Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[Ruki]

How many years since a good one? (By Final Fantasy standards)

[Benji]

X was released in 2001, so 13 years.

[Ruki]

....damn them.

[TKz]

If that wasn't bad enough, 7-10 were all released over the course of 4 years.

I don't think I've ever hated a company like I do Square-Enix. Everything I ever liked about them is gone.

[Ruki]

If that wasn't bad enough, 7-10 were all released over the course of 4 years.

I don't think I've ever hated a company like I do Square-Enix. Everything I ever liked about them is gone.

Before Square could do no wrong in my eyes....now they're just another random company.

Now my love is for Atlus and the Persona series. Best series ever!

[Avenged Probably]

In a what probably not a shared opinion I'm finally playing XIII-2 and it's then most fun I've had with a FF since IX.

I liked the story for XIII but the gameplay bored me to tears.

[TKz]

In a what probably not a shared opinion I'm finally playing XIII-2 and it's then most fun I've had with a FF since IX.

I liked the story for XIII but the gameplay bored me to tears.

You're totally not wrong, FFXIII-2 is arguably the only good Final Fantasy game released since the PS2. It's all the promise of XIII's systems but none of the restrictions. The gameplay in XIII isn't bad, it's just limited and linear as fuck. XIII-2 took those chains off and added some more stuff to mix it up.

I mean, the story was pretty average, but I had so much fun actually playing the game that it didn't matter. I think I actually got close to beating all the extra bosses too, before something new attracted my attention.

[Ruki]

Just got the thief class....holy shit. That fight ruined me.

Both my mages ran out of MP, I had no Ether, was running low on potions, my Knight did almost no damage....but the monk? The monk is a badass class.

[Benji]

D-District Prison gets my nomination for worst section of a game ever. 13 levels of the exact same fucking thing that you have to run back and forth through all the way around. Dull as fuck.

[Ruki]

That part never bothered me for some reason.

[Benji]

Because you are inhuman.

[Ruki]

Yes.

[Benji]

I sincerely believe the last great game in the FF series was Crisis Core. I know a lot of people don't like it, but I adored the gameplay, the story, and most of all the music. It was repetitive at times on the side missions, but the main missions were great.

[probablyoliver]

Crisis Core was horrid. I enjoyed as it was characters I was familiar with in a world I loved and Angeal and the other baddie were pretty boss but pretty much as soon as I finished it I stopped liking it and had literally zero interest in going back for more.

I still maintain XII was fantastic, there were a lot of flaws and it seemed like square were just throwing a lot of shit to see what stuck but the world was beautiful, the combat was good fun and there was a hell of a lot to do.

IX is still the peak for me, everything went downhill from there.

[Benji]

I love the final sentence of the FF7 official introduction:

“An energy manufacturing mega-company known as Shinra, Inc. is harvesting the sheer life energy of the Planet (known as the Lifestream) as a simple fossil fuel. The Lifestream is processed and made into products ranging from electricity and heat to Mako and Materia. The latter two materials can work miracles, granting the wisdom of the Ancients to the user.

However, the Lifestream, like most other fuels, is finite in supply, and the Planet's lifeforce is being malevolently drained by the constant exploitation of Mako by Shinra. Though aware of the harmful effects, they function without remorse.

However, the real battle lies not with a corporation, but a force much more competent from the distant past. A long-thought dead warrior bent on becoming a god by draining all of the Lifestream from the Planet has risen again and will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.

Now a small rebel group emanating from the slums must quell the various dangers toward the innocent, and one mercenary for hire must look amidst the lies and deception and find the man he is within.”

It sounds like a metaphor, but it is so wonderfully telling you Cloud's story right in your face, but you don't even know it until you play the game.

[Gazz]

Crisis Core was horrid. I enjoyed as it was characters I was familiar with in a world I loved and Angeal and the other baddie were pretty boss but pretty much as soon as I finished it I stopped liking it and had literally zero interest in going back for more.

I still maintain XII was fantastic, there were a lot of flaws and it seemed like square were just throwing a lot of shit to see what stuck but the world was beautiful, the combat was good fun and there was a hell of a lot to do.

IX is still the peak for me, everything went downhill from there.

But X had 'Ride zee Shoopuf?'

[Ruki]

So...Bravely Default....early on most classes are kinda meh. Mages are nice, but you run out of mana quick, knights are weak, merchants are crap..only ones I care for are monk or thief.

[Ruki]

Double posting, as bad as the merchant.

[gunnar hendershow]

I've found the job system to be as deep and also balanced as anything. Merchant is great for later on I think. Some of the basic classes are just that, basic. But you need to level up Black and White Mage of course.

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

Just picked up the FFX/X-2 remaster and I forgot how fun the sphere grid and the character switching in battle are. They really knocked it out of the park with the CGI too; with the touch ups, some of it looks phenomenal, even by today's standards. Voice acting is still iffy but it has a funny kind of charm 12 years removed.