>>281660477
>appeal to popularity
Nasu's best work isn't even Fate, its Kara no Kyoukai. Maybe Mahoyo, if you prefer VNs to novels. I will still go with the game that every single shonen author has stolen from in order to write their protagonists for the past 20 years over FGO.
The second best Fate project is Narita's but that's more because FSF at least tries to be a little interesting and engage with the actual lore of Nasuverse while everyone else just kind of masturbates furiously. Zero is decent, but the ufotable anime was the beginning of the end for the fandom.
Regardless, the average FGO player has never read FSN, so their unfiltered dogshit opinion about it is irrelevant. Watching the anime is not the same.