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Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
I think Ehrgeiz gets hated on for much of the same reason why FFVII spinoffs get hated on in the present-day - it's carried out mostly by people who have a problem with FFVII being so popular to begin with.
This argument doesn't hold much weight with me. Most people who tried it, myself included, probably tried it because they liked FFVII and it was a Square game featuring some of the characters from it. Even if people who hated FFVII played it and didn't like it though, I doubt it had anything to do with them hating FFVII. The game sucked on it's own, it didn't need the help of fanboy angst to make people hate it.
Keyword, chief:

"mostly"

Interestingly enough, I have never met a single person in real life who ever had a problem with the compilation or the individual works themselves. It's all been on here, on the internet. And if you want, we can go through the threads that rate these games, and I almost guarantee you, most of the negative reviews will be from the usual suspects of haters. Hell, I can tell you with almost 100% certainty the CC thread carried out in this fashion.

Until I came to this forum, I never met a VII fan who could give logical and plausible reasons for liking the game and why one should consider it great.
That's exactly your problem - if you're expecting everyone to have logical, rational arguments for liking something, you're going to miss what appreciation is about to begin with. It comes from feeling, the senses, not an observational, data-gathering period followed by a thought process culminating in a thesis, or something like that. I remember a friend of mine holding me accountable because I couldn't come up with a reason off the top of my head for "why" I liked Super Smash Bros. I realized later that it doesn't matter "why" I like SSB, all that matters is that I do, and quite frankly, the "why" is none of his damn business to begin with!

Sorry for derailing your thread. But this is relevant to the Ehrgeiz discussion. Smacking someone around with the Masamune, then sliding out of their way before they can get back at you is just plain fun. I have two middle fingers for anyone who has a problem with that.