Although I will say that the FF fans seem just as discerning. There's FFVII, and then a colossal drop to X, VIII, and VI, and then a big one to IX, and a huge one to games like IV and XII. Same with the characters, as we have titans like Cloud and fodder like Celes. It's the same story with lots of other series. RBY is a monster and any Pokemon game released after 2000 is fodder. Super Mario Kart can hang with Super Metroid while Mario Kart Wii struggles with Phoenix Wright. It's probably similar for every single - or at least a large majority of - longtime series.
On the games side, FF has about the same strength gaps as Zelda, yes, but not on the character side. We have Link, then Cloud, then 5 FF characters (Sephiroth, Squall, Vincent, Tifa, and Auron) before getting to Ganon and Zelda. And then there are a ton of FF characters between Zelda and LOZ's #4. For Pokemon, GSC held up very well against RBY, far better than any Zelda game would against OOT or any FF game against FFVII.
I think the entire GameFAQs voterbase just needs to be given credit for being a smart, discerning bunch, and all the talk about awful or mindless fanbases around here should only be used jokingly. This site draws a pretty smart bunch.
This is true though. The voters are smart, and they've shown it many times.
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2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud.
Link 6, Cloud 2