/vr/ - Retro Games

1. FF7
2. FF9
3. Parasite Eve
4. Parasite Eve 2
5. FF10
Why? Don't feel like typing

>>10554643
>1. FF7
Are you a 12 year old from 1998 they just thawed out? There is nothing about this "game" that holds up

>>10554649
I still like it but it has some of the worst Square designs and the dialogues are silly

>>10554649
What's this about holding up? The game is as good as it was back then, you're the only one that changed (ie became more ignorant)

>>10554649
No Final Fantasy games "hold up" really. The entire series is pretty much babby's first RPG, story-wise and from a gameplay perspective. There's not a single entry which has a narrative above the average anime slop, whilst the combat is always simplistic and easy.

Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song
Romancing SaGa 2
SaGa Frontier
Final Fantasy Legend II
Romancing SaGa 3

There's nothing else like the SaGa series and if it clicks with you it clicks.

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1703851402570597.webm

>>10554636
looking good

>>10554649
The fanart from around that time definitely does hold up.

>>10554934
Are you telling me that art's not official? I could swear it was and it was a minor kerfuffle when the fanbase found out because we obviously didn't see it in the West...

Legend of Mana
Saga Frontier
Final Fantasy Tactics
Parasite Eve
Rad Racer

The RPGs have some different gimmicks instead of being your standard story-driven Dragon Quest clone
The last one is just because it's one of the very first video games I played and the music got stuck in my head ever since

>>10554636
Super Mario RPG
Final Fantasy 6
I should play more squaresoft games

1. Final Fantasy 1
2. Secret of Mana
3. Final Fantasy Adventure
4. Final Fantasy 4
5. ----

>>10554696
>slop
way to invalidate your post

>>10554649
>There is nothing about this "game" that holds up
Except for the gameplay, story, writing, design, music, sound effects, graphics, replay value, the list goes on...

>>10554831
it's a real CRT.

>>10554636
Front Mission 3
FF Tactics
Parasite Eve
Xenogears
Ff7

>>10554696
If you mainly consume Hollywood movies and Netflix shows and hate anime, jrpgs certainly aren't for you. But that doesn't mean they should change in order to please people that consume almost exclusively Anglo culture, it just means that not all products aim for the same audience.

>>10554649
Are you a 12 year old from 2023

FFVIII, FFVII, Parasite Eve 1, Parasite Eve 2, Chrono Trigcross. Phoneposting while making food, can't elaborate.

>>10554712
unfathomably based

>>10554712
what the fuck am I looking at
this looks like some fake video game you'd see on NCIS or something

>>10555196
I've never been into anime but love JRPGs ... ironically the most anime I ever watched was on Netflix when a buddy recommended this show about retarded giants eating people, it was okay for a season.

>>10554712
This whole thread should just be these games in different orders desu.

1.Chrono Trigger
2. Final Fantasy 7
3.Super Mario RPG
4. Parasite Eve
5. Final fantasy 8

FF8
FF2
FF1
Parasite Eve 2

For 5th position I dunno lol probably Rad Racer

>>10554636
Crono Trigger
FF6
Enhander
Bushido Blade
Saga Frontier

Really, this is a very uncomplete list since Square put out so much good shit in the 90s. For a while they couldn't do wrong with any genre they touched.

>>10554649
Had to be there man, and you obviously wern't

3. FF6
1. Secret of Mana
2. Chrono Trigger
4. Secret of Evermore
5. Seiken Densetsu 3

In no particular order:
Chrono Trigger - It's one of the few JRPGs I don't think is complete shit
Front Mission 3 - Has giant stompy robots
Vagrant Story - Isn't filled with JRPG bullshit either
Bahamut Lagoon - I like tactics games
The Bouncer - Because I was that fucking desperate for a Streets of Rage sort of game at the time and I actually have fond memories of it

FF7: Best FF game IMO
Chrono Trigger: World, Characters and music.
Secret of Mana: Tied with SOM 2 they are both good but I prefer 1.
Vagrant Story: Battle system, world.
FF Tactics: I prefer this over the Ogre series.

CT
PE
FF7
Einhander
CC

>>10554696
Final Fantasy is over hated. I'd rather play a Final Fantasy game over something like Breath of Fire or Suikoden.

>>10554636
FF1
FFV
FFTA

And that's it. Not a fan of the company but something or other was alright.

>>10555228

>>10554636
1. FF1
2. FF4
Never a fan of melodrama in a video game and I like dragoon.

>>10554696
FFXIII is actually good it’s only problem is throwing you balls deep into a world using a ton of jargons that all sound similar.

>>10556714
The Saga Frontier remaster was so fucking good

FF6
FF4
Xenogears
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana

How'd I do

>>10556747
>walk straight down this narrow corridor for the entire game
FFXIII is quite possibly the worst FF of all time.

How has nobody said Front Mission: Gun Hazard? I loved it.

>>10556792
>FFXIII is quite possibly the worst FF of all time.
I don't know about worst. 15 looked so bad I didn't want to touch it and 16 doubly so.

13 is definitely where it went to irredeemable shit. 12 was still servicable at least.

>>10554636
FFVII
FFIX
FFVI
Parasite eve 2
Front Mission 3

because I could play them in my psx back then, also great atmosphere in all of them.

einhander

>>10554649
fpbp
the exact opposite of ff8, which still holds up excellently to this day

>>10554712
I've only ever played the gb ones, which other saga is best to start with? Is that the frontier remake in picrel?

xenogears
chrono trigger
ff10
chrono cross
ff9

kinda a lame list but its mine

>>10557370
actually i lied swap ff9 and cross what was i thinking

>>10555228
https://essenceofsaga.wordpress.com/home/book-index/combo-system/

Einhander

>>10554670
What's up with Yuffie's leg anyway? Did she wreck her knee and have to get a prosthetic or some shit?

>>10554636
Without falling into the Enix side of games, you made me realize despite always going for their games in my youth, Square has to revisit the same games. I'd like to say the deeper cuts like Einhander, Tobal 2, or Xenogears, but it seems like the favorites they make are the usual ones:

Chrono Trigger - the best there is, the best there was, the best that ever will be thanks to its steally story, characters, visuals, music, and playability.

Final Fantasy Tactics - my favorite game on the original Playstation. Looks and sounds amazing makes me feel like a genius always winning.

Final Fantasy 2 (4 easy type) - My 2nd SNES game after the pack-in, and it was the game that got me to love JRPGs. Its pacing just keeps me playing.

The World Ends with You - Super stylish visuals and innovative using unique controls. The music has so much variety.

Secret of Mana - it was multiplayer fun with cousins. While flawed and surpassed by its sequels, it still was special with its music, mood, and shared experience with family.

A lot of their original Playstation output sure hit with me like Dewprism, Parasite Eve, FF7/8/9, Vagrant Story, etc, but they sure have faded from being a system seller developer for me.

>>10557361
FF8 is the game where every time you switch disks you lose gameplay and get more videos to watch.

>>10554712
Is the Final Fantasy Legend collection on switch any good or should I just emulate/track down a copy?

>>10554649
zoom zoom

>>10557792
You can just emulate it, you're getting the same experience and you get to dip your toes into the series.

>>10554712
Beyond based. Came here to post this.

>>10554636
1. Final Fantasy 6
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Super Mario RPG
4. Final Fantasy 4
5. Final Fantasy 7

1. Final Fantasy 6
2. Final Fantasy 9
3. Seiken Densetsu 3
4. Final Fantasy 4
5. Secret of Mana
Honorable mention goes to Einhander

i like ff7 because midgar was so grimdark and you get to be a terrorist

>>10557364
Can't go wrong with Romancing Saga 3.

>>10554636
1: Super Mario RPG: i kinda like the linear structure of it where each area is its own stage to go through. I also love seeing the cast of Mario characters dealing with a threat very unlike their series identity, something the remake elaborates on a bit more.
2: Live A Live: im a huge nig for multi chapter/scenario games like this, the SaGa games probably could also fit here, but the variety and settings of LAL do it the best for me. Battle system is neat too.
3: Final Fantasy 6: just the best FF imo.
4: Threads of Fate: something about this felt like a 3D MegaMan, especially when using the girl. Very under the randar as far as square stuff.
5: Kingdom Hearts: i can appreciate the artistic skill involved, but i fucking hate disney. That said, Kingdom Hearts may be close to my favorite premise for a game ever: a merging of anime and western animation styles both clashing and supporting each other, a character traveling to a bunch of different themed worlds. It tickles me in a way similar to Live A Live. I LOVE the concept of a game where each world is based off of different public domain stories or fairy tales, i just really hate that it's the Disney adoptions of them, yet at that same time that artistic influence permeats the identity of the series. I know people will fight me on this, but i will forever say KH could have worked without the disney stuff in some alt universe where they pulled out at the last minute and square had to redo the worlds, but keep the whimsical feel of the game. You could have Sora teamed up with Frog and Mog going to worlds based on Alice in Wonderland and 1001 Arabian Nights with various Sqaure characters filling the roles in those tales. It makes me upset thinking about it because KH is a paradox that i both love and hate. Dont care for the rest of the series really though, i liked the grounded combat of the first the most.

Special mention to Tom Sawyer as being their closest Mother-like game.

>>10554636
Top Five.

1. Parasite Eve
2. Chrono Trigger
3. FF8
4. Chrono Cross
5. FF10

>>10554670
>i thought that was leg hair

1. Kingdom Hearts
2. FFX
3. FF7
4. SMRPG
5. FF4

>>10554934
>>10554961
hol' up...

>>10559409
Id take out kingdom hearts and ff4 and swap them with ff5 and ff6

going nuts with the materia at the end and breaking the game is so much fun in the end game

Chrono Trigger
FF 7
FF Tactics
FF 6
FF 9

1. Final Fantasy IX
2. Final Fantasy VIII
3. Final Fantasy Tactics Advace
4. Vagrant Story
5. Saga Frontier 2

Threads of Fate
FFVI
FFVII
FFX
Brave Fencer Musashi

Threads of Fate is number 5 because while it's charming as hell, it's also a bore to finish the whole game imo. FFVIII is an honorable mention but the Junction system is aids. Brave Fencer Musashi is simply one of my favorite games of all time due to it's colorful variety and unique aesthetic.

>>10554636
5. Chrono Trigger
4. Final Fantasy 9
3. Final Fantasy 7
2. Chrono Cross
1. Final Fantasy 8

>>10561870
You like Cross more than Trigger?

>>10555196
there is nothing anglo about mainstream western "culture". it's not even jewish anymore, it's just internationalist thanks to blackrock.

>>10561870
I should also specify the DS version of Chrono Trigger, as it connects to Chrono Cross and confirms Guile=Magus, but for the most part Square peaked with PSX, then went off the rails with jpop slop once the PS2 came out and now everything they make is pure AIDS

>>10554712
SaGafags are a cult

>>10561878
Yes. It's a better game.

>>10554636
FF7
FF6
FFT
Saga Frontier
Xenogears

>>10554649
>Are you a 12 year old from 1998 they just thawed out?
Where do you think you are?

>>10554636
FFL
FFVI
FFV
SMRPG
FFVII

FFT Xenogears ChronoCross FF8 Parasite Eve.

Because they're fun and made you think.

>>10554636
1. FF11
2. FF12
3. FF10
4. FF6
5. FF9
I did not care for Chrono Trigger.

>>10554636
-Chrono Trigger
-Final Fantasy 4
-Final Fantasy 6
-Secret of Mana
-Trials of Mana

>>10554636
schizogears
schizo frontier 1
schizo fantasy 2
schizocross
radical schizos
lov' me schizocore

>>10555202
underrated comment

>>10554636
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Super Mario RPG
Kingdom Hearts 2
Final Fantasy 7

>>10554649
FF7 is a great game with an exciting story. The sadness from living in a ghetto to the horror of cosmic evil in a giant office building, it then loses a bit of luster after exiting midgar, but it still has some great moments. The mystery that unfolds with Cloud's memories, the love triangle between Cloud, Tifa, and Aeris. Red XIII finding out his deadbeat dad actually was a valiant hero and saved his village. Shinra trying to destroy the world with the big materia. Hojo and Sephirorth origin story and the mystery surrounding them. Aeris, being an ancient being offspring. This all culminating in the finale against One-winged angel.

Tourist in this board, but i'm surprised you lot arent more positive about FF, its like the holy grail of retro

>>10554934
BOOBA!

>>10555105
What is with you retards that this word causes you to break down and start crying? It's effectively the exact same word as 'shit'.

Square Soft? More like Square Shit

>>10566597
>not Squareslop
One fucking job.

>>10566597
>>10566602
Go back to playing Ultima and Daggerfall then.

>>10566612
Come on, anon. Out of all the JARPIGs devs there are you gotta pick the most bland and generic of them all? You're better than that, fren

>>10566612
Howabout I play daggerfall, Ultima underworld, xenogears and ffvi ? Can you handle it porkmeister? Can you handle my chocolate all up in ur peanut butter?

>>10566613
>Ultima series, TES Arena and Daggerfall
>Japanese in origin
Are you delusional , do you suffer from some kind of mental illness? Get your head out of your cloud of delusions and read a book on those series history or something, or blow your brains out with a magnum

>>10566632
Age is getting the best of you, gramps. You can't even understand the implications of a simple sentence

>>10566648
>He thinks that criticism of his "jarpigs" shitposts is a sign of being a gramps, or maybe also similarly old-aged uncle
BOOOOOOOO
Try getting some better material.

>>10566809
Damn dude you're senile, man, get some grip dumbass