Final Fantasy

[LLamaGames]

Alright. So, Steam sale and looking for games to buy and I keep seeing final fantasy. I decided to buy one of the games but there are so many I don't know where to start. Which Final Fantasy game on sale would be a good one to start out with? And just yo note I have never played a final fantasy game in my life. Don't kill me for saying that!

[latentjones]

7, or my favourite, 8

[Memories4K]

I HIGHLY recommend FFVI.

 

You can mod the Steam version to your liking (So better character sprites over IOS sprites) but i promise you that FFVI is hailed as the best RPG, ever, alongside Chrono Trigger for a reason.

[LLamaGames]

7 minutes ago, Memories4K said:

I HIGHLY recommend FFVI.

 

You can mod the Steam version to your liking (So better character sprites over IOS sprites) but i promise you that FFVI is hailed as the best RPG, ever, alongside Chrono Trigger for a reason.

 

Alright. You have sold me, I will take a look into in. Thank you

 

[Memories4K]

3 minutes ago, LLamaGames said:

Alright. You have sold me, I will take a look into in. Thank you

 

I'm not going to spoil anything for you but you're going to LOVE the music in FFVI.

 

I've played almost all of them (Except 9 & 11) and i always think of FFVI as the pinnacle of RPG BGM.

 

So beautiful.

[leadeater]

I like them all, A LOT, and replay them very often. Once your finished giving the iconic classics (VI & VII) a try have a look at FFX, that was the first title on PS2 and is also very good.

 

A similar game I played back on the PS1 was Legend of Dragoon. That game is simply amazing and I really like the attack combo system, not just selecting attack.

[Albatross]

If you haven't already purchased it or if someone else is wondering the same thing...I also say get FFVI. The port has some pretty weird graphics but the game is still the same game, which is awesome. This is what I recommend to people (you don't have to play in any specific order):

 

• Final Fantasy VI
• Final Fantasy V
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy IX (unfortunately isn't on sale for some reason)
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy IV + Spinoffs
• Final Fantasy III
• Final Fantasy XIII

And that's just from what Steam has.

 

7 hours ago, Memories4K said:

I'm not going to spoil anything for you but you're going to LOVE the music in FFVI.

 

I've played almost all of them (Except 9 & 11) and i always think of FFVI as the pinnacle of RPG BGM.

 

So beautiful.

As a huge FFVI fan...I say you should check out IX. I think you might like it!

[MoonSpot]

4 hours ago, Memories4K said:

I've played almost all of them (Except 9 & 11)

As a huge FF6 fan, you didn't miss anything there aside from Vivi, and even then I wouldn't worry about it.  Buy a Vivi plush doll, it'd be cooler.  If they've integrated in the square-online stuff completionists needed to do for the original release into the game(which means they'd need to give you the strategy guild as well if I remember right), then it's worth a 5 spot.

 

OP it doesn't matter which one you start with, or if you play them all.  Final fantasy is not a continuing saga, to be honest the only thing tying them together is an evolution of the battle system and some themes/names(which are more like easter eggs for fans).  I'd recommend you start with considering where your limits are for graphics first.  If 8 & 16bit isn't something you can be down with, then skip the earlier titles.

The only time the order is important are FFX / FFX-2 and FFXIII / FFXIII-2 and so on.

Ones I enjoyed were 6, 7, 8, 10(Blitz ball is tits), 12 and to a lesser degree 13.

[Memories4K]

18 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

10(Blitz ball is tits)

It was so good.

I never won a single game because i never applied myself to learn how but it was fun hahaha