| Kudistos Megistos said: Really? They aren't prevalent? In my experience, they're very prevalent indeed; of course, they're also much easier to conceal, both from oneself and from other people. Even if you lie to others, you can't hide it from yourself if you didn't play the games in order. However, you can easily convince yourself that you don't resent something for making your niche popular and you can easily convince yourself that you aren't jumping the reverse bandwagon. The majority of people who think like that don't know they're doing it. You see how cheap that is? I can tell you that your opinion is worth less and pre-empt any denials by saying that if you were the victim of those biases you wouldn't know about it. We can all play that game, and that's why questioning people's motives for saying one video game is better than another is a very bad idea. (I'd like to point out that I don't think you're being malicious or deceitful, but the effects of your argument are the same as they would have been if you were). Also, I have to pick you up on the "expert opinion" bit. For every person who knows what he's talking about, there are 100 who make me think that the only FF game they've played is the one they say is the best. You might be able to think of a reason why the FF fans who got in there first should be better informed, but the reality seems to be that they aren't any better informed than the people who picked up the series with the PSX or even the PS2. |
Nothing you've said here has actually disproven my point, and only shows your general defensiveness about it.
You can be defensive, but more experience is more expierence. There really isn't anything else to say about it.
If you take two perfectly equal people and have 1 play them in order at the time of release, and the other not play them in order.
The one who plays the games in order is the one who will be more expierenced and be able to give a better opinion.
This is generally undeniable.
As such, you would need to prove that the people who started at 7 and beyond were somehow superior inherently to deny the advantage of having played the Final Fantasy games at time of release.
This of course is a claim that makes no sense.
As such, expierence generally wins out. As for "nostalgia glasses"... these are videogames. All one needs to do to see if they have nostalgia glasses or not is replay the game and see how it holds up. Most games that were actually great when you played them will still hold up today, unless what made them great was some sort of industry defining thing that was later copied and improved upon or replaced later.
It really does say something that very few people who have played 6 before 7 think 7 is better... and that very few people who played 7 before 10 think 10 is better.
Also, that nobody thinks FF1 is the best FF ever. FF1 actually being my First Final Fantasy.
Second Console RPG behind Dragon Warrior.
