Heretic.

the final fantasy franchise is like a gluten free line of crisps.

tasteless and not actually superior in anyway but somehow fashionable.

I never had a console until my late 20's (A PS3) I played PC games instead, so I missed that whole ouvre.
On the PS3 I played ff7 (which had a great plot and world but really tedious fights and random encounters, also I felt comfortable with the grim-fandango-esque graphics :) ) and ffX (I think, it was X) which had lovely visuals but was unredeemable shit otherwise.
Anyway judging by these experiences I must agree ff are fairly mediocre games, however, even the really bad one had this 'neat' spreadsheet-esque quality that appealed to some accountant part of my brain.. Its weird, I noticed that in a lot of japanese games and console games (like Gran turismo for example.

Also auto-stars for ull :)

The last FF game I played was VII, my favorite parts were the motorcycle stage and Yuffie's side story. I was disappointed that the RTS side quest was so easy and I hated the drudgery in the volcano. I am not a very deep thinker.

mediocrity reigns.

The best thing about Final Fantasy is the way each game changes just enough to completely piss off at least half of the previous game's fans.

"Exponentially". How exponentially, you ask? Well, I did some calculations. 2 to the power of 16 more boring, to be exact. That's a lot of numbers, heh.

***** ghost stars for your comment

i wish he would have said 'the Dairy Queen' :(

Yes he could chop wood or turn big rocks into small rocks. Do you think people like this are actually useful in any way? I've had to manage a few of these in my younger years working in video stores or fast food etc. you have to be constantly on their ass to get them to actually finish any job. So much so that it would be faster to just do it yourself.

"I've had to manage a few of these"

Oh yeah, I remember you. Always telling me to clean the greasetrap. Well I got a dogeared notebook full of Greco-Roman architecture sketched in minute detail entirely from memory, so YOU clean the goddamn greasetrap.

Do you want your .25/hr or not Homer?

Those notebooks are filled with scribbles. Your schizophrenic hallucinations don't count!