[Gortef]

Originally posted by Setekh


Hey, I liked VII a lot.

Same here... and of course as you said the storyline was absolutely fantastic
Man did I enjoy when I got Omnishlash for Cloud

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by JR2000Z
I enjoyed the Aki Ross bikini video.
 

I SOOOOOO knew, that someone was gonna say that sooner or later.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Setekh
That's the fun of it. Wait till you get to all the high-power enemies and super attacks... it's damn fun. And the storyline, of course, is brilliant.

IMHO the story was one of the really good things about the movie, i guess its something they took from the games.

[JR2000Z]

FF VII was the gayest FF ever.

FF VIII is one of my favorates

FF IX is decent.

FF X  is pretty good.

[Styxx]

Bah, FFIV was the best ever! The latest ones just have better graphics...

[aldo_14]

I have FFIV on a SNES emulatir simewhere...it's pretty addictive

[Kamikaze]

Hey here's all I've played :

FF1: ummm, 32 bit colors are A1-Supar
FF2: See above
FF3: The grandaddy of FFV
FF4: Nice love it - a classic
FF5: Major Suckage - right here
FF6: Great, Great and Great - Love the 4 character Ultima rounds
FF7: Fun but not a favorite.
FF8: I like, nice and mature. A favorite.
FF9: Decent
FF10: Pretty Graphics *drools*
FFMysticQuest: Desecration to Square

Oh, and additionally

CT:
CC: I love the ending!!!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Hey here's all I've played :

FF1: ummm, 32 bit colors are A1-Supar
FF2: See above
FF3: The grandaddy of FFV
FF4: Nice love it - a classic
FF5: Major Suckage - right here
FF6: Great, Great and Great - Love the 4 character Ultima rounds
FF7: Fun but not a favorite.
FF8: I like, nice and mature. A favorite.
FF9: Decent
FF10: Pretty Graphics *drools*
FFMysticQuest: Desecration to Square

Oh, and additionally

CT:
CC: I love the ending!!!

hey! don't diss MysticQuest, it's the only console RPG I played ( and I enjoyed it, too), on gameboy

[JR2000Z]

It seems like the only word to decribe FF IX is 'decent'.

[Zeronet]

FF9 was decent, it was set in the past and thus not as good as the others IMO.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by venom2506


hey! don't diss MysticQuest, it's the only console RPG I played ( and I enjoyed it, too), on gameboy

Um... Final Fantasy MysticQuest was a console title. You may be thinking of FinalFantasy Adventure or FinalFantasy Legends. Neither series was actually Final Fantasy.

One was actually Seiken Densetsu (FF Adventure). Secret of Mana and Legend of Man (and the fan translated Seiken Densetsu II) were other games from this series. Common elements were the Mana Tree, the Mana Fortress, the Gemma Knights, 'action' oriented game play and 'companion' characters. Square of America took this style of game and produced the unrelated (beyond basic style) Secret of Evermore. Notably Secret of Evermore was the first time Nintendo, on either side of the ocean, used Silicon Graphics machines to design in game elements. They hyped this entirely too much.

The other I cannot recall what series Final Fantasy Legends was in Japan, but it is one of my favorites. I own all of them around here somewhere.

Final Fantasy V was an absolute masterwork of a game, in my opinion. It was one of Square's 'system' games in the FF series. The system it pioneered saw reuse in, among other things, Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy X.

Final Fantasy IX was a great game, but it was just a 'story' game and did not seek in any way to innovate, but rather to celebrate all the games that came before it. In this, it succeeded quite well, containing many back references, both visually and audibly. The only things I didn't like about FFX was how easy it was (way way too easy) and the Star Wars quote. That just didn't seem to fit.

Oh, and, in my opinion, no Final Fantasy will ever outdo Final Fantasy VI for raw emotional power, storytelling, epic sweep and pure granduer. It also had kickass game play. Final Fantasy X comes close on the everything except epic sweep and gameplay. It has Granduer, emotional power and storytelling aplenty.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by venom2506


hey! don't diss MysticQuest, it's the only console RPG I played ( and I enjoyed it, too), on gameboy

You're missing out on a lot

It seems like the only word to decribe FF IX is 'decent'.

Well here's the list of decency:
1. soso plot
2. nice characters - some of them
3. No Uber-spells (Arc sucks, so does Melton)
4. Bleah

That sums it up

FF9 was decent, it was set in the past and thus not as good as the others IMO.

Try Chrono Cross - it was kind of a mix of future and past (well... sort of)

[Nico]

the one I played was called secret of mana, you could name your character and his g/friend, funny

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by mikhael

Final Fantasy V was an absolute masterwork of a game, in my opinion. It was one of Square's 'system' games in the FF series. The system it pioneered saw reuse in, among other things, Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy X.

Final Fantasy IX was a great game, but it was just a 'story' game and did not seek in any way to innovate, but rather to celebrate all the games that came before it. In this, it succeeded quite well, containing many back references, both visually and audibly. The only things I didn't like about FFX was how easy it was (way way too easy) and the Star Wars quote. That just didn't seem to fit.

Oh, and, in my opinion, no Final Fantasy will ever outdo Final Fantasy VI for raw emotional power, storytelling, epic sweep and pure granduer. It also had kickass game play. Final Fantasy X comes close on the everything except epic sweep and gameplay. It has Granduer, emotional power and storytelling aplenty.

But FFV lacked a story that, well, actually made me cry or go all emotional - the lack of distinct uses of classes in an effective way detracted too...
But the system was great - though I don't see any similarities between X and V...

FFX was easy - Swing for... 40,000 damage OH YEAH!

VI was great... really great, so great I played through it three times (not done with the 3rd)

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by venom2506
the one I played was called secret of mana, you could name your character and his g/friend, funny

Play Final Fantasy - you'll see where Squares money really  went

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Kamikaze


But FFV lacked a story that, well, actually made me cry or go all emotional - the lack of distinct uses of classes in an effective way detracted too...
But the system was great - though I don't see any similarities between X and V...

FFV was, like I said, a system game. FF1 lacked an emotional story too, but its still a great game.

The Sphere Grid in FFX is the Job System with a cosmetic face lift. You earn AP in both systems to allow you to progress to different skills. In both systems, you are able to make jumps between the jobs. Doing so stops your advancement on that job and starts it on another. Final Fantasy X uses Friend/Return/BlackMagic/WhiteMagic/Special spheres for doing exactly this. Elements of the job system carried over into FF6 as well, but only in the Esper's growing abilities.

[Zeronet]

FF7 was emotional.

[JR2000Z]

Eh.


In my opinion, FF 8 is more emotional than FF 7.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by mikhael


FFV was, like I said, a system game. FF1 lacked an emotional story too, but its still a great game.

The Sphere Grid in FFX is the Job System with a cosmetic face lift. You earn AP in both systems to allow you to progress to different skills. In both systems, you are able to make jumps between the jobs. Doing so stops your advancement on that job and starts it on another. Final Fantasy X uses Friend/Return/BlackMagic/WhiteMagic/Special spheres for doing exactly this. Elements of the job system carried over into FF6 as well, but only in the Esper's growing abilities.

Well... I'd say that FFX is inspired but I wouldn't go far as say based - in my mind the Sphere Board is a bit different.

BTW: FF8 was way more character - character.

[Styxx]

Well, on the visuals department, all FFs since VII look damn weird.