Most Overrated FF game

[The Man]

I'm not telling you what you intended to say or how you feel. I'm telling you what the phrase you used is interpreted to mean by the majority of people who speak the language. If you do not wish to be misinterpreted, then you should be more careful in your use of colloquialisms.

[Elpizo]

Or you could simply not jump to conclusions and think that I don't know it's a frigging game.

[The Man]

I didn't think you didn't know it was a game. And you're accusing me of jumping to conclusions? My actual point in pointing out that was it was a game was that no game is worth getting worked up enough over that it, or reactions to it, would "make one's blood boil".

[Loony BoB]

Both of you are debating the dumbest thing ever. Manny, don't be so dumb as to take people deadly seriously when they say things off the cuff in a post in a thread about overrated FF games on the internets. Elpizo, ignore Manny, he's a bit of a dork and takes a lot of things seriously when he shouldn't and he most certainly loves to debate semantics.

Back to being on topic, now, everyone!

[The Man]

Both of you are debating the dumbest thing ever. Manny, don't be so dumb as to take people deadly seriously when they say things off the cuff in a post in a thread about overrated FF games on the internets. Elpizo, ignore Manny, he's a bit of a dork and takes a lot of things seriously when he shouldn't and he most certainly loves to debate semantics.

Back to being on topic, now, everyone!

That was probably the last post I would have made on the topic, actually, because even I could see how ridiculous it was getting. But thanks for being so snide and insulting. It's good to see that, even after all these years, you're still perfectly within your rights to call someone "dumb" and "a dork" if you have a special title under your name.

[Loony BoB]

I apologise if you took genuine offence, perhaps you were taking me too seriously as well. We've known each other for a long time and as far as I'm concerned you were derailing a thread. If you wish for me to treat you not as a person that I know and get along with but as a stranger, I will do so going forward.

[The Man]

I don't object to you treating me with familiarity, and I wouldn't say I was really offended, but your post still came across as more than a little bit unfair. The fact that someone would read "makes my blood boil" as an expression of annoyance isn't exactly particularly strange or "dumb", since after all it's frequently used to express exactly that, and the origin of the expression is apparently that people actually once thought that anger and excitement literally caused the blood to boil.

Thanks for the apology, though; I appreciate it. And I'll stop derailing this thread further.

[Kaie]

X

This was probably what made the developers think it was okay to make such a linear game as XIII.

I loved playing Final Fantasy because there was so much to explore; like in IX there were lots of optional places with sidequests to visit. After having such freedom, X was a big let-down.

[Carl the Llama]

Discuss the sixth installment of the Final Fantasy series which ranks up there with the greatest video games of all time.

Even this site over rates this game imo, sure it was a great game but greatest of all time? I don't think so.

[Polnareff]

I actually have to say Final Fantasy IV.

Look at it this way.

The ones that are named for being "overrated," like VI, VII, IX, and X all have one thing in common: they have more haters than overraters. Or rather, people who look down at the overraters and scoff and start arguments like what happened above me.

But IV is widely regarded as being one of the best games, and has nary an objector about it that I've seen. But IMO, the game just isn't that great. A lot of the characters made me, at the time, wanna stop playing RPGs completely (especially Edward and the Blunder Twins), and the whole "switch out awesome characters for terrible filler characters" thing got on my nerves really fast.

The pacing is really bad once you get about 3 hours in. It's just a huge mess.

[Del Murder]

This is hard to say since it depends on who is rating the game, obviously. For example, I think WK overrates XII and Jesswee overrates XIII. There will always be people who love and hate each game.

But I say in general VIII is the most overrated. A lot of people didn't like it, yet somehow its characters and story manage to gain high ranks in various measures such as the EoFF census. Squall was probably the most stereotypical emo hero yet he gets love from many people. Probably because they like to think they are 'cool' like he is. The other characters were kind of a waste since the focus was a lot on Squall and Rinoa, a love story that was supposed to be the theme of the game but wasn't done well at all and is completely outdone by the love stories of IX and X. Then we get to the junction system, probably one of the worst FF battle systems. In fact I would call it the worst besides FFII. Drawing magic was annoying. Junctioning spells was nonsensical. Weapon upgrades seemed like an afterthought. Limit breaks could easily result in broken battles by just keeping your team in low HP. The GFs were cool and leveling GFs were fun so I'll give them that. The time compression thing was overly complicated and didn't make any sense.

Many people hated VIII. I didn't. I liked it. It just wasn't my favorite or 'up there' with the other FFs. But if so many people hated it then why do people talk about it so much? Why does Squall get votes for best character or get into so many user names? Why try to make sense of the plot?