Mising the "Good ol' Days" of Final Fantasy

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#1 Fantasy_Gamer
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Anyone here who misses the good, or should I say great, old days of Final Fantasy games? What am I talking about? Do you remember tohse days when every year there is a new FF game? Those days with great story-driven plot? Those days with awesome job classes and endless customization? Those days when summon monsters are not yet robotic? Those days of chocobos, moogles, cactuars and tonberries?

I miss them all. Most of all, I miss the "FF feel". Although I enjoyed the newer FFs, but ever like FFX and earlier. After FFX, everything has changed like it is an all new series already. 

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#2 Dark-Messenger
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I missed when Summons use to mean something. Unless I misheard, they're not too useful in XIII and completely and utterly useless in XII (unless I wasn't using them correctly). Maybe SE should go back to the roots and have actual job classes again and back to the medieval/fantasy stories and settings.
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#3 ffxjunky06
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Your right there. Since FFX, summoning has been nothing more than a time waster in the later FF's. I have to admit, in FFVII and FFX, i abused my summons to no end. Extremely useful. In the later FF's they just get in the way. Only time a summon was ever useful was knocking away the legs of an Adamantortoise in FFXIII. That was it. They're weak and can make the battles tougher for you against tough enemies. Plus the TP in FFXIII isn't so quickly restored after summoning (TP used for summoning). Useless. I'd say they were stronger in FFXII, but not by much. Though its been ages since i played it.
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#4 Fantasy_Gamer
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FFXII's summons are almost useless. The same thing goes to FFXIII's. I wonder what's on SE's mind. Summons used to be some power that is a saving grace in times of great trouble. Now, they're more of being mere decorations.
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#5 vegamineral
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FFXII's summons are almost useless. The same thing goes to FFXIII's. I wonder what's on SE's mind. Summons used to be some power that is a saving grace in times of great trouble. Now, they're more of being mere decorations.Fantasy_Gamer
Oh god I could go on for hours. FFVII, being the second FF I ever played still holds the title of BEST. Summons really did mean something back then, without it I would of never beat Ruby and Emerald.
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#6 D3dr0_0
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Summons used to be a powerful force but after FFX they're just to weak to get anything done. I miss the world map and the mini games Final Fantasy could do. Now all they do are monster hunts.

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#7 Fantasy_Gamer
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FFIX is the last game that allowed us to use the world map and manual airships... That's more than a decade ago. I think it is high time to bring it back.
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#8 D3dr0_0
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Maybe they'll get it right next gen. This gen is lacking in JRPGs in consoles.

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#9 vegamineral
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I like manuevering my own airship rather than select a destination by command, FFXIII didnt even have an airship.
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#10 D3dr0_0
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Didn't they have one going to Grand Pulse or something. It was brief since it was totaled as soon as they got it too.

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#11 vegamineral
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Yeah they had that one and the one leading up to Cocoon but you never got to really use them.
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#12 squalls_revival
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I'm not too worried. 13 had a beautoful story and the plot was very relevant to politics, technology, conflicts seen in our present day and past and maybe future...

versus 13 will have a world view map so I hear and ff13-3 will probably combine the best elelments of 1 and 2...

I believe now that the merger is behind us, and I think everything will work out. and become even better than ever. the feeling you had playing the originals can never be replicated anyway those were classic titles for the good ol days!

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Maybe they'll get it right next gen. This gen is lacking in JRPGs in consoles.

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I have to agree. Current gen consoles lack JRPGs that drives most of us RPG enthusiast go shopping frenzy. xD 

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The PSVita should be more than capable to have great JRPGs. Until then I'm not getting one.

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#16 squalls_revival
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only jrpg is need is final fantasy

old and new

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#17 vegamineral
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I'm not too worried. 13 had a beautoful story and the plot was very relevant to politics, technology, conflicts seen in our present day and past and maybe future...

versus 13 will have a world view map so I hear and ff13-3 will probably combine the best elelments of 1 and 2...

I believe now that the merger is behind us, and I think everything will work out. and become even better than ever. the feeling you had playing the originals can never be replicated anyway those were classic titles for the good ol days!

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Im not too worried about 13 it holds up. BTW if u need any hints on the game you can ask me.