Poll: Which final fantasy?

[Reagus]

I'm so happy that IX is number 1, that its literally brought a tear to my eye

I thought I was in the minority who loved this game, and always seen it as extremely underrated, especially considering how incredible the music is, but its number one, and I feel so happy right now!

 

[Happy Sock Puppet]

Final Fantasy III. One of the few moments gaming achieved perfection. You don't even have it on your list, which makes me sad.

Final Fantasy 9 was also very, very good.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Meh, they're all flawed in their own little ways, but X was the first one I ever played, and it got me into video games in general, so I'd say it was good.

I think VI was better, but that's not on your list.

Please tell your story. Did someone sell the game to you with promises of a cool blitzball player, or doomed summoner on a pilgrimage?

As a non-gamer, what drew you to this title particularly? This might be fascinating.

Oh boy, do I ever hope you weren't being sarcastic, because here I go!

Someone sold it to my folks when they bought a PS2, saying it had a great story. It'd been out for some time at this point, was fairly cheap and I'd run out of books, so, they thought, what the hell.

Whilst being initially impressed by the graphics, my dad couldn't get his head around the control system and Mum didn't really get that the thing in her hand had buttons, and could control things on the screen, so it was just me and this lush incredible world in front of me. Aside from a few ridiculous plot twists (Luke; THAT is your father!) and an ingame glitch that swapped all the character models for enemies (Yuna was an upside down bird!), I loved it.

I loved the music, the backgrounds, the history you could learn from talking to people, the glorious amount of side quests and beautiful, beautiful ending; basically everything about it, even most of the voice acting - the only reason I'd put VI on a pedestal above it is that VI had a bucketload of charm and a lot of more outrageous fun in it (See: Ultros)

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

I'm severely saddened by the lack of FF Tactics on the poll.

 

[omega 616]

One, Four, Six, or Nine, are my vote.

guys guys calm down, as far as i know a poll can only have 8 slots,
i did not include the early ones just because of this

Protip; the earlier ones are better then the new ones. Well everything is better then 14. Seriously, you should not play 14, i mean from everything everyones said that should be a given

from what i am seeing ff used to be better back in the day

There called nostalgia glasses, you know when you were a kid and thought something was the bestest ever? Then you one day come across it again, play it with much excitment, only to find it is just god awful? Yeah, well ...

Granted some of them will be good games but just keep in mind they may have forgotten the bad points and hyped up the good ones too much.

On topic. X reamins one of my fav games ever, it has flaws no doubt. For it's time though, it was graphically stunning, especially the cutsences.

Just tell me this isn't awesome! Since it's on PS2 aswell.

 

[Wolf Devastator]

I'm still sticking by FFX.

It changed my whole perspective on Turn-based RPG's, sooo many improvements made and one of my favorite and most compelling stories.

 

[scorptatious]

I suggest either VII or IX. Both are really good games.

Although I personally prefer IX out of the two.

 

[tehweave]

Holy shit... NINE has the most votes? I thought I was in a minority here! All my friends love 7 and 10, and none of them like nine... Wow.

If you need a true introduction to the series, seven is a good starting point (as is 1) but if you just want a fun game, go for nine.

 

[Diminished Capacity]

I would vote for FF5. The job system took a little getting used to for me, but teaching a party of white mages the bare handed ability results in healers with a high attack rating.

for the purposes of the poll I picked XIII, as it was the one I played most recently. (I've played better, I've played worse).

 

[AvsJoe]

VII and IX are atop the poll as usual. Those two and Tactics all sit in my top 5 of all time. But I'm having a hard time not recommending FFX to a person who hasn't played a game in the series. Terrible story and sketchy voice-acting, yes, but awesome pretty much everything else. VII and IX had better stories but they are very, VERY dated these days. I heart pixels but the new blood seems to hate the crap out of them.

So my recommendation: FFX.

 

[Phlakes]

I just got in to the series recently, and I started with VII, which turns out to have been a very good decision.

 

[Eyhren]

None of the above. Play 6.

 

[Sacman]

But my favorite is four...<.<

Spoiler

 

[AD Headshot]

Don't listen to the haters.
Final Fantasy 7 was the first one I played in the series, and I haven't played a better one since, (I've now played all of them).
8 came close, but 9 was in fact 'terribad'.
Shit story, shit characters. The only good thing in 9 was the Chocobo treasure hunt minigame.
I would say download 7 and 8 for your PC. Those two were easily the best ones and will provide you with hours and hours of amazing story and gameplay.

Hope this helps

Uh...what? The characters of IX were well-developed, something the VII conspicuously were not. Plus the plot was actually simple instead of being more convoluted than a Dan Brown novel.

OT: IX. Best characters, is 4 disks long, good plot, and is probably the best overall FF I have played.

IX Just had the most unmemorable and boring characters of any Final Fantasy I've played so far. After experiencing such awesome characters in VII and VIII, I was just incredibly disappointed. Characters such as Quina, and Steiner? Wtf..I just really disliked the character art-style. The world was much more impressive than the characters however.
But despite being 4 disks long, I finished IX in about half the time it took me to finish VII and VIII. The gameplay was alright, but I just felt like the game finished much earlier than I thought it would. Very disappointing game, BUT it had its moments, (as every Final Fantasy does).

OT: VII and VIII. Can't go wrong!

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Meh, they're all flawed in their own little ways, but X was the first one I ever played, and it got me into video games in general, so I'd say it was good.

I think VI was better, but that's not on your list.

Please tell your story. Did someone sell the game to you with promises of a cool blitzball player, or doomed summoner on a pilgrimage?

As a non-gamer, what drew you to this title particularly? This might be fascinating.

Oh boy, do I ever hope you weren't being sarcastic, because here I go!

Someone sold it to my folks when they bought a PS2, saying it had a great story. It'd been out for some time at this point, was fairly cheap and I'd run out of books, so, they thought, what the hell.

Whilst being initially impressed by the graphics, my dad couldn't get his head around the control system and Mum didn't really get that the thing in her hand had buttons, and could control things on the screen, so it was just me and this lush incredible world in front of me. Aside from a few ridiculous plot twists (Luke; THAT is your father!) and an ingame glitch that swapped all the character models for enemies (Yuna was an upside down bird!), I loved it.

I loved the music, the backgrounds, the history you could learn from talking to people, the glorious amount of side quests and beautiful, beautiful ending; basically everything about it, even most of the voice acting - the only reason I'd put VI on a pedestal above it is that VI had a bucketload of charm and a lot of more outrageous fun in it (See: Ultros)

I tried to make my post not sound sarcastic, but it was late and I didn't succeed entirely.

This is the kind of story I like. Video games have been part of my life for a long time, so I really like hearing about how people get into them. They take longer to absorb than most movies but you get so much more, usually.

I still see FFX as a magical installment, I agree with what you said plus I loved the puzzles, they were so unexpected. If it had the free-roaming environments of FFXII, it might even be my favorite. FFVI is the one I played the most, in high school too, but it never had that effect on me.

Thanks for the tale. Oletteko suomalainen?

Ei, mutta rakastan kieltä.

Glad I didn't bore you. I think magical is the best way to describe FFX and I agree about the puzzles. The trials were really difficult near the end, but it was great. I ended up with three friends and I all around a sheet of paper trying to work out the last one!

I'm still on the fence but XII. When I first played it wasn't too keen on it because I didn't think the story was strong enough, but I replayed it last year, concentrating more on the environments and interesting battle system and it was pretty fun.

Have you played any Final Fantasy(s)?

 

[Patrick Dare]

1) Download SNES emulator.
2) Download FF6.
3) Play FF6.
4) ??
5) Profit!

This probably is the best advice. FF6 is likely the best of the whole series.

I'll third or fifth or however many people have said this. I was going to choose this one but it's not on the list. Also important to remember that, I believe, in the US it was actually labeled as 3 rather than 6.

 

[AD Headshot]

IX Just had the most unmemorable and boring characters of any Final Fantasy I've played so far. After experiencing such awesome characters in VII and VIII, I was just incredibly disappointed. Characters such as Quina, and Steiner? Wtf..I just really disliked the character art-style. The world was much more impressive than the characters however.
But despite being 4 disks long, I finished IX in about half the time it took me to finish VII and VIII. The gameplay was alright, but I just felt like the game finished much earlier than I thought it would. Very disappointing game, BUT it had its moments, (as every Final Fantasy does).

OT: VII and VIII. Can't go wrong!

I agree the character design wasn't much, but unmemorable and boring? Compared to Tifa, Red IIIX, and Vincent Valentine IX's characters-even the ones bummed out of the storyline later on- were godsends. It takes a lot to truely make me dislike an entire cast, and FFVII done it without even trying. I agree on Quina though, I personally have no idea what that was all about.

Tifa, Red XIII and Vincent Valentine were some of the coolest characters in RPG history! Lol. I like to think that Repede in Tales of Vesperia was loosely based on Red XIII from FFVII. They just have a similar sorta combat style and rugged look about them.
Coolest character in IX was definitely Vivi! But there were too many boring characters that weren't fleshed out much at all. Such as Eiko, Amarant, and Freya. Zidane and Garnet were fleshed out rather well, but I just didn't like them compared to VII's Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith, or to VIII's Squall and Rinoa. Despite IX not being my favourite, I still did enjoy parts of the story and setting, and it was a crapload better than the abomination that was XIII!
To each their own though I guess =)