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#193  I played through FFII on my cousin's SNES. I'd never seen anything like it before. I had completely forgotten about it and never even HEARD about any other FF's (didn't have a TV, didn't have a radio, didn't buy mags, wasn't at all sociable) until FF7 came along and I by pure chance picked up a zine called Tips & Tricks with FF7 Cloud on the cover. I'd never read a gaming magazine before and I didn't even realize that's what I'd picked up. At the time, I was naive and believed that all magazines talked about the same stuff. Oy. Even when I finished FF7, even after I'd spent months playing it over and over again, I never even remembered FFII. When FF8 came out is when I found about the whole series thing. I was so brainless, I didn't realize my game was called "Final Fantasy VII" for a reason. I was disappointed that I never had the chance to play all of the other games. Unlike most, I wasn't turned onto the FF series because I picked FF7, though I may have claimed that here somewhere before. Actually, my parents and I were on food stamps for the longest time, moving from one cheap apartment complex to another that was cheaper. We were rats. I now own Final Fantasy Origins (FF&FF2), Final Fantasy Chronicles (FF4&Chrono Trigger), and Final Fantasy Anthology (FF5&FF6). They added things like "run" for speedy travel, bestiaries, and I think they made the ATB a little faster. In MY opinion, FF lacked a plot altogether. Of course, seeing as how it was the first, I can understand that. I can NOT sit through FF2, 5, or 6 longer than fifteen minutes without falling asleep at some point. It's MY opinion that most people who prefer the old games would also prefer to play the old board RPG's like D&D. FF7 was a HUGE departure from board-style RPG (with the exception of those SLOTS), the revamped ATB, the Limit Breaks, the hidden characters (actually, haven't played through enough of the old games to see if there were any there; like I said, I fall asleep), actually I would have preferred if Vincent (preferrably) or Yuffie would have had at least one FMV of their own - one you unlock by making them members of your party. |
05-05-2005, 10:20 PM
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 | In response to Vratar's question, I started with Final Fantasy VII and it was the game that got me into the series (I hadn't even heard of Final Fantasy before that), yet Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite, with Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy VI in second and third place respectively. To elaborate on that, VII isn't in my top three -- or even four -- favorite games in the series (Tactics is my fourth favorite), despite it being the first I played. While it's true for many folks that the first they played is their favorite and that the rest they will judge in reference to the first, I had the benefit of my older brother telling me that VII was vastly different from previous games in the series and that VIII was not likely to be a repeat of VII. While I did judge VIII in reference to VII for the first half an hour or so, it quickly became apparent that VIII was altogether something different and something that had to be judged based on its own merits and in relation to my personal preferences of what I would enjoy, not in relation to anything else. I've since judged each Final Fantasy that I have played/watched accordingly. By the way, Mercen-X, Final Fantasy VI had two hidden characters, as well. VII wasn't cracking any molds with that. |
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05-05-2005, 10:58 PM
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| Banned  | Did you mean to put this in the FFVIII forum? FFVII is my favorite game of all time. It's just amazing. FFVI is good too, but I like FFVII better...maybe because it was my first? I'm not sure. It's like TehAbominatrix initially said though: people don't hate FFVII so much as they get annoyed by all the rabid FFVII fanboys. I'm an FFVII fan, but even I get annoyed by that. FFVI is great, as well as FFX. I don't really think FFVI has a story that can compare, and though the characters are lovable, they don't have very much depth because there's just too many of them. Still a great game though. FFVII is the most popular though because it was the first to be 3D, and it came out right when everyone in America started buying Playstations. American FFIII(FFVI) was pretty popular in the SNES days too though. |
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05-05-2005, 11:32 PM
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 | In my opinion I believe that FFVII is the best in the series and the best game of all time. The storyline, gameplay, music and characters personalities just made it my favourite. It was also the only game up to now to I actually felt an emotion for (when Aeris died). No other game has ever done that. I've enjoyed every Final Fantasy i've played, which I admit isn't all of them but the majority, and I think that although every Final Fantasy is good, the only one that I have actually not wanted to put down was FF7. Maybe it was because it was the first game I bought for my PSX, and the first Final Fantasy 7, but in my opinion, nothing else has been able to match it |
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05-09-2005, 08:29 PM
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 | I think FF VII shown a lot of good promise and it was certainly a step in a brand new direction... gone were the 2D "dancing" sprites, gone were the days of 2D gaming. but what makes most older fans mad is of course its fanboys and fangirls, certianly I myself started with FF VII but I found that the other games were just as good or sometimes better [like FF VI] I concider myself an all around FF fan, all of the games have thier good points and bad points, the only ones I didnt like were FF VIII and FF II but those are within reason. but my biggest shout out is those who flame the older games for thier graphics, those arguements make me sad... |
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05-17-2005, 04:26 AM
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