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jammi567
08-12-2007, 08:28 PM
Like the title says, what makes the average person on the street want to buy such a popular game?
Comet
08-12-2007, 10:12 PM
...Because it's popular...?
pspkilla
08-12-2007, 10:15 PM
Because it has everything an RPG should have, and more!
Renmiri
08-12-2007, 10:52 PM
I bought it by accident because the cover looked cool. Got hooked ever since.
Griff
08-12-2007, 11:18 PM
To help us escape the pain and isolation of our pitiful, meaningless existance.
Hazzard
08-12-2007, 11:43 PM
Just go on to the Final Fantasy Retrospective thread and see the videos, and you'll see why. Now go! Vanish! Depart! Leave!
Captain Maxx Power
08-13-2007, 12:04 AM
Because I said it was.
Northcrest
08-13-2007, 12:20 AM
I first bought it because the name Final Fantasy sounded cool to me got hooked by the way.
Hazzard
08-13-2007, 12:27 AM
My friend (Comet) lent me FF8 which I lost the last disc of. I'm a wonderful friend indeed.
Comet
08-13-2007, 01:33 AM
Fortunately it was not my copy of the game, or else I would have given him a good ass whipping.
Firo Volondé
08-13-2007, 01:15 PM
Because of FFVII. :(
ReloadPsi
08-13-2007, 02:52 PM
Because of FFVII.

Pretty much. This game got me into it, now the three NES titles (which I have to emulate because I'm european) are stopping me getting out of it.

Frankly though, the game's popularity in Japan can mainly be blamed on FF1 for having apparently been pretty ground-breaking at the time. The rest of the world? Stupid wapanese morons, that's all we are :)
Bolivar
08-13-2007, 06:57 PM
Most likely because they're fun and have effective marketing.
Karellen
08-13-2007, 07:32 PM
Because of FFVII. :(
That and the $100 million marketing campaign that went with it.
silentenigma
08-14-2007, 12:22 AM
i, and average joe on the street, first heard of it from word of mouth.
50calCerberus
08-14-2007, 07:04 AM
if a game gets good reviews and praise of course people are gonna want it...i like them cause the stories are so deep and the gameplay is always awesome:D
Wolf Kanno
08-14-2007, 07:47 AM
This might shed some light on the issue...;)

http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-final-fantasy/108450-define-ff-experience.html

I heard about the series from a nagging friend who forced it down my throat... Still haven't thanked him.