For the idea about there being two different types of fans, ones for everything before Final Fantasy VII and ones for everything thereafter, I sort of agree but not really. To me, there's three (well, perhaps even four or more).
The first was the classic group. There was the first six, just as you say, for the first group.
Then Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII were the odd ones out incomparably, making the second group. Why do those two games get their own group? It's simple. At the time, the first six Final Fantasy games were all really similar. They were all Medieval in theme, two dimensional, and so on, and here comes Final Fantasy VII with three dimensional graphics, CGI cutscenes, but most of all, a more realistic theme and less fantasy feel than the previous ones. That is the factor that split and/or expanded the fanbase. It was fantasy versus sci-fi. Final Fantasy VIII was sort of the same, but it was more close to a mix of the two.
The possible fourth group (I'll get to three on a minute since I'm going chronological here) was Final Fantasy IX alone. Now we have a group for a single game!? The reason I do this is because it
is the odd game out, and that's why it's not too liked. Fans of the sci-fi group hate it because it's not like the other two. It had a cheery world versus the ones they knew of. Fans of the classics don't tend to like it because, well admittedly, they like anything much like the classics. It has that crappy 3-D, you know!? Fans of the last group (which I'll explain after this) like nothing but the new games with the latest graphics (though I personally think Final Fantasy IX's graphics were and still are good, they're not much to today's).
The last group is, as I said, those who like the more modern of the series (Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and perhaps additionally all of these remakes and spin-offs).
So, I'd really say there's three groups and not two (Final Fantasy IX would be a mix of the first two groups if you condense it, but I'd consider it more part of the classics since that is what it was made for/after). True, usually alot of the fans of the classics are stubborn and won't like anything but, and you'll find more fans of the supposed second and third groups liking the other, but I still say there's three separate groups despite the biggest split between the classics and everything else. Classic/fantasy, sci-fi, and modern.
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Originally Posted by Silenus
That was one of the problems with FF7.
It didn't have a character type defined.
You could use anyone for anything imo.
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Like I said, that was one of the problems with almost every (all but one) main Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy VII.
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