hey guys and gals =]

was just wondering what people think is better, final fantasy or star ocean????

have only just started recently playing star ocean myself and ive found that it is a really good game seris since in a way it is alot like final fantasy and ofc i know this is due to it being made by the same company.
just wondering what peoples views on the game is myself.

personally tho i do being that final fantasy is alot better, but only certain ones,
like FF7 on ps1, FF8, FF9 and FF X. but in away i think that X-10 is no where near as good as star ocean or even the other FF games.
but im not sure. any suggestions on other FF games to play aswell?
ive played 1 and 2 aswell just wondering if any of the others ones have great story lines and are worth playing aswell?

cheers guys =]
ZG

How bout comparing it to a longer lasting RPG franchise, since Star Ocean has only what? Five games? I have to admit that some of Star Ocean's plotlines are better than some of FF's plotlines, especially FF8's plotline.

And it doesn't need some tearjerker to make it better. Isnt that a cliche for FF these days?

What's X-10?

I've never played or heard of Star Ocean before but another FF game with a good plot line is Tactics. The original one for the Playstation. It's a bit more complex than the other games but still good.

haha sorry aboout that was ment to put X-2 not 10 :L
and cool will have to try out tactics then see what its like.
but yeh supose that is the common thing for all FF games now all tearjerker plotlines.
kinda gets boring after awhile i have to admit well when you decide they are starting to all become very similar in every way.

nice to see peoples views on the games though aswell , i mean comparing it to something like star ocean isent to bad of an idea, just gives me more insite on what people think of the less popular shorter seris games in comparision to the FF games.
ZG

I like Final Fantasy better overall, but Star Ocean is pretty good. But I like all Tri-Ace games, like Valkyrie Profile and Infinite Undiscovery. A better thread question would be, what is better: Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior/Quest? Seeing how these are some of the first RPGs ever made.

As chugchu said, Tri-Ace are actually the developers of games like Star Ocean.
SquareEnix are just the publishers.
The other thing I keep in mind is that the games Tri-Ace release were normally released under the Enix company, so I don't really in any way think that they are Squaresoft games.
Funnily enough Enix also produced the Dragon Warrior games.

So if you consider that Tri-Ace focuses on a few series rather then one only,
you can see that they have a few 3-5 game series under their belt.

It seems more and more these days SquareEnix just buys developers and releases stuff under the SE name rather then make anything themselves.
All they really work on is FF.

I like the work Tri-Ace does, so to be on topic I have to say that Star Ocean is by far the better series.
Sure, it might not have as many games, but I feel the games that are in it are more in depth, heartfelt, and dont rely to much on the same formula time after time.

I honestly like Star Ocean better. Mostly because the mythology and plot lines are almost always a breath of fresh air.

I rather enjoyed Star Ocean 3. Albel, Cliff, & Sophia were my favorites. But I'll still have to say I enjoyed FF a bit more. They were a bit easier to get into as far as the jobs went & that's a big reason why I play RPGs.

Well, both games are good, but I'll go with FF on this one. FF appealed to me more not necessarily because it's better, but it was the forst RPG game that I've ever played, and as people say 'Fist impression is the strongest'.

if i had to chose between FF7 or Star Ocean 3 i would pick FF7, it was the only FF game that had a good story line and it still does. oh and maybe FF6 because it's the only game that doesn't have a happy ending HAHA

I like both Final Fantasy and Star Ocean, they both are different and unique. I have Star Ocean 3 and I replayed it many times, its that fun. I probably think that the PS3 got the trophy idea from this game, but thats my opinion. I also got Final Fantasy 7, 8, 12, Tactics Advance, and X-2 which introduced different characters and gamplay. Both these games are fun and one isn't better than the other.