Quote (Lublar @ Jan 19 2012 01:06am)

Oh gimme a break, none of the old FF games are even a challenge, and there is hardly any strategy to the battle systems.  Old turn based games(with the exception of a few), are mainly just click attack every turn.  With the exception of a few boss battles most of the time you are just clicking attack, or picking a magic/summon/whatever to use, the level of strategy in most regular turn based games is next to none.  Most of the time you just grind until you're so high of a level that every battle is so easy that there is absolutely no strategy required for any major boss battle.  I'd argue that games like 12 and 13 require more strategy than 7,8,9,etc. 

And the notion that sales don't mean anything, or is skewed, is ridiculous.  Who cares if the game was hyped, or if "fans" were let down.  I guarantee you that there are more people who bought FF13 that don't consider themselves die hard fans of the franchise.  And i'm sure that's a huge margin as well, die hard fans vs regular gamers.  Also, XIII outsold XII by over a million.  That's saying something because the PS2 is the most owned game console in the history of consoles, by a huge margin.  There have been roughly 100 million more PS2's sold than PS3's.  So, at the release time of XII, 3 times more people would have had the option to buy it compared to XIII.  If XII was so horrible(I remember "fans" screaming that at the time), why would more people have bought XIII then?  The notion that the FF franchise is going down the drain just makes no sense when you look at the numbers.  Yes, maybe long time fans are getting upset, but numbers and statistics never lie.  But get over it "fans", the RPG realm has changed, games like FF7 would fail in the current market. 

Enjoy old school FF games, and enjoy the new ones.  They are different games, the gaming market has changed, so you'll never get another game like the SNES/PS1 era FF games.  Enjoy the new ones for what they are.