@El-Shmiablo said in The Final Fantasy Debate:

6 is objectively the best.
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And that's where you're wrong. It's a great game, but the problem with it is that it gets muddled at the halfway point. When the massive world changer happens, anything you do there has absolutely no direction and doesn't give the player much clue what to do next.

Now, it's also one of my favourite Square games, I even rate it higher than the much better paced and built Final Fantasy 4 (AKA 2, way back when... "YOU SPOONY BARD!"), but it's not the best in terms of game construction and pacing, that goes to the aforementioned FF4.

Financial sense. We're heading for a massive burst because they are throwing massive amounts of money for things that don't really matter. Don't get me wrong, graphics are very important (why else do they sell high end video cards for PCs and mention how many bits/bytes of RAM a console's processor has) but there's a limit as to how much people really need to have a fun game.

It's gotten to the point that the average game has a start up cost of about 60USD (80CDN up here in Canuckistan) and then they nail you for about another 20 to 60USD for 'DLC', which means that in the long run, you're paying about $100 for one game that you may not play more than a month or two.

Ignore the politicians wanting to kill this hobby, we're doing it to ourselves.