Darc Requiem on 09 March 2008
| mrstickball said: Remember about the Gamerankings score....Reviewers were sent faulty copies of the game. Since that huge error was found, more recent reviewers have increased their scores accordingly (it was at 74%, then jumped to 79 in a matter of a few reviews). Being better than game A or B is merely subjective. Blue Dragon (for me) was better than some Final Fantasies, worse than others...And that was just BD. As for the sales comparison, Dallinor, that's a joke. Your comparing a Final Fantasy which was revolutionary at the time, on a system that had a 100million instal base versus a system that might reach 50 million - and very few of which live in Japan... And despite that, LO might still break 1m thanks to US and European sales. |
Using sales as a justification for quality is never a good thing. The gaming industry is riddled with quality titles that bomb. As for the revolution, the only thing revolutionary about FFVII was the large ad campaign it received. Something that no RPG before it received outside of Japan. Phantasy Star I was revolutionary but it didn't exactly light up the sales charts. Phantasy Star I had a female lead character multiple worlds, 3D dungeons, cinematics, multiple character parties etc. All that in 1988 was revolutionary.
