Originally Posted by
Siegurd
The fact is that those games that are so commonly quoted as the favorites were pretty much genre defining games for reasons almost entirely not related to the game. Usually it was either the person's first Final Fantasy and sticks as their favorite in the genre for nostalgic reasons (regardless of whether or not they want to admit it). If your first Final Fantasy was X and you grew to be a fan of Final Fantasy, I'm going to bet that FFX is probably going to be your favorite FF. You will never again have the first Final Fantasy game experience. Or the game left an indelible impact on the minds of the players for social reasons and cannot be reproduced. Half the reason the killing of Aeris was so shocking was that A. ) No one expected that to happen in a game...character's don't die for really reals in games...and those that had died in games before didn't have the additional effect of being in 3-D, the fact that the game was so graphically advanced for the time added a great deal to the impact of that scene vs. an 8 bit, 16 bit, et cetera character's death. And B. ) that was my healer...man...
