gekkokamen said:
GooseGaws said:
It's definitely not a "fact" that FFVII "wowed" gamers more than FFVI. It was played by more people, certainly, so was "bigger," but by definition that means that many of those people had never played VI (or perhaps any FF) and did not have anything to compare it to. The opera house sequence in VI alone, for example, had a much bigger "wow" factor for me than anything in VII. Not to mention the fact that the villain actually succeeds in destroying the world...
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Seriously...Americans buying JRPGs like crazy, if that's not a testament of the game wowing people then I don't have anything else to say, and I doubt they had to reach far into the game (not nearly as long as getting to the Opera in 6 would take) to be wowed. I keep getting these replies from people talking about their own personal experience. You all think I wasn't REALLY WOWED by 6? I played that game as soon as it came out, I had played every american FF before it, and tons of RPGs, it did wowed me A LOT. But that was me, an avid RPG gamer, to the vast majority of gamers of 1994 it didn't quite have that effect you know? I figure they saw pretty much what they had always seen in one of those games "the characters are on one side of the screen and waggle their swords and numbers pop up from monsters on the other side"...but FF7 really opened the eyes of those gamers.
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I'd have to agree with you that it's likely FF7 "wowed" more people than any others based on sheer sales.
Though. At the same time you could argue Modern Warfare 2 wowed or Wii Sports Wowed people based on the same reasoning. Wowed more people than any Final Fantasy. Doesn't really matter.
Every Final Fantasy wowed some people. For me it was FF8. where I was like OMFGZ, wowing is kind of a confusing word though.
Yuffie wowed me though... that's all that matters.
