battles in ff1 are so slowwwww
― That Dunkster! (absolutely clean glasses), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Missed!
― That Dunkster! (absolutely clean glasses), Sunday, 1 May 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
would've voted for X-2
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 1 May 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
highly recommend staring @ this
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkicqxXP591qb01n4o1_500.gif
while listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONdHEDeWifs&feature=related
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 1 May 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i read the mention of an 18,000 word tim rogers article on ffxiii and thought 'i wonder if i want to invest the amount of time it will take to actually read that'. and then two posts later it turned out i had already wasted that 45 minutes of my life and had forgotten it and now have nothing to show for the process.
xpost ade otoh that was a very well spent six minutes
― thomp, Sunday, 1 May 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
haha im currently playing through ffIII ON iPHONE its p good actually
p terrible that V didnt get any votes shits p tite imo
― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I am playing VII again. It's barely a game but the story is great.
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i finally got around to beating ff7 a year or two ago. i thought being older would make it easier to understand but it was still confusing as shit.
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
XIII wtf is wrong with you
― jay lenonononono (abanana), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
vii might be my least favorite if only because i was such a vi fanboy & cld never really get any ~distance~ from it. ix was the psx iteration i like the best partly because of the reintroduction of character classes
― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
think i'd say ix now, but i am very milquetoast after all
― So seveir, no more beir (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
now that i think abt tho theres no way vi is worse than viii - thats probably my least favorite
― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
FF9 never really did much for me! FF7 is way better imo. I never played FF8, but I feel like they should have gone further in the FF6/FF7 steampunk dystopian direction.
― TheDunkster (absolutely clean glasses), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc FF9 starts out great but after you pull off the opening heist or w/e it really loses steam imo - that was the game that made me go "i guess i've outgrown JRPGs"
FF8 has a lot going for it
i agree w/what lamp said in the challops thread re: finding something to like about every FF game (that i've played) though i dont love any of them unreservedly either
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
haha ive been thinking that starting w/ viii in particular they began to lose the ability to match depth of gameplay with the scope & ambition of the game's story & the games become plodding & uneven. part of it too seems to be a desire to do something superficially new w/o really confronting the core problem - battles are mostly boring & the most foolproof strategy for beating the games end up making them uninteresting.
i mean theres a lot of things i like abt the more 'modern' final fantasys - xi in particular is pretty fun - & tbh id probably have to replay them to have real 'opinions' abt them but i think the series really manifests a disconnect btw intent & execution around viii that theyve never recovered from...
― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
part of it too seems to be a desire to do something superficially new w/o really confronting the core problem - battles are mostly boring & the most foolproof strategy for beating the games end up making them uninteresting.
otm
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
though i think scope & ambition wrt the story ceased to be important somewhere around ix too - an incredibly lazily written game
viii was mega interesting to me at the time b/c of how it encouraged lateral thinking when it came to the battle system. this otm iow:
I voted for VIII because of the tricks it played on VI/VII players. Levels? Useless. Magic? Useless. Gil? You'll never use it. Equipment? No equipment; equip your magic instead. The big military corporation? Good guys!
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― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i always seemed to find X and X-2 way more enchanting than most other fans
with X i think it was a combination of a few things wrt the combat that really clicked with me (true turn-based + extremely rapid battles = perfect 2 me) plus having cut scenes with actual voice acting makes a story-based game way more immersive imo, plus having non-static environments - it all just felt refreshing at the time
X-2 also felt refreshing just by dint of not taking itself very seriously plus i thought it was cool that it was female-centric instead of being another brofest - i think i remember tombot dismissing it as fanfiction at the time but 2 me that feeling of being unafraid to be trivial struck me as somehow brave in the context of the genre
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and X-2 had the best combat system
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i recall the junction system being laboured & limiting but that cld be my own bias talking. also i havent played that game since i was ~15
i mean i liked the non-intuitive xp system in ii, which is cleverly cruel but its really simple - you get better & the things you do consistently & lose capability w/ the skills you dont so you always have to make real choices abt what your characters are doing - whereas all viii did was make stat maxing more complicated
i liked x-2 on release but im such a sucker for class changes & the sandbox-y nature of it was a fun departure. but i think its kinda ugly or least really dated looking now
― -( ☃)*( ☃)- (Lamp), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i generally have low standards when it comes to graphics, and i haven't played it since it came out, but i bet i'd still find it easier on the eyes than FF7
whereas all viii did was make stat maxing more complicated
yeah i'd say this is otm
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
FF5 is my fav in terms of overall gameplay. Love the class system!
― TheDunkster (absolutely clean glasses), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
materia still the best magic system ever. just such a constant pleasure to level up in vii, kinda gives me a glimpse into that super otaku world of dudes who kill time dungeon grinding in like Megami Tensai or whatever
― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like this really does deserve consideration as the best final fantasy
the real qn tho is should i continue playing them in order or skip to 6 and 7 and go on to 8
― Lamp, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh my predominant memory of ff5 is grinding the basement of galuf's castle w/lv5 death to get mad AP. which is a tedious memory
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
though its still a p good game!
― Ayatollah Colm Meaney (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i say play it
in order
yeah ive played through every ff game this year in order although i raced through iv on a rom version cuz i dont really like it very much & didnt really fuck w/ any sidequests or even trying to level. but ive spent crazy hours on vi and vii already so im tempted to
v has a lot of grinding but i think it generally 'interesting' grinding. i mean it even gives you time mage spells to facilitate grinding! also i think part of the challenge of the game is finding ways of quickly accruing ap (esp in hard-to-grind jobs like bard), which is kinda neat to me. but i think the best part is that there are multiple objectives that you can work on simultaneously while grinding a handful of which have real in-game value.
― Lamp, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
hey are any of those fuckin dissidia games worth the trouble?
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried a 4-class run of FFV last year and i had to quit around 2/3rds of the way through. god it was boring.
― little mushroom person (abanana), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think trying a single class challenge run p severely mistakes what makes this game good
― ize cræm (Lamp), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
how are people playing FFV, is there an alternative to the GBA version?
― zappi, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
roms
also PSN/Wii VC releases are coming soon (i own the lousy ps1 anthology, too)
― little mushroom person (abanana), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the ps1 version is truly horrible
im playing the gba version on an emulator because i want to try the bonus dungeon/classes
― Lamp, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
one of the things that i think i liked best about ffv is that it very rarely interrupted my attempts to more efficiently make #s go up w/ bullshit story stuff. getting kinda annoyed w/ ffvi and all its stupid plot twists
― # (Lamp), Monday, 11 July 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/07/final-fantasy-is-dead/
― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
surprised that IX didn't get any votes. if/when i replay a final fantasy game, it's probably going to be my first choice.
― Z S, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
i stopped with 8, but i'll probably finally play X when the HD remaster comes out in a couple months
― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
you shouldn't skip IX! it didn't break new ground, but it wasn't trying to, either. iirc they were pretty transparent about their intentions to make it a amalgamation of the most beloved qualities of the previous entries in the series. it wasn't perfect by any means, but it plays like comfort food.
― Z S, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
haven't played any of these since IX but X-2 looked so goofy that I was pretty tempted
― original bgm, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard it's fun it you just accept that it's super light and goofy (unlike most FFs)
re: IX, it's REALLY hard to go back to 3D PS1-era games
― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
X-2 intro movie is either the worst thing ever and/or pure genius. The game is decent (if stupid) as long as you don't go for 100%.
― wombspace (abanana), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
the combat in IX is slow as a glacier. X-2 has best battle system of any FF game
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah ix feels like it doesn't really have a game attached to it
― i better not get any (thomp), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
Its cool that you can play up to FF6 on your phone now
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/10/square-enix-has-formed-a-final-fantasy-committee-to-ensure-series-quality/
I read this as an attempt at deposing Nomura.
― zanana rebozo (abanana), Saturday, 19 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
I've played/replayed a couple of these in the past 5 years and I am sure my ordering is not even close to what it was then
Nhex OTM when he said I put IV too low, that one holds up.
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Monday, 21 October 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
big whale bros
― Nhex, Monday, 21 October 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
The Lightning Returns ending has leaked, and it's ridiculous.
Spoilers, in case anyone cares about the Lightning Saga......Lightning creates our Earth, moves to France.
― zanana rebozo (abanana), Saturday, 23 November 2013 02:35 (ten years ago) link