Quote Originally Posted by Scruffington View Post
I disagree. Despite its supposed linearity issues, I never heard nearly as much complaining about XIII as I have about XV. I browse NeoGAF, reddit, and sometimes even /v/ and XV seems to be a disappointing entry by unanimous decision. Of course this doesn't account for the whole 'XIII vs XV' debate, and it's entirely my interpretation of the general consensus. It also doesn't account for people who have positive feelings about the game as they aren't as likely to post about it.

I really don't think XV is a bad game. In fact there are elements of it that I absolutely love. But in terms of overall quality I feel that XV was a disappointment.
Hearing people complain on forums is anecdotal, even if you visit a lot of forums. Obviously XV is not unanimously disliked because 72% of those users liked it. You are right that people are more likely to post about something to complain about it than praise it. And it could be true that the differences in the Metacritic ratings are not statistically significant and that you would need to compile these scores from other sites and factor in that XIII has been out longer and maybe even do a head to head comparison... but I'll leave that to people who want to project presidential elections. This isn't really that important. And besides:

Quote Originally Posted by Squall Leonhart Loire View Post
I think XIII was a fundamentally better game than FFXV.
I just took a poll based on a random sample of people with FFVIII inspired names who have posted in this thread and the verdict is in: 100% of users people believe that FFXV is worse than FFXIII. We can shut this whole debate down, now.