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Jintor said:
Thats like going in to a bar and asking anyone if they ever had a budwiser. LOL
many will disagree but i think its too late (games are old news/lame)for anything earlier than 8. 8 looked awesome and I never got to play it.
did you play 9 or 10 (X)? (is there even a 9? system? rating?)
I enjoyed X thoroughly but didn't really like Wakka or the way they did the story, and the whole blitzball thing dominated the story and was completely gay.
I like futuristic RPG's like SEGA's Phantasy star online, whereas FFX went like back in time,... where machines (machina) was "outlawed"
how is 8?
FFX-2 ... me.. no likey.. craptastic
FFIII was life changing,... I really had no idea how enthralling and engrossing an RPG could be before I bought that game. great stuff...
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FF6 all the way \o/ (guess my fave character 
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The first time I played FF4 with my mate was fantatic - and completely blew us away. For its time the series was rather unique - multilayered plots, in depth characters etc
Unfortunately, the stories and settings have gotten far worse over time (at the expense of gfx and cutscenes) N1 Sony :thumbs:
)The first time I played FF4 with my mate was fantatic - and completely blew us away. For its time the series was rather unique - multilayered plots, in depth characters etc
Unfortunately, the stories and settings have gotten far worse over time (at the expense of gfx and cutscenes) N1 Sony :thumbs:
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6,7 and 8 (*braces for lynching*) were the best IMO.
Gargantou said:Does that include the mobile games?
If you mean for cell-phones then no. I do however own all the gameboy and gameboy(AD). I'll probably stop adding to my collection because I felt that FF-X and FF-X2 were a big waste of money....considering I bought a PS2 just to play those games. I mean why did they think turning it into a futuristic barbies fashion/spice girls sing along would be good? I'll definatly be wary of the next games, if it's got anything to do with singing chicks I ain't buying it!
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beam said:
Agreed.
And while those two in the series are more guilty than any others, the FF series has been heading in this direction for quite a while.
Enough of this teenage angst crap - I want new titles similar to FF 4/5/6. So many FF fans don't know how good the series was. Unfortunately, these games look so dated now that it's hard to get into them. Nevertheless - after no. 6 the series started to slowly go down hill. 7 was still fantastic - but the decline has now started to avalanche.
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i like the one with kefka best.
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9 was actually the closest FF game i ever came to finishing, and was the best, but FF7 has the best soundtrack and is probably the most memoriable to moi
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My FF Encylopedia (of those i've played)
FF1: Sorry, but you really had to be there. Playing the PS1 version (in FF Origins) was just bland and boring. Without the sense of being there as this series unfolded, it's almost hard to believe that Final Fantasy managed to get past a single installment.
FF2: Again, you had to be there. The leveling system was... experimental (i.e. Crap) and it really doesn't have anything going for it.
FF3: Things started improving, appearances of things later refined. Story was fleshed out a bit more... but this game has never been released outside of Japan, so it's hard to find the patience to sit through the broken NES roms that you get of this thing.
FF4: Now we're talking. Graphically it wasn't bad, but the important FF elements of Story and Character were finally brought to the prominent place they deserved. The first great FF game.
FF5: Kind of easy to see why it didn't make it out of Japan until the Sony days. A single step up for gameplay but several steps down for story and characters. Even a pretty interesting job system really can't outweigh the mediocre "Good Vs Evil" pantomime of this game.
The main bad guy of the piece is an Evil Tree.
Enough said.
FF6: Probably my favorite of the main series FFs. Probably because of the extensive and intirguing cast (headed by Females for the first and time and the only time they actually pulled it off in an interesting way) and the fact that you actually get to experience hating the main enemy first-hand.
FF7: The Main character spent a brief section of the game in drag, and in order to do so you had the option to spend sometime in a hot tub with a camp-fat guy. Somehow I don't think this fact corresponds with the general concensus that this was the best of the FF games... not that I didn't find it hilarious and part of the overall uniqueness that this game was all about. The "crazy but excellent" FF that mixed a serious and intriguing story about a badass with White hair who kills stuff and makes you unhappy with a world of bright colours, zippy music and chocobo mating. I personally like it a little less than FF6 because of a dull Female cast (Ms Big Boobs boring girl, Ms "beware FMVs because you can actually get killed there" and Ms "Optional and Disposable Ninja" lady).
FF8: My first FF and by default, one of my favorites. The battle system (Junctioning) caused a lot of controversy that would probably have been avoided if the tutorial wasn't the uneccesseraily confusing mess that it was. Otherwise, it was pretty good. Great story and Characters and all that jazz.
FF9: It had Moogles pratically crawling out of the floors and walls, trying to smoother you in a word of fluff. Which is always a plus. The characters were good (interesting villian), but it took an absolute age to begin to get interesting. The gameplay had become slightly cookie cutter, and the optional extra missions were beginning to be a bit of a chore by now.
FF10: It would seem that to get a game on the PS2, you had to write a stupid convuluted storyline with heaps of obscure crap and dull as hell characters you couldn't care less about. The Gameplay (never truely a highlight, but bareable) dragged on and wasn't helped by an unusually awful soundtrack to accompany it all. The sidequests in this game sealed FF's descent into oblivion - many of the sidegames were unnecessarily difficult to control and some quests had less point than a circle (e.g. Jumping 200 hundred lightning bolts without getting hit, just to partially power up a subcharacter's weapon. Joy of Joys.)
To top it off, FF10 features some of the most uninspired, pathetic and plainly embarrasing voice-work i've been tortured through in my entire games-playing time. I hear the voice actors are still out there breathing air from our ecosystem. This error must be corrected immediately. Heaven forbid they're getting jobs in VA somewhere.
FF10-2: FF10 would never have been my first choice for an FF game deserving of a sequel. Regardless, this manages to suck even more than the game that spawned it. Girl Power died back in the 90s but that doesn't stop this game feeling like a Video-Game promo for the Spice Girls. Or perhaps it's a Jaqueline Wilson book, you know - with the "normal one", the "angsty goth one" and the "sporty airhead one". Who knows. Or cares. It's twice the embarrasment whether you're a Psuedo-Feminist or the 14-20 year old male demographic that these games are supposed to cater for anyway. The voice work was actually marginally more bareable (though it ammounts to the difference between grating your balls with nice new cheese-grater, or an old rusty one) but the gameplay tipped off into the desperately dull and actually completing an area rubbed your nose in the crap even more (woo! a video showing a waterfall!). Avoid like the Plague. Or Deus Ex 2.
Final Fantasy Tactics: Great Gameplay, Great Characters, Great Story. My favorite "FF" game, though it's not really authentic FF... Oh and if you're European, you got royally and permenantly f**ked over by Square on this game. Hooray for importing.
FFT Advance: Like FF Tactics but with some of the fun sucked out of it. The story is dull, there is little in the way of NPC interaction and the actual battles get repeatative quickly. Because Tactics battles are naturally fun though, it's hard to dislike the game so long as you play it in short bursts.
FF Mystic Quest: lol.
FF1: Sorry, but you really had to be there. Playing the PS1 version (in FF Origins) was just bland and boring. Without the sense of being there as this series unfolded, it's almost hard to believe that Final Fantasy managed to get past a single installment.
FF2: Again, you had to be there. The leveling system was... experimental (i.e. Crap) and it really doesn't have anything going for it.
FF3: Things started improving, appearances of things later refined. Story was fleshed out a bit more... but this game has never been released outside of Japan, so it's hard to find the patience to sit through the broken NES roms that you get of this thing.
FF4: Now we're talking. Graphically it wasn't bad, but the important FF elements of Story and Character were finally brought to the prominent place they deserved. The first great FF game.
FF5: Kind of easy to see why it didn't make it out of Japan until the Sony days. A single step up for gameplay but several steps down for story and characters. Even a pretty interesting job system really can't outweigh the mediocre "Good Vs Evil" pantomime of this game.
The main bad guy of the piece is an Evil Tree.
Enough said.
FF6: Probably my favorite of the main series FFs. Probably because of the extensive and intirguing cast (headed by Females for the first and time and the only time they actually pulled it off in an interesting way) and the fact that you actually get to experience hating the main enemy first-hand.
FF7: The Main character spent a brief section of the game in drag, and in order to do so you had the option to spend sometime in a hot tub with a camp-fat guy. Somehow I don't think this fact corresponds with the general concensus that this was the best of the FF games... not that I didn't find it hilarious and part of the overall uniqueness that this game was all about. The "crazy but excellent" FF that mixed a serious and intriguing story about a badass with White hair who kills stuff and makes you unhappy with a world of bright colours, zippy music and chocobo mating. I personally like it a little less than FF6 because of a dull Female cast (Ms Big Boobs boring girl, Ms "beware FMVs because you can actually get killed there" and Ms "Optional and Disposable Ninja" lady).
FF8: My first FF and by default, one of my favorites. The battle system (Junctioning) caused a lot of controversy that would probably have been avoided if the tutorial wasn't the uneccesseraily confusing mess that it was. Otherwise, it was pretty good. Great story and Characters and all that jazz.
FF9: It had Moogles pratically crawling out of the floors and walls, trying to smoother you in a word of fluff. Which is always a plus. The characters were good (interesting villian), but it took an absolute age to begin to get interesting. The gameplay had become slightly cookie cutter, and the optional extra missions were beginning to be a bit of a chore by now.
FF10: It would seem that to get a game on the PS2, you had to write a stupid convuluted storyline with heaps of obscure crap and dull as hell characters you couldn't care less about. The Gameplay (never truely a highlight, but bareable) dragged on and wasn't helped by an unusually awful soundtrack to accompany it all. The sidequests in this game sealed FF's descent into oblivion - many of the sidegames were unnecessarily difficult to control and some quests had less point than a circle (e.g. Jumping 200 hundred lightning bolts without getting hit, just to partially power up a subcharacter's weapon. Joy of Joys.)
To top it off, FF10 features some of the most uninspired, pathetic and plainly embarrasing voice-work i've been tortured through in my entire games-playing time. I hear the voice actors are still out there breathing air from our ecosystem. This error must be corrected immediately. Heaven forbid they're getting jobs in VA somewhere.
FF10-2: FF10 would never have been my first choice for an FF game deserving of a sequel. Regardless, this manages to suck even more than the game that spawned it. Girl Power died back in the 90s but that doesn't stop this game feeling like a Video-Game promo for the Spice Girls. Or perhaps it's a Jaqueline Wilson book, you know - with the "normal one", the "angsty goth one" and the "sporty airhead one". Who knows. Or cares. It's twice the embarrasment whether you're a Psuedo-Feminist or the 14-20 year old male demographic that these games are supposed to cater for anyway. The voice work was actually marginally more bareable (though it ammounts to the difference between grating your balls with nice new cheese-grater, or an old rusty one) but the gameplay tipped off into the desperately dull and actually completing an area rubbed your nose in the crap even more (woo! a video showing a waterfall!). Avoid like the Plague. Or Deus Ex 2.
Final Fantasy Tactics: Great Gameplay, Great Characters, Great Story. My favorite "FF" game, though it's not really authentic FF... Oh and if you're European, you got royally and permenantly f**ked over by Square on this game. Hooray for importing.
FFT Advance: Like FF Tactics but with some of the fun sucked out of it. The story is dull, there is little in the way of NPC interaction and the actual battles get repeatative quickly. Because Tactics battles are naturally fun though, it's hard to dislike the game so long as you play it in short bursts.
FF Mystic Quest: lol.
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X was awesome, i didnt mind blitzball to much, however i never played a game of it in my life, turn based "soccer" is WAY too dumb. Turn based fighting is on the line, the only thing that kept me going was the story.
X-2 was just plain stupid, it was pure marketing trying to get little kids to buy games, oh look three girls that fight and wear skimpy outfits. GAH!!
Im trying to play VII because apparently its the best. So far i am unimpressed.
X-2 was just plain stupid, it was pure marketing trying to get little kids to buy games, oh look three girls that fight and wear skimpy outfits. GAH!!
Im trying to play VII because apparently its the best. So far i am unimpressed.
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First FF I played was 7. I remember that I got given it for a birthday/christmas from my bro, but I only played it for 20mins then shelved it for months. I ended up playing it one day and getting really, really into it. Amazing game.
FF8 was a totally great game. Square had their magic when this game was released. Interesting and cool characters. I remember talking about this game for hours in high school.
FF9 was a pretty good game.
FFX - I rented this but didn't bother buying it in the end. It was OK, although the main character was a bit girly.
FFX-2 - Yuna as main character = me not interested. I haven't even read any reviews. Seriously not interested.
FF12 - Looks like they're going down the girly main character route again. I wish they'd just merge Cloud and Squall, then they'd have a decent looking character.
FF8 was a totally great game. Square had their magic when this game was released. Interesting and cool characters. I remember talking about this game for hours in high school.
FF9 was a pretty good game.
FFX - I rented this but didn't bother buying it in the end. It was OK, although the main character was a bit girly.
FFX-2 - Yuna as main character = me not interested. I haven't even read any reviews. Seriously not interested.
FF12 - Looks like they're going down the girly main character route again. I wish they'd just merge Cloud and Squall, then they'd have a decent looking character.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I believe that pre-FF7, the few games that got a European release from the series were called "Mystic Quest" because the FF name had no brand recognition. It was an "FF" game in the loosest sense, made for a US audience that was stereotyped as being pretty stupid - Final Fantasy 4 (released as "2" in the US in the Nintendo days) was also dumbed down in the US. I believe Mystic Quest was even called "Final Fantasy USA" in japan. I'm sure it did wonders for US/Japanese relations ^^auron said:
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Final Fantasy 8 is the ultimate game, for me. Just because it was my first, and therefore my favorite. But the FMV... so cool! The ballroom dancing scene was so freaking smooth, it felt so... natural. The intro was really cool.
I seem to have forgotton everything after the first disc. I better go borrow my friends PS and play again (my power cord broke, wah!).
Music is always cool.
I seem to have forgotton everything after the first disc. I better go borrow my friends PS and play again (my power cord broke, wah!).
Music is always cool.
