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Post by bluemagetamagon on Feb 14, 2008 8:33:23 GMT -5
Final Fantasy, the greatest RPG series ever imo. (Sorry Pokemon I still love you)
Yeah
Here we talk about FF.
I've beaten FF1-4, and playing 1-6.
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Post by Akago on Feb 14, 2008 9:19:08 GMT -5
After 7, I lost interest. 8-12 weren't entertaining to me. And they kept changing the battle system around to much. I tried playing 8 and 9 at one point, but I just couldn't get into them.
7's my favorite in truth.
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Post by Weirdo94 on Feb 14, 2008 14:50:15 GMT -5
Meh, I think it's about as overrated as Halo, still enjoyable, but simply average and loaded up with pretty graphics.
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Post by bluemagetamagon on Feb 14, 2008 16:23:40 GMT -5
Meh, I think it's about as overrated as Halo, still enjoyable, but simply average and loaded up with pretty graphics. What are you on? FF1-6 don't have "pretty" graphics. Yet they're hailed as awesome. (Which they are.)
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Post by Weirdo94 on Feb 14, 2008 17:26:25 GMT -5
Well, you see, pushing "A" over and over again to access the "fight" command fifty times in a row for long leveling up sessions doesn't sound like my cup of tea.
Though you could have simply made a fatal typo and have simply spelled "Elder Scrolls" wrong. I'm sure people do that all the time.
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Post by Master Silver on Feb 14, 2008 18:31:08 GMT -5
I've never played any of the FF games, but "One Winged Angel" is the best final boss theme ever.
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Post by Akago on Feb 14, 2008 18:36:03 GMT -5
Well, you see, pushing "A" over and over again to access the "fight" command fifty times in a row for long leveling up sessions doesn't sound like my cup of tea. Though you could have simply made a fatal typo and have simply spelled "Elder Scrolls" wrong. I'm sure people do that all the time. Depends on your tastes. Some people like slower paced games like the FF series. Sure, it might be a little over rated, but for people into the turn based stragity type games, they find it rather enjoyible. After all, different people like different things, no?
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Post by bluemagetamagon on Feb 15, 2008 1:44:48 GMT -5
Well, you see, pushing "A" over and over again to access the "fight" command fifty times in a row for long leveling up sessions doesn't sound like my cup of tea. Though you could have simply made a fatal typo and have simply spelled "Elder Scrolls" wrong. I'm sure people do that all the time. Only FF1NES requires a needed amount of leveling up. Besides, how is it different from other RPGs like Pokemon?
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Post by Weirdo94 on Feb 18, 2008 20:52:34 GMT -5
Ah, Daytona, you can distract me from even the most attention grabbing of internet slap-fight arguments.
Now where were we? Oh yes...the thing about most RPGs is that you can simply level up over and over again and you're unbeatable. There's no strategy needed to actually beat the game. (Well, FF8 aside, that game was crap anyway..."Oh hay, we all grew up together but we forgot because the monsters make us have huge gaping holes in our memory and we didn't question that one bit!")
Now, the recent games in the series have worked on that a bit by giving you a choice on how you level up your characters, but you'll still eventually have the ultimate fighters if you keep leveling up over and over and over and over again.
One thing that does set Pokemon apart from it is that there's actually a choice, there's no true ultimate. Even a team of legendarys can be taken down by a well thought out team. Sure the 1p adventure is different, but with the multiplayer (and this is totally a factor now with Wi-Fi) you have to actually plan out everything, even the birth of your monster. And even if you raise it to the best of it's ability, there's still some team out there that can beat it, there's no clear best, and there's always an effort to come up with another team for another situation. This leads to high replay values.
Of course, the Tactics series is good, and I personally consider it one of my favorite games, considering there's a lot more strategy involved as well as choice in team building.
Of course I didn't even bring that up as my example, I said Elder Scrolls, which I dry hump to death simply because of the open ended-ness, and the fact that it's an action-RPG instead of a "Press X, press X, press X, press X..." RPG. I think it's needless to say how THAT particular game sets itself apart from the FF series.
(Also, on a side note, Kyle Busch needs to go back in time and give his mother an abortion. Anyone got a coat hanger and two emeralds? I'm about to break the golden rule of my pro-life stance.)
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