Final Fantasy 12 is awesome.

[Kasz216]

Khuutra said:

Kasz216 said:

Tell me.  Why is it the one they can enjoy?

There is nothing special about Final Fantasy compared to the others.

Outside of 12's MMO battle style and 11 being an MMO what's been different.

Final Fantasy doesn't only sell because of it's name.  It sells because of it's name and it's marketing budget.

Final Fantasy sells because of the massive amount of cash poured into it by Sony. (Yes sony)  For FF7.

Before then it was just another RPG in the west sales wise... even when it was at the top of the game.

 

A capable argument could be made that it sells on its quality, which is factor of its massive appeal. There was never a point in the franchise's history where it was "just another JRPG" saleswise, at least not in the States.

Playing around wiht core mechanics that change from game to game, building on different ideas of character progression, having generally great writing, being a mishmash of the best talents in th industry at any given time.... Final Fantasy does a lot of things right.

I disagree.  Before 7 the numbers of the final fantasy sales weren't off other games from what i recall.

The site doesn't have the best numbers on it.  Most likely numbers just taken from a press release but note FF6 was the big hit for square with FF4 having sales below Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger.

Dragon Warrior sold 500,000 in the US.  Final Fantasy 1 was almost definitly below that.  Original release i believe only being 400,000 copies world wide.

At most you could argue it was Final Fantasy 6 that got Final Fantasy some of it's "cred" with the marketing pushing it over.

But in the west Final Fantasy was an average RPG until 6/7.