What game comes to mind when I say RPG

[lestatdark]

twesterm said:

lestatdark said:

yum123 said:

obviously final fantasy and for good reason people saying other wise are trying to think or some think other than ff i think and listing there favourites

Actually that's quite a naive generalization. Why should FF be synonym to RPG for everyone? Heck, when someone says something about RPG's, there's quite a number of series that I think of before I even consider FF. 

Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals is my favourite game of all time, so it's normal that's the first RPG that I think off or that comes to my mind whenever RPG is mentioned. Parasite Eve comes close at second. 

FF is not the RPG standard.

Just because you don't like it or it's not the best doesn't mean it can't be the standard.  Often it is those things that exactly what something shouldn't be is the standard.  They've become so watered down and everyone knows them and they just become the standard.

For instance, what do you think when I saw musical, Broadway show, or even opera?

Was it Phantom of the Opera or any other Andrew Lord Webber show?  I wouldn't be surprised since most people think that or Cats or Jesus Christ Superstar.  The funny thing about that is that almost everyone that actually likes Broadway shows despises Andrew Lloyd Webber and everything he is.

Whatever the case and however much they despise them, stuff like Phantom of the Opera has become the musical standard.  The same goes for Final Fantasy.

Actually, I think of Spring Awakening faster than Phantom of the Opera crosses my mind. 

In current times, FF is long from being the standard though. Most gamers nowadays know, or care, about RPG's mainly due to MMORPG's, be it by paid subscriptions, or the thousands free ones. WOW is more popular than FF these days.

And i'm speaking as a FF fan and as a person that truly loathes and despises WOW. 

FF had a time when it was the RPG series to top, when it was the RPG series to be compared, when every JRPG developer wanted a piece of the success that FF's where having, and that time was during the PSX- early PS2 era.