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Kudistos Megistos on 31 December 2009
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arbitor365 said:
jkimball said:

Everyone accepts VII was the best, but people are tired of hearing about it, and it's  now considered cool to pick something else. So we see VI appearing as number one.

I think you might be missing part of he equation here. dont you think its possible that…..... maybe…...... perhaps.......  in some strange realm of existence........ there could be a legitimate reason to dislike FFVII? did you ever chance upon the possibility that maybe FFVII didn’t get the top spot because it simply wasn’t the best and didn’t deserve it? For a FFVII fan to accuse an outside group of being fad-driven, overzealous or pretentious, it is just ironic as hell.

YHBT

Also, I'd love to see what you'd have had to say if number 1 & 2 had been reversed and someone had made the opposite argument. Would have have said that the other games didn't beat FF7 because they weren't as good, or would you have said that the list was just the opinions of a small group of people who don't need to be taken particularly seriously? Or would you have said that they chose FF7 because they wanted more hits?

PS. You now know how we feel when we encounter fanboys. Believe it or not, every popular JRPG has a large number of people who have difficulty understanding that some people may not feel the way that they do about their favourite. To imply that FF7 is special in this regard (as you seem to do with your bitching about us being overzealous) reveals that you're the victim of either some questionable reasoning* or the hostile media effect.

*it might (and I repeat, might) be the case that there is a greater number of overzealous FF7 fanboys than there are fanboys of any other FF game or JRPG in terms of absolute numbers (this genre seems to attract fanboys more than others, perhaps due to the greater emotional attachment to the game and characters), but does this mean that FF7 has more of a fanboy culture? The ratio of fanboys to normal fans might be much lower than that for some other games in the series. There are more Catholics in China than in Ireland, but that doesn't mean that China is a more Catholic country...