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8 is great, music, settings

That blooper real during the credits with zell eating hot dogs  :'(

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I liked the settings of 8, the gardens etc. i really couldnt tell you what the story was about except that crazy plot twist.

I just like how the good final fantasy's really create a whole fresh world.

[magus]

I liked the settings of 8, the gardens etc. i really couldnt tell you what the story was about except that crazy plot twist.

I just like how the good final fantasy's really create a whole fresh world.

i don't like 8 much but it has it's moment

like the part where they attack balamb garden is amazing

[Human Snorenado]

Guys, you know what I posted on that last page?  You're totally not helping your case.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

In chronological order:

- Downloaded FFV illegally off of the internet in 1998.  I fucking hated it at first but I played it on a slow Sunday and I had nothing better to do.  Once I started fleshing out the classes, it became much better.

- Downloaded FFVI illegally off of the internet in 1999.  I heard it was better than FFV in every way.  Not sure if I feel that way but it was pretty good.

- Downloaded FFIV illegally off of the internet in 1999.  I thought "fuck it" and play the SNES triology.  I did play and beat Mystic Quest as well   Then I was done with FF for a while (1999-2002)

- Bought FFVII, FFVIII, and Tactics for my PS2 in 2002.  I was really down with the flu.  I mean a knock your ass out 3 week flu.  I had some spare money and asked my parents to buy me FFVII, FFVIII, and Tactics while I recuperated.  I spent those three weeks playing those games.  I had no real energy to do anything else so fuck it.

- Bought FFX for cheap in 2005 for my slick new slim PS2.  I did not care for it at all but it was $12 new so no real loss.

- Borrowed a friend's PSP and FFI in 2008.  I got a few hours into it and stopped playing because I found something better to play (probably a Musou game).

- Gamefly'd FFXIII in 2010.  It was ok.  I thought the corridor stages were underrated and the open world level was overrated, like a true internet contrarian.

- Bought FFXIII-2 in 2012.  Never took it out of the shrink wrap.  Gave it away to my sister's stepchildren along with a bunch of other PS3 shit.

FF games I have not played and will probably never play: 2, 3, 9, 10-2, 11, 12, 13-3, 14, Tactics Advance 1/2, and whatever shit SE is spamming on iOS.

[radioheadrule83]

29 years old.

Played FFIII first (VI) as a kid, sucked balls at it but enjoyed it for what it was, can't honestly pretend I had any major interest in the franchise before then.

Played FFVII on PlayStation, blown away. Enjoyed XIII and IX almost as much.

X... What is this horrible voice acting? Also, I have job and a social life now.

Played XII. Seemed cool, didn't finish.

Played a bit of XIII. Seemed linear and shitty. Barely even started if I'm honest.

FFW to the point... RPGs are for depressed gamers in their mothers basements and otherwise lonely people trying to escape from a world of half decent stories in other media.

Fallout etc. seems less gay.

[Damian79]

I played all the FFs.  Started with Mystic Quest, then 6, 4, 7,8,9,5,1,2,3,10,12,13,13-2,10-2,11,14.

I didnt complete all though.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Played/beat all of them up until FF VII. Dabbled on that one and the linear one for the 360...

After the uber awesome III/VI it has been a trackable downhill series. KOTOR and many others like ME3 shit all over them in recent gens.

[ZephyrFate]

Played all of them. Only been severely let down by the shitpiles of VIII and XII.

[ZephyrFate]

Dimensions has fantastic gameplay and is at least 50 hours long, but the storyline is terribad. The music is great, though.

[Sho Nuff]

Started with FF7. Played until my memory card died. Moved to Japan. Played X for about 10 hours. Got hired at Squaresoft. Served as the English language editor for all modern retranslations and cleanup for FF 1-6.

The lady who retranslated FF5 for GBA was living in my guest bedroom since February but moved out yesterday morning. She was a good cook. I'm sad. I guess the moral of the story is that I am really sick of Final Fantasy games.

[Sho Nuff]

Yeah, working on those games nearly broke me. At least now they're at a basic level of coherence so nobody will ever have to retranslate them from scratch ever again. It's weird because I've run into Woolsey a bunch of times but somehow the topic never gets brought up. DON'T MENTION THE WAR.

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Sho nuff you still work in localisation?

[Sho Nuff]

Sho nuff you still work in localisation?

Hell no, design and production all the way!

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Cool.

Localisation

I did localisation testing and translating but glad I quit, shit was going nowhere for me I think. Some friends did move up though to project managers etc.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

My first JRPG was Dragon Warrior but it came at the same time I was moving away from the NES and was primarily focused on my Amiga 500 so I missed out on FF1.

Bought FF2 the day it came out on the SNES, not because I gave a crap about FF I just wanted to something else to play on the thing.  Ended up loving it though.

I had FF3 preordered because I loved FF2 so much and got it the day 1.  As much as I played it and as many times I went back to it, I never actually finished it.  I know I've been extremely close but I'd always lose interest.

FF7 was next and again I got it day 1.  I remember really liking it and being impressed at the time but the characters were grating and I was becoming aware of just how asinine the stories were.  I can't go back to this.  I've tried but holy fuck this one has aged horribly.

FF8 - skipped.  Never played it once.

FF9 easily my favorite out of the entire series and the only one besides the FF3 remake on the DS that I've gone back to and still enjoy.  I nearly missed it the first time just because I was playing a lot of PC and Dreamcast when it came out and bought it out of sheer boredom a month or so after it came out.  FF is at its best when they're light hearted and goofy imo.  The more serious a FF game takes itself the more obvious it becomes just how shitty the stories really are.  FF9 hits all the right notes with me.

FF10 arrived in the mail the day it came out.  This one annoyed the piss out of me.  I hated the linearity, the brain dead story, the voice acting....ugh.  Everything.  This is a game for distinguished mentally-challenged fellows.  Honestly the only thing I can remember in this game outside of Tidus's laughing lesson is that one section where you have to avoid getting hit by lightning 100 times for...something.  Why the hell was I doing that again? 

FF11 - skipped.  MMO. lol

FF12 had the potential to be one of the best FFs ever but some of the design choices like screwing yourself over by opening up a chest at the begining that negates you from obtaining your ultimate weapon and weird story gaps that made the game feel like reading a book while skipping every other chapter made it hard to like at times.  I know it won't happen but I'd like to see them go back to this one and rework it.  There's a lot of good stuff that they left on the table here.

FF13 was a fucking nightmare and this is where I'm jumping off the tracks for good.  I don't give a shit what SE does with this series from now on.  It's obviously not for me anymore.

[Fifstar]

Before I got my first Final Fantasy game I played Breath of Fire 2 which inflected me with the rpg virus. My favorite game magazine rated FFVI with a perfect score and I really really wanted to get it but it was almost impossible as it was not getting released here in germany. When christmas came I put the game on my wishlist but was totally not expecting to get it, especially considering you needed either a modded console or an adapter to play it. Our tv wasn't even capable of displaying 60hz which ruled out the modded console. On christmas eve, I first got Blackthorne and later discovered that my parents actually got me FFVI+ adapter as well. I totally freaked out, probably put the N64 kid to shame as I never got 2 games for christmas before and it was actually a game I wanted to death but totally didn't expect to get. My parents actually digged through the small ads of my game magazines to get a used copy and the adapter.
At first, I didn't get the game to run, my parents were as clueless as I was because the adapter didn't come with instructions. Luckily I had Blackthorne so I wasn't that disappointed. On New Year's Eve I discovered that on the adapter I had to put the import game in the front slot and a pal game in the back slot, suddenly it worked. Spent the rest of the day playing the game to death, didn't go out for the new year firework and probably was as happy as you can be playing a videogame. Just the perfect combination of playing an amazing game where I went through a lot lot of odds to actually get to play it.

Next, iwas pretty shocked that FFVII was only released on the PSX. Couldn't afford a second console. Got it later on pc, but it never totally clicked with me. The prerendered backgrounds didn't look that good on a crt monitor, felt pixely as hell even back then. I actually didn't beat it, even though I wanted to love it.

Didn't get FFVIII, I think partly because of prerendered backgrounds and I really didn't feel the cast from the reviews I saw.

FFIX looked better but it was released very late on psx which I still didn't have and never made it to pc, so I skipped that one as well.

Still was a nintard when the next console generation came round so I sticked with the gamecube and since Square didn't bother with pc versions I couldn't play any of the PS2 games although I lost interest in the franchise at that point already because the casts in those games looked unappealing to me time and time again (cast of FFVI is easily my favorite in any videogame).

At some point I got the GBA version of FFIV, which I had played before on emus, but never very far into the game. I almost beat the game but stopped after I got beaten twice by the final boss. Overall, I didn't like it all that much, in contrast to my expectations because I thought I would get another game like FFVI. Fights where enemies attacked you twice for each of your rounds, the constant forced character changes or some scenarios like the moon hugely annoyed me.

After that I got a playstation 2 and I picked up FFIX which I actually beat, even though I didn't like it all that. Slow battles and the boring cast (funnily I liked the often hated Quinaa by far the most).

By that point, I didn't really care about FF type of stories and didn't like the cast of those games anymore so I stopped caring. Can't say any trailer of recent FF games even remotely interested me. All in all my FF history climaxed early with FFVI and no other game in the series comes even close to that game for me; FFVI is a top 5 all time game for me and I wouldn't put any other FF game in my top 50. Nowadays I prefer Dragon Quest by far and DQVIII even surpassed FFVI. Still, I want to beat FFV which I've played halfway through a couple of times on emus.

[tiesto]

First game in the series was FF1, got it for my 8th birthday (July 1990). Nintendo Power was heavily pushing the game around that summer, and the magazine made it sound really captivating. Like Dragon Warrior (only other RPG I've played at the time) but much better - nicer graphics, 4 character parties, an airship, varied dungeons, an actual story! Couldn't find a copy anywhere aside from Consumers, a mail-order store that they had around here in the early 90's (like Service Merchandise). Got it and loved all the maps, monster charts the game came with. Played it all that summer and invited friends over to help me grind battles  I inadvertently got a bunch of them into RPGs through that...

Then I went to a friend's house, he owned a Master System and I used to tease him about it... "Why would you buy that but not the NES?" Oh all he needed to do was show me one game that shut me up forever - Phantasy Star. Game was absolutely mindblowing, it looked like something from the future compared to DQ1/FF1. Solidified my decision to get a Genesis for PS2/3 even though FF4 was so tempting (I'd later buy an SNES for FF4 and SOM).

Since then I've played nearly every FF and many of its spinoffs (including shitty ones like FFTA, The Crystal Bearers and The After Years). Just not the online ones because I don't like MMOs. Favorite will always be 5 though, that was my first import game.