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Feylic on 12 April 2009

People like to hate things that are popular cause they think it makes them cool.



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BCrayfish on 12 April 2009

Why do "Hardcore gamers" hate casual games? :P



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Bodhesatva on 12 April 2009
hatmoza 2.0 said:

Its sales are always monstrous yet alot of people seem to hate it with a passion. 

 

People are absolutely correct that its success has a great deal to do with it.

In my case, it represents the aspects of gaming I'd rather not see: the game has less emphasis on gameplay (they tweak it each time, but the fundamentals of the game are rudimentary) with more focus on story and graphics.

My personal interests are about 5% Graphics/Story and 95% Gameplay. Which is to say: I don't like where Final Fantasy takes gaming.

Luckily for me, virtually everything in this genre has died and/or sells much worse than it used to outside of Final Fantasy, so I dobut it's going to be having much affect these days.



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ShadowSoldier on 12 April 2009

Probably because the sales is why.



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Xxain on 12 April 2009

I dont hate FF just blind FF fanboys who think FF > everything else



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TheThunder on 12 April 2009
Xxain said:
I dont hate FF just blind FF fanboys who think FF > everything else

 

I came here to say the exact same thing

you saved me some time



Alic0004 on 12 April 2009
alephnull said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:

And for the record, I'm one of the bitter old assholes who couldn't make the switch from the 2-D glory of FF6 to the 3-D cutscene snoozefest of FF7. The shock was so great I developed this horrible complex where I prefer all my RPGs, even new ones, in 2-D, or with ASCII graphics.  I can relate better to @ symbols than 3-D models now.

I think FF is still really good at what it does, I just don't like what it does anymore.

 

Same here, although I prefer FF4 (better music).

 

Err... no.  :)

And so the ff faction wars begin.

(I will say iv has some great songs of its own, though.)



 

Alic0004 on 12 April 2009
The Ghost of RubangB said:

Onyxmeth and steamboatwillie are right.

And for the record, I'm one of the bitter old assholes who couldn't make the switch from the 2-D glory of FF6 to the 3-D cutscene snoozefest of FF7. The shock was so great I developed this horrible complex where I prefer all my RPGs, even new ones, in 2-D, or with ASCII graphics.  I can relate better to @ symbols than 3-D models now.

I think FF is still really good at what it does, I just don't like what it does anymore.

 

Lol, this was a great post to me.  There's always a part of me that wants to dislike every FF since vii (including that one) but somehow I can't quite resist following the series along for the ride, even though I'm a lot more blown away by what they were doing in their early games than by what they're doing now.

 

Reading your post was like reading a letter from that beligerent part of myself, so long repressed.

 

 



 

Thechalkblock on 12 April 2009

Because it's a success.



.jayderyu on 12 April 2009

Cause it's the same game over and over.



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