RE: Ranking Final Fantasy Games Part 2
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XI and XIV are divisive for me. I've never really been a fan of MMOs and the dialogue of XI was similar to XII's and more modern Final Fantasies which I felt was unnecessary. XIV is definitely an improvement on it but even with the better story, more interesting NPCs and updated engine I just couldn't help but get distracted by all the MMO stuff. I feel like you have to do so many fetch quests and side missions before you can get back to the actual story. That said XIV is one of the most popular MMOs right now and it's been going for several years.
We already talked about VI and IX so I'll just skip to X. FFX is my personal favorite. I loved the world, the characters, the story, the conspiracy, everything. I have to admit the updated graphics really helped with some of that haha. Also the game sounds better in its original Japanese where the infamous laughing scene makes more sense. The scene starts with Yuna noticing that Tidus is upset about something so she asks if he wants to scream but that won't really solve the fact that his dad's Sin. So instead she talks about the fake smiling and laughing stuff so what he's really doing when he's laughing like that is screaming. But the second time he does it it's implied that he's doing it for her benefit since it was revealed earlier that summoners will die at the end of their pilgrimage. It's a fairly depressing game with an underlying theme of fighting against fate.
Looking forward to seeing what your top pick is!
It's a lifestyle more than it is a game at this point. There are people on there who, when I joined ahd already been playing the better part of a decade, daily, for hours. They literally just log in and just chill out in their home with their group. Occasionally they'll go get some limited-time event or something and just count the minutes until the next expansion XD
It's wild. I could never tell if they had jobs or what.
This is true. When I think back to it I get a much stronger sense of... Melancholy, when compared to pretty much every other game. There's not much in the way of glory at any point in the game.
I always did wanna try the Japanese but at the time I was all anti-subtitle. Plus, If there's one voice the Japanese can't beat, it's Seymour's XD
Seymour's actually pretty good in both versions. I think his theme really helped sell his personality.
FFX was pretty much just a struggle against what you were told the whole time was inevitable. There was no other solution. Yuna was dead. And even the solution Tidus came up with at the end just traded his life for hers. It made a weighted statement about the value of life and the price of overturning the way the world worked. But in that way it made me really appreciate Tidus and he sounds just as whiny in Japanese as he does in English so that was a big accomplishment by Square haha