which is the best jrpg franchise in your opinion?

[lestatdark]

NobleTeam360 said:

lestatdark said:

NobleTeam360 said:

orniletter said:

NobleTeam360 said:
Final Fantasy shits on all of those JRPGs.

Which one ? XIII, XIII-2 or Lightning Returns ?

Although I personally liked XIII and XIII-2 (Lightning Returns isn't out in America yet) I understand plenty of people didn't. I think Final Fantasy X and XII easily best JRPG games I have ever played to this date. 

While I also think that XII is one of the best JRPG games of all time (actually to me it's on par with FFVI as one of the best games, regardless of genre, of all time), that opinion is highly unpopular around here, sadly. 

Last time I gave my opinion of XII and tried to defend it, I almost got insulted here on VGC. I drew the line there when it came to participating on FF threads.

Yeah, it seems like it's the popular thing to do (hate on Final Fantasy) I mean XIII wasn't even that bad and all of a sudden Final Fantasy is garbage? doesn't make sense to me. 

To a lot of people, FF has been garbage since VII released . These debates are nothing new amongst the FF community, every new release gets heated exchanges between the pre-VII and the post-VII fans. Even fans of games like IX came out and said that X was utter crap, fans of X came out and said that XII was the worst game ever made, etc. etc.

The problem with XIII is that these debates hit the mainstream as well, because it was critically panned by the reviewers, and there previously hasn't been an era in videogames in which reviews have had so much power as they have now. So the congregation of hate, doom and the worst that the gaming community can produce revolved around FFXIII. That, and people oh so love to see popular things getting destroyed. 

I agree with you that XIII wasn't that bad. Not my favourite FF, but far from being near the worst FFs, in my opinion.