Originally posted by BackFire
You like FFVIII more than VII or X? Really?That was far and away the weakest game in the series. "Oh yeah, there's a witch in the future who wants to compress time for some reason, she's the boss now, go stop her, oh, and for added inspiration, since we didn't bother creating tension between her and the protagonist, she's trying to take over Rinoa. Why? I dunno, we wrote ourselves into a corner and this was the easiest thing we could do. It creates the illusion of a deep plot development when it reality it's just a random excuse to end the game. What's that? you're asking why we decided to explain all of this in a single dialogue with Cid, rather then breaking the information up and feeding it to you slowly, developing it a bit here and there, coherently? We got lazy, and sine FFVII was such a big success, we needed to get FFVIII out as quickly as possible, even if that meant obviously rushing the finale and pulling a boss out of our ass at the last moment".
At least FFVIII had that kickass cardgame. That was awesome. And it was really fun watching Gaurdian force animations over and over again.....not! Haha.
IX is sweet, though. That one has some classic characters. Vivi was great.
I hate 7 and 10 with a passion. Yuna and Tidus are by far completely pathetic lead characters. Auron was the best in 10 by far. I thought the sphere grid in 10 blew horribly, and you could get far too strong and not even Sin could match your stats at the ending battles.
I hated the card game in 8, loved the fighting system, love Irvine the absolute most, Zell's limit break is better then ALL of Tifa's in 7 IMO. I loved the Guardian Force system in 8, customizing the battle menu for each character, junction system, I hated Rinoa horribly aside from her being in cinemas as part of the plot. I loved Ultimacia's castle at the end. 8's only downfall is no experience in battle, but that's what Cactuar island is for.
7 has got to be the worst RPG I ever played purely because if the battle system is horrendous like 7's there is no way to get into it. The plot was average to me, basically the same shit the Final Fantasy series is notorious for. I liked Red XIII, Tifa, Barret and Vincent the most, I hate Sephiroth because he's overrated horribly, Cloud I couldn't tolerate from the beginning, and he got even worse to me when Aeris died because I didn't like her either.
My main problem with 7's battle system was the ridiculous amount of damage you could take in battle even if you purchased the best armor available, and leveled up to what SEEMED like a decent level. 7 's battle system was too heavily dependent off of Materia because the Limit Breaks are useless if you don't have the best available weapon at that point in the game. So Materia and Limit Breaks are just as petty using over and over again as the Guardian Force's cut-scenes.
The series is just too dependent off 3-d graphics rather then good story telling for my taste. I took more to Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Twisted Metal, and Metal Gear Solid at the time. Most of which used in-game graphics to tell the stories with the exception of introductions, endings, and a few in-game cinemas.
9 was the 10 year anniversary of the series, so of course it would have most of the same traits as the original 6 before the series put graphics and sales before good story-telling.