[QUOTE="NeonNinja"]I think it has a fantastic battle system. It was enough to get me going with it and I put over 100 hours into it just because I loved using the Paradigm shifts. If you let it get its hooks into FFXIII is an excellent game.
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The paradigm shift system was ridiculously flat, I finished that game with the same 5 paradigms, never had to change them. the combat system allows for 0 creativity unless you want to waste over 1 hour mashing the X button to beat a boss because if you don't follow the exact action order you're simply not going to beat the boss fast (but you're never going to die because its easy as shit) You see, no one really thinks that turn based combat is good, but it was invented so that you could have control of all the party members at the same time instead of having them being controlled with AI. They removed that in FF13, by only letting you play with 1 character...so why the hell was it still turn based? thats like having a guy from coca cola R and D telling you "we've managed to remove every unhealthy aspect about coke while literally keeping the exact same flavor! but we're just gonna give you a coke zero instead!". Also the "gambits" were completely stupid, the AI was braindead, the AI characters would NEVER change the order of their actions during the paradigms, for example a medic would NEVER revive an ally unless the other 2 party members had a green health bar, so sometimes if you didnt had a phoenix down with you and no paradigm where your main character was the medic, you'd be stuck for over an hour fighting because the dumb AI would never revive the fallen teammate because one of the party members had 49% health.WHOA! HOLD IT RIGHT THERE MISTER! I call total bullshit on that same 5 paradigms nonsense. Ridiculous.
The paradigm system is designed around controlling the greater flow of the battle. It isn't about individual actions. Your goal is to read the situation and decide what those characters should be doing. Battles should be brisk, we're talking 1 minute affairs, maybe less if you're good.  So don't give me a history lesson on turn-based combat here.
Final Fantasy XIII features combat scenarios outside of the main story that just get absolutely ridiculous and it's obvious you never followed the Cie'th Stone missions. Gruieling battles that require actual knowledge of the paradigm system. You aren't selecting individual actions, you're laying down a gameplan and watching it happen. I can understand if you don't like that, but don't go calling this game easy, it's obvious you've never faced the tougher challenges in the game.
You don't have to like Final Fantasy XIII, but I refuse to hear out an opinion on a battle system that you half-heartedly played through when I KNOW you need to constantly change Paradigm shifts and characters that you have available based on different missions as well as in the story, but moreso for those monster hunts. Tons of bosses all tougher than the actual final boss.
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