Chrono CrossOriginally Posted by kotora
Chrono Cross
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself. To hold on to these moments as they pass...
That's the one that immediately comes in second for me when I think about the theme. But I never got past the part with the mansion, so the game just isn't that firmly rooted in my mind.
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...
Despite being, easily, the most polarizing games in the series, I actually like both Final Fantasy VIII and FFX, but I'm one of the rare people who genuinely likes every game in the series. I usually don't bring any of them down that much, but even when I'm disparaging one, I'm still willing to give it its props for what it did well.
This is a tough choice for me, but I'm going with FFX. On FFVIII's side, it automatically has that magic of being made during the PlayStation era and just the overall way the game was put together is awesome. It also has one of the best scores in the series and The Man with the Machine Gun will always be one of my favorite jams. FFVIII is what I call a surround sound game.
FFX takes it for me though just because of its unique place as the first FF of a console generation. Each of these titles shared something special being the first out the gate and leave you with an impression of what they accomplished (with the unfortunate exception of FFXIII). FFX did for me on the PS2 what FFVII did for me on the PS1, kicking off a new era with a huge bang. The fact that I didn't realize how linear it really was is an accomplishment, and the story really gets to me. FFIX is pretty high up for me, but I think this is the game that really rivals FFVII for my personal favorite.
This issue has been debated to death, and while I fully acknowledge that you all consider it easy to break the game, I have to disagree with this statement 100%. When I play FFVIII, I don't care about breaking the game at all. I play it at the pace I normally play a Final Fantasy, going along the story as it unfolds and only really drawing every now and then. I don't go for the crazy refining or card abilities right off the bat, I instead focus on different status and ability junctions as well as group and character abilities. I really can't imagine how the junctions and magic I accumulate doing this could possibly break the game as bad as any of you claim you do within minutes of starting a new game.
Last edited by Bolivar; 10-22-2012 at 06:18 AM.
I actually really like both. Final Fantasy X was the first in the series that I attempted on my own (I played/watched my friend play Final Fantasy VII...not sure how the gap from VII-X happened, but...yeah). X took me years to finish. I'd start it, start it again, start it again again, and then I finally decided to just blaze through it (but not really) with Tidus deeming the named "Fred" for some reason I am still not sure. I loved dat trout. The battle system was just adorable. I actually smiled when I got to use it to its fullest. The story is very dynamic, but dragged down by dat voice acting. As much as the other Final Fantasys feel like journeys, this game REALLY feels like a journey.
I didn't play Final Fantasy VIII at all until this past Summer (Okay, I got to Dollet like two years ago, but that doesn't count). I pretty much spent all my free time playing it. I was very skeptical at first, looking at the junctioning system like a boob on a butt, but eventually I figured out how easy it was to exploit, and as much as I love a challenging game, I just wanted to enjoy the story...which does kinda decline by its second half, but I still really enjoyed it. Not as good as X, but still a really fun, memorable game.
Oh, and I thought both had AMAZING soundtracks.
ohno.
>>> Both are good games, but FFX win by far..
And yeah, screw all the FF8 and FF10 haters..
>> The black orb glitters ominously... but nothing happens..
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of Yuna either and she has alot of fans and followers and she's usually apart of Top 5 best Final Fantasy female lists, but I personally found her to be really annoying and I hated how Seymour kept on walking over her like she wasn't a human at all but a carpet.
Like say
Yuna : I'll summon ! Everybody stand back !
Seymour : You can't !
Yuna : What/ huh/ gasp sound
Seymour : Your powers are still...... too weak...( said in a mocking tone )
Yuna just stood there and looked so flat and useless, I mean come on girl. Prove that smurfer wrong ! At least try and if you failed at least say that she gave it go ! Or tell Seymour to be not so damn smurfing rude, either one would of been fine. Not believe in Seymour Skinner's insult and back away. Yeah let him subliminally tell you that you're weak, good job. Not.
Rinoa while she was a huge damsel in distress and she gets alot of hate for that, she's much happier, much wiser, and wouldn't let anybody walk all over her example kicking Irvine down the stairs when he kept on annoyingly saying that it was all him and his idea to go back to the prison. In fact her "damsel moments " are all just her being in the wrong spot and the wrong time. Yuna's wedding was all because she didn't have the courage to tell Seymour to get smurfed.
If you like Yuna that's fine, but I cannot stand her and I so thought that I was alone on this till I read your post Wolf !
Last edited by maybee; 10-22-2012 at 11:13 AM.
Fixed.
Compared to FFX, imho FFVIII has better art design as well.
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You had me amused until this.
That was not the point of that part of the game at all. That entire segment was a show of Sin's power - not Yuna's inability or even Seymour's wickedness. Although I knew it wouldn't last, I actually liked Seymour at that point of the game.Yeah I'm not a huge fan of Yuna either and she has alot of fans and followers and she's usually apart of Top 5 best Final Fantasy female lists, but I personally found her to be really annoying and I hated how Seymour kept on walking over her like she wasn't a human at all but a carpet.
Like say
Yuna : I'll summon ! Everybody stand back !
Seymour : You can't !
Yuna : What/ huh/ gasp sound
Seymour : Your powers are still...... too weak...( said in a mocking tone )
Yuna just stood there and looked so flat and useless, I mean come on girl. Prove that smurfer wrong ! At least try and if you failed at least say that she gave it go ! Or tell Seymour to be not so damn smurfing rude, either one would of been fine. Not believe in Seymour Skinner's insult and back away. Yeah let him subliminally tell you that you're weak, good job. Not.
I don't have the time to go into why I feel that FFX is a beautiful game to me, it wins by a landslide.
I can live with Rinoa, I can't really stand Yuna and her inability to decide if she's useful or baggage. Rinoa at least realizes she's not as useful as the rest of the party.You had me amused until this.
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself. To hold on to these moments as they pass...
Could you actually explain what you mean by that?I can live with Rinoa, I can't really stand Yuna and her inability to decide if she's useful or baggage. Rinoa at least realizes she's not as useful as the rest of the party.You had me amused until this.
Yuna's emotional evolution from doormat to a stronger woman was not as good as Rinoa just realizing she was worthless and accepting it.
I think that's what WK means.
Fixed it for you.
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself. To hold on to these moments as they pass...
You guys don't realize that Rinoa wasn't a SeeD like the rest same as Irvine and he screwed up hugely during the parade. She's not army trained and she's just a naive seventeen year old girl that wants to be strong and tough like Squall and the others.
Yuna like Wolf said is very wishy washy. One moment she's not letting Seymour marry her, her mission is more important then she's going to marry Seymour because she wants to be selfless and do it for the people, then she's not going to marry Seymour and just ACK !
Then she's not going to give up her mission and then she is and then she's not and she's going to listen to Tidus and then she's going to go to Zanakand and ACK !
Rinoa while it's hugely annoying to save her every five seconds she wasn't army trained and she didn't realize till Selphie's Garden that she was getting way over her head and it wasn't " Let's piss off Daddy anymore " But everybody was so keen on facing Edea that she kept on going only to fall into coma.
Yuna KNEW 100 per cent minus the whole the Yevon thing is a cult what she was getting into. Rinoa while a damsel, she at tries tries to be tough like the SeeD s, Yuna can't decide whether to stand or sit down which is more annoying than a young naive girl who at least tries to be strong and just ends up having bad unfortunate luck. Things like becoming a Sorceress and falling in the Garden cliff was not her fault, just bad luck.
And I could actually picture Rinoa telling Seymour Skinner to get smurfed and get lost unlike Yuna who lets Skinner puppet her.
Last edited by maybee; 10-23-2012 at 06:35 AM.
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