Final Fantasy Chat

[NateDog]

It really is one of the most impressive runs for a flagship series in video game history. I gotta say though, in those four games, VIII is a total black sheep. I'll argue with anyone any day that it is easily not the best one. On the one hand, it has some of the coolest min maxing you can do in an FF game, on the other the capacity to softlock your save is kind of insane. And then there's a good chance the player gets totally addicted to just playing Triple Triad and forgets the story altogether, which happened to me during my first playthrough and then I ended up softlocking my damn save.

I probably should have prefaced that by saying very few people would actually say VIII was the best! It is a bit sloppy in places but I still think it's really good and has some great qualities. Reminds me a bit of MGS2 in that when I went to play it I had either read a lot of people saying they didn't like it or had friends that said it. Has a very ethereal feeling to it that I haven't gotten from many (maybe any) other FF game so far, maybe excepting FFIV but it still feels quite different.

The thing that always amazes me in particular is the quality of soundtracks. Uematsu was beyond ridiculous for the quality of his output but since IX there have been so many different composers yet the quality is still incredible. I mean I could make an easy argument for almost every FF title that I've played to have the best OST or that it's one of the best in any game in general. Even with the ones I probably wouldn't say are the very best like V, they still have some stunning tracks that are up there with the best in the franchise.