What is the Best Final Fantasy Game?

Odin · May 11, 2003, 22:45

I think FF6, amazing plot, great character development, fantastic music, and beautiful graphics for its time. It was the last FF game for the SNES and the last GOOD medieval FF game (FF9 was horrible, I hate these modern-time Final Fantasies.

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Static Universe · May 11, 2003, 23:23

FF6 followed closely by FF7. 6 had a great story.

Frankychan · May 12, 2003, 00:06

FF8. Great cut scene's.

Seifer was pretty cool too.

Felch · May 12, 2003, 00:19

Final Fantasy 3, just the innovations made back on the NES were incredible.

monolith94 · May 12, 2003, 00:37

FFX - it broke every rule, and made a great game as a result. AMAZING.

CapitanGarlic · May 12, 2003, 01:09

Ah, yes, FFX: walk forward. Kill. Repeat. ONO! Tidas isnt real!!!1!1!

I like the old sprite ones. They look better, IMO. Best overall would have to be 6.

flash9286 · May 12, 2003, 07:31

seven beats them all

Lazerus · May 12, 2003, 08:00

I liked tactics alot since all role playing games were becoming the same by this time (I'd been playing them all from the earliest zelda, BoF and FF) just changing the name of the magical energy force that guides the world and some different characters. After that its probably FF7 since i can't remember if I've played 6 ... I'm sure i have though since it got released on an anthology cd for the PS1 right ?

NeOmega · May 12, 2003, 16:20

I only played 2, 3 and 7, but I think I liked 3's no lead character set-up the best.

loinburger · May 12, 2003, 16:35

FF6, followed by FF4, followed, by FF5, followed by FF7. FF7 was the last I played -- I meant to get FF8, but it left the cheap shelves before I had a chance, and I haven't found it in the bargain bin yet.

Odin · May 12, 2003, 17:52

FF7 was lame, FF8 was even lamer.

War4ever · May 12, 2003, 18:39

yeah, i thoguht the series hit a wall in the mid point.....heck i still love the origional....

innovation that works makes the game key for me....if it doens't work ala civ 3 then its a downer....

if they just buff graphics without fixing problems then its lame too...and for games like this....the story is huge

JCG · May 12, 2003, 21:45

FF4, as I cannot escape nostalgia. 6 and 7 are actually superior from a realistic point of view. 8 and 9 (haven't tried 10 yet) are OK, but don't really mean much to me.

1/2 just came out as remakes, btw. And FFMQ wasn't that bad, at least the music was decent...it just wasn't a Final Fantasy game in any way, shape or form.

EDIT: Same with Tactics, which was a Tactics Ogre ripoff......but a great one at that.

Odin · May 12, 2003, 23:28

Square has to get back to a medeival plot, not this futuristic crap. FF9 got back to the middle ages but it was too childish for me.

In FF6 I allways laugh when Locke gets ticked off and says, "I'M NOT A THIEF, I'M A TREASURE HUNTER"! Yeah, right.

Frankychan · May 13, 2003, 05:05

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Originally posted by Odin
FF8 was even lamer.

You know, you may come from one of my favorite states, but I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Grumbold · May 13, 2003, 09:07

Then you wouldn't like my opinion of FF8 either

NeOmega · May 13, 2003, 18:29

I have ff8, just never played it...... I got it back when my computer and it's cd-drive sucked... maybe I'll try it out...

Spiffor · May 13, 2003, 20:00

I enjoyed FFVI, FFVII and FFVIII very much, but FFVI is best IMO. Great characters, great storyline, funnier gameplay. I've played FFVII with the failed French translation, and as such there were tons of elements in the storyline that were completely confused

FFVIII was great, but still stale in comparison with the two others. Yet, Seifer was waaaaaay cool

I didn't play FFX for more than a few hours, but despite a good experience system, I didn't enjoy it, maybe because it looked so much like a ripoff of FFVIII with more sell-value.

I refuse to play FFX-2, because it looks like a cheap attempt to get money from teenage geeks who rely on videogames to see some skin. 3 playable characters, all feminine chars with little clothing, and a character (I suppose a villain) who looks like a womanly S&M Seifer

monolith94 · May 14, 2003, 03:43

"I didn't play FFX for more than a few hours, but despite a good experience system, I didn't enjoy it, maybe because it looked so much like a ripoff of FFVIII with more sell-value."

That's too bad - I enjoyed it greatly, and the story only got more and more engaging as it went on. Along with Deus Ex and Max Payne, it is one of the few games which I feel progresses into the realm of art, rather than just entertainment.

Sandman · May 14, 2003, 15:34

I've only played three, FF6, FF8 and FF9. Out of those, I liked FF6 the best.

FF6: Good characters. Not having a 'main' character was a nice touch. Decent weapons system and magic system. The plot was pretty good, too.

FF8: Boring teens as characters, I much prefererred Laguna's team, they seemed much more alive. Hideous magic system, and practically non-existant weapons selection. Plot: passable.

FF9: A mixed bag of characters. Reasonable magic system, weapons system not so hot. Not very difficult to complete. Didn't care for the plot.

Still, all three suffered from random monster encounters, the most soul-crushingly tedious, toe-curlingly joyless gameplay mechanic of all time.

Henrik · May 14, 2003, 15:49

I don't like any FF games

Yay, let's play a game that only ever lets me do one thing, fight, and the rest is just one long movie

Strangely enough I do like the Monkey Island games, perhaps becouse they never pretend to be anything but a "movie" kind of game (hmm, actually they allow you to do stuff in a non specific order some times which is more than the FF games does)...

Zero · May 14, 2003, 22:52

first FF game I played was 6 (1994) and last FF game I played was 6. (less than month ago) So I'm gonna have to say....

7.

Duh of course not... 6! durr.

I just beat the game without buying/opening chests (rely on monster drops and steal ability to acquire items). and Im really running out of ideas to challenge myself in that game.

Currently putting "Use absolutely no equipment" challenge on hold cause its frustrating.

Harry Seldon · May 15, 2003, 09:31

FF7 is the greatest game of all time. I'd say FF Tactics ranks probably third. I have a Tactics Ogre but was a little unimpressed, especially considering the fact that you had to fight close to fifteen battles at the end with no way to restock. I loved FF7's story but I truly liked the magic implementation of the game. I've never played FF6 but from the glowing reviews in this thread I may have to pick it up. Toys r Us has it bundled with Chrono Trigger for fifteen bucks down the street.

Datajack Franit · May 16, 2003, 10:08

FFVII is the best game ever

FrustratedPoet · May 16, 2003, 12:09

FF 7 is the best of the series IMHO.

And add my name to the "I think FF 8 was a god awful disaster of a game" pile.

Harry Seldon · May 16, 2003, 14:41

I hated having to pull summonings and certain spells off bosses. I missed Alexander when I fought the queen because she was kicking my @ss big time and I had to fight just to stay alive. I didn't like magic in that one either. I liked it better than IX, though. I can't even stay focused long enough to beat it and I'm sitting right near the end.

DaShi · May 16, 2003, 15:48

VII is my fav followed by VI. A big part of it was that I had stopped playing games for awhile and the last FF game I had played was IV. So when I played VII, it blew me away.

NeOmega · May 16, 2003, 16:46

VII was a close second to 3(USA). I really liked collecting the materia, mostly just because it was so colorful, and the graphics were indeed groundbreaking for the time.

Harry Seldon · May 19, 2003, 08:46

Plus, you couldn't beat the Knights of the Round Table materia. 130,000 Damage!

Makahlua · May 27, 2003, 07:12

FF7 with 6 thisclose behind - I cried so hard at the end of Disc1 when Aeris died ... I kept expecting her to come back somehow and she never did

And the chocobo breeding/racing was -fun-; Materia summons and their effects were _nice_! FF8 might have been more polished looking but 7 had more 'soul' like the older ones

PS Speaking of FF6 - Can I marry Locke?

Wait no maybe Setzer he has the k3wl airship...decsions, descisions... ^_^