Where do you rate this game/these games?

[Madame Adequate]

How would you rank FF4 and The After Years compared to other Final Fantasy games? I know Kain has a lot of popularity but I'm interested in hearing how the game as a whole fares in your eyes.

I did feel that the game got somewhat tedious by the end of The After Years because you've been through the same dungeons SO many times, but other than that I really liked them a great deal! I appreciated that it's a continuation of the evolution of FF, in this case by adding a lot to the plot and focusing on individual characters far more than II did.

What do you guys think of FF4/TAY?

[metagloria]

Meh. Bottom 3. Fun to play, but flawed.

[Wolf Kanno]

I grew up with FFIV so it holds a special place in my heart and re-examining it for an article a while back, I came to appreciate it on a few more levels. While time has sort of sucked out most of the "Wow" factor of the game, I still feel it holds up really well as a game and as a character piece.

I have a love/hate relationship with TAY, on the one hand, I don't care for some of the game's story directions such as Kain becoming a Holy Dragoon kind of undermines the whole Cecil/father/Lunarian relationship thing going on, I also don't like trying to explain the crystals and the intro of the Creator. Mainly, I kind of dislike how the game's plot is sort of just the plot of FFIV with all of the casts kids involved.

On the other-hand, I felt the game does a great job of handling the cast of characters and I honestly liked everyone. Hell, I appreciated the fact the game didn't do what normally happens in these stories and make all the kids super badasses that surpass their parents despite the adults being veterans.

[Colonel Angus]

IV is still up there as a great FF game. Never played the sequel.

[Sephex]

Favorite game of all time. So...yeah...

[The Man]

I'd consider it a flawed but nonetheless great title. I haven't completed enough of the series to know whether it belongs in the bottom half or top half, but on the other hand I have played more than half of the series and it's one of the ones that held my interest enough to get me to complete it, so there's that.

[NeoCracker]

Yeah, I really enjoyed the after years, though I agree that the Creator thing was just kind of silly.