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Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Playing: Final Fantasy IX]

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Just recently found this and just finished binging the thread and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying it and I'm anxiously waiting for more; have to ask when it is said that every FF game will be played in order does that mean only mainline games or will side series be included like Tactics and Dissidia, or even non game media like Spirits Within( mostly asking because I have a massive soft spot for this as my first exposure to anything FF), mostly due to FF15 which has a good chunk of its lore and story materials in movies and such; shout out to a FF7 mashinabriged by Team FourStar as a hopefully possible inclusion if non game media is included(know its a longshot but a hopefull one)
 
uztgft said:
Just recently found this and just finished binging the thread and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying it and I'm anxiously waiting for more; have to ask when it is said that every FF game will be played in order does that mean only mainline games or will side series be included like Tactics and Dissidia, or even non game media like Spirits Within( mostly asking because I have a massive soft spot for this as my first exposure to anything FF), mostly due to FF15 which has a good chunk of its lore and story materials in movies and such; shout out to a FF7 mashinabriged by Team FourStar as a hopefully possible inclusion if non game media is included(know its a longshot but a hopefull one)
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Here's the last post I saw with Omicron commenting on what games will be played.
Omicron said:
The current plan is: All mainline numbered games, with X-2 swapped in for XI, because XI is a very old MMO that would kill this Let's Play to attempt, and with Tactics thrown in at some point, hopefully before we've finished covering the PSX era, as a look into a divergent path Final Fantasy could have/did take.
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Omicron has also mentioned the machinabridged. Here's the last post that actually used the word Machinabridged in it (there may be later posts on it but I'm not spending the time looking through the thread to find other mentions).
Omicron said:
So, I have been watching the Machinabridged series off and on (got up to around Aerith's death), and while it's fun, one of my biggest gripes with it is that it's the peak of Tifa/Aerith mischaracterization I've ever seen, with Aerith being so childishly innocent as to seem barely be able to function without assistance and Tifa being obnoxiously aggressive and rude to the point of outright abuse. It's like they're incredibly broadly exaggerated versions of "themselves," only the "themselves" that is being exaggerated isn't actually how their character was originally written, so it's a parody of a mischaracterization? It's very strange.

Anyway, I'll finish it eventually.
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I'm still hoping for a side trip to CT - not a full LP, but a play & review deal perhaps - before thread moves too far away from the FFVI/FFVII era.
 
I'm 100% on board for a Chrono Trigger detour, because Chrono Trigger is a top tier game, but it does run into the issue of "if we let this game slip in, how many others does Omi have to potentially consider?"

Anyways, we should also totally make Omi watch Spirits Within somewhere after FFIX, since that's around when it was released and its financial failure probably had a huge impact on the Final Fantasy series going forward.
 
Chrono Trigger is exceptionally good, but it's not a game well suited to a LP - it has multiple different endings, some of which are just joke endings but some of which are actually proper different conclusions to the story, most of which can only be obtained during a new game plus, a lot of optional stuff and very un-intuitive quests, and where the "lost forever (or at least until you start a new game +)" problem that FFVIII has is present with twice the intensity. It's a great game to play, but playing it in the format @Omicron has been handling the series in this thread - with minute analysis of various deviations and long breaks in-between sessions to write up after action reports - will suck all the fun out of it.
 
Egleris said:
Chrono Trigger is exceptionally good, but it's not a game well suited to a LP - it has multiple different endings, some of which are just joke endings but some of which are actually proper different conclusions to the story, most of which can only be obtained during a new game plus, a lot of optional stuff and very un-intuitive quests, and where the "lost forever (or at least until you start a new game +)" problem that FFVIII has is present with twice the intensity. It's a great game to play, but playing it in the format @Omicron has been handling the series in this thread - with minute analysis of various deviations and long breaks in-between sessions to write up after action reports - will suck all the fun out of it.
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While true, it's still a pity. If only because it means no opportunity for posting a certain song mashup once he gets to Robo and hears Robo's theme
 
Egleris said:
Chrono Trigger is exceptionally good, but it's not a game well suited to a LP - it has multiple different endings, some of which are just joke endings but some of which are actually proper different conclusions to the story, most of which can only be obtained during a new game plus, a lot of optional stuff and very un-intuitive quests, and where the "lost forever (or at least until you start a new game +)" problem that FFVIII has is present with twice the intensity. It's a great game to play, but playing it in the format @Omicron has been handling the series in this thread - with minute analysis of various deviations and long breaks in-between sessions to write up after action reports - will suck all the fun out of it.
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That's part of why I said not do to it as a full LP. But playing through it - and especially without completionist pressure! - would be interesting because it would, I think, shed new light on FFVI and FFVII, as well as a lot of other cRPGs going forward.

In addition, of course, to being worthwhile in its own right, because CT is a fantastic and enjoyable game start to finish.
 
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There were some classic gameboy games that were final fantasy, you could suggest those. The one that had like, a world tree with crystal collecting and your dad (the only person in the world who wore a hat) and the ability to pick your character's races which included *robot* that was pretty interesting mechanically.
 
RubberBandMan said:
There were some classic gameboy games that were final fantasy, you could suggest those. The one that had like, a world tree with crystal collecting and your dad (the only person in the world who wore a hat) and the ability to pick your character's races which included *robot* that was pretty interesting mechanically.
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Final Fantasy Legend, yes. (Well, Final Fantasy Legend 2, more specifically, given the mention of robots as a playable race.) It's more accurately part of the SaGa series, and just marketed as Final Fantasy when released in North America.
 
uztgft said:
Just recently found this and just finished binging the thread and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying it and I'm anxiously waiting for more; have to ask when it is said that every FF game will be played in order does that mean only mainline games or will side series be included like Tactics and Dissidia, or even non game media like Spirits Within( mostly asking because I have a massive soft spot for this as my first exposure to anything FF), mostly due to FF15 which has a good chunk of its lore and story materials in movies and such; shout out to a FF7 mashinabriged by Team FourStar as a hopefully possible inclusion if non game media is included(know its a longshot but a hopefull one)
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My current plan is to pause between VIII and IX to do a (slightly anachronistic) détour by Tactics. However, the particulars are still up in the air; there's been a lot of thread discussion about what was the right way to play Tactics and I'm not sure which one I should take. We'll figure it out when we get there, I suppose.

I'm still planning to do a Spirits Within review like I did Advent Children. It's probably going to be harder because by all accounts, while Spirits Within is a worse movie than Advent Children, it is boringly worse, rather than interestingly worse. We'll see.

Tactics is currently the only non-numbered entry that is planned (X-2 but that is, technically, numbered), so no Dissidia. As for XV's oodles of side materials, we'll cross that bridge if we ever come to it.

foamy said:
I'm still hoping for a side trip to CT - not a full LP, but a play & review deal perhaps - before thread moves too far away from the FFVI/FFVII era.
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My plan is to play Chrono Trigger on my own time and then write a single update review, rather than a Let's Play. I just need to find the right time to actually do that, which has proven tricky.
 
Any plans for XIII-2 and XIII-3? They ARE just as numbered as X-2, and were pretty much the big single-player FF releases between 2010 and 2015
 
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Zap Rowsdower said:
I definitely hope it does, if nothing else so we can hear your thoughts on that very divisive game

how divisive was it? It came out in 2010. I bought it in 2012 in the discount bin for fifteen bucks (new games cost 60).
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There's a lot of places in the series that people liked to say "oh, this was the DOWNFALL OF FINAL FANTASY, it's ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE" back in the day. I've seen everything from FFVII, to FFVIII, to later... but FFXIII is probably the one I would very consistently hear the most criticism and doomsaying about in the series.

That said, I dropped off somewhere in the middle of FFXII and never played anything past it, so can't personally attest for whether or not FFXIII is actually an affront to god and gamers alike. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it... sometime in 2026 or so, probably.
 
Omicron said:
My plan is to play Chrono Trigger on my own time and then write a single update review, rather than a Let's Play. I just need to find the right time to actually do that, which has proven tricky.
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Awesome, that's all I was hoping for. I hope you can find the time :)

(FWIW if you're not playing for completionism CT is a fairly fast and non-grindy game -- much quicker than FF7, I would say.)
 
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