Name Your Favorite Final Fantasy & Why (Aside From ARR)

Final Fantasy XII: International Zodiac Job System

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Originally Posted by Theovin

FFXI was my first MMO, and my introduction to online gaming in general. It holds a special place in gamer nostalgia for me too. It was a dysfunctional relationship, for sure, but there was plenty of memories that still stick fondly with me.

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Our first loves always leave an incredible impact on us...

I think FFXI back in the old days still takes the win for me.

Restricting to console games only:

Final Fantasy.
Because it was fun making up your own party and the combat system required a decent bit of thought.
The non-mp based magic system meant you had to be conservative of powerful spells.
The fact that characters wouldn't automatically switch to attack a new enemy after their target died meant you had to predict what damage would be dealt to enemies.
Also, it focused on the main quest instead of branching into millions of side quests; though it was a little thin on plot.

I'll admit though that I've only played completely through Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.

I tried a few times with Final Fantasy 8, but kept running into memory card corruption issues, and got tired of repeating content.

When I picked up Final Fantasy 7, I didn't have any working memory cards and they were scarce, so I never got far in that. Picked it up for the PC recently though, so one of these days, I'll have to give it a play through.

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Originally Posted by Vandark

I think FFXI back in the old days still takes the win for me.

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The mighty mighty Vandark has no love for any of the non MMO titles in this grand catalog?

FF4, followed closely by FF6 and FF Tactics.

FF7 was decent, but spectacularly overrated. FF8 was a letdown for me, although not a bad game.
FF9 was truly the last "classic", and the series just hasnt quite been the same since. (although i did enjoy X and XII)

FF4 was my first RPG though, so i'm sure that plays its part in my choice. I think i've completed FF4 from start to finish, in its various incarnations, at least a dozen times through the years

It is interesting to see them considering Terra's music for the magitek mounts.

VIII. Probably because it was the first one I played.

FF8, because the ending is the best ending for anything I have ever seen.

Final Fantasy VII followed by Final Fantasy Tactics.

It was the first true next gen of the series --I had NEVER seen a Final Fantasy commercial on TV, and I'd see them for FFVII, and I would get SO HAPPY. I remember my dad didn't buy me a memory card for like 3 weeks. Had to keep starting as an ex-soldier working with AVALANCHE, some times I'd make it through the reactor and make it to the scorpion, sometimes I didn't.

When I finally got the memory card, everything changed. I was able to properly engage into the characters and story -- the music, the next gen graphics. Cloud was really the epitome of cool, back then. His style/ hair, his Buster sword on his Motorcycle, everything was just so cool.

My favourite Final Fantasy is 6. There is just something about this game that makes me want to go back and play it. I enjoyed the story. The classic combat system never fails at it's simplicity and challenge. And with just a bit of grinding you can break the game with Tera or Celes with Quick Ultima spell combos. Never has breaking a game been so fun. The re-release with the additional content for the GBA just made the game even more re-playable and some much more difficult as common strategies failed against some of the bosses in the dungeon. It's simple fun and the second half isn't completely linear.

As for second place I'll have to tie 4 with 7, and maybe 5 (but as I've never gotten to much into 5 for the lack of time I never completed the game). I pare these up because to me 7 is really hard to go back and play. There was just something about this one that turned me off, and I think it might have been the overly dramatic Summons spells and enemy skills. Long Dramatic spells are not cool when you have to watch it in full without skipping every time. The materia system however I enjoyed toying with and wished more titles has used a system like it. 4 is just the classic simple RPG that you can't completely hate. This is where FF started it's great Super Nintendo to PlayStation era of great games.

I couldn't possibly decide between IV, VI, IX and the old XI. They all had pretty cool plots, interesting characters, awesome music... overall they're all about as good as each other imo, and they all evoke good memories. Also VIII and Tactics deserve an honorable mention in my book; VIII because even though it didn't have the best plot ever and had an extremely exploitable combat system, it had perhaps the most epic character in the series (Laguna ftw) along with some cool scenes - and Triple Triad -, and Tactics because the whole thing was just epic pretty much from start to finish. Though fuck whoever thought up that one huge dick move with a certain Lucavi... whoever's played the game will know the one. >.>

BTW, I find it funny that the title says "aside from ARR", lol. Like, seriously? Whoever were to list ARR as their favorite from the whole series must have some really, really low standards...

9, 11, and 12 had my favorite worlds in terms of exploration, creativity, and scope.

1-5 where decent but standard fantasy world fare. 6-8 had a neat technology meets fantasy style, but never really hooked me. 10 was pretty cool, but the hallway style of exploration really cut down my interest. 13 was just a mess in every sense.

No FF title comes close to FFXI Online ever! Never in my life I played a game for that long and had tons of fun, I spent 10 years from 25 years old to 35 years old playing the best game of all. Once in a lifetime for real!!!

Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES. That was the very first FF game I played and since then, continued on to the rest of the series. And yes, I know 3 is the same as 6 (i think) but it was the japanese version that used 3 and that was the copy i had for the SNES. Sucks that ive lost it many years ago. A close second would be 12. Why? I loved how they broke the traditional turn based battle system with an extremely fluid open world real time system, plus zodiac traiting. Wish they went back to that than the POS 13.

Xenogears. (It was originally written as a script for FFVII.)

If that won't fly, Tactics. That game really fleshed out an amazing job system and it is still one of the best stories to ever come out of the FF series.

If you mean numbered only, it is a tie between VI and VIII.

My runner up is Lost Odyssey. It is the best single player FF game to come out since IX.

Final fantasy 4. I don't know why more people don't like this one. Cecil fought himself every step - torn between love, his job, the empire and friendship all against a past which piled on top of his already heavy weighted responsibility. Yet he still gained the trust of the light(truth) after defeating his shadow puppet self. The very model (dark Knight) figure which the empire crafted Cecil to be and then to just be betrayed because he questioned the morality of his king's political shenanigans - and this on top of Golbez's deceptions to turn his best friend against him and steal up the woman he loves more than anything - and THEN! To find out he's related to Golbez... Come on.

Wow, amazed to see no one hating on each other in this thread :D Hmm I have only completed 8 thru 13, with crystal chronicles. And I have to say it goes 8, 9, Crystal Chronicles, 13, 12, 10

Why is crystal chronicles up there? because it was final fantasy local 4 player :D And it pulled it off realy well in my opionon. And i like the combat, it kept you on your toes. Plus moogle partner casting, amazing.

13 I do place on the top faves, The characer development is amazing IMO, simply because the characters actualy grew an changed, as they came to understand one another. Thats character development 101 there. But hay thats only based on my schooling for story writing and directing.

I adore FF6 but...

Final Fantasy 9, and totally because of Vivi. He's an amazing character, and I constantly feel for him. He embodies so much tragedy and confusion and he's just awesome about it. Where any of the other characters would be all and have weird hair, he just bucks up and deals because that's what he has to do. Best hero in any FF game, like. Ever.

VII, though Crisis Core made me hate Cloud, still FFVII is my favorite,for the story, for the music, the characters in general. I agree with some users, Kefka is the biggest badass of all FFSeries but Sephiroth looks so cool and insane, still not my fav villain but he's in the top. Cid, Cait Sith, Yuffie and ofcourse never to forget my favourite of all: Red XVIII, I adored this doggy <33333 and his Cities music, Cosmo Canyon, was way too sticky, I still have the melody in my head while I remind this I wound run in circles just to listen to this theme. Also the Chocobo races and breeding, I mean, for me, personally, FFVII over all FFs.

final fantasy 6, and tactics,

there are many reasons why these are the best, im just too tired to state them right now, but take my word for it, they are the best.

FF10.

I also watch The Office.

Final Fantasy VI. The score and story are the best of the series. If you haven't heard or noticed Relm's Theme...you should, it is amazing.

I would put IV in second place because I loved Cecil's journey in that game.

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Originally Posted by SummerSkye

Final Fantasy VI. The score and story are the best of the series. If you haven't heard or noticed Relm's Theme...you should, it is amazing.

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Agreed. Relm's theme is awesome; just one of many cool unique character themes in that wonderful game.

My two absolute favorites are VIII and XII. I adored the stories and characters in both. The music in VIII is the best out of all the series imo, I loved the graphics (still do even though it's old now), tbh I pretty much love everything about the game. The voice acting in XII I loved even though the sound quality wasn't as good as it should have been - I particularly loved the 'old' style of the speech, the battle system and open-ness was amazing to me and I'd hoped they'd keep it for the future FF's, again I love everything about the game and I could and do play it over and over again.

I think X, IX and III come after those two.

Even though the first one I played was VII I could never get into it and didn't really like the characters that much. I liked their designs, but not them. I appreciate that the story itself is good and it's a fan favorite but it's never been one that I could find the will to finish due to lack of interest. And just don't even talk to me about XIII and X-II.

For me IX was the best. I played VI, VII, and VIII before it but I prefered the more traditional approach. It had good characters and story line and I thought the way you learnt abilities through equipping items was good. As far as I am concerned it was the last great Final Fantasy, I enjoyed X but the fact that it was linear grated. As for XII and XIII... Less said the better.

Chrono Trigger.

I mean, FF7/Tactics.

1. Final fantasy 6
2. FF tactics
3. FF 7

FFIX because of Vivi and the Ozma boss and FF tactics because no other game has done it better imo. Only wish there was a vs mode

Final Fantasy VI had the best sprite-based character expressions anyone could ask for. And aside from the grindfest that's needed right at the end (getting all your characters leveled and magic'ed up to take on Kefka's Tower) it has the most compelling storyline IMO. Heck, it's the only FF where the villain WINS...for a time.

Final Fantasy 3 DS Remake. It may not have as much story driven gameplay, heck, the original didn't have much of a story for the characters at all.
that little world swept me away and kept me happy during a very hard time in my life. the graphics were probably the best I had seen on the DS original at the time and I pretty much wanted to live in the game for a while after i beat it xD

It's too much of a toss up for me.

FF4 was my first and will always hold a special place, but FF6 was probably my favorite.

final fantasy tactics

1) i like making my own guys

2) a story worthy of a shakespearean stage drama.

3) very immersive with how the story is narrated.

4) i love strategy rpgs.

crystal chronicles is a very close second.

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Originally Posted by Derpyrose

Final Fantasy 3 DS Remake. It may not have as much story driven gameplay, heck, the original didn't have much of a story for the characters at all.
that little world swept me away and kept me happy during a very hard time in my life. the graphics were probably the best I had seen on the DS original at the time and I pretty much wanted to live in the game for a while after i beat it xD

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Hot damn. You make me want to get a DS and play this version of my all time favorite.

An awesome artwork of Shadow, Strago, Edgar, and Relm from FFVI.

Final Fantasy IX is the only choice.

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Originally Posted by Cahlum

Final Fantasy IX is the only choice.

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Actually the catalog is quite expansive. :p

im gonna go with 7,8 and 11. 14? meh.

FFVIII: Rinoa <.< shes hot lol also just love the story, the junction system everything :3 i still play it on my vita on my lunch breaks lol but dat Rinoa tho <3

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Originally Posted by rtpsoulx

FFVIII: Rinoa <.< shes hot lol ... but dat Rinoa tho <3

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To each their own.