It is not retarded. He made the claim that the game is an interactive movie and you called him an idiot for it. It is an interactive movie. A large proportion of the game is cutscenes melded with a lack lustre "fight fight fight" attitude, with no real room to explore for much of the game. It is the very definition of interactive movie.
No, I'm fairly sure Heavy Rain is the closest thing to the definition of an interactive movie. Like I said before. The fighting aspect that you find so 'lacklustre' is mostly whats keeping me playing because it is damn fun and engaging and theres a lot of it.
That is a straw man. We are talking about FFXIII and we can justify it by a. the number of cut scenes and footage and b. the lack of gameplay with many RPG elements taken away.
The cutscenes are just the updatd modern day renditions of all the times in the previous games when all the party would sit around and you were forced to endlessly tap O to find the next dialogue box. It had happened frequently in the previous Final Fantasy's, the only difference this time around is that everything is voiced over. Sure that makes it look more like a movie, but it still plays like a game.
As for your point B, I never exactly thought the tedious trawling through menu screens to micro manage your parties equipment and stats, or the sheer mountains of repetitive fetch quests to be compelling gameplay elements anyway, so I'm glad they've been done away with so we can actually focus on the story that matters.
No movie could possibly be 10 hours long, isn't that just the point? (with the exception of LOTR) This game has gone one worse than even a movie? The difference being that for 20 hours you get to move down a line? Also, FFXIII isn't exactly LOTR. The whole idea of a game is to BE A GAME.
Exactly, this game IS A GAME. Thats the point.
But it does. For pretty much all the game you are relying on computer AI for 2 characters
Not a problem, the AI is smart and intuitive.
, you are using a dumbed down gambit system
I found the previous gambit system to be as difficult to get into as a cast iron vagina, this 'dumbed down' version is much easier to get into, much more enjoyable once you hit its stride and forces you to constantly change to adapt new strategies. Often on the fly to encourage quick thinking on the players part. Thats tight and compelling gameplay right there.
and most creatures can be beaten with Auto battle or small inputs on the joypad.
Er, no. That works for maybe the first half hour before the Paradigm System is actually introduced
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There are no minigames to speak of and side quests are just more battles. Which of these do you find not to be a gimmick?
Yeah, I would have liked to see some mini games and sidequests too. It isn't a perfect package by any means, but the loss of these things hardly makes it an 'interactive movie' by any means.
The combat system alone does not mean this is any less of an interactive movie. Please learn what the word "Interactive" means.
You're telling me to look up what interactive means when I've been arguing about how much time you spend interacting with the gameplay? Really though?
That is correct, since towns give people more interactivity. They allow a person who to talk to, where to go and to INTERACT with the game. To explore. It isn't just towns as people continually keep stating and you continually keep dodging.
You can talk to people. Stand up close to them and they'll say the same kind of line that was once previously reserved for dialogue boxes. I haven't been dodging anything, towns just happen to be the only thing I genuinely see as a loss. Everything else is a welcome change, no more impossibly long dungeons devoid of life or plot than make my interest in the game wane, no more stunning microsoft excel-a-like adventures through the menu screens
And please no more of this "if FFXIII was as linear as previous titles" It is more linear than ANY of the others. By all means criticise but stop lying.
I'd say so far that its exactly as linear as FFX. Long corridor sections, broken up by a town or cinematic setpiece. Except without the towns obvs.
I'm sorry that was a typo, I mean't to say WASN'T AS LINEAR. That one was just my bad
I called the other guy an idiot because he can't argue back with anything more than cherrypicking sentences from my posts to bleet about. You aren't an idiot because you'll actually take the time and brainpower to argue it properly. I don't have any issues with people that don't share the same view as me, thats all cool, but if they can't back it up properly then I don't bother to spend the time replying to them properly either. Just so we're clear and that