Supporting Characters better than the main charachters?

[Ballistix Man]

I always found the supporting charachters eclipsed the main charachters. Your thoughts.

[dodhungry]

Ok thats kinda vague. Really don't know which FF your talking about.. The reason I say this is cause if talking about FF 1 that really dose not make much sense since The main characters really dont speak.. All the other NPC's do all the talking. Where as in the later Gen FF's Like 7-10 I can see where you might have a point of interest.

If this is the case I agree in 10 cause Tidus was a panzy while everyone else rocked.

[Ballistix Man]

I mean FF in general hence why I posted in general FF. But at 2 I noticed this trend. Then at 4 on.

[Zeromus_X]

The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Cliches, Rule 152:
Stealing The Spotlight (Edea Rule)
The characters who join your party only briefly tend to be much cooler than your regular party members.

[LunarWeaver]

The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Games, Rule 152:
Stealing The Spotlight (Edea Rule)
The characters who join your party only briefly tend to be much cooler than your regular party members.

A rule for the ages.

Final Fantasy Tactics had so many cool guests, I poked permanent party members with sporks for not being cool enough. Uncool bastards.

[Kain424]

I've always found Kain to be a much more interesting character than Cecil in FFIV.

[PontiusPilate]

I think it varied for different FF games

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Depends on the game. As a character, I love Ramza or Cecil or Zidane, they're all really interesting, well-done characters. However, some games have a wealth of great supporting characters and sometimes the hero isn't that great.

I was OK with Tidus, but I liked the character of Lulu a lot more, and I was actually rather disappointed at how little she was explored.

Another example is Squall, who I was unimpressed with, as opposed to say, Quisitis, who intrigued me much more.

[NeoCracker]

The only one this isn't true in is FF IX. Coolest Character is Zidane.
4 had Rydia, edge, and Kain.
5 had Galuf and Faris.
7 had Barret, Cid, Vincent, pretty much all of them I though were cooler than cloud. Except Cait Sith.
8 They were all better than Squall. Includin gall the NPC's in town.
10 Again, everone else was cooler.

[Shadow705]

Ah the beauty of 6. No main character... or was it they were all the main character? Either way, they eclipsed eachother and made partys of pure coolness.

[~SapphireStar~]

I prefered the supporting characters in 9 and 10 to be better then the leads. Mainly Vivi, Freya and Garnet over Zidane and Auron, Lulu and Yuna over Tidus.

[Heero Yuy NWZC]

For FFVIII, Xu was a pretty good character but you never see her very often. If you take the time to actually look at her conversations, you get to know her a little bit and she's a good idea for a main character.

[Ya Boy Alex]

FFI: Pretty cool main charachters. I mean who is better than Black Mage.
FF2: This game was the definative supporting are better game.
FF4: Kain...........................>Cecil anyday. Though Edge......................................................................>all.
FF6: No mian charachter :frust:
FF7: Vincent, Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, Barret, Cid................>Cloud.
FF8: Squall was a relly crappy charachter. Even Cid outshined him.
ff9: I like Steiner and Vivi better.
FF10: Auron was much better than Yuna or her effeminate boyfriend Tidus.
FF12: Basch and Balflier........>Vaan.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

FF12: Basch and Balflier........>Vaan.

I'm reserving my judgement on that until I actually play the game. Unless you've played it, I'd think it's a difficult judgement to make.

[Ya Boy Alex]

I have played a little of my friends.