Thats cos its always the same damn love storys with people that wanna conquer the world or betray someon.....


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There's something like twelve stories in literature that can possibly be told. Every story ever written is just a variation of one of the twelve basic stories. I can't recall them off the top of my head (I've been out of school too long). So it's not the story that sucks. It's the way it's told. The characters were one dimensional, the game play wasn't even that great, and the climax was somewhat disappointing. Jeez even the artwork sucked. It's one saving grace was that addictive side game with the tarrot card thingies. Forget what it's called. (I've been out of school too long) All and all it was a pretty craptacular game.

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I like middle-age games (swords, adventure,)

And the `Tarrott thingy forgot what its called` is called Tetra Master

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The only two I've ever really gotten into were 4 and 5. 5's story wasn't that compelling to me but the gameplay was pretty interesting, and the job system helped it out. I really liked the story in 4, where you are the bad guy, I got about 3/4 of the way through but stopped cause the storyline became more traditional, and the random battles become more annoying. I've never liked random battles in games, which is one of the reason i never got into 6 or 7. I just didn't think the storyline for either were good enough to have me go through a random battle every two steps, though I might give 6 another try at some point.

-Yorick

I was waiting for this.



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My apologies.

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First of all, FF XI is a travesty.

ONLINE??? ONLINE??????? HOW DARE THEY?? Final Fantasy was always heralded for it's plots, orginality, art, music, and depth. They sucked you in, the things that destroyed life as you new it before redefining it before your eyes. Some of my greatest childhood memories are of the Golden Age FF's, e.g. II-III*. Then it ported to the PS and fully became the story telling experience that blew us all away.

So what do they do now? After X, which IMHO was less than spectactular, not bad, but not the best FF around, Square goes and sells it's soul to the devil (e.g. EverQuest). I mean, what happend to what made Final Fantasy Final Fantasy??

The fact of the matter is I mourn the death of the Final Fantasy series. Even after X I had hopes that Square would get another wonderful game together. But the hammer blow has come, XI will be online. It will be EverQuest. It will HAVE NO FREAKIN' POINT!!

Yes, you could say I'm pissed of about it.

On a happier note, I understand about Chrono Trigger and Xenogears. Chrono Trigger sits at #4 or 5 in my Top Games of All Time list, mostly because the game contains 2 of my RPG pet peeves.

1) A Silent Protaganist: Yes, I understand that this technique is used so that the player can impart his own voice to the protaganist, but the technique and the character vaccum it creates still bugs me.

2) Romances that are set up and never go anywhere: Namely Chrono and Marle. Obviously a sort of romantic tension is set up in the beginning of the game between the two but they never devolp this in the game. That always annoys me, it leaves me with the feeling that something is missing at the end. Either close it up some how (and the whole floating away on balloons thing was way too vague) or get rid of it. I think this happend because of issue #1.

As for Xenogears, it stands as the only game ever to challenge Final Fantasy VIII as my favorite game of all time. For about a week I had a debate in my head over this one as Fei and Squall fought it out in an epic battle of fists and steel. In the end FF 8 reigned supreme, mostly because Xenogears loses momentum at the second disk when the whole thing with the people sitting in chairs starts. Make me think the game was rushed near the end, although it is a credit to the game that even though it was rushed (I'm not sure on that fact, I'm just supposing) it managed to be such a wonderful experience. The whole chairs thing just moves the second disk along way to fast and muddles understanding if you're not really careful.

*Yes, I use the US Designations because that's how I distinguished between the games when I was 12 and never bothered to convert when I learned the truth. Deal with it.
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[This message has been edited by silverblade (edited 10-28-2002).]

First, while I don't like the idea of Final Fantasy XI being online, don't say they're ruining all the future ones. FFXII could very well become known as the best RPG ever for all we know.



(Spoiler warning for those who haven't played ahead)

If you nab Final Fantasy Chronicles you can view the animated cutscenes. One of which, the end cutscene, involves those two getting married.

Another thing is they don't nessisarily float away on balloons- The ending depends on what you do in the game. Since I've played the game I know that you get that variation of the ending by flying to 1999 AD with the Epoch. If you use the bucket in the end of time to fight Lavos, the ending WILL change. If you finish the game without Crono alive... Without Magus alive... There are countless possibilitys.

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There are 15 endings that I have found thus far. I'm not sure if thre are more or not, can anyone get an exact number of endings?

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Roughly 15. Or is it 16? I don't remember.

I've never played the Chronicles version of Chrono Trigger. I played the SNES version, beat it a few times before I sold it (A sin I will never ever forgive myself for). While I recently got chronicles I'm trying to play back through the entire FF series right now and that's roughly 250+ hours of gameplay (II-X). Chrono Trigger is on the list, after homework lets up and I get some time. (see: 20 years).

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Indeed, I believe it's been confirmed that Final Fantasy XII, which is the latest game announced in the series, will not be online.

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