>take four steps
>trigger a cutscene
>enter a new area
>trigger a cutscene
>talk to a character
>trigger a cutscene
>cutscene finishes
>trigger another cutscene

>JRPG has story
No way

>>713029090
>you need 50 minutes of cutscenes per hour to say the bad guy is evil and causes trouble and the main character hates his dad

>>713029194
Books do the same thing. JRPGs have just been books you can play since FFIV

>>713028968 (OP)
>>713029194
I thought the zoomer memes weren't real, but it looks like I was mistaken.

>>713029604
>you are a zoomer if you want to play a video game instead of watching one

>>713030057
>huehuehue narrative and depth in games is bad
Then go play super mario wonder or fortnite. Anything to satisfy your spastic fucking brain zoom zoom.

>>713030192
ff10 isnt deep, its your standard jrpgslop, the bad guy is bad because he is

>>713030304
>ff10 isnt deep
fortnite is at the end on the right

>Another generational war thread
I hate humanity and the cyclical nature of man so fucking much.

>>713028968 (OP)
Yeah game has too much cutscenes, too little gameplay and exploration sucks.

>>713028968 (OP)

>>713031749
you can't go back to previous locations in XIII, unlike X

>>713031749
The difference is that FFX is fun and has a good story

>>713031749
Just being able to do optional shit like talk to NPCs and recruit blitz players makes FFX's brand of linearity better. It's one thing having a straight line from point A to point D (FFXIII). It's another being able to have point A to point D with B and C being optional things you can do between those points (FFX). Picking up Al Bhed primers, the cactuar sidequest when you get to Bikanel, clearing the extra puzzle in the temples before moving on (or going back to them). Not only that, but there's a ton of reasons to go back to every revisitable point in the game. FFVII is also just as linear until you get the Tiny Bronco and FFVI is just as linear until you get to WoR. Most of the series is linear, FFXIII just decided to be as linear as fucking Halo for some reason and we know now what level of linearity is too much for people.
tl;dr FFX is linear, FFXIII somehow is MORE linear

>>713031749
I know the meme is trying to undermine FFX, but it actually illustrates why one is better received. FFX is a well designed game, FFXIII is a sloppy mess.

>>713033078
playing devil's advocate, but the original point of the meme is that the same behavior should be acceptable (or unacceptable) regardless of looks

>>713028968 (OP)
Same philosophy as the combat.
>Enter battle
>Do non-damaging moves with each character
>Wait for enemies' turn
>Switch out characters and do non-damaging movies with each of them
>Wait for enemies' turn
>Switch out to your actual party and kill enemies
>Go into to Sphere Grid to level up
>Move forward
>Go into next battle

Fuck FFX.

>>713033663
you don't have to go to the sphere grid after each battle

>>713033663
are you a psychopath? doing all the sphere grid either when you cap AP or get to the save point before the boss is so much more cathartic
>do non-damaging moves with each charcter
if you're some min-maxing WRPG autist sure

>>713033663
you should've said
>move forward for (unironically) 5 seconds
>>713033770
This is true, I regularly waited for three level ups before going back in. It's still a piece of shit system with too many prompts.

>>713033663
FFX combat relies on its gimmicks and tricks, otherwise its really shallow and boring and gets stale quickly thanks to trash mob spam.