What Final Fantasy game did you beat first?

[kuraudoVII]

Holy crap, I should have checked into this more intermittently so that I wouldn't have to mega-reply too much. Ah well, here goes:

My first was very minor embarrassing. It was Final Fantasy; Mystic Quest.

You might go HUH? but up until then, I'd been trying to play Mario and stuff, but my brothers kept snitching the controller. Figured, well, if I can't play a platformer, maybe I could do a RPG without having nosy brothers saying "you suck." and stealing the controller.

I had a lot of fun with it, and it was a decent introduction to the world of RPGs. I still have a soft spot for that game; at the time we had the official strat guide which helped as well. (It's been lost somewhere now). It may be a beginner's rpg, but has a decent story and some really rockin' music too. Maybe I'll fire it up as a ROM later since I don't want to fight for the SNES...

Anyway it's not a hard game, I don't remember much trouble with it except the times where I had to hit the strat guide to figure out a puzzle that wasn't obvious.

It's kinda ironic too considering what games I got into later ^^.

Ah yes, the good old days of fighting over the controller. My brother and I used to do that all the time, too. XD

Music has always been important to me in a game. Games with more catchy tunes tend to make me remember them more than purely atmospheric ones (i.e.: the battle tracks in the Devil May Cry games as opposed to the stage tracks in those games).

Funnily enough, I finally managed to dabble into IX again and I must say that I am having a blast. After a relatively serious endgame from VII, it's nice to kick back and fight a future party member that refuses to look behind him as a cartoony enemy explodes.

Crisis Core. lmao
I've tried many but I usually didnt' like them to the point of dropping it. I have beat others since then but never liked them all that well. Final Fantasy X was the second game that I actually liked after playing several.

X was a good game. Along with some memorable moments (Tidus laugh, anyone), it had easily one of the more intriguing stories in the series, although from what I understand, it's a face lifted rendition of another Square Enix game that came before it.

Come to think of it, Tales of Symphonia stole a sizable chunk of their plot from this game...

On a side note, one of my favorite moments from Crisis Core was an optional conversation with one of the lower class SOLDIERS where he asked Zack who was the hottest person in Midgar: Aerith, Cissnei or himself (Zack). I always picked the latter since it was the trollish answer and I loved his reaction to it.

My first was Final Fantasy VII. Also the first RPG I beat, too. Fitting since it was also my first RPG. I did a run-through where I leveled up two/three times before each boss fight and plowed through the game. I was so proud of myself when I finally beat it. I did it a while back when I was still a teenager, I believe.

Ah, those are usually some of the best memories. I remember having a similar feeling toward Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

The first one I played was Final Fantasy VIII when I was about 7 years old. It was my step brother's game, and he wouldn't let me play it often, but I was fascinated by how different it was from games I was more used to (Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Tomba 2). I absorbed every second of it I could when I could play, but eventually my Mom divorced and I never saw him again. Never liked him. Liked his games though.

So I save up Christmas and birthday money and go to Wal-Mart sometime the following year to buy FFVIII, and they don't have it. But, they did have Final Fantasy VII, which honestly, I'd never even considered before. "Oh of course, I was playing FFVIII, there must have been at least 7 before it then!" So I decided to give it a whirl, and it gave me a whirl instead. My young self was mesmerized, hooked, and it wouldn't be until a couple years later that I was finally able to push all the way through it and have my life changed forever.

Yeah, Final Fantasy VII's story will do that to you. It had easily one of the more gripping storylines out of any RPG I played at that time (and even to this day, now that I think about it).

The first ff game that I've beaten was FFXIII. Now i've completed 7, 9, 10/10-2, 12, 13-2, (13-3), both dissidias, crisis core. I never had much joy playing ff but I'll try to beat ir when i'm on "non-job" vacation :/

I really like ff13. I don't like reading all the negative things about the game. Since I went to ff thanks to kingdom hearts I thought that ffxiii was the one more close to both the franchises and I love that (when I started playing ff). Now I know a lot more about ff and I love the fanchise on is own but still. Ffxiii is one of my favorites

XIII is understandably divisive. I haven't really played it yet and I've only seen a handful of cutscenes from the game, but from what I understand, while the game was a bit of a mess, it helped pave the way for XIII-2 which appears to have slightly better gameplay.

I only played the first game a grand total of once (and that was the PSP version based on the PSX remake), but it seemed fun, if not incredibly bare bones.

My entry to the Final Fantasy series was trough FFXIII. I was really bad at playing the game. It was my first time playing an JRPG outside of KH(well I did play Pokemon, but FF is kinda more complex... all thou I know Pokemon can go pretty deep... anyway), and it was so different than anything I had played before. My friend helped me trough the game, while telling all sort of fascinating information about the FF-series. Like what Bahamut was and etc.. I even went as far as to plat the game, but that was because I was still a trophy hunter back then. I did not really enjoy the game, but I did not think it was as terrible as other people thought. The graphics were nice etc.. I also though one of Lightnings speeches was good: "Lightning only destroys, it can`t protect anything."
The thing that nagged me about the game, was that because I was so bad at it, I constantly had to rely either to my friend or to the Internet. It was not rely XIII fault, but I felt that I did not really play the game my self.

After that I played VII and IX, and fell in love with the series. Now I have played VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIII-2, and I plan to play the games before VI. Still waiting for Versus!

I highly recommend playing IV. It may have a bare bones story by today's standards, but it's still enough to put you through a bit of an emotional roller coaster considering how often you cycle through party members (as well as the reasons as to why you end up cycling through those party members). V and especially VI are also games that you should try out.

Funnily enough, the first FF game i ever played was X, and i truly loved it, but the first FF game i actually finished was X-2. I still haven't finished X yet... for some reason i decided to myself that i wouldn't finish the game until i got all of the celestial weapons. That would be fine if i wasn't so lazy about it. First game i got to the end and found that there were things i missed along the way that were now difficult (god diddlyin' dark aeons i s2g) so instead i just restarted the game making sure i got all the things i could get along the way. I think i have celestial weapons for tidus, yuna, auron and kimahri, but it's honestly been so long i don't even remember. The biggest problem i had was as soon as i'd start playing the background music was usually so relaxing and nice that i'd end up falling asleep... It's pretty bad it's been so long since i first got it and i still haven't finished (at around 7 years now woo...)

but i don't know what it was about X-2, i obviously didn't hate it like a lot of other people, but i just found it generally easier to get through in that i didn't get stuck on getting particular weapons. The first time i played it i don't even remember really changing their dresspheres at all either... but alas i've finished this game a number of times.

Even XII i've finished, at first i didn't quite understand it and found it too difficult for some reason and i really just couldn't be interested at all in story. After just deciding to get it over and done with i ended up really enjoying the combat, but i was pretty much just ploughing through it to get it over and done with. Maybe when i am done with school i might revisit it if only for the optional bosses.

XII is a game that I consider to be incredibly underrated. It had an interesting battle system that made paradoxically made combat both interesting and a bore at the same time. What I appreciated about the combat was that it forced me to be (more) strategic about when and how to fight enemies, something that would later serve me well when playing the Final Mix versions of Kingdom Hearts II and Birth by Sleep on Critical Mode.

My first and only FF was Final Fantasy XIII. I liked the battle system, the music, and the aesthetics. The characters and the story could have used a little bit of work, but as far as "plots that make no sense" go, I've been through worse. Also, the eidolons were badass. I'm kinda sad that everyone and their mother seems to think it's an awful game that's ruined the franchise; it might be because I'm really tolerant of linearity, but I enjoyed it mostly.

That last part seems to me like a difference in tastes. I don't mind linearity as long as what I am presented with is fun and interesting. Others, however, feel like they must have a great sense of exploration due to getting a thrill when finding something new and in order to more immerse themselves into the game. When people complained about XIII being too linear, they weren't just complaining about linearity for they were also complaining about what they were presented. Final Fantasy VII's beginning (I would even argue that it was a six hour long prologue) was incredibly linear, but many people considered it to be the best part of the game because of the interesting elements that were within that linear segment of the game. I haven't played XIII, so I can't pass judgement on that, but I feel like this was one issue that people had with the game.

I remember seeing VII from the movie theater office room where they had some kid playing games there and I joined in time to time. I didn't know what that game was during that age but always remembered the iconic cover art of Cloud facing the Mako building. It wasn't until two or three years later. I was in the 5th grade and I ended up getting my first Final Fantasy game. I wanted a new game so bad and my brother bought it for me at a Walmart since my parents weren't going to buy it for me. When I went to pick the game I wanted, I chose Final Fantasy 8. Exciting going into the car and remembering opening the case and seeing there were 4 disc (I was thinking it was 4 different games lol). Got home, inserted the game onto my PlayStation and I was spellbind by the its incredible intro.

During my progress, I was stuck by only two boss fights. The first one was against the machine vehicle controlled by Biggs and Wedge during the Missile Launch Station heading towards Balamb Garden. And when I was done with that, Sorceress Adel later. During school, there was a friend that was also into FF8. It got to a point where he told me his 4 disc was messed up and so we ended up having a trade deal. I sent him my Greatest Hits Disc 3 &4 for his Disc 3 and Disc 4 and also Driver. So, I was still stuck against Adel until one Saturday morning went at it again and finally won. Got to Ultimecia Castle and had mostly everything in the way until I challenge Ultimecia a few times. Finally got to her final form; lost a couple of times and until one Summer day finally was able to knock her out by using Irvine's Shot Limit Break. Didn't know about LionHeart at the time. Watching Ultimecia imploding on my screen and then.........

The game froze during the FMV moment. So I had to buy FF8 again to get the last two discs freshly functional. Went at it again and was finally able to watch the ending. The end.

Man, that is some dedication. I remember back when my mom had to buy me another copy of Aladdin on the SNES when our original cartridge was stolen, but I doubt that I'd have been able to buy the game outright back in those days.

I do remember the intro being one of the coolest things to ever grace the Playstation. Parts of it were shown on Game Informer which I used to read back in the day and it made me interested in getting the game. I never did get the chance, but I am hoping to at least get it and add it to my collection. The gameplay, while different, is interesting enough for me to give it a whirl just on that merit alone.

Got Final Fantasy VII as a gift from my father back in late '97. I was only 10 years old at the time and barely spoke any English (I'd been playing video games since I was 7 though so I knew enough to be able to understand what happened in the game at a most basic level). Finished it in early '98. I've obviously beaten it multiple times since.

Wow. Earlier today, I felt old; you just made me feel a tad young (I was only 6 back in '97).

On another note, it's really cool how games can make you more motivated to learn. You, for instance, mentioned a proficiency in English. For my brother, Super Mario RPG gave him the incentive to want to learn how to read so that I didn't have to read the text to him all of the time. Proof that video games don't rot the brain.

The first FF game I ever owned (VII) was not the one I beat first, strangely enough. I actually still haven't beaten it- mostly because my ps2 started messing up and I've been afraid to play it in case it messed up the discs (The remake will be incentive to beat it, I'm hoping. As long as my ps2 stays working). Then I got the GBA re-releases of I, II and IV and beat FF I first, followed by II and IV. I've also beaten X and X-2. Ironically, the two FF games I like the most (VII and XII) are the two I own that I haven't beaten.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the same boat where XII is concerned. It may not be my favorite, but it's an excellent game that deserves more praise than it gets, IMO.

Never beaten a Final Fantasy game because I only own one Final Fantasy game I haven't finished yet. But if I do beat the final boss in FFXIII-2, then the game will be the first one I beat.

Good luck. Hope to hear about how you beat the final boss.

First Final Fantasy game I ever played was Final Fantasy VIII. Incidentally, it was actually a demo of it that I played from two discs my parents got my sister and I from like, Pizza Hut. It had a bunch of demos for games, but one of the ones that captured me the most was FFVIII. It was beautiful to look at, it was one of my first real experiences with such a mature looking game (I was like... 4? 5?). I enjoyed the demo, especially Rinoa and Zell (odd, to think that Rinoa was in that part of the demo but you actually don't meet her until way later in the game in the final product). That being said, I didn't get this game until much later, so it doesn't count.

The first one I actually beat was either Final Fantasy X or Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. I honestly cannot remember which because I beat both very, very close to each other, but I'm pretty sure it was FFX I beat first. I picked up that game because of KH1 and KH2, and even though it took me like, two years to beat FFX (that final boss doe), it's still one of the most memorable experiences I had. And even though I like X-2's canon ending, FFX has one of the most powerful endings I've ever witnessed in any form of media. Especially since I feel in love with this cast, and it hurt so much.

Crisis Core, however, was one of the first games I beat within a month back when I was like, 13, and rarely beat things that fast (KH being the only exceptions). It sucked me in and never let go, and it was the sole reason I bought a PSP when it released, despite mever having touched the FFVII franchise beforehand. This one, while not quite as stunning as FFX, is still pretty memorable for me, especially with such great characters like Zack, Angeal, Cissnei, and my constant indecisions over whether I shipped Zack/Aerith or Zack/Cloud more than the other (although neither compare to Tifa/Cloud so...).

Damnit, now I feel old again. I remember those glorious days of getting demo discs every other month. It was in that way that I managed to play things like the second Spyro game and Midevil.

Crisis Core is one of the few that I managed to beat within a month as well (mostly because I was still in high school at the time and was dangerously close to finals) and it holds a special place in my heart thanks to everything that happened in that game.

Let's see... I first played FFX when I was in middle school, but quit before Tidus even got to Besaid. xD I didn’t even know what it was then because my mother had bought several games to go with the PS2 she gave me for Christmas. After I played Kingdom Hearts, I tried FFX again since I liked Leon/Squall, Yuffie, Aerith, etc. in that game and I found out they came from the FF series. I played through to Sin, but couldn't beat it because I was a very amateur gamer and wasn't capable of beating the last few bosses.

The next game I played was X-2, which I didn't play long after the beginning because all the % points was confusing. Finally, I played FFIX and finished the whole thing in one go; the final bosses were pretty easy. I eventually went back to FFX and beat the ending (using Anima), then finished FFX-2, too, a couple years later. I believe the next game I beat was XII, then I went to the older games and Tactics.

I've played most the games at this point and don't have any problems anymore, but I still haven't seen the ending to FFVIII. Ultimecia would just take so much time considering her HP, I didn't even try. I never finished XIII, and never bought/played III, XI, XIII-2, or XIV.

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I quite right before I got to meet up with Rikku again and recruit her as a party member (the older Final Fantasy games that I got that year were just better designed, IMO) but I hope to get back to it after I play around a bit in IX.

First game I beat was FF X on emulator a couple of years ago. Simply loved it. Obviously the KH series is what got me into FF, and I looked into FF VII, but my PS 1 emulator wasn't having it for some reason, so I just moved to FF X. I still haven't been able to play VII, but I've beaten I, IV, and VI. Liked IV the best, but both VI and I are superb. I started XII on emulator, but because of frame rate issues I couldn't enjoy it so I stopped. I then started X-II, which wasn't bad, but it was such a drastic deviation from X that I couldn't get into it. I had gotten too used to the Yuna of X.

Yeah, the difference between Yuna in X and X-2 are literally night and day that it's hard to fathom that it happened in the first place since it was so unnatural (and then the audio drama borks that up and brings us back the old Yuna unnaturally again).

I always have a special place in my heart for IV since it was the first mainline Final Fantasy game that I beat.

 

[TheOtherPromise]

The first Final Fantasy game I played was X. A friend let me borrow it a couple months ago. I loved the characters and the story. I thought it was really surprising how much story they managed to fit in one game. Like honestly, a lot of stuff was going on. The only thing I didn't really like about the game was the combat system. I think I'm just not into turn based combat though. Regardless, Final Fantasy X is now one of my absolute favourites.

Yeah, the difference between Yuna in X and X-2 are literally night and day that it's hard to fathom that it happened in the first place since it was so unnatural (and then the audio drama borks that up and brings us back the old Yuna unnaturally again).

Well, it wasn't that unnatural. Yuna let lose in X-2 because she was a sphere hunter and not a high summoner so she was allowed to behave however she wanted. As we know from X, Summoners were important people who were looked up to by all of Spira so it would make sense that Yuna would have to behave a certain way while she's acting as high summoner. So it also makes sense that Yuna would revert back to her old self in the audio drama/potential X-3 when she's back to being high summoner.
I think the problem is that we never she Yuna's character progress from the Yuna in X to the Yuna we see in X-2 so the change feels really sudden and unnatural.

 

[Sephiroth0812]

I still clearly remember when I was first introduced to Final Fantasy in general by a friend from school in 1998 and we used to play FF VII and once it was out FF VIII on his Playstation 1.

My very own first experience with FF came in early 2000 when I got FF VIII for Windows PC.
Back then, my only console was a Super NES and nothing else so FF VIII PC was the only FF game I could actually play and thus the first I beat.

The second FF I played was then FF IX which I played on a PS 1 I had borrowed from another friend of mine (I had purchased the game FF IX, but no money for a PS 1).

It was in 2002 when I got my second console with the PS2 together with FF X that I could play my third FF. Since the PS2 had the godly (and uncomplicated) backwards compatibility it meant I could also replay my own copy of FF IX.
It was only after FF VIII, IX and X that I finally got a hold of one of the last few Platinum PS 1 copies of FF VII so I could finally play the (at that time claimed to be) "best" FF available.

 

[VoidGear.]

Hard to say.
I know I started off with Final Fantasy VII when I wasn't even able to read properly, but that's also why I didn't get to disc 2 back then (who knows how I even got to the end of disc 1...).
Anyways, I remember the next Final Fantasy game we got was FF X. So I beat one of those first.

 

[Magnus]

Proof that video games don't rot the brain.

There are actually studies out there showing that many video games help kids develop the left side of the brain (logical and analytical thinking, math and language skills etc).

 

[robvandam111]

Holy crap, I should have checked into this more intermittently so that I wouldn't have to mega-reply too much. Ah well, here goes:



Ah yes, the good old days of fighting over the controller. My brother and I used to do that all the time, too. XD

Music has always been important to me in a game. Games with more catchy tunes tend to make me remember them more than purely atmospheric ones (i.e.: the battle tracks in the Devil May Cry games as opposed to the stage tracks in those games).

Funnily enough, I finally managed to dabble into IX again and I must say that I am having a blast. After a relatively serious endgame from VII, it's nice to kick back and fight a future party member that refuses to look behind him as a cartoony enemy explodes.



X was a good game. Along with some memorable moments (Tidus laugh, anyone), it had easily one of the more intriguing stories in the series, although from what I understand, it's a face lifted rendition of another Square Enix game that came before it.

Come to think of it, Tales of Symphonia stole a sizable chunk of their plot from this game...

On a side note, one of my favorite moments from Crisis Core was an optional conversation with one of the lower class SOLDIERS where he asked Zack who was the hottest person in Midgar: Aerith, Cissnei or himself (Zack). I always picked the latter since it was the trollish answer and I loved his reaction to it.



Ah, those are usually some of the best memories. I remember having a similar feeling toward Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.



Yeah, Final Fantasy VII's story will do that to you. It had easily one of the more gripping storylines out of any RPG I played at that time (and even to this day, now that I think about it).



XIII is understandably divisive. I haven't really played it yet and I've only seen a handful of cutscenes from the game, but from what I understand, while the game was a bit of a mess, it helped pave the way for XIII-2 which appears to have slightly better gameplay.

I only played the first game a grand total of once (and that was the PSP version based on the PSX remake), but it seemed fun, if not incredibly bare bones.



I highly recommend playing IV. It may have a bare bones story by today's standards, but it's still enough to put you through a bit of an emotional roller coaster considering how often you cycle through party members (as well as the reasons as to why you end up cycling through those party members). V and especially VI are also games that you should try out.



XII is a game that I consider to be incredibly underrated. It had an interesting battle system that made paradoxically made combat both interesting and a bore at the same time. What I appreciated about the combat was that it forced me to be (more) strategic about when and how to fight enemies, something that would later serve me well when playing the Final Mix versions of Kingdom Hearts II and Birth by Sleep on Critical Mode.



That last part seems to me like a difference in tastes. I don't mind linearity as long as what I am presented with is fun and interesting. Others, however, feel like they must have a great sense of exploration due to getting a thrill when finding something new and in order to more immerse themselves into the game. When people complained about XIII being too linear, they weren't just complaining about linearity for they were also complaining about what they were presented. Final Fantasy VII's beginning (I would even argue that it was a six hour long prologue) was incredibly linear, but many people considered it to be the best part of the game because of the interesting elements that were within that linear segment of the game. I haven't played XIII, so I can't pass judgement on that, but I feel like this was one issue that people had with the game.



Man, that is some dedication. I remember back when my mom had to buy me another copy of Aladdin on the SNES when our original cartridge was stolen, but I doubt that I'd have been able to buy the game outright back in those days.

I do remember the intro being one of the coolest things to ever grace the Playstation. Parts of it were shown on Game Informer which I used to read back in the day and it made me interested in getting the game. I never did get the chance, but I am hoping to at least get it and add it to my collection. The gameplay, while different, is interesting enough for me to give it a whirl just on that merit alone.



Wow. Earlier today, I felt old; you just made me feel a tad young (I was only 6 back in '97).

On another note, it's really cool how games can make you more motivated to learn. You, for instance, mentioned a proficiency in English. For my brother, Super Mario RPG gave him the incentive to want to learn how to read so that I didn't have to read the text to him all of the time. Proof that video games don't rot the brain.



If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the same boat where XII is concerned. It may not be my favorite, but it's an excellent game that deserves more praise than it gets, IMO.



Good luck. Hope to hear about how you beat the final boss.



Damnit, now I feel old again. I remember those glorious days of getting demo discs every other month. It was in that way that I managed to play things like the second Spyro game and Midevil.

Crisis Core is one of the few that I managed to beat within a month as well (mostly because I was still in high school at the time and was dangerously close to finals) and it holds a special place in my heart thanks to everything that happened in that game.



Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I quite right before I got to meet up with Rikku again and recruit her as a party member (the older Final Fantasy games that I got that year were just better designed, IMO) but I hope to get back to it after I play around a bit in IX.



Yeah, the difference between Yuna in X and X-2 are literally night and day that it's hard to fathom that it happened in the first place since it was so unnatural (and then the audio drama borks that up and brings us back the old Yuna unnaturally again).

I always have a special place in my heart for IV since it was the first mainline Final Fantasy game that I beat.

Give it a shot if you ever have a chance. To me its what FF7 could've been and that's what the reviews states when it was release. Don't understand why in other forums FF8 is thrown back in the bus. It's one of the FF that's a must play.

 

[kuraudoVII]

The first Final Fantasy game I played was X. A friend let me borrow it a couple months ago. I loved the characters and the story. I thought it was really surprising how much story they managed to fit in one game. Like honestly, a lot of stuff was going on. The only thing I didn't really like about the game was the combat system. I think I'm just not into turn based combat though. Regardless, Final Fantasy X is now one of my absolute favourites.

Ironically, X was a return to true turn based combat in the main series since III, IIRC.

Well, it wasn't that unnatural. Yuna let lose in X-2 because she was a sphere hunter and not a high summoner so she was allowed to behave however she wanted. As we know from X, Summoners were important people who were looked up to by all of Spira so it would make sense that Yuna would have to behave a certain way while she's acting as high summoner. So it also makes sense that Yuna would revert back to her old self in the audio drama/potential X-3 when she's back to being high summoner.
I think the problem is that we never she Yuna's character progress from the Yuna in X to the Yuna we see in X-2 so the change feels really sudden and unnatural.

Fair enough. I just wish that we were given more than what we were given. Even the extra scenario added in the HD port didn't really show that character development, at least not naturally.

I still clearly remember when I was first introduced to Final Fantasy in general by a friend from school in 1998 and we used to play FF VII and once it was out FF VIII on his Playstation 1.

My very own first experience with FF came in early 2000 when I got FF VIII for Windows PC.
Back then, my only console was a Super NES and nothing else so FF VIII PC was the only FF game I could actually play and thus the first I beat.

The second FF I played was then FF IX which I played on a PS 1 I had borrowed from another friend of mine (I had purchased the game FF IX, but no money for a PS 1).

It was in 2002 when I got my second console with the PS2 together with FF X that I could play my third FF. Since the PS2 had the godly (and uncomplicated) backwards compatibility it meant I could also replay my own copy of FF IX.
It was only after FF VIII, IX and X that I finally got a hold of one of the last few Platinum PS 1 copies of FF VII so I could finally play the (at that time claimed to be) "best" FF available.

Yeah, that backwards compatibility was really useful back in the day.

Hard to say.
I know I started off with Final Fantasy VII when I wasn't even able to read properly, but that's also why I didn't get to disc 2 back then (who knows how I even got to the end of disc 1...).
Anyways, I remember the next Final Fantasy game we got was FF X. So I beat one of those first.

Sometimes grinding/overlevelling will help you where strategy can't which may have been how you were able to beat Disc 1. I remember back in the day when I played Pokemon Yellow not knowing that the fighting moves could be sper effective against Brock's Pokemon. What did I do? Powelevel Pikachu to level 20 in the Viridian Forest and use the newly acquired move Slam to beat them instead. I still do it as a tradition to this day.

There are actually studies out there showing that many video games help kids develop the left side of the brain (logical and analytical thinking, math and language skills etc).

Yeah, I just wish these sorts of studies were given more press. Not that they aren't, but they still don't drown out the "Video Games Corrupt the Brain" crap.

Give it a shot if you ever have a chance. To me its what FF7 could've been and that's what the reviews states when it was release. Don't understand why in other forums FF8 is thrown back in the bus. It's one of the FF that's a must play.

If I ever get the chance, I will. From what I understand, the Triple Triad game helps make the main campaign Birth by Sleep levels of broken.

 

[robvandam111]

Ironically, X was a return to true turn based combat in the main series since III, IIRC.



Fair enough. I just wish that we were given more than what we were given. Even the extra scenario added in the HD port didn't really show that character development, at least not naturally.



Yeah, that backwards compatibility was really useful back in the day.



Sometimes grinding/overlevelling will help you where strategy can't which may have been how you were able to beat Disc 1. I remember back in the day when I played Pokemon Yellow not knowing that the fighting moves could be sper effective against Brock's Pokemon. What did I do? Powelevel Pikachu to level 20 in the Viridian Forest and use the newly acquired move Slam to beat them instead. I still do it as a tradition to this day.



Yeah, I just wish these sorts of studies were given more press. Not that they aren't, but they still don't drown out the "Video Games Corrupt the Brain" crap.



If I ever get the chance, I will. From what I understand, the Triple Triad game helps make the main campaign Birth by Sleep levels of broken.

Yeah lol, because you're allowed to learn an ability from your summons. To mod your cards into items and if you get rare cards. You'll end up with 100 MegaElixirs, 100 Heros (Single character can be turned invincible) and 10 Holy Wars (Your entire party will be Invincible) Everything is cake.

 

[Some guy]

Unfortunately, I don't remember which FF I played first. But I played VII/ VIII/ IX around the same time, then came the ps2 era with X/ XII, after that I played all the FFs prior to VII.

Without RPGs like FF, I wouldn't even have been interested in learning english in the first place. I always had a french/english dictionary next to me when I was playing ... Good times.

 

[Anagram]

VIII is super easy to break. Don't level up, but keep on junctioning stuff to raise your stats. Enemies scale to your level, but your stats will obviously be overpowered in comparison as the game gives you access to more powerful magic (but even stocking up on low level spells will give you a great advantage). In short, the game punishes you for levelling up.

That's a first. lol

 

[Xickin]

I have FF 3,4,7,8 and 10...I have beaten none

 

[WaveK89]

I knew little about Final Fantasy. My interest didn't spark until I played Kingdom Hearts. Sure, I knew who the main FF characters were from, but I didn't know much more than that.

I ended up renting FFX, and I couldn't get past the temple where Rikku finds you. I bought the game sometime later. I made it up to the Seymour fight on Mt. Gagazet, and then resorted to cheat codes to beat the game. I really enjoyed the adventure, but was so annoyed by the constant random battles. Forbid that a FF game have a repel system like Pokemon, but I suppose games can't be that easy. I'm not a big fan of grinding.

Other than that, the tropical, ocean, colorful environment had me wanting more and more. I used to live near the ocean, so it was a wonderful feeling playing the game despite all the chaos and destruction.

I maliciously used cheat codes on FFX-2 because I could not adapt to the ATB system. In FFXII, I got to Fran's home before resorting to cheat codes as well. I've played a some FFVII getting up to Barrett's storyline, but got tired of getting lost and stopped playing. I beat FFXIII which was surprising because I nearly gave up on multiple occasions having being stuck in a small area having to grind to beat the boss in the next room.

 

[Magnus]

You can find a weapon with "No Encounters" on it right after Calm Lands. Just saying

 

[Blazingblue]

Let see here
Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy 13, 13-2 and LR
recently playing FFVII

 

[Kazr10]

X → X-2 → V → VIII → IX → VI → XII → VII:CC → Type-0 → I → II → VII → XIII.

Never played III & IV, and I watched LPs for XIII-2 & LR. Played all the FF Tactics as well, but can't remember when.

 

[robvandam111]

X → X-2 → V → VIII → IX → VI → XII → VII:CC → Type-0 → I → II → VII → XIII.

Never played III & IV, and I watched LPs for XIII-2 & LR. Played all the FF Tactics as well, but can't remember when.

If you have a DS. I'd highly recommend whichever version.

 

[Magnus]

PSP version of IV is the best one. The DS version is a nice, but you'll appreciate it more as a complement to the 2D version.

 

[Antar]

From what I remember, the first FF I ever beat was Final Fantasy Tactics. I've beat it several times since then and recently, a few months back, I have beaten the first FF.

 

[Grono]

From what I remember, the first FF I ever beat was Final Fantasy Tactics. I've beat it several times since then and recently, a few months back, I have beaten the first FF.

Same with me! It was my only PSP game I enjoyed back when my console was working, and I probably played through the game like ten times trying to get every single item and secret character, like retrieving the tynar rouge on Agrias' birthday or getting Balthier and Cloud to join your party

 

[TheOtherPromise]

Ironically, X was a return to true turn based combat in the main series since III, IIRC.

Thats interesting. I wonder why they decided to return to true turn based combat. Because when the game was released the graphics were top notch but the battle system was kind of outdated. They could've come up with something more modern.