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JDude042
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I haven't been interested in the Final Fantasy series since the Super Nintendo and Sony Playstation entries, so I went ahead and spoiled myself by looking up the final boss to this game on YouTube. Without any spoilers, I gotta say this franchise has clearly changed and evolved into something completely different from what I grew up with as a kid. This could probably explain my lack of interest in the entries in this series from PS2 and beyond. I grew up with the turn based combat system, and now it's an open field battle environment in a closed space, with some hack and slash game play from what I can tell. I don't hate it, but it's not like I'm enthralled and wanting to go out of my way to play it either. I guess there's just no helping my situation, but that's fine with me. It's not like I needed to stay attached to an apparently ever-changing series just because I'm "nostalgic about the good old days." There's plenty of other great games out there that I want to play for sure. I know someone who has been into the Final Fantasy series since he was a kid, and probably treats it like some god-like entity to this very day, and has and/or probably goes out of his way to play every entry in the series. If that works for him, then good for him. It just doesn't seem to be how I want to do things though.
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rahzel rose
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:34 pm
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I enjoyed that song much more than I was expecting to, and I think it worked well with the trailer. I'm so excited to play this game.
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nhat
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:49 pm
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| JDude042 wrote: | | I haven't been interested in the Final Fantasy series since the Super Nintendo and Sony Playstation entries, so I went ahead and spoiled myself by looking up the final boss to this game on YouTube. Without any spoilers, I gotta say this franchise has clearly changed and evolved into something completely different from what I grew up with as a kid. This could probably explain my lack of interest in the entries in this series from PS2 and beyond. I grew up with the turn based combat system, and now it's an open field battle environment in a closed space, with some hack and slash game play from what I can tell. I don't hate it, but it's not like I'm enthralled and wanting to go out of my way to play it either. I guess there's just no helping my situation, but that's fine with me. It's not like I needed to stay attached to an apparently ever-changing series just because I'm "nostalgic about the good old days." There's plenty of other great games out there that I want to play for sure. I know someone who has been into the Final Fantasy series since he was a kid, and probably treats it like some god-like entity to this very day, and has and/or probably goes out of his way to play every entry in the series. If that works for him, then good for him. It just doesn't seem to be how I want to do things though. |
I dunno, some of the older FF weren't that great either. Some are very good some were average I guess compare to other RPGs. Turn base battles are normally never popular in the states anyways compare to JP where DQ is still being pumped out every other year
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luffypirate
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:41 pm
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Bought a copy today. It came with A Kings Tale I did not expect it to!
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JDude042
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 9:54 pm
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| nhat wrote: | | I dunno, some of the older FF weren't that great either. Some are very good some were average I guess compare to other RPGs. Turn base battles are normally never popular in the states anyways compare to JP where DQ is still being pumped out every other year |
I'd say out of the main series my favorites would be the 16-bit generation games on the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom in the order of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy IV, and Final Fantasy V from most to least favorite of the three. I also thought the original Final Fantasy Tactics was an amazing game and I really enjoyed it, especially when it first came out. In fact, most of the RPGs I grew up with were all turn based JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Breath of Fire, Wild Arms, the Lunar series, Legend of Legaia, Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross. However, naming a few, I have played The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, and Illusion of Gaia, which were all action/adventure RPGs.
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TarsTarkas
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:03 pm
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Seems it has gotten some good reviews, despite players completing the 40 hour main story line in 13 hours.
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cloud8100
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 4:20 am
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Hopefully should be getting my copy today 
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Lord Oink
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 4:53 am
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| JDude042 wrote: | | I haven't been interested in the Final Fantasy series since the Super Nintendo and Sony Playstation entries, so I went ahead and spoiled myself by looking up the final boss to this game on YouTube. Without any spoilers, I gotta say this franchise has clearly changed and evolved into something completely different from what I grew up with as a kid. This could probably explain my lack of interest in the entries in this series from PS2 and beyond. I grew up with the turn based combat system, and now it's an open field battle environment in a closed space, with some hack and slash game play from what I can tell. . |
FFXV I could see, but X, X2, XIII and XIII-2 are classic turn based Final Fantasys. XII has a Xenoblade style 'queing' combat, but I enjoyed it. No real interest in XV for it being short and action combaty, plus I've been told the final boss is a QTE like western AAA game, which sounds sacreligious if true. I'd say check out some spinoffs like World of Final Fantasy, which looks a hell of a lot more Final Fantasy than XV does.
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JDude042
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:46 am
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| Lord Oink wrote: | |
FFXV I could see, but X, X2, XIII and XIII-2 are classic turn based Final Fantasys. XII has a Xenoblade style 'queing' combat, but I enjoyed it. No real interest in XV for it being short and action combaty, plus I've been told the final boss is a QTE like western AAA game, which sounds sacreligious if true. I'd say check out some spinoffs like World of Final Fantasy, which looks a hell of a lot more Final Fantasy than XV does. |
I played X and while it's not one of my favorites for sure, I didn't dislike it either. That's basically where my interest in the franchise ended though. I'll have to check out World of Final Fantasy sometime then.
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megazero
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:25 am
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Never expected to have hip-hop paired with Final Fantasy.
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BadNewsBlues
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:18 pm
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| TarsTarkas wrote: | | Seems it has gotten some good reviews, despite players completing the 40 hour main story line in 13 hours. |
Likely by skipping any sidequests or cutscenes.
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