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Anonymous10/16/25, 09:25No.3859552
great game, but genuinely why do people think it's the best in the series? I don't understand. It's the best of the nintendo maybe (i prefer IV) but how does it even come close to anything on the psx or ps2?
>"opinions"
yeah that's what i'm asking for
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Anon10/16/25, 09:31No.3859558
start with a hypothesis. having played it yourself, what do you imagine would be the reasons that people would prefer it? try using your brain, you can do it. note that you don't have to agree to reach understanding.
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Anon10/16/25, 09:35No.3859559
Dunno, I always drop it somewhere in the world of ruin
Furthest I got was Kefka's tower, saw it was one of those party split dungeons, said I'd get back to it but never did
Ambitious but ultimately meh game, much prefer IV
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Anon10/16/25, 09:38No.3859561
I really want a 3d remaster of this game, like they did with 4 and 3.
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Anon10/16/25, 10:29No.3859580
Game supoosedly ended after the first half, but suits declined this, so gathering friends in the ruined world was added. Makes the game brilliant for me.
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Anon10/16/25, 16:18No.3859720
- Largest main cast in the series, lots of distinctive, memorable characters.
- Interface and graphics are much more polished and accessible than previous entries.
- Retains emphasis on traditional gameplay (world map exploration, combat, dungeons, lots of simple towns/castles) and fast-paced storytelling while delivering numerous well-executed, "cinematic" cutscenes.
- Retains some of the mechanical depth lost as the series advanced. For example, in FF6 various weapons can be shared by different classes/characters. In the PSX era (+Chrono Trigger), graphical constraints and simplification trends prevented characters from sharing weapons. (NOTE: FF6's underlying systems have serious issues and feature quite possibly some of the worst system decisions in the classic series, but normalfags either don't tend to notice or care)
- Some people still prefer the classic 2D side-view, fixed-camera presentation of combat, finding it to be better balance of aesthetics, spectacle and practicality than the playstation era with its dynamic camera and over-the-top animations.
- One of the biggest narrative twists in the entire series with the cataclysm and World of Ruin. Kefka made a great villain.
- Contrarianism. FF7 was so insanely popular, FF6 was the original try-hard hipster alternative.
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Anon10/16/25, 16:34No.3859729
Its genuinely a good game, as explained by
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Anon10/16/25, 19:49No.3859786
>It's the best of the nintendo maybe (i prefer IV) but how does it even come close to anything on the psx or ps2?
That basically answers your question. Many people consider it the best of the 2D FFs. If they like the 2D FFs and older RPGs in general more than 3D ones, then it follows they'd consider their favorite 2D FF the best one.There are valid reasons for preferring 2D FFs over later FF, like a lack of load times, differences in gameplay, pacing, no voice acting, etc. It's a matter of subjective preference rather than 3D RPGs being strictly better.
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Anon10/16/25, 19:52No.3859788
>genuinely why do people think it's the best in the series?
Maybe they played it as a kid and it blew their mindsI played it recently and I'll say this
>good graphics
>good music
>fun lil scenarios (splitting up, infiltrating the town, phantom train, the opera, etc)
>overall great for a snes game
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Anon10/17/25, 16:14No.3860088
>how does it even come close to anything on the psx or ps2?
PSX games have bad 3D graphics.
X is a fucking joke.
Simple as.
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Anon10/17/25, 17:06No.3860121
New poster here, FFVI was never the best one. It may have been the most polished Snes FF game or the one with the best sprite work but it was never the best. I can certainly see why or how some people claimed that maybe back in 1995 or the mid 90's when it was the newest one and known as FF3.
as soon as FFVII came out it was seen as second place at best and even there some people argued FFIV was better than VI. Almost nobody knew FFV back in early 2000's since it never had a western release. Now that it's been 25 + years, FFV is much better than VI.
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Anon10/17/25, 20:13No.3860167
>The best Final Fantasy? Of course it's the one I grew up with.
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Anon10/17/25, 20:53No.3860192
Jobs were awful.
There's no commitment, no personalized character expression through mechanics, just tabula rasa dress up dolls. This tendency of universalized customization continued down, to a greater or lesser extent, through subsequent FF games to their detriment.
Class change was always better.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:13No.3860742
Me neither... It's edgy.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:24No.3860747
I dunno I always thought it was kind of boring. I feel like a lot of people like VI because they're mad VII blew it and everything else out of the water so hard it made the genre one westerners wanted to play.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:06No.3860956
Happy birthday to her though!
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Anon10/19/25, 06:21No.3861133
I was always confused why the empire decided to extract magic from espers when they had clear examples in Madonna, Maduin, & Terra that fucking espers (or at least human women being fucked by male espers) was even more viable and potent.Imagine no Kefka, each male esper calm & content with a harem, maybe a few human men using ice resisting armor to nut inside Shiva (but more likely just using the female espers to breed more pure espers for future generations). The entire ruling class & elite military would be half esper in a generation. Then when they discover magicite, they get even more powerful.The empire would then have complete military dominance, trade relations with the sealed cave espers once they hear of the free pussy, and they could export magically augmented arms & armor.Only downside would be the sacking of other cities. It would be an entirely different game. Game would start with several espers & half espers rescuing the frozen esper in Narshe.