Final Fantasy Megathread

[LightningLegs]

I've been hankering to play through FF1. The fact it uses a Vancian magic system is really unique to JRPGs. The only other NES RPGs I can think that have spell uses rather than MP are WRPG ports like Wizardry or Bard's Tale.

By now there's got to be ROM hacks with QOL fixes and such. I'm curious what people's thoughts are about the OG Final Fantasy.

 

[fishboneKiller]

ive been slowly working my way through the nes version of ff3. i played ff1 and loved it a lot, but when i tried to play ff2 i got stuck at deist caverns because the hill gigas enemies kept steamrolling my party, and i couldnt do anything about it. (i was really enjoying the game up to that point, too...)

ff3 holds up extremely well as an nes rpg, it's so impressive for the time and i can totally get why they had such a hard time figuring out how to remake it. (have you seen the water effects in that game????) its the only game of the original 6 that didnt get a gba remake, and they waited till the ds to do a full 3d remake. to be honest though, i dont know how i feel about the 3d version... i really like when the older final fantasies let me roleplay with my characters. yknow, give them my own names and personalities in my head, i think that's really fun. they sorta take that away in the 3d remake, which feels kinda lame. (that's just my opinion, of course)

besides those, ive also been working my way through ff9, and that game is super good! it looks insane for the hardware, and i love the characters to death. steiner might be my favorite guy so far, im only on disc 1 but hes just so goofy and fun. it's cute to see him encouraging vivi through improve himself too, you can tell he really cares about the kid. speaking of which, vivi is also really good, i love his storyline so far. (no spoilers, please!!!!) design wise though, i'd say my favorite party members might be Freya and Quina. Quina was one of the few characters i knew about before starting the game, but Freya i only found out about when i saw her for the first time in game. people say the red mages always have the best designs, and they weren't lying!

 

[Tonberry]

I've been hankering to play through FF1. The fact it uses a Vancian magic system is really unique to JRPGs. The only other NES RPGs I can think that have spell uses rather than MP are WRPG ports like Wizardry or Bard's Tale.

By now there's got to be ROM hacks with QOL fixes and such. I'm curious what people's thoughts are about the OG Final Fantasy.

It's great, but riddled with obnoxious bugs and issues.
I'd recommend (if I remember correctly) the "Final Fantasy Restored" hack. It's been a while but I think that's the good NES hack I played.

 

[snes9x]

About to finish FFVI. I got to Kefka last night but after two attempts I decided to grind some more so I went to the forest with all the t-rex enemies and spent an hour staring slackjawed at my DS slowly watching my damage numbers go up in a dripfeed of serotonin. Lexapro could never

 

[Fray Guillermo]

Have you seen the MtG collab?? I grew tired of the game and it's been years since I last played but I sooo want these cards!!

 

[Deleted member 3864]

Have you seen the MtG collab?? I grew tired of the game and it's been years since I last played but I sooo want these cards!!

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They make me so mad because I want them so bad!

(No chance though, I spend my free time on a fucking game piracy website, I can't afford Mtg anymore!)

The chocobo is actually pretty good, too, I'd love to use it with a bird deck.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

So when’s the FINAL Fantasy?

 

[Mopeybloke]

So when’s the FINAL Fantasy?

That would be 10, 12, or 13 depending on whom you ask.

 

[MasterEn]

That would be 10, 12, or 13 depending on whom you ask.

the last true final fantasy would be 12. after that, it was moved away from the crazy awesome fantasy stuff and seems to have mostly chased trends and tried to be a interactive movie series.

 

[snes9x]

For me it kind of died with XV once they decided to make mediocre action RPGs rather than experiment with turn-based combat. I think all of the talent was siphoned toward the VII remakes as those are actually pretty fun (imo). I really hope XVII goes back to turn-based

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

For me it kind of died with XV once they decided to make mediocre action RPGs rather than experiment with turn-based combat. I think all of the talent was siphoned toward the VII remakes as those are actually pretty fun (imo). I really hope XVII goes back to turn-based

The 10219210 VII remakes were shit anyway, the series now appeal to a whole different group of people than what they did until X

 

[starseeker300]

I really hope XVII goes back to turn-based

It could happen, but probally wont

 

[snes9x]

When I was in middle school I joked to a friend that once they get to Final Fantasy XXX its going to be impossible to google it without getting a ton of porn, but I'm pretty sure at this rate civilization will have already collapsed by the time they'd make it to 30

 

[starseeker300]

with the rate the main games are coming out at now, try before we get to FF20

 

[snes9x]

It could happen, but probally wont

Yeah, I'm not getting my hopes up. XVII would just as soon be a loot shooter with roguelite elements than turn-based at this point

 

[MasterEn]

When I was in middle school I joked to a friend that once they get to Final Fantasy XXX its going to be impossible to google it without getting a ton of porn, but I'm pretty sure civilization will have already collapsed by the time they'd make it to 30

they will probably do something like 30XXX or 3X or just something weird like that to try and avoid getting mixed up in the search results. or it'll be final x fantasy x X. or x final x fantasy x. or no one will care by that point.

 

[Deleted member 259254]

I thought the 16th game was fine, but it wasn't a final fantasy game in the slightest. It also likes crashing on me lmao

 

[Caped_Plumber]

Who is the true villain of FFVII?

Consider the following statement:

“The true arch-nemesis in Final Fantasy 7 is Jenova. She corrupts Sephiroth, turning him evil. She influences and uses Sephiroth (or his image) to carry out her will - and nearly brings about apocalypse.”

Please discuss!

 

[Deleted member 598440]

I'd argue in saying daddy Hugo was a bigger villian seeing as he set in motion a lot including for some reason or another lying about who Sephiroth's mom even is.

 

[χKai]

I'd argue in saying daddy Hugo was a bigger villian seeing as he set in motion a lot including for some reason or another lying about who Sephiroth's mom even is.

You mean Hojo?

 

[Deleted member 598440]

You mean Hojo?

Fuck I'm a phony- that was autocorrect doing it's thing

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Hojo is the true big bad tho. He was even in DoC

 

[Hourai]

I remember listening to a video essay that said Sephiroth is just a corpse puppeteered by Jenova, and that's why he's very quiet outside of flashbacks. Which does make sense, and stuck with me.

But yeah, if we want the inciting incident, it was Hojo. I don't think he was fully responsible; Shinra would've still been draining the planet's energy without him, and Jenova was the one who took advantage of his hubris. Things would be bad without his actions; he simply made it worse.

 

[Bacon Eater64x]

The true antagonist is obviously Nomura and Square Enix for promising a remake 10 years ago and then rug-pulling us via "it's actually an ARPG sequel with time travel shit lol" and we are still waiting for them to finish it.

 

[Deleted member 77791]

It's been too long since I played this game. I remember it as you were part of a terrorist group, rather a religious cult who is crazy enough to believe planet is alive or something, so to prevent people from "hurting the planet" you were destroying power stations because "they ruin environment" because you love nature lol, because of it your terrorist ideology to protect nature is way important than innocent people's lives because every time you destroy a part of the city they die and then you ironically ruin envoirement further so much the solar system got angry and sent meteor to the world just to defeat you but then you also defeated meteor (what?) but in the end you ended whole humanity's progression just because of your evil religious cult. As a result your whole actions make people live like monkeys as they get back to living in caves. The game is more like "Native American Fantasy 7". Do I remember wrong? lololol

FF7's woke idea due to popular idea of "climate change is dangerous so we gotta save the environment" made the game seem cringe and dull, not to mention the whole game seems "wrong". They could also develop a video game about saving animals because back then it was a huge thing to see monkeys on tv as everyone cared about animal's right and whatnot woke BS lol.