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The Fallout fans are missing out.
Final Fantasy fans are right to skip 2, but 1 can be fun. I'd much rather play 1 than 8.
Heeeyyy 8 is the first one I played and loved.
Not the first I played but I did love 8. See, there are atlest(and at most probably) two of us!
The draw system sucked hard but overall the game was great.
I have no nostalgia for 8. Meanwhile, I have heavy nostalgia for 7 and 9, so my hopes and expectations were set high for 8.
It didn't resonate with me at all.
Ugh misread your comment and went on a fallout 2 rant. Woops. Totally agree with you! The early fallout games were excellent, and i think the only good one since the IP got picked up is new Vegas
Can I hear your fallout 2 rant anyway? I only played the modern ones, and nearly totally ignored the strategy involved in VATS in favor of just shooting enemies in the head myself.
Ha! Totally! Fallout 2 is an underrated gem of a game, the amount of content in a single city (new reno) is staggering. It's funny, difficult, at times nonsensical, and arguably my favorite game in the series. Nothing about it is perfect, but it feels so right.
I don't want to give too many details in case i spoil it, but the game is really something else. I don't think any game in the series has been as unhinged since fallout 2. It is 2d isometric and uses an action point system, so be aware of that, but man is it wild. I think new vegas is the closest to really capturing the essence, but there's a certain tone that is missing from the new games. I also strongly dislike the nonstop shoot on sight gameplay in later entries like they're copying call of duty.
The first time i had an enemy offscreen one shot one of my party members with a Gauss rifle was a shock. An epic shock.
Sheesh. I wasn't expecting to hear 'unhinged', but if you're saying it's like the "wild wasteland" modifier in New Vegas that makes sense. Would you say the fights are more difficult than the fps ones?
I was a much less experienced gamer at the time, so I recall them being significantly difficult, but fun.
Well, when I say unhinged I'm saying that the content was pretty wild, and the freedom you have to do some messed up stuff is fairly open.
This person would probably like to have a word with you.
I maintain that FF8 is mostly only loved when people have nostalgia for it, or they love the card game, or they love breaking the battle system (generally by using the card game).
I was playing through the series, and 8 was my biggest disappointment.
Japanese 2 or outside Japan 2?
It's just Final Fantasy 2 these days. I don't think the North American numbering system is used much anymore.