Ok lets be realistic hear and cut right to the point.. Now I've been playing skyrim recently and I'm trying to to think of why it was so boring and dull compared to final fantasy and I came to the realization that although having far less content than Skyrim, Final fantasy is able to capture the most important things in a video game..

An epic story (which Skyrim doenst have),
Epic memorable characters both heros and villans (which skyrim definitly doesnt have),
Memorible towns and settings (yet again skyrim no have x.x)
and epic boss fights/battle systems (skyrim has lame dragons you see in all rpgs with no personality LMAO)

allow me to further break this down..

Lets take ffvii for example (one of the most popular, actaully maybe the most popular console rpg of all time) and compare it with skyrim..

Story: FFVII had an amazing story which captivated millions, who could ever forget raiding in shinra headquarters or falling through the roof of the flowerbed for the first time.. Or the most saddening loss in gaming history in Aerith's death..or fueding with the turks, or sephiroth burining down nibelhiem? Skyrims story was just so dull and could never and will never compare to that.. i noticed most people dont talk about skyrims story on here i'm starting to see why..

Memorable Characters: Cloud to this day is still the most popular protagnist of all time.. tifa is a six icon, and Sephiroth is a badass and the most iconic villian in any rpg ever.. Lets compare this to skyrims characters? ?? um i don't even know what characters to put up against those three that wouldn't seem like a joke.. i guess the villian is a dragon??? um wtf? lol... that must be why none of you talk about the characters of skyrim either..

Lastly lets talk about the towns and settings.. FFVII was brilliant at making each town memorable and distinct who could forget the Gold Saucer (the most colorful gaming area in video game history), or Midgar with the plate structure and the slums underneath? or how bout Icicle Inn (the snowy caverns) or Costa Del Sol (the beach resort).. or how bout rocket town (the rocket going up into space) or Fort Condor(the place with the huge condor ontop of it,) or North Corel (a broken down city filled with tents), Or Wutai (a traditional japanese place)... As you can see FFVII had so many memorbile towns that were completly distinct that everyone wanted to see and explore , the settings and scenary was an absolute masterpiece...

compare that to skyrim where you have a bunch of boring towns that all feel the same (same atmosphere) with a bunch of dull npcs, where you have to spend hours and hours going through the same interior designed shops talking to them to trigger quests.. after about 10 hours of that i had to take my skyrim disc out of the console throw it under my couch and put in my final fantasy games to brush the bad taste out of my mouth..

In conclusion Final fantasy has way less content than skyrim but it has much more meaning.. 90% of skyrims content has no meaning what so ever and is just boring busy work...

I will not be purchasing an elder scrolls game again.. forutnatly ffxiii-2 is coming out in less than a month and I will be able to spend my days playing that..

gooday..

Run

The crows will now descend on you to tear out your eyes and liver.

Saying what you said above... either a flame war/ban session is about to erupt, or a lulzfest.

ok

So I take it you... don't want a fishy stick, then?

Where have I heard this before...

http://kotaku.com/5871838/skyrim-is-filled-with-memorable-characters-like-that-one-guy

FF7 story captivated millions becuase at the time it came out millions were going through a "teen angest/emo" phase.

FF7 from a story standpoint is GARBAGE.

I am not going to bother reading what you posted. Instead, I use what precious time you have left telling you to leave this forum before you are tolled to the point your soul will erode...

From the amount of artwork and pictures you see online about FF VII... those people are still going through it.

k thx bye

Also, kind of biased, you seem like a FF really devoted fan.

final fantasy 6 was better

Alrighty then. While you go play your Final Fantasy later, we'll be here playing Skyrim. Enjoy, I guess.

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in final fantasy can you just drop everything you are doing go half a country away and start something new?
and honestly how can you say there arent memorable characters, sheogorath, cicero, lucean lachance, and lydia, also there are literally hundreds of character in ES games

I have no idea who any of these people you're talking about are. I do know this: JRPGs have people with spiky purple hair wielding eight-foot-long swords with blades a foot wide, saucer-like anime-eyes and inexplicable ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US plots.

Seriously, take everything I can't stand about 95% of most anime and manga, pack it into a game, and you have JRPGs. Blech.

^{Meh, I like final fantasy, the older ones at least, and I like the elder scrolls. Troll harder please though.}

final fantasy is a good franchise, but there is no reason to compare this two games, they are completely different.

Congratulations, you just summed FF up in a nutshell. Two out of those three characters have spiky hair and giants swords and I guess one could have "anime" eyes.

Yeah, let's start comparing TES to WoW and Battlefield as well...

Dont forget the manditory Emo/Teen Angst subplots.

so your going to bash japense video game characters because they are attractive and have personality...?God if skyrim had a little more of that I might of actually enjoyed the game, but sadly the millons of npcs that game had were all dull as wallpaper, and ugly as hell..

Battlefield has more guns so it is a far superior game to Skyrim

Except they arent attractive and have zero personality.

So..."emo" and "teen" translate to "attractive" and "personality" to you?

aw come on; emos can be cute.