/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8899707
By 1997, Final Fantasy fans not reading game magazines had at least occasional internet access, or knew someone who did. Nesticle and ZSnes were both released in 1997 and the RPGe romhack translating Final Fantasy V was finished in 1998.

If you weren't a Final Fantasy fan you didn't give a shit about the numbering.

>>8370828
>Final Fantasy wasn't truly big until VII, and that's because Sony had an enormous advertising campaign for it.
FFVII was also a legitimately good game in spites of its 350k words of dialog, and the franchise had a modest but very active and enthusiastic fanbase in North America. IV and VI both sold over 200k in North America, which was disappointing to Square but when those numbers are True Fans eager to buy anything the company releases, that puts you in a really good position to have a successful large-scale marketing campaign. And like I said, it helps when the product delivers what it promises.