The OP sounds about right to me. I see FF7 as the sellout point for Square. It was hugely hyped up for the graphics, and after seeing what pretty pictures did for their sales, it's all the FF name has meant ever since. I've been waiting for a commercial failure in the FF line for a while, and I think 13 really has a good shot at being it. Yes, Square does need to go back and realize what made the older games good. And it will take a bomb to do so. It's sad, really, when I loved the FF series so much in the (S)NES days, and now I really don't care for it. It's let the DQ series grow on me instead. However, with S-E's slowness in getting those out, they may lose me as a customer permanently to Atlus. But that's for another thread...
-dunno001
-On a quest for the truly perfect game; I don't think it exists...
