It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times...

[Elpizo]

FFTA (my first FF) is another (underappreciated) gem, with FFT being a good game but nothing special (doesn't get close to FFTA).

This is blasphemy!!! I could write pages upon pages why this is a terrible statement (okay, maybe a few paragraphs ) but I guess to each his own and it's not completely un-understandable why you would feel this way.

But damn Elpizo you got some weird ass opinions.

You can thank the fans for my 'weird' opinions. I suffered the same with VI, VII and X. Those games have many fans and fanboys who scream all over the place how great it is. I guess I was a bit naïve when I thought that at least some of their excitement would mean that those games would indeed be spectacular. Turns out none of them are. Good games (except VI, I hate hate hate hate hate that damn game) but nothing special or even great.

Same with Tactics. FFTA gets so much hate (I played it before I knew of the hate) so I didn't understand it. Such a good game, it really got me into FF. Everybody saying Tactics is better and TA a disgrace to Tactics. So naïve me plays Tactics expecting something mindblowing and again, I get nothing special. Tactics is a good game, better than some mainstream FFs (VI, VII and X, to be precise) but it's nothing so incredibly special that it justifies all the childish hate against FFTA.

And in the end, I grew to love all those FFs that are most of the time glared upon by the fans. Like III, V, VIII or IX and recently XII. Mostly III and V though. III DS will never get the respect it deserves, I know that and V's even worse. Always pushed into IV and VI's shadow. I can understand IV a bit, but VI??? V not a good story? What kind of nonsense is that?

Well, I could go on, but I guess you get the idea. Maybe if the fans hadn't made me expect VI, VII, Tactics and X to be great games, I wouldn't have such 'weird ass' opinions. But well, I guess I was a tad too naïve. I learned something from it, though. If a FF game has an army of fans that scream that it's a great, legendary game, it's probably either a good or average FF (or worse, in VI's case). If a FF game gets much hate, I'll probably like it.