10 reasons why Final Fantasy VI is the best Final Fantasy of all time.

[MrHateYourself]

Dragoon was one of the most underrated RPGs ever.t:

Putting Dragoon was most underrated would put %80 of RPGs as "underrated". Dragoon stood out....why? Everything in it was a total by the numbers rehash. BUT IT HAD PRETTY MOVIES!

 

[SouLeSS]

Absolutely not. Soundtracks? C'mon. One Winged Angel. Lifestream. Aerith's Theme. Tifa's Theme. Cosmo Canyon. Just the existence of Gold Saucer is friggin genius.

That may be your opinion, but from a musical sense, FFVI takes the cake. I'm studying to be a Music Major in college right now. I'm on my 7th year. One of the things we had to do was listen to a full 'classical' CD and write our feelings about it. After listning to FFVII OST discs 1 and 2, then popping in FFVI OST disc 1 in, it became abuntandly clear that FFVI was better in terms of technical music. What's all that mean? Means that it's a better soundtrack.

 

[SouLeSS]

He is also overrated.

Golbez from FF IV is still one of my favorite villians from the FF universe. He was the Darth Vader of Final Fantasy.

Had a history with the main hero, kidnapped, destroyed, killed, all in the name of the great Zeromus. t:

Sepheroth and Kefka have nothing on him.

Plus Seifer from FF VIII was a great rival, since he wasn't really villian status.

I'll give it to Golbez, he was pretty awesome. Until he gave it all to become Zeromus. Or wahtever happened, I kinda rushed through the end of the game because it started to bore me. Though in retrospect, Kuja from FFIX was much better than Golbez if you're going to go off the 'history with the main hero, kidnapped, destoryed, killed' factor. And Kefka was better than Kuja, as he turned into a giant ***** at the end of the game.

So if A>B and B>C then logically A>C

 

[SouLeSS]

In my eyes, FF7 is second only to Grandia. I'd put FF6 at 4th, behind Lunar: Silver Star Story.

What game did you play first, FFVII or FFIV? Guarentee you the order you played the game reflects why you feel which is better than the other.

 

[SouLeSS]

Ah Lunar, Silver Star Story and Eternal Blue were two of the best RPGs of all time.

Truth be told, I enjoyed "Legend of the Dragoon" much better than "Final Fantasy VII."

Dragoon was one of the most underrated RPGs ever.t:

I actually couldn't bring myself to finish LoD, as the story was just so predictable. I got about halfway through the 3rd disk and was tired of doing the same exact **** over and over and over and over and over. It could of been an awesome game, but it failed in the long run. ****, Legend of Legaia was better than it, and that game was baddd.

 

[Drakon]

I own every game mentioned here, except Eternal Blue, which my Ex stole from me.

 

[SouLeSS]

What about Hoshigama: Ruining Blue Earth?

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Unfortunately I never got to play Eternal Blue.

Oh, and I played FF7 first.

And I bet no one else here has played Panzer Dragoon Saga.

 

[Brainiac 8]

I own every game mentioned here, except Eternal Blue, which my Ex stole from me.

Dude, where you been Drakon?

 

[SouLeSS]

Unfortunately I never got to play Eternal Blue.

Oh, and I played FF7 first.

And I bet no one else here has played Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Playing FFVII first for most people sets them in some kind of state of mind that it was the greatest FF game ever. Probably because they're all sheep. Guarentee you if FFVI came out before FFVII on PS1, then FFVII came out, people would ****ing go ape**** over FFVI but only a few would go 'yay' about FFVII like they do with FFVIII now.

Also, I'll take that bet. You lose.

 

[Substance D]

Playing FFVII first for most people sets them in some kind of state of mind that it was the greatest FF game ever. Probably because they're all sheep. Guarentee you if FFVI came out before FFVII on PS1, then FFVII came out, people would ****ing go ape**** over FFVI but only a few would go 'yay' about FFVII like they do with FFVIII now.

Also, I'll take that bet. You lose.

maybe people just have different opinions on what they like. and if ff6 came out on playstation, it would probably have the same graphics and cinematics (that you hate so much) as ff7. also, the better graphics would help people realize how gay and stupid kefka looked.

 

[SouLeSS]

Where the hell are you getting the fact that I hate the graphics and cinematics from FFVII?

Did I ever mention anything about that? No. Stop pulling **** out of your ass if you want to try and debate with me.

 

[Substance D]

Thanks to Sephiroth, we'll never be able to take an RPG villain seriously again. Tetsuya Nomura's discovery that leather-daddy albinos are inherently evil means that Sephiroth has become the template (and fashionplate) for the RPG villain: effeminate, ridiculous and driven by obscure motives. It's pretty sad that FFVI's Kefka literally dressed like a clown, yet represented a far more significant threat than his successor. Kefka broke the world in his quest for raw power, then ruled over the ruined remains with divine fury; Sephiroth wanted a hug from mommy and babbled a lot. Advantage: Kefka.

There you go. THat pretty much sums it up right there. Next main villian.

this doesn't make any sense. ff8 featured a female villian. ff9 featured a panzy villian, but his motives were totally different from sephiroth's. in ffx, seymour was nothing like sephiroth, and everyone dressed half naked because the culture was based around the water. seymour was a conniving bastard who used politics to get his way. i don't see how sephiroth ruined rpg villians. if you know anything about japanese pop culture, they like effiminate looking dudes. watch any anime or j pop video and you'll see that. it wasn't ff7's doing.

 

[Substance D]

Where the hell are you getting the fact that I hate the graphics and cinematics from FFVII?

Did I ever mention anything about that? No. Stop pulling **** out of your ass if you want to try and debate with me.

sorry, i thought that since you quoted that article and have pretty much failed to bring anything of your own to this argument, you pretty much had the same opinion as that writer.

 

[SouLeSS]

How have I failed to bring in anything in my arguement? What have you brought other than "LOL SEPHIROTH IS COOL AND HE HAS A SWORD AND HE DOES THIS AND THAT BUT IT DOESNT REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING BECAUSE IN REALITY HE IS THE DEFINATION OF EMO" ?

Thought so.

 

[Substance D]

How have I failed to bring in anything in my arguement? What have you brought other than "LOL SEPHIROTH IS COOL AND HE HAS A SWORD AND HE DOES THIS AND THAT BUT IT DOESNT REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING BECAUSE IN REALITY HE IS THE DEFINATION OF EMO" ?

Thought so.

more than,"kefka is a crazy bastard with lame motivation who just wants to take over the world cuz he's a crazy bastard"

 

[SouLeSS]

But thats the thing. There isn't much more to Kefka than that. That's what makes him so good.

He wanted to destory all magick and rule the world, for various reasons. He ended up doing that. He killed (theoretically) 2 party members, countless people when he destoryed the planet, and literally killed all the Espers, which could classify as gods in that game. And he did all of it, just because he wanted to. Not to get his approval of mommy and get a hug like Sephiroth.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Whoa, someone else who owned a Sega Saturn. I am impressed.

 

[SouLeSS]

I owned it, and like 2 games for it. Space Jam and Mega Man X4.

Though within the past year or so I;ve downloaded about 50% of the games that interested me via Roms and played the **** out of most of them.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

And to be honest I've only played 2 and a half Final Fantasies. VI and VII and I never beat V. Tried VIII but never got a hold of junctioning. That's been my issue with Japanese rpgs lately. Complicated magic systems. So I've been sticking with stuff like KOTOR, Jade Empire and Morrowind.

 

[SouLeSS]

Go play Grandia III. It's a masterpiece with the way the game is setup.

Oh, and Grandia II.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Beat Grandia II, haven't got around to III.

 

[Substance D]

I don't think Sephiroth being a momma's boy makes him any less of a threat or any less badass, it just makes him more interesting as a character. Kefka's motivation just wasn't interesting or original, he seemed like your typical villian. He's evil just because he's the villian, and to me that's boring and cliche. The build up to Sephiroth's reveal was just awesome as well. The game sets up Shinra as the villians, and you only hear about Sephiroth as this all powerful hero from the past. Then the people of Shinra start to get slaughtered, and it turns out that Sephiroth is still alive. It was freaky **** back in the day, following the trail of blood while Sephiroth's theme plays in the background. Then that one part on the world map with the giant snake that's so powerful you need to find a chocobo to outrun it, because you can't defeat it head on. You get to the other side of the field, only to find one of them impaled like it was nothing, by none other than Sephiroth. The level of badassness was just awesome. They build up Sephiroth like he's a egnimatic force of nature, then you start to learn about his past, and he becomes more of a tragic figure. You even feel sorry for him. Then he kills the hero's girlfriend. Then he ****s with the hero's head, takes away his identity, and initiates his doomsday plan. Sephiroth was just all kinds of awesome, and it's not just because ff7 had better graphics than ff6. There's legitimate reasons why people like Sephiroth, so deal.

 

[Zenien]

I feel that FFVI is probably the best FF. FFVII is incredibly cinimatic however which lends itself better to movies and the like.

 

[Substance D]

And to be honest I've only played 2 and a half Final Fantasies. VI and VII and I never beat V. Tried VIII but never got a hold of junctioning. That's been my issue with Japanese rpgs lately. Complicated magic systems. So I've been sticking with stuff like KOTOR, Jade Empire and Morrowind.

ff8 sucked on multiple levels, but its still better than alot of other rpgs. the junction system is simple when you get the hang of it, just draw whatever magic increases your stats the most. that doesn't mean it was good though. the storyline was weak and the characters were underdeveloped. i only played it because i felt the need to play every ff i could get my hands on, but i ended up growing fond of it. i bought ff5 for the ds. i'm having trouble beating it because it's so primitive. just boring dungeon after dungeon, not enough character interaction or narrative.