I've never played a FF game

Cringe

Of course you would. VII fans views are always heavily tainted by nostalgia.

VII is unpolished as shit. Try VI or X.

>Is the most critically acclaimed blockbuster ever, which sold millions of PS1 units alone, worth it

Yeah probably not, faggot

Yeah 7 is good, but 6 is also a good place as well.

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Yeah go for it. Great place to start.

>characters are introduced and not utilized enough
So you recommend him 6, the game with the largest cast of throwaway characters, and 9, the game where 4 out of 8 characters become irrelevant within 30 minutes of meeting them?

>So you recommend him 6 and 9
Correct.

In spite of the fact that they're the worst offenders of your complaints against 7.

I think FF5 is a good place to start because it's generic and old. You will be introduced to the series and the ones you play after will have more exotic settings. You could start with any game though.

What's a greater challenge? Beating the original FF (Or PSX version) or doing the newer version+optional bosses?

Yes. Wasn't my only critique if you read the post. But Barret, Red, Cait Sith and Cid are all used very minimally. They have a small backstory moment and then move on. The other 2 aren't even required. But if you do get them, Yuffie adds nothing. Vincent is interesting but explored very little unfortunately.

>But Barret, Red, Cait Sith and Cid are all used very minimally. They have a small backstory moment and then move on.
And you're going to complain about that when 9 does this with half its cast and 6 does it with even more of its 14 characters?
>But if you do get them, Yuffie adds nothing. Vincent is interesting but explored very little unfortunately.
That's because they're optional, bonus characters. You can't do too much with permanently missable characters.

1, 6, or 7 are all good starting points.

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Fucking dumb ass question. How the hell should we know OP? You've told us precisely nothing about your taste in games.

How about you just download it and try it for yourself instead of asking literal strangers online who know nothing about you. You will know within the first hour whether you like it or not.

Any of them are good starting points, moron. None of the plots are related so it really doesn't matter what order you play them.

I wouldn't say 3 is a good starting point.

The former, because you have spell cast limitations in the form of counters (similar to D&D) instead of an MP pool system. Your attacks also won't reroute, so if two characters target one enemy, and the first character kills it, the second character's attack won't automatically go to another enemy. If I remember right, potions in the PS1 version heals a random amount and poison damage was bumped up.

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Some are easier (and better) to play than others though. You wouldn't recommend someone to start with 2 just because it has a stand-alone story to 1 because it's rubbish and more than likely to turn them off the series than anything else.

Yes. I find that IX focuses more on the existential/emotional crisis of all the characters (except Quina, but s/he is comic relief) which makes them easier to relate to and lets you feel more for them, even when they are underused.

>I find that IX focuses more on the existential/emotional crisis of all the characters
7 does that as well though. Cloud gets it, Barret gets it, Aeris dies to become a plot piece instead of getting it, Red XIII gets it, Cid gets it, Tifa gets it, Vincent gets it a little, Yuffie gets it and we understand Reeve's frustrations and dilemma. But what 7 doesn't do is have its non-optional characters become completely irrelevant soon after they're introduced. Quina is Quina, Amarant is bitter towards Zidane and that's it, Freya doesn't exist after Cleyra and Eiko flits in and out of relevance and remembrance whenever we need to learn more of Garnet's past.

That's a movie, not a game.

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Honestly, all 3D FFs aged like shit. They look terrible and the earlier ATB battle system they used is shit. Unites the worst aspects of turn-based combat by letting you wait forever every turn and offers nothing noteworthy to make up for it.
Story-wise they are also rather poor and starting with XII all FFs had major development issues and quality got even worse.
Start with one of the SNES titles. They still have the god-awful ATB system, but at least a pleasant to look at.

All your points apply on the games you mentioned.

>ATB is shi-

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this might be one of the most retarded baits ive ever seen.

>cuts out the minion that is also in the fight

cherrypicking at it's finest

those images are always stupid for JRPGs because sure they have like 5-10 hours of cutscenes but they also have a lot of gameplay to them. Unlike something like The Last of Us which has like 2 hours of gameplay and 3 hours of cutscenes

>hold X to win
O was confirmation in VII. X was cancel.

Never played any turn based RPGS before, is this a good beginner game?

Play Dragon Quest XI. Beginner friendly, modern graphics, and a true turn-based combat system unlike FF.

Yes, it's simple. Don't play Dragon Quest btw, it's the most boring grindy shit ever.

Is that a moonlight sword?? Did From make FF7?