Minigames

[ForceStealer]

Please be sure to let me know of any minigames I may have missed, I'm pretty sure I'm missing a few.

So the whole minigame thing really became a standard expectation in VII, and, for the most part, none of the games since VII have really been any good. Or at least so well entwined with the plot. Blitzball makes a decent push for it but other than that they never again seemed to have really integrated little diversions into the game. A day or two ago I had a strange urge to play the snowboarding game so I loaded up a game and had some fun with it, and then also played around in Gold Saucer for a bit, most people loved the Gold Saucer but it has this not really been attempted since. Any thoughts as to why that is?

Card games can be fun but have zero plot significance, X-2 was the first that seemed to try to provide as many minigames as FF7 had, problem was they all sucked...so I didn't include all of them, but if people want the Cactuar game and the Thunder Plains game up there I'll add them.

 

[KissTheRain]

You missed my favorite, SUPERDUNK! O:

So...I just picked the snowboarding because I get finger cramps from playing it 2 hours straight. =.=;

 

[Makoeyes987]

I think FFVII arguably has the best assortment of mini-games in any FF. FFX and FFX-2 comes second. with FFIX's games, particularly Tetra Master coming in a close third.

Seriously, there's just a whole shitload of things you can do in FFVII that are just...really awesome. Chocobo breeding is one of the best.

 

[Smaddy]

Snowboarding, FTW.

I got so good at that game, especially the time-trial. I loved when you could unlock the hyper-speed Balloon.

And I'd purposefully keep trying to play it until it let me play as Cid. Then when he crashed into a wall going at full-speed, when he got up he'd flip out.

I didn't play much FF8, but I did play quite a bit of Triple Triad. Did anyone else own the IRL Triad cards? Man those things were impossible to find. (More impossible than the FF7 original figures, even!)

 

[ForceStealer]

I remember a website called TTX or something that let you play Triple Triad online. I always preferred Tetra Master myself, but but it was pretty fun.

 

[Frostwave]

I accidentally voted for Triple Triad, but what I meant to click on was Chocobo Hot & Cold from FF IX.

CH&C is my favorite minigame in the series. I loved digging up the chocographs and then running around on the world map pecking the ground. The cute little noise the bird makes when it finds the location of a treasure, not to mention the music was awesome, too. So yeah, that one.

Other faves are the Submarine Chase from VII, Triple Triad and Sphere Break from X-2. I hated the last one at first, but I kept playing and got really good at it. I beat Shinra's pants off.

 

[ForceStealer]

I couldn't stand Chocobo Hot & Cold, which pisses me off because pretty much all the best items are from that. I dunno if I'm jsut unlucky, or suck, or what but I find like one chocograph (and maybe a chocograph piece or two) every 2 hours, far too slow for my patience to hold up...

 

[Frostwave]

Yeah, I've talked to other people who said it seemed like you'd hardly ever dig up chocographs. I wonder what's up with that... I never had that problem. You could only dig up a set amount of chocographs at a time depending on how far along you were(if I remember right), and I always seemed to find them pretty easily and it didn't take that long.

 

[Celes Chere]

For some reason, I loved FFIX's card game. I just had to have all of them, and I loved playing the game and winning. >=D

 

[Cat Rage Room]

I snowboarded the fuck out of FF7, son.

 

[Username]

what the fuck.... why hasent anyone voted bike chase. Even though it wasnt considered a game, it beats snowboarding u boring twats.

 

[ForceStealer]

What do you mean "even though it wasn't considered a game?"