didn't think too much of ff7 when I played it, the crappy graphic really did the game in for me, but after playing crisis core I now pray for its remake to happen.

(Well...didn't the movie "Never ending Story" end?)

And, I think there's more than just TWO good FFs. Sure, some were meh, but there's at least three from the main series that I'd deem epic... VI, IX and XII, with IX being in the top spot. My absolute favorite FF, RPG and game of all-time. No other FF really holds a candle to it, outside of VI which influenced it a lot, though.

As for remakes, FFIVDS is a great example of a remake done right.

Can't wait for FFXIII, though.

Fuck best story. You played them thousands of time you never even touch other game which has a better story.

I could care less about the language, I just want the experience to sound natural, even if I have to read subtitles.

Even if they have black people or what not in this latest game, the characters' essences are still Japanese, their behavior in the cutscenes would mirror the culture of their creators. So it's but natural to expect them to speak Japanese as well.

Then 6 came out, after final fantasy 5 everyone expected the series to let them down again, 'cos we couldn't see anything being better fun than 5; we were again prooved wrong. The characters were less interesting than 4, the gameplay less fun than 5, and the humour the same as gameplay, but what ff6 had was a great balance, it's own sense of style, and alot of interesting abilities that kept the characters feeling defined even in combat. It created a nice balance, but it excelled in style more than anything else.

Then came 7. We had been pleasantly surprised by the previous installments, so this seemed sure fire to be good, we had seen final fantasy cross over consoles before, and they did it exceptionally well; we accepted there's be a shake in graphics, and accepted it in 7, but expected it to wow us with gameplay and story rather than graphics. Then we played the game, and all went downhill. They attempted style, and created some great mini-games for the time, but when I prefered the mini-games to the main game shows just what's wrong with it. The humour was tagged in, and was way over the top for what essentially isn't that funny, the system was cumbersome and boring, while making all the characters a bit samey, the characters had very little definition, and the story was ultimately whiney. The nihilism is not my problem, infact that's probs the only redeeming feature, it had interesting philosophy, though explained in a fairly lack luster way, and maybe that was it's excelling point, but the previous FFs took good parts of previous games and balanced them while adding a new shine; FF7 took the poor characterisation of 5, the create what you want aspect from 6, and the everyone's the god-damn same aspect from 3. Maybe if 6 wasn't quite so good then I'd've accepted it as an okay game, which it is, but for final fantasy, a series we trusted so much, to make a just ok game was a massive kick in the teeth, and thus it was a let down; not a bad game, just a let down from an awesome series.

I LOLed.