Best Final Fantasy Game?

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SS4Brolly

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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?
 
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 :)
 
:lol:

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.
 
[quote name='RichD1']:lol:

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.[/quote]

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
 
[quote name='Scrubking'][quote name='RichD1']:lol:

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. :p 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
 
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.
 
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
 
to me, FFVII is the best Final Fantasy. ive played it through over 7 times, amassing 1000+ ours on one time through ALONE. i think that shows its my fave.

(i love the story, the graphics, the battle system, and the spell effects(FROG SONG!!!!))
 
Final Fantasy VII

FFVII was the first game in the series that I purchased and completed the first time through (I had rented the previous ones, never finishing them).
Aside from Sephiroth being my absolute favorite character from *any* game ever, I also really liked Cloud's anti-hero feel.
I feel kind of silly admitting this, but this is only game I've played the evoked the level of emotion needed to bring tears to my eye when Aeris... uh, to avoid spoilers, lets say... drops the materia at the end of disc one :cry:
 
I will never forget the days of FF II/III on the SNES. But my vote is going towards FF IX. I don't know why, but this one just really appealed to me. It kept giving me visions of the good old day. FF7/8 just didn't do it for me.
 
Final Fantasy X, to be sure. It had the most interesting characters, a surprisingly (and for Japanese games, an almost shockingly) coherent storyline, and a great character buildling/combat engine. Still, it's very hard not to vote for Final Fantasy VII, given that it put the Playstation on the map in the American market...or Tactics, which was so different in nature from the rest of the series that fair comparison is almost impossible. Having tried FF Tactics advanced, I must sneak in a comment that this latest installment is a lot easier than the original Tactics, and thus not nearly as entertaining.
 
I liked all FF's, but i enjoyed fft and ff7 the most. Id say tactis would get my vote though.Just somthing new and different from the norm that turned out to be a really great game.
 
FF7, no doubt - Cloud and Sepiroth, most memorable and most popular, Hero and Villain combo of all time in an RPG series. When they announced FF X-2, FF fans worldwide were screaming the need for a FF7-2..not 8 not 9..but 7! Best ever FF(period) 8).
 
Final Fantasy Tactics was so awesome that it redefined awesomeness.
Then again, my opinion is skewed because I am much more fond of SRPGs over traditional ones.
A close second would be Final Fantasy 6, which was definitely the most well made game of the series.
I have tremendously high hopes for FF12, though.
 
Yup part 3. Hands down. So freaking innovative and fun. I remember this one fight against this boss who is immune to all magic damage so I remember I kept hitting him with Aura Bolts to kill him and finally got him after a long long tough fight. My friend watching me play brought a completely different team to fight him on his turn and he used Gau with cat scratch and smoked him. I was so pissed but he had seen somthing I hadn't the game allowed for so much. Such an amazing story as well. *sigh* wish I still had it might pick it up on ebay just to play it again.

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I really liked FFIX and the return to deformed characters that was more like the erly games while still maintaing the modern feeling of 7 and 8
 
I enjoyed 6/7 the most... and looking back, both were elite games for their time. But 7, with it's complex story and graphics dropped my jaw to the ground and kept it there the entire time I played it.
 
I dont understand why so many people love 7...I loved 9 the best...The story was very moving for me...I just loved Vivi...I didnt feel a connection with 7...8 would have to be my second pick
 
I voted VII.

First, it's the only Final Fantasy that I have completed so far, and it was the first that I ever played.

Second, before I played it, I didn't play RPGs, I thought they sucked and were boring. So it pretty much turned me on to a great genre of games.

Finally, I thought the storyline and the characters in the game were remarkable. All the characters fit perfectly into what was going on in the game, and I had a blast playing it. When I was playing it I couldn't put it down, and when I wasn't playing it, I was just thinking about doing so. Few games have that lasting effect.
 
Final Fantasy 6 (SNES, not the terrible psx port) is my favorite. I would have voted for FF Tactics but it kinda lost some of it's luster after playing Tactics Ogre (the original, not the GBA side story).
 
Final Fantasy VIII, easy. The story, the characters... the world. All of it, simply amazing. No moment in all of gaming has matched the sheer amazingness of the opening of FFVII. I watched it 7 times before I actually started to play the game :p
 
I chose the Tactics series, because those just seem to fit my tastes more. The more traditional FF favorite of mine would definitely be FFVII. It was the first RPG I ever played and I still have fond memories of it to this day.
 
Final Fantasy 3 for the snes is by far my favorite with seven being a close second. But really, who remembers kefka. All the playable characters espescially the ninja were awesome. Also the world was absoulutely huge. I specifically remember the town of thugs and trying to learn how to get the chainsaw from that clock. Tried for weeks and eventually called the nintendo help line. Also I thought it had the best magic system by far. You got to use an esper until you learned all of its magic and then could give it to your other party members to do the same thing. When i got to ff7 and learn how its magic worked i was dissappointed. Anyways, lovem all but none of them come even close to the love i have for chrono trigger. Boy, those were the glory days at squaresoft, huh?
 
Of over 75 RPGs I've played, I've found the well-articulated themes of Final Fantasy VI the most powerful of them all - it oozes with the strength of the game itself (my favorite RPG though has to be Tales of Eternia, it is one of the few RPGs I have not gotten bored of dungeon crawling after multiple plays), especially the music. However, the music of this game is unparalleled, and of the over 30 GB of video game music I have accumulated, no game has come close to achieving the pinnacle of Uematsu's work (not even FF7, Ocarina of Time, or Chrono Trigger).

And as for FF7, the only revolution I saw in it was the addition of FMVs in RPGs. The story, while complex, was very unclear, and such lack of clarity is testiment to its poor methods of storytelling (it is coherent though).
 
i have played and liked all of them but 7 is , to me, by far the greatest experience i have ever had in my life; the music, characters, battling,everything. better than sex . all were GREAT but 10-2 and 9 i didnt like as much but standing by themselves are fantastic games.
 
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