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Is FFX the most overrated Final Fantasy game?
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>>728923072
No, 7 is
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it has nice summer vibes. 6 is the most overrated. the worst final fantasy to me aside from the known shitters like x-2, 13, 14, 15 etc
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I played X for the first time recently and wasn't impressed. It's very linear and the combat is very basic. I enjoyed 8 a lot more, despite its reputation.
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>>728923072
No, and it's not even close given the past several years of dog shit from the series.
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Nah, it's actually underrated.
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>>728923072
6, 7 and 9 are the most overrated ones
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>>728923072
7
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X is literally the best game in the series. It cannot be overrated.
IV or VI are probably the worst offenders in terms of how mediocre they but people still view them as masterpieces.
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>>728923072
among gamers in current year?
probably 5
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>>728923072
7 is
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>>728923072
This is the only game in the series that both new and old fans outside of mental illness echo chambers can agree that they like.
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>>728923506
>X is literally the best game in the series
It doesn't even have an overworld.
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X is just walking down narrow hallways and occasionally fighting bosses. No exploration whatsoever.
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>>728923107
>>728923404
>>728923412
>>728923579
>7
How so?
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>>728923072
OP here, just a reminder that overrated doesn't mean bad. It just means people rate it way too highly for seemingly superficial reasons, but overrall is still a good game.
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>>728923072
It's VI. Sold less than most games after it, doesn't have extra material (FFIV had a sequel and a 3-D remake, FFV has a bad OVA, lmao) and Kefka did less than the rest of the villains of the series.
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>>728923072
Probably
>corridors
>very few enemy types(The recycling is actually crazy)
>no exploration
>unskippable, very long cutscenes every 5 minutes
Also not that relevant since it's single player but it's classic garbage square balancing
>dont have to touch the sphere grid at all throughout the main story and it's still easy
>all roads lead to spam normal attack
At least status effects are good in this game, if they work that is, and blitzball is pretty cool as a minigame.
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>>728923647
you'll get map menu and you'll like it.
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>>728923907
No, overrated means it's more liked than MUH favorite one, so I have to bitch and moan about it.
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>>728923579
I have to agree with this, I somewhat recently replayed it. It is pretty fun but mostly because of nostalgia. The story is ok I guess but the dialogue is pretty awful.
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>>728923072
No. it's 7 by a landslide.
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>>728923981
>implying everyone's favorite is 8
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>>728923780
aerith doesn't look like that
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>>728923072
Considering how similar it is to XIII and XIII is universally hated, either X is overrated or XIII is underrated.
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>>728924020
Any game between VI and X are valid for that. Cope.
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It's great though? Only gripes I have with it is the amount of recolor enemies due to the weakness system and the annoying RNG armor slot system and mandatory stealing to build items.
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>>728923913
VI is a repurposed SaGa but stripped of all the mechanics that make SaGa great
I unironically think VI could have been the best RPG of all time if they didn't pussy out
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>>728923072
Probably the most Japanese, but not the most overrated. Any pixelated Final Fantasy, like original VII, are overrated. The HD versions of the pixelated Final Fantasy are beautiful again, though.
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>>728923072
The real answer.
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>>728923072
7 is
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>>728924093
They're not similar at all
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>>728924942
Tactics story is above every mainline FF.
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>>728923072
not only is it the most overrated, but it really pushed off the whole
>characters look like chinks
to the extreme and ruined FF

FFVII almost all the characters besides Yuffie looked like normal races.
FFVIII almost all the characters besides Rinoa looked like normal races.
FFIX all the characters looked like fictional races
FFX
>bro what if we make the main character look like a literal chinese dude found on the street with blonde hair
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>>728923072
6, 9 and 12 are easily the most overrated.
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>>728926085
How can 12 be overrated
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>>728923072
That would be VII
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The best FF games are the following
FF1
FF6
FF7
FF9
FF12

All the others are slop, trash, not worth your time
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>>728923072
no that would be 4
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>>728926041
Modest FFX Yuna
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>>728926019
I never liked the way the characters dress in FFX, they all looked gay as fuck
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>>728926562
Fucking Straighty McStraight over here
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>>728923072
No, it is peak final fantasy unironically
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>>728926643
Be real man, FFX is when nomura lost his shit, all the characters look like retards who don't understand how clothes work
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for me, it's the besaid island theme
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>>728926562
agreed on that also.
looks like some 1970s gay club in london, but not cool gay like david bowie still getting blown by 8 girls at once, but gay gay.
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>>728923780
>How so?
because it's not very good and most people are just nostalgic for it

the remake has proven that the plot is dumb and not worth paying attention to, and that the game as a whole is extremely overrated
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it is

you see sprites of ff7 ff8 ff13 ff16 in Gaming media circles but I've never seen one ffx screenshot other than that kiss
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>>728923072
While I don't think any FF are bad watching all of those top ten youtube videos that constantly hyped up Kefka and FFVI when I was younger and finally playing it to discover that I don't like it was disappointing. I think one of those guys even noted about how FFVI was their golden child. Im my head I always image that the most vocal people to say VII is overrated are FFVI superfans. VII lived up to the hype for me.
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>>728924942
Actually, I kind of agree.
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>>728925881
They're hallways with dumb battle systems. XIII is actually the harder and more open game of the two.
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>>728927367
The remake ruined the original story
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>>728923506
It’s not the best. 7 is the best. But they are almost equal in near-perfection. X is the last pure soulful game of an era. So it’s more memorable in that sense.
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>>728927478
The thing is, at least imo, that FFVI was impressive for the time and the SNES hardware, so people consider it a masterpiece relative to the time it came out. Maybe it's stupid to say, but yeah i think there are masterpieces that are just that good regardless of when they came out, like FFVII, and games that are masterpieces for the time they came out
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>>728926041
Sex with Yunalesca
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>>728923506
Playing 4 this year felt magical for me in a way no other game can make me feel, and it made me realize these kind of games were a product of several geniuses grouping up together to create something unique that can never be replicated. Maybe you genuinely dislike the franchise
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>>728926041
Slutty X-2 Yuna
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>>728927367
anon comparing the original plot to the remake plot is actually idiotic.
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>>728928617
What was your favorite part of 4?
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>>728923179
8 is an actual masterpiece. People just got mainly filtered by junction mechanics and the fact you need to manually set your GFs to learn the refining abilities, so that you can have all the magic you want from items instead of drawing like a retard. If you know these two things, you're good to go and have tons of fun with it.
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>>728924036
She does look like a whore (that she moonlights as). Sephie killing her off was such a relief.
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>>728928734
nta but time skip on the 3d version goes hard
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>>728928823
it still has a retarded plot and characters even by series standards
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You had to have been there. When Final Fantasy X came out, it had the best graphics of any video game out there and games with big fully-voiced cutscenes was rare. It was a real spectacle for its time. Nowadays, it's incredibly common and you'll probably feel more fulfilled playing Expedition 33 instead.
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>>728928823
>People just got mainly filtered
Anon FFVIII is over as soon as you get ifrit
Junction anything to strength and you can one shot every boss with squall's limit, which you can also force

Enemies also scale with your level but your own power doesnt, so never fighting a single battle is the optimal way to play
It's the poorest balancing in all of FF even beating 2, it is utter shite
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>>728929148
I think the original PS2 version aged very well
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>>728929148
e33 and ffx show games have barely evolved tho
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>STOP RIGHT THERE, GOERS
what did he really mean?
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>>728923072
FF7 is the best by far
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>>728927478
Kefka is overrated because people misinterpret 6’s story and think that he “wins”. Even though the entire message of the game is that he fails because humanity persists and endures despite how badly Kefka tried to fuck shit up. He’s no different than most other ff villains in the sense that he ALMOST won, but lost at the 11th hour.
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>>728923072
10 has the best combat from the classic FFs
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>>728923072
its 5
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>>728929442
Seriously, like i can see why people love VI, i even agree it's a masterpiece, but when you see Kefka in the first spot in Top 10 videogamenvillains, and the explaination is always "he wins" it's so stupid and shallow, like not the character itself, but the ability to analize and discuss things of those "reviewers"
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>>728929550
hell no, it's braindead
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>>728929258
Fighting enemies in VIII is still worth it because higher levels give you better drops in battles. Also, most FFs have some questionable balancing choices in places.
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>>728929623
How so?
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>>728929640
>Fighting enemies in VIII is still worth it because higher levels give you better drops in battles
The card system gives you access to a lot of those items much earlier than if you were to fight the monster that drops them.
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>>728929640
You can use Cactuar's(Or was it tonberry?) lv up for that, or just get the items from cards
Realistically, the only items you ever need is for Squall's weapon so you can use Lionheart, which frankly, is only useful against omega weapon(The only boss who is at a fixed level 100 and thus has a lot of HP)
But yes, most FFs balancing is completely fucked, I just shit on 8's because not playing the game is the best way to play and you can one shot everything from the start, it's dumb
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>>728929596
The weirdest part is that it’s not like the fact that Kefka loses is even sub-text. VI isn’t even remotely subtle with its writing and themes and it beats you over the head about the importance of hope and how Kefka’s philosophy is self-defeating.

I’m personally of the opinion that VI is one of the more overrated FFs. Not because it’s bad or anything, but because people exaggerate how dark and “mature” it is because it was quite dark relative to most SNES games from the mid 90s. It’s still really kid friendly in places though, and people forget that.

Then again, my favourite FFs are VIII and XII of the ones I’ve played, so I seem to like the controversial ones for whatever reason.
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>>728929741
too easy. no atb takes a lot from the combat and the member swapping just leads to obvious solutions for obvious problems that never really push you to engage more deeply with the systems. dunno it's just boring even x-2 plays way better
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>>728929148
>you'll probably feel more fulfilled playing Expedition 33 instead
how long are we gonna have to deal with these attempts of pushing E33 as a FF replacement
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>>728930009
Until Square makes another FF on the level of its VI-X golden age again. E33 took off because it’s basically a love letter to those games (8 and 10 especially).
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>>728923506
You're a braindead mouthbreather who likes linear corridor shit that can barely be called a "game"
Pleb. Go back.
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>>728926041
slutty x-2 rikku
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>>728930123
oh yeah running through colorless ue5 hallways while listening to some wailing woman all game is quintessential FF
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>>728930353
sounds like FFXIII
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>>728929965
Member swapping is normal in that kind of game where weaknesses need to be exploited more often. Your turns depend on a stat, the higher your agility, the faster your character. It's simple. You can halve the amount of turns your enemy gets by looking at the upper right column during combat. This tells you how long it will take a spell to cast, or whether you can wedge in a bunch of attacks that will slow the enemy down.
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>>728930353
Add color and you get the Vanille running simulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhkOMuOyqc
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>>728930450
E33 has an actual world map and optional areas though.
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>>728930480
wasnt there some weird quirk where having more than X agility does nothing?
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>>728928734
The very beginning on the trip to Mist cave which is that first time you listen to the cave theme and the Mist dragon boss fight makes it feel surreal. I also liked Edward's moment against the dark elf and that part of Cid bossing Edge around when working on the airship. These 16 bit sprites had so much personality
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>>728923107
Agree. People who prefer 7 over x are legitimately losers
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>>728930549
Against some bosses the stat doesn't matter a whole lot. But I've never heard of a glitch or nothing about the game breaking over high agility.
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>>728931273
yeah i looked it up after my post apparently it does nothing after 170
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>>728930480
turn manipulation is fun and all but it's less fun than manipulating atb bars that rule themselves by speed anyways
the game is also just less fun than stuff like ff3 or heroes of light or bravely second too because it just lacks difficulty and options to actually play it deeply
it's a very streamlined game without much challenge. that's not for me is all
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>>728931450
Quite a few Square games from that era have soft-caps on stats after a certain point. Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 also have soft caps where the stats genuinely stop mattering after a certain point.
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>>728931451
I just like when it's my turn.

I don't like when my turn is ambiguous and I have to race against the opponent. My turn is mine, when I'm done you can have yours lol. Chrono Trigger wasn't too bad, but FFVI is really frustrating, especially at the end game. Even when you max out speed, you can't go first against 90% of the monsters because of ATB.
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>>728930826
Cloud and Tidus are very different peotagonists
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>>728931842
oh man this makes me think of some gameboy/advance/whatever game maybe paper mario idk had a long downward staircase leading to a boss that was really hard
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>>728923072
>hear FFX has a great endgame
>most of the endgame is just grinding
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>>728929640
It also makes the bosses harder, making the game far more fun. I mean, most faggots always cry that bosses in FF series tend to be pushovers. This way, at least Omega Weapon packs some punch before you rape him.
I wonder how many unprepared people got raped by Omega when they rung the bell in Ultimecia Castle, not knowing in any way (at least the game doesn't tell you) what it actually does. It's just placed neatly in the middle of the room, asking to be clicked. It's unlike the Superbosses in FFVII, where their presence is loud and clear. Here, you can accidentally get your ass whooped if you're not broken enough when going in blind.
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>>728929774
I kept fucking resetting the rules when I got shit one like in the Spess Station. Fucking fuck.
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>>728932389
I don't think anyone has ever once said FFX has a great endgame.
Omega ruins, the monster arena, the celestial weapon requirements, the fucked up/unplaytested crafting costs, etc. It's all notoriously kind of shit, even before getting into how the game sort of just breaks down once you start maxing sphere grids.
The nicest thing you can say about it is that most JRPGs at the time had shitty endgame/postgame.
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>>728930123
Jack's game was fun, though. It's just pure AVTISM SOVL.
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>>728923107
You mean 6, 8 and 9?
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>>728930353
That's XIII, indeed. Lightning was the first massive disaster. Then, the aftershocks came and a shit tsunami called FFXV raped the series beyond all saving without going back to the roots.
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>>728926041
Lulu in slut Rikku's outfit.
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>>728923072
Final fantasy 6 is the first good one.

Final fantasy 10 is the last good one.

For Bethesda the first is Morrowind and the last one is Skyrim.
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>>728924942
good call
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>>728932524
>makes the bosses harder
>making the game far more fun
>posts one whole boss
Oh wow one optional boss is hard so it’s a good system. My first playthrough of the game I annihilated every single boss with no threat, which greatly reduced the impact of a bunch of story beats too which did not help an already whacked out story with the worst romance of all time. Seifer was literally never a threat any time I ever fought him so as a rival he was just a goofball the whole time. Ultimecia was the only challenge and that’s only because of her one shot move, which is easily remedied with Hero.
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>>728932524
IMO, I do think it’s a shame that you can’t fully access the world map after the Time Compression happens. I get that they had to make compromises on Disc 4 in order to actually fit the ending FMV on the disc, but it’s a shame that you’re stuck in this post-“point of no return” state after Disc 3.
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>>728932921
4 and 5 are good.
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>>728930480
I can't believe Squeenix wanted to turn FF into a DMC shitfest instead of doing it like Persona.
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>>728932950
>Seifer was literally never a threat any time I ever fought him so as a rival he was just a goofball the whole time

That’s kind of the point. He thinks he’s hot shit, when in reality, he isn’t.
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>>728930009
until there's another albigensian crusade
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>>728926041
>>728932920
rikku in lulu's outfit
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>>728933067
It's the best example of Squaresoft and how much it changed as a company since merging with Enix. FFX is a genuine RPG with RPG features embedded into the skeleton of its design, all the way down to the Blitzball. The very next mainline single player campaign is FFXII, and it's basically slop.
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>>728933276
Isn't is amazing that two good developers merged only to create a piece of shit
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>>728930493
>>728932908
simply put: E33 is just another iteration of modern FF, failing to capture the old spirit
I rest my case
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>>728933471
>two good developers
Enix never had an inhouse development team
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>>728934379
There are a handful of good post-merger Square games:

>Kingdom Hearts 2
>FFXII (yes, it’s good)
>Stranger of Paradise
>Dissidia

Just to name a few.
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>>728933873
>this snow lion spent years living on a hot tropical island
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>>728933110
Yeah but him not being a challenge at all just makes him a joke character. The third encounter he cuts down Odin as a supposed “oh shit” moment and then he dies in two turns.
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>>728925923
It’s boring.
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>>728923072
No. It's clearly up there, but no. In order of overratedness:
>Overrated
IV > VIII > X > XII > CCVII > XV > IX > XIII > I > XVI > VII >
>Rated
V > DoCVII > X-2 > IVTAY > LRXIII > VI >
>Underrated
II > XIII-2 > III > BCVII
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>>728936927
8 is the most underrated one. Either somebody just runs through the game without reading the story that answers every question they may have, or they get filtered by the easiest system to make yourself busted as fuck early (Junction) and they stand for hours drawing spells instead of having GFs refine abundant items into magic.
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>>728926041

Paine my beloved
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>>728930826
Lol. I 'prefer' X, in the sense that it's a game I feel is ultimately more in depth and capable of giving better highs over a longer term and would take it to a deserted island over VII given the choice between them. But VII is a much better though out and designed overall experience with the better campaign and story with more freedom naturally woven in to that, and I could never begrudge someone for preferring it. Rather, I'd sympathize with them strongly and wish for a game that was like VII, but with X's strengths added.
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>>728923072
It seems like that.
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No, it is basically the best FF game, the japs have spoken
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>>728926041
Rikku is probably the most fun
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>>728923072
I’d argue all of them are overrated. Good, but overrated. You could probably say that about all RPGs.
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>>728923945
>dont have to touch the sphere grid at all throughout the main story and it's still easy
in your fucking dream
>but what abo-
nobody cares about challenges done by turbo autists
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>>728942271
overrated by what metric and whomst standards
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>>728937920
I’m convinced that a good 80% of the backlash towards 8 comes from the fact that newfags to the series were expecting it to be 7-2, and they got mad when it was something completely different. That’s probably when they finally learned that the series is an anthology series and does something different every game.

If it wasn’t the follow up to 7, people would have judged it more fairly and considered it an interesting experimental game like Xenogears.
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>>728923072
no that's XIII because there's still at least one person willing to defend that pile of shit.
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>>728944163
>and they got mad when it was something completely different.
nice fanfic but the truth is it go flak mostly because of its broken, unpolished battle/junction system and rightfully so. That's all.
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>>728923072
i want more games with tropical beach aesthetics
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>>728944501
How about just some color in general, so many games still look like brown grey desaturated shit
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I always associated X with being a Disney adjacent kingdom hearts tranime cringe and then finally played it and it's actually kind of dark and mature
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>>728926041
Paine
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It will be the next one getting the remake treatment
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>>728926041
Leblanc
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>>728947360
It better not. I want Chuami's game.
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I'd say FF14 is as its an MMOs and the entire genre is awful.
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X is carried by one of the best stories in mainline Final Fantasy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV36UXyjyso
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>>728948486
And soundtrack. And battle system. And characters. And artstyle.
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>>728932901
8 and 9 aren't that popular, they just have vocal weirdo fans but they're the minority I'm pretty sure
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>>728948525
it's one if not the weakest soundtrack of the franchise
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>>728948647
You are a deluded contrarian.
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Lenne
>looks like a stuck up high maintainence bitch

Rikku
>100% slut

Yuna
>way too boring and unassertive, she's the anti-Yukari

Paine
>Squall, so no thanks

???
>???

Plant Summon
>dommy mommy, but she smokes so no thanks

Donna
>[ni[/spoiler]ce.

Leblanc
>Correct choice

Lulu
>boring, bait and switch, expect dommy mommy, get another Yuna

Yunalesca
>for Lordc Zion dick ONLY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvnmVDwhKQk
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>>728948486
>a fleeting dream
Best song in the game
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>>728948647
lol, not even lmao
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>>728948692
4 5 6 7 8 9 are all superior soundtracks and for the reason that nobuo only composed half of X, this is the objective truth. You have genuine shit taste.
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>>728948802
you were born when the game released, faggot, you don't even know who nobuo is
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>>728923107
fpbp
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>>728948894
>NOBUO IS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO CAN MAKE GOOD MUSIC
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>>728948819
7 OST is overrated trash, it has 1 memorable song. Meanwhile even random town songs from 5/6/8/9 are memorable.
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>>728949001
>strawman from an emotional teenage girl
I accept your concession

>>728949075
meds
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Just got to zanarkand and this game has been so average. This is my first final fantasy game, and this game makes me not want to play the others.
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>>728949189
Go back to Fortnite then, kid
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>>728949075
>it has 1 memorable song
come on now
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>>728949189
if you didn't like X you'll probably love XVI or XV
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>>728923072
That would be either 7 or 9
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>>728948574
>both sold over 9 million copies
why are you making shit up
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>>728949189
Yeah outside of the music it just isn't all that interesting.
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>>728949350
to be fair VIII coasted on the success of VII, it's by far the most controversial entry of the ps1 titles
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Most people have to be nostalgiafagging this game. 80% of the characters are utter shit including the mc. The game has like 2 good soundtracks. The sphere grid is ass, the combat too. No exploration, you just walk straight and get an atrocious amount of random encounters, and then watch a transcoded story cutscene. Enemies look the same and act the same. I bet the people that praise this game have not gone back to replay this ass game.
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>>728923107
It's so dumb.
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I’ve played FFVI, VIII and XII. Which mainline FF should I play next?

VIII was my favourite of those three for reference.
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>>728949845
>I bet the people that praise this game have not gone back to replay this ass game.
it's my top 3 most replayed games, it's very polished, very low friction
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>>728950251
>VIII was my favourite of those three for reference.
>VIII was my favourite of those three for reference.
gigachad. They're all very unique and since you don't say what you liked about it in particular it's not very helpful. that said you can't go wrong from playing VII, IX or even X. Just make yourself a favor and don't play anything past XII
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>>728950530
I liked the atmosphere, aesthetics surrealism and romance of VIII. I’ve found it to be one of the most visually impressive games I’ve played.
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>>728950872
you're my nigga. Unfortunately there isn't another FF exactly like this but for what is worth VII and IX too have great visuals and unique atmosphere. IX in particular is my favorite after VIII in term of visuals (it's completely different though)
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>>728923072
it’s so bright and engaging, the world felt alive and exciting

it was the first game I played that actually had engaging cinematics

i covered the tv when my mom would walk by during the romance scene at the pool that’s how young i was tho
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>>728950872
for a similar experience with a strong atmosphere I'd recommend 9 next, if the art style doesn't deter you
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>>728924942
agreed
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>>728923072
For me that's 6. Didn't play it on SNES so I don't have the nostalgia glasses.

It was fine up until you get the airship in the WoR. Then the linear narrative is cut out for individual character stories.
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>>728950251
Based on that X, then XV, then XIII.
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>>728923072
Agreed, than 5.
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>>728950251
feels like bait, but... 7 and 9 maybe?
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>>728952516
>unironically comparing XV, XIII and even X to VIII
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>>728949350
I meant relative to other FFs
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>>728923508
5s good, in my top 5. I still agree. For some reason zoomers are insufferable about it. Back half falls off hard. 3 is better but always gets mocked. Absolute plebs.
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>>728950251
XV
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>>728923945
>dont have to touch the sphere grid at all throughout the main story and it's still easy
you overreached
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>>728950251
4, than play the rest in order after one of the worst ones resets your tastebuds.
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I have the old legacy version of FF8 on Steam, the one that's not the remaster. Is that fine to play or am I better off playing the remaster or playing on Duckstation?
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>>728952623
I was thinking that but 7's chibi looks awful and 9 with its 15 second load times has not aged well. Best games but not 2025 friendly. My buddy just rage quit 9.
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>>728952730
X has the same kind of romance focus and love of melodrama as VIII. The two games also have notable historic fan overlap.
XV has a romance framing in theory and its world is realistic like VIII.
XIII has some of the character focused melodrama of VIII.
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i played 6, 7, 9, 10 recently for the first time. 10 is the only one i had to drop halfway because it was so fucking bad
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>>728953218
lmao what a fucking stretch, you could say that for pretty much every FF
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>>728946138
Paineal.
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>>728923072
XIV, VII, and III are the most overrated games in the series.

>>728924093
>>728928175
>X and XIII are the same, muh hallways
I never got this stupid comparison. You basically need to ignore every aspect of both games aside from world navigation having a similar framework.
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>>728948784
No, this one is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfuOyyDcl8g
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>>728953794
Knew you were going to post that one. It is an extremely close second for me
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>>728923179
>It's very linear
Shut the fuck up. Not every game needs to be open world. You can have open world like areas for the overworld but that's about it.
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>>728923506
X is a slightly better version of XIII. It's also when the series clearly switched from a coherent guiding hand to the floundering shit it has become.
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>>728923072
I tried ff7 and ffx because I was told they're the best of the best when it comes to jrpgs but I just stopped playing after 15-20 hours or so, they just weren't that interesting to me. What is my illness called?
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>>728954335
retardation
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>>728953516
No, I can't. The general camps of FF are:
>Gameplay/Job enthusiasts
III, V, X-2 and LRXIII. Can add II, VIII and Tactics, if adventurous.
>Melodrama enthusiasts (by far the biggest group, that is also coherent in their interest)
IV, VIII, X and XIII
>Taking it easy, no big effort, entry level games fairweather fans (numerically the largest group)
VI, VII and X
>Traditionalist RPG, class based, medieval enthusiasts, who might also really like Matsuno.
IV, VI, IX and XII. Can add I, XVI and Tactics, if adventurous
>Modernists/ARPG enthusiasts
XIII to newer, maybe add X, if extremely adventurous

Beyond these we go into weeds by tone, stories, characters, atmosphere, humor, seriousness, settings and atmosphere.
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>>728953794
I'm most fond of Spira's sights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZ7vVIbK7s
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>>728954937
This is also a really good one. I love all the tracks of this game, it's god tier.
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>>728954937
Might be just because you play guitar
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>>728955127
Might be, for that reason I also like Jecht's theme a lot, even if blues is a bit out of place in Spira but so is Jecht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5JGlpdUSC4
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>>728948230
>>728928634

Yuna massaging Leblanc to completion.
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>>728955393
>dad's come in
are ya winnin, son?
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>>728923107
Fippy bippy
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Sex with wakka
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>>728956929
Calm down Lulu
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>>728930826
>muh hallway simulator is better
both are 3 niggas in a row games but 7 is objectively better
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>>728923072
No it was the pinnacle of the genre until E33
>>728923107
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>>728923072
its 14 and its honestly not even close
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Yes
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>>728949845
I never understood the Tidus hate. A common criticism of Final Fantasy and JRPGs in general back then was that the protagonists are all brooding emos. Tidus is fairly upbeat and the way he has no respect at all for the new world he's transported into and talks mad shit to people like the old church guy, Seymour or the Goers is funny. His main problem is that Jecht is so much cooler than him in every way he does seem like a whiny baby in comparison.
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>>728923107
7 ruined the franchise. Squares been trying to catch lightning in a bottle ever since.
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>>728953794
>Legendary guardian?
>I was just a boy
>A boy about your age actually
>I wanted to change the world too
>But I changed nothing
>That is my story
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>>728958163
Fucking this, I heard for the last decade how XIV has the best writing in an MMO, one of the best stories in Final Fantasy, just play through 200 hours of slop its worth it when it gets good I swear, like the dumbass I am I finally do and it's Saturday morning cartoon tier writing 90% of the time if not worse. And it's not like the gameplay saves it because it's a fucking MMO, at least some of the music is good.
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>>728923072
Which top-rated game do you think is not overrated?
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the hair looked so real when this game came out. I was like damn it's like a photo
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>>728962246
Fr
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>>728961358
It’s ironic that FF7 was a massive hit right after Square betrayed Nintendo for Sony.
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>>728923107
This, FF7 made Square too cocky for many years and for the worst. FF7 is so huge it could be its own franchise separate from Final Fantasy itself
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>>728923072
Nah, it's fucking a fucking awesome adventure that was always tainted by modern internet cynicism and ironic culture. It's worthy of praise, just because it's normal to hate everything that ever existed doesn't suddenly mean it's bad for internet reasons.
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>>728965979
Well Nintendo already betrayed Sony at the time
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>>728965979
It was manufactured to be a massive hit. It had the most expensive advertising campaign for a video game at the time.
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>>728962246
The most insane thing is that FFX's animations are really stiff compared to Kingdom Heats. But Somehow after KH it all went downhill
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>>728966130
pretty much is, and not for the better
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>>728923072
GER
NER
IFYOUWADDT
ANUDDAHWORLD AWAITS YOU
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>>728966712
The more i learned about KH (didn't play it growing up) it seemed that Tetsuya Nomura didn't have the time and motivation to finish the series in a satisfying way.
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I'm half-certain that mayuko and masakazu fucked while doing FFX this thing is so emotionally loaded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRK0EHP72Pw
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>>728923107
TRVKE
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Besaid...home...
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>>728967996
>Home is 3 yurts and a temple
The scale of settlements in rpgs is such a immersion breaker.
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>>728967269
KH 1 and 2's enemies have an insane amount of detail in their animations. No matter what one thinks of the series otherwise those should be properly appreciated.
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>>728967996
my headcanon is that was just the town. the villagers live throughout the island
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6 is so miserable, everything looks drab, boring, colorless.
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wish they remade this game with poggy graphics like 7
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>>728970948
it's kinda the point
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>>728968309
It's kind of hard to build cities when the villages keep getting wiped out by a leviathan with the powers of a god.
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>>728932921
13-2 is the last good one. Its not in the level of 10, but atleast its enjoyable and the 'ideal' form of ff13
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>>728931980
think it was a big fat female thing too
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>>728971013
Give it time, they’ll get to all of them eventually



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