Final Fantasy, tales of phantasia, dragon quest etc. etc. are all the exact same because no one broke away from the elements.
Basically.
Although I think tales broke away from the elements somewhat, I may be thinking of something else though.
Lore, amount of content, how fun the zones are, how easy it is to get together with people and have fun, do you have a class that really is fun to you.
These are small details that are secondary to the over-arching game concepts in this case because they fail to provide the game with something greater than the over-arching game concepts.
To use an example, if we had a bunch of brick walls in a large open field, all different sizes.
Some people will like this brick wall or that brick wall, but they're all fairly much the same, no one constructor is doing anything unique, they just keep piling on the bricks.
There are the little things, as you mentioned, like how this one brick wall is a little taller than that wall, or how this other wall is so neatly stacked. But they are all brick walls.
Now, you say, of course they are all brick walls, that's what a brick wall is, and to complete the brown townogy of course all MMORPGs are MMORPGs, that's just what they are.
But, all of the brick walls are walls, and there are many kinds of walls. Similarly, all generic-fantasy-formula MMORPGs are MMORPGs, and there are (or, should be) many kinds of MMORPGs.
To put it simply, the wall that stands out in a field of brick walls is anything but a standard brick wall. You can't just simply make a better brick wall and claim it to be revolutionary. It still does the same exact thing as the rest of the brick walls, even if it does look a little prettier.
To rear the brown townogy back in here, they should be building structures and not simply making more brick walls.
Although, I'm sure the entirety of this will be lost on you because either you're too stupid or you don't care enough to bother to comprehend it, so I'll put it in small words for you:
"You're not proving a point that is relevant."
Feel free to quote these past few lines and send it right back at me if you don't care enough to read my post and write something meaningful, it would basically just prove my point that you're stupid.
