final fantasy, where to start

[mur'phon]

I have never played any final fantasy game, and wonder which number I should start on.

[Corinthian]

It really doesn't matter. If I were you, I'd start with Final Fantasy 6. However, I'm an old fogey. Seven is considered the best by just about everyone except me. Four is pretty good. Eight and ten are decent. Nine I never actually played, but I've heard it was pretty good. I advise you to stay away from 1, 2, 3, 11, or X-2. The first four because the plots are so pathetic they make my teeth hurt, and the last because it was spawned from hell. Never played XII.

[Ctrl Alt Del]

It does depends on which system you have to get them on. The stories aren't linear, and have almost no relations to each other (actually, only the name of monsters, spells, summons, weapons, etc. are the same).

 

However, to keep you graphically interested and still keep largely the FF roots gaming system, I tell you: Get FF X.

[Inyri]

10's a great one to start with, I agree. It's got a great plot and it was funny. And c'mon, X-2 wasn't that bad, unless you were expecting something particular. Maybe y'all were just scared away by all the pink and the sleepovers.

[Ctrl Alt Del]

Nah, I didn't like X-2 battle system either. And I was efortlessy trying to avoid my expectations of a serious plot, but I can't get this when it's about Final Fantasy.

 

Best thing on that game was Yuna, Paine and... Ah, Riku (godess).

[Inyri]

I loved the X-2 battle system. The dress sphere system was an amazing nod to the old job system in the original games. The plot also was serious when you got past the pink and the slumber parties.

[Ctrl Alt Del]

EDIT: Yeah, it may kinda re-invent the job system, but it still looks the same. A dated system with tons of makeup. Also, the mix of real-time and turn-based didn't got me.

 

Each one is entitled to their own opinions. I've given mine on the battle system and so did you.

 

There was another crappy thing on X-2: Exploration. Why? Why did it looked with a Tomb Raider game? With those dungeons looking like any place Ms. Croft would be visiting. And all that jumping, argh!

 

However, the game is still Final Fantasy, so the CG scenes are still sweet to the eyes and so are the graphics, even if they're the same from the original 10.

[Sabretooth]

A friend of mine had the "Dawn of Souls" compilation for the GBA - that's a combo of FF I and II. I liked both those games, they're both classics and if you won't mind those beautiful, pixellated graphics of old, I is just as good a place to start off.

[Corinthian]

Final Fantasy VI is the best one out there, hands down, though. But you need either the remake, a Super Nintendo or {snip} not here - d3

[Aeroldoth]

How old is it?

[Inyri]

Circa 1994.

[Aeroldoth]

Not too bad for me, considering I'm an old fogey like C. C, why do you suggest starting with #6?

[Corinthian]

It's the best one, and it doesn't matter which one you start with, the interconnected plots are so minimal, I could spit and disrupt all the connections. The connections are thus -

 

There is a character named Cid.

 

There is probably an Airship.

 

Something bad will happen.

 

That's pretty much the size of it.

[SilentScope001]

Think I played some sort of RPG in the "Final Fanasty" series about you collecting Crystals. And I did play a Final Fanasty game about "slave crowns". I think I got bored of the endless grinding.

 

Um. That's about all I could know at the present

[Serpentine Cougar]

Of the pixel-RPG Final Fantasies (i.e. 1-6), Final Fantasy VI was the best, imo (though I'm still playing it). FFX is awesome, FFX-2 is stupid. After you finish FFX, read this fan-written epilogue that basically tells the good parts from FFX-2 without all the fluff.

 

I haven't played 7-9, or any after 10.

[Corinthian]

Well, Terra has a Slave Crown at the beginning of Final Fantasy VI. I don't recall any endless grinding, though, and the Slave Crown is not touched upon all that much.

 

As for getting Crystals, I have no idea. Maybe you're thinking of Seiken Densetsu III, or maybe Mystic Quest. I really don't know.

[Meowster]

I myself am a favorite of VIII...even though it was the one I started out with (and is my favorite) it can get really complicated at times. (I've learned recently the junction system was hard for some..).

 

Personally, I would choose X or VI. Both are great games, although I found VI to be more challenging than X. X-2 is just...its fun, but...meh. I don't like it, seeing as I can never get the 100%...

 

The first one has to do with crystals, and XII kinda had too (if you count magicite as crystals.)

[Bee Hoon]

@Corinthian, you forgot chocobos:p

 

I've played FFVII, FFVIII and FFX, all of which were great, both story-wise and in gameplay. I'd say FFX was the easiest of the lots (Yuna really owns at high levels), while FFVIII has the most unique battle system, but with some patience, you can get ridiculously overpowered characters.

 

Regretfully, I always played FFX-2 which made me want to commit harakiri. They *mangled* Yuna!>.<

[mur'phon]

depends on which system you have to get them on

 

PC

[Meowster]

Actually...I remember that VIII could be really easy...

 

Just as long as you junction good, and don't level up. (The Monsters level with you...)

[spinkle]

If you have a Nintendo DS, start with Final Fantasy III and/or the Dawn Of Souls GBA cart that has both FFI and FFII. FFI is straightforward and irrelevant but entertaining, and the specific-experience-for-specific-tasks level-up system for [the original] FFII is amazingly fun although the lack of job titles and restrictions may seem a little too open-ended at first.

 

You'll hear a lot of praise for FFVII, but it's graphically headache-inducing and demonstrates the limits of the original Playstation all too clearly. FFV and FFVI are a lot more fun; FFV's job system is fantastic and mastering most of the jobs doesn't take an incredibly long grind, so it's pretty easy to max out all of the jobs.

 

I'm playing FFXII: Revenant Wings (DS) now, which is great if you like RTS games (I don't even like the genre, really, but I'm enjoying the hell out of this one)

[mur'phon]

Pardon my ignorance, but what the heck is to junction? My dictonary didn't contain this nerdy word.

[Ctrl Alt Del]

And yeah, FF VI is one of the best. Really is. And since you plan on playing it on pc, download a random GBA emulator and the ROM for the GBA remake of it.

 

Think I played some sort of RPG in the "Final

Fanasty" series about you collecting Crystals. And I did play a Final Fanasty game about "slave crowns". I think I got bored of the endless grinding.

You probably played the Final Fantasy for Gamecube. A children-oriented game, which doesn't look a bit like traditional FF games;

 

Pardon my ignorance' date=' but what the heck is to junction? My dictonary didn't contain this nerdy word.[/quote']

That's the name of the gameplay system. Each FF game got it's own. RTB, ATB, Junctions, etc...

[Meowster]

Well, in Final Fantasy VIII (and only VIII I believe) you 'junction' magic to yourself, and it boosts your stats, and lets you be immune to differant damage and stuff.

 

I've learned most people have found this concept annoying, but it can lead to some power-levelling. You 'draw' magic from enemies, and thus, in turn able to use it. But, it is stocked, like items, and you have a limit to how much you can use.

 

And, I think every FF uses ATB, except for like...three differant ones, right?

 

You probably played the Final Fantasy for Gamecube. A children-oriented game, which doesn't look a bit like traditional FF games;

 

Final Fantasy Chronicles? Aw, but that is such a fun game with differant people...speaking of which, the remakes of the games for Playstation generally have two-player co-op during battles

[Ctrl Alt Del]

And, I think every FF uses ATB, except for like...three differant ones, right?

 

It's already a bunch of games. And ATB is quite difficulty to have a definition of. For, FF VII and FF X had the ATB system. But one is sooooo very different from the other.

 

Final Fantasy Chronicles? Aw, but that is such a fun game with differant people...

 

I haven't played it. All I know it's got a repetitive system. And the most omnious presence of crystals than on any other FF.