Nah, quite the opposite. Telling people to 'shut up' in the comment sections says everything one needs to know about you hehe.
Angst ridden teens with phallic swords fighting each other in turn based screen swirling battles can hardly compare to anything i mentioned.
Oh, and ' just a novelty in their time but now they are nothing more than average franchises.', yeah, see FF.
NFS Shift is ace too, best NFS game since the old on...
'Professional blogger' HA HA HA.. I'm a profesional N4G poster.
Half of that list is lame, no industry defining genre pioneers like Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider, Doom, Halo, Sims, NFS ..
FF should be in honorable mentions instead.
While great, FF games were no pinnacles, apart from their production values, most of which went into cgs. Best jrpgs made back then were the dream teams' Chrono Trigger, Suikodens and Xenogears. Others like the original Grandia, Secret of Mana, Terranigma and Star Ocean were easily just as good.
Xg had the best art hands down, the char avatars were outstanding, Suikoden or Chrono soundtracks were head and shoulders above any of the midi stuff in any FFs, and stories were ...
When a fan made game both looks and plays better than their own Sonic, something's obv wrong with the company.