Who is the best Final Fantasy protagonist?

Jack

unironically tidus

>>712787958 (OP)
what song is playing in that? for me its

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qVczfirxU

>>712787958 (OP)
BASED

Bartz "Butz" Klauser

>>712787958 (OP)
Mainline, Tidus
Side games, Jack

>>712788061
>>712788232
All I know is that I'm here to kill Chaos.
Need to. It's not a hope, or a dream. It's more like a curse.
I haven't played a single FF game outside of 1(GBA), Dirge of Cerberus and Strangers of Paradise. Should I bother with any of the rest?

>>712788485
5, 6, 7, and 10 at the very least are worth playing.

>>712788485
every gamer should play FFX at least once

>>712788485
1, 4, 6, 7, 10 are all worth playing. if you have JRPG experience you can add 5 and Tactics to it

>>712788075
Fuck off subhuman

Squall is probably the least obnoxious just because he barely talks compared to later protagonists.

>>712788620
no

>>712787958 (OP)
>ENTER

>>712788712
>monkey manlet alien freak
>best anything
kek

Hate to say it, but probably Noctis from FFXV

He's a prince, but is just a really realistic dude

12 has the worst protagonist of 3D FF, because YOU'RE NOT EVEN THE MAIN CHARACTER

>>712787958 (OP)
marche

>>712788709
Play blitzball with my balls

>>712788485
5 and Tactics are really good for party customization. If you like Tactics, check out Tactics Advance and Tactics Advance 2. FF4 is very basic and simple, fun for one playthrough. 6,7,8 and 10 are good stories and gameplay. 9 is atmospheric and soulful but the battles are sloooog because of over half a minute intro, outro and slooooow animations

>>712787958 (OP)
>None of those nerds get the girl at the end of the game
Lmao. ThiefCHADS always get the girls, even literal queens

>>712788814
you're not the main character in 10, 11, 12, 13, and arguably 6 and Tactics

>>712788229
>Best job system
>Best harem
It's not even close

>>712788912
Cloud and Squall both end up with their girls.

>>712788587
>>712788536
>>712788897
Should I bother with the pixel remakes of 4/5/6 or are there better options to emulate?
Also, 10? I was under the apparently mistaken impression that everyone hated Tidus' game.

>>712788930
>harem
Bartz is the best candidate for being the only gay protagonist

>>712788912
>cant even reproduce with her because he's an alien mutation freak
LMAO

>>712788712
ONLY ONE OF US WALKS AWAY

>>712788946
>Should I bother with the pixel remakes of 4/5/6 or are there better options to emulate?
The pixel remasters are fine, but the GBA versions with patched music are optimal.
>I was under the apparently mistaken impression that everyone hated Tidus' game.
No, people like to shitpost about the laughing cutscene and that leaves a lot of outsiders with the impression that it's retarded and being made fun of.

>>712788946
pixel remaster is fine for 4 and 6. its the best version for 5 unless you happen to speak nip. people will say get the PSP version for 4 and SNES version for 6 but if you can't be arsed, then pixel remasters are fine

and 10 is a powerhouse amongst the FF games. its the super popular one in Japan, as 7 is in the west.

>>712787958 (OP)
Locke

>>712788915
FF12 protagonist is literally a random NPC just along for the ride.

Feels quite different.

Also Tidus is definitely the main character of 10, not Yuna, and Lighting is the MC of 13.

>>712789074
not the main character, he barely does anything in the story

>>712789089
Vaan has a place in the story, especially concerning Ashe who is the actual protagonist

Penelo is the one who is rightfully just a plot device in a spandex bodysuit

>>712789089
>FF12 protagonist is literally a random NPC just along for the ride.
You didn't pay enough attention. Vaan isn't a random NPC, he's the backup Dynast-King should Ashe refuse the Occuria. That's why they keep showing him the images of Reks the same way they show Rassler to Ashe. He was sent to go get the sun cryst on purpose.

>>712787958 (OP)
the Chaos man

>>712789109
OP never said main character

>>712788946
>implying anyone hated Tidus' game

>>712788946
I'd play the originals emulated.

10 is good but there are some signs of nu-FF. It's a big corridor, no world map exploring, music is bit step down from Uematsu era. But it's absolutely good story, battle and level up mechanics, customizable equipment, wonderful world and characters. It was first FF with voice acting making it more cinemaric experience.

FFX-2 has good battle and job system but the story and characters are cringe and over half of the game is pure "Dad walks in" scenes of japanese humor with FF meeting Barbie/Totally Spies

>>712788915
By that logic Aerith is the main character of FF7 even though she dies because she's way more important to the story than cloud

>>712788061
I hated the combat but this is the correct answer, followed by 16, than 2.

>>712789241
Woah bro don't spoil the game for that one anon who somehow hasn't played FF7 in this thread.

>>712787958 (OP)
>PS1 cloud instead of remake cloud
Holy KEK why is this so funny

>>712789241
Aerith really isn't that important to the story, she just has the macguffin and can make it work. In terms of the actual plot she really doesn't do much besides die

>>712789231
>music is bit step down from Uematsu era
Hamauzu's music in FFX is beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DVz_yAuyLo

>>712788939
In Squall's case that's a bad thing though

>>712788915
I agree with everything but tactics, as the whole piont of the game is to show how a heretic was more impactful than the King.

>>712788946
I finished FF1-4 recently on emulator (Retroarch bsnes) with CRT shader

The NES games are WAY more difficult and buggy than modern ports

Difficult in a bad way, and buggy in a way that a lot of stuff doesn't even work (FF2 especially, insanely buggy, lots of spells don't work)

The SNES games you should have no problem with though.

>>712789323
she literally saves the planet
also the story stops being about muh evil corporation pretty early and becomes entirely about sephiroth and the ancients shit

>Not emo, there is no tragic backstory. There is no lost love.
>Seems to actually enjoy his life
>Actually has a personality
>Wins, Lives, and gets the girl

>>712789359

My top 3 are
>Bartz
>Zidane
>Cloud
All three have top tier themes as well

>>712789415
2 is so awful it circles back to amazing, you can toad the final boss!

>>712789374
iirc Tactics was an attempt to clear the name of the heretic Olan Durai who claimed Ramza was the one who saved the world instead of Delita

>>712789231
FFX has some jank from being their first 3d game with voice acting but it absolutely feels like a final fantasy game. The series started it's downward trend after the the merger in 2003

>>712789464
>Reddit tier "pick-up artist" personality
I'd rather have a completely silent protagonist with zero personality

Marche

>>712789342
FFX has good music. I simply regard Uematsu better.

>>712787958 (OP)
Butz

>>712789419
Yeah she uses the macguffin after the main conflict of the story has been dealt with. She genuinely doesn't contribute much to the actual story. She certainly doesn't contribute more than Cloud which is just pure delusion on your part

>>712789490
I was thinking Bartz, Vaan, Noctis and Clive are the only ones that aren't mentally ill. All the others have Amenesia or worse.

>>712789671
Firion is just a normal dude
Cecil is also pretty normal
Zidane was mentally sound despite one crisis of faith. If you're gonna include Clive you have to include Zidane

>>712789507
I missed that? What makes you think the future historian was talking about Olan instead of Ramza?

>>712789773
because Alazlam(sp) is Olan's descendant

>>712788768
>manlet
He's 4. How tall should a 4yo be?

>>712789763
I was wondering if I should include Firion, I thought there was an amnesia arc in there though too? Guess Firions like Butz and just has a amnesia bff.
Cecil and Zidane are the two worst offenders, with Cecil having the addition of being imo the worst protagonist in the series.
How does Clive compare to Zidane?

FF is interesting in that the main characters are almost never the best in their games. Jack aside of course.

>>712788712
zidanes design isn't as cool as the other protagonists but personality wise I think he's my favorite MC. He's the most likeable FF protag imo

>>712790040
Firion is just a normal dude the whole way through. I don't think Leon even gets amnesia he just becomes an asshole after being forced into working for the empire.
Zidane can't really remember his birth but outside of that he's a well adjusted guy because he deals with that before the game starts. He's the one dolling out life advice to Vivi and Garnet because he's got his shit figured out. If you're gonna call him mentally ill for the incident on Terra then you've gotta apply the same to Clive after he schizes out and convinces himself that he's not Ifrit and not responsible for killing a bunch of Rosarian soldiers. Clive literally begs Cid to kill him at one point

>>712787958 (OP)
>>712789149
>Penelo is the one who is rightfully just a plot device in a spandex bodysuit
She was so hot in Tactics A2

>>712788882
You want him to kick you in the balls repeatedly while underwater?

>>712790121
Many such cases, SAD!

>>712788969
We're talking about the same guy that ogles Faris' giant pirate rack several times?

>>712787958 (OP)
Design-wise it's WoL with Firion and Cecil in 2nd and 3rd place. FF protagonists started going downhill when they stopped wearing armor

I refuse to believe people unironically think Jack was a well-written character.

>>712790040
What do you have against Cecil? He's a married man who's just trying to serve his schizo King faithfully until the King finally goes too far and he has to rebel (and then become King himself). It's not HIS fault everybody else in the game keeps trying to kill themselves unsuccessfully, he's just doing his best out there.
Admittedly, the change from Chad Knight to Betadin is unfortunate, you got me there.

>>712790280
No that would be so weird haha

Vanille is the main character of FFXIII part 1.

isn't it weird to call it 'FINAL fantasy fifteen"

>>712791253
You know, I've never thought about that before.

I unironically like Squall as a protag

>Hey Tidus if we keep doing what we're doing you're absolutely 100% going to die afterwards
>Yeah well it needs doing if we're going to stop people dying for no reason so fuck it, we ball
No other FF protagonist comes close to the dedication to saving the world this annoying, out-of-place, whiny sports jock does.

They all are very bad.

>>712788912
>>712788939
Tidus didn't have to wait till the end of the game to get his girl

>>712791453
One of the many reasons Tidus works is because you can actually see him mature over the course of the game. In addition to the fish out of water thing, he's pretty much still a kid with daddy issues but you see him eventually step up and become a man in his own right.

>>712789464
>Zidane is conflicted about not knowing his past and briefly left Tantalus because of it
>has the lamest identity crisis in the entirety of the series after finding out he was created as an "angel of death"
>Garnet only openly cares about him in a possibly romantic manner after she thought he was dead but never went looking for him
FF9fags barely know anything about their own favorite game

>>712791559
Wasn't he canonically cucked later?

>>712791253
Branding is a bitch sometimes

>>712787958 (OP)
aya brea

>>712791881
it's best to consider mainline titles as standalone stories since most weren't intended to have followups

>>712787958 (OP)
The Elvaan I played in XI.

>>712791871
>Wanted to know where he came from
>Left Tantalus and went searching for it
>Found nothing, realised that his home is with the people he cares for
>Spends the main game trying to let Vivi come to the same conclusion when he starts going through the same thing
Kino

>>712787958 (OP)
Zidane.
Next question.

>>712793360
Would you suck his monkey penis

>>712787958 (OP)
Sora.

>>712789000
My HEROES (and Vaan)

>>712787958 (OP)
Cloud looks scary

Does FF1 guy have a name?

>>712794960
Bals

>>712787958 (OP)
I’m being 100% serious.

>>712790673
He's well written in that he's entertaining as fuck.

>>712794481
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu_eDxflkMc

>>712787958 (OP)
Locke and Zidane

>>712794960
>The Fighter's name is given as Zest (ゼスト, Zesuto?). He leads the Warriors of Light and bears the Fire Crystal. He has short red hair and is righteous and courageous in nature. Honest, straightforward and prone to tunnel vision, unlike the other three, he has no memories of his past.
>Literally named zesty

It's nice to see people on /v/ appreciating 5 more over time. I don't know if it's a hipster thing or whatever but still.

>>712795292
>He has short red hair
I can hear Amano ree from here.

>>712795292
>The Thief's name is given as Sauber (ザウバー, Zaubā?). He has long golden hair, holds the Wind Crystal and tends to keep the rest of the party grounded in reality with his realist attitude. Apparently a cynical worrier, in battles he tends to be a bit gung-ho and gets in a lot of conflict with Zest.

>>712795595
wonder how far i made it in this game. it had a good story and dialogue, the gameplay was more than adequate
i made it to the sewers town

>>712795349
3 mogs it

>>712787958 (OP)
show me more videos like this

>>712795728
I'm going through 3 right now and it's better than 2 but I'm not really feeling it. I just finished the fire dungeon near the dwarves but I don't really like how I had to build specifically around the boss because he wrecked my shit with my normal team composition. I also feel like it regressed in terms of story compared to 2 where it was generic and even tedious that you had to go back to the starting town to talk to princess again for the 5th time, but it at least felt like shit was happening.

>>712787958 (OP)
Squall is so cool.

>>712795728
lol no

>>712787958 (OP)
Best: Tidus
Worst: Vaan
Overrated: Zidane
Underrated: Squall
Overhated: Lightning
Underhated: Cecil

S: Cloud, Zidane
A: Squall, Tidus, Noctis, Clive
B: Cecil, Terra, Bartz, Lightning
C: Firion, Luneth(?), FF1 guy
D: Vaan

>>712796473
you had me until cecil, whats your reasoning for thinking hes underhated

>>712796473
Lightning receives the correct amount of hate. I'd rather have someone passive and mostly useless like Vaan over a character I actively hate and don't want to succeed

>>712789671
Shantotto (FFXI) is basically Final Fantasy's Tom Bombadil.
She's so obscenely overpowered as a mage that at this point she basically only lets the universe exist for her weird experiments.

>>712796473
Literally objectively correct holy shit I dont care if anons think you are samefagging but I have this exact same opinion

>>712796710
the objective correct list would swap squall for buts thoughever

>>712796525
I find him to be a little too simple as a protagonist. As a character he burns out early on with the change to being a Paladin and remains pretty stagnant and uncompelling after that. I also find the secret moon child thing kind of dumb, but I just don't like that part of the story.

>>712789000
wtf is this

>>712796826
I guess I just grade the series on a bit of a curve, ff4 is like the first real narrative with actual characters for the series so Ive always been pretty forgiving even though its simple, but thats fair

>>712788689
Nah, his "I'm too cool to be here" routine is unbearable.

>>712796934
lalatroon

>>712796934
The apex, the pinnacle, the alpha and the omega.

>>712796934
A walking onahole

dont know a lot about ff, i know XIV has a MMO but does it also have a story mode?

>>712797386
The entire game is the story mode

>>712797386
Yes.

>>712787958 (OP)
Cecil Harvey (FF4)
>Edgy dark knight
>Questions orders from higher ups
>Rebels with bro and hot blonde healer
>Moves out of his edgy phase
>Blonde baddie is thirsty for him
>Bro betrays him because he felt cucked
>Goes to the moon
>Forgives bro
>Actual brother is mindcontrolled villain
>Forgives him as well
>Defeats cosmic horror with the power of light and friendship
>Marries hot blonde
>Impregnates her
>Have kid

>>712787958 (OP)
S tier: Noctis, Squall
A tier: Tidus, Cloud
B tier: Zidane, Lightning
C tier: Terra, Clive
D tier: Bartz, Cecil, Vaan, XIV Shadowbringers WoL
>E ”barely even a character” tier: WoL, Firion, Luneth, XIV WoL

>>712787958 (OP)

>>712797459
>>712797495
is it good? its weird that ive never heard about it. theres like 3 final fantasy games ive never heard about ff14, ff11 and ff12

>>712797676
11 is the superior MMO
12 and 14 are dogshit games so you can ignore them

>>712787958 (OP)
Zidane because he's the cutest, duh.

>>712797676
Starts off pretty slow but I think it's pretty good up until Endwalker where you can and should stop

>>712797676
its good if you stop before endwalker starts

>>712788061
CORRECT.

>>712797707
>11 is the superior MMO
oh 11 is a mmo too?

>>712797804
yes but it's different from 14
14 is shit because it's a wow clone
11 is kino because it's an everquest clone
very different types of MMO

>>712797804
the "massively" was an overstatement

>>712797863
My one friend who I'm trying to con into playing it with me keeps flaking, how possible is it for me to solo FF11? And by solo I mean complete whatever constitutes the main story, not too fussed about doing raids or whatever since it's the only mainline game I haven't played

>>712797863
>>712797901
this website lol

>>712797967
Modern FF11 is very different from what it used to be, it's very accessible to new players and yes, it has NPC allies called "trusts" so you can play it solo

>>712798039
sovl

>>712798052
>Modern FF11 is very different from what it used to be
Yeah that's pretty much why I'm not too bothered about side content. I'll never get the true experience so I might as well try and get the story experience

>>712796264
FF3 is definitely presented as more of a puzzle game where it wants you to figure out what job comps you should be using for each area and boss. It's not required, but you're making things much harder for yourself if you don't use Scholar against Hyne, Dragoon against Garuda, etc.

>>712798039
welp aint playing it, maybe one day when i decide to get into ff

>>712796985
That's a Tarutaru, not a Lalafell.
>>712796934
A joke that's gone on too long.

>>712798170
forgot pic

>>712798170
>>712797676
11 is an MMO that just happens to be called final fantasy
14 is a final fantasy game that calls itself an MMO

>>712796934
See>>712796665 you damn noob
You dont understand.
Shantotto could destroy your whole pitiful land.
OOOOH-HOHOHOHOHO~~~!

>>712798303
FFXI is pure Final Fantasy with SaGa mechanics. It has the last pieces of Sakaguchi's soul put into it.

>>712798303
trvke
>>712798345
>t. never played everquest

>>712798385
I did play Everquest, what does have to do with FFXI being Final Fantasy with SaGa mechanics?

>>712798137
That's a shame if the whole game is like that. I had to change everything just for that dragon boss because he shat out a load of damage that did 3/4 of my entire party's health bar or more and did this every turn. Maybe I was just soured on how stupidly strong he was compared to anything else in the game so far, I'm still finishing it but boy do I hope he was just an outlier.

>>712787958 (OP)

>>712797804
Yes, it came out before WoW and was basically Japanese Everquest.
If you play vanilla 75cap (the game's peak) its a slow but very worthwhile grind.
If you're busy just play modern retail and you can do everything in a few weeks cuz you can summon NPCs to fight everything with.

>>712798039
I mean that's really pretty for Japanese web design.
Keep in mind picrel is still their main search engine and basically their front page of the internet.

>FFX but tidus is isekai'd to India
Would you play it?

>>712789089
>Also Tidus is definitely the main character of 10,
Nope

>>712798039
>>712798551
Soulful as fuck. Modern westoid internet is trash.

>>712798551
i like that desu, was just laughing at the fact half the screen on the site is just white

>>712798551
So do you read this right to left or what

>>712798560
>he didnt mean to shit in the toilet ya, he just didnt know we shit in the streets.

could be kino

>>712798428
I don't remember a dragon boss aside from the 2-headed-dragon near the very end and Bahamut that you're supposed to run from

>>712797676
>ff14
FF with a retail WoW skin
>ff11
Everquest with FF references in it
>and ff12
singleplayer MMO with a bot built into it, so you can set it up to grind/lvl/farm for you while you're asleep or at work.
when I was playing XI everyone left for a week to play XII, then came back a week later saying it was shit. never heard anything about it since.
XIII is at least popular in Japan. Not even the Japanese gave a shit about XII

>>712798703
He probably means Garuda that you're supposed to use four dragoons to jump over the assfucking partywide attack he spams.

>>712798717
This

He's not the best but Clive is the hottest
Jack is second hottest

>>712787958 (OP)
The one with the harem of princesses.

>>712798763
does Joshua count? because adult Joshua is a top tier twink

>>712798170
Just play on a private server. Squeenix dont deserve money for abandoning it.
Just dont play the server that ppl shill the fuck out of on /vm/ and reddit.

>>712798703
Th8s fucker in the lava cave.

2nd place ain't even close

>>712798846
NTA but what server are you talking about? I was thinking of playing on catseye since it has trusts and I dont wanna form groups with discord trannies

>>712795801

>>712798914
Horizon probably

>>712798703
>>712798729
Yeah it was this guy
>>712798850

>>712798914
horizon is the shit one that's shilled hard. its OK but really overrated, main thing it has is a big pop but too many ppl in one server kind of ruins XI cuz you run into a shortage of exp camps and too much competition at bosses.
nasomi is trash.
eden is OK.
era was my favorite but its a smaller community, better if you're busy in RL cuz FFXI is the kind of game that you normally need minimum 6 hours of uninterrupted free time to have any time to play.
there are/were some other servers but a few have died and I'm not up to date with any new ones.

My advice is pick whatever one appeals to you, but go with one that's been around at least 5-10+ years. FFXI private servers arent quite as bad as Ragnarok ones, but new ones are pretty known for dying a year or two in out of the blue over some retarded drama.

>>712798717
11 was the greatest MMO of all time, it filtered all faggots.

>>712795801
Indonesianbros, is this true?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y0py_6O88vE

>>712787958 (OP)
Zidane, no question

>>712798884
Ramza is one of the least interesting characters in his own game. His whole character is just "stop doing bad things" x100.

>>712799342
A knight so righteous that he becomes a heretic is kino tho.

>>712799342
>Thought the holy knight lady was interesting
>Stops mattering mere moments after joining the party
>Rinse and repeat with every other party member in the game
I hate it

>>712787958 (OP)
>tfw no turn BASED main title

>>712788485
The best ones are 7, 5, and 4. They all offer something different.

>>712793296
>realised that his home is with the people he cares for
He ditched them to hang out with Garnet then completely forgot about Blank but thankfully Marcus isn't a fairweather friend and worked to help get him back to normal.
>Spends the main game trying to let Vivi come to the same conclusion when he starts going through
And then completely forgot it all when Garland told him he was a genome. A normal person would have told Old Jack they don't give a shit about any of it but Zidane crashed out in one of the most silly forced drama moments in any of the games.