Final Fantasy... Truly The Greatest RPG Series

iamtehpwn - 178 days 3 hours ago

on the great legacy of X.

GOD I loved that game =\

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ThanatosDMC - 178 days 2 hours ago

Loved FF8. Btw, Squall dies. Dont bother watching the credit after the ending movie nothing happens.

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Xiphos - 178 days 2 hours ago

If you can get past the J-pop, X-2 is actually pretty good, or at least I thought so.

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Tony P - 178 days 2 hours ago

Lol, I like how he goes on about the young kids not knowing about early FFs and he himself only started a generation before at FFVI. Great game though and my personal favourite out the series as well.

But yeah, although I like VII and consider it a good game, I hate that fanboys of the game have to evangelise it as dwarfing all other RPGs ever made.

X-2 was probably my least favourite as well although I enjoyed the combat and gameplay. Blitzball 'manager mode' really kicked me in the teeth though. I loved the first iteration in the previous game. This other was meh.

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SpoonyRedMage - 178 days 3 hours ago

Well it says series. Would you class the Chrono Series as better as it's quite contested about the sequel and hardly anyone has played Radical Dreamers...

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Megatron08 - 178 days 2 hours ago

Lunar and baldurs gate for the pc are the 2 best rpgs. We'll have to see how ME2 is but that will probably pass up FF too

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Baka-akaB - 178 days ago

While some FF are constantly in my top5 or 10 jrpgs ( FF6 and FFT mostly) , i dont feel they are always the best , even though the most popular and genre pushing .

Series wise , i prefer Shadows Hearts , Suikoden , Shin megami tensei , Persona , Xenogears/saga , chrono trigger/cross and tactics ogre .
My focus is mostly , i suppose do to my obsession with plots in rpg rather than gameplay . I dont exchange one for the other , as most of those games were great in both , i just have a slightly bigger focus on plot .

Anyway it doesnt matter , prefering more obscure games doesnt makes you more of a rpg fans , nor does prefering FF above everything else would make you a fashionista and fake jrpg fan .

To be one you just need imo to enjoy them BEYOND FF titles , play FF if you want , but do try other stuff .

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WEL - 178 days ago

Xenosaga > FF Gun_Senshi???!!!! WOW...!

We all have our own tastes and everything but if we put that aside how many rpgs have like 20 games and still standing strong? That's the question that put this article on track. The FF games must be really good to have these many followers after 20 entries don't you think?

The FF series could easily be called the best rpg series of all time even if you and me don't like it.

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Tony P - 177 days 23 hours ago

Oh yeah, I definitely love other RPGs more than any single FF. Xenosaga springs to mind as my favourite JRPG. But overall, WRPGs like Planescape and Baldur's Gate take the crown for me. As a series though, not many can compete with FF's legacy.

Xenosaga would have been great for me if their team didn't fracture for every game. It showed in their work. I admire that they got it done, but it fell far short of what was originally planned. Imo the three games together don't top the original Xenogears.

Chrono Series is cool imo. I played the three core games including Radical Dreamers, but since a lot of people missed that game, they railed against the heavy references in CC. Like Spoony said, some fans didn't consider CC a proper sequel or connected to CT at all and have chosen to wait for Chrono Break when/if that ever comes out. I thought it was one of the best games for PSX though.

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Gun_Senshi - 177 days 15 hours ago

I meant Xenogears

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Tony P - 176 days 21 hours ago

Me too. Xenosaga isn't my favourite JRPG, it's Xenogears. Jeez I need to stop staying up so late.

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D4RkNIKON - 178 days 3 hours ago

I know, Final Fantasy titles are always awesome. Crisis Core for PSP was the last one I played and that game was EPIC! I am really looking forward to FF14, how about you?

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SevWolf - 178 days 3 hours ago

@ omega..I see what you did there *sigh*
@ d4rknikon...I see what YOU did there...lol, nice response
edit: I forgot to write what I wanted to say about the topic..lol, anyways I hope that all the upcoming FF's will be as gr8 as their predeccessors, Im really looking forward to the console ff's, like ff XIII and ff vs XIII, aswell as ff XIV

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Omega4 - 178 days 2 hours ago

You had to read between the lines didnt you, couldnt just let the comments be *sigh*

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SevWolf - 178 days 2 hours ago

@ omega: actually I read the comment normally, then I read d4rknikon's reply and remembered that you are more or less a fanboy, but that doesn't mean I disagreed with you, I actually agree with you, I just said that I saw what BOTH of you did there
@ locos: well one could see it that the only reason omega said ff XIII was because it was goin to the 360 and his history is full of such comments, or one could see it that he said ff XII, not including ff vs XIII or any of the others, because it was the only one he thought of, Im not accusing him, just sayin
edit 2: just forget it I was messin around

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locos85 - 178 days 2 hours ago

I don't see anything......:( please explain.

above.

Well I would have never noticed since I hope FF13 is as good as FFX as well since it is the next installment in the series. I never played 12, even though i'm dying to.

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swiftshot93 - 178 days 2 hours ago

FFXII was also the worst IMO

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maniacmayhem - 178 days 2 hours ago

yea, i dont see what they did either.

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Raf1k1 - 178 days 2 hours ago

lol i got that.

not saying omega was beeing fanboyish but if more fanboy comments were like those two this site would be a lot more interesting :)

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D4RkNIKON - 178 days 1 hour ago

Haha, I am glad some of you picked up on my comment to omega. Being that he is a 360 fanboy, I asked if he was looking forward to FF14 because it is a PS3 exclusive. Heh

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bankai - 178 days 2 hours ago

hehe
as a gamer coming up in the 8 bit era to now random battles with monsters you cant see, turn-based battles, sprite graphics, and even cliches really dont bother me.

NIS games are great for me when im feeling nostalgic

nice to see your playing the classics, be sure to play 5 and 6 when you get the chance

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blackparade man - 178 days 1 hour ago

I don't really play rpgs or jrpgs but Phantasy star 4 is the only rpg that I enjoyed, great game. Bubbles to you my good sir.

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Tony P - 178 days 1 hour ago

PSIV was ten tons of awesome. Loved PSIII as well. I wish they'd go ahead with a proper continuation of that series. And yes, bubbles all around

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pippoppow - 177 days 22 hours ago

Phantasy Star 1+2 were great. Three was disapointing and never played 4 although I heard it's great. I have it though and will one day play it. Agree Sega needs to come out with Phantasy Star 5.

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D4RkNIKON - 177 days 23 hours ago

How can you love Advent Children if you have never played through Final Fantasy 7? That movie was total crap to people who didn't play the game because all of the characters and familiar faces merely made an appearance in the movie and nothing more. To know the characters and each one of their back story is what it means to understand Advent Children.

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Tony P - 177 days 23 hours ago

That's not really fair. It's not like the plot is incomprehensible without having played VII.

You might not get some references, but it's still an enjoyable movie on its own like the recent Star Trek.

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D4RkNIKON - 177 days 21 hours ago

I was just upset with the fact that so many characters appeared in the movie but had such tiny almost insignificant roles. The movie seemed rushed and too short. Don't get me wrong, it is one of my all time favorites. I own it on BluRay :D

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D4RkNIKON - 177 days 23 hours ago

Completely true, you get bubbles. It kind of reminds me of a post that was a few days ago about Zelda Link to the Past for SNES. I would hate to have missed out on all the games I grew up with. I feel as tho I having experienced the beginning of consoles all the way up to this point gives you a much more clear picture of the evolution of games.

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pippoppow - 177 days 22 hours ago

Been playing since Pong. It really is amazing how video games have progressed. Used to love playing with the Atari 2600 against a friend or family member trying to outdo each other and the arcades were the place to go for some fun. Bottom line is even though the games pale to todays game it was still fun. I've gamed on consoles since 79 and started on the PC in 93 and it's been fun to see the progression of video games. The only down side for me has been lack of genres, why they don't bring some back I don't know. But the melding of genres has been nice to see. I'd recommend gamers to look at some of the old classics and try some out after doing some homework. You may be plesantly surprised, there are plenty of forgotten gems out there.

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djaparatic - 177 days 11 hours ago

hahahaha ^^

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Tony Scarboni - 178 days 2 hours ago

kotor is BOOOOORING.

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danielctc - 177 days 15 hours ago

agreed...

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