What is the best Final Fantasy game of all time? - And hey, explain why if you feel like it.

What is the best Final Fantasy game of all time?

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Final Fantasy 6 for story, Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced for gameplay.

Six has an amazing story, a wonderful cast off characters, including the villain. Some heavy drama, secrets(Relms dad, optional characters like Mog or Gogo), silly enjoyable mechanics (I'm sure suplexing the train was left in on purpose), wonderful music, deep characters. The villain wins, everyone gives up, even Celes who survives it. Then you crawl your way back up from nothing, everyone you can back together, and fight your way up a pile of gods to put that fuck Kefka down. An amazing experience they create make that final fight epic, the only fight in the game where when someone goes down, they are replaced by who is next on the roster. That's how big of a bad this is, you're not assembling your 4 best to save the day, you're taking everyone.

Octopath Traveler took 6(and 4/5)'s sprite style and really captured the beauty of those SNES games.

Tactics Advanced really perfected the Job system(I just learned Bravely Default is a job system game, I'll go back after Octopath to try it). You have a bunch of classes and abilities to mix and match min/max to your autism's content. A2 isn't bad, but it adds very little(or locks it to unique characters, some you can't get til post game) and is weaker overall, but still worth it, and FFT is a little too rough for me to go back and play after I got hook to the much better developed Advanced .

And the story is kinda powerful. Because the ending of the game you are faced with the same decision as the characters. If you don't stop it'll keep going forever. You have to make the same decision as Marshe, to leave this game behind and move on.

Honorable mentions:
FF1- Amazing for it's time, still holds up for what it is.
FF3- Intoduced the job system, though still pretty dated, they really grew the JRPG genre in those first 3 games
FF4-Memorable chacacters, good story, only overshadowed by how amazing 6 is
FF5- Weaker story than 4, really got the job system down great, more fun to play than 4
FF9- 7 and 8 drove me away from the franchise, eventually came back to 9 hearing it was more like the SNES era. I agree, but I still couldn't get into it. Burnt out around the time lavithan and bahamut showed up.
 
FFX bar none.

Look I know the storys crap but it by far has the best level up system with the sphere grid and the battle system is damn near perfect. It's all about switching your party members and delaying the enemys moves or speeding up your own. Hell It plays with it amazingly with the Monster Arena bosses (Looking at you Bomb bonus boss) Where it's actually beneficial to you to speed up the enemy to force them into paterns or lock them into one or two attacks you can resist or heal through.
 
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It's a cliche, but for me it has to be VII. To clarify, it wasn't my first Final Fantasy, that honor goes to the III remake on Nintendo DS. I played VII at the right time in my life. At that point, the only other turn-based RPG I had played was Pokemon, so FFVII felt like an evolution to what I was used to. VII's soundtrack is one of my favorites primarily because of the instrumentation; it felt punchy and every song hits all the right places.

The other thing too is that VII's battle system feels smoother than the other PS1 games. As much as I adore IX, the battles felt painfully slow; it can take upwards of 20 seconds for the fight to actually start. And VIII was just poorly paced thanks to its insanely long GF attacks and slow magic animations. VII in comparison feels faster and better paced, and it certainly helps that the battle animations aren't as prolonged as VIII and IX.

The world is also my favorite in the series. I adore how the game is initially linear before opening up tremendously halfway through once you get the airship. It gives the game a great sense of scale that I honestly think hasn't really been matched by other games in the series with the exception of IX.

Yes, VII does have its share of faults. A lot of the sidequests feel like busywork and some of them are outright obtuse without a guide (the Fort Condor battles being the worst offender in this regard). And the translation leaves a lot to be desired, with frequent grammar and spelling mistakes.

That said, I'm not a fan of all the supplementary material that's come out in VII's wake, besides Crisis Core. A lot of it feels unnecessary; the original game told everything that needed to be told. One of the things I hated about Advent Children was how it basically ruined the ending of VII. VII's ending was ambiguous and left you wondering what everyone's ultimate fates were, and I adored that. AC meanwhile just throws it away and says everyone survived, and I'm not a big fan of that.
 
Good villain. It's hard for me to choose between IV and VI since I love both games equally. But have to go with VI since in IV Golbez was chucked away for Zeromus even though Golbez would of been a fantastic final boss. I also love V but haven't beaten it yet. I and II are also fun to play or at least the PS1 versions
 

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Your Weird Fetish said:
How can FF6 be the best FF when the magic defense stat didn't even do anything?
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UnKillFill said:
I didn't know what you were talking about, so I looked it up. I think you have your stat bugs confused.
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Defense_bug

(The evade bug which VI *actually* had seems like a bigger deal tbh.)
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Just so long as no one complains about the Vanish-Doom bug, which was a FEATURE as far as I'm concerned.

Back in the day, I abused the shit out of the Sketch bug though, one of the few that was so retarded they patched it in the second batch of US SNES carts. No regrets.
 
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Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age seems to be on sale. I've tried to play it before, but was dismayed when a seemingly cool-looking main character
Was killed off in the first 5 minutes and replaced with what appeared to be gay Aladdin
and stopped when one of the early enemies appeared to be a fucking tomato.

Is the game worth playing? And is it worth buying for $25?
 
FFXII is pretty good.

It's also a game where the main character is the least well, main in the series. I always felt he was just more along for the ride if anything.
 
Sable said:
FFXII is pretty good.

It's also a game where the main character is the least well, main in the series. I always felt he was just more along for the ride if anything.
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I really like Balthier.

Also, any thoughts as to whether or not this is the definitive version of the game? (As opposed to playing the PS2 version on an emulator.)
 
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I voted for FF6 because it's the one I always feel like playing. I know going in that I'm going to have a good time, and that it's not going to feel like a massive undertaking. It was also my first Final Fantasy, so add on le ebin nostalgia.

FFT is a close second because IMO it's got the best story in any Final Fantasy game.
 
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I liked V the best myself. The job system was fun. I preferred the light hearted story compared to IV, VI and VII. It wasn't all pretentious and serious like the series has gotten. There wasn't a cast of 80 trillion characters. It was just a fun game with good mechanics and a basic adventure/save the world story without lots of bullshit and melodrama.

The first final fantasy also holds a special place i guess just because it was the first game in the series I ever played.

I also genuinely enjoyed playing through mystic quest as a kid, definitely not my favorite, but I've got a bit of nostalgia for it and the music still kicks ass.
 
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FFVI. From the intro where Biggs, Wedge, and Terra are walking to Narshe to the collapse of the Tower, nearly everything about that game kept me wanting more. Then there's the music. I really can't sperg enough about how the music worked so well in that game.
 
Sable said:
FFXII is pretty good.

It's also a game where the main character is the least well, main in the series. I always felt he was just more along for the ride if anything.
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I've said it before but that's a really nice aspect of the game and for a teenage main character it makes sense. FF6 is still the best though, it's just so pleasant to play.
 
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Probably Bravely Default. Technically not FF (but it is a spin off so it sort of counts in my opinion), but the job change is my favourite mechanic in gameplay, and I love how busted you can get with the right set up (Second fixes a lot of the issues Default had, but it has a weaker cast and soundtrack; I haven't played II so I can't comment on that one). Tiz's theme and Serpent Eating Ground are also two of my favourite themes in videogames.

If not BD, then I guess FF 1 and only because it's the only FF game I played that I've actually managed to finish (the other one being 7 and 13. 13 was boring and confusing, and I never got to finish 7 due to time issues).
 
The hardest: FF3
The most fun: FF5
The most overrated: FF7
The most underrated: FF9
The most boring: FF13
The easiest: FF6 and no I haven't played 15.
 
Damn who raised this thread from the grave?

FFX-2 is my favorite. Absolute shit that they hid an insanely good combat system in.
 
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