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The Best PS1 Final Fantasy Game Headed to Steam

You know it. I know it. We know it.

Dec. 5 2013

Posted by: Patrick

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Final Fantasy VIII

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This is not Final Fantasy Tactics.

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By best do you mean worst? Because it's really the worst. Try and defend Squall.

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One of the worst RPGs of all time.

OF ALL TIME!

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8? No.

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I agree, Patrick <3 haters gon hate

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Man those cutscenes were mind-blowing back in the day. They still look good, I think.

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Edited By Quarters

SPEAK THE TRUTH, PATRICK

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I got boxed PC copies of this and VII. I don't have DVD drive anymore so I might get this when the price drops or something. I remember it was pretty fun game overall.

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Alright, Patrick is allowed to say that if he plays through Final Fantasy VIII again, draws Fire from random encounters for like 2 hours straight and then steamrolls through the rest of the game. Also there's some sort of love story and triple triad. I dunno.

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I like that you can break the hell out of the systems in 8, but that in no way makes it the best Final Fantasy. According to the Internet at large, all Final Fantasies suck, soooooooooooooooooooo...

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Edited By patrickklepek

I hope everyone knows that IX fans are going to be banned.

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Oh, look. Klepek has opinions and he uses his employer to signal boost them.

Not like anybody gets their news here, anyway.

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Edited By SpunkyHePanda

Oh, now look what you've done.

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Lets be honest here - Once Final Fantasy hit the PS1 it was garbage regardless of the number.

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8 is a fascinatingly terrible game. I've never seen such a broken RPG combat system.

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Damn right it's the best.

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YOU GOT ME SO HYPED BECAUSE I THOUGHT DAT FF NINE WAS GONNA BE ON STEAM AND NOW I'M SO SAD THAT I BROKE MY CAPS LOCK BUTTON!

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IX

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Damn right it is. Been replaying it on my Vita this week. Ugfff it's so, so damn good.
Love the Salt Flats thumbnail, too. That are has the best theme.

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VIII best FF for PS1???

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Edited By rainbowfission

Goddamnit, that thumb nail when it was small looked just like it was from Final Fantasy 9 and I got super excited for a minute!! I really hope they can bring IX to steam someday!

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It's the damn truth.

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NOPE!

Give me Tactics or give me death.

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This was the first FF game I played so I'm a bit nostalgic towards it.

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VIII was my favourite one, mainly just for the card game.

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@soldierg654342: Yeah it was too ambitious for it's own good. I still enjoyed the game tho.

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I'm on board with this. At the very least, no one can deny that FF8 had the best minigame in the series in Triple Triad.

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I clicked on the link on my RSS saying "It better be IX, but they never ported that. Just VII and VIII ... So ..."

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Out of the three VIII is my favourite, but I have to say IX is a better game.

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Edited By hassun

I have spend hundreds of hours in FFVIII on PSX and PC but damn it @patrickklepek, it's not the best FF or PSX FF.

Also it seems that, just like with FFVII, they screwed up the music again. Which is truly sad because FFVIII's soundtrack is AMAZING.

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NOPE

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You mean worst?

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VIII was by far my least favorite of the PS1 FF's. Boring story coupled with an awful leveling system. Also, I dunno if this was announced a while ago or something, but this seems to have just come out of complete nowhere. I might pick it up if it's not a terrible version.

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Even the best PS1 Final Fantasy (For the record I think it's 9, since I'm not allowed to pick tactics.) is still like the sixth or seventh best PS1 rpg.

Grandia is #1!

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Edited By Itwastuesday

no this is actually the worst one

by one i mean any video game, ever

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Came for IX. Left because of VIII.

Yes.

Patrick has.. weird taste when it comes to his favorite FF or Zelda games :D

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Yeah Patrick, you're absolutely right.

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THEM'S FIGHTIN WORDS ༼ ᕤºل͟º ༽ᕤ

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Best Final Fantasy on the PS1?

That's a joke right?

We all know that IX > VII > VIII.

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Edited By Falx

So 8?
EDIT: And it actually was 8.

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PTTTSCCH

VI bitches!

From best to worst.

VI - IX - VIII - X - IV - VII - V - III - XII - II - I - XIII

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Edited By rNilla

This isn't Final Fantasy VI...

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IX 5eva

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this is the game with the most wooden characters and nonsensical plot of the series, until FFXIII came out

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Edited By SniperXan

Patrick, I just noticed a slight spilling error. You spelled "Worst" with a "be" instead of a "wor". A common mistake. I'm sure you simply overlooked this minor error.

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goddamn there's like 14-15 year old teenagers who were born when this game came out. Just to put some perspective on how old you fuckin are.

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Edited By JJWeatherman

Alright, guys. All of this arguing abut which Final Fantasy is "best(!)" is just kinda sad. The series is some hot Japanese garbage all of the way through, so just stop.