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I haven't yet seen him make any derogatory remarks about Final Fantasy, he's been quite flattering. He's merely saying that it isn't as widely popular as simple to understand FPS games that any 5 year old with hand-eye co-ordination can play and enjoy.

To be honest for the most part on game to game sales FF and similar RPGs have one core advantage over shooters, and it's the same reason shooters gross far more than any other genre. When people want an RPG, especially a turn based battle system RPG like FF and Blue Dragon they have very little choice, especially on the 360. This means that rather than a FPS fan deciding whether to buy Halo 3, GOW or R6V instead, an RPG fan's options are decidedly limited. As far as I know, Blue Dragon is the only Turn based long story string combat RPG on the Xbox360 wheras I own more than 5 decent FPS games off the top of my head and there are many more on the market to choose from, ones that I haven't bought because they don't fill a niche that I can't get from one of the games I already own.

<blockquote data-quote="trumpster" data-source="post: 164827" data-attributes="member: 1402">I haven't yet seen him make any derogatory remarks about Final Fantasy, he's been quite flattering. He's merely saying that it isn't as widely popular as simple to understand FPS games that any 5 year old with hand-eye co-ordination can play and enjoy.To be honest for the most part on game to game sales FF and similar RPGs have one core advantage over shooters, and it's the same reason shooters gross far more than any other genre. When people want an RPG, especially a turn based battle system RPG like FF and Blue Dragon they have very little choice, especially on the 360. This means that rather than a FPS fan deciding whether to buy Halo 3, GOW or R6V instead, an RPG fan's options are decidedly limited. As far as I know, Blue Dragon is the only Turn based long story string combat RPG on the Xbox360 wheras I own more than 5 decent FPS games off the top of my head and there are many more on the market to choose from, ones that I haven't bought because they don't fill a niche that I can't get from one of the games I already own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trumpster, post: 164827, member: 1402"] I haven't yet seen him make any derogatory remarks about Final Fantasy, he's been quite flattering. He's merely saying that it isn't as widely popular as simple to understand FPS games that any 5 year old with hand-eye co-ordination can play and enjoy. To be honest for the most part on game to game sales FF and similar RPGs have one core advantage over shooters, and it's the same reason shooters gross far more than any other genre. When people want an RPG, especially a turn based battle system RPG like FF and Blue Dragon they have very little choice, especially on the 360. This means that rather than a FPS fan deciding whether to buy Halo 3, GOW or R6V instead, an RPG fan's options are decidedly limited. As far as I know, Blue Dragon is the only Turn based long story string combat RPG on the Xbox360 wheras I own more than 5 decent FPS games off the top of my head and there are many more on the market to choose from, ones that I haven't bought because they don't fill a niche that I can't get from one of the games I already own. [/QUOTE]