Choosing Party members

October 3, 2007, 9:12 PM

In Final Fantasy VI through XII were you able to choose a variety of characters to level up. The team of characters you have chosen in the series you stick with them until the final battle. My question is why did you choose these characters to follow you until the end? Is it their personality and looks....Or you have chosen these characters because according most fans they're the most powerful characters to use?

Do you level up and max out most of the characters?

Don't need to bother listing the main character such as Cloud, Squall, and Zidane. Everyone knows that you can't switch them out of your party. Although you can explain which character you wished to use instead of Cloud, Squall, and Zidane. Also don't bother saying: 'Well in FFV I had to use Bartz, Faris, Lenne, Gaulf/Krile because I had to.' We all know that in FFI through FFV you had to use those set of characters.

As for me, I choose characters based on their personality and how powerful they are compared to other characters.

In Final Fantasy IX I used the following characters: Freya, Eiko and Steiner. The reason why I used Freya because her Dragon's Crest only use 16MP and caused 9,999 damage. As for Eiko, she better white magic than Garnet and she had the summon Phoenix. Steiner was useful because of his limit break shock and over all he was a powerful warrior. I mainly chosen this team because it worked the best against Ozma and the final area/boss in my opinion.

I'll explain later the other characters I chosen in the other titles.

October 3, 2007, 9:17 PM

I usually decide early on which characters I'll stick with for the rest of the game. The exception being X and XII, when I rotated my party to keep them even. I didn't see much need to do that in VI - IX. I don't know why I chose them really. On my first play, it's usually my favourites that I pick. When I play again, I pick a different team to see how they differ, and because I don't like to be repetitive.

October 3, 2007, 9:26 PM

well, on 7 I used Vincent and either Cid or yuffie

Vincent for his chaos limit break, Cid for his triple weapon (can't remember name) and yuffie for her limit breaks

on 8 I used Zell and Rinoa

Zell for his limit breaks and Rinoa for her magic (I train her magic especially high)

on 9 I used Vivi, garnet and either eiko or Steiner

Vivi for his magic, Garnet for her summoning, eiko for magic and madeen and steiner for his conjoined magic sword attacks

October 3, 2007, 9:27 PM

i go on what they wear which comes under looks and personality like i have balthier in my team in XII coz he looks good and i use nanaki coz he is different to all the other characters coz he isn't humanoid and cait sith sucks ass

October 3, 2007, 9:29 PM

Well in VII, both times, I chose Barret and Vince to be in my party, Barret because his limits are some of the best in the game, Vincent...mainly because of looks.

I've played IX six times now so I've used just about everyone, but in every file I use Steiner and Vivi all the way through. Steiner because he's a tank, Vivi because he's one of the best characters in the story and he's just 1337 in battle.

I've tested out Garnet and Eiko, and despite my love for Garnet as a character, she phails in battle, even her summons, so I've only used her twice. Eiko is a much better white mage, she learns good spells earlier and can use Holy. Still, I only used her in one file simply because I just plain hate her.

Amarant I've used twice all the way through. He's relatively boring as a character, but his Throw attack is win and Chakra can be pretty useful. Freya I've never used all the way through. I managed to use her up to Memoria on my most recent file, but it takes too much to get Dragon Crest strong and I can't be bothered waiting around for Jump to hit when Zidane's normal Attack will do the damage much quicker. All in all I just plain hate her, in battle and in story. Quina I tried to use all the way through on my 6th file, got tired of Quina only having one good attack. Quina's alright as a story character, but in battle no.

October 3, 2007, 9:35 PM

I use my favourite characters.

FFVI - Terra Celes Locke Mog. All these characters are my favourite, i love how they look and they're all amazing in battle. and Mog is <3

FFVII - Aerith and Barret. (switch to Cid after disk 1) Aerith is my favourite character, and im much more of a magic player, and i love keeping her and Cloud together (^__^

And Barret and Cid i use because they have the brute strength i like

FFVIII - Zell and Rinoa. Since you can make all the characters clones...i use them because i like them better.

FFIX - Garnet Vivi and Steiner. I prefer them all to the others, and im partial to using the original 4. And they all balance each other out perfectly.

FFX - Yuna, Lulu, Auron, Rikku - I switch between them 4 because they're all so different and i like them the most

FFXII - Fran Ashe Penelo Basch - i hate the other two...so those 4 work for me

I guess, i go with the characters i like the most

October 4, 2007, 12:27 AM

I go by personality and my fave characters in general. Even doing it this way no matter what others have said, I've always had an easy time completing a game with my choices

FFVII - Tifa & Aeris until you can get Vincent, then I use Vincent and Tifa for the rest of the game. Vincent and Tifa because they are my favorite characters, and even though I really do like Aeris, I chose her in the beginning because of her uber helpful limit breaks.

FFVIII - Zell and Quists......I actually kinda like Zell, so I chose him. I choose Quistis.......because I can stand her more than the other characters even though I still can't stand her.....less of the other evils situation :/

FFIX - Vivi, Steiner & Garnet. I love Vivi to pieces <3 And I actually found myself enjoying Steiner's bumbling devotion. Plus, in actual battle relevancy, Vivi + Steiner = major pwnage. Garnet because I just always liked her personality and it's always nice to have a summoner

(every once in a while I have used Quina though...........cause yes, I like Quina, STFU)

FFX - I always use Auron no matter what. And I switch between Yuna and Rikku equally. Yuna grew on me after a while, and I found Rikku cute in X.

FFXII - After you don't have to use Vaan in battle anymore, I never use him

I always use Balthier, Fran and Basch. I hate Vaan, I don't care about Penelo, and Ashe is a bitch. Easy choice.

October 4, 2007, 12:57 AM

In most FF games i used my main character and 2 (or 3) weakest characters to get them more powerful and would constantly rotate them. It was different in VII with all characters getting XP and in X most of the time you cans tick to the same 3 and just swap characters in and out to get them XP.

My Character Profiles · October 4, 2007, 1:40 AM

It depends on which game I'm playing really. Most of the time, I stick with my favorite personalities. In FFVII, I could never choose which character I liked more, so I usually swapped them around rather frequently. In FFVIII, I pretty much hated all of the character's personalities (and looks), so I stuck with the most efficient fighters. In FFIX, I stuck with the characters who were most involved in the storyline (Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, and Steiner); plus these characters made up the most efficient team anyway...

You get the picture. ^.^