OK so some of these debates are getting a little too serious for my taste. So I want to know which Final Fantasy is your favorite? Did you LOVE 7 like my little bro, or did you feel that 8 bounced around a bit too much? Or maybe you like the movies better? Lets talk people!

I happen to think that the best Final Fantasy that I have played is FF1 way back on NES. Notice that I said played. (I happen to enjoy watching others play Final Fantasy more than I like to play it myself.) I always loved the music and the story was pretty good! Plus I really liked the fact that you had to visit many places more than once in the game. Overall I think that FF1 was the best because it was my first RPG and it is one of the few games that I would pick up and play again!

ff7 crisis core the new 1 thats cool and i understanded the history of SOLDIER and sephiroth better

but 10 was also good good story to it

and i also like final fantasty advance

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FF3 for epic story and character profiling. It was a bit buggy, but its fun playing it over and over again. Kefka makes for one hell of a villain, funny, annoying and hard to beat.

FF7 is also a very good play. Although I am a bit disappointed at the followup games, especially Crisis Core. The Combat RPG element is nice and all that, but story wise it was kinda lacking and it was a very very short game, considering Final Fantasy has a habit of sucking up a lot of time.

Frankly, after FFIX, the series was getting stagnant. Nothing new to the table except for massive graphical tweaks. The active battle concept wasn't even a new idea to FF people (at least to those who played Squaresoft games.. remember Chrono Trigger?)

If they branched out of the formula in the story department, I'd be re-enchanted. Otherwise, it's back to playing the old classics for me

You should be more accurate about FF3. The american version of FF3 is the japanese FF6 version.

I finished FFIX yesterday and I didn't like the end too much. The plot changed too suddenly and finished too fast.
Kuja changed his intentions at the end of disc 3 and the story of disc 4 took me like 2.5 to finish. The end seemed like the programmers wanted to finally finish the game.

IX was probably my least favorite of all the FF games I have played. Mostly I just despised the overdrive system. But aside from that the majority of the game felt a tad generic and lazy. However I still think the land of eternal rain (cant remember the actual name) is one of the coolest concepts I have ever heard of story wise, if it is a tad melodramatic.

I have said it on these forums before and I will sat it untill I die. I am a VII die hard all the way. My opinion probably stems in large part from sentimental reasons, but what ever, the damn game was simply epic (literally epic). I dare someone to mention something wrong with that game, go ahead, try.

I recently completed 90% of FFXII. Honestly I think it is a pretty great game. The battle system is real time, but you program your characters in advance to do certain things in any given event. It allows for both extremely complex design, and thoughtless mashing. Plus the story FINALLY broke off from the love theme that dominated the series for a very long time. Certainly worth a play.

Yup, totally forgot the naming conventions. It is FF6 I'm referring to

Final Fantasy Tactics.

Superb plot, relatively high difficulty later on, and a unique battle system.

Eh, not really unique, same as all other tactics games

I like four, mostly cause you can choose your party ;)

Among Final Fantasy titles ;P

i liked FFX and advent children