****...
Talk about critical.
Let's just start from the FF12 part...
I never played it first-hand, but considering I could watch my brother play it for hours, I think that shows that I thought it was pretty good (though, admittedly I can watch anyone play anything and enjoy it). Nonetheless I found the battle system creative and neat. I enjoy it MUCH more than standard ATB crap, that's boring as ****. I also think the graphics were sexy and the atmosphere was godly. The story was weak, so was 13s, but I don't see people saying anything about 13s story being ****? Odd. The characters weren't good, agreed, but some of them were. The costumes were fantastic, too, it reminded me a lot of Vagrant Story; i.e. great. <3 The music was CRAP! It wasn't music, though. If you look at it as just ambience then it was lovely. c: The game as a whole was definitely GOOD, but not fantastic.
12 was 'too' different to the others, and people didn't like it. That's the PLAIN truth of it. You can't say it was slow, every battle is slow... AT THE START, tools. God. It's the whole 'knock it before you try it' thing. If you put effort into 12, you might not be OMG-ed by it, but you certainly wouldn't think it ****. It was as customizable as 10 and 13s, but it was hard to get into and understand. ... This is all coming from someone who hasn't played, but watched it. .. First hand, though.
Breath of Fire? Yep. All of them were and are great. BUT I love 5 the most because it's so DIFFERENT. The story is a LOT darker, and the atmosphere. The music was... god... I loved it more than love itself. Basically, I'm trying to say, the less generic, the better, to me.
I.E, again, Vagrant Story. One of my most favourite battles. STORY was FCUKING good. And the translation was beyond epic. <3
And ICO, it's not an RPG, I know, but it was different, had a dark-ish story, and dreamy graphics.
The RPG/esque games that stand out to me are...
FF7 (first game I played) <3333
FF6/8/9/10/12/Tactics/12:RW/CC:RoF/TA/TA2 <333
BoF 3/4/5 <333
ToSymphonia/Phantasia/Destiny <33
Vagrant Story <3333
Grandia <333
Legend of Legaia/Dragoon/Mana <33
Vandal Hearts 1/2 <333
Suikoden 1/2/3/5 <3333
Castlevania: SoTn/AoS/DoS <333
Wild Arms 1/3 <33
Parasite Eve 2 <33
Chrono Cross/Trigger <3
Bahamut Lagoon <333
Fire Emblem 4/5/6/7/8 <33
Star Ocean 1/2/3 (4 seems ok, too, a bit gay, though) <333
Valkyrie Profile <33
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen/Soul Reaver 1/2 <3
Dragon Valor <3
SaGa Frontier 1/2/Unlimited <33
Alundra <33
Jade Cocoon 1/2 <33
Dark Cloud/Chronicle <333
Kingdom Hearts 1/2 <3
.hack <3
Phantom Brave <33
Disgaea 1/2/3 <3
Shadow Hearts 2 <333
La Pucelle Tactics <3
Odin Sphere <33
Terranigma <3
Secret of Mana 1/2/3 <3
Ogre Battle <3
Tactics Ogre <3
Summon Night Craft Sword 1/2/3 <3
Yggdra Union <33
The World Ends With You <33
Luminous Arc 1/2 <3
Golden Sun 1/2 <33
Skies of Arcadia (never played but looks <33)
PSO!!!!!!!! :D <3333333 Spent over 300 hours on it. c:
Obviously the bigger the heart the more I liked it.
That's only like 1/4 of all the games I've played. But I enjoyed ALL of those. c: There are lots I didn't like, but as you can see I easily like games, just like with most everything. Though, ironically, I hate a lot, too. Hmmm... Also, most of them are similar to each other, yes, but the ones I liked MORE are the ones with interesting and new things in them.
Anyway.
Basically.
You're all douches if you hate something for being new and wanting to be different.
Get an open mind and enjoy/accept things more.
D!ckheads.
Edit:
Also, I see here, a bunch of fcuking hypocrites and fcuking tools.
All talking about opinions and how they aren't backed up, and do the same thing back, wtf.
Get up me in that other stupid thread for posting my opinions.
Talk about being the biggest dumb fcuks.
Srsly, gtfo and die, **** cun tz.
Edit 2:
Squall was an emo, but he was sexy, so shut up. Cloud was an emo, too, wtf. But everyone loved his block hands, lol. Cloud and Squall are fanboy-ed too much. No one likes Zidane, dunno why, too happy? FF8 was hard if you didn't easy mode it, like ANY other game. They were all hard if you played it without being gay.
Anyway, back to my point - if they aren't emo, no one likes them. If they are, then they criticize the emo, but like them, still. Squall was way too depressed, cheer the **** up, god. Cloud was much better. <3 And Zidane was good, but too happy, and had a fcuking monkey tail. No one likes MONKEY tails, should've been a wolf or fox tail, then all the furries, including myself, would hump him. <3
I don't see why you'd like any of them when Ashley Riot is by far the hottest character. <3
And Justin from Grandia.
... Also on another note...
Grandia 1, in my mind, has the only GOOD love plot/scene in any game I have played.