for all of you that hate ff7...

[Zora]

Both. The game is simply blah and the fanbase is (often, but not always) made of people born after 1990 who've never played a real Final Fantasy like VI or IX.

Really?
- I was born in 1986
- Final Fantasy VI was my first RPG (for SNES)

Yet, somehow, Final Fantasy VII is my favorite RPG, let alone FF. Too bad it's not a 'REAL' one though...

who've never played a real Final Fantasy like VI or IX.

Everyone who likes FFVII more than VI or IX had better [Run away!] because the omnipotent Roto is going to strike them dead!

I might strike YOU dead just for being an idiot. You missed a very key part of my post. Go back and read it again, see if you can wrap your puny brain around the entire thing.

(And how can IX NOT be considered a "real" Final Fantasy when it's a tribute to the old ones?)

One thing I dislike is how the anti-fanbase keeps on referring to FFVII as not being a "true" FF game. Aside from some of the character's weapons, a few towns (Midgar in particular), it actually isn't THAT different. At the very least, if you count FFVI was a real FF, you should count FFVII too. To be frank, FFVI's industrial theme was far more persistent than FFVII's future theme.

Oh, and I am not referring to you Roto, but the people you quoted (among others)