FFVI is a passable game. It hasn't been 'forgotten.' No one was really crazy about it in the first place. The fans it does manage to garner are without exception always on the defensive, and have some kind of bizarre victim complex about the game.
I'd like to point out that the OP makes a point to say beforehand that they just know they'll get flamed, that FFVII sees way too much attention, and that the lack of attention to VI is baffling or undeserved.
This is because any disagreement will be taken as flaming, FFVII fans are just ignorant sheeple, and people who don't like FFVI just can't understand it properly.
Heck, FFVIII was far less popular than any other FF that saw an original US release (Except maybe IX. Not sure on that one.), but it's fans, while quick to jump to the game's defense, rarely feel that some kind of searing injustice is being perpetrated on it.
A far better and far less appreciated Final Fantasy is FFV, which introduced the most perfect iteration of the job system yet seen, a tightly-knit and likable cast with no dead weight, and a whole slew of plot and play elements that hadn't been tried before in the series- something that all Final Fantasies have seen a dearth of since. And this game sees absolutely zero support online. And that doesn't bother me or anyone else because it doesn't matter, even the tiniest little bit.
Meanwhile, there is a veritable legion of people who are told time and time again that a game with broken, tedious character growth, plot that careens from predictable to trite to stolen, characters that have a 20% chance of being useful to the plot OR in battle, a villain notable BECAUSE he is poorly written and has no meaningful motivation, and graphics that- amazingly for a sprite game- managed to look muddy and ugly even when it came out, and didn't age nearly as well as the games that came before it in any way is simply not worth keeping a flame burning for more than a decade after it failed to make a meaningful impression on the gaming populace. And they just can't mentally handle this. Period.
Go play Ico. Then you can tell other gamers they missed the boat on something.
I'd like to point out that the OP makes a point to say beforehand that they just know they'll get flamed, that FFVII sees way too much attention, and that the lack of attention to VI is baffling or undeserved.
This is because any disagreement will be taken as flaming, FFVII fans are just ignorant sheeple, and people who don't like FFVI just can't understand it properly.
Heck, FFVIII was far less popular than any other FF that saw an original US release (Except maybe IX. Not sure on that one.), but it's fans, while quick to jump to the game's defense, rarely feel that some kind of searing injustice is being perpetrated on it.
A far better and far less appreciated Final Fantasy is FFV, which introduced the most perfect iteration of the job system yet seen, a tightly-knit and likable cast with no dead weight, and a whole slew of plot and play elements that hadn't been tried before in the series- something that all Final Fantasies have seen a dearth of since. And this game sees absolutely zero support online. And that doesn't bother me or anyone else because it doesn't matter, even the tiniest little bit.
Meanwhile, there is a veritable legion of people who are told time and time again that a game with broken, tedious character growth, plot that careens from predictable to trite to stolen, characters that have a 20% chance of being useful to the plot OR in battle, a villain notable BECAUSE he is poorly written and has no meaningful motivation, and graphics that- amazingly for a sprite game- managed to look muddy and ugly even when it came out, and didn't age nearly as well as the games that came before it in any way is simply not worth keeping a flame burning for more than a decade after it failed to make a meaningful impression on the gaming populace. And they just can't mentally handle this. Period.
Go play Ico. Then you can tell other gamers they missed the boat on something.
