It's me again!
My computer's finally back up and running, after MONTHS of brokeness. Turns out all it needed was a new graphics card, a new motherboard, a new processor, new RAM and a new HD to install a new copy of Windows on!
Oh, hay, we're talking about Final Fantasy? I have a couple nickles to throw in about disliking things that are too commercial. Sometimes I feel like I do that. It's not something I'm proud of and I wish I didn't, but sometimes it feels like it. I've noticed, however, that my reason for not being into Final Fantasy is different. Frankly, I've never been into any FF game, and it just feels like, the more games they make, the more meh and samey it all becomes. The first step in the wrong direction, in my opinion, is making a billion games all with the same name... That, along with some othert things, makes it seem like they're intentionally reusing a lot of stuff just to make it easier to make a games and sell them. And it's probably true. If the next FF game doesn't have FF in the title, fewer people will buy it.
But like Ptoing said, exactly every Final Fantasy I've seen anything of seems to try to be as huge and epic as it can possibly make itself out to be. And they end up doing nothing at all to make me interested. Especially when they make it obvious that, yes, it's just another Final Fantasy game, in the long, long row. So it's not so much it being commercial, but it being so damn mass produced, and seeming proud of it... I just don't get that. Maybe it'd change if I actually took the time required to play a few games in the series, but I don't feel I have thousands of hours free to spend on grinding and fighting ridiculously long-winded bosses.
I'd rather play Halo or Zelda, anyway. If I want more epic than that, I'll revisit Chrono Trigger. Doesn't get much more epic than those three combined.