Whats the hardest FF you've played?

for me, tactics is soooo greuling, but i cant help but fall in love with the cheesy cutscenes, and hopeless romantacism

FFI was the hardest I've played when I first played it 12-13 years ago. At the time it seemed so challenging as it took me a couple of weeks or a month to beat it. Now though, after having played so many games you kinda learn the ropes and I don't have many problems with any of them. Unless it's a mini game like the lightning dodging in ffX; now that is a pain!

p.s. FFIV hardtype(the re-release) kept me on my toes a lot of the time.

FFI and II were real pains, and FFIV PSX release(Like FM says - hardtype) is also hard.

FFII was probably the hardest, it was just an uphill battle the entire way through.

ff1 was the hardest in my case.

P.S how do you make ffIV hard on the PSX version?

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Originally posted by muchacho marc
P.S how do you make ffIV hard on the PSX version?

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If I remember correctly it is hard-type by default. If you ever played FFIV as FFII on the SNES it is always easy-type. Square "dumbed-down" the game for american audiences. Try playing one and then the other and you will notice the differences, which are huge: challenge, items and story to name a few.

Yeah, they dumbed it down for Americans.... Then they dumbed it down even more for the Japanese. Don't ask me why, they just did. The easy version in Japan was called "FFIV Easytype", whereas the "hardtype" was just called "FFIV". The American version, which is somewhere between the two (albeit closer to easytype) is FF2A (I've gone Japan-centric! Go me!).

As for the hardest? Just look at my sig, it says all.

FF V was hard. FF IV was hard too, but it isn't really once you get the hang of it.

yeah FFIV was easyer as the snes version. i tried to play ff4 on the psx version and i was saying to myself
"why is this so hard?"

i only own ff7,8,and 9.10 comming soon hopfully....BUUUTTT out of thouse....8.i hate the way everything levels up

I found FF 1,2 and 3 the hardest.

4 is also hard.

uhmmm i was trying to think of a good place to post this... what the :skull::skull::skull::skull: are those female-lizard-looking-beasts in the grotto in FFIX... GOD DAMNIT THEY MAKE ME ANGRY!!!!!... i just got raped by one......it cast might on itself like 6 times, and then hit each of my ppl once, and they all died in 1 hit...... it was like 100 hp from drying too... damnit.... :mad2: :mad: :mad2: :mad: :mad2: :mad:

FF5 I was stuck on that boss in the fireship for months.

Seven was my first FF - nay, my first 'real' RPG - so it gave me the most excuses to hurl my controller and holler profanities at a perfectly innocent little TV. Sure, I find it easy NOW, but...

IV was easy. Even in 'hardtype'. That is a little unfair for me to say because it is my favorite one and I have played through it countless times.

To me the hardest one is FFII. I have not beaten it yet but it is giving me more trouble than any other one I played through(all but III and II-obviously).

I would dare say that the ONLY people that don't find FF II to be the most difficult by far are the ones that have never played it.

FF II is very much the most difficult in the series. Having played them all I would rate the difficulty thusly.

FF II
FF I
FF III
FF IV
FF T
FF V
FF VI
FF VII
FF IX
FF X
FF VIII

Do we notice a trend here? :tongue:

Anyway... has anyone here played FF II and still thought another FF was harder?

Things that amplify it's difficulty is that fact that taking one step from the beaten path my result in your fighting monsters that are so much stronger than you that you can't hit them AT ALL and they can bludgeon you for 10x your max HP. It's very frustrating.

When looking for places on the map once you have the ship... make sure you don't land on the wrong continent because your first fight on that continent could be your last before having to reload.

You can spend hours leveling up your weapons and magics and still get your @$$ handed to you by creatures in the next dungeon.

FF I is mostly difficult because of the leveling you need to do at the beginning and the extreme lack of magic in the game... having the ability to cast your strongest spells very very little and having to worry about healing carefully to conserve magic is difficult.

FF III... good lord... you have to be the man to play that last part of this game with no save states. Going from the Sylx Tower straight to the end with a ridiculous number of boss fights in the middle and no saves... that is freakin' tough.

The rest just kinda fall in line with little difficulties.