Blitzball makes FFX. Love that game <3.
I didn't like how linear it was. It was pretty much walking in a straight line. I mean, JRPGs are usually incredibly linear, but FFX took the cake.
I think that technically, FF13 is the sole owner and CEO of that cake... FF13 made FFX look like a sprawling sandbox game by comparison (which is part of the reason why I didn't like 13... )
I never got that far into FFXIII. From what I played it was horribly linear, no denying that.
I did enjoy the lack of random encounters though =). Random Encounters suck >=(
And Keith David is always good. Vanille didn't seem too bad either, but I hear she gets a lot worse.