I've already discussed my indesputable (joke) opinion on this matter, but there is really no sense in calling anyone a moron in this arguement.

Raistlin has given his opinion, so why should he be insulted as such?

I love FFIX personally. Someone can say 'The ability system was annoying' another can say 'it didn't bother me, and I liked it'. Someone could say 'the plot was just a rehash of ast FFs' while someone else thinks its original and incorporates aspects of the old FF well. It's all a matter of opinion, right? So what is the big fuss about?

The reason the character design in FFIX was SOOOO different, by the way, was partially because there was a different illustrator, and an old character designer returned (amano). While, if the illustrator of FF8 illustrated from amano's designs, you might have gotten something much different than what you see.

The 'odd looking characters' didn't have much to do with being 'old school' in my opinion. It was totally original, even much different than any of the old school stuff I've seen! Sure we have a black mage, a dragoon, etc, but Vivi doesn't look like a typical black mage of old, and Freya CERTAINLY doesn't look like Kain, at all really. Tell me how the 3D art in the game, whether it is 'deformed' or not, corresponds to the old 2D sprites? Do you think the characters in 1-6 would be made to look similar to FF9 if remadein 3D the way 'they were intended to look'? That is all a matter of opinion.

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FFT does NOT just have 'FF slapped on it'. It is indeed a Final Fantasy in every respect.

However, it is not part of the main series. FFT was created by a totally different developing team at the time. Now, many of those people are working on FFXII, but back then, it was different.

FFT has a uniqe style not of the FF series. Before people jump on me saying that 'all the FFs are different' this is indeed true, but EVERY FINAL FANTASY RELEASED so far has been made by similar people. A few are switched out, sure, but a lot of it still has te same feel.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10(partially) -- Nobuo Uematsu made music for all of them. Different styles along the way? Sure!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, -- Amano made the original character designs. However, except for 9, he was pretty much replaced with Tetsuya Nomura, who did 7, 8, 10...

Change? Indeed, but the main FF series has always stuck with the traditional random battles with 3 or 4 (5 for FF4) characters who you use in a team who have a variety of attacks who kill the enemies.

There has almost always been a fleshed out world map to traverse freely, with forests , etc.

These are things typical of the main FF series. They have their own style. However, they may be vastly different in other ways, there are some core attributes that give the title a roman numeral after it.

Final Fantasy Tactics has no roman numeral. It is a spin-off game, still made by square with many familiar themes, but has a much different battle system, thus it does not get a number, but 'tactics' signfying that this is THE tactics Final Fantasy, not the main series. An FF game, but different because it has a tacics twist, if you will.


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