Is Final Fantasy important anymore?

[Groucho]

Riachu said:

Paul_Warren said:

"FF is being eclipsed by other great RPGs... its old news. FF VI, VII, VIII were the apex of FF greatness... kinda a downhil slide since then."

I'll admit it has kind of been a downhill slide for console rpgs since FFXII (not talking about handhelds here or the Persona series on PS2); however, once FFXIII is released you will see the return of World's Greatest RPG Series as FFXIII will be yet another FF that gets review scores in the 9.5-10 range, that demonstrates the true power of epic rpgs once again, and that reveals all these sub 8.5 review games like Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery, Tales of Vesperia, etc, as the placeholders that they always are in every console generation prior to the release of that generation's first Final Fantasy.

Lost Odyssey only manages to get a 79% on gamerankings but main FF games manage to get in the Early 90% tile.  What do critcs love about FF that it makes them not like LO as much?

 

Advertising budget for their site.  I'm not joking.

...and I own every FF except FF3, if you were wondering.  At this point, I won't even buy FF13 unless its 90% or greater in the reviews.