Final Fantasy?

[tsugomaru]

Re: Final Fantasy?

The World Ends with You is a good game, but only for its amazing battle system. The first time going through it, the story was simply amazing, but after playing it a second time, it seemed to only get in the way because you couldn't skip through any of the text.

FFTA had an okay story and the gameplay was decent. In FFTA2, it balanced a lot of things in FFTA that was easily abusable (but also introduced some imbalanced combos), but the story sucked terribly.

~Tsugomaru

[ryanisadouche]

Re: Final Fantasy?

They're all pretty bad.

There are dozens of under-appreciated RPG franchises out there that far outclass Final Fantasy, and playing one Final Fantasy game next to any of these RPGs will prove that very quickly.

List of better franchises:

Chrono
Mother
Tales
Suikoden
Seiken Densetsu (Mana)
Lufia
Breath of Fire
Phantasy Star
Star Ocean
Shin Megami Tensei
Disgaea
Pokemon
Xeno
Wild Arms
Ogre

Hell, even Dragon Quest is better.

I've played phantasy star and i liked it a lot. Dont recognize any of the others. I guess I'm really just looking for a good game to play it doesn't have to be final fantasy. My all-time favorite is hands down (don't laugh) Super Mario RPG. Too me it's got the perfect balance of gameplay, storyline, graphics, and everything, but i've never found a similar game. Any suggestions?

[SithCait22]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Star Ocean, no lie, play all of them, now.
Suikoden is a good choice as with Disgaea and Shin Megami Tensei.

[ryanisadouche]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Star Ocean, no lie, play all of them, now.
Suikoden is a good choice as with Disgaea and Shin Megami Tensei.

No offence, but I'm really not looking to play a japanese game. Anime in general just annoys me (With the exception of DBZ being amazing).

[SithCait22]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Star ocean is english...wth?
And suikoden isnt exactly 100% based on the anime, not much at all IIRC

[psychopete]

Re: Final Fantasy?

tsugomaru, Luso made me sad, just because he sucked as a main character. He was bad enough to make me miss Marche. That pansy little bitch.

Also, tsugomaru, Persona 3. Yeah, PS2, whatever, it's still an amazing game, if you haven't played it. For the 360, Eternal Sonata was also a fun RPG. It combined a great RPG combat system with musical fanservice. It's awesome.

Also, as for anime games, they just happen to have the anime art style. An art style shouldn't stop you from playing grade-A title.

[ryanisadouche]

Re: Final Fantasy?

I'll have to look into Star Ocean then, squeek put it on his list too. The other 2 definitly sounded japanese though lol

Oh i loved the Dragon Quest series too, maybe just cause i grew up with them though

[psychopete]

Re: Final Fantasy?

I'll have to look into Star Ocean then, squeek put it on his list too. The other 2 definitly sounded japanese though lol

To be honest, like, everything on Squeek's list is Japanese.

[Squeek]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Japanese Role-Playing Games tend to be Japanese.

Western Role-Playing Games tend to suck.

They're a completely different genre. JRPGs are story-driven epic adventures. WRPGs are mindless hack-and-slash time-wasters.

Pokemon is Japanese. Final Fantasy is Japanese. Don't let the lack of English scare you away from a potentially great game. Arguably the best RPG of 2007 was Persona 3, which you may recognize. However, it's part of the Shin Megami Tensei series, which apparently you haven't heard of.

The games are translated here in the States when they come over. Sometimes the translators don't translate the titles because it sounds better in its original format. These days, more and more games are sticking as close to their Japanese origin as possible because they know fans of jRPGs want their games to be as close to what it was intended to be as possible. In Persona 3, Japanese honorifics remain in the game, on top of the untranslated romanized Japanese names of characters. You can still read it. It's in English. There's no cutesy anime ****. In fact, in Persona 3, you shoot yourself in the head. A lot.

Though I wouldn't really recommend it to someone who doesn't have any taste in Japanese culture as the game takes place in a Japanese environment in the format of a Japanese dating sim game (though it is far from being one) when not engaged in the dungeon-crawling aspects of the game.

[ELRayford]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Hey gauise im on a power run right now. Working on getting cecil to a lvl 99 darky before he goes pally. I am just before getting yang and at lvl 28 with Cecil.

[tuv]

Re: Final Fantasy?

tales of destiny and tales of eternia are the best games ever...

[NFD]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Final Fantasy IX was my favourite, it had ViVi.

[ShAiOnEi]

Re: Final Fantasy?

Try final fantasy tactics advance, really great story and gameplay. Hours of fun literally.

[marioGP87]

Re: Final Fantasy?

They're all pretty bad.

There are dozens of under-appreciated RPG franchises out there that far outclass Final Fantasy, and playing one Final Fantasy game next to any of these RPGs will prove that very quickly.

List of better franchises:

Chrono
Mother
Tales
Suikoden
Seiken Densetsu (Mana)
Lufia
Breath of Fire
Phantasy Star
Star Ocean
Shin Megami Tensei
Disgaea
Pokemon
Xeno
Wild Arms
Ogre

Hell, even Dragon Quest is better.

For once, I agree with Squeek. Except for Pokemon

Though FF 6,7, 8, and 9 are my favorites. I played FF1 & 2 but, I had a WTF feeling on those two. FF3 (for the DS) was good. Pokemon is just "random enemy appeared!!!" kind. I haven't tried Breath of Fire or Lufia but, I'll play those on my bootlegged PS2 >=3. I have BoF 5 and Lufia. Other then that, I pretty much played all the games that Squeek mentioned.

As to recommending which FF game to start, it's your choice.

[Xx{Midday}xX]

Re: Final Fantasy?

FFT is the best FF. Until FFVersusXIII comes out.

Mother isn't that fun... the game is too straightforward. No collector's fever, not too many secrets, story is too comedic... etc. I like the concept, but not the way it's represented. Played 1-3

Chrono Trigger was fun. Chrono Cross was fun too iirc, but these are games I played when I was like 10. So I don't remember them well.

Tales. Epic series. We all heard Shash's opinion on his amazing 100% completion display on Tales of Symphonia. The animation series for these have high quality pictures too. Tales of Vesperia is the first Xbox360 only game... sort of sad about that. I've played everything except Fandom (dumb party game). Phantasia Symphonia Tempest Legendia Rebirth Destiny Destiny2 Abyss i missed some. All of these stories are related to each other. Oh, I haven't played Symphonia2.

Suikoden - extremely underated...

Breath of Fire - was fun. i played 1 and 2 on an emulator... but i dont remember it well either.

Star Ocean - i only know the anime. it sucked.

Disgaea - a good tactics game with excessively large numbers... in relation to Disgaea, Phantom Brave and Phantom Kingdom are good games too.

Pokemon - good RPG for a person with collector's fever. very intricate and diverse methods of obtaining various pokemon. a surprisingly difficult feat to get 100% (excluding off-colored pokemon). played red blue yellow green gold silver crystal

Dragon Quest - LOL WHAT i played 1-8. And Swords was a rip-off. Dragon Quest 8 < Final Fantasy VII... sorry. But, I like how all the Dragon Quests are related to each other.