Pretty sure no one from squaresoft/square enix will never see this but felt I had to say farewell before I quit the series.
First stumbled on to FFVII on pc... hmm can't even recall when it was... and was hooked to the series after that.
Bought it for my ps1 as it lagged a bit on my computer.
Moved onwards to VIII and IX... loved both
At this point I took a step back and played I-VI through with emulator. Enjoyed all of them. Can't say anything about hard grinding or stuff as I speeded it up with emulator and was rather painless for me atleast.
At this point I got to X with ps2 and again had lots of fun.
Then I got distracted for a while with other stuff happening in my life. Got back to the series when I knew I had a full week of time (not so much guaranteed normally when you have children) and bought ps3 and FFXIII. Played the entire game through (well beat the final boss which doesn't relaly qualify as playing it through in this series... but throught he normal story atleast) even tho I pretty much disliked the combat system. Then I got to the point in which I actually found out that I could hate playing a game from this series. Instead of using wits and beating tough opponents to get your hands on the best weapons you needed to buy those from shops (well atleast as I understood I couldn't torture myself enough to check it) and only reasonably fast way to get the gil was to beat some freaking elephants with death spell and hope for a lucky gil worthy drop.
This drove me to take a break for over a year. Then that FFXIV: A Realm Reborn was published (was available on pc before ps3, but I figured that I'd wait for ps3 version so I wouldn't have to spend money to tune up my computer to make it run fluently... I mean who would make a game for console that you can't upgrade and make it lag... turns out Square Enix would). Despite the fact that it lagged quite badly I still managed to play it for 6 months or so... of which last 3 months I didn't even enjoy it but was hoping that they would actually fix atleast some of the things I thought were totally wrong with it... Only to end up having all maxed character levels (I mean all.. disciples of war/magic/land/hand) in a game that only gives remakes of single room monster fights and then remakes of the remakes. At the time they made top level characters to grind monsters that people who have played the game for 10mins are killing I finally caved in and stopped the madness.
Went back to the 'old school... ya ya nothing old schoolish about this compared to I-VI...' versions and began the series were I left it. So I started X-2... Took me a while to get into the game, but was playable. Not my favourite but much better than the last two I tried (XIII and XIV)... battle system was a bit different again from the earlier but still I could atleast control all my characters and actually win the fights myself. So I beat the game and then I beat the new game plus to collect stuff I missed the first run. Was slowly getting the Final Fantasy feeling back (not close to what it was before playing XIII and XIV... but still reminded me a bit why I liked the series)
So onwards I moved to FFXII. First fight started and I shut it down. Figured I might try FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus... luckily I watched youtube video of the gameplay before I had my hopes up... was like a doom/duke/quake... so trashed that idea rightaway... Then I moved my hopes up ahead and figured that there was a new FFXV coming at some point and it might actually be a good reason to get myself ps4. Again to youtube just to see how it's been doom(ed) too. Then just for old times sakes I turned on FFXII and tries few more fights just to see if it would be only little painfull and here I am...
But still over 1000 hours of fun filled game time across prolly 20 years while playing it through from I to well lets make it X-2. So my thanks to Squaresoft/Square Enix for making few of the best games I've ever played...
- Huge Fan of Final Fantasy -
First stumbled on to FFVII on pc... hmm can't even recall when it was... and was hooked to the series after that.
Bought it for my ps1 as it lagged a bit on my computer.
Moved onwards to VIII and IX... loved both
At this point I took a step back and played I-VI through with emulator. Enjoyed all of them. Can't say anything about hard grinding or stuff as I speeded it up with emulator and was rather painless for me atleast.
At this point I got to X with ps2 and again had lots of fun.
Then I got distracted for a while with other stuff happening in my life. Got back to the series when I knew I had a full week of time (not so much guaranteed normally when you have children) and bought ps3 and FFXIII. Played the entire game through (well beat the final boss which doesn't relaly qualify as playing it through in this series... but throught he normal story atleast) even tho I pretty much disliked the combat system. Then I got to the point in which I actually found out that I could hate playing a game from this series. Instead of using wits and beating tough opponents to get your hands on the best weapons you needed to buy those from shops (well atleast as I understood I couldn't torture myself enough to check it) and only reasonably fast way to get the gil was to beat some freaking elephants with death spell and hope for a lucky gil worthy drop.
This drove me to take a break for over a year. Then that FFXIV: A Realm Reborn was published (was available on pc before ps3, but I figured that I'd wait for ps3 version so I wouldn't have to spend money to tune up my computer to make it run fluently... I mean who would make a game for console that you can't upgrade and make it lag... turns out Square Enix would). Despite the fact that it lagged quite badly I still managed to play it for 6 months or so... of which last 3 months I didn't even enjoy it but was hoping that they would actually fix atleast some of the things I thought were totally wrong with it... Only to end up having all maxed character levels (I mean all.. disciples of war/magic/land/hand) in a game that only gives remakes of single room monster fights and then remakes of the remakes. At the time they made top level characters to grind monsters that people who have played the game for 10mins are killing I finally caved in and stopped the madness.
Went back to the 'old school... ya ya nothing old schoolish about this compared to I-VI...' versions and began the series were I left it. So I started X-2... Took me a while to get into the game, but was playable. Not my favourite but much better than the last two I tried (XIII and XIV)... battle system was a bit different again from the earlier but still I could atleast control all my characters and actually win the fights myself. So I beat the game and then I beat the new game plus to collect stuff I missed the first run. Was slowly getting the Final Fantasy feeling back (not close to what it was before playing XIII and XIV... but still reminded me a bit why I liked the series)
So onwards I moved to FFXII. First fight started and I shut it down. Figured I might try FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus... luckily I watched youtube video of the gameplay before I had my hopes up... was like a doom/duke/quake... so trashed that idea rightaway... Then I moved my hopes up ahead and figured that there was a new FFXV coming at some point and it might actually be a good reason to get myself ps4. Again to youtube just to see how it's been doom(ed) too. Then just for old times sakes I turned on FFXII and tries few more fights just to see if it would be only little painfull and here I am...
But still over 1000 hours of fun filled game time across prolly 20 years while playing it through from I to well lets make it X-2. So my thanks to Squaresoft/Square Enix for making few of the best games I've ever played...
- Huge Fan of Final Fantasy -