Final Fantasy dominating home console RPG. Fair or Not Fair

[darthdevidem01]

twesterm said:

darthdevidem01 said:

twesterm said:
I think SE has pretty unfairly raised the bar for JRPG's and are pretty much destroying the genre.

It's not that they are making great games anymore (or at least the FF games aren't great), it's that they have these insanely high budgets that other publishers can't match but SE can get away with because they know the FF name means several million units and a Cloud clone means another million units.

Why just because you don't think the FF's are great now?

the FACT is FF12's metacritic is as good as FF7

ALL FF games are AAA & are loved by millions & the franchise is still regarded as quality, so we can't say they are destroying the genre.

S-E are killing JRPG's in one way though......by not releasing FF13 quickly.....as once FF13 comes, JRPG fans will be on the HD consoles, allowing other JRPG's to also sell well, FF13 is a catalyst for the JRPG console movement, just like the other FF's were (FF7 & FF10)

Are you also going to tell me GTAIV is one of the greatest games of all time?  Sometimes critics just buy into the hype.

so critics bought into the hype, what SEVEN times

or lets count since FF7 (including FF7).....5 TIMES

It would be fine once, twice....that could be "buying into the hype"

but after 3 times & finally 5 times.....it starts to become a trend which proves the franchise aint crap, its respected & seen as fabulous by both the industry, gaming press & gamers.

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your point about SE & infinite budget is correct........but is that unfair?

I would prefer getting FF's with infinite budgets & lots of quality, instead of SE not having high budgets to let other JRPG guys be successful

In the end I think it comes down to marketing thats the reason other JRPG's don't do as well, as you said. Thats not really fair, but maybe the other companies should for once RISK spending tons of marketing money!

What do you expect Resonance of Fate to do in the west BTW? thats a mega budget JRPG which SEGA stated they wanted to be their "FF" in the west.