What's so great about the classics?

[Zeromus_X]

I still can't understand why FFII is hard...frustrating, but not difficult if you're prepared.

Anyway, at least play FFIII. It isn't hard enough to pull your hair out, except maybe for the Giant Rat... And it has the best FF characters ever: Dorga and Unne. And that cool song they have.... FFI has infinite replay value, and FFII has an awesome final dungeon. Too bad if you hate the rest of the game not to play until then, it's worth it just to go to Pandaemonium

[DarkLadyNyara]

FF II wasn't as great as FF I but still very good, my only complaint is that the Emperor (Hell form) was way to hard even for a final Boss. Without a bloodsword you're toast.

Aw... that's the best part. What good is a final boss who doesn't kick your ass a few times? And I love the fact that II makes it hard to level-whore.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Because they show a progression of both storyline quality and graphical technology, as opposed to a progression of graphical technology and a regression of story quality. And that they're genuinely good games. I, too, did not like FFI for it's lack of story and FFII for it's system, which irritated me. Consequently I dislike FFVIII for much the same reason (discounting Rinoa, of course).

[Dreddz]

FF1 and 2 arent generally great games and I know lots of FF fans that dont like them, although most like to play them to see where the series started and you can see stuff taken from the originals that we still see in FF's released today which is cool.

[DJZen]

If you dislike the roots of the series, how can you truly call yourself a fan of the series?

NB: FFVII does NOT count as roots.

[Slam Dancin' Moogle]

If you dislike the roots of the series, how can you truly call yourself a fan of the series?

NB: FFVII does NOT count as roots.

Yes. What I hated was that no one that I knew knew that FF started on Nintendo, they all assumed it had started on PS and belonged to it

[feioncastor]

You can't aruge taste...

I hate Final Fantasy VIII. Seriously, in my honest opinion, it is one of the worst games ever made by Square. I find it to be a disgrace to the Final Fantasy name, and I think that it sullied the work done by previous installments to the series.

But I do like FF7. It's one of my favorite games, ever. And FF6, as well. FF6 may be my favorite game ever made by any company.

Insterestingly enough, I know a girl who liked FF7 a lot, just like me. But she absolutely LOVED FF8. It is, by far, her favorite game she has ever played.

So I talked her into trying FF6. And she didn't care for it at all. She couldn't get more than 2 hours into it because she did not like it.

So we both liked 7, a lot. But I loved 6 and she hated it. And she loved 8 and I hated it.

It goes to show that you can't argue taste.

Final Fantasy 1 was incredibly charming and rather addictive. The technological capabilities of the 1980's prevented Square from making the game like they may have wanted to, but I wouldn't change anything about FF1. It was challenging, and I still enjoy playing the original NES version of it, so many years later. And I'm sure I always will.

What about the gameplay does this to me? I don't know for sure.

But I am convinced of one thing.

GAMEPLAY makes the game. Not music, not graphics, not even really story. Games are usually measured by those four parameters. Gameplay, graphics, music and story. But gameplay is what makes you continue to play the game. The graphics, story, and music should support the gameplay. You shouldn't sell a game on graphics, or anything but fun gameplay.

Take Tetris for example.

The gameplay hasn't really changed much in about 20 years. But it's still is fun as heck, and is still a game that I can play for a few hours in one sitting. Is it because it has good graphics? No. Music? Yeah, the three songs you can listen to are awesome and all, but heck, the game is still just as fun with the volume down. Story? Unless I've missed something, Tetris has no storyline.

So why do people like myself continue to play Tetris, all these years later?

Because of the gameplay!

Final Fantasy X-2 may have excellent graphics, fun music, and a cool story, but it lacks in gameplay, the fundamental element that makes games so addictive.

I can honestly say that I have not played a RPG with absolutely outstanding gameplay since Final Fantasy Tactics. There have been some okay games (like FFTA, FF9, Chrono Cross, .Hack), but nothing that is absolutely addictive.

[DarkLadyNyara]

Yes. What I hated was that no one that I knew knew that FF started on Nintendo, they all assumed it had started on PS and belonged to it

I have no comment...
:twak:

[Llanowar]

I Always have enjoyed the classics and to be perfectly honest always will. I do not know why but FFVI is the RPG that has me addicted so badly as I sit here I am trying to think of what I can do to beat it faster, at lower levels, etc. I as of now can beat the game in 6:04.

However you also can't argue with ANY of the other classes LOL.

[Slam Dancin' Moogle]

I don't have much taste for the later FF games, because they've just gotten way to complicated. I have to agree with feioncastor; music and graphics don't make a difference, even though music does help me do better in games for some reason. I have to disagree though, about story. I think that the story is what will get you addicted to the game, because if you just go by the name of the game, you might not like it.

[Lon611]

for me, final fantasy one was simple, and yet it had a great storyline *albeit very short, and wasn't really reveiled until right before u fought chaos*, but it was very fufilling. (and since i've only played the GBA version)...i have to add that the extra dungeons are a great sidequest

ff2 didn't do much for me. i loved that there was a storyline that made some sense and was drawn out, but i agree with every1 that if u didn't have the bloodsword, ur toast.

ff4 (haven't played ff3) had some of the great characters and storyline in the entire series. nufff said.

and ff6...well i shudn't have to esplain. :rolleyes2


also i have to agree that the newer ff's are getting way too complicated, and im hesitant about ff12. for me, ff7-10 is about as complicating as it shud get.

[DJZen]

Final Fantasy X-2 may have excellent graphics, fun music, and a cool story, but it lacks in gameplay, the fundamental element that makes games so addictive.

I'd like to respectfully disagree there. For me the only thing that was fun about FFX-2 was the gameplay. Everything else I couldn't have possibly cared less about.