i had to vote squall simply because ffviii was the first i played and got me into ff and rpgs and he has a gunblade. i mean come on, its a freaking gunblade. dont get me wrong, cloud is cool and im sure i would have voted for him if i played ffvii first but i didnt. i loved ffx but tidus was alittle cry baby. if the main male characters were sent to prison together tidus would be the b###h.
ive used a guide for ffviii back when it first game out, it was only on the first disc though, first mission you are assigned to. acutally it was my cusions, i was helping him. i still use a guide for it but that is just to find mob locations so i can get the items to upgrade weapons. i use guides for ffxi to give me an idea of how to do a quest or a mission. other then that i dont use guides for anything else.
i thought the game was a good idea. but it just came out all wrong. the combat system was pretty good, i enjoyed being able to switch abilities in the manor you are able to. the graphics were great and the sound was great (minus the yuna singing, i despise that). the story was horrible, and it was just too damn short and easy. the last boss really annoyed me. i beat him in under 5 mins with 3 lvl 80 characters. UNDER 5 MINUTES!!!!! there is something wrong here when the last boss is the easiest boss youve ever faced in the game.
its a short little ova, and by short i mean real short. there is a website that has it were you can play it from there not the best quality but its better then nothing. if i can find it ill post it later. all in all it is really good. not much can be said that hasnt already about it.
ive been playing ffxi for alittle over 2 years now. and just to give you a slight idea of it how tough or long it can be here are my lvls: dark knight (main job) 53, warrior 34, thief (sub job) 30, red mage 25, samurai 20, dragoon 20, paladin 18, black mage 17, ninja 15, white mage 12, ranger 10, monk 7, beastmaster 7, summoner 3, bard 1, im rank 5, and have done well around 200 quests easily. thats all with 55-56 days logged in. i havent gotten the new expasion yet so i dont have puppetmaster, corsair, or blue mage.
this is a game for serious mmo players. the ability to loose experience points and down lvl can make this game aggrivating. since i began playing ive died 24-26 times, so thats not something im too worried about. quests and missions are hard. i mean really hard. but an hour in the jeuno (the biggest city) and you can have up to 3 parties allied to do something. linkshell (a guild) members are even more then happy to help, this really helps when trying to do certain quests. just with the ffxi and the expasion rise of zilart it is expected for the average gamer to take a year to complete everything, and now there are 2 expasions on top of that. this game really isnt meant for single player action. now im not experienced with wow but i know a few people that play it and have watched. if you want to be able to lvl by yourself rather quickly and have an easy time playing then get wow. ffxi is designed for you to get out there with other people. sure you can reach 75 (highest lvl to get) in a rather fast amount of time if you know people and dont have a life. now i could keep going on about this game but im not. if you are serious about mmos and want something that will take some time then seriously look into ffxi. there is also RF (forget what it stands for) its a pvp mmo that looks really good that is out. come august archlord comes out. im not sure if that is strictly pvp or what, but it looks good as well. ive actually thought about quiting ffxi and going to archlord depending on what the game play is like.
i cant really say i have a favorite. this will be tough to decide. the fact that they change the system is just wonderful. each time they were able to come out with a system that was unique and easy to use. well at least i thought they were easy to use. but i think i may have to go with the sphere grid just because you could enter the other characters area of the sphere grid and get wide range of abilities with your characters.
this is a tricky one. so ill name them from games.
ffvii - tiffa. areis comes in a close 2nd ffviii - actually i liked them all ffix - garnet ffx - again i like them all ffx-2 - i cant say i have a fav one this one. paine wasnt that great and yuna and rikku got really annoying in this one. actually all the characters were annoying when i think about it.
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