Which Final Fantasy do you like best?

No, not a remake, but a new game using the old "rules" if you will. For example, the original character classes that you could upgrade, buying spells insted of just knowing them at the next level up, junk like that. Point being, you get to make a lot of the choices of character skill development and such that today's games took from you. Not that you can't customise your characters, but many seem pre-fab, as deep and well written as they may be. I guess it would be really difficult to incorporate cinematic cutscenes and the like without having a perdetermined cast and script, and with today's technology game developers are pushing for hotter graphics, voice acting and pre-written characters that suit the storytelling, but sometimes I wonder if it could be done and if so, how to do it while still making the game marketable.

A mish-mash of all the good qualities of the 2D games would be better. I hated FF1's class system, it was shit. FF5 job system go get.

A mish-mash of all the good qualities of the 2D games would be better.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say! Most of what made FF memorable to me came out in the 2d games, with the exceptions of the materia system in VII and the junctioning and Triple Triad game in VIII.

I dunno..I kinda prefer set characters with set skills. Some customization of course, but I'd like to have the big, buff guy be a better knight than the little scrawny teenage girl.

I dunno..I kinda prefer set characters with set skills. Some customization of course, but I'd like to have the big, buff guy be a better knight than the little scrawny teenage girl.

The glory of 2D is that you can make them all look the same and leave the 'real' appearance up to the player. I don't think they could have masked Fairs being a girl in 3D very well what with the nude scene and all. But you do have a point and I'll just leave it at that.

The glory of 2D is that you can make them all look the same and leave the 'real' appearance up to the player.

Yes! And that is why they were called Role playing games!

So basically you want FF9?

But yes V was great, I liked it over VI.

IX is the best in my opinion, it's like a modernised classic. Then VII, just cause it's amazing and you know it. Then V. The rest I haven't finished.

If I had tp pick just ONE of the franchise to take to a desterted island and play forever, something most representative of the whole ball of wax, I'd pick Tactics.

I just want the series to get a little darker, and want their characters to show more dimension.

I want Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

I want Final Fantasy Versus XIII.

Seconded.

Motion Carried!

EVERY. SINGLE. TACTICS. GAME. EVER. MADE.

This topic was better off dead

It was probably found because that other guy made a "Best 'Fina' Fantasy Game Ever" or whatever and this guy followed the locked topic to here.

And, question: FFVI is meaning the one with Kefka and Terra?

Yes.

Ty <3 Getting that for my PSP :3

All of them up to the one with Cloud in it.

Final Fantasy X-2 cause of its awesome story and soundtrack
Final Fantasy XII cause of being a great fun game.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 cause the first game was brilliant!

Doing a super bump on this due to some new Final Fantasy titles that have recently come out. I think I'm more or less up to date with the releases, minus the individual Crystal Chronicles titles, SaGa series, Chocobo series, and titles yet to come like Versus XIII. We now have Final Fantasy XIII (March 2010), Final Fantasy XIV: Online (September 2010), and Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (October 2010) added to the list.

Pretty much everyone knows about Final Fantasy XIII, there was a lot of talk about it when it came out this past spring as the first Final Fantasy title on the PS3. When Cocoon City is threatened, six warriors choose by destiny must choose between saving mankind and saving themselves.

Final Fantasy XIV: Online came out somewhat as a surprise since they haven't even finished working on Versus XIII yet... but maybe they should have waited a bit more considering how badly it seems to have turned out. Only got a 4 out of 10 from GameSpot.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light was released last year in Japan for the Nintendo DS, and has just recently made it's way to the rest of the world. It's "a classic fantasy RPG using today's technology", letting players feel the warm nostalgia of old-school while still keeping it fresh with the new.

WOOOOOOO FIRST TO VOTE FOR XIII

I thought the story was compelling and incredibly well written for a damn videogame. I loved almost all of the characters by the end of it- even Hope, who I -hated- at first. I loved battles despite being so heavily autonomous. It's not that you're not fighting- it's that you're fighting in a different way. You're commanding. It's the difference between being the foot soldier and the general who directs him, in my opinion. As a matter of fact, if you view the game as an interactive movie, rather than an RPG, I think it's probably a lot more fulfilling.

Yeah, but it was meant to be an RPG, ahaha. But viewing it as an interactive movie does seem more accurate simply based on what I've heard about the game. Also, I think FFXIV is getting a lot of hate because they expect it to be the next WoW or something; they really need to give it a couple of months to let it patch, fix things, and improve the system. Although I can't really say for sure because I haven't played it, and crap shouldn't be released even if they plan to patch it in the future.

Being stuck on the amount of time and monthly cash flow I have invested in WoW, online FF will likely not make it into my game schedule- I have little free time as it is anymore. Maybe if I was single and independantly wealthy... oh well.

If you were to look at the game I'm designing (plug plug) you'll see a lot of the features that I thought made the series good with the glaring omission of customisable character skills. It was the immersive world and the storytelling, a story of heroism and sometimes sacrifice, that I loved.

Final Fantasy XIV: Online came out somewhat as a surprise since they haven't even finished working on Versus XIII yet... but maybe they should have waited a bit more considering how badly it seems to have turned out. Only got a 4 out of 10 from GameSpot.

Completely different team made it, it wasn't a surprise on like 'bam here's a game,' it's been in development for a very long time.

Four Heroes of Light is great, in my opinion. I love the crazy artstyle and its homage-y gameplay. It's way better than 13 or 14... combined.

I've yet to try that flavor of soda. I should look for a rom later...