10th March 2010, 10:57 PM
A long tube? Heh, that's an accurate description of 10. I think the moment I first realized I was never going to really be able to "explore" in 10 was when I finally got control of an airship and when I got all excited about telling it I wanted to fly somewhere, I got a frickin' menu, which just teleported me to places I'd been before.
9 was the last one with a world map. 12 was nice for having some wide world exploring at least. Apparently some people complained...
I'll still get 13 I think though. I hear it's still a good game. However this focus on battle systems above every other aspect of the game is annoying me. Kingdom Hearts, for example, is a series that could be much improved if I could interact with the various worlds in ways other than fighting and the occasional "examine" command.
Zelda does have a great sense of exploration and a vast world I can freely travel in. Sure I need to gain access to different parts of the world, usually through items, but that's part of the fun, slowly expanding the range I can explore. That's how older FF games worked too. I think that's one of my biggest annoyances with the Xenosaga series actually.
9 was the last one with a world map. 12 was nice for having some wide world exploring at least. Apparently some people complained...
I'll still get 13 I think though. I hear it's still a good game. However this focus on battle systems above every other aspect of the game is annoying me. Kingdom Hearts, for example, is a series that could be much improved if I could interact with the various worlds in ways other than fighting and the occasional "examine" command.
Zelda does have a great sense of exploration and a vast world I can freely travel in. Sure I need to gain access to different parts of the world, usually through items, but that's part of the fun, slowly expanding the range I can explore. That's how older FF games worked too. I think that's one of my biggest annoyances with the Xenosaga series actually.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)