Help me understand the Final Fantasy/Mana/Chrono/Dragon/etc Series?

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TyrannicalFascist:
What I'd probably want to do is kind of go all-or-nothing so to speak on the Final Fantasy choices.

It looks like I could potentially have FF I-XI all on Playstation, except for III which would be on DS, or I could have I-VI on Nintendo handhelds and VII-XI on Playstation. I also read that FFIV and Chrono Trigger from the Final Fantasy Chronicles collection has really bad load times, which would kind of deter me a bit honestly.

And on yet the other hand, SNES is one of my favorite systems.... Decisions, decisions.... :P

What's everyone's opinion on PS1 vs GBA/DS for FF I-VI and Chrono Trigger?

Currently I'm inclined to lean this way unless someone knows of why it might be better to go for the alternatives:

Final Fantasy I & II - Dawn of Souls [GBA]
Final Fantasy III - DS remake
Final Fantasy IV - FFII [SNES] AND the DS remake
Final Fantasy V - FFV Advance [GBA]
Final Fantasy VI - FFIII [SNES] AND FFVI Advance [GBA]
Final Fantasy VII and on - Playstation

Chrono Trigger - SNES (or maybe DS)
Chrono Cross - PS1

FFXIK:

--- Quote from: Pikmin Overlord on April 07, 2012, 11:18:43 PM ---Nice work, FFXIK.

If I'm not mistaken, Sword of Mana (GBA) is an updated version of Final Fantasy Adventure (GB).

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Thanks, that's pretty much from memory. Shows how much of a nerd I really am. :D
Yes, Sword of Mana is an updated version of Final Fantasy Adventure. I was hesitant to include it in the Final Fantasy list. Thats why I just made mention of it.

--- Quote from: TyrannicalFascist on April 08, 2012, 12:10:04 AM ---What I'd probably want to do is kind of go all-or-nothing so to speak on the Final Fantasy choices.

It looks like I could potentially have FF I-XI all on Playstation, except for III which would be on DS, or I could have I-VI on Nintendo handhelds and VII-XI on Playstation. I also read that FFIV and Chrono Trigger from the Final Fantasy Chronicles collection has really bad load times, which would kind of deter me a bit honestly.

And on yet the other hand, SNES is one of my favorite systems.... Decisions, decisions.... :P

What's everyone's opinion on PS1 vs GBA/DS for FF I-VI and Chrono Trigger?

Currently I'm inclined to lean this way unless someone knows of why it might be better to go for the alternatives:

Final Fantasy I & II - Dawn of Souls [GBA]
Final Fantasy III - DS remake
Final Fantasy IV - FFII [SNES] AND the DS remake
Final Fantasy V - FFV Advance [GBA]
Final Fantasy VI - FFIII [SNES] AND FFVI Advance [GBA]
Final Fantasy VII and on - Playstation

Chrono Trigger - SNES (or maybe DS)
Chrono Cross - PS1

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Which ever way that make you the happiest without breaking the bank. I wish you lots of happy times with these games. A lot of my favorites are all over these lists.

I'm going to add this again, just because. Final Fantasy XI & XIV are both Pay to Play MMORPGs. So I don't know if that will work out for you. I played XI for 5 years, as long as your on an active server it's great, otherwise. It's meh. FF XIV is just a broken mess not really worth wasting time on.

TyrannicalFascist:
Thanks for the heads up. I probably wouldn't get to those anytime soon anyways, as I don't even have a PS2 and I'd want I mostly play in order. One of my friends has played both MMOs and has told me about them, so I would probably skip them when I eventually get to them.

Now to figure out Mega Man... :P

Beastman1975:
the good news ty is most of the final fantasy games have nothing to do with each other except for recurring names, monsters, and chocobo's so playing order is not nessessarily needed , only a few games in the series are true sequels/prequels, still for fun id play older titles first .

final fantasy VII crisis core on psp is a prequel and the movie advent children is a sequel to the original game
Final fantasy IV on PSP came with after years which is a sequel to the original game originally released on cell phone in japan i believe
Final fantasy X-2 is a sequel to X

not sure if im forgeting any others that are sequels

never played the dragon quest series other than 8 even though i do own 1 lol but been thinking of gettin repros of the snes releases , I and II were rereleased on the snes in japan with a facelift

Maben:
I have some experience here as I recently worked to get the Final Fantasy series. I don't have any handheld systems so Final Fantasy III is currently unavailable to me. I have the rest on Playstation 1/2 though, disregarding the MMOs (and I got FFXIII and XIII-2 for the 360). If you have a backwards compatible PS3 you could get all the games on the same platform (except III). I'm just not really a handheld guy.

Based on your systems, I would recommend the Playstation releases just for consistency (unless that doesn't matter to you). And you really need to pick up a PS2 for X, X-2, and XII. There's a million different opinions but Final Fantasy X is definitely my favorite one.

Just pretend 11 and 14 don't exist, that's what I do. And since 10 and 13 have sequels it basically fills in the "gaps" for you. Also, I would recommend bouncing around perhaps through the series, that's what I'm doing (still haven't played them all). There is no necessary order, and I like to get some of the new graphics and voice acting once in awhile. If you want to play through from the beginning though, be my guest :D

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