Ka-pi96 said:
Jumpin said:
For me I would say the first FF game I was disappointed in was FF9, it looked more like a cartoony genericized spinoff than a real FF game. The characters were more like generic-JRPG/anime characters than the depth and conflict that FF characters had possessed since FF4. While I liked FF10, it was also disappointing because of how much smaller and linear the game felt than other FF games. The transition to 3D didn't end up with a game that had the big sprawling open worlds of past FF games. There seemed like a lot less to do, and everything was along one big corridor of a world, rather than on a real world map. FF12 is my least favourite FF game. While hey did bring back the big sprawling world, it was also very empty, and really boring to move around. The characters in FF12 were even worse than FF9, because they were slow and boring. The story itself left very little to be desired. FF11 is like one of those games you hear about, but no one actually played, it was an online game, and making that a mainline title was stupid.
I quit the FF series after 13. While graphics becamore more advanced, storytelling and game design got worse.
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Wasn't FF7 the transition to 3D? That seemed pretty big and sprawling to me 
100% agree on 11/12 though! Although I did play 11, so that's somebody that actually played it 
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You're right, I suppose it is the POV, ridding the world of the map and using a 1:1 scale instead. While more realistic, it didn't work very well at first. It's not to say 1:1 games can't work well, see Breath of the Wild as an example of how it finally worked for Zelda.
And yeah, I was making a bit of a exaggeration there, because compared to other FF games it always seems so few people have played FF11, or even seen it in action. Even among very hardcore FF fans.
