If you absolutely had to choose... do you prefer the 2D or 3D FF games overall?

[Pike]

Of course most of us have a couple of favorites from each side of the coin, but if you absolutely had to choose - do you prefer the 2D or 3D Final Fantasy games overall?

[Ergroilnin]

If I absolutely had to choose?

I wouldn't because anarchy.

[Madame Adequate]

I'd choose 3D because most of the older ones have been updated to be 3D :smug:

But also because I think those ones are, overall, my favorites.

[Vermachtnis]

2D for me. I love all the SNes games, even Mystic Quest.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

I'd choose 3D because most of the older ones have been updated to be 3D :smug:

Loop hole successfully unlocked. This is the train i'm boarding.

[Jinx]

Not even a struggle for me. All of the FF games I love are 3D ones, and even the version of FFIV I love is for Gameboy Advance!

[Electroshock Therapy]

I would have to go with 3D, and this applies to any series. I like a good 2D game if I feel like going old-school, but a 3D world feels more immersive. And that's one of my favourite aspects of a game: the world. If it's fun to traverse through and interact with in 3D glory, then I'm sold!

[Euon]

I adore Final Fantasy I - VI but I just prefer the stories and worlds presented in VII onwards. I have some bones to pick post X but those four are solid enjoyment for myself. Can't let that FFVIII go!

[Shorty]

3D.

[theundeadhero]

2D without any hesitation.

[Shiva95]

I prefer 3D games in general.

[VeloZer0]

Other. Because I feel the PSX entries with pre-rendered backgrounds had inordinately better designed field/dungeon maps than anything that has been produced with full 3D modelling.

[metagloria]

3D without a doubt.

[Egami]

Yeah, 3D definitely.

[Mirage]

I prefer my games to be 3D objects projected onto a 2d world, completely deformed by the lack of one of their dimensions

[Yellow_Magic]

Grew up with 2D, but I've never been one for nostalgia.

[Quindiana Jones]

3D. FFIX, FFXII, FFVII, FFX. The only game in my top 5 that isn't 3D is VI. xD

[maybee]

3D

I couldn't survive without some of the 3D ones.

( a life without FF 4 and FF6 would be a very depressing one though )

[Bubba]

If I was a dimension then it would be nice to get together with another dimension. If we're being honest though, we'd all like a threesome. 3D all the way.

I accidentally voted for 2D though. Story of my life.

[Carl the Llama]

Not even a struggle for me. All of the FF games I love are 3D ones, and even the version of FFIV I love is for Gameboy Advance!

Wasn't the 3D version of IV on the DS?

[Depression Moon]

3D for me as well. Out of the 2D ones, the only one I think is great is IV with V behind it. I think all the 3D mainline ones I've played are great.

[Rez09]

I prefer the 2D entries overall, as there is only one I'm not especially fond of, while I only actively like three of the 3D games.

[Colonel Angus]

Not even a struggle for me. All of the FF games I love are 3D ones, and even the version of FFIV I love is for Gameboy Advance!
:erm: That is a 2D FF...

[Randy]

Definitely 3D.

The only real gem in 2D was FF6. FF4 is pretty good but has obviously been remade in 3D as well.
Whereas 3D we have FF7, FF8, FF9, FF10, FF12. All brilliant games!

[Vyk]

Bad part for me is that the only ones I really love in the series are VI and VII. But with the possibility that Type-0 and XV will be good, I'd probably have to lean towards 3D..

[Sephex]

2D. I feel that the more strict linear nature of the newer FFs can be blamed on them being in 3D. Don't get me wrong, some of my favorite FF titles are in 3D, but I think 2D gave Square more room to work with and forced the developers to be more creative because of the limitations they faced.

At best, maybe they can go 3D, but stop worrying so much on FMVs and GRAPHIX so much.

[VeloZer0]

2D. I feel that the more strict linear nature of the newer FFs can be blamed on them being in 3D.
Yes!

[Mahad]

A part of me can't let go 2d for some unexplainable reason. It is not nostalgia, but rather something I can't quite put my finger on. I'm about 80 - 20 on this, 80 being 3d.

[Leigh]

I struggle to take everything in, especially when a game is totally rendered in 3D, to the pixel density it is at today. I have to sit less than a meter away from my 37" screen in order to 'see' the game. I never had to do this when graphics where a little simpler. Everything blends into the environment, even the characters, so it's hard to work out what you need to focus on. I guess that is why every interactive object you can actually touch has a giant big arrow above it.

I think the PS1 era and the PS2 era had just the right level of detail for my poor brain.

[Fynn]

There is not a single 2D FF I dislike. Even though XII is my favorite numbered FF, X (especially, for me) and XIII are bad enough for me to just give up on the whole generation, and the others can't really hope to make up for it.

Plus, the Tactics games are all in 2D (yes, the original counts as 2D too and I will fight you for it), including FFTA which I consider the single best FF in existence. :monster:


I'd choose 3D because most of the older ones have been updated to be 3D :smug:
Um... Two is not most.