Favorite Final Fantasy/Other RPG

[Diakonov]

So, this thread inspired me to start a FFVI campaign, something I had wanted to do for a long time.  Just reached the uber-epic part of the game.  The scene immediately following was a tearjerker.  I have to admit, my allegiance to VII is starting to wane.  Looking forward to seeing the rest.

Anyone excited about XIII?  It seems like it might be awesome, although the Car Form thing is a little strange.

[TracerBullet]

So, this thread inspired me to start a FFVI campaign, something I had wanted to do for a long time.  Just reached the uber-epic part of the game.  The scene immediately following was a tearjerker.  I have to admit, my allegiance to VII is starting to wane.  Looking forward to seeing the rest.

Anyone excited about XIII?  It seems like it might be awesome, although the Car Form thing is a little strange.

And to think, if you'd done it right, you could have saved Cid.  (The game's not more interesting if you do, so no biggie.)

[Diakonov]

It's funny you mention that, because I got the strangest feeling that I could have done something. 

*SPOILER QUESTION* directly below

Was I supposed to feed him as much fish as possible right away?

[Meddling Mike]

There are so many things that make VIII such a great game that I'm really surprised it's not in contention for being the heavy favorite of TMD.

Well you know, other than the fact that it may be the worst Final Fantasy (I'm not even counting fucking X-2 or whatever that shit was), it was totally awesome. All of the emo story-telling, one dimensional characters, horrible combat, grindy grind grind-quests and complete lack of plot for the final quarter of the game make for an epic experience for sure.

To this day, FF8 is the only one I haven't bothered finishing.

Anyway, FF6, Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG (since fun game is fun) are my tops.

Change FF6 to FF7 and that's pretty much what I would have posted word for word. FF8 is an abomination. Salary system was total BS, you could get the top pay grade immediately by grabbing all the test answers off the internet, or by just guessing if you have that sort of time. Their attempt to make the battle system more interactive by making you frantically press a button during a summon sequence or trying to time a button press with your character hitting on the screen was pretty weak.

I loved FF7, It had great depth, fun gameplay and storyline. I remember being very excited when they announced Advent Children, but unfortunately it was a complete disaster. I don't even want to talk about it.

[DubDub]

Anyone excited about XIII?  It seems like it might be awesome, although the Car Form thing is a little strange.

Yes, though it will be competing with Gran Turismo 5 and God of War III for my attention.

[NodFreak]

FF6 and 7 FTW!

Im not very exited about FF13 though...

[Lemnear]

So, this thread inspired me to start a FFVI campaign, something I had wanted to do for a long time.  Just reached the uber-epic part of the game.  The scene immediately following was a tearjerker.  I have to admit, my allegiance to VII is starting to wane.  Looking forward to seeing the rest.

Anyone excited about XIII?  It seems like it might be awesome, although the Car Form thing is a little strange.

Car form is the biggest bullshit in the history of FF GF's/Summons and especially Sahz' Brunhild called summon car looks like shit in action. Even worse than the useless FF12 summons. I liked FF8 ... and yes ... I know some people think the story is wacky but makes much more sense than the alibi-story of FF12.

The reason I like it is of the IMO very well designed charakters in personality and design (Xell and squall were cool and all charakters show some deep many other charakters lack in the ff-universe) ...  And male chars could be identified as men XD

I always had the feeling that the charakters grow stronger within the game unlike FF7, 10 and 12 where charakters stay the same the whole game. The charakters became more mature during the game that is a point that impressed me back then. I rarely had a similar experience in RPG's. Terranigma and Lufia 2 felt a bit like that, too.

I fear that FF13 could be a disapointment for me since I heared that it contains a very linear gameplay in 13 chapters and 11 of them are like going from a to b then fight a boss and advance to the next 20 minutes of rendered movie-plots