Favroite Final Fantasy

[Guest cynicalprofit]

Which ones your favorite. Sorry about no Tactics, I only had 10 choices for a poll.

[Guest Renegade]

FF6 for sure.

[Guest dc_tapes]

I went with 10 because its still fresh on my mind and I loved the storyline. The runner up would be 4 for me.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

It has to be VI.

[Guest RenegadeX28]

FF 7 had to be the best FF game EVER.

[Guest EricMM]

You should have put Tactics in lieu of games like FF 2 and 3, which never really made it stateside.

[Guest chirs3]

FFVI, no question.

[Guest Kingpk]

Went for FF6 too. FF7 was good, but the translation was pretty off and what's with the total lack of creativity in naming things (SOLDIER, Meteor, the "Weapons")?

 

I just hope no one votes for that boring and uninteresting piece of drek that is FF8.

[Guest RenegadeX28]

Final Fantasy 8......it was alright. It was WAY to easy. I got to the 3rd disk in 3-4 days.

 

FF 2 and FF 3 did make it stateside. My friend has FF 2.

[Guest cynicalprofit]

I think they all have made it stateside, the japanese ones were available in anthologies and chronicles.

[Guest razazteca]

was FF1 the only game for the NES?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

The first three are all for the NES.

 

FF I was released stateside.

 

FF II & III were not, and as far as I know are only available through imports and emulators.

 

FF IV is the first on the SNES (also known as FF II in the states.)

 

FF V never made it to states either until Final Fantasy Anthology for the PSX.

 

FF VI is generally considered to be the breakout Final Fantasy in the US, and the one where the series really came into its own as far as popularity. It is also the first 'cinematic' Final Fantasy, although ironically, it is also the least linear of them all. You can basically do whatever you want once you get the airship in the World of Ruin, and you even have limited choices prior to that. FF VI was known as FF III when released on the SNES in the US.

 

FF VII-IX were on the PSX. FF X on the PS2.

 

Both Final Fantasy IV & VI were rerealeased under their real numbers for the PSX, but FF IV is the hard version (as opposed to the easy one that is FF II in the US).

[Guest redbaron51]

FF VI for sure.

 

FF V is second.

[Guest razazteca]

so is Armed Dragon Fantasy Villgust part 2? and what is the name of part 3 for the NES?

[Guest KoR Fungus]

FF6, which is not just the best Final Fantasy, but also the best videogame ever made. Nice to see both it and 7 ahead of the ridiculously overrated 4.

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Best Game Of All Time: Final Fantasy 6

FF7 was, however, a very nifty game in itself, 10 was almost a movie, but had a strong and interesting plot. As for FF8 and FF9, well, I can't vote for any game where you don't see the actual final boss until the very end of the game. I could develope a murderous rage over Kefka, but Ultemecia only worked through agents (what was with that speech impediment thing?) and I have NO idea where the FF9 sprung up from.

[Guest The Czech Republic]

Kefka was the best villain because he was consistently there as The Bad Guy throughout the course of the game, in general. Final Fantasy IV had Golbez throughout the game until the moon when you're fighting a big...thing that you never see prior to that. Sephiroth is a close second because everyone loves him, but I just think Kefka was stronger. Both did, however, follow the Hayes Principle of "my actions, evil as they may be, are justified." The best villain of FF4 would likely be Rubicante.

 

So...

Kefka > Sephiroth > Zemus's pawns/Zeromus >ExDeath, another lame duck. All other bosses were nothing.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I picked three because I figured it meant FFIII for the SNES. Same as 6, so count it either way, I guess.

 

It's also my favorite game ever.

[Guest creativename]

FF6, which is not just the best Final Fantasy, but also the best videogame ever made. Nice to see both it and 7 ahead of the ridiculously overrated 4.

FF IV? Over-rated?!? Blasphemy!

 

IV was awesome. I loved the Golbez character. While the game is quaint by today's standards, it was the greatest game I had ever played up to that point in time, and is one of the greatest games for the classic SNES system.

 

While IV was not as revolutionary as VI, or even VII, it is certainly not over-rated. The "special place" it has in the hearts of many is well-deserved.

 

I voted for FF VII. IMO, the greatest video game of all time (even though I thought the ending was pretty lame).

[Guest KoR Fungus]

<<<FF IV? Over-rated?!? Blasphemy!>>>

 

Eh I've had this discussion too many times, so I'll just say that nostalgia is a powerful, powerful thing, and leave it at that. The people that like FF4 are the people that played it right when it came out. Most everyone else is left wondering why such a bland game gets so much praise.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

FAVORITE is FFIV, because it was the first role-playing game I'd ever played, and the plot had me in suspense constantly, mostly because I was only eight. Golbez = Cecil's father = GASP! from me.

 

BEST is FFVI, for all the reasons listed above and below this post.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest EricMM]

I think it's very clear

 

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FFIV is the Hulk Hogan of Final Fantasy's.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

*SPOILERS*

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Golbez is Cecil's brother, not his father.

[Guest Kingpk]

Alright, who voted for 8 so I can slap you around and show you what a REAL RPG is?

[Guest chirs3]

*steps in line behind Kingpk*

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Oops. I could have sworn it was what I said. I sold the game (D'oh!!!!!) back in 1996, and haven't played it on an emulator all the way through yet, so I'm fuzzy on a lot of the late-game details.

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest creativename]

Eh I've had this discussion too many times, so I'll just say that nostalgia is a powerful, powerful thing, and leave it at that. The people that like FF4 are the people that played it right when it came out. Most everyone else is left wondering why such a bland game gets so much praise.

You must judge a game within the context of the time it was released. Otherwise, very few games from the past would compare to games from the future. And most players would still be averse even to those due to antiquated graphics. (I tried to get my little brother to play Chrono Trigger, and he got halfway thru and quit, even though it was the Chronicles' version and he's a Dragonball Z fan. How you quit such an unreal game I have no idea, but he said he couldn't stand the graphics after a while, even though he didn't mind them at first; he said that he was unable to relate to the characters, whereas that was easy for him in FF X, which he loved.)

 

FFIV is the Hulk Hogan of Final Fantasy's.

 

You know, I think that about a lot of things myself.

 

I suppose that makes VIII the Big Show of FFs; it is not that over and is almost universally hated. I myself didn't think it was that bad at all, though the uber-long Guardian force sequences drove me to insanity. And of course Ultimecia was just a terrible villain...and the ending was a rip-off of the first one...but, well, let's not get into this right now.

[Guest KoR Fungus]

<<<You must judge a game within the context of the time it was released.>>>

 

No, you only need to do that if you're talking about historical significance. If you're talking about which game is best, time is irrelevant, and you need only rate the game on pure quality.

 

<<<Otherwise, very few games from the past would compare to games from the future.>>>

 

And indeed, very few games from the past do compare to the games of the present. A lot of the games that were based on graphics over substance now feel really archaic, because the substance isn't there, and compared to the modern day, the graphics aren't there either. However, substantive games stand up to the test of time. Games like FF6, CT or Super Metroid are every bit as good today as they were when they first came out.

 

<<<And most players would still be averse even to those due to antiquated graphics.>>>

 

That just shows the stupidity of the average gamer, which is something that is very well documented. People who are judging games only on graphics are missing the point. The problems with FF4 go well beyond graphics. It's short, it has no freedom and the plot is cliched and boring by modern standards. If you play FF6 and then go back and play FF4, all these things become really apparent. On the other hand, if you play FF7/8/9/10 and then go back and play FF6, FF6 is just as remarkable as it was originally, because the music, plot, characters and freedom are still the best that RPGs have seen. I've met plenty of people that got into RPGs after FF7, and then played FF6 when they bought FFA, and loved it. You just don't see that with FF4. People either played it in 1991/1992 and loved it, or played it later on or as part of FFC and wondered what all the fuss was about.

[Guest chirs3]

Games like FF6, CT or Super Metroid are every bit as good today as they were when they first came out.

 

I'll second that. Just recently I replayed Super Metroid (which I do once every year or two), and it's still as great as when I first played it.

[EL DANDY~! 0]

It's ALL about FF VI. Holy crap, man. I mean, that is a great great game that got me into that game from the VERY beginning...

 

But FF VII, that is something special...I mean, Sephiroth > Kefka. I'm sorry, but when Sephiroth absolutely destroys everything close to you and THEN tries to destroy your mind and your memories...THAT, my friends, is a villain. Kefka just had that annoying laugh (which was BEYOND SWANK~!, I must add) and could level off armies in a single blow. Fine. Sephiroth had the better weapon.