The World is Square! (SquareSoft)

[Kassiopeia]

SquareSoft thread founded to avoid clutter at our D&D thread. I'll edit in some stuff later on.

First, the games I've played through: FF VI, FF VII, FF VIII and FF IX. I have also tried out FF I - V, Chrono Trigger and Seiken Densetsu III, but haven't bothered to play more of them (yes, sick me).

The main thing I'm such a FF fan is the fact that 1) I love the music by Nobuo Uematsu. Yasunori Mitsuda, composer in Xenogears and Chrono Trigger, is fairly good but nowhere near his scale, and 2) the stories are always great.

Oh, and I'm apparently going to be an Administator of a Square forum, so I'll advertise it once it's up and running.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

I've played and beaten:

-- FFI
-- FFIV
-- FFV
-- FFVI
-- FFVII
-- CT (many times)
-- Seiken Densetsu II
-- Seiken Densetsu III
-- Super Mario RPG

I've played:

-- FFVIII
-- FFIX
-- Chrono Cross
-- Romancing Saga III
-- FF Tactics

I'll take this opportunity to plug my favorite webcomic: http://www.nuklearpower.com/comic/ -- 8-Bit Theater, loosely based on the FFI storyline.

[Rand Al'Tor]

Yes it IS good isn't it.

I've played trough

FF VII
FF VIII
FF IX
CT

I've played

FFIV (up till I'm on the moon)
FFV (Not that much)
FFVI (almost finished, but I'll have to lvl up before going to Kefka's tower)

My favourite would have to be FFVIII. It holds a bit the middle bewteen FFVII all too dramatic (though well plotted) story with the characters themselves being a bit too... discrete and FFIX that was too cheerful with the characters being a bit overdone. but perhaps that's because I played FFVIII first and in English (and VII and IX in French)

[CygnusZ]

Uh, hmm...

All FF's
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Seikden Densetsu 1,2 and 3 (Secret of Mana USA)
Live a Live
Bahamut Lagoon (Recently Translated, playing right now)
Super mario RPG
Final Fantasy Tactics
Brave Fencer Musashi
Vagrant Story
Xenogears

I guess that's about 90% of the SquareSoft library. Easily Squaresoft would be IMHO one of the best producer of console games (Nintendo being the real top dog).

I liked all the FF's, except for II and VIII. I thought FF2 just encouraged sado-mashochism, and FF8's draw system became really tedious to me. I thought FFIX was the best modern final fantasy game, because it was _FUN_ (and no manic depressieve 17 year old spikey haired kids with gigantic PHALLIC swords). Then again, I find myself playing FF's more for "the experince" (Rez players understand what I mean) than for the gameplay itself.

However, i think Final Fantasy's finest hour came with Final Fantasy Tactics, which was a strategy/RPG developed for Playstation. It took the job system from FF5 and put it in into a sword of "chessboard" combat system (like Shining Force, only more character customization).

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
I'll take this opportunity to plug my favorite webcomic: http://www.nuklearpower.com/comic/ -- 8-Bit Theater, loosely based on the FFI storyline.

Ah, my favourite too, along Sexy Losers.

Try out http://www.vgmix.com . Especially the mp3s called "Balambience" and "The Man with the Chrono Trigger" are excellent.

[HisMajestyBOB]

I own, played and beaten:
FFVI
FFVII
FFVIII (actually, I haven't beaten it but im at the last castle)
CT
SoM
Super Mario RPG

Almost beaten: FFX

Dl'd, played, not beaten:
FFIV and V
SoE


And the best IMO is FFVI. No one beats Kefka!

[SnowFire]

Hmm... not sure exactly what the point of the thread is other than to list Square games beaten, but sure! I'm up for that...

Lesse... FF1, FF4-10, FFT, FFMQ, CT, CC, XG, SOM, Seiken Densetsu III (Corbett translation), Front Mission 3, Threads of Fate, .

Also Breath of Fire, but that was just published by Square, it was made by Capcom.

I still haven't gotten around to beating Vagrant Story (which I own). And I've played wee little bits of Legend of Mana and Parasite Eve (not owned), but I will never finish LoM and I doubt I'll ever finish PE, although it seemed good.

And oh yes, this thread is a good refresher course if you think you've forgotten any you played. http://forums.ffonline.com/showthrea...=&threadid=180

[tniem]

Re: The World is Square! (SquareSoft)

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Oh, and I'm apparently going to be an Administator of a Square forum, so I'll advertise it once it's up and running.

Where is this forum going to be?

[Kassiopeia]

Where is this forum going to be?

How come?

I'm playing FF IV at the moment... the Overworld theme and all the mixes of it are reason enough.

[Rand Al'Tor]

ooooh, another sexylosers fan? Not that we're gonna link, just tell you that it's on keenspace.

Heh, I'd point you to a lil' CT fanfiction now that we're busy plugging, but FF.net seems to be clogged

[CygnusZ]

Uh, Rand, just out of curiosity, I noticed you have a little "newsmax" thing on your avatar.

That isn't the 'www.newsmax.com' insane right-wing conspiracy website, eh?

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Unfortunately, it is. No idea how a European liberal became a mod on a site that criticized Bush for being too far to the left...

[Ari Rahikkala]

Even conservatives have a sense of humour .

[Rand Al'Tor]

Well I AM just that good. But hey, it's fun.

[Kassiopeia]

http://daloop.sjr.fi/squareinfo/forums/