FF1: A group of adventurers restore the power of four elemental orbs which calms and heals a once chaotic and dying...

FF1: A group of adventurers restore the power of four elemental orbs which calms and heals a once chaotic and dying world, and close an infinite time loop.

FF2: Survivors of an Imperial attack join a resistance movement and eventually kill the Emperor. Not accepting defeat, the dead Emperor wages war on Hell and returns to the mortal coil as the King of Darkness.

FF3: A group of youths chosen by crystals must work with a paralell dimension to balance the forces of Light and Dark before both are destroyed.

FF4: A conflicted knight and his entourage uncover a conspiracy to steal the world's crystals and discover an ancient civilization on the moon.

FF5: A world is temporally split to seal an ancient evil who plans to reduce everything to non-existence, a group of adventurers untangle the dimensions and restore the world to it's true form.

FF6: A meglomaniacal psychopath throws the balance of magic out of place, scars the planet, and forces a resistance group to destroy the source of all magic.

FF7: An eco-terrorist group tracks the spectre of a former elite soldier who is under the influence of an ancient space alien that intends to absorb the 'blood' of the
planet by summoning a giant meteor to threaten it.

FF8: A powerful sorceress attempts to cheat fate by compressing time into one moment using the unique abilities of a girl who can project people into the past,
and is subsequently killed by a group of child soldiers who only became soldiers because of her actions.

FF9: A spirit tree created to process alien souls is implanted to prevent rebirth of a planet's souls. A pair of grim reapers from outer space are the custodians, but one of the reapers doesn't know it, everyone has an existential crisis.

FF10: A dream manifests as a blond fuccboi and ecourages a spiritual mortician to end a cycle of perpetual violence on the world

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so?

>I-IX = summarized in a beautiful, succinct way
>X = "blond fuccboi"

Meanwhile every western game: you're the faceless "chosen one" self-insert character and you kill a random bad guy.

FF1: A game that initally doesn't take itself seriously, but eventually throws tons of plot twists at you and becomes a convoluted joke.

FF2: Star Wars with an incompetent Princess Leia as the leader. Also the same exact plot as FFXII and XIV.

FF3: Here's another random quest to do, but you won't remember it. All you will remember is the worst final dungeon in RPG history.

FF4: All the men are idiots rushing to get themselves killed. All the women are foils who try to keep the men from being stupid. Everyone is used by a spirit of hate on the moon. You defeat the evil spirit with the power of love and friendship.

FF6: An introspective loner finds out she is half esper and half human. And an evil clown wants to use her to take over the esper world. But the story behind all the other characters is far more interesting. Especially Celes and Locke.

FF7: A guy tries to hide his failures by manifesting a made up past. Another guy goes crazy finding out he's the last of his kind. But not really since he isn't a true Ancient. Then he kills the true ancient for no real good reason. Then he plans to destroy the world to avenge his 'mother', who he also hates. Oh, but Hojo was the real villain, not Sephiroth, Shinra or Meteor. And everyone else is just kind of there to stop the events.

FF8: A sorceress tries to alter the past and future at the same time. But 3/4 the game has nothing to do with that. Most of the game is about Squall trying to understand what he wants and Rinoa forcing herself on him. And a bunch of more interesting characters getting the Naruto treatment.

FF10: Its Tidus' story. But 90% of it ends up focusing on a pointless girls pilgrimage and a Sephiroth clone with an even bigger mommy issue. In the end, the entire pilgrimage could have been avoided if Tidus just didn't fall off the boat. Or if any of the companions had just told Tidus the truth on the starting island.

FF12: The story is about Basch. Or no wait, its about Balthier. No, actually its about Ashe. No, actually its about Fran. No, I'm just kidding, its really about Ashe. Or is it about Balthier...? Surprise, Vayne out of nowhere!

FF14: A group of incompetent underground fighters who are basically the same as the cast of FFII can't defeat the Mighty Morphan Magitek Rangers. Along the way, countless other groups struggle to keep their small city states afloat. As a random nobody, you have to solve all their petty problems.

Did you like 5?

>As a random nobody, you have to solve all their petty problems.

Isn't that how society works in general? We're all random nobodies trying to solve other peoples petty problems with our skills, while they solve our petty problems with theirs.

Quite deep tbhfamalam oh black Betty famalam, oh black Better famalam.

I haven't played 5, 9 or 11, 13 or 15 yet.

Most people in the real world don't try to solve other people's problems. Let alone stop a massive war between city states.

But even from a video game standpoint, FFXIV is pretty silly. Its only built like that because its an MMO and every player has to go through the same story.

5 is the best one. Saying that unironically.

>Surprise, Vayne out of nowhere!

Why would I play Final Fantasy over Tales?

This thread makes it painfully obvious that FF is written by the short bus. At the very least Tales has actual gameplay.

I'm holding out to see if they remake FFV someday, then I'll try it. Though if all the past FF remakes are any indication, they probably won't fix any of the issues the original game had. It'll just be the same game with 3D graphics.

Why would I play Final Fantasy for story when Suikoden exists?

Why would I play Tales for gameplay when Souls exists?

>worst final dungeon in RPG history
casuals like you disgust me

I fucking hate Teedus and Yuna

Having to stop and grind a bunch just to have enough HP and DEF to survive enemies who attack 3 times a turn is not a casual barrier. Its just grinding. The skills you learn do not help you mitigate the final area. In fact, its better if you just stick with a tier 3 class instead of going for a tier 4 class like Sage or Ninja. Because, in their infinite wisdom, they made those classes available right outside the fucking final dungeon. So if you try and change, you gimp yourself.

Just admit FFIII is a mess.

FF1 Sounds a ton like Bravely Default. I get it's square, but wow.

FFXIII is underrated and Sahz could have been a godtier character if SE hadn't decided to tokenize the shit out of him

whats yer point? I used Tales specifically because they've been "rival" titles since forever in Japan, as lopsided as it is.

Suikoden isn't well written and features a large cast of characterless nobodies so I don't know where you're pulling that from.

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>I used Tales specifically because they've been "rival" titles since forever in Japan, as lopsided as it is.
Tales isn't a rival to Final Fantasy in any way you want to compare them. Not in sales, gameplay, story or anything. If anything, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy are the rivals. And Dragon Quest has been beating Final Fantasy in Japan since the beginning.

>Suikoden isn't well written and features a large cast of characterless nobodies
Suikoden does more character and story development with a 'random nobody' like Sierra or Nash than a main cast member in either Final Fantasy or Tales. Hell, I'd even go lower than that. Someone like Tengaar or Futch even have more interesting and developed personalities than your average Tales character.

From what I heard FFIII Remake on the DS fixed a lot of issues, same with FFIV.

GBA version is pretty good. I actually bought the Japanese cart on SNES back in the day, PSX version is AWFUL.

it's a D&D and Dragon Quest melding. I still like the NES version, the later remakes make the game too easy.

I love IV on Steam, which is the DS version. The PSP "Complete" version is also a thing of beauty.

ive never played a final fantasy game but from these descriptions 2, 7, and 9 are the only ones that pique my interest

To this day I still don't know how I beat V on the PSX, that script was so damn boring I was actually falling asleep while reading it.

They didn't. If anything, FFIII added more issues since it fucked up the EXP rates and monster stats. Then the final dungeon was made even harder for no good reason. Enemies outside the final dungeon have about 15,000 HP and attack once per turn. Walk into the final dungeon and enemies have 80,000 HP and attack three times a turn. That's a fucking mess. Then when it comes to story, it was just as bland as the NES original.

FFIV was made more difficult as well, but that's moreso just in line with the original Japanese game which was a lot harder than the version we got in the west. But all it changed was the addition of augments. Which you can't find them all without using a guide. And if you don't have augments, the final dungeon is a huge grindfest. If you do get all the augments, specifically dualcast and omnicast, then the game is too easy. When it comes to the massive story issues, which is pretty much 90% of the story of FFIV, they didn't change a thing.

>Mighty Morphan Magitek Rangers

sides ruined

I see, thanks for the info user, to tell you the true I quit FFIII on the final dungeon because I would get rek all the time there, glad to see it was not because I was not guud enough, it was not 2 years ago that I finally decided to go back and hell I got rek once again but finished it.

Seriously i get the hate that FF2 gets, but the story summarized like this really brings back fond memories.
As a kid i fucking enjoyed it and i still enjoy it now
The idea of him just not accepting his defeat going to hell and fuck the whole place up just to get his revenge is great.
Emperor is best FF Villain together with my boy Ardyn
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6 > 7

prove me wrong

I can honestly overlook the story if the gameplay was good. But the leveling system was a mess. Which is a pity since I loved the idea. But you know a game has problems when you run through an entire dungeon full of Gigas. Then upon exiting the dungeon and walking back to town, you run into fucking Hill Gigas, which are the same exact enemy but 4x stronger. Why the fuck is there an enemy that is even stronger outside of the dungeon? And on the path back to town! Its like they didn't even playtest the damn thing. Or they think punishing the player makes the game more challenging.

This

for as much shit people say about jrpgs and their stories, western rpgs are all about YOU as the MC so the story is usually pretty bland and there isn't much past to dwell on for your character and or other characters.

Final Fantasy Theathrythm: Curtain Call.

>a cheap rhythm game is better than the last five main series FF games

>Tactics: A naive noble and his ruthless commoner childhood friend involve themselves in a plot between two dukes and the church. Seemingly a political conflict involving false flag attacks, assassination, and betrayal, they soon discover that the church has been manipulating events with a demonic power derived from a false idol. Then they kill god.

>his favorite FF is IX, XII or Tactics

>hasn't played a Tales game

FFX: A god like creature ensures its own survival by creating a cycle of violence and death to ensure mankind provides a stronger vessel for him to take over and is only stopped when the spirits of ancient people with the help of a summoner uncover the truth about this cycle and put a stop to it.

>exact same plot as FFXII and XIV
And this is 2's fault how?

You forgot about the part where Yu Yevon started all the events with the Fayth to trick them into making Tidus. In an effort to start a chain of events that would kill himself. At the grand finale of all these events, Yu Yevon wanted to die. Yet you still have to fight him, otherwise it wouldn't be 'fulfilling' or some nonsense. Though I don't know how its suppose to be fulfilling when he casts auto life and heal on you so you literally can't lose the fight.

God FF is such a mess.

Yea gameplay wise it really is flawed. There is no way to talk around this.
But to me personally, it has a special place just because i enjoyed the story and the antagonist so much.
Easily under my top5 final fantasy games

>Yu Yevon started all the events with the Fayth to trick them into making Tidus

it wasnt Yu Yevon exactly, it was your father in the little moments he had of conciousness that basically ask/told Auron the fayth to use Tidus.

or maybe im mistaken, im not sure, my memory is kinda fussy

You didn't follow 7's story at all.

I don't blame you, it's an atrociously translated mess, but you're still way off in your summary.

>playing Tales games

Jecht was made by the Fayth as well. When he failed in his mission, they made Tidus. Near the end of the game, when the little Fayth boy is explaining what the Fayth are and that Tidus and Jecht were 'made from their memories', he also points out that Sin (aka Yu Yevon) was keeping them alive. And the cycle would only be broken when Sin died. Then near the end, in Jecht's speech, he explains how Yu Yevon wants to die, but the final summon just restarts the cycle. So they needed someone to fight Yu Yevon without restarting the cycle, which is what Tidus does.

not him but you miss out,

though it is true that only a few tales are great. I really enjoy the characters and gameplay in most tales.

ahhh there ya go. well it aint bad now.

so basically god, created an infinite loop and developed a counter meassure to break the loop unfortunately for mankind that loop involved plenty of death and sorrow to living things.

>well it aint bad now.
It is bad when you realize that Tidus has memories of his 'father' (Jecht), despite the fact that he didn't need to exist if Jecht completed his mission. So either the Fayth made Tidus as insurance for the possibility that Jecht failed or there's a massive hole in the story where Tidus was made after Jecht failed and yet Jecht has memories of him. Neither of which makes sense. But the ending is dependent on one of them.

well apparently the fayth did make a whole city with people in it, with different personalities and what not, so its not that far fetched that they created both jetch and tidus at the same time and so they share memories.. what could have been 1 second of existence for the fayth could have been a lifetime inside that fake world, which in the end doesn't really matter.

Ah, the classic 'you didn't understand the story of FFVII' defense. Wouldn't be a Final Fantasy thread without the oldest of the hits.

Why did Zidane lose his memory? I can't remember.

FF12: Star Wars, but Luke is replaced with Aladdin and Chewbacca is a playboy bunny.

FF13: Six strangers who have all suffered losses at the hands of an evil government and a group of evil mechanical god beings join forces after being tasked with causing the apocalypse.

FF15: A prince and his best friends travel across fantasy southern United States to attend a wedding.

Zidane didn't really have any memories to begin with. Kuja got pissed that there was another genome that could surpass him, so he grabbed him and threw him on Gaia when he was a wee lad.

>FF12: The story is about Basch. Or no wait, its about Balthier. No, actually its about Ashe. No, actually its about Fran. No, I'm just kidding, its really about Ashe. Or is it about Balthier...? Surprise, Vayne out of nowhere!
fucking kek

i can smell the bias. your summaries were soo good till 6 though

>final fantasy ______ is overrated!
>t. neckbeard mccontrarian

thats how you know its good though

>FFV is the only mainline FF I've played to completion
>never met anybody who played it

The job system is the best shit ever, and the reason I played all the tactics games. Also best story, fuck VII.

Correction: It wouldn't be a Final Fantasy thread without the oldest of deflections which you chose to use.

Also, Cloud didn't "manifest a made up past", he was experimented upon and physiologically fucked up from it. He comes out of a waking coma to find his friend dying after saving his life, and vows to take his place and live for him. He didn't make up his past, he just assumed the past of another because his own was so unremarkable (other than taking a sword to the gut and grabbing said sword to throw the most powerful Soldier off a goddamn walkway, of course).

>and then there is that pseudo-intelligent guy

>being such an assblasted mong that anything that gets you completely btfo is pseudo intellectual

>btfo
>by a pseudo-intellectual retard who thinks he has everything figured out and wants to flex his fingers by copying OP

To be fair, V only got 3 western releases and not much fanfare despite being quite literally the most fun game in the franchise. Hell, the translation, Gilgamesh and Exdeath ALONE make V worth playing.

Yeah, I only played it because I watched my brother play it on our Famicom back in the day and ended up emulating it to give it a go in middle school. Such a fucking good game. I wish they remade it so more people can appreciate it, and maybe it could gather more supporters for more fun shit in FF instead of anime jpop cancer.