/vr/ - Retro Games

FFV is the best game in the series. The job system makes the combat by far the best among the classic FFs, and the plot is not that bad as people who have only heard about V from Dissidia claim. It did story different from other plot-based FFs, less dark and more shonen-esque, but its not a joke game and the story is not far behind from other "crystal" games.

FFIV was in contrast a bad game. Going with cinematic over substance before it was cool. People are just nostalgic for it to not see that it's as bog standard of a game as it gets even for FF, and how it loves to take away the characters and levels from your party at will just shows how none of your decisions matter - only the story does. The story is nice but the game offers little aside from it. Not a fan, and the nostalgia-fueled fawning over the installment is largely undeserved.

FF2 isn't bad, it just hasn't aged well. People don't bash say, Wizardry for downright sadistic dungeon designs, they say "that's how hardcore old games were". FF2 is one of those games, people just look at it from a modern perspective instead of a 1988 perspective. The stats system for all its imbalance was fresh and not that bad for the time either. Also it was a 1988 game with a plot more complicated than "WERDNA stole the AMULET! Defeat WERDNA and recover the AMULET!"

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I've certainly been seeing more positive sentiments towards V after Dissidia has shown most of the FF fanbase that V /even existed/, but it remains definitely underrated as it lacks the nostalgia factor for anyone outside of Japan, and it shows as compared to the fanboyism for IV.