What is your favourite Final Fantasy game(s), or other game(s) similar to the series?
Nice detailed review, gave you a TU. As for favorite I think mine's 10 thus far. There are a lot I still haven't played but that was the first I've gone out of my way to complete multiple times :)
Also I loved Chrono Cross too, I know I'm in the minority but I actually enjoyed seeking out and recruiting all the characters and getting them into one save file
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Yeah, I need to try 10. It looks very chrono-crossy but maybe that's just the sun-coloured beach look it has? I don't know. I also know that Tidus' laugh is a complete joke and, according to the voice actor, was intentional.
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Yeah, the laughing scene is a bit cringe-worthy but in the story it seemed like he was trying to lighten the mood by being a dork, so it works. Plus the rest is good (imo)
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I don't think 10 is like Chrono-cross at all, although I see what you mean about the color palette.
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Final Fantasy VI has to be my all time favorite. IX was the last one in the series I truly enjoyed, but my copy for Play Station went missing years ago... Thinking it got lifted by someone I either lived with, or that helped me move.
Edit: IV, VI, VII, IX and Tactics are the greatest hits imo.
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I still need to try Tactics. Is it very grindy?
Also, that sucks you lost your copy. I had lots of my PS1/2 stuff sold a while back because we never really used it at all. This, unfortunately, includes Burnout 3.
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I really enjoyed it, had a great story, great characters, and I enjoyed the class systems and combat. The game can require some grind, but it will mostly come down to how you improve your characters. You start off with like 2 classes I think, but as a character levels in them, new ones are unlocked, and it just continues unlocking more all depending on what you do, so if you manage your characters good, you'll almost never have to do a fight that's not part of the story. However, like I said, I enjoyed the battles in the game, so I did lots of extra leveling just to make some badass characters. Honestly, I wish they'd make another one, I know they made the GBA ones, but I couldn't get into those, just didn't have the same feeling to them.
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Is it very grindy?
Just use the old man Orlandeau with his Holy Explosion and you'll decimate the majority of your opponents lol.
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Fun fact: IX was the first Final Fantasy I finished back on my PS One and I was so madly in love with this game <3
If I have to pick a fouvourite one... it would be XII. Finished it multiple times, love the combat system, the world, the story, the bosses and, of course, the characters.
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Aye, Fran the Viera ^^ The fact that the viera aren't the most friendly creatures makes me like her even more :3
and I'm female, so it's not just her looks
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No, I just like the way she looks overall, not specifically her "looks". It's actually the only character I know from the game for certain because of how she looks. It's neat-o.
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For me, my absolute favorite game was Final Fantasy 6 (Final Fantasy 3 US) on the SNES. After that, my would say my other favorites would have to be Final Fantasy 7, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and Star Ocean 2 on the PSX.
Yes, I am old. I played them when they first came out and I still love them. The PS2 Star Ocean game was also pretty good, haven't had a chance to play many past Final Fantasy 12 though. Stopped collecting the old consoles now, prefer PC where I never have to worry about the system or controllers dying and locking me out of the games as they get harder to find.
If you don't mind the old 2D graphics, I would recommend you try them. With the SNES games, go with the emulators if you can, the ports onto PC suck from what I have seen.
Edit: Also oh so wish they had a Disk to digital program to add this stuff to my steam account like they did with Borderlands, I still have all the old discs for 7,8,9,10, and 12.
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Secret of Mana and Star Ocean series are games I need to try but they look very... aged. I did watch Vinesauce play Secret of Mana and that was fun but it just seems like a game that would be hard to get into. Funny enough though, I played Chrono Trigger super easily. Such an easy game to get into.
I tend to use controllers for certain games, so yeah, I get that feel. It's wireless, so I have to constantly replace the batteries. Such a money drain in the long-run.
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Secret of Mana will probably feel aged with the overall playstyle but still is fun, but I say this as a person who actually bought it when it first came out new.
As for the Star Ocean series, they are still making new sequels for it. Star Ocean for the SNES you can get as a translated SNES ROM if you want but never officially came out in english, never really got much into that one. Star Ocean 2 on the PSX on the other hand is very fun if you can get past the aged 2.5D graphics with the 2D sprites with the 3D background but is more open ended than many modern games on all the little stuff they have in it where you have more characters you can recruit than you can get and getting one means you might miss out on another one and the ending is decided not only by which people you have but actually how they feel about each other at the end which depends on how often you fight with them together making them like each other more and some skills you can do will actually make the other members like them less like if you use the black market skill trying to forge stuff. Then you have the spells and skills that get stronger the more you use them and if 2 members cast a spell at the same time it may combine into a stronger spell and if you have a member on your team die in combat, if another person in the party liked them alot, they might go into a type of rage where they hit extra hard when they die. The PS2 Star Ocean was also pretty good, but nowhere near as open ended. Past that, haven't played the newer ones.
I have 2 Xbox1 controllers for my PC with really long USB cords for if I ever want to play with them and for my nieces and nephews to play their games, typically for them it is Dragonball Xenoverse or Naruto.
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Hah, wow. That Star Ocean game sounds amazing. I've heard the series is really good but never got the chance to play it. Hopefully in the next few years games will start getting ported? The Disgaea and FF series ports were very good after all. No reason not to do it, especially after they initially said they couldn't do it.
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From what I have read, the newest Star Ocean game they came out with is programmed to be easy to port to PC, so here is hoping to that.
No clue about the Disgaea ports but so far, the only ports I have actually tried first hand for PC was Final Fantasy 7 (tried it over a decade ago so no clue if they improved it since) which honestly felt like crap and was better off just loading up an emulator and putting my disc in the drive and from what I have read of the old FF2-6 ports most of them are just crappy direct ports of the Iphone ports of the game.
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Yeah, the older FF ports look like chibi-fan games. I can understand why they'd be off-putting.
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One thing of advice, if you ever want to play the old SNES games, easier to just start up the emulator and play it like that, I have the SNES Cartridges and the PSX Final Fantasy Anthology and I have seen the PC releases. The SNES honestly feels superior unless you want to watch videos.
The original NES games though, you are better off with the ports from the changes they made to it.
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Star Ocean: The Second Story was an amazing RPG for sure. Would be sweet if it got a pc port, would love to play it again.
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Pretty sure Borderlands only allowed for the transfer of PC copies anyway in which case you'd have only been able to transfer VIII as IX onwards didn't have previous PC releases. Not that they'd have given you the option anyway as we didn't even get it for digital releases of VII when they switched distribution from their own store to Steam.
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'Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 7, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and Star Ocean 2' such an amazing list of games <3
Squeenix has really lost the magic over the years. (basically since Squaresoft merged with Enix to make Squeenix)
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Crisis Core was the only one I've played and it's the best one, hate to even look at the other ones.
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Huh, never knew that was a game. That's interesting.
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How could you have not known it? IIt's one of the best PSP titles to exist, it's a fantastic and emotional prequel to the first VII final fantasy, starring a much better protagonist, I love this gem and I cringe when I look at other FF games, ugh...But yeah, I love it, sweet graphics, world, story and character proggresion, beautifull fantastic cutscenes, touchy moments, unique and fun gameplay( gets less fun when you get far in side missions and fight enemies who can one shot you), sweet voice acting, cameos, lore telling, backstories, quirky characters, powerfully ending that sets up a movie and the start of the original FF, materia crafting and strategies, great music, you've absolutely have to play this FF at some point, cannot recommend this gem more, a worthy game among other PSP must play titles. I guess you would have to use the best available PSP emulator for it and other games if interested, which I hope you are.
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As long as it's a good RPG, I'm game. I still need to play FF7, so I can maybe play them both one after the other.
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Just googled it, can't wait to experience another great song, I assume? Now you're just getting me worked up. The JRPG music never ceases to amaze.
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Gameclip version may contain minor spoilers. Watch this one to have a taste of FFX music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJVvyN3D04
And you should check the lyrics when you hear it in game (when you progress the story up that point)
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FFIX is the best, i dont have steam copy, was playing that on PS years ago,
& FF Tactic is good too, FF tactic similar with Disgaea. It's on my list 😀
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Both tactics and Disgaea are on my "too lazy to try and play it" list. :P
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Disgaea was a game I put off playing for many, many years because I wasn't sure if I'd be into it. I didn't enjoy FFT, and people always say Disgaea is so similar to FFT. When the steam port came out at the start of last year, a friend gifted to me and I forced myself to play it a little bit.
What I'm trying to say here is that you should try Disgaea.
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Tactics was my favorite FF, I would urge you to redouble your motivation to try it.
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Never played FF... but now that you mention it, and said you have enjoyed it, I'm interested in checking it out. Much thanks for the GA!
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Well, word of warning : It IS very grindy. Not as grindy as other games from what I gather but it's still pretty grindy. Especially the minigame(chocobo minigame). Lots of button pressing.
It's why I used the fast forward feature, personally.
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Most of the A/RPG games I've played are very grindy. If it's heavy on character customization, I'm even more entranced. ;)
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Well, character customisation as in constantly swapping out equipment to learn abilities from them, that's about it. Your weapons do change appearances when you use a new weapon, though. :P
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Button mashing. Grindy. Limited character customization. Yup - I'm sold!
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IX and X are vastly different.. though I guess XII is vastly MORE, I'd say. I probably enjoyed IX a lot more, but haven't replayed in on Steam much yet. Wait till XII is out again so you can enjoy your own single player MMO.
edit: IX and X probably aren't hugely different, but between RPG games it's mostly cast, story and setting and I don't want to write up reasons why... since I'm awful at that.
If you play Secret of Mana and can get into it, you can try Secret of Evermore too.
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FF IX is no doubt my best FF game I've ever played
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Final Fantasy Tactics for me.
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i really miss this one.. SQUARE ENIX release the Android version for this one.. should be for steam :(
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Most annoying part of that game was getting Cloud near the end of the game to have him start a level 1 and you had to find his weapon. That and leveling up 5-10 levels in a single fight only to have all the monsters level up 5-10 levels in the very next fight.
Of course that was were the "Tactics" part came in where you couldn't out level the content.
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So, no grinding in Tactics, then? I thought you could grind if you had trouble?
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No, I have Tactics on my PSX collection, the enemies level up too. They can even level up during the fights with you at times. But if you power level your characters during a fight and get them up 10-15 levels or so in that single fight. The very next fight, all the enemies are now 10-15 levels higher too.
Edit: Off to bed, AFK.
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Dang, the one thing that put me off of the game was the supposed difficulty. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy difficulty, but sometimes it's a bit much in some games. I guess I'll probably still try it out.
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The random battles are scaled to your level. The story battles aren't if i remember right. And I don't whether I'd recommend the PS1 or PSP version. PSP looks a bit nicer and some exploits have been removed. PS1 has an exploit that allows you to learn all the skill for a class immediately if it has more than one page of skills. Cuts down on grinding a lot.
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Ah, okay. That makes sense. So it's more about building your characters in skill than levels?
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FFV and the Tactics games use the job system. A character starts off as one of the base classes and when they hit or kill an enemy (depending on the game) they gain both EXP and JP (job points). So they have two levels I guess you can say, one for them, and one for their class. In order to make a character a black mage for example you'd need two levels in chemist. Same with white mage. To change that character to a summoner you need three levels in time mage, which itself needs three levels of black mage. In Tactics (the first one) you use JP to learn skills for your classes. And there's an exploit in the PS1 version to get max JP for a class as long as you can learn one skill and the class has multiple pages (a scroll bar on the side). It's been a while so I forget when exactly, but there's a battle that if your Ramza doesn't have the right skills you can't beat it. So keep multiple saves.
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you should try mario RPG on snes. The game was produced by squaresoft and it is excellent.
And maybe the Suikoden serie(psx and ps2), this is the game that inspired the Chrono cross gameplay.
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Suikoden is a must-play for me. Many years ago, I came across the "Carried On Rippling Waves" song from "Genso Suikoden II". I've had it in my head ever since.
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I wish I could get Suikoden on PC I still have it for my Playstation, it was a fantastic game and still play it from time to time.
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Objectively speaking, I think FFIX was the best due to a history and characters (Vivi basically) that were impressive, the art is unique and the OST is really good. Even then my favorite FF would be FFVIII for a number of reasons because even if it is the "worst" from its time it was the fire RPG that I played and it did had some unique mechanics, it was the first game I played in Spanish (my native language) so as a child I could understand the most of it and the history was good and kept you hooked on the TV.
PD: Even if my Nick says Squall my favorite FF characters are Vivi, Laguna and Red XIII.
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Vivi is definitely one of my favourites. Other than that, I loved Garnet's character and I had a slight attachment to Zidane's stereotypical personality.
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Oh yes, Chrono Cross is among my favorites as well. What a soundtrack. :)
Haven't played 9 yet, but my friend swears by it.
It's sitting in my backlog too, along with 7, 8, X/X-2, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns @_@
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Star Stealing Girl and the Credits(which I think are two different songs? I always forget for some reason, but they sound similar IIRC) are my favourites personally.
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credits? must be unstolen jewel
did you tryed chrono trigger ?
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Tried it a few years before Cross. Honestly, I like Cross a lot more. Trigger is simpler in gameplay and the story is still pretty good but it's actually a pretty short game. Every playthrough past the first I always felt like there was stuff lacking from the game.
Trigger is still one of the best games I've played, though.
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Bump, one of my favorite games, but not my favorite final fantasy
I'm classic with FF7
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how about the legend of mana series , i love that one its been through many games and a few different platforms i think there all available online for emulation since i dont believe they made it to pc .
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Actually, FF9 passed almost unnoticed for me. I've been all over FF7 and FF8, but moved from console games since then. Maybe it's time to fix this issue.
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I can guarantee if you can get past most of the grinding, it's worth it. The ending itself was enough for me with what I was put through.
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It passed by a lot of people. Most of its fame came in the past years, as people rediscovered it.
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Both Chrono Cross and ff 9 have common goat ost :')
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Usually the favourite is the first Final Fantasy one ever played. This is why VII is the most popular answer, although X is catching up; both were overly marketed in their own time, so a lot of new people jumped ship with them.
I am a bit of an odd man out; I started with FFVIII but my favourite is FFVI, followed by FFXIII.
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I actually never played FF IX.
I totally fell in love with FF X because of its Blitzball minigame and soundtrack.
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Never played FF but I'd give it a shot. Thanks for the chance!
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So, I recently binge-played FF9. It was my first, and only, Final Fantasy I've ever played. I'm being honest here when I say it is quite honestly THE best game I've ever played with Chrono Cross at a VERY close second. So, here you go. Hopefully someone else can experience this god damn amazing.
My review is below. If you don't mind rating it and giving feedback, I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to write more reviews, especially on games I'm passionate about.
Review : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198037427689/recommended/377840/
Also, hello. I've been away for a while. Again. What's up? Will probably bump this thread every so often, for the giveaway. Please discuss the topic of the poll. I'm interested, but don't turn this into a FF-politics threads, heh.
Giveaway : https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/1v5Bd/final-fantasy-ix
Edit : Bumping for the last week + 2 days of the giveaway. Cheers!
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