Quote Originally Posted by Daughterofdeath View Post
depending on your defination ff1-ff3 rlly didnt and it 100% wasnt to the extreme levels of sci-fi nonsense until ff8 came out and then ff13 it went way to far
The first paragraph of FF3's story on Wikipedia:

One thousand years before the events in the game, on a floating continent hovering high above the surface of an unnamed planet, a technologically advanced civilization sought to harness the power of the four elemental crystals of light.