FF games are for the fanboys. My youthful society, and my peers under me, are learning to subjugate themselves to things of the anime/japanese ilk that they don't fully understand merely to fit in. Don't get me wrong, I love certain aspects of FF (though some of it is rediculous) as I love *some* anime shows. When something is too rediculous it is healthy for a person to take a stance reciprocal from the majority. Silk Wizard's reaction is perfectly understandable. If I like a product or story/game/movie/etc. from Japan I like it not because it's Japanese, but because it deserves it.
Rundown of some anime shows:
I love Gundam Wing. Naruto sucks. DBZ is great mostly (though some later and early sagas suck). Ruroni Kenshin is great (as is Samaraui X). Gundam Seed is good (though not as good as GW). Inuyasha is good, but major plot points rarely ever develop. And Big O is Big crap.
FF movies are largely bewildering, but warant accolades for beauty and a sense of badass from their characters.
What you find is fun and what others find is fun could be completely different things Crispy.
I have always loved role playing games and my favorites have always been turn based ones I can take my time with, like Final Fantasy, because they can allow for a deeper story and lets me play at a pace I can enjoy. Rockingawesome, calling someone a fanboy is for shit eaters. Not nice right? Don't call people names for no reason then. I don't play a video game or a movie to have a reality check, I play these games and watch thse kinds of movies of the fanatsy and fiction of it all. | |
FF 8 was boring for the following reasons:
Enemies level up as you do You have to rejunction every time you switch characters Story takes too long to develop Just kinda has a boring feel to it FF 9 was the best. It also took a while to develop, but for me, was the most enjoyable. | |
I'm sure I'd like a turn-based RPG if it was done well. It's just Final Fantasy I don't like.
Which is probably because the only Final Fantasy I've played was FF7 on the PC, which wasn't turn-based anyway (it was real time, but stuff took a while to recharge). =) The controls sucked too. The numpad was used almost exclusively and you couldn't remap any of the keys. It wasn't the worst console port I've ever seen (that dubious honour goes to Crazy Taxi, wherein one tends to spend about two minutes on the first screen trying to figure out which key the developers arbitrarily chose to map "Start" to - I think it was the tab key), but it was still pretty bad. The battles were okay to begin with but got really repetitive after the first twenty or so. And since they just randomly occurred while you were travelling, there was no way to avoid them. | |
(My work here is done... *rubs hands together gleefully and grabs the popcorn*)