Quote Originally Posted by Elly View Post
just a theory... but, maybe its because some people may see the main character as supposedly an extension of themselves in most games, when they play a game where the lead has qualities drasticly different than their own, or qualities they just dont like they get the "this is supposed to be me? this is my character?" mentality and start hating on them cause theyre not the players ideal character, which would include some of their own personality traits or ones they wished they posessed... the key is to disconnect from the character and treat it as such, just another character despite the fact we control it, the FF games are very heavily story based and as such there really are no true "Blank Slate Silent Antagonists" to vicariously live the adventure through, save for the first FF ever...
This actually explain's why Gordon Freeman in Half Life was so popular, he was quiet. People implanted their personalities on the protagonist.