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

[BoomerOU]

Final Fantasy VI

Awesome characters with interesting personalities (Locke, Shadow, and Setzer are particular favorites), covers everything from love to loss to even mass genocide. The only one where the villain actually attains all his goals and leaves the player on their first play through feeling defeated. IIRC it has the largest cast of characters, and each manages to feel like an individual with different motivations and perspectives.

If anybody decides to do a playthrough - Edgar + Noise Blaster + Bio Blaster = profit.

I would have to say FFT is a close second though. All of my FFVI replays are always followed immediately by an FFT replay.

[Salem_Rain]

Final Fantasy VI

Awesome characters with interesting personalities (Locke, Shadow, and Setzer are particular favorites), covers everything from love to loss to even mass genocide. The only one where the villain actually attains all his goals and leaves the player on their first play through feeling defeated. IIRC it has the largest cast of characters, and each manages to feel like an individual with different motivations and perspectives.

If anybody decides to do a playthrough - Edgar + Noise Blaster + Bio Blaster = profit.

I would have to say FFT is a close second though. All of my FFVI replays are always followed immediately by an FFT replay.

Quoted fo' truth.

[Mizar]

Final Fantasy IX is my favorite. I love the throwback to the classic era, It was the last "classic" in my opinion.

However, I never really got to experience Final Fantasy during the SNES years until after their prime, (wasn't into RPGs in those days) so for me FFVII was the magical entry into the series. It holds a special place in my heart, even if the fanboys have ruined the image of the title and it is now seen as "cliche" - nobody can deny that the game, played near release, didn't blow them away.

[Dorin]

Another one who thinks 9 was the best here.

The artistic design, the setting, the world, the story, the drama (I'm still crying for poor Vivi :'<), everything about it was great.

Well, everything except that maybe it was a tad too easy.

[Mizar]

Another one who thinks 9 was the best here.

The artistic design, the setting, the world, the story, the drama (I'm still crying for poor Vivi :'<), everything about it was great.

Well, everything except that maybe it was a tad too easy.

Heh.

I never really factor in "difficulty" for the single player Final Fantasy games because I play them for the setting/story/characters. I also am a "power" gamer and tend to overlevel/level everything to the max anyway. It's fun for me to stomp the game as hard as possible. XD

[Pwnznewbz]

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.

[Laiyenu]

FFT or FF6

I spent many hours of my teen years with these classics. ♥

I remember raising a black chocobo and being stuck on the castle gate stage, then after about 20 fails I realized I could RIDE the flying chocobo, epicness.

[Noriega]

FFT. Complex story, heavily involved, was the one of the few games ive ever played where i actually talked to (yelled at) the screen constantly.
A very close second would be FF3/6 because Kefka was the best villain in FFdom.

s/n: I seriously think, story wise, FF7 was one of the worse FF in the series, as it was overall boring. Just was something new at the time of gaming. But i couldnt even play it twice (which is bad since most FF ive played, ive played multiple times)

[Fenrisulfr]

VII>VI>VIII>IV>X for top 5 with VII being game of the century

[Docent]

X-2. I love the job system whenever it shows up in a final fantasy, and the dynamic combat system + non-linear story in X-2 makes it probably my favourite one. I just wish they had a better story to it, but design-wise, that game has all the best systems imho.

I'd place V, Tactics, VI, XIII-2 pretty high on the list too, but I just had to be that person that says I love the most hated FF ever.