On November 14 2009 19:14 Garnet wrote: I don't how anyone can dislike this game. I played it when I didn't even know a single english word and still finished it thanks to my brother's walkthrough. But my favourite is still FFIX (reason for my username), took me 4 fucking years to complete without a walkthrough till disc 4 when I first knew about the internet's existence. I'm gonna play FF7, 8 and 9 again when I upgrade my onboard video card to a 4670.
I dislike FF8 because it's a freaking awful game.
No really FF8 and FFX-2 are the only two FF's I ever had a real problem with. FF8's characters grated me the wrong way, the general game play was a step down compared to FF7, and so on and so on. I always felt FF8 was too.. generic? Yea generic is the word i'd use.
I don't consider FF7 the holy grail that other people claim it to be but FF7 had a better story, better magic system, better everything but graphics and that's just because it came out before FF8 did. Aerith actually dying is pretty much a pinnacle part of why FF7 has such a good story line.
FF8's decent story wasn't enough for me to ignore the horrible gameplay. It usually is for people that loved it though.
I dunno I still honestly don't mind the junction system and magic system haha. ;\ I think I'm insanely biased though. I guess for me it's like, since I love everything else about the game SO much, I actually enjoy having a system that's so easy to exploit like the junction system is to make the game easier so I can spend more time enjoying the music/story/setting etc. ;P
Going to troll this thread and say: Shin Megami Tensei series > Final Fantasy series.
In all seriousness though, I have very odd opinions when it comes to JRPGs. IMO FF4/5/6 > FF7 > FF9 > FF8. FF4/5/6 generally feel more revolutionary as they actually work out the fundamentals of how ATB-based combat works in general. Future games feel like they just have gimmicky permutations of that, and make you wonder what was wrong with simple class-based advancement that they had to change it. 7, while good, is generally overrated IMO. It has a solid plot, but the characters generally feel like they fit too closely to their respective archetypes--variation from norms creates more interesting character development IMO. FF9 gets my thumbs up over FF8 for that--the feel of FF9 just generally feels more unique, and the characters more interesting. Oh, and level-scaling. Level-scaling pissed me off in FF8.
Oh, and Final Fantasy Tactics is hands down the best Final Fantasy game.
I was able to get into all the FF games. FF9 I had the most trouble getting into, though. The last one on PS2 was a little rough at times as well. I really did like 8 still. Any game with a good story I can easily get into. Still, It goes 7, 3(the SNES version for the US), then 8 or 10. Everyone ragged on 10 a lot too, but I thought it had a solid story behind it despite all of Tidus' whining.
I always found the FF games to be too long. I only finished FF4 and FF6, started FF7, 8, 9 and 10, and never finished those lol. I think if I were to pick one and finish it, it would be FF9. I'm just a sucker for the child-like cheerful theme and the theater introduction was pretty fun to play. Zidane was just more likable right from the start too.
On November 14 2009 21:45 Magic84 wrote: Playstation 1 era was the golden age of jrpg. FF7,8,9 were all incredible games.
It's all about atmosphere and soul, and these games have plenty of that especially 8. I don't remember much about the plot, but definitely remember how it felt to play the game.
Nah, SNES was the Golden Age of JRPGs.
FF4, FF5, FF6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3 (secret of mana 2), Secret of Evermore, Super Mario RPG, and probably more I've forgetting.
Anyway, FF4 will always be my favorite, because it more or less invented the modern JRPG, since it actually had defined characters, and a flowing coherent storyline. FF6 was excelent too, it basically took everything from previous RPGs, and made them better, more or less. Chrono Trigger had probably the best battle system of any RPG ever released, and the story and characters were very enjoyable.
Not much love for FF6, it's my favorite! Suikoden series are excellent too. I hated FF8 at first but I got used to it, it's really cool in theory but the overall gameplay just seems to lack a little bit(junctioning.)
I wanted to finish the game but somehow my fourth disc is lost? Humbug.
On November 15 2009 09:33 tonight wrote: FF tactics isn't even a true FF game, so if you're saying that then you don't really like the FF series.
How does that logic even work?
I like A better than B, therefore I dislike B?
Because Tactics isn't in the true essence of the FF series that's why it was placed with the "tactics" tag. If you like the one odd-ball game out of the series of the games that all follow the turn based-RPG style then what I say is true.
Ultimecia/time compression thing with Rinoa possibly being Ultimecia from the future. If you haven't read about that, go look for it and read about it, it's pretty awesome :D
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