What is a Final Fantasy game to you?

[Spuffin]

From another topic, I was wondering... what do you think of, when you think of Final Fantasy? What do you expect to find when you pick up a game? What do you enjoy?

Edit: I'll answer my own questions to start.

1. Epicness. Both in story and in gameplay. FF in general has always managed to take even simple things and make them larger than life.

2. Awesome story. FF stories are always just a little different and told so well. Fantasy stories are common, but the flare FF manages to tell them with is not.

3. Cutting edge CGI. They always seem to be "first" in graphics.

4. Interesting game mechanics. Somehow, they always manage to pull something off thats just a little different.

5. Plenty to do. They seem to be a master of mini games, side stories, and optional bosses and quests.

6. Really cool weapons and armor/clothing designs. Simple yet very distinct.

7. Certain running themes. Chocobos, Cid, airships, summons, limit breaks, or the equivalents of such.

Are you asking me what makes a good "Final Fantasy Game" or what makes a good "Final Fantasy MMO"?

These are two completely different topics. A lot of people want SE to use elements from offline games which is very hard to incorporate. Can they use names and appearances? Yes. Can they adopt a feature from any FF titles armory system or leveling system? No. They have to stick with the few main features that make an mmo an mmo and the features that make an mmo successful.

Hence why all the good MMOs are consisted of Party Play, Grind, The standard leveling system, Meriting system, quests relating to kill this kill that, world bosses, raids, reasonable travel methods, CLIENT SIDE GAMEPLAY, PvP, content and an armory system that actualy makes sense and doesn't create unbalance.

FF11 - WoW - Aion - TERA - L2 - Ect. They should have taken elements from all of these games. Not pull random nonsense out of a void.