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Makes more sence to break Best and Worst into 2 different polls. I had to combine a few options because 14 options was a little too many. Sorry 'bout that.

So, what FF did you enjoy the most?

FFVIII, by far.

final fantasy 8

As old school gamer, I hardly ever had to rely on the magic system of any RPG beyond heal spellsand teleports-- all I had to do was work little harder to make brute force to the job for me

For the first time, I found strategical use of magic integral to the game play.

I loved junctioning and drawing spells, because this made every single spell important, as opposed to ignoring the vast majority of them like I used to.

There's more to this story, but since I already wrote it out, I'll just paste it here. Keep in mind that both of these describe the same incident that occurred over two different play sessions {setting up the game in part 1,end actually playing it in part 2} -- because if you don't, it gets confusing.

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Playing final fantasy will nearly burn your house down! Firsthand experience inside

I just found my long-lost final fantasy memory card, so I decided to try final fantasy 8 in the PS/2 for the first time.

Turns out this game doesn't get along with the PS/2. The text shakes and look at the screen hurts my eyes and gives me a headache.

Not to be defeated, as this is my favorite final fantasy of the series, I continued to play adjusting display settings on my TV and PS/2 smoothing/disk speed option.

About halfway through this, I noticed my eyes were starting to burn, but I thought it was a side effect of looking at the messed up screen.

I was so absorbed trying to get the game to display properly, when I finally noticed the burning smell in my nose, I thought my mom may have forgotten the potatoes she said she was making, but I didn't think much of it. I figured couldn't have been more than 20 minutes since we spoke about it.

So I go downstairs, opened the cellar door to the other side of the cellar where the stove is, and the entire room is filled with smoke!

Can't see a damn thing!

I wake up my mom, who didn't even realized she fell asleep sitting down there, who started screaming at my dad {also asleep in the chair} that he was supposed to tell her when 20 minutes was up.

I didn't see the rest, because I ran to go get the air cleaner to clear the smoke, but I'm told there was a fire on the stove. A full-fledged flaming fire that apparently burned hot enough to melt the bottom of the pot off! Literally took it off ! Apparently a round piece of metal was welded to the bottom of the pot to make a flat surface to put on the stove, and whatever welding material the use just melted right off under the heat of the fire.

Now as to what it has to do with final fantasy 8 and why this game is dangerous.

It turns out it wasn't just 20 minutes I was playing with it -- IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS AND I NEVER EVEN NOTICED THE PASSAGE OF TIME!

FELLOW GAMERS BE WARNED, AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FAST FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY ;-)

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so I'm cleaning......stop laughing,its possible ;-)

Anyway I was cleaning on a quest to find something else, and found an old memory card I had lost that turned out to have my final fantasy 8 save data on it.

Having long outgrown my need to never finish a game beyond a few minutes before the last boss battle so the game never truly had to end for me, I finally wanted to see the ending and get it over with -- BUT I COULDN'T REMEMBER HOW TO PLAY THE GAME!

I'm staring at a screen with the whole bunch of characters right after loading with absolutely no idea what to do with them!

And if used to be one of my favorite games too, making this even more humiliating.

So I downloaded the entire script into my zire 71, along with two different walk-throughs , because I couldn't remember how I got to this point in the plot either........... quit laughing ;-)

So I start my first attempt at the last boss, which turned into well over 20 attempts in a row, which turned into discovering that the one-hit kill codes for game shark didn't work on the last boss, which turned into an using an invulnerability code -- that refused to work on more than one character at a time no matter what I did...... so over 14 hours later hacking away at the boss with my last character...... that's consecutive 14 hours on the same boss battle without break's...... I beat the game.

ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT THE GAME SHARK HAD SCRAMBLED ALL THE ENDING TEXT SO I COULDN'T READ THE ENDING!

OKAY, YOU CAN LAUGH NOW :-)

I feel for ya.

Ahhh, it's nice to find people who actually like FFVIII.

Odd that both the Best and Worst polls have FFVIII in the lead.

I'm actually enjoying my way through FFXI right now.

Besides that one, I'll go with Tactics and half go with Tactics Advance.

My opinion is a tad biased though, I hate Squaresoft/Square Enix.

Originally Posted by RichD1 I feel for ya. Ahhh, it's nice to find people who actually like FFVIII. Odd that both the Best and Worst polls have FFVIII in the lead.

That is probably cause FF7 was a revolutionary game and it stands out more than the others. People will notice it more and hate it more or love it more.

final fantasy iv all the way, a superb story that I practically fell in love with, I played through that many times and hope to one day go through it again on ff chronicles

Originally Posted by Scrubking That is probably cause FF7 was a revolutionary game and it stands out more than the others. People will notice it more and hate it more or love it more.

FFVIII = FF8, not 7. :p

Hmm... I liked 7 8 and 9 a lot. Seven was the first RPG I ever played, and I was a little worried because of the word "fantasy." Was this about Sex or something? But with a T rating, it couldn't be bad.. Right? (ok, I had NO CLUE.) By the way, this was for PC.
I loved the game.
Bought 8 (PSX) the week it dropped to greatest Hits. Loved it. Really got me stuck in its world.
Bought 9 (PSX) as soon as it got greatest hits and I never could stop playing it. I loved the jump back into a true fantasy world. The Knight was my favorite character. The princess was regal when she had to be. Tons of humor in the game. Probably the FF I spent the most time on.
But these are just my opinions.
Take Care,
Matthew

I voted for 7, I just seemed to have the most fun with that one. as far as ff8 goes...great love story, and awsome cg sequences, but the battles sucked. i never used magic untill i got ultima and comit and since junctioning was what made up your charecter it didnt matter what charcter you used as long as they had the right gaurdian forces. I think that is what turned alot of people off to that game.

Where is the FF11 option? Also, I really liked 10 but I'm playing 10-2 right now which in my opinon is no where near as good so I don't think they should have been grouped. Ah well guess I will vote for 10.

Im sorry I couldnt sqeeze 11 in there. Being such a new game, I dont think many people would vote for it. I could of combined 1 with 2/3, but that would be a little too much for one option.

Anyways, I voted for 7. Good fun, even though it took me well over 3 years to understand the story.

It's a tough decision for me, both 8 and 6 are TOTAL ownage. They are my toss up for first place. They were both spectacular, with great story, loads of sidequest, great battle systems, etc. I voted for 8 since their are so many haters around. Some people just couldn't handle the complexity of the junction system (even though it's not that complex). Kind of sad really. But yeah 8 and 6 both ruled. And like I said in the other thread, X and X-2 shouldn't be grouped together, because X is great, and X-2 is terrible. But if that's all you could fit no prob!

I've never tried anything before 7, so I will not try to discuss those. With 7 and 8, though, I didn't really care for the battle system, where you have to punch the X button a billion times just so you're not screwed out of an attack. I had distanced myself from the FF series, even when FF10 came out for PS2, because of my bad experiences with 7 and 8. It wasn't until it was announced that FF10 would become a GH when I finally took a look at it, and once I saw that the combat system was true turn-based, I figured I'd get it. I must say that it is pretty enjoyable.

it has to be FF4 simply because I spent well over a month of my life on that game since I first played it way back when I still had time to devote that much time to a game..... the reasons that I remember liking it was the story, and how there were different characters at different times, and some of them weren't coming back, and how I always wanted kain to stay good and so forth....but anyways, FF4 is my favorite

Final Fantasy V by far....thanks for the job system Square!!

Final Fantasy VII is the greatest ever. Sephiroth pwnage.

I liked FF Tactics for Playstation, but when FFT-Advance came out, I loved it. The gameplay had improved a lot (in my opinion) and I liked this story better than the psx version. I know, its not the greatest story, but I don't have much of an attention span to go through 10 minutes of dialouge.

I liked FFX the most because of the story. FFX-2 is not nearly as good since there's really no story at all.

Final Fantasy 3 is the best im playing it for the fifth time....it has a great story....great characters....and its just a great game lol