Hey JomeL, pick up either: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy 3, or Final Fantasy VII.

Yeah, FFVII's hyped way too much, I'll agree to an extent, but just play it with an open mind. At first the story is like, wtf? But just play the game through at least until Junon.

[quote="Blank"]Hey JomeL, pick up either: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy 3, or Final Fantasy VII.[/quote]

holy shit, quoted for truth.

TACTICS

On my first go through tactics when I was younger, I didn't understand why I couldn't buy any armor for my Knights or bows for my Archers. I was so mad when I found out you had to buy that stuff at the castles, not the towns, such an embarrassing discovery. I have no clue how I even made it to chapter two (yeah, that far) with naked knights, stone throwing archers, etc. Very much .

I didn't really appreciate any of the story or political stuff when I played it the first time or two.

I got all the way to chapter two using squires my first time through (didn't know how to change class.) As soon as I figured it out, I promptly quit and restarted that game.

Man, I can't find my tactics disk.

My brother primarily plays it. I haven't played it in a long time. Velius is a super tough fight, if you're not sufficiently leveled, you quite possibly could be trapped at the fight if you can't beat him.

I gave Agrias a bag once and told her to get back into the kitchen and make me a sandwich. It was funny until she climbed out of the tv and gave me an RKO through my coffee table.

The first two times I played it, there were difficult battles. The following three times were cakewalks. I spent perhaps too much time building up jobs... XD

SINGLE HIT KILL ON WIEGRAFF.

Heheh, funniest thing ever is when you fight Gafgarion and completely pwn everybody with Geomancers.

Geomancers = pimps

But seriously, Monk is like, the best class ever due to Chakra's magical ability to give you MP as well!!! Put a primary summoner and secondary monk... whew.

Not to mention wave fist and everything.

Monk ability is great, but they made it strange so that if you use it a lot, it becomes almost worthless. You have to save it for later on in the game, IMHO. If you do, you can deal out 400 to 600 with a single blow.

Also, Cloud is great for nostalgia but totally meh in battle. His moves take way too fucking long to execute to be of any realistic use (well, the biggest ones anyway).

Also, Orlandu is TOO fucking powerful. They shouldn't have made him as strong as he is, because him with Excalibur is a bit unfair, makes most battles a cakewalk.

There's a trick to get around Cloud's slowness, I can't remember what it is precisely. And his Cross Slash attack fucking pwns.

Ninjas with [i]two swords[/i] and [i]equip sword[/i] skills is pretty much god mode. Stand behind an enemy, two rune swords, *WHACK* *WHACK* dead in one hit. Actually, Orlandu is god mode. Ninnies use Orlandu, too powerful.

Steal an Ultimus Bow from the archers in the woods where you find the chocobo for the first time. It takes a huge chunk of game to play through before it becomes obsolete. Archers go from YEAH to OH YEAH instantly with that thing that early on.

Also, we recently discovered there's a lightning elemental gun, and another gun that I can't remember. They are on certain squares via move/find item in the deep dungeon. OH BOY, GOTTA GET 'EM.

Amazing music. Ramza wore shiny metal butt-plates in the final leg. Innocents are murdered, war is waged, Mustadio is a fun name to say. political intrigue, emotional decisions, echoing death screams. Hawt dancers and archers. So much win. Game would be perfect if the the majority of the Zodiac fights wouldn't have been pathetically easy, including the final boss, excluding Velius. They were all stronger before they used the Zodiac stones, it's sad that the programmers made them so slow to act while transformed.

You thought the last boss was ridiculously easy too?

Actually, Ramza's Squire job is the single fucking greatest job on the game. Anybody managed to get his final fucking ability? I keep accidentally going past that battle and then remembering it and being like FUCK. I got the Genji equipment though, for epicness.

Yeah, there's a Blaze gun and some other gun, you can also get them as trophies from certain event battles or by stealing them. Mastering Thief early on is pretty much the best way to fucking own at that game.

I never had the time or patience, but if you go into deep dungeon a SHITLOAD, you randomly get a sweet battle against a shitload of ninjas that throw super-rare equipment at you. Response ability: CATCH. EPIC FUCKING WIN, YOU NOW HAVE TWO EXCALIBURS. Yeah, Tactics is pretty much the game I've played most, ever. It's got to be my favorite video game of all time. And Mustadio is fucking fun to say.

The second time I played through (and on), I killed Algus in every battle where he was a guest in my party (for the experience and job points XD) because I knew he was a fucker. Also Gafgarion. The pig-fucker. I gave them no equip, and never taught them to use jack shit. Little fuckers never wasted my items ever again.

EDIT: Also, yeah, the boss fights were all pretty much weak shit. Even the hidden boss in Deep Dungeon is a fucking pansy, and Deep Dungeon itself is easy as hell if you use your head and do things in a careful, systematic fashion. The last battle was weak shit, but god, I love the soundtrack to that game. I bought it a while back.

Lozzle.

Anyway, FFT is a game where if I were the man in charge I'd be like:

Me: Damn, this is a good example of writing.
Story Guy: Thank you, sir.
Me: I'd blow you
Guy: Wha!~?
Me: If I swung that way, I definitely would.

Lulz, but no really.

The Advance version was such a disappointment compared to the original. I've found that pretty much all the people that never played the first one loved it, but those that had thought it was meh at best.

My only complaints about FFT are:

NOT LONG ENOUGH
NOT HARD ENOUGH

But the storyline is indeed, totally fucking awesome. Even after playing it like five times, I love it.