What is objectively the best Final Fantasy?

IDontLikeLiberals said:
Shit combat and a worse story. The worst of the run between SNES and PS1.
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FFV is bland, at least FF8 was interesting and cool, even if the mechanics were flawed.

IDontLikeLiberals said:
Anyone who chooses VIII is a pedophile.
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What the fuck is wrong with you.

foam rolla said:
I feel Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced doesn't get enough love.
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The judgement system utterly ruined it. Whoever thought that up should be beaten. It was also just disappointing for it not to be a true sequel. It gets more love than it deserves.

Richter Belmont said:
XVI is the best. VI is for redditors to soy-face over how much better it is than VII (it isn’t)

Kingdom Hearts is the better series anyway.
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Incredible, these are opinions the worst I've ever heard. There's only 2 good KH games, KH1 & 2, and FF16 is trash.
 
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It's obviously Tactics! For the mainline games 9 has a special place in my heart.
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PotatoInMyAss said:
FFXIII got a undeserving bad rep
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It's extremely mixed. Story is poorly told, incomprehensible nonsense and the character design is mid. Graphics were mind-blowing and it has one of the best soundtracks in the series, but gameplay is serviceable at best (looks cool).

I heard the gameplay gets better in the sequels at least.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
It's extremely mixed. Story is poorly told, incomprehensible nonsense and the character design is mid. Graphics were mind-blowing and it has one of the best soundtracks in the series, but gameplay is serviceable at best (looks cool).

I heard the gameplay gets better in the sequels at least.
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I never finished it. Got to the final boss and just gave up. Pretty much how i handled most games in my teens and 20s. I’m planning on revisiting it in the future.

Lighting wasn’t that intriguing as a main protagonist
The graphics blew me away
Soundtrack was cool.
Should of been more open world and less linear.
The setting was cool.
Thought Snow Villiers was a decent character.
 
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AxlRoseBaby said:
Final Fantasy 2. No question
- Its the most grindiest of the games,
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I have no fucking idea how I’m supposed to beat Final Fantasy 2 without grinding. Let's talk about the money situation. There isn’t any. You’re supposed to make do with the most absurdly overpriced items that barely work anyway. Even when you do get an experience gain, your characters are too busy missing their targets to do anything useful.. Want to heal someone? Too bad. Be absolutely certain that whatever boss fight you’re in is going to end in a complete, embarrassing wipe because you don’t have the right spell. Light armor is practically naked. Heavy armor can’t cast magic. Want to run away from a battle? Too bad. One bad turn, one “poisoned” status, and the game decided to wipe all your hard-earned experience after a fight.
 
foam rolla said:
I get this vibe when it comes to FF7. I feel like there's people who won't say they like it because it's the most well known or because normies played it. They can't give it any praise and instead have to shit on aspects of it and say "Oh the character development doesn't have the same Je ne sais quoi as FF6". One thing I like about FF7 is I meet people through non gaming communities who turn out to be FF7 fans and can find some common interest in it.
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This was my first Final Fantasy. Before that I mainly played Shining Force and Phantasy Star. FF7 was also my first PS1 game. So it's very nostalgic for me. I also really enjoyed FF9. FF8 is ok.
 
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PotatoInMyAss said:
Never played more than an hour of this gams. But at the top of my to finish list. Should i go with PSX or PSP version? And why.
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Are you the kind of person who needs to have every scrap of bonus fluff? Because if you don’t, you can easily ignore the Balthier cameo and the new jobs. War of the Lions is “better” in the sense that it’s what the developers thought you wanted—more bullshit to deal with if you care about that.

Absolutely criminal how few single-player Tactics Advance games there are: That hybridization of jobs. That one shot on Queen Remedi with an Ultima round from my Moogle gun—BLAM!
 
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Captain Syrup said:
Are you the kind of person who needs to have every scrap of bonus fluff? Because if you don’t, you can easily ignore the Balthier cameo and the new jobs. War of the Lions is “better” in the sense that it’s what the developers thought you wanted—more bullshit to deal with if you care about that.

Absolutely criminal how few single-player Tactics Advance games there are: That hybridization of jobs. The tension off the charts. That one shot of Queen Remedi with an Ultima round from my Moogle gun—BLAM!
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It really depends on how good or long the game is. Mass Effect 2 for example, i tried to do all of the extra side quests and DLC because how good that game is.
 
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I've played/beaten most of the series except for the MMOs. VII was my first FF and was my favorite game overall for the longest time. 3/6 is a game I've never been able to finish and I don't know why. I just lose interest before I even get the full party most of the time. The furthest I ever got was once I printed out a full walkthrough from GameFAQS and tried to sit down and finish it, but I still stopped right after getting everyone back after the world is destroyed and doing some side quests before going to the last area. It was also around the time my friend got me into World of Warcraft at the end of Burning Crusade and I kind of gave up playing anything else for a couple years. X might be my 2nd favorite just for the combat system and I didn't mind XIII that much, at least enough to grind out a platinum for 360 and PS3 versions. I even platinumed the base version of 15 but I had no fucking clue what was going on with the story by the end. It was the only time after I beat a game I went online to look up theories and explanations about wtf just happened while the credits rolled.

I loved Tactics and wish they made more of them, or at least used the combat system more. I don't remember if I ever beat it legit or if I could only finish it using GameShark that gives unlimited JP but every once in awhile I wish I could go back and play it again. I still have my disc so maybe one day I'll try to find an old ps2 since I can't find a way to get it on modern systems.
 
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VI is the obvious winner for the "best overall experience" , I can’t believe the insane amount of hidden stuff.

VII mini games are so good that they might as well be their own franchise. The setting’s so deep and bizarre. But materia progression in VII is a joke. Even with gear that’s supposed to double your materia growth.

Ten and Ten-2 have a special place in my heart. (The new summons? Don’t even bother remembering them. Where’s Ramuh or Odin, huh?) This is the last Final Fantasy where they remember to let the characters joke around.
 
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
FFV is bland,
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I see this take a lot. I don't really get it. I just replayed it not too long ago and there's some weird shit in that game. The multiple and merged world thing was fairly unique compared to the earlier games. The boss is a fucking sentient tree demon thing. There's a library where you fight books. I think it did the ancient lost technology trope better than FF1 did. The story gets pretty dark at times. A lot of people just die. One of your party members dies permanently and it's fairly sad when it happens. It's pretty sad when the two dragons die.

If anything I find IV to be bland. The story's fairly cliche, your party's going to be pretty much the same every single time you play the game, it lacks a lot of the quirky weirdness of the older games, it's very linear and guided. It's probably the only 2d Final Fantasy game I've really never had any urge to go back and replay after beating it.
 
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PotatoInMyAss said:
I never finished it. Got to the final boss and just gave up. Pretty much how i handled most games in my teens and 20s. I’m planning on revisiting it in the future.

Lighting wasn’t that intriguing as a main protagonist
The graphics blew me away
Soundtrack was cool.
Should of been more open world and less linear.
The setting was cool.
Thought Snow Villiers was a decent character.
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I didn't finish it either, but I think I got around halfway through. I agree with all that, except I don't like Snow or the whiny boy. Black guy was overrated but the best character imo.

Grub said:
I see this take a lot. I don't really get it. I just replayed it not too long ago and there's some weird shit in that game. The multiple and merged world thing was fairly unique compared to the earlier games. The boss is a fucking sentient tree demon thing. There's a library where you fight books. I think it did the ancient lost technology trope better than FF1 did. The story gets pretty dark at times. A lot of people just die. One of your party members dies permanently and it's fairly sad when it happens. It's pretty sad when the two dragons die.

If anything I find IV to be bland. The story's fairly cliche, your party's going to be pretty much the same every single time you play the game, it lacks a lot of the quirky weirdness of the older games, it's very linear and guided. It's probably the only 2d Final Fantasy game I've really never had any urge to go back and replay after beating it.
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I'll say FF5 is better than FF1-3, but not FF4. It is my favorite of the 2D games because it has a stronger cast than even FF6. The story may be cliche but it's executed well, it actually used romance as a core part of the plot, which is rare. Usually you can erase romance from a game and it changes very little. Even FFX, which has a great romance, would not really change the events if it was edited out. It would make FFX-2 impossible though (or just improbable; Yuna probably wouldn't dedicated her life to hopelessly looking for Tidus in what would logically seem to be in vain if she didn't love him).

FF6 is very close to being my favorite 2D FF. It would actually be higher if not for the last dungeon being bullshit, but the early game is basically flawless until the world of ruin, and even then it's good, it's just that last stretch that sucks. The opening cinematic is extremely epic, I doubt they'd do it justice in a remake.

As for FF5, idk man... It's so goofy in tone, I just don't really care about it much. I like FF2 least of all, but I actually wanted to like it, the gameplay just wouldn't let me. Total opposite with FF5.

NerdShamer said:
I've only have 7, 8, and 12 and so far, I kind of hate all 3 for different reasons, lmao
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Why FF7? I hate FF12 too, combat system is maybe the worst up to that point, and the cast is weak. Balthier is overrated.
 
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