Best Final Fantasy poll !!

I'm at the very end of the game now, just got the airship back, and I am going to take my sweet time before killing Sin to do a bunch of sidequests. Monster Arena seems like good kleptomania fun. But i haven't played a single game of blitzball and I don't intend on doing so. It looks like I'll only be missing out on upgrades for Wakka, who is one of my least favorite characters anyways, so whatever...

Some short reviews of the FF games I've played so far:

Final Fantasy I - Great game! It's kind of amazing how much of FF is all laid out in this first game. Fighting is super slow though. Wwhen u fight 6 bad guys and they all attack and you have to wait for each one to hit, you may fall asleep before it's your turn.
Final Fantasy IV - My introduction to the series. Wonderful gameplay, pretty streamlined story, music and graphics are great.
Final Fantasy VI - Easily the most epic game, with the best stories, the best character selections, and the best open world. You could probably play this over and over and over and have a different experience each time.
Final Fantasy VII - The first half of the game is like the newer FF's, all linear and plot-based, yet the open-world second half is a nice continuation of FFVI. The shift to 3D results in the best summons EVER (seriously this is one of the main things that makes me want to replay it), and I also think this game maybe has the best enemies ever, just such a huge variety of random encounter models. After this one I think they dropped the ball on the enemies and this is the peak. Story is kind of meh and confusing but the sense of humor and off the wall goofiness (Chocobo races, the Gold Saucer, snowboarding mini game) paradoxically bring things down to Earth.
Final Fantasy VIII - Eh.....the combat is dreadful, and the enemies are so scant. Feels like 1/5 the amount of unique bad guys that were in VII. Fighting fucking caterpillars for 40 hours. Also by the time it gets to the end game it's clear they just kind of gave up w making new environments (except for the sweet final castle). Main character sucks, but the music is nice, and the lame story does have some incredibly cool setpieces (fighting zombie president on a train). Triple Triad is probably more fun than the rest of the game, at least until you get drowned in a pile of confusing rules. It's worth owning this game solely to bring up Triple Triad and just leave the music playing while you clean your room.
Final Fantasy IX - Haven't played more than an hour or two but the art direction turns me off. I do think I'll get into it in earnest some day but I want to find a nice mod that speeds up combat when I do.
Final Fantasy X - Combat of the Gods. Storyline is pretty great too (Yuna's character, despite being kidnapped every other scene, has a really interesting arc to it). If they ever do an HD remake of FFVII they need to use this combat system so you can just switch out Tifa and Vincent et al in the middle of battle.

I decided to try winning one of the butterfly catches during lunch, just ended in complete and total frustration. You have tenths of a second to spare in this, it's so ridiculous. Why couldn't we have a full minute to do this in? Anyways after a dozen tries I started using save states and even then it was nearly impossible. After a bunch of tries I finally caught the last butterfly and a treasure chest appeared and.... dropped... off the map.... Eff this I don't have time for this. Eff the celestial weapons, eff the Omega Ruins, I'm just going to beat the game and move on to something sane.

My favourite Final Fantasy game is Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Ok I figured I'd give FFX another shot wrt to post-game bonus stuff, did some grinding in Omega Ruins, then decided to go get the remaining Aeons. I had to go into 2 temples and find the destruction spheres, which was easy to do in Zanarkand but I couldn't go into Macalania because Dark Shiva was waiting for me and INSTANT DEATH. So I decide to track down Yojimbo first and his BFG attack is instant death to even a dark aeon. So Dark Shiva gets whiped out, I get that last destruction sphere, go to Baaj and collect Anima for my troubles. One of my main goals at this point is to take out One Eye so that I can get Triple AP weapons, yet I can't really take on any Monster Arena bosses without dying. That is, until I get Yojimbo and Anima. So I finally start getting these Triple AP weapons and I captured a Don Tonberry earlier so I have been doing the AP farming trick to level everyone up ridiculous amounts.

So yay life is good.

so is anyone going to get type-0 HD? wasn't thinking about it but annual bonus is making me have dumb ideas~

i feel like i'm going to google what that is and end up spending half an hour on wikipedia following all the links i need to understand and then despise myself

someone make a best final fantasy trilogy poll i am curious how that would pan out

-- NES ones
-- SNES ones
-- PSX ones
-- Tactics / Tactics Advance / XII
-- X / X-II / ... something else
-- XIII / XIII-2 / Lightning Returns

tactics/tac advance/ and then not tactics advance 2?

also xii could get paired up with revenant wings haha did anyone else play that :/

actually i think maybe

tactics / vagrant story / XII

trying to split the non-trilogy games into trilogies kinda feels like a square peg problem... 1/2/3 and 4/5/6 and 7/8/9 works but after that... 10/10-2/12 maybe? and then fft/ffta/ffta2? then 13/13-2/13-3... and then i guess like xi/xiv/mystic quest

I started playing the first FF a little while back. It's inestimably comforting. At least partly because it bears such a strong resemblance to Sword of Vermillion (which I played a ton when I was younger and which is basically a carbon copy of FF1). I plan on slowly working my way through all of the ones that are available on PS3 & Vita.

Despite what my shitty username suggests I find FF6 overrated. FFVII is still the best game ever to my nostalgia-riddled mind. Awesome soundtrack too.

As an aside, the next FF needs to be bloody good after two sequels that no-one asked for to a game that no-one liked.

They really need to ditch the current mythos. I made it through XIII but XIII-2, even though the gameplay was 10 times more appealing, I did not care for that world. Same with Type-0. Here is hoping the "Fantasy based in reality" is actually a real thing and it doesn't start the game with a bunch of capitalized nouns that only reveal their meaning through reading some datalog or wiki entry.

For some reason I bought FF Type-0 HD (only in part for the XV demo, mostly jsut because I don't have a lot of PS4 games yet and it seemed like it might be kinda fun and I just got my bonus). Played some of it LATE last night when I was kinda falling asleep, I really don't think I get it yet. Then I played a few minutes of XV and I also really don't get it. I DON'T THINK THESE GAMES MAKE ANY SENSE ANYMORE. (will try both again when less sleepy tho).

XV looks incredible tho, I am legit jell of Ps4 owners for the first time.

Was playing XIII-2 for a while, and enjoying it, but after I beat Caius Ballad for the first time it opened up some new worlds and they were locked up. Now I have to backtrack and talk to everybody hoping the next story thing triggers. I tried looking it up in a walkthrough but the story is so incomprehensible I don't know where I am in it.

Tried playing IX again, and my PS1 is skipping every time I get to the same part, which is a cutscene in that first forest, after you save Garnet from a carnivorous plant. Is there any way around skipping cutscenes on a real system or am I effed?

tried looking it up in a walkthrough but the story is so incomprehensible I don't know where I am in it

man i just don't know how you manage to enjoy some of the stuff you enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kznek1uNVsg

Gonna be crazy.

I think enough time has passed now that doing a straight remake is out of the question, but there is a lot of stuff in FFVII I hope they don't throw out. For instance the crossdressing section that a lot of people think will need to be cut could be spun in a more modern way. It is front page material. As are a lot of themes in this game (terrorism, environmental catastrophes, the military-industrial complex, rising awareness of wealth inequality, etc.). Plus the game had cell phones .... in 1997!

i sure do like that game.

The scope of this will be insane though. Just imagine going around w the submarine and coming upon Emerald Weapon under the ocean.....in HD!

Hope they do something special for the Chocobo Races, they were the sublime psychedelic Yellow Submarine cartoons of the polygonal age.

i kinda don't think this game needs super sparkling graphics? it sure hasn't helped the later FFs. Everything looking like a michael bay film is a bug, not a feature.

agreed, i'm kinda excited about this because i haven't played FF7 since '03 (and that was a nostalgic 2nd playthrough after graduating college and before getting a job), but it might turn out that block hands were part of the magic.

weirdly i'm most excited for the submarine mini-game.

kupo

Everything looking like a michael bay film is a bug, not a feature.

^^ can't be stated enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-CSDeeVtI

Michael Bay this.

currently on the FF7 wiki :)

in 2015 E3 announced the REMAKE of FINAL FANTASY 7 is true, and on going until the release date sometime around 2017, and many fans are REJOICED, and HYPE like Crazy on many Social media. same did happened with SQUAREENIX Holdings, it was rising sharply as the announcement goes. TETSUYA NOMURA is the Director, and Yoshinori Kitase as the Producer. many fans think it will be PS4 Exclusive, but at the end of the trailer credits section, it is written -play it 1st on PLAYSTATION 4- this lead to many oppurtunity that it may come also to XBOXone and PC later years.

it is written

I have no idea why this game is like the cultural touchstone of gamers younger than me.

it's the first RPG for which I remember seeing a television commercial

Came out when I was 16, and I got it for PC. Didn't finish it til years later on emulator and it was really fun to play. There weren't many games around that had cool CD stuff, and it made really good use of all that storage space. I don't think they recycle a single enemy from one area to another. Music is incredible. Summon animations are still jaw-dropping if you've never seen them before.

Also upon replaying it I found a lot of the quirkier elements were actually really cool and ahead of their time and maybe things that I wouldn't see in USA-produced entertainment circa 1997. Thought provoking stuff about many deep issues from the politics of war and scarcity to environmental pollution, social/economic stratification, and philosophical/psychological ego explorations. You don't see much of that written into entertainment made for 16-year-olds and explored at any length.

I think for a lot of American kids that grew up w FFVII it opened some intellectual doors to concepts from a non-Western viewpoint that they would otherwise have missed. Having grown up in Reagan's America and the following Gulf War it was probably the first time I had encountered a popular media object that took a long look at environmental pollution and the costs of war and the profit motives of its cheerleaders.

Im just jealous there's no ff6 remake for next gen consoles

^^^absolutely. that's the one i really want to see.

me too, and it looks like FF director Nomura wants it as well

FFVII was also the big steal for Sony from Nintendo, and they were supremely dickish about it - I remember a TV ad claiming that the latest iteration of one of their Nintendo competitors (Dragon Quest?) would fit six times over into FFVII's opening cinematic.

http://finalsfantasy.com/

So I had intended to play through the series from the very beginning, but I have to ask: is there a point where these installments dispense with the super-fun feature of an insurmountably-insane difficulty spike late in the game that forces the player rage quit for the sake of his or her own sanity? I'm three deep and all three have wound up like this. Increasingly challenging, forcing you to develop particular skills and allocate particular resources, and then...blam, you're instadead. Oh look blam, you're instadead again. And again. And again. I just last night played through 30-45 minutes of FF 3 inside some floating tree castle thing sloughing off HP and items with no place to save my game but doin' okay because man this is a war for the soul of the earth (or whatever, I pay approximately zero attention to the stories in these things) but then I get to a boss at whom I throw literally everything I have to throw and he's like, yeah no bye. I may have flipped off my Vita. It's possible.

I generally find these old school turn-based RPGs very soothing, so the fact that I've ultimately found three early editions of this series very unsoothing does not bode well. Maybe I'll just jump on ahead to VII. I know that one soothed me out of a mess of college classes I should've attended instead of playing FFVII so it seems like a safe bet.

I think that gets better after III iirc? I don’t know why anybody would inflict the first two on themselves in this day and age tbh.

With those early ones you just have to do a lot of grinding before the last bit, which isn't fun exactly but nature of the beast. I only played the remake of III for the DS and iirc it wasn't too bad. But I'm playing IV for the first time, I'm near the end and it's not too bad but there are several bosses that pull sneaky bullshit like putting a death counter on the entire party and stuff like that which means I'm barely scraping through the whole time.

Oh and FFII doesn't help itself by have a teeeerrrible leveling system. I didn't enjoy that one too much.

Yeah, I read something about the leveling in 2 (I assume you mean the thing where you only level up by letting yourself get beat to shit?) so it wasn't that bad since I was prepared. I just counterintuitively ran around without armor a lot of the time.

Just downloaded 4 because I'm a masochist.

With IV (even the "hard" version) the games got much much easier. I've never made it through the NES titles.

IV has a difficulty spike when you get to a certain faraway locale.
V gets super boring in the second half. i guess that's a kind of difficulty? I tried replaying it a few years ago, and gave up during that endless forest fire segment.

I never beat it - got to the very end, found out I was a bit underleveled for the final dungeon and gave up. But someday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdwxq512u8A

this song is amazing. it's also named "Underneath the Rotting Pizza"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8o9gGOKEg4&index=14&list=PL77D98F68F6DBB35D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8o9gGOKEg4

Zoso's cousin theme

playing the steam demo of Final Fantasy XV. it is so great!