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.

[MicahZerrshia]

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

It will, as a horrible mobile port that skips, jumps, bumps, cuts and goes wonky cause SE cannot for the life of them put any effort into a decent pc port of any ff title.

I`ve always thought of Final Fantasy VII as the most overrated of the bunch. It is good, as any Final Fantasy is. In a way i can understand why some would thought VI is the very best but VII...? Is completely overrated.

fixed that for you seriously I have no idea why vii gets so much love, cloud is a whiney lil kid and seph is just a guy with a mommy issues and both wield swords of major overcompensation

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

fixed that for you seriously I have no idea why vii gets so much love, cloud is a whiney lil kid and seph is just a guy with a mommy issues and both wield swords of major overcompensation

No, VII is much better than VI.

Terra is even more emo and whiney than Cloud, people just tends to overlook that a lot more just because she is a she. As for the badguy, Kefka is just the Joker in FF terms, everyone loves it, but as a character has the depth of a puddle. Sephirot is in a completely diferent league, the very fact on how both characters are handled and introduced separates appart, the first of sephirot you see in VII you play, and you feel him being extremely powerful, introducing a sense of dread everytime you are getting to him since you already know how strong he is, Kefka is basically comic relief till like 10 hours into the game and gets serious for a brief moment till again the very end.

[Rufalus]

I think disdain for VII is a bit like disdain for Apple products. When something is mega popular, there are always people who want to be different and shun the mainstream, even if they don't have a reason.

I can give some reasons why I think VII holds up as one of the series best.

The characters are very well developed. Every major character has an extensive backstory, with the game jumping back into the past many times to build its history. The death of Aeris/th had such a great impact because the game earned it by making us care.

She had a great personality and we had been through so much together. She helped us, we helped her, at one point we lost her and had to risk everything to get her back from Shinra in a huge dangerous mission. And then suddenly, after all we had been through, she was gone and never coming back.

It deals with timeless themes like love, life and death. It deals with topics that are still very relevant today like corrupt government and pollution (mako energy literally killing the planet). The story is backed up by an incredible emotional soundtrack, perhaps Uematsu's best work.

A common complaint from detractors is that Cloud is emo or whiney. He had reasons to feel that way after emerging from a mad scientist's lab with mako poisoning and scrambled memories, unable to determine the truth of his own past, all while his enemy has a mysterious power over him which renders him a puppet.

There's a reason why people still talk about VII and why it's getting a ridiculous mega-budget remake. It's ok to celebrate as a brilliant piece of art.

[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.