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Kasz216 on 24 November 2007
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jhlennon1 said:
Kasz216 said:
jhlennon1 said:

Because any real RPG gamer knows that there's much better stuff out there than Final Fantasy. :)

So I guess outside Japan the number of "real" RPG gamers is VERY small? Since compared to FF their sales suck donkey balls. Great logic you have.

 

"Real RPG gamer" LOL.... that ranks right up there with 360 fanboys who claim the "If you don't own a 360 you're not a REAL gamer" type bullcrap. This "real" crap needs to stop, it's nonsense.


Honestly, yeah. I mean, most RPGS, or atleast the turn based ones sell horrible outside of Japan. The reason being, a lot of people hadn't played RPGS since before FF7, and a lot of those people playing Final Fantasy games arn't playing other RPG games... you can see that by RPG sales outside of the Final Fantasy series sucking outside of Japan. (aside from a couple notable exceptions.)

I mean, by your logic... Pokemon is the most well crafted and highest quality RPG in existance because of how much it sells.


I can't gauge what the best RPG is since I haven't played them all but of all the ones I have played FF is the best. More importantly though, devs tend to put their RPG's on the system that has FF because FF attracts the most RPG gamers.

Lost Odyssey's sales are going to be the most interesting. It will do Blue Dragon numbers in Japan but I am more interested if the 360 US/EU userbase lap it up.

Outside of FF, LO looks the best JRPG currently in production.

 

The reason FFVII was able to achieve what it achieved is because of the unbelieveable marketing blitz that Sony put into the game. It was the hype that made me a FF fan as until the wave of TV ads and other marketing and being hailed as the greatest game ever created I would not have played it. I am glad I did play it, but it was the hype that caused it. 


Which is kinda the point.  Most people don't play a lot of RPGs because they take like 4-8 times longer then most other games to complete.  Other then a few RPG fanatics.  Most of those same fanatics tend to not like the modern Final Fantasys, because they've played many many other RPGS and like a lot of others better.

I mean would you call the guy who plays almost nothing but Halo an expert on FPS, or would you call someone who's played nearly every FPS released on consoles and CPU a FPS expert.  It's like the people who call Final Fantasy tactics the best SRPG game ever when they haven't even released over half of them in the USA.