Comments on: Final Fantasy: A Restrospectivation

By: Aufero

Aufero — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:27:00 +0000

I only played FF1 – after that, I figured I’d done the Final Fantasy experience and didn’t need to pay for 57 more games.

By: Selby

Selby — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:31:28 +0000

Relm with Ultima is just as good as any other character with the spell (probably better since her magic power is higher by default unless you grind it up).

By: Triforcer

Triforcer — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:45 +0000

Who would put Relm in the final group fighting Kefka? Noob.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:36:09 +0000

FF X-2 reminded me of King’s Quest 7.

By: Iconic

Iconic — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:47:25 +0000

“Just re-played 6 this past month and the angst\whining still annoys me, but it’s still a good time.”

Kefka still ranks as one of the most entertaining video game villains of all time.

Hwa-hwa-hwa!

By: Selby

Selby — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:07:53 +0000

Strangely, FF1 is my favorite. 2 was okay once I figured out how to cheat the stat system and overpower myself (note to self: do hit points before weapons). IV was fun at the time. Just re-played 6 this past month and the angst\whining still annoys me, but it’s still a good time.

By: Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:10:03 +0000

I liked FF7, but annoyingly enough I can’t make it run under XP, where FF8 which uses only a very slightly later version of the same launcher can.

By: Iconic

Iconic — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:27:07 +0000

Pretty much spot on as far as I’m concerned.

Is any one else as un excited about FF13 as I am? Maybe I’ve just outgrown the series, but as far as I’m concerned it peaked when FF10 did what was seemingly impossible and blew away 3 and 7 combined. Hey, wait, maybe that means that FF20 will blow 3, 7, and 10 away. I probably only need to wait another 20 years or so…

By: elijah

elijah — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:22:53 +0000

wow jesus did FF8 suck. i ike how you mention the draw system to be the worst part of the game. i disagree. i damn near melted my game discs after i realized the 20 hours i spent leveling up to 100 was useless because it just made the game batshit stupid hard. and the fact that the summons took 11 decades and a month to finish. i never completed the game. i got to the part where you have to save rinoa, and then i chucked the discs in my back yard as hard as i could.

10 was probably my favorite. the leveling up system was pretty neat, and i really liked the fact that if i wanted to put the time into it, my people could become the gods a console RPG character is supposed to be. there is nothing quite like casting haste 9 times on rikku after getting her ultimate weapon and the hp/damage break and having her attack 8 times in a row every other combat action doing 17000 damage per hit.

i also really like 7, for much the same reason above. plus there was a lot of side quests to do, so it really made exploring the world worthwhile, which is always something i liked to do.

after that, definitely 6. but that was because a friend i had way back then and i would always do the co-op play on it. and co-op in an RPG like that is pretty fun.

having said all that, the phantasy star series is leagues better. phantasy star 2 is probably the greatest RPG ever made.

By: Jeff Freeman

Jeff Freeman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:56:43 +0000

You have to get beaten to gain hit points. This is not a message we want to be sharing with our children.

“No pain, no gain.”

“Learn From Failure and Confirm with Success.”

“Whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.”

I think it’d be a fine thing for a game to make that statement explicitly and support it implicitly through game play.

I wish more games did that sort of thing. At the very least give me something to disagree with. The potential for a game’s explicit statement to be undermined by poor game design is awesome, too.

Never played FF2, but I’m assuming that was an implicit message anyway and my comment is totally irrelevant… so… ok.