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      The name is a bit silly but I love the story behind it.

      For the uninformed: When Square was developing FF, the story goes that the company was facing bankruptcy and that this would be their last game. It ended up being a hit and the rest of history.

      Supposedly and alternatively, it may have been so named as the designer’s (Hironobu Sakaguchi) last shot in the game industry and he had resolved to stop if it didn’t work.

      Either way, I like it.

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        As interesting as it is, thats actually a common misconception. It wasn’t due to facing bankruptcy and years later Sakaguchi gave a different account from his supposed last effort at making a game.

        This Famitsu article details it as such because they hoped it would be abbreviated as FF because it sounded good in Japanese. Their initial name was Fighting Fantasy but that had potential trademark issues, so they settled on Final Fantasy. Apparently they also didn’t care so much about what it was and any words that abbreviated to FF would work.

        I like the more recent story as it gives some certainty to the series from the beginning, but I suspect it was a mixture of both Sakaguchis possible last hurrah and wanting a “cool” name.

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      I like to think there’s a better alternate universe somewhere, in which Square made the correct decision, and named it “Final-er Fantasy”.

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        What needs to be remade? It has a very purpose-built battle system, unlike 9 (for example), which used the same system the games had had since 4.

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          What needs to be remade? Nothing; I’d just like to see updated graphics, a couple tweaks in the story here and there, and maybe a few tweaks to the sphere grid.

          It’s a great game, I just wouldn’t mind seeing it get upgraded a bit.

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            You might enjoy one of the rereleases of FFX if you haven’t played it yet. They’ve updated the spheregrid, and even have an alternative one (International version, I think it’s called?..).

            And there’s probably fan hacks by now, too!

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    Most EA sports games, like FIFA or whatever they call themselves.

    Call of Duties

    But are they really different games?

    I have never played a FF game but atleast to me, an outsider, they all look different from each other, maybe I am wrong.

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      Final Fantasy is like Black Mirror, there are common themes, plot points, and names that persist throughout the series. However no two numbered titles share the same worldbuilding, lore, and characters.

      It’s like what happened with Quake I-IV but on steroids. Very different games held together by a promise of what emotions you’d expect.

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      Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

      (My favorite fact is that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the 19th game in the series)

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      Story wise, all different with a certain set of tropes being ever present (crystal will be a nonsense word in your head by the end). Gameplay wise, they can be samey with significant variations on progression (8 being the most out there IMHO). After 13, it does start getting much more variable with the formula.

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    Ok but can you name 30 games that you’ve beaten all from separate series? Because I actually couldn’t

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      1. Pokemon Blue
      2. Final Fantasy 7
      3. Star Control 2 (UQM)
      4. Super Mario World
      5. Donkey Kong Country 2
      6. Kirby’s Adventure
      7. The Legend of Zelda
      8. Earthbound
      9. Fire Emblem
      10. Rock Band
      11. Guitar Hero
      12. Katamari Damacy
      13. Trails in the Sky
      14. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
      15. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
      16. Bug Fables
      17. Borderlands 2
      18. GTA3
      19. Illbleed
      20. Gex
      21. Return Fire
      22. StarCraft
      23. Streets of Rage 2
      24. Street Fighter 2
      25. Heavy Rain
      26. Beyond Two Souls
      27. Golden Sun
      28. Shining in the Darkness
      29. Chrono Trigger
      30. Persona 5

      That was actually pretty tough! I tried to avoid “related” series too (like 2D vs. 3D Mario, Mario vs. Yoshi, etc.)

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      1. Baldur’s Gate 3
      2. Hades
      3. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
      4. Bioshock
      5. Hypnospace Outlaw
      6. Dead Rising
      7. Disco Elysium
      8. Prey
      9. Dishonored
      10. Borderlands
      11. Final Fantasy VIII
      12. Mass Effect
      13. Half-Life 2
      14. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
      15. Red Faction
      16. Psychonauts
      17. Spelunky
      18. Primordia
      19. Strangeland
      20. Alan Wake
      21. Telltale’s The Walking Dead
      22. F.E.A.R.
      23. Heavy Rain
      24. Dragon Age: Origins
      25. Jade Empire
      26. Fire Emblem: Awakening
      27. Life Is Strange
      28. The Longest Journey
      29. Metro 2033
      30. The Punisher

      And I could keep going because I’ve spent far too much time playing video games

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      1. Metal gear solid
      2. Dragon ball Z Budokai 3
      3. Disco elysium
      4. Far cry 3
      5. Assassin’s creed 2
      6. Spider-Man
      7. Littlebigplanet
      8. Bioshock
      9. Dark souls
      10. Star Wars Jedi Academy
      11. Batman Arkham
      12. Call of Duty Black Ope
      13. Super Mario Bros 3
      14. Zelda BOTW
      15. Gears of war 2
      16. Uncharted 2
      17. The last of us
      18. Kameo
      19. Mega Man 2
      20. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade
      21. Hotline Miami
      22. Gravity Rush
      23. Persona 4 golden
      24. Tomb Raider
      25. Crash Bandicoot 3: warped
      26. Spyro year of the dragon
      27. Pokémon red
      28. Zero Escape Virtue’s Last Reward
      29. Fallout 3
      30. Devil may cry
      31. Lego ___
      32. Resident Evil
      33. Tell Tale’s Walking dead
      34. Wolf among us
      35. Fable 2
      36. Tales from the Borderlands
      37. Mortal Kombat
      38. Injustice
      39. Infamous
      40. God of War (2018)
      41. Journey
      42. Dying light
      43. Dead island 2
      44. Hitman
      45. Saints Row 2
      46. Enter the matrix
      47. Superman returns
      48. Kingdom hearts
      49. Portal
      50. X-men Origins