| vivster said: So what about people who like both oldschool and new FFs? Is their taste screwed up beyond help? |
No, not at all... perhaps they're overlooking the flaws in the later games because they see elements they enjoyed in the previous games still present. Hell, I do that with FFX which is on an objective scale, rather poor and under-realised, but I admittedly really like it and have quite an attachment to characters like Yuna, Auron, and Rikku who I related to and enjoyed seeing go though their story. (Tidus isn't as bad as people make out either, even if he is an idiot at times... he's an idealist and is supposed to be naive. If anything him being annoying shows he's fairly well written ironically).
The other possibility is they're fanboys who can't bare to admit that a game carrying the Final Fantasy name is bad. I struggled. It's my favourite franchise... I convinced myself I liked FFX-2, I told myself the franchise would be good. I even played FFXIII and told myself for 30+ hours that it was just getting going and it'd all fall into place soon and be worth it; but it wasn't. Nostalgia and emotional connections to franchises where you've invested so much time, that's hard to break.
