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Stats87 on 22 September 2008
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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?

 

 

I think Final Fantasy does its characters very well and it has top notch production value. I end up caring about protagonist, supporting characters and even the villains. Which is another thing, Final Fantasy generally has awesome villains. I just find myself more engrossed into the world. (which i talk about in my recent post about Persona 3)

Part of it might also be that I was a teenager when I played all 7,8,9,10,12 and related to the angst.

In LO I liked the story and it had good production, but I didn't find the characters overly-interesting, more of just pieces to move the story along .
I don't think it's a coicidence that my least favorite FF is IX and that I found the characters of FFIX to be the least interesting. I also felt FFIX had the weakest Villain.