Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
I might strike YOU dead just for being an idiot. You missed a very key part of my post. Go back and read it again, see if you can wrap your puny brain around the entire thing.

(And how can IX NOT be considered a "real" Final Fantasy when it's a tribute to the old ones?)
Okay, I just have to say - I thought I remember a mod claiming that we're not supposed to make personal vicious attacks on anyone on these forums? Do you really believe someone to be an idiot with a puny brain because they point out the simple-mindedness of your post?

Let me guess, the "key" part of your point was "often, not always". Well let me ask you a couple of questions:

Being that the game was released in 1997
1) how many 7-year olds and younger were apart of the huge fan base that gave this game its global acclaim
and
2) how many writers for gaming publications, which gave the game universal praise at the time, do you believe were 7 and under?

I love how the bashers of this game can't help themselves but make stereotyping assumptions about why people love this game for false reasons, believing in their narrowminded view that NO ONE could POSSIBLY have legitimate reasons for liking it. "They were 7-years old at the time"/"It was their first FF"/"It was their first RPG"/"Children are pre-disposed to like characters like Cloud"/etc etc etc etc....

All of which have no basis, considering a) plenty of people, including many of this forum, disprove it and b) there's no possible way you could ever confirm it to be true.

Aerith's Knight - yes, Nintendo fanboyism does account for alot of the hate this game gets. The Sony/Nintendo console war was much more divisive than the ones since. At the time, it was seen that N64 was superior in every way, and then came FFVII, itself being a manifestation of the reasons why it wasn't.

Quote Originally Posted by Zora
FFVII fanbase is also bad, but I don't find it AS bad, except for the "FFVII is good and others suck people"
This statement has been made multiple times, and others before me have echoed this sentiment:

Where are the fans who talk like this? Where are the nonsensical fanboys who like this game solely for Sephiroth and cutscenes? Where are the ones who go as far to "hate" the other FF's simply because they're not VII? And please don't say "chrisfan" or whoever on this forum, because more than likely, he was responding to the relentless barages of SNES-wrath that he probably received on a daily basis for the simple fact that he likes it.

In my experience on this forum, the only people childish and emotional enough to actually have "hate" for another video game are the FFVI-elitists who can't shake the memories of crying themselves to sleep while clutching to their Super Nintendo in the fall and winter of 1997.