The FF-fandom can be quite toxic. I only recently started to play the older FF titles, and feel in love with the series. But oh boy what a shock it was when I started to follow some of the FF discussions on a variety of forums. The smile that the games had created vanished quite quickly, and especially discussions regarding to FFXV are really stormy some times. But coming here, I have had really interesting and fun discussions about the game, ones that could never have been achieved in the previous forums I used to visit to. I was so glad that I finally found a place where the talks weren`t just chained up to topics how the characters are emo, gay or the new battle system will ruin the series forever. Of course people here and I of course too express concerns about the game, but they discussions are not(at least in my opinion) drowned in overwhelming pessimism and negativity.
The FFVII Remake talks terrify me also.
About acknowledging the faults of the series, it is different in here. Hmm, how should I describe it? In here it runs on a rather deep level, and we understand how the story and the gameplay mechanics work, and we want to understand things. But that dosen`t makes us blind about the the faults that the series has. I`ve been on places where sometimes I have felt that the discussions are related only in general stuff and it is not really deep. Only some of the aspects of the games are talked about and discussions about topics like "What was Xemans doing in the Chamber of Repose?" can`t really be started since some people think the story is silly and talks about the matter die pretty fast. Or people don`t have enough info about these things, or just are interested about KHIII and it`s release etc..... (Or questions like "Do you play KH" get an reply like this: "No, because I am not gay".....) I have had some small interesting topics talked about, but no way near as the level of that has done here.
Anyway, I don`t want to be too harsh here on other forums.
I need to start thinking the same about some more general site, and not be so sensitive. Sephiroths words if wisdom have been spoken again.
That I don`t derail this thread too much, jojo56830 made an rather hilarious comic about 2.8:
Jojo has really funny KH-comics.