Quote Originally Posted by SkyeWindbinder View Post
Indeed. Secondly, it was a Final Fantasy game. It must also be judged as that as well.
No. Not really. A game is a game. If a game is good, it's good regardless of the brand on the box. If it's bad, it's bad regardless of its franchise.

Funny how many bash developers for not "steering from the formula", but yet when they do, they get backlash anyway.

I would say that encouraging, or even demanding, formulaic development is "irresponsible" (to use your own word), as it stifles evolution and innovation.

It's actually a lot easier to just assemble a nice checklist of popular elements into a game than to create something new.

But if developers did just that, we'd still be eating pills in a maze.