PS3Life.nl reports: With the upcoming Final Fantasy titles PS3 owners can't complain about the lack of Final Fantasy games on their console. Unfortunately we have to wait at least a year for those games. Fortunately for us the Japanese magazine Famitsu has revealed a new FF game for 360 and PS3.
Even if you have the proper characters on the map, sometimes that’s not enough. You might have placed a bunch of archers but if none of them are leveled up, later foes can shrug off their attacks and rush through an entire gauntlet of archers or wizards. Since every level a character gains costs you more gold than the previous one did, Crystal Defenders becomes one of the most exhilarating games about effective resource management that you’ll find on Xbox Live. A single mistake can be enough to throw off your whole approach.
Davesto, from Gameolio, writes:
"The news of the Final Fantasy XIV development team restructuring and Square-Enix slashing profit forecast by 92% came as a shock-wave to the gaming industry. Surely team restructuring and changes in profit forecast are not new in the gaming industry. But citing the failure of a flag ship franchise title because it bombed beyond expectation did cause some jaw-littering.
Final Fantasy XIV generated high expectation from gamers and industrial practitioners alike. Also with the experience of Final Fantasy XI, there were high hopes for Square-Enix’s next MMO under the Final Fantasy brand. However, low critic scores, gamers complaints, glitches in the game and now sluggish sales (some local shops in my area already put them in bargain bins) all contributed to Square-Enix’s drastic recent actions. Trial free play period has been extended for a second time to keep people in the game, but would that stop disappointed gamers from leaving?"
Honestly, Agito and Versus have my full attention. They will shape my future with S-E and decide wether or not I will buy their games. From the small amount of gameplay shown, both look good so far and jan 17th will show us what they really look like.
Those are the only two games that can change my mind about SE. If they don't and if XIV can't improve....I'll just look forward to their remakes and possibly good sequels.
Square Enix is just failing this gen, pretty hard.
I feel sympathy for the people who actually have faith in FFVersus, I mean seriously, FF13 was a failure (if you are a FF fan), and FF14 online was a complete failure. You really expect Square Enix to live up to your wants/needs? If they do I will be happy but seriously guys face reality, stop bragging about a game that will probably turn out a complete fail because you will just feel like idiots down the road! Just wait and see, play the game yourself before you brag about how good it is going to be.
@AndrewRyan
Because Birth by Sleep is a great game (best in the franchise) and the same team is working on Versus XIII. The people who worked on XIII aren't in charge of Versus XIII.
@Jezuz
He said he has "faith" in it. The KH team is making is so I do too since their games have only gotten better and better. In case you didn't know, SE is divided up into small teams that work on specific franchises.
Yes, i agree. Let just hope they don't screw this up, even if i have to wait longer.
FF13 was beautiful, just not what was expected. Vs13 and agito look dope. They made many good rpgs (the last remnant, in undiscovery, nier, star ocean 4, ff13, crisi core, birth by sleep) this gen. FF11 and 14 suck to me as i hate mmo's. Couldve added to 11 like wow intead of splitting thier mmo fans. A ff7 remake isnt needed. It was good but it would ruin it, just make ff15 better. Go back to the ff7/8 feel of it. FF7 is beloved because its the first 3d rpg many played. There are better rpgs. Just make a ff7/8/9 hd remaster with a ff10-12 hd remaster disk. If you miss ff play lost odyssey(the real ff13 and better than any ff imho) and blue dragon. Everything the old ff's were. The last story will be mistwalkers best game yet. Cant wait for tls and vs13. Square does need to revive stuff like vagrant story and xenogears. Their 2 best games along with chrono cross. Loved them to death. Triace needs a valkyrie profile sequal. At least put part 2 on psn. Love that series and never finished 2.
Well said, Lost Odyssey is ff 13 for me too.
Anyway, PSX gen was the best for RPGs IMAO. And not only because of Square. Grandia and Breath of Fire III (and maybe Chrono Cross) were true gems.
Star Ocean 4? U mad? Game was average at best. Floaty battle system that lacked umph, brass characters, questionable visuals and overall polish...I could go on. It's not a BAD game...but it's not great either. I'll finish it at some point maybe.
Lost Odyssey is the one for me atm. 15 hours in and loving the hell out of it. FFXIII should have been like this, but keeping its battle system and its other great points, while sticking to more classic JRPG conventions like towns and FF's airships.
ffvii is loved because its the most mature final fantasy it even has swearing......
i simply don't like playing online, especially when it comes down to a Final Fantasy game.
Final Fantasy will become Forgotten Fantasy the way SE is ruining the franchise.
The golden days of Final Fantasy are behind. Atleast I was there to play them. Actually the golden days of RPGs together are gone.. breath of fire, chrono cross/trigger, legend of dragoon and so many more. Hopefully since Japan got legend of dragoon and chrono cross then they will release it in US as well.
All square has to do is go back to using good ol' turn-based battle system. They need to focus on an actual good story, and stop making games for the 360 yes most definitely stop
Will idiots stop pretending it's the 360's fault the current state of J-rpgs lost odyssey is most likely still the best turn based J-RPG this gen.
All we heard from Playstation fanboys was wait until J-RPG's come to the PS3 then white knight chronicles came and they finally shut up.
I mean if the 360 is holding J-RPG's back and made FF13 bad explain FF14 let me guess the PC was holding that back, from the playstations clearly superior hardware and data storage /sarcasm.
Unfortunately, Dislusional n4g fanboys will blame anything on another console's/company's fault rather than accepting the fact that there are flaws within their beloved ps3.
*sigh...
It's true that the 360 held Final Fantasy back....To an extent.
Square admitted it themselves.
Just because the 360 held back one game, doesn't mean it held back ALL JRPGs.
We also have to keep in mind that the 360 didn't FORCE Square to make a linear "RPG" with bad battle mechanics and a boring story with forgettable characters. That doesn't correspond with hardware limits at all. If Mass Effect can refrain from using levels consisting of 3 VERY LONG HALLWAYS, then I'm sure Final Fantasy could.
With or without the xbox, Final Fantasy 13 still would have been a mess. It would have just been a longer mess with slightly broader hallways.
It's the truth. Don't confuse bad design with hardware capabilities.
Forget Sqaure Enix they would make an excuse for everything!!! As much as I dont like 360. How can a console held back a game!!! FF13 sucked. Guess what Square Enix did when FF14 was doing so bad, they fired the head members of the game then guess who they blame? Versus is my last hope for SE, just thank god the team that made Kingdom Hearts are making the game XD
Rush, I agree, Lost Odyssey is the best turn based JRPG this generation. No doubt FFXIII was held back by the 360. You just know it was when so much content was cut, and you think back to when Nomura stated that PS3 was the only console they could realize they're dream on. If they had so much content running on PS3, then cut it when the games multiplat development was well underway, it says A LOT in my opinion. You can't deny it. 2 things I'd like to state here:
1) PS3 fanboys need to shut up and play Lost Odyssey. If you truly love JRPG's, then the game won't be as bad as some of you make out. PLAY IT.
2) FFXIII was held back by the 360. It's quite clear. No point denying it. But I don't care anymore. FFXIII also suffered gameplay mechanics flaws. If the 360 wasn't in the equation then all SE would have done is add more linear stages. No doubt the Zoo and Lightnings house were like this. The only good thing would have been better graphics. But I loved FFXIII. PS3 has had that disc in it for a total of 121 hours since its March launch and I haven't platinum yet. Brilliant game and one of my favorites this gen.
love my ps3 but i'm not sure how you can blame the 360 for a bad game where the story blows and the fighting damn near plays itself. The only thing ff13 had going for it was the way it looked.
Your comment is inconsistent.
Even with its cumbersome 4-disc set, LO is the best old-school RPG this gen. So, if you miss the old Squaresoft, don't blame 360, boy!
Square need to go back to the roots of final fantasy which was turn based and dont rely to much on graphical textures. It would also be best if they had just developed the franchise for 1 plattform and its pointless making thoose for the 360 since in general the 360 owner is not interseted in theese kind of games. So either go to bed with Nintendo or Sony and get the franchise back to what was greatabout them.
Final fantasy from 1 to 10 + 12 was good, xiii sucked majorly and XIV i have not bothered even getting.
The could take it into the action Rpg genre if they wanted, FF has always had a decent battle system but it's not the great thing about FF. The ATB system is alright, it's passable and playable without getting too bored unless that's all you get to control for the duration of your playtime. The could make it better and still retain whats good about the FF's (10 and under)
I played, and love, a million turn based jrpgs. Hell, I still play a fair number now-mainly on handhelds, mind, but there's plenty of them about despite the constant groaning of the more experienced JRPG fans among us these days.
I like turn based just fine but newcomers just look at it with fresh eyes and I totally understand them thinking it's just a bit clunky AND basically a bit odd these days(the whole "After you.." tone of a gents duel is twee , really, when it was only a mechanic borne of technical limitations in the first place)and the ATB was SE trying to keep old fans happy just as much as it was trying to bring in newcomers-which the genre needs and will continue to try to woo.
What do I advocate? I've said it before but I'd like it to be dependent, a lot of it, on which difficulty setting you play the games on. I'd like the action to be more than "press X to win" and be as skill based as a decent action game would be and I also want there to be, available, the same depth and strategy we got from true turn based games. Why not? You could have the lowest setting at the "press X" action with long pauses for the player to change in spells etc for the strategy and so on.
As you go up the difficulty scale the pauses(dynamic I guess) could get shorter but with MORE choices, buffs etc to mess with while the action became more demanding and needed actual gaming skill to progress. Levelling would be possible as ever and all tailored by a similar mechanic to choosing a difficulty like we'd have now.
Seriuosly, I think we need to accept that mainstream titles like FF aren't going to be fully turn based again and aren't going all out action in combat EITHER so get your cap on and think up a way(cos mine's just weak!) that the compromise could be made without hurting the genre we all want to see breath new life. Versus is said to be a variation on the KH2 battle system which, to me, is again a little too much "press..." to win but adapted differently it COULD shock us and be the way forwards. I even think there was SOMETHING to continue with in the Crisis Core system even though that literally(apart from the quick cycling through items and spells in combat-bringing me back to actual dodging while using startegy and the chance of dynamic pauses etc)is press X to win!! I just think we need to accept reality and work more with devs like SE to find what is needed.
You guys know if you turn the wait setting off it no longer waits for you to decide your action before the enemy attacks.It was the the best way to play FF7.
Final Fantasy is my favorite franchise, even after a few dissapointment. I jsut hope they learn from their mistake, saying that, i can't tolerate it for much longer. I hope Versus will remedy all this, they should be themselves instead of being something they are not. One last chance with Versus and ALSO, why are they making Parasite Eve only for PSP, they should do the PS3 version as well.
Sony might have to just bail Square out again just for them to once again give them the big F-you by not releasing any games for PS4 until 3 years after it's launch.
I guess you mean ps3 but do you feel the same way about Polyphony as you do wit square since it took them alot longer time to release a game for the king
No. I'm talking about a prediction of the future. Sony bailed Square out of bankruptcy after Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within lost them a lot of money. Sony bought a fairly large % of their stock (something close to 10% if i remember correctly) and square gave sony the big f-you with the ps3. I'm saying that the same thing will happen again.
I thought that FF13 was overall a great game but I hope they go back to games like FF8, FF9, and FF10.
The industry has changed and western developers are leading the way forward.JRPG,s was dominating the charts last gen,now look at how the industry has grown and whats popular.japanese developers are having to follow the west to get new ideas on how to make a popular game that sells well outside japan.i know about tradition in japan,but they have to move forward or get left behind.
its the moving "forward" as you call it thats made them shit, there old games are still great to this day i still play ff7,8,10 and 10 part2 because they where good games now there changing them to crappy action games that no rpg fan actually wants if we wanted finalfantasy:halo we would ask for it. The only way they are going to get ppl buying there games again is to go back to there old formula i can bet you remake of ff7 or 8 would outsell any of there newer games and all they would have to do is up the graphics maybe add some new missions and some extra materia here and there.
Those games you named are wonderful ones and they should be,but the industry has grown and ppls taste in games are now diverse.what was once a top seller is now stuggling to sell copys.tell me how many new genres we have in gaming today.
FFIX is what got me really in gaming and after that i played most of all big title jrpg´s from the late 90´s including the underrated gems like Legend of Dragoon and even the really unpopular ones like 'The Gransteam Saga' (Zelda mixed up with Diablo in a anime style world).
Nowdays there´s still plenty of good jrpg´s but the problem is that mainstreamed websites like this one always give them bad rep or simply ignore them.
And the Final Fantasy series can still be redeemed with Versus 13 (versus- oh the irony)
Times have changed and japanese developers need to try somthing new in order to get those sales up.
Going? It's been in the gutter for a long time now. Hopefully Versus XIII can change that..and I think it will.
92% damn they really messed up by releasing an unfinished game. Really wanted FF XIV to be my new addiction but sadly it was not.
Man this is bad news>< FFIX is dead and I was gonna start a linkshell on FFXIV. I guess I will officially give up now and wait on The Agency, Dc Universe, and Free Relms....
@AndrewRyan
I believe Versus will succeed is because I believe in Tetsuya Nomura. If it weren't for his involvement with SE, they would have been bankrupt by now.
But hopefully this is a wake-up call for SE that they can't put out shit games and hope to survive. FF was Square's last chance back in the day ..
Final Fantasy Versus XIII is Nomura's KH and FFVII/AC team combined. So yeah, lets face it, Nomura is SE's saving grace if he screws up im blaming the CEO who's a greedy ass.
If i was Kaz Hirai i would see about buying the rights to Final Fantasy VII as a Sony property and for Versus XIII (if it's good) remake/reboot FF7 and make a successful and well built franchise out of it same for Versus (but no reboot probably).
Why don't they go back to the simple style of open map where your guy is almost as big as the cities he enters. Honestly I feel good playing it that way and they can make the world feel like a world, because it's simple and easy to do.
The Final Fantasy series is becoming Dantes Inferno(not the game) as it slowly descends its namesake to the lowest level of hell.
I think SE themselves are not sure what to do with Final Fantasy right now.
They are in a serious need of inspiration. Something that will not come in this new model the gaming industry is taking, the money hungry corporate business.
Games are supposed to be fun and genuine, coming from genuine, loving and innocent creators, not from guys like B. Kotick.
It's not the fucking IBM. B. Kotick is a prick, showing himself with his expensive CEO suit, trying, really trying hard to talk about games. That old fuck and people like him doesn't know shit about what gamers want.
Fuck Activision, fuck Call of Duty and fuck SE for walking in this same direction. Soon they will be twins. Making bad games that are bought by the millions of idiots out there.
Idiots that later will appear and complain that they don't have good games to play and questioning what is happening to the companies' games.
Btw, also fuck those pseudo creators that produce games nowadays, they don't know shit. The only thing holding this mess of industry are some old time creators like Hideo Kojima, for example, that still know what games are made from.
Ahhh that pic brings back the golden age of gaming to me. As a coincidense I just purchased FF7 from PSN and transferred it to my PSP like 10 minutes ago. Can't wait to dig in. I just completed Valkyria Cronicles 2 (took about 55 hours, that game is a giant) so I have a space to put my digital copy of FF7 in. Happy gaming people :)
Too bad they don't make games like FF7 anymore. Is it because of the western audience or what?
FF franchise is going backwards...
the franchise never properly matured.
Think about it...FFVII had alcohol bad language and even a scene when Tifa was captured to be forced into PROSTITUTION!
Now they give us goofy characters that are not funny..
Not to mention that the combat lacks depth.
I appreciated FF12 because combat was challenging..I disagree with people who say the combat played itself...
A big success for Square Enix will be translate final fantasy vii film on it games that mean more complicated than kingdom hearts battle system
And that what i know on Versus will happen
Ahe proof the developers are mixed from many parts of SQ and two from them it final fantasy vii advent children and kingdom herts
And i hope namoura apply that
Brandon Thompson writes: "Gamers have seen few franchises with histories as impressively deep and memorable as the Final Fantasy series. Besides being known for great story lines lovable heroes, Square/Enix's uber-popular franchise is also known for having some of the meanest and most evil baddies in the history of video games.
What does it take to make a successful bad guy who makes a real impact on gamers? The character's costume certainly plays a part. Maybe it's how dramatic of an introduction the character has? Maybe it's all about how insanely crazy, strong, and determined the antagonist is. We still think the costume plays some part. You be the judge."
Kefka been there before and surpassed him. As I love Sephiroth, he's my favourite villain, Kefka is much more than him. Makes Sephy look like a wannabe.
Sephiroth is more bad ass than Kefka, but no one will be crazier than Kefka. The guy is a definition of 'evil'. He should be tops in that list, not Sephiroth.
from the article - "While we’re not allowed to number our top five lists anymore, there’s little doubt that Sephiroth would top the list if it were titled "popular" bad guys. Even though he's not the most evil, his hatred puts him in the top five."
Why can't you number a top 5?
lol, Sephiroths a little mommas boy always crying for mother. Kefka actually destroyed the world unlike the rest of them.
Sephiroth is a big wet p(an)sy. I'd rate Kuja over him, and Kuja is basically a schoolgirl.
Hands down: Sephiroth. What other villian has a symphony orchestra perform his theme song to live audiences? huh huh? That's right, Sephiroth PWNS!!!
was that a chick dressed as him in the pic. I would have to say the one I hated the most was seymor from FFX. Turned his mom into a summons and kept her in the basement all chained up.
Sephiroth has more rich character development, and a more obvious motivation for destruction. While Kefka is insane, Sephiroth was once psychology (seemly) normal, and even a great hero at one point.
He also didn't think what he was doing was wrong at all. Sephiroth honestly thought he was saving the world by becoming it's God.
"Sephiroth is more bad ass than Kefka, but no one will be crazier than Kefka. The guy is a definition of 'evil'. He should be tops in that list, not Sephiroth."
I kinda agree with that, though they did say they aren't allowed to number them. :p
Granted Sephiroth is another likeable villian from the FF series, I'd have to give the Bat**** crazy overall title to Kefka. The amount of stuff Sephiroth did in FF7 is kinda pale in comparison to the amount of grief, death, and overall things Kefka did in FF6.
However Sephiroth did make it seem more personal to what he did, which still makes him on the top lists.
why would sefi top the list the list said most evil bad guys technically speaking compared to what some of the other FF have done and what some of them actually are like the embodiment of malice itself sefi isn't really all that evil just someone who went insane
its just a popularity thing in the end anyways
I define evil as someone for no remorse or compassion for no living being on this planet. A pure malicious conscious from beggining to end. Someone that not even his/her mother would love. For this, Kefka takes the specifications perfectly. A pathetic weakling from the start of the game, towards becoming something like the devil itself. But regardless of his power, he was always an evil twat.
Barthandelus in XIII was pretty lame, even if it wasn't hermaphrodite lame like almost all other FF villains, he was pretty lame.
Most evil had to be Kefka... sorry Sephiroth fans, he was just a lonely kid who missed mommy.
dear god, main villain of ff13 was probably the worst villian in any game since xenosaga 2....probably cuz they r both popes.....but UGhhh, i think ff13 wuda been better if guy cid, or guy with silver hair or even jihl (chick with huge rack) was the main villain.
i loved the whole cast except for main villain. uggh i hate him so boring
Sephiroth = Most Popular Villain
Kefka = Most True Villain
Kefka is THE villain of villains, the guy destroys the world and is just insanely mad and changed how villains were in the past FF games. He wasn't "I'm the best, I am the top villain" he started off as weak, and even goofy.
I really hope they do a Remake of FF6 on the 3DS (or even PS3 for that matter) the game deserves more of a Remake then FF7 (Yep I said it).
only in the sense that not as many people have played it, and is lauded as being one of the best ffs ever. I myself haven't played it, but I've looked for it once or twice and couldn't find it.
sephiroth is the most badass no matter how evil any1 else is.
kefka is a freakin clown and always lost points because of that to me lol.
when u see sephiroth u know somethin epic is gonna happen.
kefka u just know hes a looney and will laugh alot....sorta like miyamoto XD
Totally agree, Kefka might be the unstable crazy guy who laughs and is twisted, but sephiroth adds 100 more layers to the word "evil". Sephiroth is humanised in some respects and the player can understand the roots of his evil ways, knowing he wasnt always evil and grew into one badass psycho allows the gamer to become more immersed in sephiroth's transgression into legendary badass.
When kefka was on the screen it wasnt near as captivating as when sephiroth was. The music for sephiroth was just perfect. Every gamer can still hear that music when they remember sephiroth... Surely thats reason enough for him to be the best bad-guy of the series... hell even a great contender for best bad guy of any game.
But even still, probably the most iconic moment for me that makes sephiroth the purest evilest character was the murder of aeris.
u just know stuff is crazy when he's there lol.
somethin bout a clown just always seemed stupid to me. but kef is still a good villain.
and ur right, its that amazing song that just adds to the epicness :D
haha true, first time i fought kefka i was like /dam this is going to be a incredible battle!/ 5 atacks later - i won and he escaped laughing, (lol ?) BUT still, Kefka did actually destroyed the world, that clown needs points for that :/ and Sep.. well he just want to kill the good guys, i want a remake of FFVI so bad :S just think about it, Sabin doing the slam atack to a TRAIN!? DAM i must see that on high def!
title says most evil guy...sadly i have to give it to kefka
Sephiroth simple wasn't bad enough from the start he created that mom complex, got confused and delusional..
Kefka was just pure evil since the start
other final have not have a good villain since FF6 in my opinion...
Sephiroth Character creation was well made but Personality was not the definition of evil.
Kefka..was just pure evil even though the jester.clown dress concept dint attract much ppl on liking him but he is the must evil and plays the villain roll better than the rest.
-sorry for my english its not my main-
while ur entitled to ur own opinion, lets make it simple.
kefka had evil intentions yes buuuut
did he kill the love interest of the main character? no he killed no one as a matter of fact, sephiroth is the only character to actually kill someone off in well almost any jrpg period, he killed many, from shinra soldiers, tifa's entire village and father, to aerith, even leading to zacks death.
sephiroth nearly destroyed the entire planet, its was seconds away from destruction, u dont have to be crazy to be evil, it was his intent that was evil
"he killed no one as a matter of fact"
You're delusional .
kefka killed :
- the emperor.
- cyan ENTIRE village.
- countless villages when he tipped the statues ( you can see quakes all around in the cutscène )
- general leo.
- and the list goes on
and he ruled afterwards.
not to mention all the mind control and all the other bad dead he did ...
sephiroth killed aeris (no fight at all ... going from the back ) and the former shinra president ( a fat guy with no fighting skill ) and a bunch of no name soldiers ...
Midgard right of the bat I see you don't know what you are talking about. Kefka killed lots of people before he became a god like entity. He poisoned a town and everybody died, he succesfully absorbed the power of Gods to become one himself. He destroyed a planet and made it his image. Basically, he did everything Sephiroth failed to do.
Not to mention that overall he was a more interesting villain with personality. Not so emo and plastic like Sephiroth. I actually liked Kefka besides all his evil doings.
"Nothing can beat the music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison." Kefka
"sephiroth nearly destroyed the entire planet, its was seconds away from destruction, u dont have to be crazy to be evil, it was his intent that was evil"
Where as Kefka DID destroy the planet. The both idea of intent and crazy to be evil is still leading off...to be evil.
@9.2
Why in the world did you guys give him 2 disagrees for something that is true? >_>
all these people calling sephy a pansy are pathetic.
Kefka was worthless in comparison.
yea he may have been crazy but he never attack one person so hard...taking everything they loved and just destroying it over and over. thats more evil than any other FF bad guy.
Hell Seph is more twisted in his finger then kefkas pathetic ass.
*edit*
BTW killing everyone and destroying the planet doesn't do much. since people aren't around to feel the pain from it. while what seph did, cloud, tifa, barret, the main cast and most of the people after *movie* had to suffer constantly from what he did, sorry causing someone constant pain is far worse then killing them.
Sepiroth is an emo that fails doing anything
Kefka is a mutthafkka which breaks the 4th barrier and wants you to destory the tv you're playing the game on, and also destroys the whole world while laughing in your face at your failure of stopping him
It says in the article that Sephiroth is "not" #1, but would be if it were "most popular" villain.
Sephiroth is for sure the most evil of all of them, first of all it was Gaia greatest hero the strongest warrior in existence all the boys admired him and wanted to be like him when they grow up, all that gives him a gr8 background from where our story unfold that's a plus.
When he learn about the experiments they did to him and what they did to his mother (the alien being from where they use genes to make him the ultimate soldier) he "snap" and want to take revenge from the humans for what they did (use his mother as a guinea pig) he burn down Nibelheim every one die in the fire including Cloud's mother, Tifa's father follow after that trying to stop him that was only the start.
Now dont forget the hundreds of Shinra soldiers he killed when he invade Shinra tower, among them was even the president Shinra, now if we add to all this the murder of Aeris one of your players when she left and went alone to stop him and sacrifice her self, (the most tragic/sad moment in the history of video games) now after all that how can you still disagree that Sephiroth is not the most evil villain ever in the FF franchise? even though didn't succeed to destroy the planet at the end, it was very close if the meteor land we all know what will be the outcome a huge portion of the planet would erased completely that's how far he was ready to go...
His madness and evilness make him the ultimate villain and no one can compare with him, at least until now I haven't see any one.. and as for popularity he is again number 1 one of the reasons FFVII is the greatest jrpg/FF & game ever created is Sephiroth it self you have so many reasons to hate him so many reason to keep you move forward to find him and settle everything once and for all.
<3 FFVII <3
"I haven't see any one."
go play ff6
"it was very close"
like most vilain ..before they are stopped by the heroes ...
you know what the other pathetic thing is.
Kefka completely fails, since once he is beat everything goes back to normal....sorry but last I checked the planet was still damaged people were still dead and alot of things screwed up. *aka stigma* thanks to seph.
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lol I love these debates I always used to think sephiroth was bad arse until i bothered playing on earlier FF's lol, kefka truly was evil
You know I've gone through this thread and anyone that has played FF6 before 7 ( yes us old folks)did love Jrpgs story driven deep characters before FVM became the OMGZ thing. If you're a PS1 gen gamer and that's what you played and got all caught up with the FFVII craze then ya you'll be "Sephi is da shyt" but after paying close attention to the master piece SE did with FF6 they couldn't top that.
Many on here are trying to find pros and cons to who is more evil but if you played all FF games you would notice that they tried to replicate the same evilness of Golbez from FF2( US)and give him a bad man look. But in fact he's evil to the core as what we see him, very emotional, lost, delusional, powerful, but in control of his self to a degree.
Kefka... this is the creation of pure evil, hate... hate,hate,hate,hate,hate , all of sephi minus the emotional & delusional problem and roll that up and you have the godly level of evil and hate.
Obviously FF6 remade in 3D would be epic, can you imagine all the skills, espers summon, the opera... the amount of magic , skills , and using magi tech armors....
I will love FF6 forever as it was the only FF game that brought so much to the table, multi player, street fighter actual moves, insane combos and equip combos ( Genji glove, I mean you know what I mean)... Esper summon that kills everything on screen... even the players, fallen one ( cheapness at it's best).
You either love 6 or 7, but let it be known that Kefka isn't just any clown. The jester had world destruction on his mind, and the emperor was just the vessel to bring it into his grasp.
Yeah FFVI had such a vast amount of characters that even though they were so much, they all had there slice of explaining there background and also being able to actually play as them. FFVI story was just too top notch. It really was the first FF that made me somewhat care (although FFIV was also great story wise aswell) about the characters and actually despise the villain for his constant nuisance and hatred of everything that breathes.
I do like FFVII and appreciate the story and all but FFVI was so awesome that topping everything that they succesfully accomplished on VI was a difficult task. I wish they can make another FF similar to VI when it comes to character integrations and decision making.
yeah i think golbez was badass and totally evil
even tho near the end he came back to his sense
To be fair, the real Sephiroth died when Cloud threw him into the Life Stream at the Mako Reactor. What you fight at the end of the game is a clone of Sephiroth.
Enough of the Final Fantasy 7 hatred also. Turn your hate towards the fanboys who REFUSE to believe that Final Fantasy 7 is NOT the greatest game ever made, and no other Final Fantasy game can compare to it.
Treat Final Fantasy VII with the same respect as you treat any other RPG or Final Fantasy game. Because all of them have something incredible to offer the player (though the same might not be said for the Square ENIX-made Final Fantasies...but I wouldn't know, I haven't played them, except for FFXII).
Final Fantasy VII was my first game. Mainly because, the Playstation was my first ever game console. It's my first love and favorite Final Fantasy because of it. Is it the best Final Fantasy game? Maybe, maybe not. I love it because it's my "first love" when it comes to the Final Fantasy games. But I'm not going to sit here and tell someone why it's the best, when each Final Fantasy in the series has something to offer someone else. You can't expect someone to play your favorite game and get the exact same feeling you did when you played it.
From what I read from your comments it seems that Kefka was content with ruling the planet. However i remember Sephi saying somewhere that his plan for the planet was to use it as his ship to travel the universe destroying other planets.
Lol I know i coulnd be very wrong, maybe Im gettin the idea from something else, but if this is true then Sephi would definitly be more evil. By not being content with destroying this planet alone, but traveling to others to destroy them as well.
how can you be evil, if everything you did is put back to normal once your defeated.....that's not evil thats pathetic.
its like freza.
So if a guy runs around raping people but is then killed by the cops does that not make him evil seeing as how the people he raped can pretty much live normal lives knowing the guys is dead. Saying Kefka isn't evil is hilariously far from the truth.
sorry , but even if the world comes back in a normal states ..the killed stays dead in ff6 end ...
and that's still a lot of people
I guess we just have to take what we can get
Reminds me of Luxor a little bit
Actually I own this game already and it's pretty good, I just hope they give the graphics a small boost
Actually I am quite dissapointed I was hoping for something better
Got my hopes up for nothing :(
Btw I also have this game and it's not bad but it just didn't feel 'Final Fantasy' to me