It's time to talk about the best Final Fantasy

it's best.

/thread

True suffering is playing a PAL copy of this game.

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>>378546249

>Eurocucks will NEVER EVER get Excalibur II

>>378545046
I played this for the first time last year and I was pretty blown away by how well the prerendered backgrounds hold up. There were some really stunning setpieces.

>>378546249
>I'm an ADHD - the post
maybe when you hit my age, you start to appreciate truly comfy games.

Best song coming through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6wPtSRvHak

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Burmecia a comfy. A COMFY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbWvorOS7U0&t=1083s
>playing with rainymood

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IX was a bad Final Fantasy. It had absolutely terrible equipment, skill, and ability systems that allowed no room for players to shape their characters in any way. The trance system going off outside of your control was even worse designed than VIII's limit spamming. The combat was slow and boring and the only interesting mechanic AT ALL was the dynamic between Steiner and Vivi, and it didn't really add anything to the game at all. It had a terribly boring setting that's only praised by "classic fans" because it didn't emphasize sci-fi, completely disregarding that Final Fantasy has used sci-fi elements from the start of the series. Your cast consisted of characters like Freya who were completely forgotten by the plot after their usefulness to the story was up, characters like Quina who basically just showed up whenever the game felt you needed a 4th party member and didn't do ANYTHING of any relevance, and characters like Amarant who I'm still trying to figure out why he was added to the game. The protagonist and antagonist being "space alien grim reaper brothers" is by far the worst plot twist in the series, much worse than either the orphanage in VIII or "You're a dream Teedus" could ever hope to be.

The worst part of all? In a series that's known for its innovation in its genre, Final Fantasy IX bitched out and actively BACKTRACKED to boring, outdated, mechanics. At least the early games it was a callback to were innovations of their time like the ATB system in IV, and at least for the PSX titles VII, VIII, and Tactics all tried to do new things with turn-based RPGs, storytelling, and world building even if it didn't please everyone- whereas IX actively decided to say fuck that, and appeal to idiots who want video games to stagnate.

It was boring and had nothing unique going for it. In fact, nothing about the game is particularly memorable. It has no sense of identity for itself and just takes after previous titles.

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>>378545046
Then why did you post a picture of worst final fantasy?

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>>378547072
>You'll never visit a populated, peaceful Burmecia. What could have been the comfiest place in vidya.

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V really was the best Final Fantasy.

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>FFIX
>Best
Not even top 5

>>378547996
But it is top 3.

>>378547821

Dali was much more comfy

>>378545046
Not when random encounters take 5 minutes to complete

>>378548098
Dali was an inferior Windhelm.

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>>378548098
Daguerreo is the comfiest Final Fantasy locale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Yl2eTRVEc

The snail-pace battles eliminate it. Nobody has time for that. It's especially retarded considering ff7/8 battles were pretty quick. It's like Square were being retarded on purpose.

>>378545046
Pic not related, right?

>>378548089
Top 3 worst Final Fantasy game, maybe.

I loved 9 so so much, good times.

>>378546249
Could you elaborate on that?

Why is it usually the one of the forgotten Final Fantasy? Even in Kingdom Hearts there's not many FF9 characters, i guess Vivi is the only one.

>>378548426
Not when II, VIII and XV exist.

>>378548578
50Hz. Everything is slow as fuck. Random encounters are hell.

8>7>X>T>9>4>6

those are the only FF's that matter anyway.

>>378548656
Squenix doesn't seem to like it. There's a lot of history with guch at that period.

>>378548656
A couple of reasons

>it released at the very tail end of the PS1's lifecycle
>coming right after FF7 and FF8, people were immediately turned off by the visuals and style

The most popular FFs right now, are probably 6, 7, 8, 10, 15

>>378548729
XV, V and VI are the best though, so nice try.

>>378546323
I did.

I had a thread about it a year ago.

I did an Excalibur 2 run on PAL using no glitches or FMV skip, no turbo controller, no PS2 double disc speed.

It was the most challenging thing I've ever done and it the greatest thing I've ever achieved in vidya.

>>378547324
nigga it isn't that complicated. FF9 is bad because it takes soooo long to do anything in battle. Square could release a PS4 version of FF9 that fixes the slow battle and it might be the best PS FF. Simple as that.

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>>378547821
Justice for Burmecia

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>>378549056

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>>378545046
But that isn't FF8 anon

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This scene is so underrated.
It's honestly the best type of worldbuilding I've ever seen in a a game.

Disc 1 of FFIX is the pinnacle of JRPGs for me personally.

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>>378547072
Does anybody have any higher res screenshots of Burmecia?

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>>378545046
>>378546457
I bought this game 16 years ago when I was still huge Ninten-drone and trashed Sony and the PS1 like an autistic retard, but for some reason I still wanted to own this game.

It just layed there all those years unopened and unplayed.

I've finally started playing it last december and beat it last month.
It was the only game aside from OoT that made me shed a tear at the end, although I'm a grown ass man now. Because of how sweet it was and because it felt like the end of a journey with characters you learned to love and grew on you.
It's such a perfectly constructed and rich game. Absolutely love it.
Definitely the best of all the FF I've played.

>>378549094
Oh Fuck!
I remember that.
you're god anon-kun

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I can play FFT on my bus to work! I love living in the future!

>>378549094
Ah, I remember that thread.

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>>378549251
VIII is so fucking bad, almost killed the series for me. Can't fathom how anyone can like that garbage once you put in Disc 3.

>>378549241
Why did she kill Zinedine Zidane?

i wanna ______ garnet

>>378549732
>Vivi's not dead

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>>378549976
>bitching about teenage angst in a JRPG

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>>378547072
Burmecia is cancer. CANCER!

>>378550248
How do you know it isn't one of his kids? There were a lot of them at the end.

>>378549976
Dunno i loved triple triad, also best OST, best cities, best optional summons and dungeons etc.

>>378549107
>responding to pasta

>>378548578
Everything in the game is slower, including the battles, which were already slow. Every single battle takes about 15 seconds before the ATB finally appears, and half that is just pointless camera movements.

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>>378550301

>>378548656
Bad sales.

>>378549849
>>378549924

Was comfortably the happiest moment I've ever had in gaming, glad you were there at the time!