Again your opinions are not facts & I'm in the majority.First hand in Japan Lightning was voted favorite FF character.FF-XIII sold almost 7 million copies world wide & a review score of 83 among all critic reviews.Just because you didn't like it stop preaching that everyone else didn't like it too.Only the whiners were vocal about their dislike for the game,possibly here on N4G but knowing a lot of people approved of the game.

Japan votes for the most current character as the best character. They did it with Yuna in FFX as well when it was around. Polls about characters don't mean a game is good.

FFXIII sold 7 million copies across 2 consoles because people expected it to follow in the tradition of other FF games that were the first FF game of a new generation of consoles. That tradition held that said FF game would be a masterpiece of work because FFIV, FFVII, and FFX all were just that. But then you look at games like FFVII, which sold 9+ million units pre-PC launch on just the Playstation 1, and FFX which sold 7+ million on PS2 and you know that if they'd been available on other consoles, the sales would eclipse FFXIII in such a way as to render FFXIII a foot note at best. The results of how terrible a game FFXIII was are reflected in the abysmal sales of the sequels because people were tired of Square Enix trying to push a terrible trilogy on us.

You want to talk about critic scores? Critics routinely give the cookie cutter, same experience every time games in the Call of Duty franchise 9s out of 10. We've seen over the past year that many critics, especially those in the larger gaming journalism sphere, are not actually gamers. One critic from Polygon was sent to preview Rockband 4 and was wholly disinterested in being there at all. These are the kinds of people scoring games. Then you look at gamers actually talking about Final Fantasy XIII and it's never good save for when graphics are brought up. The only thing FFXIII has going for it is graphics.

Combat? Shallow, repetitive, boring, self-playing.

Story? Overly convoluted and delivered very poorly. Assumes the player already knows what's going on before anything happens or is explained and necessitates the use of an in-game log to actually explain the story better than the game itself does.

Characters? If it's even possible to be less than one dimensional, FFXIII's characters are that. There is literally no reason to care about a single one of them. There are only 2 that provide even a modicum of personality, Fang and Sazh, and you don't really have a good reason to care about them either.

Pacing? "Fast" and boring with progression locked leveling forcing you to let the game play itself. You are consistently made to see that you are not actually a part of the story, you're just observing it and moving it along when necessary.

World? Linear and bland until, depending on play style, a minimum of 12 hours to a maximum of 20 hours into the game, then it opens up to a beautiful world that you find out is still just as bland but less linear. The game has no life to it. Hell, the one location in the game that's the most memorable is a dead town.

All of this and so much more is the truth of the game, and the majority of people who talk about the game bring at least one of these truths up every time. There are countless accounts everywhere about how terrible this game is, how it's the worst in the franchise. So sorry, accept the fact that my opinion is fact and you just want to maintain your terrible taste. That's your prerogative, but you liking terrible games doesn't make them any less terrible.

Majority of your comments are being disagreed proving that this mess you're saying is just bull & is your opinion..again that is NOT FACT.Please...you are no critic & stay living in your fantasy.FF-XIII was a decent game not your traditional FF game but a decent one.I'm sorry you can't except that FACT..if anything is horrible is you trying to project your negative views on everyone else claiming majority of people that played this game is saying the same as you...you're delusional....smdh.

No. I have people who follow me around to disagree with me. The agree/disagree system on this site is meaningless until you get to the higher double digit numbers. I literally have said "water is wet" and have been disagreed with here on this site. So no, sorry it doesn't work like that.

And no, you're wrong. Final Fantasy XIII is a terrible game, you can find thousands of accounts attesting to that online if you care to look. You don't want to, and won't, because you insist on defending your terrible taste, but it is factually a terrible game. My opinion is fact, based on evidence and testimony. Your opinion is just that, based on your own feelings. FFXIII would have to work very hard indeed to be considered even a decent game outside the FF franchise, within the franchise it's the game that should have never been made.

I would like to see a modified version of XIII's system where you give commands to everyone. XIII'S wasnt perfect but it was way better than XII's.

You will always be wrong & delusional about this & your opinions will NEVER be a FACT...you sound like a mental case & you really need to see someone professional perhaps a psychiatrist....smh.

"You will always be wrong & delusional about this & your opinions will NEVER be a FACT...you sound like a mental case & you really need to see someone professional perhaps a psychiatrist....smh."

Yeah, no. You wish I were wrong, but I'm not. I'm completely correct and have stated facts. You just don't like them and think that what you like is perfect. Too bad, get over yourself. FFXIII is the worst game in the franchise and a terrible game all-round.

You don't seem to know what fact means...

It doesn't matter if 99% of people don't like the game, saying it's bad is still opinion.
If you really think that just because someone likes a game you don't like it means they like a bad game then there's just noo hope for you.

Also, you bash FFXIII because it 'plays itself' but under another article you wrote that you love Suikoden. I don't quite get this since Suikoden also has an Auto option which is used for most random encounters. I don't see the logic there.

"And there's no reason to keep it the same to suit the fans of old just because of your fear of change."

Plenty of reason. Who do you think were the ones clamoring for FFVII to be remade in the first place? Wasn't "new" fans or people who didn't like the combat system. And with FFXIII trilogy, we have good reason to fear SE's kind of change.

"What if I wanted it to be FF7 but play differently?"

Then you don't get to whine when the gameplay is shallow and boring.

"What if i belive whatever Tabata makes\ currently making pale in comparison to what Nomura can come up with ?"

Then you prove my point that change isn't good.

"I much prefered Nomuras idea of FFXV than Tabata."

And the overwhelming majority of the pre-existing FFVII fanbase much prefers turn based for FFVII than FFXIII or FFXV's combat.

"But no, let's keep on playing the same old game we've been doing several years because you nostalgia fans refused to remove your rose tinted glasses."

Again, this isn't a NEW game. This is a remake of an old game. We wanted the graphics to be updated but we wanted the game to remain true to the '97 release. You don't fix what isn't broken.