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Contemporary Jazz said:
I was replaying FFX as well. FUCK Blitzball. I'd rather dodge 200 lightning bolts than win 5 games for Wakka. It's actually impossible. I hate these minigames so much.

What's your guys' favorite Overdrives? Auron's are really simple QTEs but I think Rikku is my fave since there are lots of different options depending on the items.
Also what is the best "Limit" system in FF in your opinions? Limit breaks? Trance? Overdrive? Quickening? I vote Quickening the worst even though XII is my favorite because the timing is awful.
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Aurons shooting star overdrive saved me from so many Marlboros s bad breath. Trance is the worst bc it's fkn random when it's activated. Quickenings are annoying (esp trying to get them all for the trophy, which I could only do once). But you can use them when you want. VII has that problem in a way but "fury" gets your limit so fast it doesn't matter as much
 
I was recommended a video about FF7 by some guy named Sebbywebz, I never played a game but watching his video I found out that there is two communities of older FF and newer FF fans bases on the games.

But I thought that most games were turn based rpgs, or is there more division like fantasy/sci fi aspects.

The only things that I experienced were 3 mangas: the 1989 manga that I forgot everything about, the Final Fantasy Type-0 manga that I forgot even more and the one that I liked the most was the FF12 manga, but that only has 5 volumes and didn't cover the game fully. But I was enjoying

Is there any FF manga that someone who never played a game can enjoy with 0 previous knowledge?
 
Registration said:
I was recommended a video about FF7 by some guy named Sebbywebz, I never played a game but watching his video I found out that there is two communities of older FF and newer FF fans bases on the games.

But I thought that most games were turn based rpgs, or is there more division like fantasy/sci fi aspects.
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How did that guy define it? People have been saying there's a divide between classic and modern FF fans since like 2000, so it's hard to say there's one definitive split. Remember, every FF is the best FF, but also, every FF is the worst FF.
Registration said:
Is there any FF manga that someone who never played a game can enjoy with 0 previous knowledge?
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Not really. FF doesn't have any huge manga spin-offs like Dragon Quest does. There's an old 3 volume adaptation of FF3 you could check out. I think it's been fan translated.
 
Registration said:
I was recommended a video about FF7 by some guy named Sebbywebz, I never played a game but watching his video I found out that there is two communities of older FF and newer FF fans bases on the games.

But I thought that most games were turn based rpgs, or is there more division like fantasy/sci fi aspects.
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It was turn based up until FF12 and FF13 where it started to change . There was also FF11 witch was a MMORPG which played more like WOW. Now the games are very action orientated and not really turn based,

Personally, I'm a turn based fag.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
How did that guy define it? People have been saying there's a divide between classic and modern FF fans since like 2000, so it's hard to say there's one definitive split. Remember, every FF is the best FF, but also, every FF is the worst FF.

Not really. FF doesn't have any huge manga spin-offs like Dragon Quest does. There's an old 3 volume adaptation of FF3 you could check out. I think it's been fan translated.
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He defined in 3 eras:
1-3 beginning
4-10 golden age
10-2 to everything so far: dark ages

He mentioned the main series mostly.

Well, after this post I realized how little manga there is about FF, mostly anthologies but not a full plot adaptation. In this regard SMT/Persona there is so much more.
 
Registration said:
He defined in 3 eras:
1-3 beginning
4-10 golden age
10-2 to everything so far: dark ages
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Makes sense, but also debatable. I would group IV with I~III in my head since the game still kind of primitive in ways and not quite up to the quality of V to X. A lot of people make a cut-off after X which makes sense as it's the last top tier game, but shoving everything else in the 2000s into a dark age with everything after is too dismissive of their quality to me. The rest of the 2000s for the most part (X-2, XII, and some spin-offs) was still good enough to be like a silver age to the 90s golden age. I don't think the dark ages, if we call it that, started until XIII or right afterwords, since not only is the game quality down but Square objectively started suffering massive development issues preventing them from efficiently making games anymore.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
Makes sense, but also debatable. I would group IV with I~III in my head since the game still kind of primitive in ways and not quite up to the quality of V to X. A lot of people make a cut-off after X which makes sense as it's the last top tier game, but shoving everything else in the 2000s into a dark age with everything after is too dismissive of their quality to me. The rest of the 2000s for the most part (X-2, XII, and some spin-offs) was still good enough to be like a silver age to the 90s golden age. I don't think the dark ages, if we call it that, started until XIII or right afterwords, since not only is the game quality down but Square objectively started suffering massive development issues preventing them from efficiently making games anymore.
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The historical dark ages also had some positive developments.
 
I'm playing the pixel remaster of 1. It's really good, I like it more than the GBA Dawn of souls version.

Glad there's a classic text option now compared to the initial release. I'm probably going to get burned at the stake though by purists for using 4x gil and exp but it's fun. I don't have time for that shit. I'm probably going to experience the first 6 games this way even if I prefer the way the SNES version of VI looks with a GBA translation patch.
 
Ff12 is my favorite ff and ivalice is my favorite world, but it sounds like the anniversary will be forgotten because square is now filled with a bunch of cunts that simp for that fucking trash that is 13. Idk gow you can have Ito sitting on the sidelines for fucking talentless hack hamaguchi

In terms of ff7 I actually really liked remake. Idk it was just a good vibe, but I got fucking bored of rebirth by cosmo canyon
 
Lundgoff said:
Ff12 is my favorite ff and ivalice is my favorite world, but it sounds like the anniversary will be forgotten because square is now filled with a bunch of cunts that simp for that fucking trash that is 13. Idk gow you can have Ito sitting on the sidelines for fucking talentless hack hamaguchi

In terms of ff7 I actually really liked remake. Idk it was just a good vibe, but I got fucking bored of rebirth by cosmo canyon
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Welcome to our country, sir.
 
Tom Bombodildo said:
FF8 really is one of those games that should work because it has all the constitutive elements of a good Final Fantasy game, but the mechanics don't form a cohesive whole. Add a story that's very style over substance and it makes FF8 tough to play today. I've honestly never met or seen anyone who played FF8 as an adult and came away thinking it was good, a lot of FF8's fan support seems to come from people who formed an attachment from playing the game when they were young.
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eyes on me is good though
 
I would also put FFIV in The Beginning. It was only the second one outside of Japan and was really their first stab at actually telling a story with real twists, turns, new developments, and a functional cast including most of the villains. And it arguably set up the enduring FF tradition of the last boss being slightly ex machina.
 
Berrakh said:
And it arguably set up the enduring FF tradition of the last boss being slightly ex machina.
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III would be more fitting for taking that spot, wouldn't it? The game introduces the concept of the Flood of Darkness early on, but there's nothing to suggest it's anything but a pure force of nature, not like an entity with agency you can fight, until you get suggestions that Xande was manipulated by the darkness just before the final dungeon, and even that can could just be figurative/metaphysical. It's only after you kill Xande that you suddenly have the Cloud of Darkness showing up and revealing she's the real final boss.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
III would be more fitting for taking that spot, wouldn't it? The game introduces the concept of the Flood of Darkness early on, but there's nothing to suggest it's anything but a pure force of nature, not like an entity with agency you can fight, until you get suggestions that Xande was manipulated by the darkness just before the final dungeon, and even that can could just be figurative/metaphysical. It's only after you kill Xande that you suddenly have the Cloud of Darkness showing up and revealing she's the real final boss.
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imo IV stands out because it had decent villains up to then. While Xande was almost as distant as Cloud of Darkness. And primordial darkness had featured before then.

Zemus isn’t discussed at all until near the end. And then you don’t even fight him. He just turns into Zeromus, which is a different entity.

When FF Fans talk about the underwhelming final villain it’s always because there was a good villain right there.
 
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Contemporary Jazz said:
What's your guys' favorite Overdrives? Auron's are really simple QTEs but I think Rikku is my fave since there are lots of different options depending on the items.
Also what is the best "Limit" system in FF in your opinions? Limit breaks? Trance? Overdrive? Quickening? I vote Quickening the worst even though XII is my favorite because the timing is awful.
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I think X has the best because you can change how you charge it.
 
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