Favorite final fantasy game and why?

[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.

[Magis]

FFV was my first (a translated SNES rom) and I loved it. It's probably due to being my first FF that I liked it so much. It was also the one that introduced the job system we use in XI and XIV.

[Vallug]

FF7 was the first I had ever seen but I think 12, 10 and FF7: dirge of Cerberus are my favorites. 13-2 would probably be in my top five. It is hard to me there has never been a bad FF game except a couple of mobile ones.

[Auron_Wolf]

FFVII - THE game had it all, a very good story with a great balance of heroes and bad guys, a cool battle system and was one of the first games that truly use the graphic potential of the Play Station, also when certain pink girl die… hoo boy.. I mean …How many FF story’s kill one of you regular party members and actually removed to never see it or use it again? That sensation was unique, something than only an immersive story can give you.

FFVIII - I remember it most of the time for the battle of the Gardens, was a scene than really blow my mind, I just love when you land in the middle of the battle and start running, I think I play that part like 100 times.

X - Was a masterpiece in the story and was the fist to make use of voices (The Lip-Sinc was terrible but the casting was amazing) also have a one of the most memorable character for me; Auron. And the best representation of Bahamut as an ally summon. All who disagrees needs to die with a overkill Gigaflare xD

XII- i like it for the battle system, was one of the most complete and give you endless liberty, also the maps were amazing, each time I log in at FFXIV I remember plenty of that game, you should know why if you pay attention to both worlds and lore

[Amberion]

X - Was a masterpiece in the story and was the fist to make use of voices (The Lip-Sinc was terrible but the casting was amazing) also have a one of the most memorable character for me; Auron. And the best representation of Bahamut as an ally summon. All who disagrees needs to die with a overkill Gigaflare xD

I use my Yojimbo on your Bahamut. Of course, he Zantetsuken your unit. ;p

Anyway, all FF games since voice acting got added has removed immersion for me. The simple act of being able to name my character brought me in closer to the games. I hate that they have removed that.

[faris]

Either XI or IV.

XI because it took up 4 years of my life and I actually regret nothing, and IV because it had some really difficult fights and a storyline that kept me interested until the very very end. (Not talking about TAY because that was like really terrible fanfiction compared.)

[LukaviMewt]

I've always been a huge fan of pretty much any title set in Ivalice. This includes Vagrant Story, which isn't Final Fantasy -- but is still wicked good.

I don't know what it is about Ivalice that makes me so happy, if I had to guess I'd pinpoint the lore and how things all tie together so well.

Apart from that, my favorite numbered titles are IX, X, III and VII. VIII will always hold a special part of my heart-space, just due to the fact that my friends and I played it pretty much non-stop when we were growing up. We'd trade our single battered copy back and forth until it was so scratched it became unplayable. I was happy to see it available on Steam.

I never got a hold of VI, and as much as I've heard about it, I guess I need to make an effort to pick it up. I just deeply hope that another game is released that's set in Ivalice, or maybe that my secret (now not-so-secret) dream of having an MMO based on Crystal Chronicles is released in the future >__>

[Shenandoah]

Apart from that, my favorite numbered titles are IX, X, III and VII. VIII will always hold a special part of my heart-space, just due to the fact that my friends and I played it pretty much non-stop when we were growing up. We'd trade our single battered copy back and forth until it was so scratched it became unplayable. I was happy to see it available on Steam.

In my case, we also used to have radio show in our school, it didn't last long because eventually people lost interest after a year or so, but we have FFVIII re-enactment during lunch breaks and the like. I'd type all the dialogues while playing the game and then we'd cast some of drama club members to read and re-enact it. Some of us have the VIII OST too so we'd include the exact songs during certain dialogues. It was plenty fun to arrange XD I voiced a few characters but my favorite had to be dr. Odine.

However, my favorite FF of all time is IX. I loved every single thing about it, the world, characters, dialogues, songs (I still listen to Melodies of Life daily since it's on my permanent playlist). I was in the minority in my country since everybody loved VII or VIII though lol.

[Xatsh]

XI - Pre Abysea

Best community I ever seen in a mmo.
Strong economy
Expansions had memorable story lines.
Nearly endless content.. 20,000+ hrs of content
Content that you could always involve everyone in the guild. No matter if it was 4 ppl, 12ppl, 30ppl, or 60 ppl
Focus on horizontal development

After that I would say 7 and 10 liked them about the same