Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
I'm sure you said it was a great game in some thread, but honeslty, it's not that I isagree with your position, it's honeslty that I find the idea of XIII being enjoyable as such a foreign concept that I honestly have to try to construct the type of individual who could possibly find enjoyment from this insufferable, poorly told, and tedious game simply results in a migraine. I honestly can't see anything good enough in this title to feel it deserves evn being called an "okay game". It is seriously the worst thing I've played since I was a child playing some of the shoevelware titles on the NES. I will be honest when I say I don't really trust any other games such a person would recommend cause we are seriously from two different worlds if that trite is anything more that utter trout. It is 40 hours of my life I will never get back and I seriously want a refund.
Well, you dislike a game. *shrug* These things happen. I thought FFII was quite rubbish gameplay-wise (and the story wasn't exactly incredible either, the characters were certainly underdeveloped) and a chore to finish, but that doesn't mean I disregard that some people might like that kind of thing and still be able to make a reasonable reccomendation. Reccomendations should never be taken as anything more than "I happen to like this game, so maybe you will too." Every game could end up being something you love or don't... no need to flip out just because you ate something and found it didn't hit your taste buds right.
Well not really with VI as the player's choices can affect minor things in the game (such as the fate of one party member or whether a certain character joins you) as well as the fact that the WoR is technically non-linear as the player can choose to actually finish some or all of the characters stories, or go straight to the end, unlike most of the FF series where the final dungeon doesn't open up until all of the main story has been told. As soon as you get the airship, you could just head straight to Kefka's Tower and choose to end the game whereas the players power to control the flow of other FF games is pretty much a choice of playing or not playing. The game is filled with hidden scenes and certain consequences for choices and you will never discover them without either a guide or seriously exploring the game and trying new things, which is somethign you can't really say about a game like FFXIII or even Xenogears for that matter.
You could say a lot of those things about games like VII, VIII and XII. Possibly V too. But yet you say...
Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB
As for my preferred style, the fact that VII, VIII, V and XII are there alongside XIII as my preferred Final Fantasy games pretty much says that linearity is not my preference.
I wouldn't really count most of those titles as being non-linear.
I think you're just being immensely biased if you say that VI is non-linear but VII, VIII and XII are not. Or you don't know much about VII, VIII and XII. But I know you do, so