Kocchi:
> Very true. However, many people had impossible expectations, and many
> more have confused their personal opinion with the end-all be-all of
> whether a game is "good" or not. I think Moby-Dick is the most boring

    Who knows better than me on whether I like a game or not?  You seem to
imply there is a greater opinion out there, but it does not exist.  Most
people base a game's value on whether they like it or not, not whether
someone else liked it or not.  Therefore, personal opinons IS the end all be
all judgment on whether a game is good or not.  That said, some opinions are
kind of stupid.  I've heard people tell me where to junction Ultima in FF8
is the greatest mental challenge he's ever faced in RPG so that's why it's
good, which I can't exactly agree with.  I guess some people are challenged
easily...

    You can never review a game objectively.  We can't just say "well this
game's got 20 million polygons so it gets a 8 on the graphics" or something
like that.  A game is what people think of it, and as a lot of people didn't
like FF8, that means the game isn't that good.  I know a lot of people liked
it too, but from what I gather there is no real consensus on this game, more
so than the previous ones (some people always think some games suck, but the
distribution of good vs bad is closer than previous Square games).

    You might think Moby Dick is boring (I do too), but apparently enough
people liked it.  Still, it was practically unrecognized during Melville's
lifetime, so you're not the only one.  Just because it's a classic doesn't
mean everyone has to like it, and it doesn't mean if you don't like it you
somehow don't get it or is not with the right path.

> Incidentally, the argument that the game was a showcase for the
> graphics is flat-out wrong.

    Chrono Cross looks so much prettier.  Why do they have to make Iceberg a
natural blue spell?



Don
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May it reach your distant sky"
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