Why every Final Fantasy game is the best AND worst in the series.

http://www.gamesradar.com/why-every-final-fantasy-game-is-the-best-and-worst-in-the-series/?page=1

BTW, only one FFIX character has childbearing hips.

And a million fanfics were written...

Insert endless tired rants about FFXIII here.

-sigh-

GOH! JII! RAH!

Essentially a long set up to insult XIV

Wow, is Final Fantasy XIV that bad?

-is worried about the possibility of a Sonic article-

Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.

Yes. The game was released in what appears to be its beta stage. It's very similar to Sonic 06 in that regard.

At least they are actually going back and trying to fix the game.....

GOH! JII! RAH!

Square had to apologise for the game. It's that bad.

edited 24th Jan '12 5:07:53 PM by RW64II

And a million fanfics were written...

That's very true. However after the lukewarm response 13 got they should probably have been a bit more careful with the next game in the series.

Didn't they fire someone too?

edited 24th Jan '12 5:08:18 PM by Kostya

Apparently they just changed the development team.

And a million fanfics were written...

Damn, that's pretty disappointing to hear. Well, at least they're actually bothering to fix it...

Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.

I actually liked Final Fantasy 13.

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.

From everything I've heard FF 14 is a Final Fantasy game without any Final Fantasy elements.

Oh, and in the age of World Of Warcraft, which could have more non-combat "virtual world" elements, this is a game were fisherman is a class and the Unfun Fishing Minigame is how you commit to spending your time.

Granted, this is very old intel I'm familiar with.

edited 24th Jan '12 6:10:49 PM by Rotpar

"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984

A lot of people did, Its just that the hatedom for that game is very vocal.

GOH! JII! RAH!

I just tend to ignore the less... lucid members of the fanbase. The majority of the FF fandom has been warring with each other since VI and VII. You'd think by now that they'd be able to comprehend that since most games aren't direct sequels, although the basic gameplay structure is the more or less unchanged, this gives Squeenix some leeway to experiment. Apparently, I was wrong.

"Oh no, Sanji's Chronic Simprosis!" - Kou The Mad

Me too, although I have to say that my expectations of modern Final Fantasy games are much different (and in many ways lower) than of older ones.

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

I laughed so hard when I got to XIV on the list.

In any event, I had no complaints about 13, personally...

edited 24th Jan '12 11:02:30 PM by burnpsy

I havea friend that's pretty into XIV. Apparently it's come a long way since it started

Oh hell yeah, vocal hatedom, by the way they talk about it, you'd think the game murdered all their friends.

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.

The article decries Final Fantasy VII for being sci-fisih, but it says that Final Fantasy IX is bad for not having sci-fi elements?

MAKE UP YOUR MIND.

"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."

I think they were just using it as an example. Basically they didn't like the scifi stuff but they still wanted something other than generic Fantasy fare. I'm guessing something along the line of 6's steampunk would have appealed to them.

FF 3 (remake) ftw

it is, hands down, the most fun ive ever had with a final fantasy game (main series away)

im honestly kinda surprised anyone complained about the ff10 battle system. i guess some people really do love that horrid atb system huh?

also, i was kind of disappointed it never got into the side games or direct sequels.

also: regarding the contradiction thing- judging from the article they apparantly did a survey and then made a little paragraph encompassing all the general faults or praises people had for each game. its the personal take paragraphs where, if he had decried the steampunk, and then decried the lack of steampunk, it would actually have been contradictory. i do wish it was more obvious though because the general attitude of the fault paragraphs kinda threw me untill i realised its a sum up.

edited 25th Jan '12 3:33:21 PM by Tarsen

The best/worst entries were supposed to be summarizations of how the fans/haters felt, not the writer. And I can vouch for there being people that dislike the sci-fi trappings of VII on, and there being different people that dislike IX not having them

Ah, that does make more sense.

"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go."

^^ Oh wow, now the whole list makes sense.

Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!

At least they actually had a way to listen to the greatest music in the series. (Yes, I am referring to Clash on the Big Bridge. There is no other FF music that can challenge it - indeed, IMO, only the music to Doomsday Zone can even match it.