First off, try reading what I have said in this thread under that post. Second, there's no need to get personally offended, lobby insults at me and become emotionally compromised over someone elses views whether they be positive or negative, on a freakin' video game. No one insulted you. No one insulted a family member or yours. It's an opinion on a video game. 

We saw it and was hated/disliked like FFXIII or FFVIII, people prefer the Final Fantasy games where the Fantasy part is important.  FFIX had no realistic characters but that was totally fine because the Fantasy characters were great.  When you use realistic characters it gets harder to get into the fantasy. 

Dude listen to yourself you want them to change their culture and be ashamed of being asian is that what youre trying to say? Do Japanese demand every western game to feature an asian male with asian beauty standards? seriously wtf?

Those 80s and 90s games were always more japanese designed if you look at the concept and characters artwork. Maybe its you who changed?

Well I guess most people determines the "fantasy" based off the character design then... rather than the story development, overworld and gameplay

Streets of Rage featured two musclar Americanized males and one busty Americanized woman beating the fuck out of enemies as they worked their way through an American city and crime syndicate. Sega of Japan didn't want to make a sequel but Sega of America did because they knew it had western appeal. Sega of Japan gave in, and made the game anyway. It did great in the US as a result.

Sonic the Hedgehog was originally going to either be a walking egg character, or he was going to have fangs, play electric guitar, wear a spike collar and have a girlfriend named Madonna. It wasn't until Sega of America told them to change that the charcter became something western gamers would buy and love... and they did.

It's called marketing. 

You mean to tell me that the car is going to die at the start.

But I love that car.

Oh boy I'm getting those Little Toaster flashbacks.

Not sure I would have gone to The Last of Us as an example of unforced gameplay and story integration.

A 10-year old game inspired by a 3-year old game. Only at Square Enix.

FF8 isn't as hated as people on the internet make it out to be.  If anything FF8 fans hardly ever post online comments.  Sort of like a large portion of the FF7 fanbase (as was clearly seen to be in hiding until the FF7 remake was announced, then BAM look at those comments on youtube).  The difference there is that a lot of hardcore FF fans like FF7 due to its standard battle and leveling system so you would still see a lot of love for FF7 even when the anti FF7 fans were around.