Dameon

Well, the difference between X-2 and XIII-2 is that you can play X and not feel like the game isn't finished. XIII has a blatant 'Buy our next game' message at the end.

What about Zidane and his troupe? They were all sorta-noble Thieves.

I think Square-Enix just pushed her too hard, and the fact that they did a blatent 'to be continued' in a franchise that has avoided that kind of thing for...most of my life? Irked me.

Final Fantasy is probably one of the few franchises where I don't feel old when I mingle with the fanbase.

Let's see... Someone decided to break into my house for their photojournalism assignment. They needed pet owners, and I hadn't showered yet. Midnight Denny's with friends on a crappy cellphone camera after not shaving for a few days. Weeee...

Now that I have your attention... Allow me to introduce myself. I've been playing Final Fantasy since 1997 when I was but a wee little Dameon Jr. watching my older cousin flying around in the Highwind. He'd sometimes leave me with his PS1 (after removing the memory card) and I'd fly around for hours doing absolutely nothing useful. I'd just enjoy the scenery, the music and the fact I was flying a big ol' airship. I was about 14 then. I'd played RPGs before (mostly Breath of Fire back on the SNES, but I even played Dragon Warrior back on the original NES for a while.) but none had ever really caught my attention all that much. For some reason those polygons SPOKE to me, the Kweh of the chocobo, that satisfying sound when a Limit Break began. Needless to say, I plowed through numerous Final Fantasies. VII, Tactics, Anthology, Origins, Chronicles, VIII, IX, X, X-2, Tactics Advance, XI, XII (And after that I started to sort of lose a bit of steam. Sorry Lightning, you just weren't my lady.) I've been through a long road of MMOs as well, with my first actually being Runescape (Not that I freely admit it), then Ragnarok Online, Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes/Villains, World of Warcraft, Champions Online, DC Universe Online (Both PS3 and PC), Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Planetside 2, and a few other free to plays I can't rightly recall. I'm a long time roleplayer as well, starting back in web based chatrooms, enduring the horrors and hardships of places like Yahoo and it's sceezy underbelly, to the wonderful, long lost MSN-Group Pages where I would enjoy the hybrid, if somewhat clunky, chatroom/forum/image gallery lay out it had. I think I actually started roleplaying BECAUSE of Final Fantasy VII. But yes, over a decade later, here I am, ready to throw my support behind another Final Fantasy.