This Game is Overrated

[Wolf Kanno]

Do you agree or disagree?

[Colonel Angus]

Disagree.

[The Man]

Disagree.

[Forsaken Lover]

I agree.

If it was better, I would have finished it.

Hell, I finished FFXIII but I didn't finish this game. What does that tell you?

[The Man]

That you have terrible taste in FFs

[VeloZer0]

Honestly it depends who is rating it. Some people over rate it, some under rate it. On aggregate I think it does about where it should.

[Psychotic]

I disagree. I don't think it is underrated either though. I think FFVI is rated - quite rightly - very highly by the fans of the series. The open-ended World of Ruin is a fantastic piece of gameplay that I think is unmatched by any other FF. The music is absolutely phenomenal in places as well.

I do think there is something of an inferiority complex from VI fans regarding its status, manifesting itself in dislike towards other games in the series - particularly but not limited to FFVII - which is embarrassing.

[Jiro]

I think Final Fantasy VI is rated as it should be. It is considered one of the strongest entries in the series, and indeed one of the best RPGs ever made.

[Elpizo]

Agreed. It's a good RPG, but no more than that. There are better games, both in the series and outside of it. I didn't see anything jaw-droppingly amazing or astonishingly good when I played it. It was just a good game.

[Ayen]

Anything that gets popular is considered overrated these days. I find it to seldom be the case when one is deemed so and I try to avoid the word.

[Loony BoB]

I tend to feel it is overrated. I feel something is overrated when I go in expecting something amazing based on player feedback and never get that "wow" moment. There are other games out there that did get highly rated and I did get a sense of "wow" from them. I just feel that FFVI doesn't quite reach the heights that it's fans say it reaches, but it isn't a bad game by any means.

I feel that the hype let it down in a big way for me. That is despite me managing my expectations, too - I tend to not get drawn into hype too much.

I think David O'Doherty's song of "Lower Your Expectations" is entirely relevant to people new to this game.

[Jinx]

Eh, I tried playing it and wasn't too impressed. I might give it another go someday.

[Slothy]

That you have terrible taste in FFs

Well the guys favourite FF is FFIV so his taste is better said to be schizophrenic I guess. But FFXIII is one of the worst games ever made so liking it more than FFVI is just very strange.

But anyway, no, FFVI is not overrated. It is one of the best games in the series and one of the best JRPG's out there. What it did well, it did extremely well, it overcame the limits of the cartridge format like very few RPG's ever did, the one world aspect of the World of Ruin is still fairly unique to the genre, and many of the things later FF's get credit for popularizing started there.

It's one weakness is the battle system which suffers from poor balancing. But it's certainly playable and most of the battle systems in the series suffer from the same problem.

[metagloria]

Overrated. Not even the best of its era (V > VI).

(Still great though!)

[Carl the Llama]

I think certain people overrate it, but then I see people (not as many to be sure) underrate it as well... it isn't high on my list of favourite final fantasy games, I mean I played it before I was subjected to all the hype the internet gave it (which was only when I invariably read the hype concerning VII) I am pleased I managed to play the game before I was subjected to it, otherwise my opinion of it would have been negatively coloured by it.

That said, I think it's a great game, but honestly, I don't rate it even in my top 3 final fantasy games.