Best Final Fantasy?

[LemiaOfTheCodes]

VII

VIII

IX

X/10-2

XI

Other

[NamerOfStars]

Six. One has a special place in my heart (it was one of the video games I cut my teeth on, with my brother helping me pull off what he'd done years before), but six is ultimately the best (of those I've played, which stop at eight). Seven wasn't bad, but gets WAY more credit than it deserves, especially in light of the elements that were ripped off from Phantasy Star 4.

[TurboKid]

I stopped liking it after 6 (4 in the US).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RDMWp1oLoA0

The gameplay gets old if you're as old as me. Walk around, do a simplistic menu-based turn-based battle, repeat, do a battle, repeat. And the cutscenes aren't so interesting after a while regardless of the VFX quality.

I hate Final Fantasy now. Shining Force FTW!

[TurboKid]

At the risk of blasphemy, I never got what's so special about FF 7 either. Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Barret... boring. Same formula. Walk around, fight, walk around fight, with cheesy cutscenes in between.

[TurboKid]

I don't like anime and manga that much either except for my childhood favorites, even though I'm from Japan. Maybe that's why I stopped liking FF very much. It's like anime cheesiness to the extreme. But I don't see how people can defend its gameplay absent their love of the cutscenes and characters. It's soooo boring. Tactical RPGs are way more interesting to me like Fallout 1&2, AD&D Gold Box, Shining Force, X-Com, etc. We can actually defend their gameplay.

[Still-alive]

Yes you got it

[TurboKid]

@Still-alive Cheers!

[TurboKid]

@Still-alive One of the problems in my opinion with most Japanese RPGs is that they didn't take after tabletop and PnP roots with dice rolls and such. Japanese were most inspired by games like Wizardry. And the pushed the digital format to the extreme with NPCs and players that have like 3000+ HP, or bosses with 9999+ HP with few criticals. And that would be boring as hell if we had to roll dice and consult rule books each time. But I actually think it's still kind of boring even if the computer is rolling the dice for us and consorting with the rules. It makes for super-long battles that often take some sort of puzzle form, like you're supposed to not attack the boss when it's in its shell or cast a healing spell on zombies to "heal them away from death" leading to their demise. I find it incredibly dull and tedious.

[TurboKid]

@Still-alive Whereas in Fallout 1&2, one of my favs, it takes after its PnP and tabletop roots. So in a single turn, some guy can blast us with a shotgun and blow off the right side of our midsection with a critical leaving ribs exposed while we die. Combat is swift and entertaining even when you lose.

[NamerOfStars]

Funny you mention Fallout- I was actually replaying 2 just a few years ago, and had a stray rocket hit a target much closer to me than what I was aiming at, sending me sliding a half-dozen tiles away. My character got up, did the "dusting myself off" animation, and only THEN exploded. I wish I'd been recording it; it was hilarious.

And FF6 was actually 3 in the US, not four.

[TurboKid]

@NamerOfStars Fallout 1&2 was da bomb. Endless stories. I played a dumb character one time with the lowest intelligence points. As a min-maxxer type normally wanting to play elite sniper by FO 1&2 standards, I would never do that. But FO 1&2 was so fun that I didn't want to min-max. I played an idiot and it's like all the responses were like, "DERP!" and "Huh?" And I remember especially in the opening like, "[Sigh]. Get the water chip. WATER CHIP. U need WATER CHIP. WATER CHIP WATER CHIP WATER CHIP." Then I'm like, "Uhh... huhuhuhuhu. You said chip."

[TurboKid]

@NamerOfStars My bad about confusion. I was in Japan at the time. I got all confused by the discrepancy in the numbers between US and Japan.

[TurboKid]

@NamerOfStars I'm thinking about the one with the girl in the robot suit. And there's like a thief in the beginning. I think their names were Terra and Locke. I got halfway through that one and got bored.

[NamerOfStars]

Yep, that was six. (Although Shining Force 2 also had a thief in the beginning, as I recall). And yeah, the early Fallouts were great (well, one and two and kinda Tactics; Brotherhood of Steel was an atrocity against all that is good and true). Did you ever play Arcanum? If you liked Fallout, you'd probably enjoy that.

[TurboKid]

@NamerOfStars I always felt like any game that offered a real-time mode kind of imbalanced the turn-based mode... I had a similar problem with Arcanum as I did with X-Com: Apocalypse. I didn't like the combat.

[Gwenhwyfar]

I’ve heard good things about VII but I don't know enough to say

[Still-alive]

i think you'd love either 9 or maybe 10. just a hunch :P

[Gwenhwyfar]

@Still-alive awesome 😊😊😊

[Still-alive]

what genre you like more of medieval fantasy or sci fi?

[Gwenhwyfar]

@Still-alive medieval fantasy

[Still-alive]

awesome. 9 is right up your alley then. its fantastic :)

[Gwenhwyfar]

@Still-alive thank you 😊

[Still-alive]

anytime :)

[averageguy4]

I've played 1-3, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 15. With a wildly unpopular opinion I liked 15 the most. Also FF7 remake has the most uncomfortable to watch cutscenes of all time. They make me curl into a ball to try and not look at them. I don't know who thought humans move or talk that way, but they need to go outside an look at humans. Why does Cloud grunt so much?

[clampfan101]

I’m only familiar with…
VII: Original looks awesome. The remake is epic.
X: Original was awesome. The remake doesn’t seem as good with looks and music.
X-2: Looks like a stupid fan service game.

[LemiaOfChampions]

Seven and Ten for me.

[jshm2]

Still waiting, kiddo.

[Anonymous]

I love the remake of 7

[QuietRunner]

Final Fantasy IV

[Still-alive]

Number 6!

[Still-alive]

After that would be FF9