why does everyone hate this game?

[Dionysos]

The epic of Gilgamesh covers alot of things, but travelling is one of the themes, I think in the quest for immortality. Following Enkidu's death Gilgamesh see's what death is, hates the sound of it and travels across the world to find a cure for his own death and become immortal. Then the journey home and then realising that he was a fool and wasted the cure!

I've yet to read it myself, but will probably read my copy sometime soon, as I shall probably need to for my second year at Uni (I'm studying Ancient History, and one of the modules I have to take is the Near East).

[Silver Shadow]

i personally don't hate FFV. sure, Gilgamesh doesn't die, but that would be the only bad thing i see in this game.

[FFVFan]

This game is great! You plan strategies with Job Abilities, with spells and with summons! I don't encounter it as a bogus and dumb game.

[Big Casino]

Its probadly not appreciated as much perhaps because its an older game 2D graphics and all.
Personally i thought it was ok, nothing special, the only thing i really disliked was the job system, something ive never been a fan of. It definately was very poor in comparison to FFIV, storywise, and also the characters were also much simpler there wasnt anything interesting about them.
Still when it was first released it was probadly one of the best games around but compared to the other FF games it lacks.

[Dionysos]

Well the story was attempting to return to the crystal theme of the first game, which can explain the simpler story. But there was so much more going on at the same time. The villain Ex-Death was one of the most fearsome villains in games yet, not since I fought Sephiroth or Kefka have I wanted revenge on a villain so much.

Also, this game came up with a great mode of transport that we haven't seen in a Final Fantasy before or since. What other Final Fantasy's let you ride a dragon?!

Sure thing though, there were only 5 playable characters, the characters weren't that distinct apart from perhaps Faris (I think she was excellent, I love pirates!). But still, for me it seemed to work. I loved the Warriors of Dawn, and seeing them help at the end was great. This game also produced many memorable scenes. Sure it might not have the classic feel of FFIV and FFVI, with deep characters and a large cast, but FFV is often a Final Fantasy overlooked. I enjoyed it and did not rate it lower than FFIV, FFVI or FFVII, but for different reasons that I liked them.

[Bambi]

I don't like it

The jobs were annoying and it was too bloody hard, I was either constantly lost or having my arse handed to me. This game needs to burn in hell

[CROWX]

At first i didn't like it because the characters seem weak but as it went along i really enjoyed the story and the characters grew on me especially bartz.

[Saga]

I didn't really feel it until about half way through the game... Though that's not to say that I hate it. I'm going to go back and play through again soon. See if I can get more into it.

It's not an awful game... I just found it a little more difficult to actually enjoy... for some reason

[SaShman]

I didn't really like it. The story line seemed too simple, it got alright once I reached the second world, but it was still pretty simple. The characters were too boring, the only characters I really liked were Gilgamesh and Faris. The job system was interesting, but it made the game extremely boring when you had to stay in an area and level your jobs. So those are a few reasons why I didn't really like this game.

[Rukai]

Most people complain about this game by the fact the game is hard, Jobs take too much time to build, etc. Not really, I have completed the whole game (speaking of the FFV: Advance which is twice harder and challenging) and didn't master ALL jobs, only the ones that were useful.

At a certain point of the game (providing you did Master the correct jobs) you can nail +20000 Damage each turn to an single enemy. The game isn't hard...if you train your characters correctly.

Personally I liked this game, it was hard, long and spent some good worth hours. The storyline was nice, we witnessed many characters

Spoiler!

suiciding/dying

And all the Gilgamesh encounters were epic, the only thing I disliked was most summons were pretty much useless, except Golem and maybe Phoenix.

It would be nice if Gilgamesh had joined the team. =]