Older Final Fantasy games

[Bloodb]

Final Fantasy 3, 4, 5, 6, and type-0 are so good! Took a short break before 3.4 comes out to beat these games from the square-enix store. It makes me love FFXIV even more.
3 and 5 were very hard. It's great to see so many things like Cid and Krile in other final fantasies.

Idk what i'm trying to say. If you need a break from ff14 try playing any of the old final fantasy games. They're all incredible : )


Type-0 HD especially. Love it so much! Just finished my first play through.

[DamianFatale]

Final Fantasy VI is the best rpg of all time imo. I would also suggest it's sister game Chrono Trigger.

[Shamo_Lomenzo]

I played the Type-0 remaster and thought it was just so... lackluster. The story made absolutely no sense and once I found out you had to play the game multiple times through to even understand it, I had checked out. It could've been so much better had they just included the whole story on the first playthrough. But to each their own.

I still have IV - The After Years and VI installed on my phone and VIII on my computer on Steam where I've been sitting at the final dungeons so I can come back and eventually beat them, but I could never bring myself to do it. I have to do that at some point.

[Mugiawara]

Type-0 is cool in a sense that it is a more 'grim' Final Fantasy but everything else is annoying.
The fact you have 14 characters is neat, but also a pain when you have to basically train them all 5 times over.
No character development because they squished 14 people into a game and have no time flesh anyone out.
The nail for me was the battle system. Kill-sight is fun, but the AI's are Dog crap...purely...one of the worst I've seen.
And to summon things, someone has to sacrifice themselves to do it. [In the CS, they summoned Odin and no one died...so what?]
Not knocking you down or anything just I had hopes for it but eh.

That said, in the last 2 years I've been delving into FF's I never played...
I literally played FF7 for the first time 2 months ago...That is one GOOD game.
The Don scene had me dying.

[Khalithar]

The Squaresoft SNES games: Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, FF4, FF5, FF6, Secret of Mana, and Seiken Densetsu 3 are all amazing and are (in my opinion) Square's golden age of single player RPG's. In my opinion, none of the games released after the SNES (7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, XII, and XIII 1-3) can even hold a candle to any of them although Bravely Default and Bravely Second were damn close. I still hold Chrono Trigger as my absolute favorite game and favorite RPG of all time, I believe it to be a genuine masterpiece of a game. However, I absolutely hate it's sequel Chrono Cross, I think it's a horrendous piece of garbage that should have never been made, ever. But I digress.

[LalafellDown]

Hope FF12 comes out for PC eventually. Last great Final Fantasy game. Sad that FF6 for PC looks like garbage IOS game.

[Bloodb]

Type-0 teases a lot of story along the way to the end of the game. I never had trouble with characters leveling up since while playing as say only Ace the rest of the characters level up as well. Ended the game with everyone 25-30. I like that each character has a unique attitude and feel to them especially Nine.

During the game you find out about Ace's past, Rem's and Machina's but the rest of the characters I haven't found back story for. Either i've missed the npc's or I need to check the library book thing.

Things really make way more sense after googling Fabula Nova Crystallis.
FF13
FF13-2
FF Lightning Returns
FF Type-0
And now FF15 are all based on the Fabula Nova Crystallis mythology.

[Croweyes]

Final Fantasy X will always be my favorite. It was my very first final fantasy game and i LOVED the story, followed by FF 13 series ( yeah I said it, Lightning was awesome and a great female character )

P.S. FF 7 is overrated and milked to death. Come at me Bro!

[Khalithar]

P.S. FF 7 is overrated and milked to death.

I will agree with you on that.

[Welsper59]

I sadly am not part of the FFVI hype, and I really don't know exactly why. Even back in the day, I didn't care for it. I think it might be because I popped that cartridge into my SNES during a time of my childhood that I did not care for (most) RPGs. Turned it on, got bored from that really long intro sequence, then turned it off shortly after that first fight lol. The first one that I actually gave a damn about was either Chrono Trigger or Earthbound. Never bothered with VI since, as I just don't have any desire to play it.

Type 0 was okay, but there were a lot of moments that it just felt kinda... cheesy. I think I watched too much anime or Japanese shows in general throughout my life, as it just often felt like I encountered the same interactions a million times over. Outside of that though, it was an interesting time at least. I sorta like the manga that the collectors edition came with more than the actual game though lol.

Final Fantasy X will always be my favorite. It was my very first final fantasy game and i LOVED the story, followed by FF 13 series ( yeah I said it, Lightning was awesome and a great female character )

P.S. FF 7 is overrated and milked to death. Come at me Bro!

All games are overrated since the matter is always subjective. I can easily say that the Souls games, Skyrim, Fallout series, etc are all hilariously overrated, and to a decent number of people, that'd be right. I actually find X to be very overrated, but I can see why people love it, just as I can see why people love VII. For the most part, both games were players introduction to next gen RPGs.