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If I was basing my opinions of these games based solely on graphics then Final Fantasy VII would easily rate the lowest. It's so ridiculously ugly that I can barely even stand to play the parts or the game that aren't battles themselves.
But opinions shouldn't be based on the quality of the graphics. And regardless of graphics, I think the older games are better. The SNES era FF games are on top, followed by FFI and FFIX, then II and VIII, then III and VII. Yeah, I still don't like FFVII. I can't speak for X or X-2 yet.
Yeah, and if you look around they have actually performed the old FF music in a concert fully orchastrated and it all sounds beautifull. Anyways, I have to agree that I do like the later FF's because that's what I started off with (FFVII) but I have played Origins, FFIV and FFVI and I must say they are good.
You should really base them on the graphics, although I do understand where you're comming from. Apart from FFI you really need to force yourself through a few hours of the game to get into it more.
I'm kind of in the middle I guess. I like the last of the "old" ones, IV, V and VI, but I don't really care for I, II or III. Of course I've never played III, and I've only played about an hour of I and II combined.
I despise VIII, but I can stand VII. I love IX, and I think X and X-2 are okay.
But if I had to chose, I'd go with IV, V and VI over anything else.
The older FFs I've played (V and VI) are alright but I didnt like them as much as VII, VIII and IX. V and VI were fun for a while but then the battles started to get boring and repetitive and you get attacked every 5 steps. Also the character development and story-lines are pretty lousy (collect all three crystals before big bad guy kills/releases/badgers something). The graphics and music are fine (though it gets annoying after a while when it becomes obvious that all the castles have hired the same interior decorator) it's just these other areas that let the earlier games down imho.
I doubt it. I'm 17 and the older FF's are my favorites. (II, V, and VI especially.) I was playing FFIV and VI when they first came out. :moggie:Quote:
Originally Posted by skatehippie
I got FFVI shortly after its initial US release back in 1994. I even had the FFIII (hehehe) hat. In fact, it's still lying around somewhere... For a long time, I was of the opinion that FFVI was the pinnable of a the series and that it did nothing but decline afterwards. Then I got really into FFI and that was my favorite for a while. Now I really can't say which I like best. I like them all, even though there are parts of FFII that are rather like having your fingernails pulled out with rusty pliers. I even liked FFVIII once I started getting into the junction system. It gave me a migraine at first just trying to make sense of it all, but when I did, I loved it. I think what really catylized all that was KH though. Watching the characters fight in real time sorta made everything click for me somehow....
I'm 18 too, and my first Final Fantasy was IV when it first came out. Then VI, then I.Quote:
I am 18, so maybe I was too young to enjoy the older ones while they were around?
I don't think age has much to do with it - I touched FF for the first time almost 4 years ago only, and I'm still at uni, but I think the old and new ones are both mixed bags each. 3,5 and 6 were my favourites out of the older ones, and X-2 is a pile of crap as far as I can see :p X-2 in fact also has the worst music of the lot to me :D While on the topic of music, FF7 possibly had worse quality music than 6 with the exception of One Winged Angel, even though it was on a superior console. And yeah, every FF uses MIDI-type music for most things - you'll find even Otherworld from FFX is actually stored in this sort of format if you see the raw data for it :p
I lvoe the old school FFs. Graphics and music mean as much to me in a game as much as a pile of crap would. I think the story brings out the game not just how it looks and sounds.
I like the SNES generation (IV-VI) but the others...I can't even see them...
I grew up on Final Fantasy, at the tender age of about 6ish-5ish, (I was a young FF bloomer). So from there i went on, and have beat every classic one: 1, 2, 6/3, mystic quest, 5. It depends on wether you really played the older ones.
Storyline > Graphics
I don't like the NES FFs. Final Fantasy III is the only Final Fantasy besides X-2 that I actually hate. They're like the NES Dragon Warriors, only not fun. I can't stand the battles in the NES FFs. There's just something about those games that I don't like.
FFIV on the other hand, I love. Probably because it was the first Final Fantasy I ever played. It holds a special spot as my second favorite FF, no matter how old it gets. There's nothing greater than getting your ass kicked by a wall.
Comparing DW1 to FF1 is like comparing Donkey Kong to Super Mario Bros.
I played FFVI first, which along with VII was probably the most innovative FF. Anyway, I haven't played much of the NES fantasies (mainly because NESticle hates my computer) fantasies, but the later games seem so much richer and more complex. For me, it's not the graphics that turn me off older FFs - it's the fact that I find it difficult to get immersed in the storyline. For me that's where FFVI stood out from previous FFs, and set a precedent for future ones.