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Kairi September 15th, 2003 6:41 AM

I too actually liked FFVIII's story and junctioning.

Yeah, with a name like X-Death, you need a strong story like sucking everything into a void to back you up.

In FFXi they fixed Quick Hit so you couldn't do it twenty times in a row and then bring out an aeon when fighting Nemesis.

In Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, they added several abilities, two of which I am very fond of:

Encounter up: Every time you left a room enemies would respwan, instead of having to go two rooms away.

Leaf Veil: Can’t get hurt while healing.


Both of those would have been really great...wish I could read Japanese and had a modded PS2.

Inuyasha September 16th, 2003 4:10 AM

... you people are aware that NONE of the final fantasy games relate. story wise that is. you see... square-enix (well, squaresoft then) saw that one really big, long, series of sequaled games would quickly lose intrest. and when they decided on a movie, they didnt want to rerelease stuff, although the best choice woulda been ff8 due to the story/plot/characters. yes, the other games are good, but 8 holds more of the 'movie' style. i mean, come on... the only other good game is 3. 7 is alright, and 10 is FAR too superior to use in a movie. that and its too new, and a movie based on it would thus destroy all you little kid's hopes of beating the game blind. although... 2 was good too... and who cant love a guy named butz?

Lucifer. September 16th, 2003 5:36 AM

Erm, I think everyone knows that none of the games directly relate to one another :/. Even though Final Fantasy IX has a pretty large reference to Final Fantasy II in it. (I mean the real FFII, not FFIV)

Pezz September 16th, 2003 11:30 AM

Well, one of the best aspects about the FF games is that they're all different. I like how they experiment with different designs and different worlds and battle systems and such. If they didn't, it would become boring.

I really like the games. I mostly like them for their story though, more than for their gameplay, although that is uber-fun as well.

My favorite is IX> I liked VI, but I find it to be overrated, although it is a true classic. VII is overrated in my mind as well.

Of course, I stay away from FF message boards. There is so much bashing of other's opinions and elitistness. *shudders*

John Denver September 16th, 2003 1:04 PM

FF10 had too many FREAKIN movies though...the first two hours drove me crazy with cutscenes...even though I personally liked the one where rikku undressed but ANYWAY...er-hem

BOO ya!

Kairi September 16th, 2003 1:25 PM

A lot of people did. In FFX-2 she's basically not wearing clothes :rolleyes:.

I like cinemas, Kingdom Hearts only has two and thus my selection of Kairi poses is somewhat limited.

Inuyasha September 16th, 2003 5:37 PM

yeah yeah... i know. but it seemed like no one understood that fact. anyways... i think i am a lil behind in this thread... so... i shall sum stuff up...
ff8- love it.
ff9- hated it with a passion.
all the rest were awesome...
triple triad, for ff8 is easy as heck... ff9's version sucked...
dark aeons sound awesome, i need to get ffx international...
peace love empathy XD

Pezz September 17th, 2003 11:37 AM

I love the movies and stuff. I really look forward to them. I can't wait to get FInal Fantasy Tactics advance, I love the fantastic style to it, even though I didn;t care much for Final Fantasy Tactics.

Frostweaver September 17th, 2003 2:41 PM

[QUOTE=Kairi]A lot of people did. In FFX-2 she's basically not wearing clothes :rolleyes:. [QUOTE]

Rikku is wearing as little as possible showing as much as possible... it's... *shiver* degrading!

Triple Triad is so hard... the card game in FF9 is much easier (therfore better... for now) n_n;;

I loved FF9! it's my favorite ff in the playstation era... Though i admit there's some very annoying part like disc2 outer continent and the beginning of disc3 is just plain boring... nevertheless i liked that magic system more than the materia system and the junction system. It makes a character unique, while the other 2 system can pretty much make a character do any role you want them to be.

Lucifer. September 18th, 2003 12:03 AM

Ugh, FFVIII's Triple Triad owns FFIX's Tetra Master so much it's not even funny. :/

Kairi September 18th, 2003 7:05 AM

I couldn't stand how hard in Triple Triad





*spoilers*







Ellone was on the Lunar Base. I had to retry that so many times it wasn't funny. >_<

Mewtwo-D2 September 18th, 2003 11:17 PM

I am one of the old school FF fans with the wooden airships, castles, and all that other medieval reference to it. I was a bit worried when FF 7 came about. I liked the game, but personally it is my least fav. of the series.
However, I have grown accustomed to this new wave of FF games with the machina and technology stuff. I just wish that they wouldn't release a new FF game every year.
One of the things to me that made the older FFs so good was that they were few and far between. Of course, I suppose that is because most weren't released in the U.S. :)

Frostweaver September 18th, 2003 11:23 PM

i don't mind the machin"a" stuff... just don't bring out mass machine guns and don't turn into "Counterstrike- RPG Style" then i'll be fine...

it's just the balancing issues and the Chocobo annoyance in the new FFs that annoy me a bit... is there any new FFs that are hard (exclude Triple Triad part of FF8)

Kairi September 19th, 2003 6:05 AM

FFX International certainly boasts some impressive monsters, with ten or one-hundred million HP? not exactly sure. It's all of your aeons in "dark" form, and then a new boss called Penance.

Scythemantis September 19th, 2003 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inuyasha
yeah yeah... i know. but it seemed like no one understood that fact. anyways... i think i am a lil behind in this thread... so... i shall sum stuff up...
ff8- love it.
ff9- hated it with a passion.
all the rest were awesome...
triple triad, for ff8 is easy as heck... ff9's version sucked...
dark aeons sound awesome, i need to get ffx international...
peace love empathy XD

I thought ff9's card game was extremely fun, and I had never played the one in ff8, so you probably just couldn't get used to the change :p

That's one thing I forgot to mention...I LOVE the summons in ff8 but not much else. I haven't seen enough of X to judge it but again, the characters don't look interesting to me although the aeons do. My favs from the two are Doomtrain and ...I forget the names of those three girls, they're dressed as insects in X but they were originally bosses in V.

I was amused by Chupon being a summon in VII....I'd like to see ULTROS make a comeback someday (I know he was a boss in chocobo's mysterious dungeon though). Yay for ultros!!!

Kairi September 19th, 2003 12:16 PM

They are the Magus sisters, Mindy Cindy and Sandy.

They were the first boss I lost to on FFIV when I rented it over the summer around five years ago.

John Denver September 19th, 2003 1:59 PM

My friend says there is a way to beat FF10 within the first 15 minutes if you attack the right spots...hmm, I dunno about that though

BOO ya!

Kairi September 19th, 2003 2:02 PM

The first boss, maybe. There isn't enough physical time to do that at all. Even if the PS2 was speed up to do one scene per second, you couldn't keep up with it. @[email protected];;

Frostweaver September 19th, 2003 2:37 PM

Yes... i thought that the Magus Sisters are the same weird bosses in FF4... guess i'm actually correct then n_n. They were pretty easy to beat if you kill off the right one first (so it can't use life2 aka full revive on the others)

ff8 summon system bugs me... boost is certainly interesting but the little summons die 20times the time faster than me? I only used summons against Odin as Odin won't attack anyway... otherwise, physical attack all the way ;p

Kairi September 19th, 2003 5:41 PM

I could boost anything to 250 if I filed my nails down and rubbed my thumb and finger over the button quickly. ^_^;

Mewtwo-D2 September 19th, 2003 9:03 PM

Lol...the Magus Sisters were my first defeat in FF4 as well.
That was a small annoyance in FFX. The Aeons (especially Magus Sisters and Anima) are too uberly powerful. Especially when Anima's normal attack takes off 99,999hp on many enemies....whats the point of an overdrive then.

I just got my new issue of EGM today. They had an interesting article on FFX-2 and other FF games. Most notably is that they said there is a strong chance they could make a sequel to FFVII. Wasn't my fav. FF but I would play a sequel. I just don't want them to milk the cow (more than they have done) and make sequels to all the games.

Mewtwo-D2 September 19th, 2003 9:39 PM

Now, I have a question to ask. I don't frequent the Gamefaqs Message boards often, but I just happened to stroll onto the FFX-2 board a moment ago. There was a lengthy thread (haven't read the whole thing) where apparantly people are arguing that FFX and FFX-2 are related to FFVII storywise.
I came across this short, but interesting post with an interview they did with one of the writers(?).
Minor FFX-2 spoilers.
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From "Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania"

-- Is there a connection between Shinra and FFVII?

Nojima: Yes, actually. After Shinra quit the Gullwings he got enormous financial backing from Rin and went to the Farplane to start extracting the Mako energy used by the Vegnagun. But the system for utilizing this energy could not be completed in his generation, so far in the future when space travel was possible, the Shinra Company was founded on another planet... or something like that. That would be a thousand years or so from this game's story.

-- And VII's story takes place after that?

Nojima: Well, you could say that's how I personally feel about it.

[from a different section:]

-- There are a lot of rumors floating around about "X-3"...

Kitase: Hmm, I don't know. Right now we don't have any plans. If we don't do it, maybe we could still find some way - we could put out a spinoff like "Eternal Calm" [the special movie included with FFX International]. But if you're asking if we'll make a game called X-3, currently we're not going ahead with any such plans at all.

-- So how about an international version of X-2?

Kitase: I wonder. That's also undecided. When we did one for X we were pretty satisfied with it for what it was, so I think I'd like to try. If we do, we'll probably put in something like "Eternal Calm" as a way of expanding the world, even if it's not X-3. But if you're asking whether we're going ahead with plans for an international version, nothing's going on yet.
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Ok, back to me. What do you guys think, or what have you heard? I am a tad confused, but a little intrigued as well. Of course, I haven't played FFX-2 yet, so I don't know that whole story.

Kairi September 20th, 2003 5:26 AM

I believe they are going to launch an International version in Japan at the same time we in the US get the normal FFX-2. I heard this somewhere, and it doesn't surprise me.

Lucifer. September 20th, 2003 8:45 AM

Err, bit behind on this, but the Dark Aeon's HP was mentioned further up the page. The highest is Penance with 12,000,000 (12 million), and the lowest being Dark Valefore with a pretty poor 800,000. The rest range from about 1 million to 10 million depending on the 'Aeon order of power'. You know, basically the order you obtain them in. The Dark Magus Sisters have about 10 million HP each.

Final Fantasy X-2. All I'll say is that it looks brilliant :cool: . The battle system is unbelievably fast-paced.

Mewtwo-D2 September 20th, 2003 1:30 PM

I believe they went back to the ATB (active time battle) for FFX-2...but I think there is an option to change it.


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