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Pick your favorite game. (Original Series only)

Final Fantasy
3 (2.3%)
Final Fantasy II
1 (0.8%)
Final Fantasy III
3 (2.3%)
Final Fantasy IV (II)
7 (5.3%)
Final Fantasy V
1 (0.8%)
Final Fantasy VI (III)
29 (22.1%)
Final Fantasy VII
37 (28.2%)
Final Fantasy VIII
10 (7.6%)
Final Fantasy IX
17 (13%)
Final Fantasy X
13 (9.9%)
Final Fantasy XI
0 (0%)
Final Fantasy XII
7 (5.3%)
Final Fantasy XIII
3 (2.3%)

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #105 on: September 21, 2009, 05:40:03 PM »
Hah. I actually started Final Fantasy VII yesterday on a PSX-emulator. This is my fourth or fifth time plowing through this game, and it's just as exciting as it was ten years ago! I can't believe how fantastic this game is! After ten minutes i've gotten used to the pre-2000 graphics, and im back to being 12 years old again! I love this game..
The story is amazing, the gameplay is fantastic, the graphics are not THAT outdated and all the little details still blows my mind..
Im not kidding - best game (IMO) EVER!

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« Reply #106 on: September 21, 2009, 06:11:01 PM »
FFVI and FFVII are 2 of the best games ever made, bar none.

Thanks to FFVII overshadowing it, not many people come to realize how absolutely genius FFVI really was. Easily one of the most influential RPGs of all time. VII is great as well, but VI is something that no game designer will ever be able to re-imagine. A seventeen minute long final boss theme, with a villain who was easily the most evil human in video game history, who actually destroyed the planet before you saved it? Perfection.

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« Reply #107 on: September 21, 2009, 06:49:42 PM »
FFVI and FFVII are 2 of the best games ever made, bar none.

Thanks to FFVII overshadowing it, not many people come to realize how absolutely genius FFVI really was. Easily one of the most influential RPGs of all time. VII is great as well, but VI is something that no game designer will ever be able to re-imagine. A seventeen minute long final boss theme, with a villain who was easily the most evil human in video game history, who actually destroyed the planet before you saved it? Perfection.

Amen, bro.  FFVI is pure genius.  The plot was great and creative, and it had subtleties and layers to it that are largely absent from most game plots today.  The characters were memorable and unique, and like you said, the soundtrack is amazing.  The gameplay may seem far outdated now, but back then it was still fairly new and innovative.  My only gripe has ever been the somewhat low difficulty level, although I remember struggling at parts when I played it as a kid.

FFVII is a great game in its own right.  But IMO, it's criminal that it gets so much recognition while its superior predecessor is quickly becoming forgotten.

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #108 on: October 13, 2009, 08:58:03 PM »
FINALLY got a hold of Final Fantasy VII, bought it from the Playstation Store and now rocking it on the PSP :metal

Sooooooo much awesome

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« Reply #109 on: October 14, 2009, 01:27:14 AM »
I also did that while traveling around to the UK prog nation dates :metal

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #110 on: October 14, 2009, 04:45:07 AM »
Well, I believe it was you who let me know how to get it.  Thank you, you are a good, good man.

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #111 on: October 14, 2009, 02:43:11 PM »
Well, I believe it was you who let me know how to get it.  Thank you, you are a good, good man.
Do you need a PS3 for that, or is it available on the PSP store?
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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #112 on: October 14, 2009, 03:07:59 PM »
Well, I believe it was you who let me know how to get it.  Thank you, you are a good, good man.
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Well, I believe it was you who let me know how to get it.  Thank you, you are a good, good man.
Do you need a PS3 for that, or is it available on the PSP store?
Once someone buys it from the PSN store, you can put it on 5 different PSPs before it locks out.

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« Reply #113 on: October 14, 2009, 03:18:16 PM »
Well, I believe it was you who let me know how to get it.  Thank you, you are a good, good man.
:hat

Well, I believe it was you who let me know how to get it.  Thank you, you are a good, good man.
Do you need a PS3 for that, or is it available on the PSP store?
Once someone buys it from the PSN store, you can put it on 5 different PSPs before it locks out.
So, it's just downloaded to a memory stick?
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« Reply #114 on: October 14, 2009, 03:22:47 PM »
Nope. You plug the PSP into the PS3 via USB cable (the cable that you use to charge the controller will also plug into the PSP), go to the game you want to put on it and choose copy.

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« Reply #115 on: October 14, 2009, 03:39:00 PM »
Nope. You plug the PSP into the PS3 via USB cable (the cable that you use to charge the controller will also plug into the PSP), go to the game you want to put on it and choose copy.
Well, obviously I still need a PS3 for that, but when you copy, is it copied onto the memory stick of the PSP?

Need PS3 nao.
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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #116 on: October 14, 2009, 03:39:35 PM »
Sorry, I misunderstood your question.

Yes, it is.

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« Reply #117 on: October 14, 2009, 03:41:09 PM »
In other news, I think some FFVII would be a lot of fun right now.
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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #118 on: October 14, 2009, 05:55:00 PM »
I think the just made a way to download it to your PSP through the PS store online, I was gonna try it but its windows only.

More like windohs.  

I think its called MediaGo

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #119 on: October 16, 2009, 10:24:54 AM »
I tried resisting, but I'm actually starting to get excited about FFXIII. Weird.

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« Reply #120 on: October 16, 2009, 06:00:43 PM »
The first disc of Final Fantasy VII had some very annoying sections.  The marching minigame with the patriotic music playing the whole time was as annoying a minigame as I can remember in a Final Fantasy game.  Almost everything surrounding the Golden Saucer was annoying.

The second and third discs were the amazing part of the game, but when I played it the first disc was more than two thirds of the game time.  That's what gets me for the game, as good as it is in the end it has some of the most annoying sections within the entire final fantasy series, and you can't skip them.

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« Reply #121 on: October 16, 2009, 06:06:14 PM »
The crazy thing is that I loved pretty much everything in the Golden Saucer.

Something that seems to happen to me in every FF game I've played, and I don't know if it's just my playstyle or that's how the games are, but I'll be going through the game fine, running into a few bosses here and there that genuinely challenge me, then I get to the final boss and it's a brick wall. I absolutely can not finish up the game. Then I have to go off and grind levels, bringing the momentum the story's built up to that point to a stop, and then once I go back to try again the boss ends up being a pushover. FF Tactics, 7, 8, 9, and 10 have all done this to me.

FF 8 was especially disappointing because Squall pretty much slaughtered everything by himself.

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #122 on: October 16, 2009, 06:15:55 PM »
FFVIII had the combination of the junction system and the random enemies that level with you, making it really easy to superpower yourself early in the game and totally breeze through all the bosses until near the end.

By the way, Gold Saucer ftw, I spent hours playing that stupid roller coaster shooting game, and the Chocobo races. Also getting to take Barret out on a date is teh best them.

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« Reply #123 on: October 16, 2009, 06:25:36 PM »
But none of the games have been particularly difficult.  The original FF1, the Japanese "hard" version (or whatever) of FF4, and MAYBE FF5 are the only ones I'd consider somewhat challenging.  Especially 4; damn that version isn't even fun.  :lol

The rest may have had a couple of bosses here and there that were a little tough--albeit far from insurmountable--but on the whole the games aren't too challenging at all (and I'm far from a video game "expert" of any kind).  Luckily, the more recent games (7 onward) have had a super hard boss or something "post-game" to offer that actually takes some serious preparation and strategy.

In reality, that's really all that can be done without some fundamental change to the gameplay, because with the freedom to level up and overpower your team at any point, it's hard to make a game challenging throughout.

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« Reply #124 on: October 16, 2009, 06:30:24 PM »
Yeah, I realize that giving people the option to overlevel bosses is a mainstay of the series. I just find it annoying that I can be pretty much breezing through the game fine, for the most part, and then I get to the end and I get roflstomped with no warning otherwise that it's coming.

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« Reply #125 on: October 17, 2009, 02:30:26 AM »
The first disc of Final Fantasy VII had some very annoying sections.  The marching minigame with the patriotic music playing the whole time was as annoying a minigame as I can remember in a Final Fantasy game.  Almost everything surrounding the Golden Saucer was annoying.
Tell me about it. I'm struggling to get through it at the moment.

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« Reply #126 on: October 17, 2009, 02:39:45 AM »
Has anyone else seen this trailer for FF XIII?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfl36IiYkJo

It's mostly ingame cinematics it looks like but there is gameplay footage.

I was excited for it before but I'm even more excited now.
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« Reply #127 on: October 17, 2009, 02:40:42 AM »
Is that the one that comes with Advent Children on blu-ray?

If so, it's such a good trailer.

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« Reply #128 on: October 17, 2009, 02:51:05 AM »
Not as far as I know. It's just a trailer for FF XIII. It came out pretty recently I think.
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« Reply #129 on: October 17, 2009, 04:52:16 AM »
Not as far as I know. It's just a trailer for FF XIII. It came out pretty recently I think.
Yeah Advent Children was re-released recently with additional scenes (and also in HD on Bluray), and it came with a trailer for FF XIII, so it might well be the same one.

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« Reply #130 on: October 17, 2009, 12:28:16 PM »
I just did a bit of searching and they are not the same trailers. This one is new.
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« Reply #131 on: October 17, 2009, 12:35:19 PM »
The first disc of Final Fantasy VII had some very annoying sections.  The marching minigame with the patriotic music playing the whole time was as annoying a minigame as I can remember in a Final Fantasy game.  Almost everything surrounding the Golden Saucer was annoying.
Tell me about it. I'm struggling to get through it at the moment.

You guys are nuts, the who Junon section is great.

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« Reply #132 on: October 17, 2009, 12:57:03 PM »
The marching thing is fun, and hilarious when you're fucking up real bad. That music though, after a while its very tiresome.

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« Reply #133 on: October 17, 2009, 01:08:03 PM »
The first disc of Final Fantasy VII had some very annoying sections.  The marching minigame with the patriotic music playing the whole time was as annoying a minigame as I can remember in a Final Fantasy game.  Almost everything surrounding the Golden Saucer was annoying.
Tell me about it. I'm struggling to get through it at the moment.

You guys are nuts, the who Junon section is great.
I meant the entire first disc.

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #134 on: October 17, 2009, 01:13:46 PM »
That's why you just turn away from the masses masturbating to VII and play some IX.

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
« Reply #135 on: October 17, 2009, 01:16:10 PM »
IX is my favourite FF game :hat

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Re: Final Fantasy Discussion Thread
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« Reply #137 on: October 17, 2009, 01:37:31 PM »
FFIX was great, it gets too much unfair criticism for the change in character design. The characters and the world/setting especially, are some of the best FF has to offer in my opinion. It holds my top spot of the PS/PS2 FF's, sorta tied with VII (depends on which one I played most recently).

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« Reply #138 on: October 17, 2009, 01:44:47 PM »
I didn't even mind the characters. I just thought having to grind out your skills off of your weapons was ridiculously stupid gameplay, so much that I didn't bother finishing the game. Having to keep spheres on hand to advance your characters in X pissed me off a fair amount, too.

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« Reply #139 on: October 17, 2009, 01:56:15 PM »
Strangely, I liked the skill leveling system in FFIX, but I can definitely see how some wouldn't.
 
Sphere Grid was a neat idea, and its pretty cool at first, but in the end all your characters end up as clones of each other for the most part :/. And needing to have a million spheres all the time does get old.