Final Fantasy

Yeah I'm gonna hold off on getting that, a) because the price is kinda steep, and b) because just reading through the achievements made me relive one of 5 or 6 complete walkthroughs I've played of FF7 over the years. I just know it by heart at this point.

Does it still hold up? Always wanted to play this game

Still pushing myself through Final Fantasy XIII-2, think I'll just get a guide and follow it lol (too many alternate zones and no clue about where to go next )

GO FF9 ALL THE WAY

Am I the only one here who doesn't care at all for FF?

Yeah.

The ending of FF8 was the last time I ever cried. It marked the transition from boy to man. It is a rite of passage. Legit.

I loathed FF8 with a passion. Played it at 20, whereas I played FF7 at age 17. By 20, the angsty teenager mob that FF8 is infested with really pissed me off. In comparison, FF7 was so much more of an instant classic with its story that could enchant 5 year olds to 99 year olds. Just purely magical.

Minos, yeah the game holds up, absolutely. Of course the graphics department is going to make your eyes squint a bit, but gameplay is still among the very best in the genre, story is the all-time environmental protection classic, characters are (mostly) deep and interesting, the entire game suffers no slow part.

FF8 is the worst of the Playstation 1 final fantasy games.

It has aged in places, I mean even in its own generation the comical square characters were out-dated, although I believe the PC version has mods that let you swap them for the high-poly combat models. Mechanics and story wise it's easily one of the best and it's usually FF6 and FF7 are tied for "best final fantasy" by sane people.

It's definitely worth picking up if you're interested, especially if you've only been exposed to modern final fantasy and want to see what it was like before it was poop. The materia system is probably the best magic system they've done and it's really fun to play around with.

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Am I the only one here who doesn't care at all for FF?

So brave!

FF7 was the first game of my Playstation with Tomb Raider 2. my parents bought me those with a new PS1 without knowing anything at all except from TR2 because I had TR1 on Saturn and my mother know I loved it (I was 9)

The first time I launched FF7 I was just like WTF because I didn't know anything at all about RPG then I wait maybe 6 month before retrying it, on of the best game I've played.

FF8 was awesome. All other opinions are invalid.

Ive heard a lot about 8 that makes me not want to play it, but I need to. 7 is one of the greatest video games of all time

Fucking hell that OST is bringing back some memories. The world map theme in FF8 was such a good tune.

Uh-oh, looks like I'm going to be that guy.

I did enjoy FF8 although I liked FF6-7 and FF10 a lot more. There was just a lot of silly things like how the magic system made it optimal to never cast any spells, I broke my square button boosting summons, and there was that kind of needless plot twist that makes no sense. Yeah, you know the one I mean. Why was that a thing?

Also, towards the end of the game you seal off a lot of content because of reasons and I don't like it when the end-game isn't a point where you can go and complete all important side-quests you may have missed. Although Omega Weapon was cool, so it wasn’t as weak as FF9’s end-game where you worked towards fighting a badly textured marble. Get hype.

I did write a bit on how FF9 is literally two Hitlers but let's just say I wasn't a fan and, in general, final bosses:

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should be mentioned at some point in a sixty hour game, rather than showing up randomly while you're floating through space to say, actually, it's funny you're here because I was just about to end all life in the universe.

Can someone explain FF9? It seems like the most interesting one I haven't played

They could at least resample the textures, remaster the audio and make HD menu. It's like picking up doom with no mods and upscaling it to HD resolution, horribly pixelated and blurry.

FF8 PC has something weird. In FF8 there are lots of places where pre-rendered background shifts to pre-rendered CGI sequence. During those times you clearly see how low res the videos are. In PC edition they bumped the video's res, making the opposite happen, you cleary see how low res the pre rendered backgrounds are. xD

EDIT: Sys Requirements from steam

2ghz cpu, 1gb ram dx9c compliant gpu. WTF? The original, eidos port, requires 32mb ram, 133mhz cpu and no graphics card or at least some old 8mb model. That's a huge increment. Judging by the screenshots in steam's site, nothing has been changed, they just made it compatible with newer windows and 64bits.