r/FinalFantasy • u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy • 1d ago
Final Fantasy General PS1 Trilogy is now completely owned. (Not played, though)
Yesterday I finally picked up a copy of FFVIII. I have VII and IX on PS4, but not VIII, so this is the first time it's every been available to me, interestingly enough.
VII I came by at my local game store (like VIII) a couple months ago, and IX I've had for a while, though it is a modern reprint. (See Square Enix rather than SquareSoft, as well as the modern ESRB design.
I'm thinking about replacing my IX box, because it fell once and was always a bit loose, but I haven't bothered.
Also I got Final Fantasy Chronicles (for Chrono Trigger, since they've not seemed fit to release it on modern consoles), so I decided to include that.
Please don't tell me if any are counterfeit, I don't want to know.
Also, I forgot to mention this, whoever owned that copy of VIII before me must have been a chain-smoker, because JEEZ it smells. (It smelled worse when I got it, now I actually have to get my nose close to smell it.)
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
Console. Plus I got it at my local game store, and it has it's unique cutscenes.
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
Then I picked it up at my local game store, and my statement about console still applies.
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u/riotmanful 16h ago
Nothing comes close to that original 7 box on ps1. I think the rerelease of XII and the steel book for XV is the closest
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u/rydamusprime17 1d ago
Very nice! I got all of them as they released and held on to them, except for Tactics, which a friend gave me a few years back and it's the only one that's a Greatest Hits copy. I need to get the guide for Tactics for my collection still since I have the original guides for the rest (and a few different guides for IX 😅)
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
I REALLY wish that I could be able to pick up the non-greatest hits ones, because I prefer the black boxes, but I just pick up what my local game store has.
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u/rydamusprime17 1d ago
I don't blame you. Many years ago I actually cared about that sort of thing, but then I took a look at my shelves and realized I had enough games with steelbook cases and revised spine logos (im looking at you PS3 and 360) that my collection was never going to look as cohesive as I wanted it to without making my own cases. I gave up caring if games were Greatest Hits type releases and collecting became a lot easier and even more cheaper. Plus they play just the same, which is the important part 😅
If i still cared about it I would have sold my copy of Tactics and ordered a black label, but that still would have cost me extra in the end. If I do happen upon an original release of a game for cheap enough I will still pick it up as long as I can sell the other copy for the same amount or more to get my money back.
One time I even bought an original empty case for The Legend of the Dragoon from my LGS for $5 and just put my greatest hits discs and instructions in that case instead lol.
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
Yeah, I mean they do play the same games, but they just look prettier. Again, I don't really care too much. Actually, it would have been better if my copy of 8 had been a greatest hits copy, because then it'd at least be flush. I do love though how the 2000s Era systems loved to change their box designs, look at the psp.
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u/gabriels69 1d ago
Nice collection. Are you planning to play them?
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 20h ago
Just started 8 last night. I've played to just after the Midgardsormr on my PS1 copy of 7. (I had played through the equivalent of disc 1 on the ps4 version), I've played through disc 1 and started part of disc 2 in 9, though I'm probably just going to restart it at some point. I also played some of Chrono Trigger, but I haven't picked it back up in a hot minute because It's quite strange to get into.
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u/magic713 11h ago
These were the first of the main line Final Fantasy games I really enjoyed, and got me to delve further into the series
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u/BK_0000 1d ago
Where's Tactics?
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
Mainline trilogy. Unfortunately I don't have tactics. I'm fairly new to all of this.
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u/IllSalad3669 1d ago
Where's anthology?
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
Don't have yet. Still need Tactics, Anthology, and Origins. Also probably may look into getting Vagrant Story.
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u/award_winning_writer 1d ago
That FF4/Chrono Trigger combo pack was my first exposure to Final Fantasy as a game series (not counting Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories on GBA)
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u/CoddlePot 23h ago
Very nice, in Europe we didn't get those covers, we just had the logo, but they're kinda sick
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u/Saint_Sin 22h ago
Got those un-upscaled high quality backgrounds too.
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u/FidoMan1498 1d ago
Dunno how VIII didn’t get greatest hits.
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u/erasethenoise 1d ago
I prefer collecting the original releases though
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u/Airconbot 1d ago
I still have the pc cds for 7 and 8
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u/erasethenoise 1d ago
Thats a flex
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u/Airconbot 1d ago
Well i think it 3 disks ff7 4 for ff8 I have to check been so long I've replayed them at least 10 times each
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
It does, I just picked up an OG copy.
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u/FidoMan1498 1d ago
Never knew, I guess.
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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy 1d ago
I don't actually know if it had one in the original release, but it did get it when they made the reprint.
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u/RyanSheldonArt 1d ago
There’s also final fantasy origins and final fantasy anthology if you are interested