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June 30, 2011 at 3:16 pm #36173Jiang WeiParticipantwhat does that have to do with final fantasy?
June 30, 2011 at 4:05 pm #36174DragonAtmaModeratorIt doesn't; that's a spambot that LYS was too slow to catch before SOMEONE replied.
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December 1, 2011 at 2:34 am #36176ludmeisterParticipantWell… I guess I'm necro-bumping this topic… but I couldn't resist. Flame away, I can take it :huohu:
Final Fantasy 1 is my pick. Loved the NES version, then I found the cart for GBA and was amazed at the facelift… and bothered by the lack of difficulty. So I fixed that.
Here's my (extremely) subjective hierarchy of Final Fantasy greatness. Only the ones I've played are rated:
1. The original- Pacing, replayability, open-ended exploration. Awesome.
2. V- An excellent engine for character customization. Could have allowed for more command picks.
3. IX- Steiner is gold for comic relief. Cartoonish story was most welcome after the last three titles.
4. VI- Memorable characters and good story. The World of Balance is quite linear and story-driven, while in the World of Ruin you have a very open-ended quest of exploration, and you don't have to do half of what is open to you if you don't want to. I felt the Esper system left the game a bit weak on character development and challenge, because you could make every character very vanilla if everyone learned everything. And if you wanted to increase their stats at level up via Espers, that wasn't easy to avoid.
5. IV- Best story of all Final Fantasies I've played. The DS version is gangsta, both in cool factor and in its ability to pretty much one-shot your party into oblivion.
6. III- I love the concept of III's job system, but you aren't rewarded for sticking with a character concept, and that's not cool in my book.
7. VII- Materia are a character's bread and butter. Weapon/armor system was too simplistic for my tastes. Summons blew me away back when I first got the game, just for the pure eye-candy factor. It's an okay story, I guess… if you like being depressed. :?
8. II- Again, character development system was good in concept, but exploitable. GBA version fixed the exploit, but weapons level much too fast, and magic levels far too slow. Am planning to mod this as soon as I revisit Final Fantasy 1/2- Dawn of Souls.
9. VIII- Couldn't stand this game, and is the only one of the first nine that I did not finish. Seriously, I think the only thing I like about this game are five of the songs… "Man with a machine gun" rocks. I did not like the Guardian Force system, for personal reasons and for its tediousness. Not too mention the levelling creatures, so when you hit level 30 after all of your magic drawing, all of sudden you get the crap kicked out of you. Repeatedly. And you only have a couple of Fira spells to fire off. Yes, I did suffer through the first two disks and half of the third. But I just couldn't finish it.
When all else fails... manipulate the source code.
December 1, 2011 at 3:02 am #36177ludmeisterParticipantQuote:So you didn't play FFII NES? That has to be the worst. Really really weird growth system that encourages you to hit your own characters so that they gain max HP.Don't forget vitality. Or Dodging multiplier, to a lesser extent :-)
Hmmhmmhmm. That's true. And Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSX also encouraged this. You could grind yourself to level 99 without going further than the first couple of story battles if you really wanted to.
Um. Not that I ever did that. Ever. On the console.
Oh God I had no life back then :crybaby:
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December 1, 2011 at 3:06 am #36178MiDKnighTModeratorIV and V were my favorites. I didn't like the whole modern turn that they took in VI and VII.
December 1, 2011 at 3:42 am #36179ludmeisterParticipantQuote:IV and V were my favorites. I didn't like the whole modern turn that they took in VI and VII.I didn't either, but I thought that VI wove it into the story well, and in my mind the medieval flare is still there. Given the series' penchant for pushing the envelope (which is what Final Fantasy was founded on, after all), I gave VI a pass on the futuristic point. Then I thought the series got stuck in a rut with the futuristic stuff. VII was downhill, and VIII just bombed.
Wait. VII started with a bomb… now I'm confused. :bom:
And while I'm at it tonite, I'll throw another pet-peeve of mine out there for discussion/flamewars (well… hopefully not flamewars). Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs. Which seems to be where Final Fantasy and even the Wizardry series are going these days. When I play a video game, I play to escape for a while. I don't want to interact with people. If I wanted to do that, I'd go interact with people.
Like I'm doing now. :P
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December 1, 2011 at 10:49 am #36180unfyModeratorHm.
The original, hands down. Preferably the older versions as well…. not these new ones where ya get more xp/gold and things cost less and you have MP instead of spell slots.
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2 was a tad too strange for me
3 on the NES I didn't mind.
4 i liked although it's very much a casual game… at least in the US version (ff2us/easy mode).
6 … i lost interest in by the time i got to the WoR. WoR was a great concept and I was intrigued, but the game had lost me by the time it rolled around.
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7 …. is when i quit playing the series. the soap box political / ethical / moral b.s. at the start…. and non-interesting inventory / equipment stuff…. well… i played through disc 1… it took about a week of playing to do so and the length and constant stuff thrown at ya overshadowed the lacking aspects of the game, so i was content with the game. disc 2 took all of a day ? started to finish 'disc 2 100%' after realizing how short it was… and…. got annoyed at all of it and just put it away. never got much more than a few screens into disc 3 and haven't played it since heh.
other / newer ff's — seen people stream them… definitely not for me.
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