Fake Outrage.
I get it, people hate CoD. But is the hate for Infinite Warfare really justified? Let's take Battlefield 1, where they devs talked crap about Infinite Warfare not showing gameplay (which the entire trailer besides a few scenes were actual gameplay from different camera angles like all CoD games), but their entire trailer only had literally 3 Secs of Gameplay. But because everyone wants to jump aboard the CoD hate train, they're acting like it's going to be GotY with many even outright saying it's be GotY. Over Uncharted 4 though?
Now lets move to something that I actually like a lot more than most people: Final Fantasy XIII. Yes, it's definitely a game you'd put in 9th or 10th place when ranking all of the numbered FF game, but to say it's the worst? Seriously, did these fake fans even play FF2 & 3? I call them fake fans because of every person who outrages over the direction of FFXIII, I can guarantee that 70% of those who hate it didn't even play the game. I know this because they love to regurgitate the same "Cons" that everyone other false reviewer said about the game. Here's a list:
It's a corridor RPG.
I played FFVI, the best FF game ever, after playing FFXIII. Aside from the Overworld and Town visits, that game was also very much as linear as FFXIII. FF7 is for the majority of it's first act (before the Motorcycle chase) was linear. But because you get no towns in FFXIII, it's a corridor RPG? Even though they have optional routes for getting extra equipment/parts?
You don't reach the open-world of Grand Pulse until 15 Hours into the game. And even that isn't very good anyway.
Farming, Reading, watching cutscenes, looking at the map constantly, listing to party banter, and keeping the pause menu up to level up/equip items/upgrade weapons (which take between 5-10 minutes each time), and I made it to Grand Pulse in 10 hours. How is it that EVERYONE who hated the game was able to put 5 extra hours into a game that they say is a corridor RPG and has a level cap after every few chapters, but I did just about everything and still made it to Pulse in 10 hours?
The gameplay is too easy and repetative, you only have to press X to win every battle.
Oh really? So how do you defeat the Eidolons who require you to be a Sentinel, Medic, Synergist, and/or Saboteur? Not only that, but how did you defeat the bosses? Especially the Chapter 10 Boss which literally REQUIRES you to constantly change your Paradigm because he has multiple forms? You know, the boss you fight before going to Grand Pulse? I'd give the "Easy Mode" excuse, but the fact that you can't beat them on Normal Mode without Switching constantly, I highly doubt you can beat the game on Easy Mode without switching up your fighting style. And did they not use their summons throughout their whole playthrough?
The Characters stay the same throughout the entire game. They never develop.
Chapter 9-10. Chapter 9-10. Seriously, 8-8.5 hours into a game that's said to be 50 hours long, and for some reason you just stop thinking about the characters before reaching Chapter 9? Literally the only way this would be true is if they stopped playing before Chapter 9, but these are the same people who said it's linear until Grand Pulse and that Grand Pulse wasn't really a fun section in the game. You don't reach Grand pulse until Chapter 11.
They don't tell you anything so it's hard to understand the story. They let you read about the story in the datalog, but I was still confused.
I didn't know much about Cocoon, Sanctum, fal'Cie, Pulse, or l'Cie when I first played the game. So what did I do? Read the Prologue that's in the manual that comes with the game that summarizes the entire backstory of the game. Also, you get flashbacks through the ENTIRE GAME. Last but not least, if it's really that confusing then you could watch the 1 min intro for FFT-0 which explains at least the difference between the fal'Cie & l'Cie.
Vanille is the least important character in the game and she shouldn't even be in the game.
Without Vanille, the story wouldn't exist. This was know during Chapter 7 or 8. You literally cannot tell the story of FFXIII without Vanille.
The point is, the majority of people outraged over stuff never even watched, played, or were a fan of the thing they say they hate. Sometimes, they hate something just because the majority do (aka Batman v Superman). Can't take people like that serious at all.