Now that the dust has settled, which was the best of the PS1 FF's?

Now that the dust has settled, which was the best of the PS1 FF's?

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9 if you like the series, 7 if you're a baby and started with 7, 8 if you like being different.

Different as in contrarian or different as in new and unique?

One man's contrarian is another man's original thinker.

Personally, I thought FF 8 is unique, but I can see why people wouldn't be enthusiastic about its ideas.

9 lovers always struck me as being a small but incredibly loud group. It had a personality, but none of the characters were particularly memorable, and its story certainly wasn't thrilling. It was fine, mechanically, which 8 certainly didn't do well, and 7 fell apart with over time.

VIII, it literally isn't even a debate.

Not gonna lie, FF IX's story completely lost me after Disc 2. Probably most retarded shit I've seen in FF before entirety of Seymour in X.

VII and it's not even close

IIX is the best solely because of triple triad.

Origins

Regardless of their ranking among one another, they're each better than anything that came after

7, I'd argue that 7 is the pinnacle of FF all together, nailed it in almost all categories.
8 was alright but a bit dry, not as much character development, story is kinda open for interpretation, card game was best part.
9 was the worst card game and the birth of "soy" protagonists, if you ask a girl she would probably say 9 because of the cutesy characters.

You can debate which one is the "best game' but indisputably the "best" is VII simply because it sold the most and put Final Fantasy on the map, as well as the fact that it's by far the most influential FF game out there.

7 has some of the weaker combat in the series honestly, and the translation is one of the worst in the series as well.

>none of the characters were particularly memorable, and its story certainly wasn't thrilling.
t. didn't play the game.

VII
anyone who says anything else is a pleb-tier post 2000s fuckboi

FPBP. 7 fanboys are retarded manchildren and the posts saying why 7 is the best are all the proof you need.

8 fans don't exist. Any "fans" you see are contrarians looking for new, shite games to praise.

I mean ok yeah but literally who is playing Final Fantasy for good translations and fun combat. It got better t'wards the end when you could do some different things with it. I'd also argue in spots 8's translation was much worse. I don't think translations were cared about at all till 10.

>not as much character development
That was actually a deliberate choice. FF 8's support cast do go through certain character arcs, but they don't get nearly as much attention and introspection as you'd expect from Final Fantasy.

It's because, unfortunately, Squall and Rinoa and their romance was supposed to be the forefront of the story and Squall is meant to be the single main character (thus why we actually can hear what thoughts he's going through)

I remember VIII for one very specific reason

Quisty a best.

Tactics was the best.

The way this guy always draws Quistis makes my dick diamonds.

The only correct answer.

Ff7 was the first game I played where the story carried me through it, the combat was great but if you made it crap I would still play it for story alone.
Oh and the music is the Comfiest soundtrack to a game I've ever heard.
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(In all honesty I'm not worried much about the remake, so long as they don't alter the story and update without tampering Uematsu's masterful score )

hurr durr you only like the most popular one because you started with it. I'm so cool I'm so contrarian and edgy

7 is the most popular because it is indisputably the best.

VIII has some of the strongest character development I've ever seen in a JRPG. People generally either don't remember the game at all, similar to how people mix up Cloud's personality with his AC / compilation appearances, or they played VIII at too young of an age to appreciate it. If you were Squall's age when you last played VIII you'd probably hate him.

A game with only combat can not be the best. There is no pacing.

7 > 9 > 8

Strange that it's the best then. Really makes you think...

FF7 by far.

FF8: Outside of Squall and maybe Rinoa, the main characters were all boring and one-dimensional. Level scaling is a bad fit for Final Fantasy. Drawing magic is boring and junctioning discourages casting magic.

FF9: this game is a cute throwback to the NES / SNES era, but the story is bland, Kuja is a pathetic attempt at a villain and half the cast are one-dimensional characters as well. Battle animations are slow and the combat system is restrictive.

7 is amazing. 8 is compelling. 9 is a shitty version of 4.

I'm fucking 30 and still hate FFVIII. I tried replaying it a couple of years ago, but the game is nothing but one huge pile of turd.
Characters suck ass, you have to try really damn hard not to break the game, and the story is balls to the wall retarded.
Fun card game tho.

God, I love 8
Bought it for PS1, PS Vita and 100%-ed it on Steam
This game is so fucking easy and yet it is so fun to play it

FF7. Haters love it since it's so popular but it deserves the spot.

Fpbp

Look at this fucking faggot

Sure, Squall has a lot of character development. A good JRPG story has character development for al of its main characters, not just one of them.

Zell likes hotdogs, yells a lot and falls in love with a librarian girl. Quistis likes Squall, he rejects her and then she hangs around him anyway for the entire game. That's literally all there is to those characters. Selphie, Irvine and even Rinoa are similarly boring.

IX seems so uninteresting. I played it for a bit before getting bored as fuck, never happened with any other FF game.

Keep it coming. :^)

7 > 8 > 9

Zell is actually most developed of the bunch, he's kind of like Junpei but less asshole about it, he was constantly frustrated when Squall was appointed as group leader instead of him and was eager to prove himself, it's a bit of my personal interpretation, but I thought the entire point of him being a giant crybaby as a kid and little scene where he was the one to point out how they shouldn't be firing fireworks at nights when they were in orphanage was to point out how he wants to be seen as responsible. Like, yeah, this guy can get shit done. So his big character moment was when Squall left him in charge in Esthar when he flew to space.

Quistis just confused her sisterly feelings for romantic.

Entirety of Irvine is to foreshadow the infamous "we all were childhood friends but forgot about it" scene. A lot of his dialogue can be viewed in different light when you are aware of that twist. Big theme of FF 8 is how it's pointless to cling onto feelings you had as a kid and there is time when you have to move in, Irvine is fascinating because not only he remembers feeling he had as a kid (crush on Selphie), he also retained memories from his childhood unlike rest of the cast. Personally, I always interpreted Irvine's hesitation to shoot Edea at the end of Disc 1 as realization that he can't shoot his mother figure.

Selphie is basically Yuna who is trying too hard to be cheerful despite anything.

Rinoa is shit.

FF8 had the best fighting system, Soundtrack and cardgame
FF7 the most interesting story
FF9 the best visuals

I wanted to cum on Rinoa's shorts.

IX was literal nostalgia bait for classic-era fanboys who couldn't handle the increasingly unusual styles of VI, VII, and VIII.

VI and VII were the pinnacle of the series, even if VII was a buggy, poorly-translated mess.

Funny that it still has the best story out of the other 3 main Final Fantasys released on PS1.

I like IX the best, maybe because I enjoy classic era games the best.

Remember how those FMV's were state of the art back then?

The sequences where they combined them with the in-game graphics were weird though.

Post some good music
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9 is the most polished overall but the least interesting in both story and mechanics. I dunno what everyone else thinks but I like both 7 and 8 and consider them equally good but very different games.

6 was on ps1 and it was better than those 3. tactics was on ps1 and it was better.

6, tactics, 9,7........child rape, sex with corpses, liberals, pickles on hamburgers, 8

Other than a couple of references it hardly plays on nostalgia, it changed the standard style just as much as VII did. VI, VII, VIII were all sci-fi stories, so IX tried to be more different than either of the PS1 games.

They're all terrible in their own way.

7 for being too easy
8 for being broken
9 for being intentionally uncreative and soulless

8 is my favorite of the PS1 games but 7 is the only one I could reasonably recommend to anyone. Final Fantasy began and ended on SNES.

They're all good in their own respective way.

FFVII was revolutionary on nearly every level, and while it dragged a bit around the middle (especially the whole Cloud becoming a plant part) the only thing that really detracted from it was the terrible translation.

FF VIII is one of the oddest ducks in the FF series, but it had a very unique atmosphere because of it, with the whole military academy modern setting. But it went too far in its experimentations on gameplay systems, level scaling was horrible, and the party characters weren't very fleshed out.
The first disc was stellar, followed by a much more boring second disc, and from the third disc onward you just get one nonsensical plot development after the other, and there's near zero exposition about the world or the villain's background, forcing fans to come up with farfetched theories like Ultimecia = Rinoa.

FF IX was a flawed love letter to the series' older entries with a charming atmosphere, a colorful and quirky cast of characters with good development (although some of them get left in the dust in the later discs), and scored with what is most likely Nobuo Uematsu's best work. In good classic FF tradition, the final boss is some world-destroying entity out of nowhere. It's my subjective favorite of the series, but if I'm trying to approach it objectively it'll be VII for the PS1 games, and either VI or VII overall, hard to choose between those two.

fpbp holy fucking shit you nailed this one

Xenogears.

Rinoa is shit compared to Tifa and Garnet though.

Don't forget FF9 had a pretty great story about the nature of fate and mortality. Vivi may look adorable, but goddamn if his story isn't heartwrenching with all the shit he comes to realize about himself and speculates will happen to him.

Still hot, though.

It was pretty wholesome in how it explored its themes, yes.

Tactics, all other answers are wrong.

Hard to say if showing genocide is wholesome.

FF7 is the best
FF8 has the best music
FF9 has the best final boss music drop

Name one thing wrong with his goals- you can't.

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Idea to make FF8's junctioning and overall difficulty feel more organic: remove numbers in magic. Make spells available by unlocking them in GF ability menu (like, let's say you gave Zell Ifrit and overtime he learns Fire, Fira Firaga and you can allocate 3 of them only once to stats Ifrit allows you to allocate his 3 spells to). Don't add MP, make effectiveness of spells depend on how strong is the bond between character and junctioned GF and have it waver down as you fight longer in a single fight, leave the Draw function but what you draw from monsters aren't spells but energy of Great Hyne to revitalize GF's spells and bond between character and his GF.

9 is the best of them, easily.
7 had to most widestream appeal and reached an audience that wouldn't have touched that type of game previously, thanks to the marketing push on MTV at the time.
8 was just fucking weird, and Lunar Silver Star Story Complete was a better game released on the PS1 roughly at a similar time.

Rinoa is definitively weak for how important she is but I like how she and Squall both have abandoment issues but she reacted so differently.

Squall is a faggot
>Boo-hoo sis left me
And he doesn't even remember who the fuck sis is.

9 is the worst 3d FF there is. One of the shittiest, blandest jrpgs there is.
FF7 was so mind blowing. Holy shit you had to be there, to go from 2D rpgs to this was like magic. There were other 3d games out but the shitty blocky graphics sucked. The gameplay feels dated now, but what jrpg doesn't?
FF8 was definitely awesome, those fucking FMVs man. Triple triad. The hardest FF there is if you ignore junctions and just GF button mash.
9 had Vivi and really that's it. Same stale gameplay, no huge graphics jump, shitty characters, linear as fuck, and now furrybait.

You just explained why he never got over her. He never had a chance to reevaluate because he had no memory of what hurt him.

The only real shitty characters were Amarant and to some degree Freya (and only really because her plot gets dropped before it really takes off). And there wasn't any furrybait.

>wasn't any furrybait
The protagonist has a tail, to say nothing of the clearly furred party members.

>The protagonist has a tail
Doesn't make him furry.

>to say nothing of the clearly furred party members.
The only "furred" party member is Freya, and even then she's barely played off like a furry character. Just because it has animal-like characters doesn't mean it's trying to appeal to furries.

I actually think FF9 had the most interesting cast of characters overall and that Squall is the most interesting character in particular from the 3 games. So, I'd love someone to explain why FF7's shallow ass cast is constantly praised as the best of the 3.

It had much more in common with the beloved SNES titles than either of its successors.

Squall is a good character

FF 7 if you are not a millennial soytoy crossposting faggot from reddit
FF 9 if you played FF7 but didn't like sci-fi
FF 8 if you had no friends

Because seven ate nine
In every fucking category

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>FF 8 if you had no friends
Actually not that far off. I connected to FF 8 on personal level because when I was a kid my parents were constantly changing places and ergo I was changing a lot of schools.

It also doesn't help that I have freaky good memory and remember most of my ex classmates, but I really don't know if I should be approaching already people I don't know like "h-hey, member we were classmates for like a year in 3rd grade"

7 > 8 > 9

All are better than the shit that followed them.

9 > 7 >>>>> 8

I wish I could filter everyone that started with 7. I love 7 but I just can't respect you if you didn't start with classic FF.

Anyone who unironically loves 8 should be gassed.

And yet it is. I guess quality story and character writing trumps whatever nonsesnse criteria some dumb, underaged asshole puts in place.

if 9 and 7 were in the same world with a story that made sense and wasn't some interdimentional monkeyboy story it would be a great great

Look at this ignorant child and laugh.

Huh?

Just for diverting funds from Xenogears, alone. Nevermind that it's story and characters are the most dry and bland shit in the world.

tfw you named Garnet Tifa, then she chops her hair off like a total ditz

>9 is the worst 3d FF there is.
Absolute fucking retard alert.

a great game. sorry i malfunctioned.