i’ll check out VI, as long as its not too long, i have so many games lined up and its hard to try to fit them all in. all of which are final fantasy lol. XII is too long for my taste, my friend bought it and played it for like 80 hours and i sat there and watched him play it the whole damn time. lol watching him try to beat Gilgamesh was amusing, i love how he had the Brotherhood, Buster Sword, and Gunblade. idk what the other sword was. i also dont have a PS2 so that kinda limits my selection a little, i’m gonna try to borrow my friend’s. btw should i play the origninal Tactics or should i wait and play The War of the Lions, since it’ll be the original with extras in it? i think i should play the original, cuz i got a lot of shit for not playing the actual IV and just the Advance version.
I don’t remember all of the swords he whipped out durring the fights, but I do remember that one of the swords he pulled out was a copy of the Wyrm Hero Sword, otherwise known as The Sword of Loto A.K.A. The Sword of Edrick from the early Dragon Quest games.
As for which FFT you want to get. It would mostly depend on whether or not you’re willing to shell out for a PSP. If you already have or plan to get a PSP then by all means get TWotL. If don’t have one and you are not planning on getting one just stick to the original and print out a better translation of the script to read along with.
Also some advice for your friend. Don’t forget to steal all of the Genji Equipment from Gilgamesh because he’s got the only set. (Also, don’t feel bad about missing some of the pieces. Just make sure you get the gloves as they are one of the best accessories in the game.)
30-40 hours. GBA Advance version was good; a direct port from the cart with a few extras and improved translation. You could also play the rom. The SNES cart (remember, it was called FF3 for SNES) is expensive. Don’t play the PSX anthology version, I don’t know what Sony was smoking when they released it but the load times are unbearable.
ya he managed to get the gloves, he was a happy camper.
that doesn’t seem too bad, my friend works at a Game Crazy so i could get a copy easy. plus he owns ever final fantasy on their original platforms, it’s awesome.
:fungah: Wow, I just finished reading every post in this thread. Hope it’s not effecting my judgement. Allot less FF7 obsessors then I would have thought. Also I’m going to forgo the roman numerals, mostly to annoy those who are super anal about it and secondly to do so as I don’t recall it being done much in this entire thread. Also with the release of Anthologies and Chronicles I’m going to count Chrono Trigger and by association its sequel Chrono Cross as FF games. Favorite to least favorite with longer explanations then you need.
Final Fantasy 6, The second in the series that I played. Wonderful characters, good story ( I was surprised when the world ended, but the game did not), the most psychopathic villain in the series. My second favorite summon system. Three different styles of blue mage a moogle and a yeti.
Chrono Trigger, New Game +. The first really good use of new game plus and built around time manipulation so it even works into the story (never actually mentioned in the story, but a very small reasonable step). All the right minds came together at the right time to make a nearly perfect RPG, Technically better then my actual favorite.
Final Fantasy Tactics, My first taste of tactical RPG’s that I did not despise. A story so involved that I actually did not make all of the connections my first time through (for me that was a real shocker). My Biggest fault with the game is that it was to short at four chapters and I was looking forward to having to fight every Zodiac Brave.
Final Fantasy X, I was caught off guard and sucked into the game from the opening with a heavy metal song. As the game reached 60% complete and I figured out just a little early what Tidus was. I hoped to the end that I was wrong for the sake of cheesy romance. Even so, the possession of sin by another entity (a gimmick used in multiple earlier FFs) totally floored me. A masterful game even hating the versatility of the grid system as I did (feeling that it robbed the characters of their unique usefulness).
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Hey don’t flip out! Short, lame story each character has a picture a weapon and a place where you get them and that is it for “character development”, wonderful music and beatable in less then six hours even if you never heard of a video game before. The last is actually why I myself am fond of this game in particular. Often I’m way to busy to get sucked into an RPG, but I’ll find myself with five hours to kill in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep (I’m almost ashamed to be proud of the fact My record is 4:11 of play time beating it with everything).
Final Fantasy 9, The learning of abilities from items was a neat idea, with a terrible execution. And the Excalibur II still mocks me (wait I swore to not use roman numerals so, Excalibur 2). The womanizing monkey getting the princess, ok fine not hated, but not great. Vivi, hell the little guy is awesome, and his story is awesome. Quina is an awesome implementation of an odd blue mage, which if you think about it is fairly odd in its own right. The summons and cut scenes were all beautiful. Not a masterpiece but a very solid game and if the rest of the series did not exist this game would still be at least a cult classic.
Final Fantasy 4, The First FF I ever played. For me this was the hook that pulled me off of the soccer team and into the life of a recluse. This and Zelda, a Link to the Past were all it took to trade my cleated shoes for remote controls. The hidden summon shields (killing hundreds of imps to learn the summon imp), the stories of redemption, and the fact that Golbez was far cooler then Cobra Commander. Did I mention the notion of a bad guy you never knew about until the last second who happens to be possessing what you think is the last guy?
Intermission, ladee da da, happy day!
Final Fantasy 7, I’m not a fan boy. I did not even like Cloud as an arrogant bad ass, but when his memories started to shift and he Broke. Suddenly I liked him allot, Suddenly he was a bad ass, even more so since he no longer realized he was or for the fact that he had all the wrong reasons to believe so in the first place. The jump from Super Nintendo to Playstation made the music capable of deeper sound quality, and the game does not fail you. Here the first really cool FF cutscenes were introduced and I still want that damn bike!
Final Fantasy 1, This is the game that started it all and for me whenever anything has a long legacy it is worth the time to see how it all began. Even as humble a beginning as this you can see all most all the ground work for classes, enemies and even story line development in relation to villains being set. A good portion of the music in the series we love today evolved from these primitive tones.
Final Fantasy 12, Gambits are awesome. The play system made me think over and over again that if FF11 was more like this I’d have loved the game. I did not like how they brought back the grid system and tried to trick us into thinking it was something new by making it look like the periodic table of elements. Oh looks like I just learned Oxygen, wait it was Reflectga? The License system has many flaws, but the game is abnormally fun and I’m not even sure why I liked it so much.
This is the divider line, above this are games I loved, below… well I managed to beat most of them, which Implies that I enjoyed them, even though I’m going to complain allot after this.
Kingdom Hearts, not strictly an FF, but definitely not not FF (I love double negatives). To be honest mostly I loves the music and the gummi ships. I found the odd combination of Disney and Final Fantasy disturbing (happy endings meets the series where the whole world ends halfway through a game). Even with the surreal it had a decent story and solid game play.
Chrono Cross, The illusive sequel to Chrono Trigger. I loved this game all the way tel the end. The fact that you have to beat the last boss with a special combo of spells to get an ending really sucks, what if a player did not go on all the side quests or even if they did it was not very specific that it was for the last boss. I mean come on NO ending but a girl leaning on a chain link fence, what the hell? I can understand having to do that to get a special better ending, but over all that turned the game into an equivalent of Rampage for me. Some of my favorite music and characters designs riddle this disappointing game.
Final Fantasy 8, An overly complex and entirely pointless GF and Draw system made this game way too easy. I’d almost go so far as to say if you ever actually cast a spell you were an idiot. Why cast ultima when having it junctioned to a stat made your attack do max damage?.. more then casting it would do. Despite this the game still has some of the best cutscenes from any game I’ve ever played, sweet summons (giant Cactuar? Doom Train, Gilgamesh, Ect) and intriguing characters, until muppet baby syndrome takes place and you realize the world has exactly twenty characters who are all tied to an orphanage, oh and they all forgot about it. If you are illiterate, Play this game it will be your Favorite FF (Sarcasm included I’m well aware those who can’t read can’t read this).
Kingdom Hearts II, In a long line of Square and or SquarEnix making sequels, that is all this game was. There is nothing wrong with this game, but just being a sequel does not make a game great, or even good. Great music, graphics, nice obvious twist on first into a continuation, etc… blah blah.
Final Fantasy X-2, Tidus is gone. In real life people die and others have to move on, but that is sad and tragic. No matter how happy you try to make it, playing a game about a girl trying to get over her dead boy friend while constantly finding glimmers of false hope that he’s still alive is terrible. Lets all play who can eat the most rainbow colored razor blades, yeah fun! The skimpy outfits are a plus that will get a-typical FF type people to play. And actually other then what I complained about already, this is a very solid fun game with extremely cheerful music.
Final Fantasy 5, I never beat this game. Just could not hold my attention. I love the job system. From what I have read I have only one huge dungeon left to beat this game. I wonder if I ever will?
Final Fantasy 3, Allot like five. The game just got to me way to late in my life. I’m busy and through no fault of the game itself I have no real interest in finishing it, but unlike five I don’t even remember very much about it.
Final Fantasy 2, How did any more sequels get made after this? I never beat five, but I did beat this, I’m sad with myself. The series was still young and I’m glade it worked out some major problems by dropping them after this game.
Final Fantasy Dirge of Cerberus, or am I playing watered down Devil May cry? Square I’m glade your trying to expand your industry out of strict turn based RPG’s, but please don’t do it with well established cornerstone series known for being RPG’s. Vincent is pretty cool. Also was it just me or did this actually create plot holes in the original FF7, that were nicely wrapped up before?
Final Fantasy 11, Ok so getting into a team of real players is a benefit of MMORPG’s, but it should NEVER be the only option. With a story line that falls into a category much closer to a lame attempt at a console game forced into an MMO. Square would have been much better off just Importing FF5’s or FFT’s job systems and just dumped popular characters from former FF games into famous FF locations that would not even make sense into the same world. This seems to be a game you either loved or hated, well I hated it.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, if you only count games with Final Fantasy in the title the original Tactics is my second favorite, how can this be my second to last favorite? The story seems to come straight out of the mind of a lobotomized kindergartner “I want liv in Vid-E-O gam. Me Luv Moogies!”. That can be overlooked with cool characters and tons of cool items, Hell I love moogles! Battles unlike the first game have random LAWS. The game hated me, might be fun for you, but every battle I was stuck with “can’t attack chocobos” or the like and an enemy group of chocobos. It also gets a nock further down the list then it would simply because I don’t like handhelds.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Is this an FF game? Seriously? WTF?
The FF games I’ve played so far, listed in numbered order with a place for least/most favorite in brackets.
FF1: A (2nd. The only FF game (so far) where my characters hit Lv. 99)
FF2: B (6th.)
FF3: A- (Tied for 3rd.)
FF4: B+ (5th.)
FF5: A- (Tied for 3rd.)
FF6: A+ (1st. The first FF game I played, and my favorite of all.)
FF7: B- (7th.)
I’ve never really played anything beyond FF7, except for FF8, which I only played 20 minutes of total. (Rather not form an opinion on it without playing it for at least an hour, tops.) Might be able to borrow FF12 soon though, and from what I hear (And read in here), it sounds awesome.
FF6: A++ The best, bar none. It had what no other FF game had. An open environment that allowed you to go anywhere you wished at any time after getting halfway through the game. All others (especially the Playstation versions) are very linear, without much of a doubt. Which is why anybody whom had played the NES or SNES versions first would agree, people who got into FF with FF7 tend to look back at the retro sprites and go “eww” at face value. There is much in this game that has not been present in any other version.
FF4: A
FF5: B+
FF Tactics: B+
FF3: B+
FF7: B+ (Promoted back to B+, was only a B to punish the rampant fanboys I see all over the net. It’s tied for third best.)
FF10: B (Pushed the limits of the PS2 pretty far for its time. Fairly good story)
FF9: B (Fun game, tries to tie all the previous ones together)
FF1: B- (Lack of much in the way of story, but this classic will live forever. This game was supposed to be Square’s final game as their only big huge selling game before it was Rad Racer)
FFTA: B-
FF8: B-
FFMQ: C-
FF2: D (The stat levelling system was tedious and hard)
FF Crystal Chronicles D (would be B+ if you didn’t require gameboys for multiplayer)
FF12: D- (The battle system is different, but if I wanted to still play that type of game I’d pay monthly for WoW)
FF11: D- (Online only… that hurts… If they made FF Online and FF11 seperate it would be cool)
FFX-2: F (The way they run in Mog costumes looks ridiculous. This game is purely eye candy for the lonely gentle(or maybe rough)man)
X-2 was rather non-linear.
You were confined to the airship, and could only select where you wanted to go via a menu. And there were only a handful of locales throughout the entire game (and they were all the same as FFX).
:moogle:That’s the thing I missed most in moving from game to game, getting to drive the airship. The airships are awesome, no doubt, but driving them around the world map is better.
Naturally Final Fantasy V
Great Music
Great Gameplay
…Generic-ish plot…but whatever
FF VIII A
FF VII A-
FF X B
FF XII B-
FF X-2 C½
FF IX C
FF VII - DoC C-
Notes : 8, is before 7, because, it was the first FF-game I got from my man as a xmas present, and the first I ever played… somewhere 1999, and there’s no turning back since then. n___n
These listed above, are the one’s I currently also own.
Despite the bad comments about X-2, I actually liked the game and thought that the background story of Lenne and Shuyin was and is good and interesting. There are great opportunities for writing fanfics of that one… my opinion. 
X and X-2, both final battless are somewhat too easy and well, not challenging enough.
Final Fantasy VII is my favorite. My first Final Fantasy is Final Fantasy IIIj.
My other favorite Final Fantasy games:
Final Fantasy Tactics (if you count it)
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy VI is definitely one of the best FFs out there, but the topic is about “favorites”, and it is not one of my favorites.
ff vii - A+
ff viii - A+
ff iii - A+
ff iv - B+
ff vi - B
ff x - B
ff x-2 - B
ff ix - F:bowser:
FF 2- A+, One of the best plots I’ve ever seen, great characters, good game play, and an addicting amount of battles.
FF 3(Remake)- B+, Okay plot, great game play( I do love a challenge), okay characters.
FF 10- A, Nice plot, good game play, sphere grid is a nice change to leveling up, and compelling antagonists and protagonists.
FF 12- A++, Great plot, amazing characters, combat system is a nice tweak to ATB, awesome graphics, license board is a good revision of the sphere grid, and the marks and pirate’s den are fun to complete.
FF 12 Revenant Wings- A-, Good plot, combat works well with the touch screen, good graphics for a DS game, less RPG than I hoped for.
FF Tactics-A-, Good turn-based combat, nice plot, side quests are fun to do, and the level/job system is well done.
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
B-
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was a very good game.
The graphics were well done and cute. The music was very well executed. The humor was cute. In fact the over riding theme of Mystic Quest could be summed up with the word, “cute”. However, people who were into Final Fantasy were so used to having nearly perfect games, they just looked at the games many, but negilible flaws and decided “Oh, its crap” and threw it in the garbage bin.
Its the same thing as throwing a Big Mac in the trash even though it was cheap, large, and tasted good just because it wasn’t as fresh or AS good as a Whopper at Burger King.
Now, my grade assumes that Final Fantasy is an outstanding video game series to begin with, so actually, if this were just a solid game review, it would get a B grade.
Let me explain, the story, although simple, is actually strongly executed because of its simplicity. The simplicity of it, combined with a mixture of cute and serious tone makes it appropriate with everything else about it. It is a story of aiding others and defending the weak against tyranny.
Also, quirks in the game, as the Old Man being The Crystal of Light starting a rumor, makes the game more enjoyable. It is also slightly heart warming due to emotional connections with characters that you barely meet.
FF3 - A - dunno why but the job system interested me (combination,combination…
FF4 - B - Good storyline
FF7- B - Great Game but graphics annoyed me.
FF8 - A+ - underrated but i feel the best i’ve played (combinations x3…)
FF9 - A - Back to basics and first one i ever played
FF10 - B+ - Good overall game
FF12 - A- - Nice to advance in battle style and the Characters were brilliant but played like a film sometimes
FF12RW - B - different. thats all ill say
Dunno if its just me but ithink ff7 is overrated now (fair nuff when it came out but ff8 after it gave a big jump ahead)
lets see…
ff10- A+ (it was my first ff game, i loved it, i replayed it twice this summer…yea)
ff7- A+ (call it over rated, i really loved the story)
ff8- A+ (yes i agree with it being under rated, i thought it was amazing)
ff10-2- A (seeing that ff10 had some of my favorite characters, it was good seeing them again, and despite what people think, i liked the game overall)
ff9- A (i just thought everything about it was cool)
ff6- A ( kefka, need i say more)
ff12- A+ (i gave up on it for awhile, then i replayed it and loved everything about it)
ff1 & 2- A
aww screw it i cant give any ff game less then an A, i dunno if it seems close minded, but i really like every game i play!