[Vampyr]

I would say that gamers having the opinion of "who plays that?!" about one of the games in your series is a decent sign that it's broken.

FFXIII was just boring as hell. Linear to the point of being bad, and when the world did open up, it wasn't the same kind of open world as in other Final Fantasies. There wasn't really much to do in it. There were those side mission things, but those were best left until after you beat the game, and at that point, who really cares to do them?