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Cerebralbore101 said:

UnderwaterFunktown said:

Personally disagreed in both cases. FF7 is in my top 20, whereas Skyrim I feel like I placed too low in the 30s. But hey to each their own.

Some people genuinely like FF7 over FF6. But I think a lot of people either haven't played it or played one of the many inferior ports. The GBA version is the best version IMO, but having a GBA without a faded screen or hooking up a Gamecube with a Gameboy Player and Swiss installed to fix all the native GBPlayer issues is asking a lot of people. Then you have the pixel remaster which is pretty bad with a lot of bewildering changes. Anyway FF6 just languishes unnoticed by a lot of people. 

As for Skyrim, I feel it was inferior when it came to story, worldbuilding, and scope to Morrowwind. But then Morrowwind has it's own issues of being completely outdated in so many ways. Skyrim's combat, graphics, and fast travel were amazing for a 2011 open world game. But these days we have so many better open world games that vastly improve on what Skyrim had to offer. (But I suppose not everybody builds their lists based on what the best game is today, but rather how good a game felt to them in the past. Both are a valid way to build a list IMO.)

The GBA version of FF6 is actually the only one I've played. It's a solid game but I would put it fourth when ranking the mainline games.

As for Skrim, I do actually rank my games based on how much I like them today, but Skyrim I haven't played for many years which is the main reason it's so low (used to be in my top 20). I think the thing about Skyrim is that it's true its combat isn't exceptional and it's open-world has arguably been surpassed a little (though I still consider it among the best), but it still feels like the definitive fantasy sandbox game in so many ways. Witcher 3, BotW and Elden Ring are better in a ton of areas for example, but they don't offer quite the same thing so if you want to go experience a fantasty world with total freedom and build your own character it's still the best at that imo (except maybe WoW, but that's a different thing as well and subscriptions are expensive lol).