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[Raithe]

Actually, I think that's the only FF game I've ever actually played through from beginning to end.

[HoonDing]

Garnet > Tifa > Rinoa.

[Keyrock]

It was pretty polarizing when it came out because it was pretty different from earlier FF titles.  I personally have it as my 4th favorite entry in the series.  

VI > V > VII > VIII > IV > IX > X > III

[HoonDing]

Final Fantasy 3 was released outside Japan?

[Keyrock]

Final Fantasy 3 was released outside Japan?

Yep, it was the last one to finally make it state side.  It was released for the DS sometime in the mid 00s.

[Lexx]

Actually, I think that's the only FF game I've ever actually played through from beginning to end.

 

I managed 4 of 5 cds, then I stopped because it felt like everything is repeating all the time. Everytime I switched to the next cd, some other guy from my party was lying in bed, being wounded and stuff.

[entrerix]

It was pretty polarizing when it came out because it was pretty different from earlier FF titles.  I personally have it as my 4th favorite entry in the series.  

VI > V > VII > VIII > IV > IX > X > III

 

i love this game! (the game of naming your favorite FF titles...)

 

FF7

FF6

FF8

FF9

FFXII

FFX

 

 

the top 4 change spots depending on the day you ask me...

[Hurlshort]

The problem is the numbers in Final Fantasy vary depending on the country.  I'm pretty sure FFIV is something different in Japan.

[Keyrock]

The problem is the numbers in Final Fantasy vary depending on the country.  I'm pretty sure FFIV is something different in Japan.

FF IV is FF IV in Japan, there was no FF IV outside of Japan originally.  FF II and FF III were originally only released in Japan.  FF IV was released outside of Japan as FF II to "avoid confusion".  FF V was then also initially only released in Japan.  FF VI became FF III outside of Japan, again to "avoid confusion".  By the time FF VII was released this thing called the internet started becoming widespread and it became clear that some people outside of Japan were aware of the games that had not been released outside of Japan and that Square had actually created a heck of a lot more confusion by trying to avoid confusion and renumbering the games, thus FF VII was simply released as FF VII everywhere (like they should have done with the earlier games to begin with).  Eventually the games not released outside of Japan were released everywhere and the original Japanese and correct numbering was used turning western FF II back into FF IV and western FF III back into FF VI, like it should have been in the first place.  The correct numbering system has been used ever since, it's the numbering system I use and the one I assume everybody else is using.

 

Phew, I hope that made some sense. 

Edited December 6, 2013 by Keyrock

[Enoch]

i love this game! (the game of naming your favorite FF titles...)

 

Let's see...  I played at least some of both 1&2 when they were released in a single GBA cartridge.  I liked the first one better, as the second one had some rather tedious learn-by-doing mechanics.  There was a FF game I played a little bit on my neighbor's SNES in the early '90s, but I have no idea what number it is and don't really remember it much.  I started reading a "let's play" of FF7 once, but I Nope'd the heck out of there pretty quickly.

 

Feh.  There's just something wrong with a game with the word "final" in its title having a dozen-plus sequels. 

 

 

I'm having a chronic Civ restart cycle.  Start a game of Civ5; play for about 20 turns; decide that this isn't setting up as precisely the flavor of Civ game I feel like playing; go back to the main menu and change something miniscule in the settings; repeat until bedtime.

[Humanoid]

I love this game too! Let's see....

 

FF7

Super Mario RPG

 

...and that's all I've played. Put them in that order because the silent QTE in the latter game pissed me off no end.

[Oerwinde]

It was pretty polarizing when it came out because it was pretty different from earlier FF titles. I personally have it as my 4th favorite entry in the series.

VI > V > VII > VIII > IV > IX > X > III

Everything goes downhill after the orphanage scene.

[BruceVC]

I refuse to support anything the Japanese do because of the atrocities they committed during WW2, I REFUSE !!! (now I'm off to play my PS4 )

 

[melkathi]

I refuse to support anything the Japanese do because of the atrocities they committed during WW2, I REFUSE !!! (now I'm off to play my PS4 )

 

 

Next thing you know, you'll refuse buying anything from South Africa because of the Apartheid regime

[sorophx]

Anyone want copies of Natural Selection 2 or Sanctum 2?

do you mean for free? I'd be glad to take one copy of NS2 off your hands, if the offer still stands 

[Labadal]

FFVI, FFIX, FFXII and FFT are the best. I've played an absurd amount of FF related games.

 

FFI-X, FFXII-XIV

FFVII:CC, FFX-2, FFXIII-2, FFXII:RW

FFT, FFTA, FFTA2

FF Type-0

FFMQ

FFATB (I don't know if I should call this a game.)

 

That's 23 games. Don't know if I forgot one.

[Calax]

 

Feh.  There's just something wrong with a game with the word "final" in its title having a dozen-plus sequels. 

Fun fact, the reason it's titled that way was because Squaresoft was about to go under when they released FF1, so they titled it that way as their sort of "this is our last fantasy we will probably be allowed to show you" then it became MASSIVE.

 

Waiting for the FFX and X-2 HD remakes that are getting worked over... I bet they'll do VII soon after.

[TSBasilisk]

Steam hosts special sale for VGX nominees

 

Considering how much of a steaming pile I've heard CoD was, I'm wondering if the people behind this thing don't just have a slot titled "Annual CoD entry". The same for Battlefield 4.

Edited December 6, 2013 by TSBasilisk

[Gromnir]

 

i love this game! (the game of naming your favorite FF titles...)

 

 

 

 

I'm having a chronic Civ restart cycle.  Start a game of Civ5; play for about 20 turns; decide that this isn't setting up as precisely the flavor of Civ game I feel like playing; go back to the main menu and change something miniscule in the settings; repeat until bedtime.

 

am having just that issue with the new xcom game. am thoroughly enjoying the combat, but the "strategy" aspects has resulted in us virtual restarting the games a half dozen times. got 7 missions deep and realized that our soldier roster gots six heavies and only 1 assault, 1 sniper and 1 support. *grumble* have had similar issues with satellite production and being too slow on alien containment and resource management and whatever. 

 

am a big fan o' squad-based tactical combat with rpg elements, but the strategy features never fail to push our ocd button. 

 

HA! Good Fun!

[Humanoid]

Just finished my C/I XCOM game and yeah, basically the strategic aspects of the game were gradually overtaking the parts I play the game for. XCOM is a very binary game in terms of its outcomes, and while that suits the combat layer just fine, as it does in chess, I think it's a bit heavy handed when the matter of a one hour delay in some event occurring can make or break your game. In a case of the game getting in the way of the game, it went as it always does. Give me more random map abduction missions and less of, well, less of everything else, frankly.

 

That said, if I had all those heavies in the early game, I'd have the biggest silly grin on my face ....then proceed to rocket EVERYTHING. Would be the perfect Impossible team early game, but again, while I reckon I could handle the combat of I/I reasonably, from what I've seen the economic management aspect looks blatantly unfun.

 

I'm done with the game for now. Might go back in the future and try a training roulette game and some other interesting second wave options (not many are), but I'm hungry for a more fundamental change in the game's structure. Final score breakdown was pretty typical and close to the averages presented.  293 days, 61 missions won, 0 missions lost, 781 kills, 3 losses. Inflated somewhat by leaving my home continent uncovered so that abductions would keep happening, and leaving Exalt up until just before the Temple Ship.

 

P.S. Temple ship is just as big a letdown as ever. The new alien types don't even show up, and even when I screwed up badly and took my situational specialist snapshot sniper instead of the mainstay squadsight one, the game didn't come near to punishing me for it. Ah well, Merry Christmas aliens - I'd planned on leaving you alive until the new year while I optimised my squad with genemods and psionics and whatnot but ended up not bothering. Final squad only had the volunteer with any psi capability worth mentioning, and probably a half dozen individual genemods between the whole squad. Eh.

 

P.P.S. I've kind of changed my mind about Exalt lately. Initially they bothered me because they're basically nothing but a firepower test of fending off wave after wave of reinforcements, DA2-style. But by the end, I saw them as an opportunity to blow off some steam and try crazy things given their relative ease.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Humanoid

[Labadal]

STEAM discount codes if anyone wants them. I'll send them your way.

Awesomenauts 66% Off

Towns 50% Off

Septerra Core 50% Off

Fallen Enchantress 66% Off

Stronghold 3 33% Off

Knytt Underground 50% Off

Jolly Rover 33% Off

Valdis Story: Abyssal City 33% Off

Faerie Solitaire 75% Off

 

Knytt and Faerie can be found cheaper because I think they are in a Humble Bundle.

Valdis Story and Fallen Enchantress are tempting, but I must resist.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Labadal

[Keyrock]

Steam Machine prototypes will be shipping Friday.  The first batch of SteamOS images will also be made available Friday:

 

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570

 

Valve advises that only "intrepid Linux hackers" should try the images, others should wait until sometime in 2014 (when presumably the kinks have been worked out).  Good thing that I just happen to be an intrepid Linux hacker. 

[Oerwinde]

Steam Machine prototypes will be shipping Friday. The first batch of SteamOS images will also be made available Friday:

 

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570

 

Valve advises that only "intrepid Linux hackers" should try the images, others should wait until sometime in 2014 (when presumably the kinks have been worked out). Good thing that I just happen to be an intrepid Linux hacker.

Also, US residents who were registered rejoice, because your chances of getting a prototype increased by having all registered international applicants deemed inelligible. I wonder how many people that cut from the pool.

[Deraldin]

 

Steam Machine prototypes will be shipping Friday. The first batch of SteamOS images will also be made available Friday:

 

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930088300965516570

 

Valve advises that only "intrepid Linux hackers" should try the images, others should wait until sometime in 2014 (when presumably the kinks have been worked out). Good thing that I just happen to be an intrepid Linux hacker.

Also, US residents who were registered rejoice, because your chances of getting a prototype increased by having all registered international applicants deemed inelligible. I wonder how many people that cut from the pool.

 

I want to say it's likely a fairly large chunk of people. I saw a large volume of people complaining about the last minute switch in comment sections and other forums. I feel like my "Steam Hardware Beta Candidate" badge is nothing but a filthy lie now.

[Hurlshort]

One of my students figured out my steam handle based on the games I talk about and where I live.  Pretty clever kid.