darthdevidem01 said:
What I find really interesting is the CONSISTENCY in this one. Most are giving it between 9 - 10 In the FF8 thread it was like a freak cricus show....you had "10/10 ONE OF THE BEST FF EVA!" then the next post down "0.5/10 -- UNPLAYABLE MESS, WORST FF EVA!" You hade more 9's, 10's....and 3's, even a few 0's I just can't understand how peoples opinions on 1 game can differ SO MUCH, the range for FF8 was like 0 - 10. The range for FF7 was lower it went from 4 (lowest) to 10 But with pre PS FF's it seems its pretty consistent in terms of ratings. When did this huge divide occur, is FF7 the reason for dividing fans or do we blame it on FF8? |
I would blame FF7.
Well more... 3D.
In 3D they couldn't get away with a lot of the series mainstrays. You couldn't overexagerate movements for comedic effect and as such without voiceacting it was rather hard to get across these meanings in FF7. Whch means the humor... a large part of the SNES final fantasies was replaced by cross dressing and swearing... the humor just wasn't there in the PS1 era games.
Additionally the early 3D characers just weren't as Atehstically pleasing as the spires of old.
They also made the stories more accessable and more personal driven then world driven. The old Final Fantasy games were more about the world... and less about the people. While FF7 was more about clouds journey.
In genreal while FF games often had changes, the spirit was largely the same until the 3D transition. It's also one reason why I think everybody dislikes FF12. It somewhat goes back to that old spirit.
The divide is just bigger with FF8, because lots of people who liked FF7 didn't like FF8... and way more people played FF7 then FF6.
