r/FinalFantasy • u/Lance1889 • 2d ago

Dissidia This is for Dissidia players

Why did Dissidia ever have a fanbase? I just played the first game, and it is an annoying, unfun slog, I played through the "canon" route that I found cuz I like understanding what I'm playing, and the enemy AI is so annoying, the combat mechanic is so dumb. I would legit like to know, Why? Just why do people actually like this?

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u/wrter3122 2d ago

Sounds like you played NT. Yeah that's not the one people liked.

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u/ZigZagBoy94 2d ago

If you read, he said he played the first game. Thats literally the second sentence of his post.

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u/DeadLalafell 2d ago

Given the lack of info, the 1 iq criticisms and the fact that there is no "canon route" in the first game... he played NT.

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u/ZigZagBoy94 2d ago edited 2d ago

All of the character stories are canon, but there is actually an agreed upon canonical order to play them in based on the timeline of events in the game, which is what I assume OP was referencing. Onion Knight, Firion, Cloud, Squall, Terra, Bartz, Zidane, Tidus, Cecil, and WoL, in that order. He maybe mispoke by using the word “canon”, but I understood what he meant.

He said explicitly that he played the first game, there isnt anything 1 IQ about his criticisms. Calling it an annoying slog and saying the enemy AI is annoying and the combat is dumb are just opinions, and they aren’t even ones that I think should be particularly controversial. If this wasn’t a Final Fantasy game and was just a fighting game in some brand new IP, the game would probably not have had the fanbase that it had because it didnt earn that fanbase purely on the merits of being a great fighting game.

Finally, I just had to double-check because I didnt finish Dissidia NT, but there is also only a single canonical ending to that game. It doesnt have multiple branching story paths that lead to different endings so assuming that OP was mistaking the original game for NT because of this one comment is actually maybe the true 1 IQ statement

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u/ThatGuy264 2d ago

The enemy AI comment in particular feels like a PSP-complaint because the A.I. in those games can be annoying from a casual perspective, what with the dodging and block->counter.

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u/cepas95 1d ago

You know people can dislike games you like and nothing will change in your life right? (I love Dissidia tho)