i have never played any of the final fantasy - /vrpg/

Anonymous03/12/26, 21:35No.3943564

I have never played any of the final fantasy video games, the only rpg I have ever played is The stick of truth. Anyway, steam has a bunch of FF games on sale, which one do you recommend starting/recommend and why?

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Anon03/12/26, 21:39No.3943565

>which one do you recommend starting/recommend and why? Chrono Trigger is *the* JRPG, and the Steam port is now pretty decent, though it launched as an unplayable piece of shit. So I recommend that.Another recommend that's literally called Final Fantasy is IV. That's the first time Final Fantasy truly became what Final Fantasy is known for nowadays.

Anon03/12/26, 21:59No.3943579

I could recommend most FF games to start with. Is there anything in particular you'd want? Like the best game, best story, best gameplay, earliest game that's great, earliest game with more of a story, shortest game, simplest game, more complex game, something?

Anon03/12/26, 22:36No.3943608

If you're some sort of vidya archeologist with a lot of time and patience, and want to start from the very beginning, you start with 1. If you want to go through the "classics", you start with 4. If you want to start right from the best, you start with 7. If you want to start from the most representative and "true-to-its-soul" game in the series, you start with 9. NEVER start with either 2 (complete garbage), or anything after 10 (all soulless goyslop that's FF in name only).

Anon03/12/26, 22:49No.3943618

1/3/4/5/6/7/Tactics/8/10

Anon03/12/26, 23:21No.3943640

Chrono Trigger / FF6 / Bahamut Lagoon All you need.

Anon03/13/26, 00:13No.3943668

If you're just starting FF for the very first time, I'd suggest 7. The predominate majority of western FF fans became fans because of 7 and then sprawled out from there. That doesn't mean there weren't fans of 4 or 6 first, I played 4 first myself, but 7 is what caught everyone's imaginations and affections.FF7 is also a fair bit easier and the materia system is unique.All-in-all though there is very little reason to play 1 or 2. 1 is a really dry experience by modern FF standards. 2 technically isn't even technically a Final Fantasy game and is in actuality the start of the Romancing SaGa series, and as such it's pretty out there compared to other FFs. I mean 2 is and isn't. Point is, most people don't like it, and people who do like SaGa appreciate later entries in the series much more.The job classes of 3 are better done in 5, but if you're really interested after playing 5, 3 might be worth checking out.4 is very dated, but one of my personal favorites. 6 is timeless. 5 is shockingly good and holds up well, albeit it is very goofy. 8 is weird, but worth a play. 9 is slow but worth a play if you like the stuff that came before 7 and 8. 10 is the pinnacle of classic FF in a lot of ways. Flawed, but is regarded as the last true FF by many fans.

Anon03/13/26, 03:05No.3943796

Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger are the JRPG starter pack.

Anon03/13/26, 04:53No.3943882

>The stick of truth Amusingly good game people slept on because it was South Park.

Anon03/13/26, 06:44No.3943962

Mmmm, though IV is my favourite. VI probably gives the best introduction. It does not supplement your imagination with graphics or voice acting, has excellent music, and is just a swell depressing time.

Anon03/13/26, 11:53No.3944159

My generally suggestion is to start with FF7. FF4 is also a good starter in that they both show kind of the baseline of what FF is about.If you're a gamer you could just start with FF1 though, it's very simple.

Anon03/13/26, 12:16No.3944163

Like many others haves said, just start at 4 and don't go higher than 10 if you don't have patience for the NES era stuff. The only flaw with 1 and 3 that I care to make is there's not much character stuff going on. I just didn't care for 2. If you play 3 I can't remember any good reason to not play the remake instead. With 4 I don't remember what the differences other than visuals were off the top of my head. If you really liked 3 and 5 the Bravely Default games are basically the same thing.

Anon03/14/26, 21:00No.3945039

Okay, so I started playing 4. I'm kinda confused about something. Are you not able to see the remaining health of enemies? Like for instance I got to that first Mist Dragon "boss" and kept hitting it, it would display the hit amount but not what was left of it's health?

Anon03/15/26, 01:06No.3945164

also.... there is no settings option...the screen goes "full screen" but its slightly off with a window bar at the top like its in window mode. Also there is no quit/end game button...i just have to save it then hard exit.