenosaga should of had text dumps instead of the 1/6th version that they ended up getting. I could understand your argument in a way if you were actually arguing in favor of a game that actually was more complete than Xenogears. But in no way shape or form was Xenosga more complete than Xenogears.
If you think Xenosaga did a good job of wrapping everything up then you obviously don't have any clue what Xenosaga was originally supposed to be. You probably have never even heard of Perfect Works.
And again, what Xenosaga was 'suppose to be' was irrelevant. Maybe it didn't end up the way it intended, I don't care. What I care about is what did happen. What I care about is what actually was released.
And again, it doesn't matter if the text dumps serve as a good synapsis, because a synapsis will never surpass the story as intended with all of it's nuisances.
All of these things that happened behind the scenes have little to no impact to me. It's intersting to learn about, I'll give you that. But in terms of game quality it's largely a pointless thing to bring up, and at best makes certain things forgivable. But it only covers for so much.
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