Final Fantasy - What Went Wrong!!

[dunno001]

dtewi said:

dunno001 said:

perpride said:
2 - Not Nintendo exclusive. Believe it or not, there are still nintendo fanboys that are bitter about the fact that Final Fantasy moved onto different platforms. You can spot these people very easily: they think the series sold out after VII.

Not quite. Sure, there are some who feel that it sold out because it switched. My problem with FF7 was that this was when graphics really became king, pushing good gameplay and challenge to the wayside.

Are you saying FF6 was challenging?

Nope. Challenge is actually my only gripe with 6. There are a few tough areas to me, like the Floating Continent. In fact, it is this gripe that has me prefering FF5 to 6- I can't find a big gripe in 5. If 6 were as hard as 4 or 5, it would probably go down as one of my best games ever. And following 4 and 5, I saw it as a hiccup for difficulty.

Then we had 7. 7 was even easier than 6, which told me that no, it wasn't a hiccup. And the rest of my "problem" previously stated happened. 6 had good enough pieces to keep my interest despite the lack of challenge. But 7 did not. Parts of 7, frankly, bored me. Sure, it was a lot prettier than 6, in its day. (6 has aged much better than 7, though.) I could make a list on how much I didn't like other parts of 7, but that's not really relevant to this thread, as it's meant to look at a more evolutionary decay problem.