Which was the easiest Final Fantasy?

[NeoCracker]

While VII and VI did get easier then previous games, there was still thought required to breeze through them.

VIII and X, on the other hand, tell you right off the back how to handle the game, and never does it deviate from that, and the ability to use any character in the fight means every fight you are garunteed to have the win button that the game is basically screaming at you to use. (Well, not for optional boss's, but that's beside the point, I never liked doing the super boss's of any game. )

Even XIII required some thought into your paradigms.

[Skyblade]

VIII may be easy if you exploit its system

Okay Stop.

Stop.

STOP.

I am sick of FFVIII apologists using the word "exploit" or "if".

It is not a matter of going out of your way to break the game. it is not a matter of grinding. It is not in any shape or form difficult to bend FFVIII over your knee and snap its difficulty in half.

In fact, it is the exact opposite of difficult because you are REWARDED for NOT DOING ANYTHING. Don't level up? Don't fight any random encounter?S Now the game is a laughing stock to you because you spent five seconds buying 10 Tents at Balamb and gave your character a billion HP in the first hour of the game and all the bosses will be scaled to fight someone at level 10 so they do only triple digit damage at best.

FFVIII is not a game you have to be smart at, or to know what you're doing. You just need to read the damned mandatory Tutorial and then bam, the game is a joke.

Can you have Firaga, Curaga and Thundaga in the first few hours of any other FF game? I don't think you can. Level 3 spells are easier to come by than Level 2 spells in FFVIII.

Care to explain how you got the Refine abilities which let you get all of those wonderful magic spells without exploiting the systems or grinding?

Yes, it is incredibly easy to break. If you know how to break it. If you know what abilities to pick up from GFs first, and what items give you good spells from refining them.

Most players, upon casually playing for the first time, don't realize half of that. Junction abilities and combat abilities are almost always grabbed before Refine abilities are.


Also, I hate to break it to you, but "not fighting anything" is exploiting the system itself. Again, it's not something that will be casually done. Heck, you can't even get Diablos for a while, and he's the only source of Enc-None. Most players don't actually run away from every fight (and even then, you can be screwed by some enemies if the RNG hates you).




Also, FFXII is the easiest. I got through about 75% of the game with two Gambit setups, and literally doing nothing except directing my characters around with the Analog stick (then I got bored and gave up).

[Forsaken Lover]

You get to Diablos before heading to Timber. That's at most three or four hours into the game.

Also most of us played VIII when we were dumb babbies. I've met people who didn't even know they could Junction spells until Disk 2 or 3! If you in any way Junction magic to any stat, you are breaking the game.

Like I've already gone over, I did a Challenge Run for this game. i have done that that for no other FF game ever. And yet I still curbstomped every story boss, I still slaughtered every Propagator (nice "puzzle" there game where you can just kill your way to solving it) I did not grind, I did not play a single round of Triple Triad, and yet I still had no problem. All you have to do is use the system in any way.

[VeloZer0]

Also, FFXII is the easiest. I got through about 75% of the game with two Gambit setups, and literally doing nothing except directing my characters around with the Analog stick.

Yes, finally! I though I was somehow shipped a different copy of FF12 than what everyone else is always describing.

[Shauna]

You get to Diablos before heading to Timber. That's at most three or four hours into the game.

Also most of us played VIII when we were dumb babbies. I've met people who didn't even know they could Junction spells until Disk 2 or 3! If you in any way Junction magic to any stat, you are breaking the game.

Like I've already gone over, I did a Challenge Run for this game. i have done that that for no other FF game ever. And yet I still curbstomped every story boss, I still slaughtered every Propagator (nice "puzzle" there game where you can just kill your way to solving it) I did not grind, I did not play a single round of Triple Triad, and yet I still had no problem. All you have to do is use the system in any way.

Unfortunately none of this equates to press X to win and I would have to actually put in a modicum of effort into making sure I play the game juuuuuust right to make it the easiest game ever.

Unlike that other one I mentioned before in which I put in no effort and still blitzed everything.

[Loony BoB]

Easiest: VIII, without a shadow of a doubt. I see everyone talking about how "if you don't level, it's insanely easy" and I did level, I fought loads of random enemies, and it was stupidly easy. You just use the system it gives you. You can Card Mod yourself 100 Hero Potions and use them to be invincible for the entire final dungeon if you want. The good thing about VIII is that despite all this, it's still fun and has interactivity with it's limit break system.

Regarding XII, I feel it was easy a lot of the time but it was a massive grind, too, for a single player game. I feel this gives it the feel of being a difficult game because you don't want to grind and this leads to you facing bosses that you are not leveled appropriately for. At least, that's how it was for me.

Regarding XIII, you might have to choose between various paradigms but it's not simply Tank Attack Heal, that's for certain. It's Buff Debuff Stagger Attack Heal Tank. If you think you can play the entire thing without utilising both Stagger and Attack then power to you, but you're doing it wrong. Compare to that to every other game in the single player FF series where it is not Tank Attack Heal - it's Attack Attack Attack Attack Attack Attack (Maybe Heal) Attack Attack Attack Attack Attack (Maybe Heal). I honestly think 95% of my fights in the single player FF series outside of XIII have been fought by holding down one button. Seriously. XIII may give you a "smart battle" button, but it still requires far more input than the previous FF's I've played (which is basically every main FF) outside of the online games.

Hardest? XI and XIV, without a shadow of a doubt.

[metagloria]

You get to Diablos before heading to Timber. That's at most three or four hours into the game.

Uhhh...you mean, like, 20 or 30 hours, right? Because that's how much I usually put in before Timber.

...you don't want to grind...

Yes. Yes, I do.

[theundeadhero]

I had a hard time choosing between IV and VI, but in the end IV was easier than any other for me. I didn't even find the hard version that difficult and I played a rom of it before the easy version.

[metagloria]

I had a hard time choosing between IV and VI, but in then end IV was easier than any other for me. I didn't even find the hard version that difficult and I played a rom of it before the easy version.

That's bizarre to me, because I think IV is probably the hardest, certainly top 3.

[Fynn]

I had a hard time choosing between IV and VI, but in then end IV was easier than any other for me. I didn't even find the hard version that difficult and I played a rom of it before the easy version.

That's bizarre to me, because I think IV is probably the hardest, certainly top 3.

Only the DS version, though.

[metagloria]

I had a hard time choosing between IV and VI, but in then end IV was easier than any other for me. I didn't even find the hard version that difficult and I played a rom of it before the easy version.

That's bizarre to me, because I think IV is probably the hardest, certainly top 3.

Only the DS version, though.

No, both. Getting through some of those places on the moon is a serious trial, even at high levels.

[The Man]

The SNES US version isn't that difficult. The hard type (which was only released on the SNES in Japan, and later fan-translated and re-released internationally on other consoles), on the other hand, is aptly named.

[NeoCracker]

I still find FF IV US Easy type to be harder FF VI-VIII to be fully honest.

[The Man]

Yes, but that's not saying much, since those are some of the easiest games in the series. Also, the U.S. game isn't actually the easy type. There was evidently another Japanese version of the game actually referred to as "easy type" that was even easier than the U.S. version. The U.S. version is generally considered to be about halfway between the two.

[Neptunia]

After watching a speed run lets play by awsome/summer games done quick of FF8 and having played it I think it's the easiest. 10 and 7 are reasonably easy too. i like 9 but cant say much for it's difficulty.

If you want a hard JRPG get a megaten game, Persona and SMT 3 hand me my head quite frequently. Digital devil saga is quite difficult as well.