Most overated game series.

[lestatdark]

DeduS said:

lestatdark said:

DeduS said:

Halo ... I just can't see the appeal ... it's a generic FPS with a lame story ... it's perfected blandness. I can only guess that the mp is the main appeal and since I don't like competitive mp too much I may just not get it. I just don't see what's so special about it - there are so many fricking FPS out there - why is this one the be-all and end-all of this huge group of games.

And some of that goes for my #2 (Final Fantasy) as well. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big FF fan, but I just don't get the hype. There were some great FF games in the 20+ year long history of the franchise, but there were some mediocre ones too. Yet every new entry to the series is celebrated as the reinvention of gaming, when most of the time there is barely anything innovative at all in those games.

Final Fantasy changes it's main gameplay structure with each game of the main installment. They may not be all good, and it isn't the best JRPG series, by far, but tell me, what other JRPG series changes it's main structure throught the main installments?

To be honest, I don't know that many JRPG series - I have played a lot of JRPGs, but Final Fantasy is probably the only one, where I played every installment ... so I can't really judge.

Personally I don't even care about gameplay changes - what I want out of a JRPG is a solid fighting- & leveling-system, interesting characters and a gripping story. (and some fun minigames would be nice ^^) I get that with most FFs - that's why I'm a fan, but there are so many other good or sometimes even better JRPGs out there, which don't get the attention they deserve, while FF is hyped to no end.

FF is nothing special - it's just another game. That doesn't mean that FFs don't deserve any hyping - some of them are amongst the best RPGs I've ever played, but I just feel that the amount of hype relative to the quality of the games is pretty unequally shared. That's why I think FF is overrated. (It's the same for Halo - just way worse.)

 

 

You have a very good logic, and I agree to your points to. There are many better JRPG's out there, but the problem is that those doesn't fit into the western idealization of JRPG's. That's why FF's tend to be so high rated on the west, because they tend to be JRPG lite.

Even my favourite FF, FF6 is very lite, when compared to most rpg's. It has an amazing story and pretty good characters, but in terms of game mechanics and development per se, it's very basic.

I don't think the series per se is overrated, at least not the games in the series that I think that stand out from the others (FF6, FFXII, FFVII and FFIV), but I do agree that some of them aren't that good.

That being said, i'd take a SMT game over a FF game anytime of the day, especially the Persona series xD