will Final Fantasy ever grace the xbox?
hey guys, first of al great site.
now, down to business... i am an RPG fan, they are the ultimate games, especially Final Fantasy... what i want to know is: will Final Fantasy ever grace the xbox? im sick of playstation 2 owners being able to buy new FF's:cry::cuss:,while i just sit here playing other games which i admit are great, but still not final fantasy, if i could get a playstation 2 i guess it'd be alright, until then, "FINAL FANTASY, WHEN WILL YOU BE ON XBOX?"
Shouldnt the ultimate game be on the ulyimate machine...
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Originally posted by X-SHIKAKA-X
what i want to know is: will Final Fantasy ever grace the xbox?
Shouldnt the ultimate game be on the ulyimate machine...
Ummm... sure. Why not? Seriously, we aren't gonna know, my friend. A more sure shot would be for you to save up some cash and buy a system for which you know the games are coming out for.
But, don't you think FF is getting a little tired? I liked 10 okay (I didn't even bother beating it even though I was at the last boss) but the series is falling behind. Random battles are out of style. Plain and simple. I think other games have far surpassed FF in the gameplay department, if not in the jillion dollar movie sequence area.
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I liked 10 okay (I didn't even bother beating it even though I was at the last boss) but the series is falling behind.
Sounds more like you couldn't beat the last boss more than "not bothering" to beat him :)
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Originally posted by X-SHIKAKA-X
hey guys, first of al great site.
now, down to business... i am an RPG fan, they are the ultimate games, especially Final Fantasy... what i want to know is: will Final Fantasy ever grace the xbox? im sick of playstation 2 owners being able to buy new FF's:cry::cuss:,while i just sit here playing other games which i admit are great, but still not final fantasy, if i could get a playstation 2 i guess it'd be alright, until then, "FINAL FANTASY, WHEN WILL YOU BE ON XBOX?"
Shouldnt the ultimate game be on the ulyimate machine...
what I really want to know is
how on earth you get off calling final fantasy the best rpg ever
look its ok, its fun at times, but here's a list (sorry xbox addicts too these are mostly PC) of REAL, dare I say it, American made RPGs that are NON-LINEAR (its not that Japanese is bad, its just that its always linear. 'American' as in Haloesque, very open even in an FPS, many of these are British)
Ultima VI: The False Prophet
Came out long before Final Fantasy equivalent, graphically speaking. This sold very well on the Super Nintendo and was considered a superior game even though their weren't consistent sequels published to consoles
Ultima VII: Black Gates and Serpent Isle
By many considered to be the pinnacle of classic RPGs. Graphically defined and a master piece of code this was years ahead of the FF series of its time, and offered vast amounts more in terms of pure openness.
Morrowind:
True roleplaying. This derived much from the Ultima series in its openness and expanded on it. This had unique concepts and many taken from the AD&D world which, although I personally don't really like it, is a true role playing experience.
X-COM: UFO Defense:
Dare I say this is better than Final Fantasy as a tactical shooter? This 1994 game (can be downloaded from my site http://www.36echo.com ) has everything Final Fantasy had except a much more dynamic storyline defined by the player. How is this possible- it's a tactical strategy game, right? Well let's take something into account... Every soldier in X-Com has more statistics than any FF character has had up until FF8 and every soldier gains true value- creating an unusual player attachment to the soldiers.
Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Generic AD&D:
All of these fall into the AD&D series and, while they take graphical elements from Ultima (note when I say this: up until Final Fantasy 8, those graphics in Final Fantasy are all based on Richard Garriot's pioneering Ultima code from the early 1980's). Now, here's the clincher- these games allow you to be and do whatever you want. Again, I don't really like AD&D but hey, these are 'real' rpgs.
Ultima Online/Everquest:
And the kicker of role playing experience. No one wanted me to bring this into the playing field but I have to. These two games defined all MMORPGs in any form present and future. Ultima, the first, brought one ideal to the table- absolute openness to be whatever you want in a world defined only by players. Blacksmiths, clothing tailors, carpenters, soldiers, hunters, lumberjacks, anything you could really want to do was possible. And Everquest brought the more traditional RPG style into light.
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Final Fantasy never did anything like that. It had decent stories with asian elements which, while good in alot of games, only served to produce a raw unpolished series. They never compared with computer counterparts compared in America with overall quality for their time, and their continued selling power is only from aggressive marketing by Sony.
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Sounds more like you couldn't beat the last boss more than "not bothering" to beat him :)
Seriously, I never even fought him once. If I remember, two or three of the previous bosses took forever to beat, and I figured the last would be even worse. I thought the bosses were poorly done.
I like challenges, but there is no way to beat some of those bosses on your first encounter. Everything would be going great, then a boss would pull some kind of supermove that could wipe out your entire party, so then you have to spend the next five hours making your team strong enough to survive the supermove.
That's just another aspect of old school gaming that needs to go away. I like strategy. Not hours of leveling up to just pound some dude in the ground.
Although, I really have no reason for just beating the game...