Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
I think Ehrgeiz gets hated on for much of the same reason why FFVII spinoffs get hated on in the present-day - it's carried out mostly by people who have a problem with FFVII being so popular to begin with.
This argument doesn't hold much weight with me. Most people who tried it, myself included, probably tried it because they liked FFVII and it was a Square game featuring some of the characters from it. Even if people who hated FFVII played it and didn't like it though, I doubt it had anything to do with them hating FFVII. The game sucked on it's own, it didn't need the help of fanboy angst to make people hate it.

Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
The combos were simple, the 3d movement not as good as it could have been, but i had a good time playing it and so did my gamer friends, even one who was a "true-FF" and a real fighter-connoisseur like so many trendy-game-bashers on this site claim to be.
There's no accounting for taste. If this friend of yours is the fighter connoisseur you claim then he'd be the only fighting game fan I've ever heard of liking the game. I won't deny that the game could have been good with more development time, as there have been other fighting games like it that managed to be awesome. The lack of depth, crappy controls, and boring character design made it pretty fantabulously awful though if you ask me (and most people who played it).