Best Final Fantasy

[Skeith-Adeline]

It was a little hard on a few of the options.
I thought FFXs story was nice, but FFX-2s putrid. I thought FF13-2 and FF13s music nice, but 13-3s the worst in the series lol

[h0tNstilettos]

Ordering my favorites is a tough one. There is no such thing as 'best'. It's just personal preference.

My favorites are tied between: FFVI, FFIX, FFX, FFXII, and FFXIV (6, 9, 10, 12, and 14).

VI had one of my favorite job systems and character development.
And XII, while lacking in story and often put down by many fans, was my favorite for the world and boss battles. The boss battles were the most interesting, intense, in your face, and plentiful in the entire series, and had an epic feeling to them not found in any other game in the series. I easily consider it one of the best RPGs of all time going by the fun and epic bosses, but not best in other areas. The final boss was like the only one in the game that was not as epic as I would of liked.

[KylePearlsand]

Personally my favorites is 4,6,9 and 10. I also did enjoy 10-2 but only because it's gameplay was surprisingly fun and coin break was addictive.

[Lokisama]

For the longest time when I was Younger my favourite was 7 because it was the first FF I ever played and the one that drew me to the world and (fandom) or FF but over the years my favourite FF has shifted to FF9 7 being very close second

[Balipu]

Okay, let's see what the first night brought us. Well at least it was a night for me.
So, a few interesting facts for fans and devs:
Currently VIII is considered to have the best story, followed by VI and the VII compillation. IX Is the fourth and out of the main series the XIII trilogy is ranked the lowest
The best combat award is held by VI, followed by VII and IV. Apparently people really hated the combat of the original XIV as it is the 23rd out of 26.
Progression and customization: VI, VII and VIII. Surprisingly, the MMOs are farely low with XIV and XI being 7th and 11th respectively.
Soundtrack: You might be surprised to learn (I think both One Winged Angel and The Extreme beat Dancing Mad but even I was surprised) that VI is only the 4th. The top 3 are VIII, VII and IX(Uematsu's personal favorite)
Protagonists: Currently Terra is in the lead with Cecil and Zidane tied at second place and Cloud and Squall tied at third. People like to make fun of Tidus, but he only barely lost to Bartz and managed to rank ahead of Lightning and the Onion Knight. Oh, a message to the Kingdom Hearts tema: People like Roxas more than Sora.
The top 3 coolest villains are Kefka, Sephiroth and Garland. Incidentally the highest ranking XIV villain is Nael van Darnus who is far ahead Gaius and Lahabrea.
In villain fight Nael is even farther ahead, with the top 3 being Kefka, who is only barely ahead of Ultimecia and Sephiroth at third.
The most popular lady is Terra followed by Aerith and Rydia. Yuffie, who was decisively leading before the reset is now the 10th. Prishe is ranked ahead any woman from XIV. Speaking of which for quite some time now Yugiri is ranked the highest, closely followed by Yda. Most surprisignly Minfilia, queen of uselessness is ranked ahead of Y'shtola.
45.45% placed Cid Highwind at the top. so unsurprisingly, he leads with an overwhelming majority. He is followed by the original Cid from FFII and Cida Haze from FF III
And now for Gilgamesh: GREEEEEEEEEG! Yes, ladies and gentleman, the XIV version is the most popular, followed by his original appearance in V and finall VIII.

This is the current situation but it is far from conclusive. I will report again when we get several more answers.

[Stormsoul]

hmm, probably ff13 (the first one, i pretend the other two dont exist) for me. i enjoyed the combat system and the inter-character relationships quite a bit, except for vanille.

ff6 as a runner up, though it's protagonists IMO arent quite as memorable, going for the quantity-over-quality approach.

[Balipu]

hmm, probably ff13 (the first one, i pretend the other two dont exist) for me. i enjoyed the combat system and the inter-character relationships quite a bit, except for vanille.

ff6 as a runner up, though it's protagonists IMO arent quite as memorable, going for the quantity-over-quality approach.

I know, right. We have a blond girl who used to serve the empire and was saved by Locke from certain doom because she looks like his ex-girlfriend. Then we have a blond girl who used to serve the empire and was saved by Locke from certain doom because she looks like his ex-girlfriend. Locke himself is suffering from survivor's guilt as he couldn't save his ex-girlfriend. Then we have Setzer who is suffering from survivor's guilt as he couldn't save his ex-girlfriend. Shadow puts a spin on this as he couldn't save his best friend and Cyan has survivor's guilt cause he couldn't save his entire kingdom. We have 3 token non-human character members Umaru, Mog and Gau(borderline example) and all 3 of them fight with limited player input.
In constrast the 14 player characters of Type-0 are very different. Of course most of them don't get much character development and we only get a shallow glimpse into their character, but even the two smart kids (Trey and Queen) differ in significant ways.

[Miya_Carbuncle]

I haven't played a lot of the games, actually. I loved FFX and X-2, as well as XIV ARR though.

FFXIV ARR, is definitely my most favorite favorite though.

[LordHadi]

I'm sure not everyone here played all parts, and I'm one of them. So the poll system used isn't really useful. As I put my favorite FF game as number 1, it wouldn't be fair for the rest being placed in random ratings.

However, My favorite was Final Fantasy IX.

FF XIII had a great story as well.

[Soralis]

interesting poll, personally my favs are ff XIII trilogy, FFIX, FFVIII and FFXIV