“Like FFXVI’s different Eikon abilities that become accessible to Clive over many hours, Paradigms slowly increase the complexity of combat and the freedom with which the player can react to battles.”

This is literally every FF with some type of job/class system lol…

The last good FF game for me was X

XV and XVI it's ok not bad but can't beat 10 , 9 , 8 , 7

It absolutely doesn't deserve the hate, but comparing FFXIII and FFXVI is just plain stupid. They're nothing a like.

I absolutely loved FFXIII trilogy, but I also loved the other games in the francu.

FFXIII was a corridor game with no possibility to ever go back.
FFX had the same structure, but the difference was that you could actually get back to previous zones, and even had to if you wanted to defeat Dark Aeons etc
FFXVI is a semi open world game with 4 huge zones connected to each other where you can go back anywhere you've been, whenever you want.

FFXIII didn't have any towns or npcs
FFX barely had any towns but some npcs along the road
FFXVI has plenty of towns and camps with hundreds of npcs

To add to the mix, FFVII Remake is also a corridor game, with extremely limited possibilities to get back to previous zone without chapter select.

I must say with ff13 I didn't give it much of a shot. After ff15 and ff16 I'd like to now. I know its atleast turn based.

Meh. Uninstalled it after the demo. R rated language isn't final fantasy for me. The only purpose it serves is to make it to where I cant play the game in the living room around my kids. Thanks for nothing, Squeenis.

They might share similarities, but FFXIII suffered from a nonsensical story and 15 hours of super slow introduction. The game gets better, but it takes a loooong time to get going. I find FFxVI a lot more engaging in the opening hours.

I love 16 so far! The mature story compared to previous games and the combat is addictive

if you like ff12 and 16 chances are high that you don't like ff13 and vice versa as it seems

uhhh...no? FF13 had an over complicated story that made no damn sense at all, was poorly told and poorly implemented. Not to mention some of the characters were just badly written and annoying. FF16 has a consistent story, well written characters and so much lore.

Edgy protagonists always deserve the hate😉

FF16 did a lot of things right, and some things wrong, but what kept me going for sure are the story and characters, it just makes you want to protect your allies and fight til the end.

There are a few things that in improved would make this game so much better.
1. less fetch quests, too many picking stuff on the ground quests, not enough variety, if the side quests can be more Witcher 3 like, that would be awesome
2. dialogue, the quality is inconsistent, some time you get top notch performance, sometimes it feels like an old PS2 game, for example, horizon forbidden west did a very good job with dialogues with NPCs
3. equipments/stats... at any one point of the story, almost all gamers would be using the exact same weapons and armours, very little choices, forging is almost pointless other than a certain weapon.

Story, world building, characters, presentation...etc zero complains.

FFXIII is one of my top favorite FF games. So far I'm 16 hrs in FFXVI & I'm enjoying it.

13 didn't have anything really memorable. So for an RPG, it was a huge miss. 16 while I only played the demo, made me feel immersed in such a way..oh yeah I believe that type of immersion that comes to my mind is what an RPG is capable of.

If call of duty made me feel that immersion into a role in the story, I too would classify CoD as such, however THIS IS HYPOTHETICAL. In regards to discussion.

Xiii was milked way too hard for a game that had content cut because it didn't fit onto the 360.

13 just had very dislikable characters.

i didnt care for any of them.

I tried to approach FF13 with an opened mind but once I started playing it I got bored. As for getting FF16 I am just going to wait until its cheaper I have a new Y's game I have to start, Trails to Azure to start, Trails into Reverie to grab, Star Ocean to play, Soul Hackers to starts, finish up Scarlet Nexus, and work on Trinity Trigger. And hopefully I will be starting on Super Mario RPG.

Nope. Final Fantasy 13 was a terrible game; final fantasy 16 is not. The second statement does not absolve the first game of it’s failures.

13 was entirely a corridor from start to finish. 16 had 4 giant explorable zones.

13 had absolutely no towns and you had to buy items from vending machines. 16 had towns and shops, plus an actual hub as your main base.

13 had terrible characters that were annoying all around. 16 had great characters.

13 had a terrible story. It was complete, but they weren't satisfied with the sales, so they made some crap up to continue it in 2 other games that frankly, were just not needed or wanted by anyone. The story in FF16 is actually pretty good, except for the ending. Did they really have to have an open ending left to anyone's interpretation instead of an actual happy ending?

13 had almost no side content and the one it had was trash. 16 had hunts, sidequests and also a new game plus difficulty (it's not really a new difficulty, just a different take on endgame).

Some of the games during my time to get more hate than was deserved:
1) The Order 1868
2) that dragon game that came out with the PS3 that used the dualshock axes technology.
3) Days Gone

Im sure Im missing a couple more. I always felt the hate for these titles was a smear campaign. All of them had double standards applied against them.

Uh no.

Inverse making some stupid claims to get clicks.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I can't see how anyone can rate FF16 below a 8 personally. The graphics are insane, tons of action, great plot, superbly voice acted and it is possibly the greatest soundtrack I have ever heard in a game. It is easily my favorite game of the yr so far.

Almost every FF released after X deserves all the hate it gets lol. No clue what this article is trying to say.
X-2 was an abomination that doesn't need any explanation, XIII was the worst of em all to the point where I had zero interest playing the sequels. XIV is basically Backstreet Boys: The Game. I hear XII is good. Haven't played it myself, but XI and XIV are bland MMO's that drag on for way too long where you just step outside circles and watch enemies HP bars go down for 30 minutes, while no amount of gear will actually make you feel badass and powerful enough to make it go by faster, all the while dodging pathetic basement dwellers dressed up like catgirls DMing you that want to roleplay because they can't handle the real world, every single time you enter the bar to pick up a quest. I'm glad XVI is doing well and the focus isn't solely on making the characters look pretty anymore.

I'd like to think the enjoyment from FFXVI comes from them embracing a mature storyline and having a strong lead the combat system is pretty good too. I hope they keep the same energy moving forward, outside of FFT can't remember the last Final Fantasy that was just in your face with the harsh reality of things as this one was and the VA is great, probably my favorite Cid here.

What? Like… how do you even make that connection?

These are 2 very different games.

How does a good game justify a bad game. 13 is not only boring, but also some of the worst story telling i've ever seen.