Yes, the turn based RPG is getting kind of repetitive, nowadays people are liking more dinamic RPGs; the turn Based was great in the past, but now that they were able to mix action paced on RPGs there's no to return to turn based;
That's why I like so much the Tales of series, it doesn't use turn based, but instead, seems that you are playing an action or even a fighting game;
And if they use a FF 12 refined style, I think everything will be okay;
If your an avid Finall Fantasy fan there is still reason to get a PS3 since the versus game is gonna be exclusive. Also Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm is gonna be great, played the demo, and the gameplay is really good. I have a PS3 but I might get a 360 if Kotor 3 and Jade Empire 2 are exclusive to 360.
How come this thread isnt active?(yeah my poorly made bump)
There tons of things to talk about such as
Final Fantasy XIII (and Versus,etc)
and
Final Fantasy Dissidia (FF crossover consiting of twenty characters from the first ten games)
and I just played Crisis Core, its a great prequel for FFVIII
Also a nice backstory for a previously background only character Zack and his collegues.
- andthe FFIV remake for the DS was not to bad as well
we could revive it by start talking impressions over Crisis Core and other stuff but i don't know if something like that could be considered spamming (if you check the first page for the reason of this threads' existence
and believe me i'd LOVE to talk over Crisis Core... but even that could be considered spoilers for the ones that are now starting it or haven't played it yet i don't know whether to laugh or cry here...
i've been spazzing over Dissidia for a while now. now that the full cast of 20 heroes and villains is confirmed, i'm more excited than ever. i really wanted Terra to be the hero from FF6 and think she looks absolutely gorgeous in the game
i'm buying the japanese version once it comes out.
Haha, see, I wasn't ever really all that fond of VII, I mean, back in the day, I remember looking at the graphics and going 'wow, this is so real, this actually looks like a person!' Graphically speaking, beggars can't be choosers, but the rumors I kept hearing of a 'rerelease' of VII with better grapics sort of annoyed me.
For me, VIII was the first one I played through all the way (cue the sighs of disgust from fellow thread members) and therefore, it has the most nostalgic feel out of any Final Fantasy game for me.
Then came X, which really, I liked. It was the most imaginative so far, and regardless, I think it had a great story-line. X-2 is what ruined the whole name of FF in my opinion, however.
And now for a little history lesson! This may or may not be common knowledge among avid FF fans like yourselves, but I'm a firm believer that somehow, someway the separate story line are intricately tied together and overlap somehow.
This is just something I noticed, and then read an article on it, from over at daeya forums. Figured I would share and get everyone's input and opinions on it as well.:
As some fans of Final Fantasy VII, X and X-2 may or may not know, the worlds of the two games share a plot-related connection. The connection's existance was established during an interview with Yoshinori Kitase (lead developer of the Final Fantasy series) and Kazushige Nojima (the scenario writer of Final Fantasy VII, Before Crisis, Advent Children, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2 and the Kingdom Hearts series) in 2002, as featured in the Final Fantasy X Ultimania Omega guidebook, an official Square-Enix publication.
This interview established that there would be a connection between the two
worlds, though it didn't detail it. However, based on what was later revealed
to be the connection, it's clear that it had already been conceived, as
Kitase hints at it with his final word on the subject. In 2003, the exact
nature of the concept was finally revealed in the Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania,
having been hinted toward by a few elements of the game.
Nojima revealed that Shinra of the Gullwings, an Al Bhed child prodigy and
inventor of various machinery, would attempt using the remains of Vegnagun --
the behemoth machina Shuyin tried to destroy Spira with -- to extract life
energy from the Farplane and use it to power machines. Shinra would attempt
doing this as a result of his analysis of the Farplane late in the game.
During this diagnostic, Shinra concluded that there was a great deal of energy
floating around inside the Farplane, and that it was most likely the life
force of Spira, which could be extracted and used as a power source; however, he concluded that it would take generations to properly implement the idea.
Further of note is that Nojima explained that the Al Bhed entrepeneur Rin also
was interested in extracting mako from the Farplane, and that he provided
Shinra with the funding to make the attempt. For his part, Rin's desire to do
this is revealed during the game should he be uncovered as the culprit behind
covering up the malfunctioning machina disaster on the Mi'hen Highroad.
Nojima went on to say that Shinra's attempts to use Vegnagun's remains failed and that he was unable to complete the concept of mako-extraction, just as Shinra had predicted. However, some 1000 years later, once space travel became possible, Shinra's descendants would go on a voyage to the world of Final Fantasy VII. There, at some point in the future, they would be successful in utilizing the concept, and would provide electricity from the Planet for a price; these descendants would found the Shin-Ra Company of Final Fantasy VII.
The connection would again be hinted toward in the Final Fantasy X-2:
International+Last Mission (released in 2004) game's Last Mission scenario, in
which Rikku revealed that Rin and Shinra had begun working together. Next,
the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega guidebook (released in September, 2005) also brings forth mention of the concept, and, finally, the connection may have received further indication through Dirge of Cerberus (released in
January, 2006) and the Advent Children Reunion Files book (released in May,
2006), in which it is established that the Shera airship seen in Advent
Children and Dirge of Cerberus runs on ancient, lost non-mako technology that
Cid discovered. This technology very well may have originally belonged to
Shinra's descendants, as they are the only previous inhabitants of VII's world
indicated to have been in possession of advanced technology, and because the interior of the Shera bears some aesthetic resemblances to those of the
Fahrenheit and Celsius airships that figure prominently into FFX and FFX-2
(though the Shera's interior bears more of a resemblance to the Celsius').
In before 'old article is old' also. I know it's old, but I wanted to drag it up and get opinions.
FFVIII forever. It was my first too, I have NO idea why that game catches so much flack. It is (and will forever be, the best in my eyes) with VII coming in at a close second.
Crap, I'm tempted to buy a PSP now... Terra and Kefka have been my favorites since like.. forever. Seeing her in detailed 3D beauty is a must now, but what about my plans for an Xbox or Wiii? <.<
FF6 it has been one of my favorites, i still have my Znes emulator with it. The thing that i like about this game its the ammount of characters that u can use. After this 1, i havent seen other FF with so much playable characters.
i'd have to say FF7 is my favorite of the FF games. i really liked the gameplay as well as the characters it contained (big time Vincent Valentine fan)
as my sig shows though, my favorite FF hero is Zidane from FF9 and is the person i most want to play as in Dissidia. he's just so unique among the FF heroes and i thoroughly enjoyed the conflict between him and his counterpart, Kuja
My favourite FF, if not my favourite game ever, is FF6. The awesome cast of characters (and their development...Locke! Terra! Shadow! Setzer! <3), the giant plot twist, Kefka, the inside jokes, everything <3 I pray for a remake.
Second comes FFTactics, then maybe FF7 - i cant decide which one i love most, 7,5 or 4.
(ah, i love Vincent too sahu. <3)
Guess i'm just oldschool, i dont like the serious-oh-i'm-so-troubled kind of protagonists. That's one of the reasons that made me hate FF8 xD
My favourite FF, if not my favourite game ever, is FF6. The awesome cast of characters (and their development...Locke! Terra! Shadow! Setzer! <3), the giant plot twist, Kefka, the inside jokes, everything <3 I pray for a remake.
Thats what im talking about. FF6 story doesnt develop always around the main character (Terra) wich its great (i like the story of Shadow), not like FF8 and forward IMO its always about the main character.
For me the best story by far its FF7, even the prequels like Before Crisis, Crisis Core. It is sad that they didnt make a 2nd part of FF7, but at least we have the movie (Advent Children)that btw it was awesome(my favorite part its when Kadaj resurrect Sephiroth, great fight) and Dirge of Cerberus.
My favourite FF, if not my favourite game ever, is FF6. The awesome cast of characters (and their development...Locke! Terra! Shadow! Setzer! <3), the giant plot twist, Kefka, the inside jokes, everything <3 I pray for a remake.
Second comes FFTactics, then maybe FF7 - i cant decide which one i love most, 7,5 or 4.
(ah, i love Vincent too sahu. <3)
Guess i'm just oldschool, i dont like the serious-oh-i'm-so-troubled kind of protagonists. That's one of the reasons that made me hate FF8 xD
FF8 has its up and downs, one of the things that i didnt like was the draw magic systems. Its very tiresome u to have to draw magic until u reach 100, i mean everytime u fight a new monster have to draw magic for each damn character.
If u start drawing magic since the very begining of the game and i mean the 1st time u get in combat keeping ur enemies alive until u reach the max (100) of the spell that the enemy have, u can get PWUP too fast and the game will get too damn easy. I prefer the old fashion way, learning spell and keeping with the game with some dificulty.
What I did like was the mini card game, man i was addicted to that mini game. the GF system was kind of cool, i could do pushups with my thumb after that.
Drawing 100 Ultimas one by one was one of the most annoying gaming experiences i've ever had....and it sucked, because you couldnt cast them if they were junctioned, or your status would go down in the middle of the fight....nice >.>
Agh, the giant GF sequences....dont even make me remember of that... ._____.
I hated the plot also...all the unbelievable coincidences, Squall and his "..." and all the shallow cast of characters...
And yep, my favourite part of FF8 was also the cardgame. When the best part of a RPG is the bonus minigame, you know it can't be a good thing ._.
I remember that i loved it when i played it for the first 5 hours - the graphics were awesome! Then I got used to them, and the game was just meh.
Drawing 100 Ultimas one by one was one of the most annoying gaming experiences i've ever had....and it sucked, because you couldnt cast them if they were junctioned, or your status would go down in the middle of the fight....nice >.>
Good History, Good Characters, Good Drama, Good Fights and Strategy, a lot of combinations that u can do.
The problem is a grafic very much a mix of 2d with 3d, but for me the grafics are the less important.
What make me play final fantasy is the history and capacity to handle the players with more and more necessity to finish it and know what ill happen.
I really want someday they make another FF in the FFT style, but please don't compare it to FFT Advance because this game is very sux, uggly and not fun =P
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i don't know whether to laugh or cry here...
. The thing that i like about this game its the ammount of characters that u can use. After this 1, i havent seen other FF with so much playable characters.
like FF8 and forward IMO its always about the main character. 
that they didnt make a 2nd part of FF7, but at least we have the movie (Advent Children)that btw it was awesome(my favorite part its when Kadaj resurrect Sephiroth, great fight) and Dirge of Cerberus.
character. 
. I prefer the old fashion way, learning spell and keeping with the game with some dificulty
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. the GF system was kind of cool, i could do pushups with my thumb after that
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