Square-Enix: "It's..natural to grow out of Final Fantasy."

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Johann said:
I think people who say FF is "going bad" need to stop picking up the games, like Mr Rubang. I mean, it's like they only do it so they can tell other people in forums how much the game that they love so much sucks. Rubang saw something he didn't like and there we go, no more FF for him. Simple. No hating involved.

I personally never felt such a big shift in any FF. I never felt that any FF was similar to another. I felt FFVII was just as diferent from all other FFs as any other FF is diferent from any other game in the series. To tell you the truth, I never felt any maturity in them either. To say that any FF is more mature than another one it's a complete joke. They're all cliched, unbelievable characters mixed in an unblievable, cliched plot. Wanna see believable characters? Go watch "Before Sunrise" (or its sequel) or "The Squid and The Whale" to see some of the most believable dialog ever written. Games are not supposed to have believable characters. They're supposed be interesting, I'll give you that, but even that's subjective.

I also never associated emo with FF till someone on the internet said it. Actually I don't even see it now, but it's not like I buy into this emo fad (I don't mean the guys with the clothes, make up and atitude, I mean calling people emo, which to me became an even worst fad). It's just another way of insulting people on forums, which is the way of the internet, I guess.

I enjoyed every FF I've ever played (except maybe VIII) and that's why I keep playing them. I'm even allowed to criticize it, 'cause I like them and I am doing it because I want the series to grow. The same way I don't go into shooter forums to call Halo or Call of Duty a piece of crap, FF haters should keep away from FF related threads. Go hate somwhere else.

Agree, thats why its a fantasy game, something like studio ghibli films, they all have children as protagonists and no complex dialog but they have emotionality and a message behind that can be showed to anyone older than 13.

And I agree with you in the second part where there is a fad in calling people emo in the internet. Its like people believe when a movie or such has some emotion its automatically emo and stupid, for young and inmature kids, and that is lack of maturity and believe they are more manly when they probably are as nerds as the other ones.