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I have never played a Final Fantasy game.

...somebody is supposed to have an Icelandic accent? I must hear this.
 
Butterfree said:
...somebody is supposed to have an Icelandic accent? I must hear this.
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Yeah, look up any scene with Fran (FFXII). Though I haven't heard an Icelandic accent before, and I'm not sure what Fran's was meant to be.

And I don't see why he shouldn't try FFXIII, it's a great game. Besides, hasn't he already decided on IX o.o
 
Based on my most extensive experience with Icelandic accents (read: Butterfree's and Björk's) I can... kind of see it?
 
James said:
Eh, it's got the crazy outfits and chocobos.

And a thirty-hour tutorial.
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And numerous shout outs. And the standard destroy the world baddy. And the magic and abilities. I guess liking the game requires an open mind or being a fairly late comer like me.

And who is Bjork? My sister kept telling me how Fran reminded me of her while I kept insisting I don't know who that is -_-
 
Dragonclaw said:
And numerous shout outs. And the standard destroy the world baddy. And the magic and abilities. I guess liking the game requires an open mind or being a fairly late comer like me.
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I'm not sure that's really an open mind kind of thing....
 
James said:
I'm not sure that's really an open mind kind of thing....
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It's just a love it or hate it game. Most people who love it hate FFXII, and love it for actually trying to make good characters (But failing for the most part; ugh, Hope...), and for having an actually fun battle system, and most people who hate it love FFXII and hate it for not being Gambits and a fruity main character. Or they hate it because Hope. Or maybe both, idk.
 
departuresong said:
VI (released as III in America on the SNES) is probably your best bet. There are lots of ways to get your hands on it.
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YES YES YES

Spaekle Oddberry said:
I think VI and IX were the best
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YES YES YES

i'd say start with either VI or IX. i loved those FFs; none of the others i've played, save for XIII, struck me like those did. the games were fun and the characters were more lifelike. i was more willing to care for them than, say, the mystery machine gang that was FFVIII.
 
I recently played FFXIII, and while the battle system is nothing much, the graphics and story line are mind blowing. (That is, if you are a fan of working details over in your mind in order to piece them together.)

However, the first FF game I played was VII: Dirge of Cerberus, and that basically got me hooked on the games. DoC is mainly a shooter RPG, but you can still use melee attacks on the ground. Though, if you know nothing of the VIII world, the story line can get confusing, but a Google search can remedy this.
 
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Dayminder said:
However, the first FF game I played was VII: Dirge of Cerberus, and that basically got me hooked on the games. DoC is mainly a shooter RPG, but you can still use melee attacks on the ground. Though, if you know nothing of the VIII world, the story line can get confusing, but a Google search can remedy this.
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... :( no, DoC is terrible
 
Dayminder said:
However, the first FF game I played was VII: Dirge of Cerberus, and that basically got me hooked on the games. DoC is mainly a shooter RPG, but you can still use melee attacks on the ground. Though, if you know nothing of the VIII world, the story line can get confusing, but a Google search can remedy this.
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Wait, seriously? Seriously? Dirge of Cerberus makes absolutely no sense. Not even for Final Fantasy. It ignores continuity, has some of the corniest lines of dialogue known to man (and this is in a series that produces gems like "This guy are sick" and "Beacause you are...... a puppet" [yes, beacause]) and Vincent's relationship with Orange (I forget her name; it means 'orange' though. They are so clever, there are villains named Azul the Cerulean and Nero the something and [orange in ... arabic?] the Transparent and Weiss the Immaculate. AZUL. THE. CERULEAN.) is the skeeviest thing ever. SHE'S EIGHT or possibly 18 BUT SHE'S PHYSICALLY EIGHT. VINCENT IS SOMEWHERE IN HIS FIFTIES, A VAMPIRE, AND STILL IN LOVE WITH HIS DEAD STALKING-VICTIM (SHE NEVER CARED ABOUT HIM AT *ALL* AND HOOKED UP WITH A MAD SCIENTIST AND GAVE BIRTH TO SEPHIROTH).

And I haven't even touched the gameplay yet. Let's start with this: it is a third person shooter with no physics engine worth noting (bullets go in a straight line until they suddenly hit the ground!), a counterproductive auto-target (it makes you MISS MORE), invisible walls so even though you can jump it NEVER HELPS, and in the latter third of the game, everything is immune to bullets.

This is a shooter.
Where everything is immune to BULLETS.
 
Yeeeah, DoC was definitely not one of the best FF games. I barely got anywhere because the controls were terrible. :|
 
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