What does Final Fantasy mean to you?

[Rydin]

To me...
Final fantasy isn't Jobs/classes or Tonberry
It isn't Chocobo's or a half dressed Shiva

To me...
Final Fantasy means an EPIC story.... a Foe that threatens the planet... that threatens existence itself
In this, I feel like the story is there... we just haven't had the opportunity to get intimate with it...
I, for one, can not wait

FF means unique and memorable characters
Loveable thieves.... Stoic reluctant hero's.. coming of age tales

It also means Features and Mechanics that are new to the genre or have never been tried...
Innovation
Daring to go against the norm, to do the opposite of what people expect... not putting something into a game because it is what all the other games have
Forget what you've come to expect...
As much as I loved Materia, it wasn't in VIII

I think of cutting edge graphics..... I think of BEAUTIFUL landscapes....
that are not just graphically good... but artistically beautiful....

I actually think of the Moon a lot for some reason...

I think of exaggeration and excess
Weapons that make no sense at all... Water inside swords... Swords that are way too big for any one man to yield, and yet the character being able to swing it 15 times in a matter of seconds....

I think of straps and zippers....
Gear that has no real world counterpart. Gear that probably wouldn't protect you in real life...
I think of Bangles and metals that don't exist