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[Lionheart8]

Which one do you like more and why? who is your character

[Al]

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[PuPu]

This is a tough one. But I'd say FFIV.

[Vivi22]

FFVI hands down. Better story, characters, villians, music, and graphics. I would only give FFIV a slight edge in gameplay, but not nearly enough to take the top spot.

[Rengori]

Vivi22 cried aloud with mirth and merriment

FFVI hands down. Better story, characters, villians, music, and graphics. I would only give FFIV a slight edge in gameplay, but not nearly enough to take the top spot.

[FF_Chick]

Both =D.

I love them much.

[Bolivar]

Vivi22 cried aloud with mirth and merriment

I would only give FFIV a slight edge in gameplay, but not nearly enough to take the top spot.

I thought IV is one of the most boring FF's gameplay-wise, aside from having 5 characters in your party. The only thing you can really do is play your characters according to class, which you can do if you really want to in all the others anyway.



To me, this is one of those "x is the better game but i prefer y" kind of things. I just enjoy FFIV more than VI every time I play them. VI's story just didn't do it for me like IV does. IV kept switching up the script and kept me interested until the end - you're finding out new things one after another; VI I pretty much could guess everything that was going to happen every time the plot advanced. Not to mention that the villain is on the level of Vaan and Penelo in that he had no reason to be there. I guess people just got caught up in the hype due to the graphics and use of cut scenes (imagine that).

Gameplay-wise, like I said IV doesn't offer much, but VI did it pretty damn good. The use of relics, espers, and the fact that equipment didn't progress forward - it went in different directions allowing alot of choice to the player on how to develop their characters. Which is why I guess i'm one of the few people that likes the World of Ruin better than Balance, the whole thing is a choice - now that you have these characters you get to decide how you want to build them up, and I do different things everytime.

But ultimately RPGs are games that tell stories, and I never found the actual game in the turn-based sub-genre to be particularly engaging until VII. For that, I give this to FFIV.

[Vivi22]

Bolivar cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Gameplay-wise, like I said IV doesn't offer much, but VI did it pretty damn good. The use of relics, espers, and the fact that equipment didn't progress forward - it went in different directions allowing alot of choice to the player on how to develop their characters. Which is why I guess i'm one of the few people that likes the World of Ruin better than Balance, the whole thing is a choice - now that you have these characters you get to decide how you want to build them up, and I do different things everytime.

You may have liked that more, but for me, FFVI was too easy even if it is my favourite game of all time. Yeah, you could build characters how you wanted, and even build specific classes if you chose, but it was so easy even then that there was no point. FFIV on the other hand is a challenging game, and by forcing you into specific classes, it requires even more quick thinking and strategy in battles than FFVI ever had. That's what made the gameplay interesting for me.

As for story, FFIV's is pretty predictable if you ask me. Don't get me wrong; for the time it was an amazing plot. Nothing like it had ever been done in an RPG before, but in it's case, I don't think the plot itself was good enough to make up for a general lack of interesting character development. FFVI on the other hand had a great plot if you ask me, that did keep me guessing in a lot of spots (who actually expected Kefka to destroy the world the first time through?), and backed it up with one of the most diverse and well developed casts in RPG history.