which FFs are actually worth playing and beating?
 Shopping Cart Returner Shirt $21.68 |
 Tip Your Landlord Shirt $21.68 |
Shopping Cart Returner Shirt $21.68 |
which FFs are actually worth playing and beating?
which FFs are actually worth playing and beating?
Shopping Cart Returner Shirt $21.68 |
Tip Your Landlord Shirt $21.68 |
Shopping Cart Returner Shirt $21.68 |
none
sometimes it really is that simple
After skimming this thread I'm inclined to agree with this.
Fippy bippy
I knew this could be the 2nd post, you morons are so predictable.
OP isn't the first post, newbie.
>being this moronic
Never post here again, tourist.
You're the one that thought the first post was the second post.
4, 6, 9
These 3 and V and VII are the 5 must plays
IV, VI, VII and IX are the most beloved games by the most fans, and the ones I could easily recommend to anyone.
Out of those, I'd say 7 is a safe bet for a beginner. It was a huge phenomenon back in the days, and it's still very enjoyable, atmospheric and even comfy game. The gameplay-mechanisms are simple enough for rookies to get into, but hard enough to master, keeping the experienced players interested. There's also tons of optional side quests, minigames, etc.
After that, choose your poison. Since the stories and worlds are (usually) not connected in any way, you can pretty much shoot blind. Different things appeal to different people, and that's also why there's so much arguments about various titles in the series.
I for example really liked the FF XIII trilogy as a whole, but I know that many bash it as the worst blunder of the millennium and death of the series.
The ones I would personally recommend skipping are the NES originals (1-3) and the MMOs (11 & 14). I also wasn't too fond of VIII and XII.
13 was alright, LR was shit but 13-2 was extremely enjoyable for me. The capturing monsters for your party gimmick was a lot of fun and just in general the best combat.
14's story, considering that the main plot they had been building from the start has ended on the lastest expansion, was honestly one of the best FF storylines I've played and I would highly recommend it to any fans of teh series and newcomers alike. I absolutetly hate MMOs and the only reason why I decided to play were because so many people told me the story was good. Honestly 14 feels more like a single player game that you can co-op. You can even do the main story dungeons and some of the side quest dungeons with npcs instead of other players if you want.
This is correct
I never thought I’d prefer anything to 7 until I played 14
They had a poll in japan recently for the 35th anniversary asking people about their favourite game, character and soundtrack. 14 was number 1 for favourite game, and one of the characters from 14 was the most popular character which is huge considering how much japs love cloud and sephiroth.
It's a shame they forgot the actual gameplay in 14. It's a non-stop barrage of cutscenes and YE OLDE TIMEY TEXT MARATHONS.
>VI, VII, IX and X are the most beloved games by the most fans
ftfy
X is still haunted by horible horible localisation
>IX
Lmao, no. X takes that position. ALSO, 1 and 3 are fricking great games you homosexual.
>X
Frick off ps2baby
X was just né of the worst FFs, the beginning of the end
>trying to sneak IX in there despite it being one of the worst games in the series
Think you meant VIII, chief.
>Think you meant VIII, chief.
that's one of the weaker entries in the series
great list, I agree with everything I've played on here so far.
>IV, VI, VII and IX are the most beloved games by the most fans, and the ones I could easily recommend to anyone.
Who the frick considers IV "beloved" or recommended?
V is better by far.
>Who the frick considers IV "beloved" or recommended?
Everyone but (You).
V is pure garbage.
you don't like JOBS anon?
I like IV story more but V is way better game
Nah. All Job-system games are turbo shit, and always reduce the story and characters to blank slates.
That's your opinion and you are entitled to it
All to the point.
>really liked the FF XIII trilogy as a whole
How to spot a man with absolute trash taste
I'll give you the sequels improving on the 1st but that was a pretty fricking low bar and they're not still not great regardless
Tactics
>Ctrl+F Tactics
>37 matches
not gonna mass reply, but y'all are my homies
3 and 5
1 if you really want one more like those
7 8 9
12
13
maybe 10 if you liked that one a lot
Oh and 4 but only the 3D version
The PSP version is fine, it's just its own thing. Both are great versions. Frick The After Years, it isn't canon and is just corporate fanfiction.
>The PSP version is fine
Now that's a good joke.
The ds version is better. The increased difficulty helps the game quite a bit.
PSP version is too fricking easy, just like every other casualized sonycore FF title. Either play the SNES original and get bent over by rubicante or play FF4DS and get bent over by regular mobs outside the starting area.
Why not 2 or 4?
>13
ignore this homosexual. that game is dogshit.
all of them except XV
Play them and find out, moron.
Negative impressions of a game you thought would be good are a fast way to dismiss similar games. That's why recommendations exist; to weed out the bad stuff so you can home in on the good stuff.
Who says you only need to Play the good stuff? You don't know the taste of other people, you don't know of you will like something other people has deemed as bad unless you try it same goes for the good stuff maybe you won't like that shit
If you dismiss a similar game because you didn't enjoy some aspects of a different game you are a moronic monkey brained homosexual and don't belong here.
reddit mentality
6, 7, 8, 9, X, XV
ninja bawds in my party
PLAP PLAP PLAP
Which ff is this?
might be fanart of Tactics
it doesnt look anything like tactics ninja though
It’s the artist that did all of the art for tactics.
Close enough.
Looks like she has a dick.
Damn that hoe got toes
If you didn't play these games when they came out then don't bother. You have to have patience for these games, which boomers no longer have and zoomers never had in the first place.
There is a lot of waiting, a lot of dialog, there is a lot of filler. Not saying its bad but its not for the fried dopamine receptors you most likely have.
I always feel like it’s a good test of my mental health to see how long I can play an old JRPG for. If I get restless quickly then I know I’m not as clear as I could be mentally.
why does the old monitor make it so much more soulful...
Purity from the golden age
If this is a true barometer of emotional well-being then I haven't been right in the head in over fifteen years.
I think he just means he has to have patience and willingness to relax into something he enjoys that is slower paced and not instant gratification like a lot of shit today. I'm sure you have a similar interest.
Fast forward function on emulators is a blessing for these games though. I played most on originam hardware, but even my favorite one (Tactics) can be a slog with random encounters or grinding for a job
Thanks for reminding me of this, gonna rewatch it now while I grind for a drop in Last Epoch.
one of my favorite vids ever
I, PSP
IV, PSP
VI, PR I guess
VII and then Remake into Rebirth
VIII
X
XIII
5 up until 12. 12 is the beginning of the end of traditional FF but its still a good game.
IV, V, VI, VII, Tactics, VIII, IX, X, X-2, XII
4-7, tactics
I, IV, VI. You can stop there, or you can be a fool and continue into the 3D era. But be warned, the 3D era has no safe picks. You might end up hating all of them.
6, 7, 9, Tactics, 11. Maybe 4.
That's it.
FF's worth playing?
1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
FF's worth beating?
4,7,10,12
12 is the worst trash in the franchise.
That would be 13 and 15.
13, X-2, and 15 exist.
x-2 at least has good gameplay
IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX XII
VII. And go from there depending on your route.
I only ever beat VI.
But I don't think I recommend it.
1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
these are the ones i liked and finished to completion at least twice. 1 especially aged better than many give it credit for
i just finished 1 pixel souless ver. i aim to beat 1-6 this year.
4-10. Everythnig before is archaic and everything after is zombie final fantasy.
Pretty much. IV is the release where the series ironed out its clumsier parts and reached the form of its golden age, and then every part after that until X has at least some merit that makes its worth playing. After that, XIII and XV are just gigafails, and XII is divisive as frick.
5,8,12 and tactics.
also known as the thinking mans choice.
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
I would say 14 but it's a huge money and time investment. 2 has its merits but it's better after you've played most of them
14
what’s the appeal of MMOs in 2023?
Having a social circle when you can't build one in real life
kys mmoscum
XIII
Yes I am serious. Incredible art direction, great OST, interesting lore/concepts albeit not executed well, and a good postgame.
>XV
It filtered so many, the epitome of soul
It was a soulful game but you can tell it's unfinished
True
It had so much potential, would it have lived up to it?
woulda been iconic
ok but imagine…
X, X-2, Tactics Advance are the best ones.
Rest is just ok
What a weird collection, I gotta ask, why not Tactics or A2? Why specifically Advance?
Contrarianism mostly
Also he probably hasn't played any other game in the series
4 - 7, 9
Crisis Core
The rest is just shit honestly
tldr its shit
>blow up power plant
>essential services like medical care no longer work
:/
just use your healing skill
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, Tactics
X and X2
All of them. Minus the MMO trash, X-2, XIII and its sequels.
Pixel remasters for 1,2,3, and 5.
SNES version for 6. (for the sheer number of QoL romhacks)
FF7 original and Remake
FF8 PC. Download the mod that makes drawing magic not a 30 minute chore every battle
FF9 PC with the Moguri mod
FF10 on whatever, it really doesn't matter
FF12 Zodiac International release
You can probably skip XV if you get really burned out at this point. It's massively flawed, in some ways more than FFXIII but it's something to experience just to show how incompetent Square was in its development and how it shaped FF16 to be a movie hack and slash.
I just got finished 4 pixel remaster a few hours ago, I shit you not. Frick that game. The story is a messy hodgepodge of shitty and cliched ideas thrown together at random, gameplay is a step down from 3 and the final boss sucks balls. Anybody recommending it hasn't played the superior 3 and 5 and just wants to flex their hardcore retro gaymer cred.
3 and 5 are both way further on the "hardcore retro gaymer cred" scale you fricking moron.
Nope, people only recommend 4 because they think "hmmm wasn't that the first Final Fantasy with an expansive story? That must mean it's good right?" But the story is easily the worst of any game outside of 2 which is just in its own category of comically bad.
what's a good FF where I get to customize the class of each character and the MC
I don't really like the "every character is X class and you can barely change their playstyle" format.
Stranger of Paradise.
13-2
5, BD
Tactics. Lots of classes, you can mix passives you've unlocked and use abilities from your active class and a secondary you've unlocked for the character.
5, Tactics, FF12
12 lets you pick/choose different class boards.
>I don't really like the "every character is X class and you can barely change their playstyle" format.
in 1 and the rerelease of 12 you pick them at the start and they don't change, but you can pick whatever ones you want
In 3, 5 and Tactics you can freely switch classes between battles when you have them unlocked
In 10-2, 13 and 13-2 you can change classes in mid battle as often as you feel like it.
in 2, 7, 8, and 10 there are no character classes and a character's stats and abilities are determined by something else(a system that differs in each game) that essentially allows you to do whatever you want with anyone.
in 4, 6 and 9 characters have fixed classes that you can't really modify or do anything about
I really like 5's system because you can level up a class, learn the skills from it and use those skills on another class. So you can create hybrid classes, like a Ninja with Time Magic spells or a Dragoon with Beastmaster skills. It's really neat
I, III, V & XII: The Zodiac Age.
6, 7, 9
Make sure to play the PSX versions or the PC version of 7 and 9 with an upscaled background mod.
All the other games are A tier and under which I wouldn't recommend if you don't enjoy the 3 I listed here.
>S tier
>X
Stopped reading there.
To this day I have no idea why people felate VII and X so much.
VII is by far the most aesthetic and interesting thematically
You mean X
>never got to ride the Highwind
IT'S NOT FAIR
best characters, story, aesthetic, music, endgames, combat and systems. arguably 8 has better systems though
>VIII
DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW, DRAW,
doesn't take that long and you get a lot of spells from refining cards
I'd say that is more of a error of the player not realizing what the system gives them to work with (Not just Card Autism, but item drops and just plain buying shit to refine) and accidentelly baiting perfectionists autists to NEED to have 100 of a spell that isn't even that good junction material NOW.
VIIIs biggest asset and flaw is basically the same in that it is a clusterfrick that basically works against what will be your first instincts, like giving the SEED salary instead of money after battle (But battles still influence how the Salary Rank is evaluated) and the Fire Cavern test being a test of judgement (So you don't want too much time left when you finish it after setting the time limit, because that means you misjudged how fast you could do it).
Most memorable characters and designs, most unique level design that varied greatly between places
if you dont think ff7 is amazing after playing through it you are basically brain dead
Ironically I thought it pretty meh in 1997 but when I played it again in 2006 I finally saw the fricking genius behind it. All the nuances and subtext even a stupidly translated script in a goofy looking game can't obfuscate.
>XV
>above anything
S: VII, XII
A: IV, VI, X, XIV
B: V, IX, XI, XIII
C: I, III, VIII
D: II, XV
IV, VI, VII, X, XII
XIII, XIV
Most of the rest like V and IX are fine, just don't waste your time with VIII and DEFINITELY NOT XV[/spoiler}
1-7 looks disgusting and for toddlers. 8 is decent but the aesthetic design is shit. People say 9 is good but I also think it looks like shit. 10 is gay, frick the nerds saying it's good you'd have to be a troon to like that slop. Tactics supposedly is great but I couldn't get past the moronic vibe of the characters. 11 is an MMO. 12 is good. 13 seemed ok but I only played a little. 14 is an MMO. 15 has the most annoying combat, looks cool at first but it's really just hold dodge. Crisis core was good. I hear type zero or whatever is good. Hyped franchise because people are, overwhelmingly, basic.
There's pretty much no way you're 18+, go back to bed.
Oh, I'm sorry I think your gay game is gay. And I'm well over 18, zoomtard. Just because half the population jacks each other off over garbage doesn't mean it isn't trash.
What are your favourite games then
man you have some horrible tastes in video games. I hope nobody listens to your shit take. I'm guessing you're a transvestite or a massive homosexual.
Mystic Quest
Everything beyond B isn't worth your time.
>FF2 being D tier
This is how you spot a Black person who hasn't actually played these games but wants to fit in
>act like 2 is good
this is how you spot a zoomer who thinks he knows what he's talking about
>XII
>in any tier higher than C
o i am laffin
Its clearly in D which is not higher than C. Are you frickig blind moron are you fricking blidn are you afhucvcvjkghion JBRHJFLKSøhkfeZSDhsdxrthfjdzh
V to get why some autismos obsess over the Job System so fricking much.
VII to make a informed choice on your own if the fanbase is overrating it or not.
XIII to learn the true definition of a linearity in video game in action and gaining a newfound appreciation for games that are not Final Fantasy Thirteeen.
4-10, Tactics
I to X
XIV
>Not worth playing
I, II, IV, After Years, Dirge of Cerberus, Crisis Core, Remake, VIII, X, XII, XIII, Lightning Returns, XV
>Worth playing
III, X-2
>Worth finishing
V, VI, VII, Before Crisis, XIII-2
>Worth if finished only/Not worth merely playing
IX
>worth playing
>X-2
>not worth playing
>X
X is first of all really bad and secondly not worth the effort even if one likes it. X-2 you can have fun playing without a huge time or effort investment.
You're so moronic or bating I dont even
>I’m Tony Kornheiser
by today's standards? none
just read the stories / lore and move on, its not worth it to spend the hundreds of hours of homies in a row turn based grind to get to see anything FF has to offer
source: completed most FFs between 1 and 12 on release (yes im old)
>today's standards
name the standards
come on, ~~*old*~~ one
frick man I love Spielberg’s films don’t tell me he’s evil too
I mean by what players nowadays expect out of a game, mechanic wise
they are outdated games in every way it matters
because they don't play like devil may cry with cerebral palsy?
not really, no
because the entire genre is based on limitations of an era that's been over for decades
if the people working on the early titles had the resources we have now, the genre would've never existed in the first place
>if the people working on the early titles had the resources we have now, the genre would've never existed in the first place.
Terranigma was on the SNES and is basically exactly the kind of game the FFs would have been if they hadn't been JRPGs. If they were Atari games maybe you'd have a point, but they weren't.
>I mean by what players nowadays expect out of a game, mechanic wise
And what is that, exactly?
also, don't get me wrong, I loved those games when I played them growing up
I just wouldn't recommend them to anybody today, except if they already enjoyed jRPGs
5 was pretty fun. Great dungeons imo.
Just a good representation of a quintessential JRPG
I personally dislike 1, I think it's too tedious with the random battles.
7, 8, 10.
Side note: Always ignore self-proclaimed "FF fans", they are the most moronic Black folk on the planet.
7,8, 10 are the most played and praised by non-FF fans. There is no better sign of quality than that.
VIII isn't praised by almost anyone except the rare contrarian looking for a hot take. It's fine to have your own opinion but don't blatantly make shit up in defense of your personal preference.
Note the intense reddit nature of the modern FF-gay.
Once again, never listen to anything these people say.
It's a simple fact that most people did not enjoy 8. Trying to disguise it as a "beloved classic" by lumping it in with VII and X is just sad
All of them
I played FF2 and liked it. FF8, in my eyes, is still the biggest piece of stinky dog shit in the entire series. I always read about FF2 being weird and "ohhhh noooo man watch out for that one", but no, it was just an interesting and cool game. Unlike FF8.
FF2 is very rough around the edges, but most people didn't actually play it and just parrot memes, besides it's technically SaGa 0.1 and SaGa is pure kryptonite to FF gays
Being contrarian does not make you interesting.
Parroting memes about a game you never played is the definition of being a contrarian
Sorry homosexual, but i HAVE played and beaten 2.
It was an experimental mess that combined to make an exceptionally shitty game that barely worked.
567
1 through 10, and 12. if anyone disagrees they're fricking homosexuals. anything after 12 is trash.
Trans Fantasy is a shit series and some of the worst JRPGs you can play.
>which FFs are actually worth playing and beating?
if you're more of a game mechanics connoisseur, check out the SaGa games
but if you wanna just breeze through the games, ff vii or ix are a good starting point
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, Tactics
finish these and report back
Im fixin to play all mainline games
Currently halfway through ff1
I hate grinding
Tho increasing emultor speed helps
what the frick is that text box color
Mine was always black with a white shadow.
X (Don't get X-2 if you want X's ending to stick with you), VII (don't get anything from the compilation) IX
4, 6, and 7
14
None of them, this franchise is for trannies, manchildren and women
After playing through all the main games I gotta say the only FF games that really stand out are VI and XIII.
Basically all the original entries, 1-10 minus 2. The pixel remaster ports also give you an extremely convenient entrance point for the early entries, though IV is best on PSP and VI is best emulated with a fan translation for the SNES.
1
7
7 and 10
4-9
FFs rated:
MAIN GAMES:
FF1: 5/10
FF2: 3/10
FF3: 5/10
FF4: 7/10
FF5: 8/10
FF6: 9/10
FF7: 9/10
FF8: 5/10
FF9: 9/10
FF10: 8/10
FF11: MMO/10
FF12: 7/10
FF13: 6/10
FF13-2: Didn't play
FF13-3: Didn't play
FF14: MMO
FF15: 7/10
I would say 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 are the ones worth playing. Don't start with 5.
>FF2: 3/10
>FF8: 5/10
>FF15: 7/10
You guys have shit taste, holy shit.
2 was a bad and broken game, it is infamously the worst Final Fantasy.
8 is better played as Yugioh.
15 Had a lot of rough edges but it ultimately works as a game.
>2 was a bad and broken game, it is infamously the worst Final Fantasy.
Hell no, one of the rare 2D FF with a really good battle and scaling system.
>8 is better played as Yugioh.
If it's code to say that it is the best FF, then yeah, it is the best FF
>15 Had a lot of rough edges but it ultimately works as a game.
Fricking hell, everything is wrong in FFXV, in fact, I have a hard time to know who is the worst FF ever: FFXIII or XV ?
That's exactly what I said, you zoomers have shit taste.
>really good battle and scaling system
You can enjoy how 2 did proficiencies and it's a nice different mechanic, but that was neither good nor balanced at fricking all.
It was far better and more engaging than others (it is also why SaGa > FF)
Because I'm not a homosexual that pretends it's the best game ever when it was a sloppily rewritten shitshow with poor-at-best-translations from an already garbage script. The gameplay is bad because you're better off *not* engaging with the gameplay. That said, Disc 1 is pretty good, shame it's bad from there. Dollet is pure kino, but it's telling when a game peaks an hour in. 8 contrarians are usually Spanish people that think they're identifying with the 'masculine' Squall, completely misreading his spastically written manchild schizoid personality as something to be desired.
I don't give a shit what you two are arguing about (I didn't even play 8), but
>8 contrarians are usually Spanish people
This is a completely ridiculous claim on an anonymous imageboard. No, you saying that some guy is defending 8 and therefore must be a Hispanic is not conclusive proof of that guy actually being a spic
Carry on, I won't respond to your shitshow of a post anymore, I just hate cognitive biases
I've been on FF forums for 20 years. For about 10 of those, it was always Spanish speakers that were raving about how epic 8 is, whilst everyone else called it trash. So, you're either hablas espansol, or zoomers are as moronic as Spanish people. Because this 'ff8 is amazing' trend has certainly not been the consensus from the beginning.
I say Spanish but I also mean Argentines and BRs.
Nah anon is dead right about those numbers, infact I'd argue he was being a little too generous.
FF1 and 3 are great. Frick off with this meme, I bet you didn't even play them.
>FF1 and 3 are great. Frick off with this meme, I bet you didn't even play them.
I'm sure they were great in the 80s. As modern games they're poorly balanced, sluggish, and have weird difficulty spikes. They're mediocre at best.
Forgot 10-2, which is a solid 5/10.
That's why the pixel remasters exist dude, they fix some of the tedium associated with the original games. Playing FF3 for the first time was a blast. FF1 was really fun as well - and I used mods to restore the NES difficulty. Making your party from scratch and naming your characters after your friends goes a long way.
This anon speaks truth.
I'd argue that FF2 gets too much hate. It's a fun romp, let down by the old-school adventure game dialogue style for quests.
Warp/Teleport are great spells I came to love.
I: 7/10
VII: 8/10
X: 6/10
XIII: 7.5/10
XIII-2: 8/10
XV: 5/10
>X as a 6/10
Why? What is it about 10 you dislike?
For me, I would put it at an 8 because:
>+Solid cast of characters
>+The protagonist actually has significant growth
>+Easily the best written romance in an FF game
>+Sphere grid was a cool system
>+Super bosses are some of the more interesting ones
>+Equipment system very interesting
>+Aeon system very interesting
>-One of the main villains is budget Sephiroth
>-Main story quest is on the easy side
>-Very linear compared to other entries
the romance was terrible, tidus is extremely annoying and ugly, horrible voice acting, nonsensical story full of plotholes, dumb terminology, music sounded different, annoying minigames. the better question is why do people LOVE X?
MAIN GAMES:
FF1: 7/10
FF2: didn't play
FF3: 7/10
FF4: 8/10
FF5: didn't play
FF6: didn't play
FF7: 9/10
FF8: 8/10
FF9: 9/10
FF10: 10/10
FF11: didn't play
FF12: didn't play
FF13: 7/10
FF13-2: 8/10
FF13-3: 7/10
FF14: 7/10
FF15: 6/10
>played 13
>didn't play 5 or 6
bro...
13 came out when i was already into the series so i played it day 1
i started with 7 and 8
so now every other year i play one of the ones i've missed due to not being born. 4 most recently
>FF8: 5/10
Care to explain this?
>worth playing
all of them, order of release
>worth beating
only the ones you liked, you fricking mouthbreather
How did Square frick up 8 so badly? Like how did they make the kino the are 6 and 7 then shit out 8 and rebound with another kino (9)? What the frick was going on during its development?
all mainline games except XV and the MMOs
too lazy to list all the spin offs but i like Tactics and Crystal Chronicles
5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, 11 (if you have time), 12
FFT, FFTA, FFTA2, FFCF:CD, FFCT
Crisis Core is okay
you are welcome
VI VII IX X
If it's from 1991-2001, you should at least give it a shot. Not quite all the entries from that period are great, but all the great entries came from that period.
frick this moronic OP
what colour do you guys make your text box when playing 7?
Leave it default
Mystic quest
1, 3-10, 12
Tactics, Tactics Advance
Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2
Dissidia 012
7 Crisis Core, 7 Remake
14 Heavensward, 14 Shadowbringers
World of Final Fantasy
Stranger of Paradise
Ignore the other 160 posts
>Kingdom Hearts
1, 7 and 13. Every other game in the franchise ranges from mediocre to outright shit.
All of them, every game has a different charm, if you play them in iorder you will feel how the series changed over time, it's quite a fun experience.
FFXV
FF7
FF6
FF4
anyone that says XV is baiting.
It's an empty open world piece of shit game with one button combat and the true ending is in a novel
VI, VII, VIII, IX, X (not remaster) and several spinoffs
Anybody who tells you to play XII is actively trying to waste 60 hours of your time. You'll gain nothing from the experience.
FFI: 10/10
FFII: 10/10
FFIII: 10/10
FFIV: 10/10
FFV: 10/10
FFVI: 10/10
FFVII: 10/10
FFVIII: 10/10
FFIX: 10/10
FFX: 10/10
FFXI: 10/10
FFXII: 10/10
FFXIII: 10/10
FFXIV: 10/10
FFXV: 10/10
Every FF game has something that makes it special and worth being played.
except 8
4, 5, 6, 7, 10
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, T, TA, TA2, CC, DoC
Just 7, Crisis Core (the original PSP version has much better voice acting) and 7 remake.
All of them except XIII XV and XVI and the online games.
6, 7 and Tactics. Those are the absolute must plays but they all have something to offer besides XV frick that game.
1 to 12 and 16
don't listen to anyone mentioning the games before 7.
there's a reason you never see Ganker discussing the sprite shit games.
VI is still fantastic
ff1 is unironically the comfiest ff game ever made, even moreso than the various old dragon quests.
Tactics Advance 1 and 2. That's it.
5
wageslave simulator
Yes. Take it from me, I spent like two and a half months playing through the series' first ten entries in their original formats, save for some patches for I, II, and III for improved fan translations and being able to move faster.
It's been an incredible experience and it's made me appreciate how Final Fantasy's secret sauce is changing up the world and characters for each installment, including the combat system. You won't like some as much as others, sure, but it's necessary for the series to not get stale like Dragon Quest did.
>for the series to not get stale like Dragon Quest did.
Yeah agreed, having most games in the series be shit really helps keep FF fans on their toes, whereas the consistent high quality of DQ games is boring af
6, 7, 9, 10, 12
8 and 13 are shit
15 is mediocre
I did not play 1-5
alright homosexual, listen here I'm not even gunna read the thread, I'll just post the SUPERIOR way to play the BEST Final Fantasy games.
PSP version of 1 - Has the most content and the best balance.
I honestly can't remember if the PSP version of 2 has Reverse/Rebirth, so I'm going to recommend the GBA version. Do your research, and play the PSP version if it does.
Unironically the Pixel remaster of III if you wanna play this game.
Arguably GBA version of 4. The post-game is good here. The DS/3D version is also servicable. Don't bother with TAY
GBA version of V. If you want some spice, play the Four Job Fiesta version, but I would recommend Vanilla.
GBA version of VI with the sound patch. No questions here, every other release is ASS
Any version of VII that has the cheat mode. You'll want to speed up the game a bit in some parts, and I won't judge you if you use the fill limit break cheat/no encounters either.
STEAM VERSION OF VIII. You have access to the pocketstation content. This may seem small and trivial, and it is, but the extra stuff is nice.
OG PS1 VERSION OF IX, ON A PS1. I guess you can play the steam/ps4 version if you want the cheats, but I'm no b***h
OG PS2 VERSION OF X. All the remakes removed the S O U L. Play the Steam version if you can't otherwise. Skipping cutscenes is necessary if you're a casual who dies to a certain zombie inflicting boss.
If you really want to, Play Horizons for XI. Their server is populated enough you can get a semi-realistic experience of XI without paying a sub.
Any Zodiac age for XII. It's at this point different versions don't make much difference, but just make sure you play Zodiac age, and not the vanilla PS2.
XIII, XIII-2, and LR have gamepass/Steam releases. XIII isn't as bad as its made out to be, XIII-2 improves on all the good in the first, and LR has me conflicted, but isn't a god awful game.
Play the trial of XIV if you want. It goes up to Heavensward and they've made the game NPCable mostly
effortful post
>XV so bad it's not even listed
>GBA version of VI with the sound patch. No questions here, every other release is ASS
You fricking tard, the GBA version of VI still has a blown out palette and the sound patch is imperfect. Not only that but Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition for FF6 SNES has the best script on top of coming with many bugfixed.
Literally just
>play the version of every game that I, a late gen 5 to early gen 6 gamer, played
Anyone that recommends a version of FF1 with mana bars can be completely discarded. The game mechanics only function with spell slots, allowing mages to spam infinite cures and eventually infinite fira during later dungeons completely trivializes the experience. Red mages in particular have literally no fricking downside because high level spells arent worth casting anyway on the mana bar system.
>The game mechanics only function with spell slots
This. Going back and playing the NES version made it way more fun. The floating castle being a space station was also a cool twist that just gets straight up removed in later versions of the game.
>allowing mages to spam infinite cures and eventually infinite fira during later dungeons completely trivializes the experience
You must have meant firaga because you get items that let you spam level 2 spells infinitely. The whole limited inventory slots thing actually gives monks a really good use: carrying an array of magic items because they don't need to equip anything. You can go into the final dungeon being able to cast heal or fire 2/lightning 2 for free up to 3 times every turn.
is bahamut lagoon good?
Reminder if you play a version of FF that wasn't the original release, you completely miss what made people enjoy that individual entry in the first place. It's still fun to see reimaginations of older games reworked in different ways, but if you're trying to see what made the series popular in the first place, you should be playing the original versions.
Fake News
There's no way I'm playing the original version of II again.
>again
You already did your service soldier.
FF remakes are generally fine except for remakes of 1 with MP and the awful art style of those pre-PR 4-6 remakes
This is why I'm going through the series in release order, it gives me a greater appreciation for how the series evolved. For example, I love how Yang the monk's claws are handled in IV compared to III - in III equipping anything on a monk removes his unarmed attack bonus which is pretty much always better than the bonus from the equipped claw, which makes them pointless. In IV Yang's claws convey no attack bonus but have elements attached to them so you equip them based on what you are encountering.
This is how I feel about Dragon Quest. Dragon Quest is a very iterative series, so it makes sense for each game to be a logical evolution in technology from the previous. To be fair they tried to do this with the DQ1-5 remakes, but 4 PS1 isn't in English yet and 5 PS2 looks a bit goofy.
I've played 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, and 15. (And the mmo but I won't count that).
In order for my recommendations, is 9, 12, 8, 4.
how have you not played VI or VII
6 is def the next one I'll play after 16. As for 7 probably partly because it's so hyped I'm being a bit contrarian by putting it off, part of it though is the characters/ setting don't grab me as much as the others do. There are exceptions but I usually prefer more typical fantasy settings to scifi.
1-12
I played and liked 1, 2 (emulated gameboy ones), 8, 9, 10, and 12
Out of those I probably liked 12 the least
I played maybe 2 hours of 15, seems like a comfy braindead grinding game
I gave up on 3 (emulated DS one) because the animations took way too damn long
None, play Chrono Trigger then you never have to play a JRPG again.
5, XI, Bravely, Tactics. Don't even bother replying otherwise. The opinions of jobless plebians are not very important.
THE IS NO FF IN BRAVELY DEFAULT:FLYING FAIRY ANON! :^)
And of course we needed to have the customary triggerBlack person to remind us once again that CT fans do not care about videogmaes
All of them
None, play Chained Echoes then you never have to play a JRPG again.
Chained Echoes?
Worth playing:
4 5 6 8 13
Worth beating:
7 9 10
Why are the games worth beating not worth playing?
>Why are the games worth beating not worth playing?
2, 8, 13 trilogy and 15
is Type 0 good? I always liked the aesthetics of its promo art.
it's alright but has some issues like:
Actual plot is NG+
Need to gear/level all 14 player characters
Non-active party members get 0 EXP
of the 4 Tabata directed games (XV, Type 0, 3rd Birthday, and Crisis Core) it's the least shitty of the bunch
interesting I might try it on PS Plus thanks anon 🙂
>Actual plot is NG+
Elaborate please. Feel free to spoil it (with spoiler tags cause of the guy who wants to play it)
The whole world is an experiment set up by the gods that's all about war. E.g. people forget anyone that dies so that they can go right back to fighting. Canonically, the same events play out over and over again so things only make sense with the revelations from the end of the game. Dragon's Dogma did it better.
no idea, I never did the NG+ of Type 0 because I didn't expect THE ACTUAL FRICKING STORY to be NG+
One of the very best FF games to date.
Super grim story-wise, filled with FF fanservice, and feels a bit like a Yoko Taro game. Tons of replay value.
Yoko Taro? That's all you had to say friend
Based.
Needless to say, but prepare for a wild NG+
The HD port is hit-or-miss, but serviceable.
The PSP original has superior visual design, but you only got fan-translation for that.
NO
Its fricking awful
>enemies are vastly overleveled with the game design intended for you to have party members knocked out each fight, which feels bad
>many of the characters are slow and unweildy, but if you want them to still be useful you have to play as them
>very few combat options
>no aerial combat or jumping outside of the Jump ability which takes up an entire attack slot
>plot involves a general that acts like a toddler whenever class 0 is brought up and intentionally self sabotages purely out of jealousy
>plot involves drama surrounding characters forcibly having their memory removed that wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have their memories removed
>cutscenes are all just two characters standing still talking to each other
Absolute garbage game. Worst Final Fantasy game, I'm not kidding. The HD remaster also looks like shit
Oh and
>after killing enemies have to stand still for a moment to absorb their phantoma instead of just walking over them to pick up an item or getting it automatically, thus constantly interrupting combat
I hate Type 0 so fricking much. I built a PC specifically to play it and was more than let down
who do I believe???
7 is the only one with any real cultural impact, and it's pretty good by JRPG standards. Ambitious story, decent pacing, good art design with plenty of variety, good music. It's the best option (original version, not the "remake" that's really a shitty sequel).
Ignore everyone claiming 9 is good for beginners. 9 is mostly nostalgia bait, aimed at people who were annoyed by 8 making too many changes, and it's painfully slow.
9 is just too frickin slow yet beautiful
that one
Hot take: all of them are worth playing (except mmos unless thats your thing, different category all together). Even the shitty ones like 13 and 15 (riyak edition of course) have some good things
not too hot tho many agree with you
The irony here is that FFXI is the best FF story by miles but it is understandable that due to the game's format there are barriers. Most of the story is doable during a free trial these days.
I V VI VII IX X
All of the PS1 games are worth playing. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Which has better artstyle?
FF1 for PS1
FF1 for PSP
FF1 PixelRemaster
I think the PS1 version has the best artstyle and atmosphere.
1-10 minus 6 and 9.
7, 10, 10-2
That's it
From I to IX, although I understand why so many people hate VIII.
All of them except Type 0
Every FF game is good except Type 0
If you were to only play 1 FF, play JP FFIII, it's got the best actual gameplay and it's still pretty engaging from start to finish even in {current year}.
nobody talks about FFIII LIAR!
ff6 and ff10 only.
ff9 just for the ending.
how do I get over the absolute cringe that is Tidus? I wanna enjoy it but he just makes it too unenjoyable for me. Wish I could just mute the voice actors.
If you don't like Tidus then just stop playing altogether. Come back when you get some taste.
i dont know i think its ok and totally in character. i even like him actually. both character and voice. that scene is really not bad in context.
All 17 year olds are cringe. This is just fact friend.
When you realise the voice-over is Tidus in his mature state reflecting back on things, you appreciate the changes in his character more. You can't start with a top tier bro hero. Then there's no growth.
8 took it one step further by doing the moronic orphanage 'oh wowsers we were all together as kids!' spiel. That was one of the single dumbest plot points in the entire series.
You don't. Second hand embarrassment is very, VERY strong in FFX.
that’s the reason why I’ve never played it much. At least there’s no cringe in the other games that people nearby can hear.
Embrace the phrase "I am cringe for I am free"
I, V, X, X-2, XII and the three Tactics games.
X is filled to the brim with cheesy moments.
God damn I loved VI and XII
7
9
tactics
Don't play any spinoff or remake of 7, the original is best and only 7 experience needed.
8,10 and 13 + 13-2.
All other final fantasies are terrible. Especially 6, 7, 9 and 12 which are the most overrated ones by far.
>13 and 13-2
>no LR
But Lightning Returns is the best of the 13 trilogy
Anime Majora's Mask kicks ass
1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, Tactics, Tactics Advance
haven't played 2 or 3. anyone saying 6 is operating on pure nostalgia.
IX
XV
I, II, III
I am baffled that people that played 2 didn't think the stats depending on your actions was the coolest shit. Or the constant character deaths in a world ravaged by war.
Fwiw I didn't play the original, I played the pixel remaster of 2, but still. At no point in that game did I have to grind or do anything esceptionally out of the ordinary from any other FF game beyond being encouraged to use magic more often to level it up which was based and kino.
I don’t know if they fixed the scaling in the remakes, but magic is basically useless if you don’t grind the frick out of it
There are still people that play the original NES versions of these games???????
Yes they adjust the level scaling in the re-releases.
I dunno about still but I’m old as shit and haven’t played since the neo demiforce patch was the only option to play the game in English and people were still confused about the numbering
All except 2, 13, and 15
7 and 9
12 and 6 also seem worthwhile from what I've seen. 8,10,13 can confirm is shit.
3-7 9 12 debatable 13
8 is by far the best final fantasy
10 and 13 come pretty close but aren't as good.
All others can be skipped.
thanks pablo
I loved 8
It was the best final fantasy for sure
>Visor explodes.
shame that the story only makes sense if you have Rinoa in your party all the time, and i really mean all the time with Squall
And to OP and anyone who wants to get into the series, you can start pretty much everywhere except 11 14 and 2. 11 and 14 are mmos so the gameplay is vastly different, 2 is the odd one out of the series thanks to its leveling system which some love some hate so i would avoid that as a starting point. All the rest have pretty much the same core mechanics, with the exception of 8 and 12 where in 8 leveling isnt a good thing since enemies scale based on your average party level and 12 is basically singleplayer mmo which is more fun then it sounds. Not going to argue which one is the best one to start, in the end they all play pretty much the same, level up, kill shit, get gear, magic etc and progress the story.
1, 3, 4-10, tactics.
That's it. anything after 10 is trash.
Why was FF8 so fricking good? What caused it to have so much more soul compared to all other FF games?
>Made by the best dev team and artist team
>Made to be a work of art
>after VIII's success, Sakaguchi got mad and made IX and also politicked against said dev team
>After X he got his way with an MMO
>After XI he continued to pozz the series
Sakaguchi is the greatest cancer known to FF. He is opposed to all Artists.
>After XI he continued to pozz the series
Sakaguchi wasn’t at the company after 11
And yet his politicking continues even today
He "created" the series when it was bad.
The VII team are the ones who made Final Fantasy what it was when it was good.
he literally created it moron
kys Nomura pedo worshipper
Final Fantasy 8 is the one that most deserved a full remake like Final Fantasy 7 already got.
Final Fantasy 9 doesn't deserve the remake for being a generic piece of shit.
8 for a remake if only to "fix" the story.
it's become the symbol of contrarianism 'unpopular is good' in final fantasy
apparently it underwent 3 or 4 rapid rewrites, which is why it's such a mess
It’s not more messy than anything else in the series, it was just initially hated by 7 babbies who didn’t understand how the series worked and were confused Cloud wasn’t there.
>it's not more messy than anything else in the series
are you serious? you've never touched a book, have you?
>you've never touched a book, have you?
What does that have to do with how FF8 compares to other games in the Final Fantasy series?
Because you clearly have no idea what a story or setting is if you think that 8 is equivocal to all others in the series. It's a mess.
>It's a mess
Like the rest of the series, yes
It's literally better than every other FF entry though.
Final Fantasy 7: A soldier reunites with his childhood sweetheart to join the terrorist group Avalanche in opposing the megacorporation Shinra using Final Fantasy Oil. All goes awry when they find out that Shinra was experimenting on a space parasite superweapon, and the re-emergence of Cloud's once-idol-turned-rival who had thought to have been dead for years...
Final Fantasy 9: A thief and his crew are hired by the regent of a princess to kidnap her and lead her away from her genocidal mother. Twists begin to emerge when it turns out the mother was only trying to steal her mystical powers, the Eidolons, in order to wage her wars. Little did she know, she was being manipulated by a super-weapon envoy from another realm, secretly plotting to steal away their entire planet...
Wait, what about 8? Where's he? Oh he's in the corner.
Final Fantasy 8: It's a story about these two mercenaries who are rivals, but they're also amnesiacs, and then they end up opposed to one another in a war after a series of political missions go wrong. The enemy army is being led by a sorceress who turns out to be the mother of the entire crew's amnesiac past possessed by a super space witch from the future who is trying to kompress time because she got really mad at existence and went crazy at the singularity. You've apparently lost this battle millions of times and are stuck in a time loop slowly being helped by another space witch who is also your half-sister because remember the orphanage thing? But don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to experience this moronic story as they find ex-machina after ex-machina to protract this dumb fricking story over 4 discs when it should have ended in 1.
You're being disingenuous and I can write similar bullshit about FF7 and FF9 while writing FF8 as the most interesting thing.
Final Fantasy 8: A mercenary is stuck in an eldritch horror timeloop held hostage by an eternal time war where a witch tries to possess your childhood friend with time travel powers to send herself even farther into the past to take full control over the universe to end this eldritch time loop and put people out of their suffering. You are there to try and stop this to both save your childhood friend as well as to give humanity a hope in this screwed up universe.
I don't even want to waste my time writing about FF7 and 9 but you could easily make it sound convoluted as frick with Zack, memory transplants and a prostitute selling flowers if you really want to.
Point is that FF8 by far has the most interesting setting, concept and story.
>Point is that FF8 by far has the most interesting setting, concept and story.
Correct. But don't bother trying to explain it to the Artless. They cannot see, so how can they understand?
Final Fantasy 7: let’s run around aimlessly for 20 hours because oops I forgot everything that happened 5 years ago when the electric company put ghosts in my blood. Tifa could have cleared this whole thing up on disc one but chose not to because ???? Now fight a guy that died five years ago but maybe not and now he’s a god because he ate a lot of ghost energy or maybe it’s a space monster pretending to be him idk this translation is shit
Final Fantasy 9: oops I forgot I’m a space monkey sent to destroy earth and also garnet forgot about the summoner village she came from and also a guy on my home planet is stealing the ghost energy to bring his planet back to life and there’s another space monkey that’s mad he’s gonna die and it’s actually a thoughtful examination of the existential struggle with- *BOOM BOOM CRASH* SUDDENLY NECRON. Also the castle is a giant robot
Final Fantasy 8: you’re part of a military organization created to fight against sorceresses. You fight sorceresses and the final boss is a really powerful sorceress.
cherry picking is fun
Only now I realized that 7, 8 and 9 play with the MC having amnesia/memory problems. 6 too had Terra being mind controlled at start and her finding her true origin later
That was a trope for JRPGs during the 90s to the point where it became a joke on early forums
Terra had her memory forcibly wiped by magic, recovers it quickly.
Cloud had PTSD and replaced his trauma with cope.
Zidane was Goku.
Squall and all his childhood friends forgot plot crucial details until the final hour of the game, for a very contrived reason.
Don't Squall and gang realize the shared orphange past in Disc 2 when they visit Selphie's OG garden after the missile strike?
>plot crucial details
They forgot a few friends they had when they were 6 years old. That’s believable even without the magic excuse. Cloud fabricated/stole his entire adult life
FF8: ORPHINIDGE TIME TWAVEL AMNESIA GAARDIAN FORSIS TURNIP BOSSIS ROBIN WALLIAMS WHATEVER LAGOONA WITCHIS WHITE SEED DELING ULTIMEKIA
Face it you contrarian homosexual, you like 8 because you think it's cool to like things over people said were bad. You're the annoying c**t that tries to find the 'redeeming qualities' in everything. When did people stop inviting you out?
>B-B-BUT LOST WAS A GOOD SHOW
>NO YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND SEASON 8 OF GAME OF THRONES
>YOU JUST DON'T BELIEVE IN BILLY MITCHELL'S ABILITIES
I think 8 is the 3rd weakest game in the series but you’re being moronic if you think it’s an outlier in terms of the amount of goofy bullshit.
>BUT LOST WAS A GOOD SHOW
Ok you got me here I do say that but only because I legitimately believe that. No I don't like FF8 merely to be contrarian I legitimately liked it better than FF7 and FF9 when it came out and I still think it's one of the best if not the best FF out there.
Yes I'm one of those people that measure the quality of something by its best parts instead of on average. A game that is a 8/10 on average and consistently 8/10 is just a 8/10 for me. A game that is 6/10 consistently but has peaks and moments where it becomes a 10/10 is a 9/10 for me. Final Fantasy 8 was that. While FF7 and FF9 were way more generic, took fewer risks and lacked the general soul that FF8 had.
I feel like the high points of 7 and 9 go beyond 8, in addition to the average though.
What was it that really aroused you about 8?
>What was it that really aroused you about 8?
It was a story that was grander than life. It isn't just about saving yourself, your loved ones or even humanity. It's about the nature of existence itself, the universe itself being in an eldritch catch-22 timeloop that neither party wants to have happen. Both the protagonist and antagonist realize this is a bad thing and are suffering but they both have different ideas of how to end things. The villain isn't actually evil and essentially just wants to commit suicide to stop the cycle and let everyone just "rest" while the protagonist just wants to protect his loved ones and can't let go of it all and wants to find a way to continue existing without the timeloop.
It's just so much more tragic and unique of a story. FF8 has no villains essentially it's just a story about everyone being in a shitty situation they don't want to be in but not able to get out of it without conflict.
It's cathartic, kino even. Combined with the great card game, amazing soundtrack and best atmosphere of any Final Fantasy Game it is just the best experience if you ask me.
That the combat has some flaws and the story has some plotholes doesn't diminish from the above mentioned points being 10/10 for me.
lmao no way to recover from this one
I wish I'd photoshopped it, that was the actual result.
Can you link the site where you do this at? How can this be accurate in any way? Is it just sentence syntax/structure and if you use big words or not?
writingtoiq dot com
Thanks anon.
IQ is a meme, anyways
Why do you say that?
He likes FF8, which means his IQ starts with an 8.
800
>doesn't realise there's a cap to the scale
spoken like a true ff8 fan
There is no cap once you ascend
The site says it analyzes the vocabulary used to determine an IQ score. You can't honestly expect people to use well thought out, flowery language on a chat site. Also, that wouldn't even be a direct indication of their intelligence anyway
It clearly just rolls a fricking die.
You think you're so frickin' smart don't you with your fancy bookwords. The only thing I need read is my rights 'cause I'm not goin' back to frickin' jail you can frick off with that with for to tell me I need to use book learnings.
Just because you’re from some shithole like Maine or New Hampshire doesn’t mean you have to always like like that
>What was it that really aroused you about 8?
The antagonist is a sorceress with big boobs and cleavage. And there's some sexual tension between the MC and her, especially as she wants to possess your girlfriend. There's this mommydom dynamic going on as a theme throughout the game and I love it.
FF8 has the most soul of any single thing to ever exist and I never even played it myself, just watched my sister play it, and basically all I remember about it is the music. There's that much soul packed into that one single aspect of the game that I almost cry when I hear the music.
This. If Final Fantasy 8 released earlier than Final Fantasy 7 everyone would have shat on Final Fantasy 7 and called the writing shit while Final Fantasy 8 would now have a remake and large fanbase instead.
Final Fantasy 8 got robbed of its deserved spot as best Final Fantasy ever made.
lol the 8 defense force in full cope mode. argument is always "u dIdN'T unDeRStanD it U BraInLeT" when it's never true.
And then it turns out FF8 'chads' are borderline moronic...
>"u dIdN'T unDeRStanD it U BraInLeT"
That’s not what the post you quoted is implying
>the symbol of contrarianism 'unpopular is good' in final fantasy
that's 9 actually
it's the lowest selling mainline, non-MMO game to be released after FF6 and hipsters all over the internet claim it's the best one despite that fact that it's incredibly bland, does a terrible job of developing its characters and barely has an identity because it was built around paying homage to previous games in the series
No I'm not being contrarian. I legitimately liked 8 the best even back in the 00s. I just never revealed it on forums because you would get shat on.
>The card game more than made up for the combat flaws
>The atmosphere, setting and concept more than made up for a story with a central plothole
It still feels very cool to this day and I think it's the most engaging and interesting world Final Fantasy has ever invented.
It's interesting but it's not even a cohesive world. It's like someone randomly threw sci-fi assets together and called it a day. Triple Triad is cool, but it is unfortunately 'the game'. If you do well with cards, you win. It's a dumb system.
The problem with Triple Triad was that player always had better cards than the opponents. It's great game though and the online version against real people with equally good cards and decks across different FFs and other Square RPGs was fricking awesome
I swear Final Fantasy 8 is just one or two youtube video essays away from being considered the greatest final fantasy ever by the mainstream. It has all elements: Genuinely interesting and unique setting, cool plot and concepts, great soundtrack and artstyle that aged the best out of the PS1 FF games.
FF8 is hurt by its dull as frick intro. Every FF game has very explosive intro but FF8 has you in....SCHOOL doing boring school shit.
FF8's intro is fine, except it gives players too much control too early. This slows down the pace massively, because you go exploring the school trying to find shit. Then, it lets you into the world map really early. The fire cavern test doesn't really give you a reasonable indicator: with choices as low as 10m and as high as 40m, the player will likely conclude they are about to undergo a major challenge. What do people do when they expect to face a challenge? They will aim to level up a bit, which actively punishes you in FF8. It's really bad at sign posting what it wants the player to do.
If you know all of this, and you blitz through it, the opening is fine. As much as I shit on 8, I find Dollet to unironically be one of the high points of the series, and was quite disappointed when the game didn't follow suit with it. At all.
>needs video essay to validate a game's quality
>can't simply rely on playing the game itself
ooof
No one is going to play FF8 because it has a bad reputation that isn't warranted anymore. There needs to be a voice that brings in new blood to actually try it out for people to find out FF8 is a hidden gem and secretly the best Final Fantasy game out there.
I can already see titles like "How Final Fantasy 8 aged like fine wine". "Final Fantasy 8 was low-key a masterpiece".
>There needs to be a voice that brings in new blood to actually try it out for people to find out FF8 is a hidden gem and secretly the best Final Fantasy game out there.
There has been a lot of that over the past 20 years
I love FLCL
Anything created by Squaresoft. Nothing created by Square Enix is worth playing.
Might as well ask which std's are worth having and living with
5 to 12 inclusive
>but 4
No
Just X
Nice filter moron
>Final Fantasy 6
6/10
>Final Fantasy 7
4/10
>Final Fantasy 8
9/10
>Final Fantasy 9
5/10
>Final Fantasy 10
10/10
>Final Fantasy 11
6/10
>Final Fantasy 12
4/10
>Final Fantasy 13
9/10
>Final Fantasy 13-2
10/10
>Final Fantasy 15 (dropped)
3/10
>Final Fantasy 16 demo
7/10
>starting at 6
fricking reeks like underage in here
Nah I just didn't appreciate square during the SNES era and liked Enix way more. Terranigma was where it was at.
I played 7 original and 7 remake. beat both and enjoyed them. got ff10 installed but hasn't gripped me
XII and below. XIII, XIV/XIV 2.0 and XV are a fricking blight on the community especially the last two mentioned.
without knowing anything about your tastes, I can only recommend X
1 - Good, comfy, get to pick your jobs. Overaching plot doesn't exist, it's like a set of adventures just for fun.
2 - Awful gameplay, story is kind of interesting but not worth it.
3 - First half is pretty good and well paced, slows down towards the end and becomes a bit of a slog.
4 - Excellent pacing, good gameplay, rare Final Fantasy that is just solid without any major flaws. Story is a bit silly, but fun with enjoyable characters.
5 - Good if you like swapping jobs and grinding, mediocre otherwise.
6 - Masterpiece
Chrono Trigger - Masterpiece
7 - Masterpiece
Tactics - Masterpiece
8 - Almost as bad as 2, level scaling breaks the game. Plot is nonsensical.
9 - Great atmosphere and characters, plot is 10/10 for disc 1 then it goes off the rails, gameplay is exceptionally slow and clunky.
10 - Very good, fantastic.
11 - I never played it.
12 - Love or hate I guess, style randomly copies Star Wars episode 1 which I always found strange.
13 - Not very good but at least it's playable.
14 - Masterpiece.
15 - Not to my taste, but at least it's playable.
What's wrong with X-2? Been thinking of picking up X/X-2.
It's crap, at least compared to X itself.
FFX was amazing because it had a beautiful tragic romance, and X-2 makes a mockery of the entire thing. If it's any help, in the they then retcon FFX into FF7, and wrote an epilogue story where Tidus kicks a blitzball, which turns out to be a landmine, and blows up.
>Ok you got me here
You aren't a teenager anymore. Grow out of this shit.
>wrote an epilogue story where Tidus kicks a blitzball, which turns out to be a landmine, and blows up.
Always makes me laugh how people expect so much out of FFVIIR now that le expectations are subverted and anything can happen not realising the dude responsible for that shit is at the wheel.
It's very campy girl power action. It's not super bad but it did make me cringe even though I was real weeabo. Compared to the more bitter sweet atmo of FFX, FFX-2 is pretty silly
a great game trapped in an ass game with one of the greatest roguelikes as a tagged-on addition nobody ever seems to remember.
it honestly feels like a whim of god.
you need to play to understand.
tactics advance is the only one ive finished
tried playing 1, 6, 7, 14
1,3,4,5,6,7,9,XII,XV
Trannies need not reply
Stranger of Paradise sucks. Wasted 30 bucks.
I thought Jack was LE BASED?
Sure he is okay, but the game is literally a hallway simulator. I've played better JRPG's 20 years ago.
Sorry anon, I feel your pain. I really do. What a dogshit game.
This but I spent full price day 1, game doesn't look very good on ps4 pro
I just want a good story rpg bros... I feel like I've played most of em.
have you played Mother 3?
I'm actually glad FF8 is slowly starting to get the recognition it deserves. I see more and more people praise it every couple of months. Hoping it gets a proper remake so that new people get to experience this masterpiece.
It might be good if they completely rework the gameplay systems are remove the level scaling.
As is, the game is a mess.
Not even talking about the plot.
>when you freely start talking like an e3 exec
ASS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Tactics and Tactics Advance
Okay so after reading the thread which one should I play? 8, 10 or 13?
Play Eight, followed by 10.
6 and 10 for the whole package. 9 for story.
Seven is visually old and outdated.
>this ugly ass looking mod
>better
the cope is unreal.
which has nothing to do with a game being worth playing or not
5-10, tactics, tactics advance, mystic quest
Only real ass homies in this thread
Why is Final Fantasy 7 so popular? I legitimately consider it the worst entry in the series. It meanders on and on and on, isn't that interesting and gets incoherent in the 2nd half. Why the frick did 7 get so much fricking attention and praise and so many fricking spin-offs?
Same reason everything does: a lot of advertising.
It’s was a ton of people’s first and most people don’t beat games so they didn’t see the 2nd half
Advertising. The same reason XVI will be popular even though it's bad.
Just play FFVI TWUE and forget about the rest and play Chrono Trigger for maximum Woolseyism.
FF8 is Chrono Trigger, but good.
Could be idk much about it. The graphics are fugly though it's an awkward transition between 7 and 9
Stranger of paradise if you enjoy action games is so good that it has ruined action RPGs for me.
Top 3
VII
VIII
X
Honorable mentions:
IV
V
VI
XIII-2
And XVI when it comes out
Good list although I feel XIII (1) should be on the honorable mentions as well because you can't play XIII-2 in isolation.
I've only beaten 1 and 4, so.
I will get revenge on my mom. Through rape
dude stop
7, 8, and tactics
GBA or PSP version of IV?
Tactics
VIII (8)
X (10)
XIII (13)
That's it.
He should have said " a hunka hunka burning love"
8 and 10
all these 8gays have to be trolls right?
it's like 1 or 2 people spamming it.
>my reddit ranking can't be wrong can it?
>oh no...I want to fit in
It’s not about fitting in. VIII is objectively leagues below VI, VII, and IX.
chrono trigger is better anyway
I all honesty I don't care for the first 5, and no I'm not a zoomer in fact I'm old and just can't be assed with grinding. 6 though 10 just flow with minimal busy work unless you go austismo on 8 or something.
1 4 5 6 7 9 10 T TA dissidia theathrythm SoP
4
>good story that plays a big part in the gameplay, something rare in the genre
>you get to go to the moon which is based
6
>don't really remember much about it but it has a lot of characters, each charming on its own
>has a cool sad twist, gets depressing, like Zelda Oot somewhat
7
>great characters, decent story
>good mix of humor and fricked up shit, some themes are a bit out there and that's missed in games nowadays
8
>gotta be honest with you, haven't beat it, haven't got past Disc 1, but it has a story that gets fricking weird and that can be good if you're curious enough
9
>great artstyle and characters, has a somewhat infantile tone but the story is still solid
>gameplay is ass, sorry but it's true, it's the classic action bar but somehow crappy, like, you'll tell your characters to attack but before they do the game waits for the enemy to attack and just throws off balance whatever plans you had, and it happened to me a lot, it's really annoying and can lead you to lose fights
10
>great characters, including the moronic ones, except Kimahri
>somewhat happysour adventure, plenty of feels, very varied
>cool worldbuilding
12
>it's just kinda comfy to go out to do the hunts
>and customize your party
>and spend time on menus listening to the OST, might be nostalgia but it's just really comforting to me
>the dungeons are dogshit and the later optional bosses too
7/8/9
Forget the rest
T H I S
You should give 10 a try. it's my favorite in the entire series, but I also know people who really don't care for it.
You either love it or hate it for a multitude of reasons. I played it like 10 years after release so it's not nostalgia goggles either.
The first ten are all great, with IV through IX being the peak. After that it's more controversial, but they're still fun from what I've played. XI and XIV are good MMOs and XII is pretty good.
IV, VI, and VII are my favorites.
VI, VII, IX, and X are all great and easy to get into
I, III, IV, V, and VIII when you've refined your pallete a bit more and gotten used the series' common tropes and systems
XII, XIII, and XV if you're willing to put up with some mediocrity
Don't play II, it's terrible.
7
Anything up till XII with the exception of X-2 and maybe 1-3.
I
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
XIII
XIII-2
XVI
The only ones you'll ever need
why do people love XIII? Lightning has no ass.
>The act is meaningless; I give it meaning.
>this isn't just a reactor
decades later I still have no idea what this line is supposed to mean or be hinting towards
chrono trigger
that's all
overrated as frick
I just started strangers of paradise. Why do I sometimes level up jobs I'm not using?
probably due to the affinity of your gear
If only played I-VI but out of those, IV, V, and VI are great. I and III are also very enjoyable if you enjoy very traditional jrpgs
Adding to the reply count.
4, 6, 7 and X
anyone skipping X or adding in 9 are delusional
gay bait
How about you prove me wrong instead of just crying that I am?
>it's a "Final homosexualry fans scream their inane opinions about which games in this shit franchise are the best into the void for the six millionth time and no one actually reads any of it" thread
This is why this franchise has the appearance of being popular - because the people who like it are brainless enough that they are happy to engage in this endless repetition over and over again.
kek
>could have tried to prove me wrong
>just helped put the thread into bump limit
thanks for vindicating me
not that anon also Tidus will always be cringe!
>Tidus will always be cringe
Correct, which is part of the reason he's beloved and memorable
Done.
3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
not covering spinoffs