Final Fantasy X-2 is retarded.

[Dead Princess Sakana]

Now I know a lot of genres have picked up RPG elements over the years, but FFXIII is trying something bold and exciting: a movie with RPG elements!

Funnily enough, that makes me look forward to it more, even if I am very surprised. I don't mind that kind of games, let's see how they managed to handle it.

[Matsuri]

Frankly I loved the Final Fantasy series a lot more back when the games weren't so easy they practically played themselves. :V

[Bananamatic]

Frankly I loved the Final Fantasy series a lot more back when the games weren't so easy they practically played themselves. :V

That's why I don't care about the series anymore :V
I want hard ass games lately :V

[Ghaleon]

That's why I don't care about the series anymore :V
I want hard ass games lately :V

Aye.. I remember the anticipation I had playing FF1 on my GBA with the remake, only to be sadly dissapointed with how they cranked up the omgwtfeasy. ='(

[Xijiy]

The battle system is a lot of fun but I find the regular enemy fights to be a bit too easy. Don't get me wrong I've heard that this game has some of the hardest optional boss fights in the series. But I felt that the normal enemy encounters could stand to be a tad bit more difficult.

[WHMZakeri]

The Story Presentation in the latest GBA version of FFV is pretty much what they should be aiming for at least 70% of the time in any given final fantasy plot. I know FFVII would be getting a lot less rap for the shitty story if half of it was covered in Narm and Pun wars.

No towns in FFXIII? Heck, even X-2 had towns, and that's not even counting the Airship. How do you not have pitstops like that in an RPG?

[Stuffman]

Apparently you buy crap at savepoints.

[Ionasal kkll Solciel]

Sounds more like Xenosaga the more I hear about it.

Let's just hope we don't have a half-hour cutscene or cutscenes that we can save during.

[Ghaleon]

Sounds more like Xenosaga the more I hear about it.

Let's just hope we don't have a half-hour cutscene or cutscenes that we can save during.

xenosaga let you pause during the cutscenes though, what an amazing innovation!!!

[theshirn]

Now I know a lot of genres have picked up RPG elements over the years, but FFXIII is trying something bold and exciting: a movie with RPG elements!

(Seriously, if you haven't already heard, FFXIII is 100% on rails, no towns, straight line from scene to scene, don't buy it)

FFV is the most fun to play even if it has the worst story.

FFT deserves to be its own category.

Stuffman, I now officially love you and your taste in games.  (Emphasis added.)

Also:  Now, now, there's a town in FFXIII!  It just happens to actually be a dungeon!

And to be honest, yes, you're on rails (and I mean RAILS, people; the dungeons are STRAIGHT LINES for the first 10 hours or so) but there is actually a world map where you can run around freely, it just takes forever to get to it.

The battle system...seems a bit silly to me.  The only thing you have to do is switch Optimas, and then sit back and watch your characters do their thing, and switch again if you're incredibly strategic.  You don't seem to actually have any real input.

Characters...well, aside from the fact that it's an utter farce (Hope?  Snow?  Vanilla?  LIGHTNING?

Spoiler:

and then you find out that Lightning's name is actually Eclair oh you have got to be kidding me

) are interesting enough, I guess, but the design is laughable, if incredibly pretty.  Everything else about the game aside, it's absolutely BEAUTIFUL.  I suppose at least Lightning, Fang and Snow could be cool, but my knowledge of Japanese is woefully insufficient to judge this.

Overall, though, I don't think I had a lot more input on the game than my roommate did, and he was the one playing.  So yeah, it does kinda feel more like a movie than a game.

(I know this because my roommate beat it around a week after it came out.)

Ontopic: lol prettyprincessdressmeupX-2

[Bananamatic]

lol FFXIII
I've just officially lost faith in square


X-2 was rather silly and girlydressup - but it has the hardest optional bosses and the best usage of ATB. Unless you cheese them.

[Aisha]

By the time I got a ways into the Xenosaga series, I was a bit bummed out that the series was cut short.

Even though the Advance version of the three Final Fantasy games were really easy, they had some brutal new extra bosses. :V I've been in the mood to replay FFVIA lately.

[BoLaD]

go play FFVI

Fixed.

[theshirn]

go play FFV

There we go.

[Bananamatic]

go play Mars Matrix

[Stuffman]

FFVI is definitely one of the best ones but I don't think it has much replay value. I've played it through twice and I don't ever really intend to load it up again...I think the main issue is that as the game goes on the characters tend to become less unique and the battles more generic, since you start relying less on their special skills and more on magic/relics. Also, I think pretty much everyone agrees World of Order > World of Ruin.

[Matsuri]

I think the main issue is that as the game goes on the characters tend to become less unique and the battles more generic,

Welcome to one of the biggest reasons I don't really like anything past VI (sans Tactics and IX). At the very least, VI gives you enough fun skills to play with instead of them all meshing together to all do the same shit. FFIV's strongest point is that each character has the fields they're effective in, which makes you strategize more than 'oh let's have everyone cast Flare lolol'.

[Aisha]

The straightforwardness of FFIV is one of the things that makes it my favorite of the series. No annoying side-quests, no micromanagement, no bullshit. Just start and play. I also appreciate the older cast.