Track this topic | Email this topic | Print this topic

FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, or FFVIII have the best plots. Wait ffv has a plot?! j/k but there really wasnt too much of a story line, just save the unsavable crystals...

Quote

You seem to have left the best one off your list of options. Tactics, easily has the best plot. Betrayal and Intrigue abound and characters aren't flat and annoying like many other games.

but they have no noses and the summons looked like cardboard cut-outs... the plot line was good tho... almost too mideval


This post has been edited by Zantetsuken on 6th July 2006 03:28

--------------------

In order to be politically correct, I am no longer a "White Person," I am a Caucasian-American.

Quote

Wait ffv has a plot?! j/k but there really wasnt too much of a story line, just save the unsavable crystals...

This is what someone would say about FFV when they have never played through the whole game themselves.

Quote

but they have no noses and the summons looked like cardboard cut-outs... the plot line was good tho... almost too mideval

Yeah... because plot really relies heavily upon graphics and all.......

--------------------

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.

~Pacifist Badge, 1978

FFV's plot was actually really good I found. However if you just played it without getting a decent length into it you wouldn't understand it or you think you would but really you'd just be thinking: "Save the world! Stop the crystals smashing!" Really FFV is about more than that but to say the actual plot would be a spoiler considering the game changes two times in dramatic ways.

--------------------

-Xig Xag

I voted for vii probly cause i played it mor erecently so its still in my head. ffx and ffvi where also good plots i think.

--------------------

Finished NSG FFX, Playing FFIV again.

I can't believe I'm the only one who voted for IV. Awesome repentance story, and has the most perfect balance of gameplay and story time out of any FF.

Quote (sweetdude @ 5th July 2006 13:47)

I've played IV until X-II (which really has lost the plot) and I'd go with FFVII. It's not stupid, it has more holes than my last bike tyre but it's ingenious. Instead of forcing you into a story and keeping you in a small tunnel as far as depth goes - it is expansive and allows you to decide much of the history and characters for yourself. Whether this was by accident or not it's still engrossing. You may say that's not intentional and is actually a fault of the game developers by I find it marvellous. The world and story of FFVII is unique to each player of the game. The other don't do this I feel.

That sounds like a fancy way of saying FFVII has no (coherent) plot, so we have to make it up ourselves (mostly by pulling it out of our rears). I don't know about anyone else, but telling the story should be the storyteller's job.

--------------------

"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

ffVIII i was great to actually see the main theme about love and how the characters matured and changed overtime i liked he timecompression idea too even though they didn't explain it well you can just say is magic like slow & haste

--------------------

delete me

Seriously, I was torn between VII and IX which IMHO feature the best stroylines and plots closely followed by II and VI...
Finally voted VII, since its plot has been thoroughly exploited and drawn further in Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus, Last Order and that cell phone series the name of which I can't recall.

Although it'd be nice if Aeris finally stopped talking, since she's dead.

--------------------

"I fell off the mountain of words at around the 10,000ft mark. Tell my family...they owe me money." -Narratorway

"If you retort against this, so help me God I'll shove any part of your anatomy I can find into some other part. Figuratively, of course." - Josh

"We have more, can deliver tuesday." - Del S

Good old CoN

I voted for FF4. Although the character development is a bit primitive by today's standards, the entire story felt coherent. Every event had a purpose and was plausibly linked to the overall story.

FF6 would be a close second. The main reason that I didn't vote for it is the World of Ruin. Although it's fun to be able to choose what you want to do, the plot seems to have gone on the back burner for this half of the game. The only new developments are primarily characters coming to terms with themselves or the past.

Possible spoilers: highlight to view

Terra: comes to terms with her Esper half and discovers the meaning of love
Locke: comes to terms with Rachel's death and discovers that he is free to love Celes.
Cyan: comes to terms with his family's death
Setzer: comes to terms with Daryl's death
Gau: meets his father in an optional event
Shadow: past is revealed in optional (and rare) dream sequences

FF7 also had an interesting story, but parts of it felt contrived. I also grew bored with chasing Sephiroth for an entire disc.

This post has been edited by Magicite on 20th July 2006 14:16

--------------------

The world before the fall...
Delightful is the light of dawn...
Noble is the heart of man...