The Real Reason Final Fantasy Is Called Final Fantasy

Hence why Sakaguchi's latest game is called "The Last Story". Sorry, but I don't believe this.

@RV

You're just speculating yourself. I don't see why he wouldn't mention it if that was also the case. I'm reporting what he said as fact and as far as I can see he said nothing about the old myth. That's my evidence.

If you're so positive the old myth could be true, why don't you give me your evidence instead of just passing what you're saying off?

OOOHHH!!

@ Soriku
The two stories are not mutually exclusive in any way. I just gave a very reasonable example of how both could be true. Without the follow up question and confirmation that the "myth" origin was not true there is no reason to assume that it is not true. He doesn't specify either way. You are making assumptions and passing them off as facts. That is not just being the messenger. That is being an irresponsible reporter. You can point out that it may mean the other origin story is not true but to just flat out and say it with no real evidence is poor judgement.

@Kantor: I don't believe in that reasoning, either, but one reason why FF as 6 x 6 = 36 as a "perfect square" can be better than the others is because number 6 is also a perfect number, hence giving the "perfect" an additional meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number

@ Kantor

36 could have some kind of meaning to the team. Like there were 36 team members or they were on the 36th floor, or their office number or street number was 36. Who knows.

@kain_kusanagi: In that case, it would work for any two letters. AA - 1*1 = 1. ZZ - 26 * 26 = a square.

@ nandakoryaaa "FF = 255 or 11111111 or -1"

I still think it's that F is the 6th letter of the English alphabet. If "F" = 6 than we can write "FF" as 6 x 6 = 36. That's a square number, also known as a "perfect square".

Squaresoft probably just wanted their game to be perfect hence naming their game a "perfect square". Plus it has the double meaning of "Perfect Square Soft".

"and his company I hear is experiencing very similar issues as Squaresoft had back in the day when FFI was realised"

Except Mistwalker isn't going into bankruptcy...

I think "RVDondaPC" provided a pretty good explanation. Both stories could indeed be true.

"The only person who says the other story is not true is the author of this article which isn't very responsible reporting since the quote doesn't contradict the "myth" at all. "

What are you talking about? He was asked for the reason they chose the FF name and that's the reason he gave. It's not my fault it's completely different from what you're thinking because he didn't mention the reason of it being called FF because it could've been their last title at all. Don't shoot the messenger.

Well, the letter F doesn't exist in the Japanese language..
Maybe that has something to do with it.
Or maybe as Rubang pointed out with his textbook copypaste, they were huge foo fighters fans.

in chilean... PLOP!!!

also isn't ironic how his latest title is called the last story which is very similar in name:-D and his company I hear is experiencing very similar issues as Squaresoft had back in the day when FFI was realised mwhaha

this must be fake the original creator told us a different story, and I would much rather believe that than this

and Kawazu is a frog

FF = 255 or 11111111 or -1

lol Christian, jealous of Cloud :')

OT:
Nice to finally have this cleared up!!

Because it's has been milked to death and SE is telling gamers that this would be Last

@Kain

Or FF as 256 in hexadecimals, that's the biggest number for a byte. So they want do the biggest game possible.

Neither of those stories really contradict eachother. It could be that they wanted something with the FF initials, came up with Final Fantasy as one of the many and people started getting on board with the name because it could have been their final one if it didn't succeed so they choose that. One origin is why they came up with final fantasy the other origin is why they choose final fantasy over the rest of the lot. Both are true. The only person who says the other story is not true is the author of this article which isn't very responsible reporting since the quote doesn't contradict the "myth" at all.

My name is Tyler because my dad wanted all his kids to have a Y as the second letter in their names.(ryan and dylan are my older brothers) But why wasn't I kyle? Because my dad liked ty cobb so he named me after him. So is my name tyler because my dad wanted a Y as the second letter or because he liked Ty cobb? It's both.

@christian

So you hate FF7 because it was used as a FF news icon?

Thats ridiculous, get a grip. Besides Cloud >>>>>>> Squall PLUS Tidus
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NOO this version of why its called FF isn't melodramatic enough!
I liked the other version!

I don't know what the significance of a double "f" is, but if you could look at it in numbers.

FF translated = 66 or added = 12 or multiplied = 36. It depending on how you treat F as the 6th letter in the alphabet.

A double "F" (FF) could be a square number or a "perfect square" number.

You see a number like 9 can be written as 3 x 3.

If "F" = 6 and we treat it like a square number than you have 6 x 6 = 36 which is a perfect square.

A company called "Squaresoft" names their game a "perfect square".

I don't know, maybe that's what they were going for.

Fun Fact! ,



Fun Fact is abbreviated as FF :-D

weird for these Japanese companies to think so much about English names for RPGs back in the NES era when all but a bunch of thousand sales came from their home country. Maybe it was catchy to name Dragon Quest in English "Doragon Kuesuto" to follow up the success of Dragon Ball series back in 1986, and allude to the also popular Dungeons and Dragons pen and paper RPG also popular in Japan. I think this may be one major reason they wanted the title in English "Fainaru Fantaji".

The other story isn't a myth at all. Sakaguchi himself explained it many times through interviews over the last 20 or so years. This guy is just trying to rewrite history. It's either that, or they did want a title that had the same meaning behind Final Fantasy (Last game) all along and came up with Final Fantasy as the criteria they were looking for was that for whatever reason it had to be abbreviated to FF.

Don't believe it. Sounds so fake. Also why the hell must cloud be used as a Final Fantasy news icon? That is one of the reasons why i hate FF7. Why can't it be Terra, Squall, or Tidus?

They wanted to join the ranks of Final Fight, Fatal Fury, Fatal Frame, the Fantastic Four, Family Feud, Fancy Feast, Frosted Flakes, the Foo Fighters, and Fear Factor(y). Sounds legit to me. (http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FF)

Bogus

Why would Japanese care about an abbrivation in English? ...

i believe the other story better, this one sounds really fake.

first duke nukem in a playable state and a likely release window, and now this. My world is falling apart, the end is nigh people, everybody panic...

I don't believe it. You guys will eat it up, but I find it hard to believe that it took over 20 fucking years to debunk that popular myth.