Oh boy , IGN is doing another TOP 100 list - TOP 100 RPGS ALL TIME

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Crono141 said:

forevercloud3000 said:
@Kasz
By your definition of objectivity no one's judgment can be taken seriously. You seem to lean towards the idea that Bit era FF games are somehow written better than more recent entries. By the law that I was too young to appreciate the older ones, doesn't that mean you could simply be to old to appreciate what the 3D era FFs had to offer? All FFs are a bit different yet hold on to key traditions as a series. They are all very much alike yet vastly different all at the same time. You could very well be wearing the Rose Tinted Glasses of the "Back in my day..." variety of thought. By that rule, people always think a certain style of what they grew up with is better than what came before and after it when they are honestly not all that different. If this is the case we are both slighted by our upbringing with the series.

This thought always creeps into my mind any time this discussion gets brought up.  Because I was 11 or 12 when I first played FF6, and it was the first FF I played when I was old enough to know what the hell was going on.  Its very likely that I feel its better for nostalgic reasons, the same as many FF7 fans.

I still defend that FF6 had more of those deep emotional moments than FF7 did.  The comparison between FF6 and FF7 being analogous to book vs movie is apt.  FF7 was cinematic.  FF6 was not.

I think the fact we even question if our opinions are objective MAKES them objective. I pride my self on being able to stand back, take in information, then formulate an opinion there of. A non objective person doesn't do this. Like I said before, I had played several FFs after VII, barely understood any of them. Then went back and replayed them and it all dawned on me what they were trying to say. For me, FFVII is has just never been touched in Story, I think X is the only truely comparable one. I will say that before ever playing a FF game I always had a deep appreciation for occult, scifi, tragedy in my stories. These things fascinate me. So the fact that FFVII shows all 3 in a unique way possibly does pull me more to it. Yet I chalk this up to the fact I find them to be much more interesting if executed properly. Medival time periods bore me to tears because half of them hold the same tropes they always have, hence the preference to Sci Fi. Religious adoration and devotion is also amusing to me. And lastly I like my emotions to be engaged when reading/watching/playing something, not just go through the motions. It is not enough for me to see a bunch of people get slaughtered, I need to see how it effected the individuals left behind(links to why I feel Kefka is so blah). FFVII just hits all the right notes for me.