Are you better at Final Fantasy than your friends?

[Breine]

I just got the idea for this topic, so I'm posting it

Well, please answer...



As for my answer:

I only have two friends who owns a FF-game (or more). Overall I guess I'm better than them. One of them only owns FF8 and FF10, but she always has these Crazy and perfect files. She completely masters the games, but she cheats. At least that's what I think. She dosn't find the hidden treasures and so on by herself, she follows a walktrough...
The other friend owns FF7, FF8, FF9 and FF10, but he's not good at FF-games. I guess driving and action games are more him...

[Edgar]

I own FFI, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, MQ and Tactics

The ones I've completed are 6,9, and Tactics with FFVIII probably near completion.

I went far with 4 but something happened, can't remember.

All perfectionists follow walkthroughs =\

[Breine]

All perfectionists follow walkthroughs =\

Maybe, I just see it as cheating. I mean, you are not a mastering the game by yourself...

[i90east]

Yep. The one time my cousin played through FF6, it was with the Game Genie. My brother gets stuck in FF7 and stops playing. My coworkers have never played any FFs before FF7. I'm not sure which FFs they've beat.

The only thing my cousin is good at is beating me in games I've never played. He pulls that on me everytime I see him, and he refuses to play anything more than 3 months old :rolleyes2

[Vaan]

I own:
Final Fantasy IV (Super Famicom)
Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation)
Final Fantasy VIII (PlayStation)
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy Tactics

I beat:
Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation)
Final Fantasy IX

I did not finish FF IV because I got it only a little while ago.

I did not finish FF VIII because I got a copy from a friend with a defective/scratched disc 3; it was impossible to finish. I recently bid for another copy on eBay and it's on it's way.

I did not finish FF X because I just couldn't beat the final boss/bosses; I didn't train enough. I am replaying it right now.

I did not finish FF: T because it's just too damn hard for me!

I think that about covers it. I'm pretty good at FF despite my lame track record. I'm a victim of circumstance.

Oh, and one of my FF friends uses GameShark... lame... but the other one does it fair and square. He doesn't suck, but he hasn't beaten any of them yet for whatever reason.

[sephiroth21]

i own
ff 7
ff 8
ff 9
ff 10
and beat all of them but i only have a perfect file on ff 10 ff 7 and im way better then all my friends

[m4tt]

None of my friends play Final Fantasy. So that makes me better by default.

[Inuyasha23]

I own FF1, FF2, FF5, FF7, FF8, FF9, FF10(i hate this game), i owned FF11 but never played it, i also own Mystic Quest and tactics. I've played both 4 and 6.


I think im better than all of my friends because they just get an idea in their head and wont get it out. i remember one that just wouldnt stop summoning shiva no matter what it was.

[Xander]

I only know two people IRL who play Final Fantasy. One of them, my best friend is way better at FFVII than me, she did all the chocobo breeding, got KOTR, etc whereas I didn't.

However I had a lot more things done in FFIX than her, until she used the strategy guide to beat me

She finished FFX before me cos she had a PS2 when I didn't, but I did a lot in it that she didn't do.

As for the other person I know, he doesn't seem that interested in perfecting FF's just playing them normally..

So I think it's not about being "better" really, anyone can do the complex stuff in the FF games, what it requires more than skill is simply patience and a lot of time.

Originally posted by Breine
Maybe, I just see it as cheating. I mean, you are not a mastering the game by yourself...

I agree that it spoils a game to sit there with a walkthrough and complete the whole game with it by your side doing everything.

However, I don't think it's cheating using a guide to find out secrets, etc. I mean things like the celestial weapons in FFX and powering them up were surely not meant to be figured out by the player, as far as I remember not enough clues were given to know these without reading it somewhere.

[Danger]

I own:
NES: FFI
SNES: MQ
FFIV
FFVI
PC: FFV
FFVII
FFVIII
Gameboy:FFL3
FFA

Completed them all without cheating (Game Shark or Genie). I have no patience for FFII and never got into FFIII while I had them (but I should play through them since they are available to me). Same with FFL1 and 2.

I'll complete FFT (Does Tactics ogre for SNES emulator count?), FFIX, FFX and FFXII if some kind soul would buy me a PS2 and the games.... please?

I am the master of all my friends, having completed more than all the others with most if not all subquests in all (MQ, FFIV, FFVI and FFVIII multiple times). It's not that I don't have a life, its that I have no other games (no PS2) so I am forced to revisit the old school games. And I AM a FF NUT.

[TheAbominatrix]

I've probably beaten more than Mandee (Shlup) has, but I'd say we're pretty evenly matched. I tend to be more insanely thorough than she does, but she's damn good on her own.

[Mo-Nercy]

I don't have any Final Fantasy playing friends. I have some friends that have played a bit or maybe even own one, but I'm the only person within a 10 kilometre radius that has more than 2 FF games.

I hope I can get the into FFXI if it comes down here, then I can beat them in something other than Diablo II.

[Flare_Star]

my friend is a total master of all the FFs he owns. which are -

FFVII
FFIX

which isnt much, but the thing is, i told him about FF. I told him that FFIX was really good and he said the usual:

"Final Fantasy is that rubbish game that nobody has heard about and you keep going on about"

Then i took it over his house and guess what! he bought it a few days later.

But thats not my point. He couldnt have got anywhere on thse games whithout MY help. I always supply him with guides and stuff from the internet and tell him what to do when he is stuck. If i hadnt told him anything he would be at Evil Forest wondering what the ^ button does.

Then, with his sheer patience, he gets to level 99 and finishes the game, and takes all credit. same with FFVII.

I am the fountain of all games (let alone ff) knowledge in my school and everyone asks me what to do at point X because they are stuck.

so id say that i am better than my friends.

enough of my sob story.

[Mo-Nercy]

"Final Fantasy is that rubbish game that nobody has heard about and you keep going on about"

Then i took it over his house and guess what! he bought it a few days later.

He sees the LIGHT!

[black orb]

>>> Im better than my brothers, my friends dont play FF