My cousin has been spending an unholy amount of time playing Final Fantasy 11 online, and I've been trying to think up a alternate name to make fun of the game (ie Everquest = Evercrack). Any ideas?

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[This message has been edited by MrRavenX (edited June 07, 2004).]

Never Final Fantasy is what alot of us call it

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Final Fantasy XI is an insult to Final Fantasy VII.

Well, the two games are nothing alike, and IMO, Final Fantasy XI is the best MMORPG on the market right now (Except maybe city of heroes, but they are two completely different games)

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FFXI isn't THAT great. Also, the FF series died after VII. VII was god.

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It isnt the end all be all of games, but it is the best MMORPG out right now (besides City of heroes, but again, they are totally different)

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this may not be entirely appropriate, but I had a friend who had a shirt from the final fantasy movie that said 'final fantasy' on it... and if you folded part it said 'anal fantasy' :/

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Saberopus: omfq musical genuis j00 >mozart
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tehehe

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AGREED. FF VII was, and is king.

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I know a girl who looks exactly like Tifa. She wears the same kind of shorts and everything. I'd just thought I'd let you all know.

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Final Fallacy

And 9 > 7.

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3 > 7

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Ya know? Common sense? Not really that common...

pictures?
and I've always thought VIII was Better then VII, and III/VI Better then those two combined

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I got to the end of Disc 1 in VIII, and apparently I was supposed to lose to a baddie, to continue the story, but it just game-overed me. It was ok up until that point; typical Japanese RPG shocking script, of course, but at least it was coherent.

VII was just a mess. You start out in a dystopian city, then leave and frolic the hills, go to farms, then some pointless sidequest battleground, then an amusement park for no reason, then I got bored. Final Fantasies are known for their twists and turns, and maybe it's just because I was spoiled and everything, but it all seemed pretty clear what was going to happen, and I didn't feel like two discs of pursuing Sephiroth.

But then, I loved Secret of Mana, which had almost no story at all. Maybe it's because I played that when I was younger, and it's all become nostalgic. Hell, I can still hum the town theme, and it had the dancing clerks, and that excellent overworld theme right at the end...

FF7 sucked. The characters looked like Lego men, the storyline was crappy and disjointed and the combat system was sub-par. The only good thing about the game is the overwhelming flood of minigames and sidequests which can keep you going for months and months. Unfortunately it also forces you to complete said minigames in order to finish the game, making it retarded and pointless.

FF8's biggest flaw was the fact that they never went out of their way to explain Centra or the Crystal Pillar/Lunatic Pandora. Apart from that, it has an amazing character enhancement system (GF/Junctioning), an excellent implementation of the classic ATB, and it had a couple of good minigames. No content overload like you got with FF7, but enough to make a good game.

Not far enough into FF9 yet to make a decision, but it feels pretty solid.

FF10 had some pretty poor characters that I didn't care about, but the world in general, the story, the concept behind the adventure, the sphere grid system, and the new combat system all appealed to me greatly. It also has a ton of minigames, sidequests and hidden items.

The FF series didn't die with FF7. FF7 was just a neat trinket Square pumped out after they started to work with 3D hardware and CDs. FF8 is in every way a much more high quality and enjoyable production than FF7, similar to how FF7 is better than FF6. Everything else is just fond memories.

You aren't supposed to lose to Sorceress Edea. After you "beat" her, it'll skip to a cutscene where Squall takes a shard of ice through the shoulder and you get thrown into the D-District Prison. You actually weren't too far from getting the first airship, which - itself - isn't too far from the coolest sequence in any FF game ever, the big airship battle.

FFVII was a great game. But sao was VIII.

A lot of people I know didn't like FFVIII at all, saying it was boring and monotonous. I loved the game, but all Final Fantasies are hack-and-slash of some description.

<3 Nobuo.

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Does she also have ridiculously gigantic knockers?

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If you can read this, you need better glasses.

You are kidding right? FFVII had a great plot. It all unfolds near the end, it's a real mind boggler. And if you think graphics make a game your freaking crazy. Besides Play Station!!

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The funny thing is how this topic is breaking all the rules, and no one cares. The reagan thread gets closed, but when people go off topic, and Jon'C and Master_Tonberry starts flamebaiting, no one cares because its about games.

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[This message has been edited by fishstickz (edited June 08, 2004).]

Oh. Dammit. Stupid walkthrough. Before I consulted it, though, I *tried* beating her, but couldn't. And from the last save point I couldn't find anywhere to level up or do whatever that "junction" system was all about.

That's another annoyance, really. I never understand the complicated systems these games have for levelling up or whatever. Einstein couldn't work those things out. And they're just a little too abstract for my taste... give me "hit things with a sword and your skill with a sword goes up" anyday.

ONION KIDS! Unless you ment 6 >_>

Onion kids still > *

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FF8 was so serious and somber and lost my attention quickly. FF7 was more suited to my adult ADD style of gaming perhaps, it had its blah-age as well, but things like getting Barret and Cloud to go on a date so made up for that.

I think in 8 the furthest i got was taking off in the Garden, then having to find a city, and flying all over the damn map, unable to find the right one because they completely fail [as i recall at least] to include labels for things as you approach. So after getting utterly bored trying to find the stupid place and so i quit. This was a game i had started as a sanity-check during about 2 weeks where my internet was down so i was foiled in my attempts to find a world map. And the fact that the monsters were always the same level as you, and you gained abilities through junctions [bleh] and items rather than levelling or whatever, gave me so totally no inclination to ever actually fight any of the random encounters, and i finally wound up just clicking in a no-encounters materia and running through the plot after a while. It just got so frustrating/disruptive/irritating getting ripped out of the area map every x feet running around with that stupid swirly transition to a new battle screen and all [WHHHHYYYYYYYYY did they not realize CT had /vastly/ superiour and proper battle system????]. Like there's a big open empty brightly lit room, with nothing to hide behind. And somehow.. shortly after clearing out a squad of wossnames, i run into another encounter in an area i had just torched salted and otherwise cleared out.......

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er, ff9's system was good, fun battles, but the story.. oh my god, utter cliche, really bad. no good.

And the FFX universe was really well done I think, the characters felt real, but didn't detract from the story, which was well built and actually rather solid. I loved that game.

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What. Okay, FFVI >>> FFVII. C'mon people...7's story was okay, the battle system was fine, I actually ENJOYED the cartoony gfx, but after all was said and done...it wasn't earth shattering. It wasn't life-changing. It wasn't how an RPG should be. FFVI was the last of the true RPGs in the FF series. It was the last slightly original one (I say that because there were no crystals, it had a highly original script, a very developed world that interacted with each other, if you think about it on a grand scale, and you got totally immersed in the game). I mean, the most emotional moments for me in my early gaming life are still the moment that Celes rejected Locke, and when Gau's father disowned him. I still tear up everytime I think about those moments. Where's the <3?

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Final Fantasy IX is my personal favorite. It has some amazing cutscenes (Bahamut vs Alexander, anyone?). I didn't really like the Sci-fi worlds of FFVII and FFVIII, but I loved Seven's materia system and, of course, Vincent Valentine. FFVIII had some good moments (Garden vs Garden), but I didn't really like it that much.

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Ever played 1-5? This is the reason I fear for the new generation of gamers--the great, oh so great, oldies will be forgotten.

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I've tried 2 and 5. I couldn't really get into either of them like I could FF6. I remember FF5 had a cool class system, but come on, "Gather 4 Crystals?" Poo.

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