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the level up system was virtually non existant, the story line was rubbish, and the characters annoying.

Yep, that's Final Fantasy all right.

You're not *random battle* missing *random battle* much.

The only FF I have ever played is FFX, and I really liked it a lot. The random battles got a bit annoying after a while though, I admit. I always meant to play it through using an action replay or something like that to remove the need for random battles and grinding and just go through the story again. Nowadays I don't think I would really want to play a story driven game that is quite such a timesink.

I didn't bother with any of the ultimate weapon sidequests, but did make sure that I could get the optional aeons.

I got half the dark Aeons legit, but the others were beyond me.

However, experienced eyes out there know a legit shot when they see one, and soon the Xbox 360 version was being reported as 1024x576, with 2x multi-sampling anti-aliasing. This is up against native 720p on the original PlayStation 3 version, again with the same 2x level of MSAA, representing a fairly enormous drop of around a third of the overall resolution.

Hmm - from reading that, I strongly suspect that there's not a damned thing in there that I'd ever notice.

I can see the macroblocking in the FMV snippets they posted. I share the writer's annoyance at the unecessariness of the quality drop there, too.

I quite like Final Fantasy and play them all (apart from 11), although there's usually a point in each where I get so annoyed I just don't play them again. Sucker for punishment, me.

In VII I got to the last disc, used the free save that you get too early not realising it's meant to last you until the end, die, decide that I can't be bothered to repeat the last hour again despite having sunk 25-30 hours into it already.

VIII really annoyed me with the summon animations taking twenty seconds plus to do - really very tedious, although a chum pointed out that you're meant to use that time to boost it by button mashing which had somehow passed me by. Got bored, didn't finish.

IX is absolutely wonderful. In fact it's the only one I've completed.

X and XII both have really quite good worlds and battle systems (especially XII), but are absolutely ruined by the need to grind to get past certain bosses, to the point where life seems too short. I don't mind a bit of strategy when it comes to battling, I do very much mind following the story, getting to a boss and finding I've got no chance because I'm not strong enough - this never seemed to happen in IX.

VIII really annoyed me with the summon animations taking twenty seconds plus to do - really very tedious, although a chum pointed out that you're meant to use that time to boost it by button mashing which had somehow passed me by.

I don't have the faintest idea what that means

Hmm..I didn't know that...assuming it's true of course.

I've never seen any kind of RPG put more effort into levels/skills than FF games.

That the same thing that plagued the ropey FMV sequences from Mega CD games?

That the same thing that plagued the ropey FMV sequences from Mega CD games?

T'is true. I think it was R1 you needed to hammer.

Summon?! If you're using the summons in FF8, you're making it quite difficult for yourself. They're stupidly weak and you've got better things to use the command slot on, like Magic, Draw and Item.

Sometimes, as Meaty said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroblock#Macroblocking

"My.... hand.
...
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It's some kind of...
magical device."
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How 'final' is this one actually looking anyway Cras? They have had a few attempts at it now..

How 'final' is this one actually looking anyway Cras? They have had a few attempts at it now..

Ack, the dialogue has become extraordinarily cheesy.

Final Fantasy VIII is the best one. FACT. (even though that is clearly overlong, repetetive and frequently dull and I've only played half of it at most)