...And if you really did play alot of RPGs before next-gen RPGs, then you'd know that many, many, RPGs outside of the uber-IPs were killed on the rankings charts for being "too typical"
But you wouldn't know this because you only talk about the big boys. Was FFXII better than Blue Dragon? Of course. But that doesn't mean in its own right, Blue Dragon was fantastic because BD never had the pedigree of having the backing of the giant that is SquareEnix.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.







