Top 3 Final Fantasy games (was forum=28)Follow

So true. Although making your characters Knights with two Knight Swords and mad math skills was pretty OP as well.

Tactics was amazing. I loved the story, especially for the realism compared to other FF games. People in FF Tactics die and STAY dead (mostly). The storyline and plot behind it was amazing. It's a little hard to keep everyone straight, but the information files you have help a ton. There were SO many ways to customize your characters. My only problems with it were that the storyline went too quickly (only 50 storyline missions, after all), while the game itself was large (spent 97 hours playing through it and getting everything). Some abilities were completely worthless (summons, Cloud's limit skills), some were OP (anything from Orlandu, using two Knight Swords), and encounters could either be simple of incredibly hard. I had a few fights where at least 1-2 of my characters were dead before I got a single move in. The fight at the execution ground is probably one of the hardest in the game.

FFVII remains a great game for me, though it was definitely because of the time I played it at in my life. At the time it had great graphics, was super long, and had superb music. It still has good music, it's still pretty long, the graphics suck, the story has been copied to death, and the numerous translation errors get annoying. I still enjoyed it though.

FFVI was probably my favorite "normal" FF game. Hence my posting name. The first half was story-driven and linear, with little deviation. The second half was straight forward in only one way: you get three party members for sure and your goal is to kill the end boss. Once you get the airship it's totally up to you to decide how to do it. I loved that open-endedness. Did you get all the characters back? All the Espers? Revisit all the old areas? It was great.

In order I would say
FF:T
FFVI
FFVII

If I extended it to the top 5, I would include FFIX and maybe XII. I didn't like X all that much, but it was a pretty good game. IX never got the recognition it deserved, and it had a completely random endboss. I never got into IV and I hated that I kept losing and gaining characters. I was very... slow. I two-shotted the end-boss. The trash to him was a lot tougher. X-2 was silly. XI isn't one of the "real" series. XII had the best gameplay out of the games so far, but the story was the worst since the first one.

I would Say

Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 6

Fixed that for ya.

Chrono Trigger did it best, with Chrono Cross and the recent Tales Series coming in at a close second

I've played 4-8, X, X-2, XII, and Tactics Advance. I can't pick a top three. I can, however, pick a bottom three.

X-2: I managed to like the battle system, and switching jobs mid-fight. The fights themselves, though, got boring much faster than the other games. And if you're on a replay mode, you just hold X and kill everything for the whole game.

The plot, characters, dialogue, and music, can all burn in hell. My perfectionism required a 100% run before I gave up. I had to play on mute and skip every single cut scene.

XII: Finally, a good FF since 8, right? Well, no, the whole thing is automated, and there are optional bosses with 10's of millions of HP, where you just set up the game to play it automatically. I tried very hard to play at as low a level as possible to force me to control my characters. In doing this, it took a good hour of stressful button-mashing to beat Gilgamesh. Now I can just tape down my joysticks and walk away for a day, come back and have accidentally killed the final boss.

TA: Mostly a personal grudge I still haven't gotten over where the Judge decided to ban Hit on an already difficult battle. Don't remember why, but my only choice at the end was to use Hit from my main character to finish the battle. Yay, I won. Right? What's the Judge doing? Prison, what? GAME OVER?! %&!* YOU! I haven't saved in 3 hours!

I played through the whole game without using any of my antilaw cards.

Um, turn them off. It's not the game's fault if you don't look in options.

Are those 2ed. dnd rules? I never understood the 18/xx thing on strength.

I'm sure it's obvious in the rulebook, but i've never pnp'd anything aside from 3.5 (for dnd that is)

Don't repeatable quests give ap?

Did you figure out where to turn off the animations in FE? They really do get old when you're resetting a map from the beginning because you did something stupid and got elincia killed or something.

By the way, a lot of people really hate mist. I tell you to not listen to them. She is second only to ike in terms of both survivability (40 luck) as well as damage (sonic sword) and can heal.

I've duoed optional maps on maniac just using her and an ike, where everyone else just gets slaughtered. It's ridiculous. Even when someone gets in a lucky critical she can still pull off a 40% chance miracle and live through it.

Edited, May 10th 2009 10:03pm by Pensive

Oh, if you think that Path of Radiance is too hard for some reason, don't bother with Radiant Dawn. Radiance is by no means a cakewalk, but Path of Radiance is extremely frustrating.

It's so frustrating at times that the developers put a battle save into the game to compensate for all of the reloading that you will do.

The final battle (of Radiant Dawn) is also the hardest final boss I've ever fought in an srpg. It regens 40 hp per turn (max is something like 200), has a def of like 35, and is surrounded by 8 mini versions of the boss, all of which also regen 40 hp per turn

The really cool thing that offsets the difficulty is that novice units can promote twice, making the level cap effectively 60 instead of 40.

One last tip: if you find an occult scroll, save it for ike.