Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums > Final Fantasy: The Quickening > Final Fantasy VII > Ok.....if FFVII is considered the greatest game ever, why do so many ppl hate it?

[Shadow Bahamut]

well i have played FFIV upwards.
to be honest, from VII upwards are the best, apart from IX, which became to much of a cartoon..

Personally I think there are more people who loved FFVI more than FFVII.

i don't think so, look at Square's release statistics. FFVII made nearly $3.2 million, FFVIII made around $2.9million, i don't think FFVI made that much. I personally think that only fans would have FFVI and below.

[TheAbominatrix]

Final Fantasy was quite popular in Japan before VII. It's the rest of the world that caught on with VII. I bought the games long before VII, as well.

[Shadow Bahamut]

yeah, i guess.
i don't actually have the stats for FFVI, it could have made quite a lot, but i still don't think Japan alone would win against the World...

[TheAbominatrix]

Comparitively, it didnt make that much. I owned IV and VI for the SNES (titled as II and III, of course), and I couldnt talk FF with anyone. No one knew what the hell I was talking about. Now, after VII, a lot more people did.

Every game has its followers, though, and that has nothing to do with sales statistics. For example, I bought VII, but it isnt my favorite, so the sales stat doesnt equal the favorites stat neccesary, but it can give one a pretty good idea.

[Shadow Bahamut]

i agree it doesn't give much about any favourites, but yeah, it does give an idea, because, if everyone said it was bad, or a least favourite game, then sales stats would decrease, or may not even rise.
so, it must have been quite a popular game, if not a favourite....

[Seraf]

The FFVII fanbase is just as big if not bigger than the FFVI(III) fanbase. I already stated earlier that I personally like FFVII more even though I've played the entire series since the beginning.

[Shadow Bahamut]

what else can i say?? it's obvious that both games are just as favourable than each other....

[§håd0w]

It's just that many people who play Final Fantasy now had never even heard of the series before VI came out. That's personally one of the reasons why I like VI more; it didn't send Final Fantasy mainstream. And because VII did so well, it seems as if Square is pushing to release another one every year now, and well... it is starting to show that they're pushing. Just about every one after VII has started to lack in different ways.