Favorite final fantasy game and why?

[Malamasala]

I have liked almost all of them for their good story and characters. For actual game content FF10 was supreme. Best summoning system ever created, and it has only been downhill since.

Haven't played 12 or 13 because they look boring, but I'm sure I'd love the stories and characters if I ever did give them a try.

[JTribal]

I have liked almost all of them for their good story and characters. For actual game content FF10 was supreme. Best summoning system ever created, and it has only been downhill since.

Haven't played 12 or 13 because they look boring, but I'm sure I'd love the stories and characters if I ever did give them a try.

IDK, 12 had really poor character developement IMO. Gameplay is awesome, somewhat similiar to 14, but I couldn't get over the bland characters and poor sound quality of the voice overs.

[IfritReborn]

IDK, 12 had really poor character developement IMO. Gameplay is awesome, somewhat similiar to 14, but I couldn't get over the bland characters and poor sound quality of the voice overs.

Problem I find with 12 is that it's incredibly subtle with a misleading main character.
Vaan is plastered all over the cover and promo materials yet the story isn't focused on him
Ashe and Vayne, Balthier and Cid, Gabranth and Basch are the real leads in that game. Everyone else becomes irrelevant

It's not like the others where everyone felt like they had a place in the story and the group
Penelo and Vaan literally could have stayed home and they wouldn't be missed. Fran was merely a plot device, nothing more

[JTribal]

Problem I find with 12 is that it's incredibly subtle with a misleading main character.
Vaan is plastered all over the cover and promo materials yet the story isn't focused on him
Ashe and Vayne, Balthier and Cid, Gabranth and Basch are the real leads in that game. Everyone else becomes irrelevant

It's not like the others where everyone felt like they had a place in the story and the group
Penelo and Vaan literally could have stayed home and they wouldn't be missed. Fran was merely a plot device, nothing more

Yeah I agree. It's a shame they just didn't make Balthier the main character and completely replace Penelo and Vaan, or at least make them a little more interesting by playing on the fact that there was was obviously some sort of spark between the two.

Even with that in mind, they could have done a lot better on humanizing the characters. IDK, maybe it's just me, but I never truly cared or empathized for any of them when I was playing the game like I did for Zidane, Garnet, Terra, Tidus, Yuna, etc etc.