One of the things that I believed collapsed the Final Fantasy franchise - Music

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ishiki said:

A203D said:

6. Yeah I'm not sure if those are 'all' great games... I mean Catherine, Valkyrie Chronicles, Demon Souls, El Shaddai were excellent games. They shouldve sold more copies. But I think the problem is more deep rooted than that... What if Final Fantasy has damamged more than just the franchise, what if Final Fantasy has damaged the reputation of Japanese games here in the west? What if the reasons Japanese RPGs are not as successful as WRPGs here in the west is because Final Fantasy has damaged that genre of gaming?

hey man. LP

It might be true, but it's not such a good sign for the genre in the first place if the state of that genre relies on 1 franchise. imo.
It's like saying grunge is dead when kurt cobain shot himself.

oh wait... idk what's going on here. hmm.

Lol, yeah. I think the problem is that games like Gran Turismo 5, Resident Evil 5 and FF13 have all underrepresented the Japanese console market this gen.

Whenever someone says something bad about Japanese games, I think its those games that come first to mind.

Like at E3 (it wasnt E3 but a gameshow event), when that guy Fez told a Japanese developer on the show floor that Japanese games suck. I think what he said was completely wrong. But I cant deny the first thing I thought of when he said that were those three games. I think its big Japanese brands like that which have seriously under represented their console market.

However, I also think that the afformentioned games were excellent, and its a shame that its not those games that represent their console industry.