[General Discussion] Games that are supposed to be really good but you hate

I hated Final Fantasy 7. There. I said it. Crucify me. The gameplay and materia system were pretty good, but the story and characters were just grade A flaming logs of crap. Speaking of flaming, Cloud and Sephiroth were crotch buddies. There is no denying it. Whenever they were both on screen at the same time, one of them was not wearing a shirt. Then, Cloud was "drawn" to Sephiroth at one point (I think it was the begining of the second disc, and thinking about it, Cloud was actually drawn to Sephiroth's body. That speaks for it's self). Then, Cloud forgot who he was, and for all intents and purposes, lied about his past to everyone, and the only person who knew the truth had to go through Cloud's soul before she realized it. (or something like that, it was pretty stupid.) Then there is Baret. The big black guy who yells and curses all the time, and beats on his chest like a monkey when he's angry. And he's got a gat. How racist is that? And can someone please show me any kind of evidence that Cloud even cared about Aeris (and yes, it is AERIS, with an S, they don't even say the th in Aerith in Japanese,so why do we do it in English?)? After she died, Cloud just dumped her body in a pool, and just kind of went on that whole "I need Sephiroth's body" rampage. Finally, there is Vincent. Vincent suffers the syndrome of alot of characters in FFVII. He looks 20x cooler than he actually is. He is a crappy character in battle, his limit breaks are crappy and uncontrolable, and he got his own crappy game. At least did some cool stuff in Advent Children (which wasn't a bad movie if all you want to see is pretty men do pretty sword fighting.). Thats all I can really say about FFVII right now, but I just want to point out one last thing. Lance Bass did the voice for Sephiroth.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by JackyBoy

Were you not awake during high school English lectures? I think you'll find most 'th' words are pronounced as such. Hence in English, Aerith would be, Aerith. Go butcher another language and stop watching so much god damn anime.

For this, I will quote Wikipedia

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"Aerith"—and, consequently, "Aeris"—is a Japanese transliteration of the English word "Earth" (confirmed by the Final Fantasy VII: Kaitai Shinsho guide[10]). In katakana (the Japanese syllabary used for words that are not of Japanese origin), the name is written as "Earisu". Syllables in the Japanese language are normally open, that is, they normally end in a vowel ("n" being the only consonant allowed in syllable codas; thus, the "i" after "r") and the Japanese language has no "th" sound, instead using "su". It became "Aeris" as a result of writing it in romaji (Latin characters representing Japanese sounds) to represent how it sounds when spoken in Japanese ("Air-rees").

This is why it is Aeris, not Aerith. Aerith just doesn't sound very good when spoken. Sometimes names need to be changed in translation so that they make sense in other languages. For example, there are alot of cities in the world that have different names when translated into English (easist one I can think of right now is Turin, aka in Italian, Torino).

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No it's not. It stopped being cool to hate on FFVII years ago. Final Fantasy VII is crap. A priori. So it's a foregone conclusion nobody actually likes it. And people who still claim it to be the "best RPG ever" are retarded.

Actually, with the whole Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, and the whole fanboy clamor for a remake, I feel that FFVII hate is more relevant now than ever. Especially since Lance Bass came out of the closet.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

This is actually far more amusing than dimkya's attempt at biting-humor-angry-review. I'll allow it, but don't continue this, ok?

That means stop.

Can you define what "this" is? And I won't talk about FFVII anymore. But I will talk about KOTOR.

I hate Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Love the sequel, but I hate the original. Gameplay was pretty good, but gameplay is only 1/3 of the pie. What about the characters and storyline? What happened? What happened was that Bioware decided to tell the same story of the Star Wars movies 1000 years in the past, to give it that new spin (as a side note, why is it that when sci-fi series do prequels, everything always looks better and more technologically advanced than the stuff that is supposed to be in the future?)
All they did was split Darth Vader into Revan and Malik, and make Ed Asner the Emperor. Well, not so much with the Asner, but Yoda was in it (did he die at the end? Not really sure, and he/it didn't show up in the sequel, at least not to my knowledge). You also had Samuel L. Jakson, aka Mace Windu, aka Jolee Bindo, which just goes to show that all bald black guys are uberly rugged, just add a 'stache and some purple for a mighty porntastical adventure. There was also the four year old school girl in a thirty year old man's body, aka, Carth, the "man" who would rather pansy it up, and run away from the ultimate evil thus stranding him on an unknown planet, than at least try to fight (this is assuming you went all dark side). Then there was Juhani. I don't know about all that lesbian stuff, because I never did that in the game (and from what I saw on xplay, she seemed more confused than gay), but I will say this. What the f*** was up with head? Was she some kind of cat person? Why did she suck in battle? Anyway, the whole twist in the middle of the game was a little stupid, and the final boss battle was just unspectacular. You fight through that entire last dungeon, fighting through hoards of evil Jedi, (but they aren't sith due to some wierd Star Wars logic), and you get to Malik, and its like fighting the other 30 evil jedi's, only its a one on one fight, which just makes it easier. At least the Star Forge looked better than the Death Star.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.