[Thespis721]

::cracks knuckles:: Okay. My friends who love Square games told me how much they are excited about this game coming out, but honestly, I have no excitement. I don't think Final Fantasy has been good in a LONG time. It's old hat and Square has beaten the franchise into the ground with their spin-offs. Not to mention I can't BEAT the games because I lose interest.

Here's my problem, and I realize this has to do with my completionist nature:

I start playing some of these RPGs, FF being notorious for it, and they toss in a whole bunch of extra stuff. Like hunts. And I want do all these hunts because I want to get my maximum experience in the content but then after a while I sit there and thing, "What the frak was I doing? What's going on in this story? Who's doing who in the what now?" And I lose interest in the story, thus losing interest in my driving force to play RPGs, because, like BaB said, it's not a skill oriented experience, ESPECIALLY jRPGs. And then I start thinking, "Well, why the heck, when the world or universe is on the line, am I frakkin' around doing errands for some old hag in a marketplace? I need to save the world!"

Thus, many RPGs, especially jRPGs, ESPECIALLY FF, don't inspire me anymore.

That, and all the characters look like fairies, the storylines are pretty identical, the bad guys are the same, and nothing will compare to FFXI and FFXII.

You've jumped the shark, Square. Make a new property and stick with it.