Poll: Which final fantasy?

[Ashcrexl]

if you dont have a console, why did you include IX, X, XII, and XIII in your poll? The only game you CAN play are VII, VIII, and MMORPG's. the best out these is definitely VII.

 

[Pyre1million]

Props to Pyre1million for going into a shitload of detail about the series.

Thank you! I thought that amidst all the rampant "This is the best one ever and all the ones before/after/aside from it are awful" I'd try and get as objective a gauge on the options as I could. You pointed out much more clearly than I did the way each game is kept carefully distinct from the others though (and thus how it would be impossible to properly gauge the whole series just by playing one of them), so kudos to you as well.

 

[stikku]

btw, i do not own or have access to any gaming console, i just have a pc, windows xp, AMD 2.9 Ghz dual core and Nvidia 9500Gt

Did every single mofo miss this?

probably, i dont even know which (if any) are available for pc

 

[MaxFF7]

I'm going to echo comments made by other people and ask why FFs before 7 are not on the list. FF4 and 6 were among the greatest in the series.

 

[stikku]

I'm going to echo comments made by other people and ask why FFs before 7 are not on the list. FF4 and 6 were among the greatest in the series.

and i am going to echo myself:

the poll only give you EIGHT option and there are FOURTEEN (i think) final fantasy,
do your maths mate

 

[stikku]

I like vids that mock FFX, does that count?

i like vids that mock any final fantasy

 

[lvl9000_woot]

FF8 was my 1st..so FF8

 

[The Cheezy One]

VIII was my favourite
What? I enjoyed it! You can't tell me what I do and don't enjoy! And I got the junction system to work! It's overwhelming to begin with, and not well explained, but it really lets you change who is a powerhouse and who soaks damage!

 

[J.J]

Do 6 or Mystic Quest.

That's right, Mystic Quest was sooo much fun. Screw a storyline if a game isn't enjoyable.

Suck it haters.

 

[noble cookie]

I haven't played many, but I would say VIII, I bloody loved it. Not so much now though

 

[Chibz]

Play any FF 6 or earlier. 7 and past are all trash. Wait, not even options? What the hell?!

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Off the list the OP put up, I'd suggest VII if you want an all-round fun game but are prepared to not understand everything thanks to the stupidly huge Expanded Universe stuff, X if you want to a play a great game and XII if you want something slightly different. VIII and IX are also worth playing, but I'd go for the others first.

However, all of those pale in comparison to VI, which is easily the best game in the series, bar none and I'm sure it'd be pretty simple to get hold of a copy.

 

[CoL0sS]

Well, FF IX has a special place in my heart since it was (with Metal Gear Solid and Crash Bandicoot) among first 'real' games I played (when I say real I mean not on SNES). It introduced me to RPGs in general, but later when I discovered Planescape Torment, Baldurs Gate and Morrowind whole FF just seemed a bit too juvenile. I'm currently playing through FF VII and after that I'll star IX but somehow I'm not enjoying them as I used to.

 

[s0p0g]

why in the blue hell are there only FF vii and even younger?
whyyyyyyyy??

OT: i just cannot decide. i mean, the old ones, the classics - where you had to guess what the "graphics", if you want to call that irritating pile of pixels that - we're kind of awesome, if not even awesomenessness - it wasn't about graphics, or a new sales-record or some shit like that - it was actually about the GAME - i know, unthinkable nowadays. maybe that's why i didn't buy any "newschool" games the last... well, years.

 

[TheIr0nMike]

X only because it's the only one I've completely played through.

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

1) FF 6, good all around, almost perfect
2) FF 10, I liked the how they integrated the grid sphere and the arena (where you fight big monster with 20million hp)
3) FF 7, I liked the materia system

 

[Kair]

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Since FF1 isn't on that list..
I have nothing to recommend.

True, old school is true school.

 

[Harlemura]

I really liked XIII. Like, really, really liked it. I think I spent more of my summer break playing it than not playing it.
VII was okay, but once I'd finished it I looked back and couldn't even remember half of what I'd been through or the places I'd seen. Well, I say finished, I never actually beat the last boss, but that's close enough to finishing.
I find VIII so dull and confusing I can't even drag myself through the tutorial.
X had VII's problem and I couldn't be bothered to get through XII.

And that covers every Final Fantasy I've played. I'm sure you all feel enlightened after hearing my wonderful opinions.

 

[YouBecame]

FF6 should be on your list. It would get a lot of votes, from myself included. It is a truly marvelous game.