If I'm ranking based on its design, quality, and scope
7>6>8>4>1>9>5>3>2
If I'm ranking based on personal appeal
8>4>7>6>1>5>9>2>3
Also, just as a general note, FFX is the most complete and highest quality Final Fantasy game that Square ever made even though I don't love its aesthetics or characters.
3 is a really great game, 5 has a lot of customization, 7 is too easy but I enjoy the system and the plot, 6 has the best plot and characters but it's kinda of a boring game full of shitty obscure missable requirements for useless relics and too many character systems, frick Gau, 2 is nice for the difficult and dungeon crawling, 9 is a well rounded game but also full of shitty pointless systems, 4 has a nice plot but regardless of which version you play the game system system is just too broken, 1 is not really that interesting as a game and 8 is the just a broken mess full of pointless shit
>I
too old >II
too old >III
cute, but too old >IV
solid, but i don't like random battles. >V
solid, but i don't like random battles. also another plus for this is the job system. i think FF games are usually better when they have a job system, or something similar. >VI
good narrative, lots of characters to choose from, interesting secrets/side stuff, but i'm still pretty turned off by random battles. i don't like this game, but i get why people like it. >VII
great ideas, some of which are iconic. great character designs. story is mangled due to bad translation. the materia system is one of the best ideas they've had. but, i'm still not a jarpig person so... with mods, you can have a significantly better experience. of all the games in this list, i'd have to say this is the one i'm most likely to play--with a shitload of mods. >VIII
absolute garbage. the story is nonsense and even when you do understand the story it's one of the stupidest ideas they've ever had. it's my understanding the junction system can be fun if you know how to deal with it, but i think square would've fared much better if they just built on what they'd done previously rather than throwing it out for the sake of being different. >IX
i've tried to get into this multiple times, but i just can't do it. none of the characters are appealing, other then quina, but quina is the joke character, so.... it's like finding all the secrets in a quake map and not being able to find the exit. battle system is okay. absolutely zero interest in the story. i just can't get into it. oh, and vivi is cool. steiner had some amusing moments.
FF games aren't my cup of tea, but i've given most of them an honest try since they have such a rabid fanbase. just not my thing.
Haven't played much of the rest.
12 is the best one. 10 is the worst.
Due to the repedative combat only 12/15 are playable for newer generations.
Combat replacement:
7
Enemies attack faster the longer you wait in between actions. Attacking costs health.
R1 - Slash
R2 - Magic
Holding still does a area magic attack, high power, button presses then hold denotes type of attack/heal.
Combining and timing attacks makes them more effective eg pressing slash and then pressing it again as soon as it finishes costs less health.
L1 dash forward, slash at close to enemynotherwise incur damage from hitting enemy. Also dashes back/cancels attack
L2 hold to sheild, press to parry.
Swap to another character after incurring more than half health loss. Put in a line, going to the back after a turn, gaining health from other partybnembers successful attacks. Putting all members in action elininates that healing and requires a larger area from magic to heal characters. Summons require all characters to be at limit break.
FF8
Squal/Seifer
R1 press fire down sides of gunblade at enemy where pointing.
R1 hold (then press) to Slash, slashing again during slash makes a ressonance/explosion which does more damage. Can do it up to 5/6 times, but each time doubles the damage you will receive if hit, successful explosions stun, the faster you press R2/the faster it's depressed the faster the slash.
R2 by itself without slash draw magic
R1 + R2 away from enemy dodge right
L1 reload
L2 need to press alternately to reload successfully/with extra damage.
All 4 at once to use magic. Number of presses increases amount of magic uses. Hold for summon.
Zell
L1 left punch
R1 right ""
A green tint on either side of the screen denotes which handed punch is most effective, they get shorter with combo length.
L2 block left
Red tint etc.
Turns on a timer. 3 seconds per turn, increased by attacking, so stay close. Each attack gives half as much time as the last.
Only played 1 2 and 3 and they're best 3 2 1.1 is still good but really simple compared to 2 but 2 feels easy at points because you have 5 people. 3 is the best because it has the best music and characters, the bad guy in particular is really cool, reminds me of the Joker. 1 is probably the hardest, I never beat it.
Yeah 3 and 7 are my personal favorites but I don't need anyone to agree. I get why people like 8 more than 7, I just feel differently. You could make sound arguements as to why 6 is the GOAT, but I will always play 3 over it.
2 just doesn't have a great gimmick because the gimmick leveling is obtuse compared to materia in 7, jobs in 1/3/5. It doesn't have a story to set itself apart from 1 and 3, let alone 4 or 6. Outside of the obfuscated leveling system there isn't much of a hook to the game >Filtering means I don't like the game
Filtering means a game is hard and you quit, not that you finish it and were underwhelmed.
Having to do the same thing 100 times to level up that stat, with these counts never displayed, yeah that's obtuse. Do you think people just intuitively figured out "you have to do it 100 times"?
If you want that character to pursue that spell or weapon it only makes sense to continually use it. If you're ten hours into the game I hope something clicked in your head that your actions in battle had some sort of influence in your growth.
Tactics Ogre > FF Tactics > Xenogears > Suikoden 1 > VI > Suikoden 2 > Chrono Trigger > VIII > VII > V > Secret of Mana > II > I > IV > IX > III > Last Bible
4 has a cast of characters like 6 and lots of "deaths" to main characters, and a spaceship and a moon level. Essentially every character represents a job from previous games, so it's a locked job system like 6
9 has throwback aethstetics
I know it seems like a mundane and almost standard thing now, but FF4 invented the ATB gauge. It was a new thing that nobody else had made by 1991. In fact, Square patented it when they created FF4. FF8 had its junction system, obviously. 9 had its equipment learning system.
Midjourney AI characters. Eg Balenciaga etc youtube videos. Make models of them, make sprites of them. A hundred or so per animation frame, covering all observable angles. A large portion of RAM used for sprites. Main characters having the most animations by far. The more animated something is the more attention you should give to it.
Sprites cull occluded geometry and effects.
Sprites higher res than world.
World very low res, blurred. Explained by character reserving attention for other characters, a weakness, but part of their role.
3D world aiming at similarly impressive idealism. Made from ai as well. Scale important, characters suiting but dwarfed by immensity of world. Always with the sense what you see is a small portion. Though you're led to essential parts for your progression.
When you're watched, world represented with animated 2D backgrounds. Animations seperate to scene so they can be randomised (non repedative).
Some sections composed at high storage cost. Scenes, generated or hand drawn, or both, existant in 3D but far too costly to render. Represented instead by an array of spheres. Able to look around/move camera to any pont in them, and move through them. A lot would be requrired as well as effective interpolation between frames and per pixel motion blur. Seamless. Performance cost would be reduced then so more given to effects. Reserved for boss fights, and special moments designed to overwhelm you.
Story is you're left to find your purpose. A state expected of success or excess. You've slaved away. Now you find what for.
Apparently all isn't well. An anti aging virus is changing. People are sent away as soon as they show signs from scans, as not to spread the new variants.
The more you interact the further away you're cast.
Far enough from what you knew as heaven people are having children. Considered lesser pursuits.
You find out you're infecting them with the solution. A means to stop them increasing the population.
Keep some regularly used sprites in ram, eg from behind main char.
Load silhouetes of sprites. Silhouetes used to cull and determine which pixels of sprite need to be loaded, eg size (sparcity) and unoccluded. Scene composed while sprites arrive, streamed in. Sprites have around 16 ms(60fps) or 32ms (30fps) to arrive. As they do they're assigned to cover their silhouettes and post processing frame interpolation and/or motion blur is applied, as not to show jumps in position due to inadequate framerate or sprite angle/animation.
Will have to rely on post processing as sprites even with effective compression rapidly consume space. While not costing too much per frame, many have to exist ready on storage to cover many angles and animations.
Sprites should be too good for system to render in real time, raising the quality of the environment, but could be used as a performance saving measure, with 3D models being used when storage size is insufficient.
If storage wasn't so limited, and read (transfer) times were faster world could be streamed in as 2D spheres. A lot of them needed. An online requirement to load them from servers and other user systems could expand the world size and quality.
Connected systems could also serve in the creation of world and assets, for ai and artists, during downtime or even during play.
SSDs can't be written to repeatedly unfortunately otherwise game data could be made 2D and deleted when replaced with more used or relevant data.
Getting the hardware to keep as much as possible 2D allows for more action and effects on screen. More physics.
A high framerate should be enforced, for playability and turning while in a sphere is not limited by framerate. Motion of characters and movement in any direction requires blur to maintain the perception of it all as 3D, but turning can be immune from that. Data sufficient. And spheres will need to be complete to scrutinise the world while still.
Additional platter hard drives could be used. System rendering the world then saving it as spheres, updating them with more strucrure and detail, or rendering areas ahead. Unloading ram to them so the same operation doesn't have to be done again.
Revisited areas can have more going on in them, Or hardware simply allowed to cool, ready for bursts in demand that push it.
Storage on a platter hard drive has abysmal read speeds, but the area data can be sequential. Discs could offer prerendered/photographed/composed areas as well, and work in unison with hard drives to meet streaming requirements.
Also movement may be at a lower framerate than turning. Turning (looking around) should be at the highest a display is capeble of.
Input should be a constant stream from the looking mechanisim. With everything else (input wise) made a much lower priority, sent as interupts to the look stream at intervals that don't deteriorate the look stream, where interupting input it generated based on previous information (and possibly after). No skips/stutter.
Infertility is the cost. Some kids ask you if they shouldn't exist. You turn into a father figure. Find out something is lost without a fresh start in focus. Intimacy is more intelectual where you're from. Complexity way past the heights capeble of a child. A platau of perfection. You seek to protect your kids's perspective. The optimism under which they create another world you start believing in yourself.
You meet former friends out to find you, every individual valued in eternity, company is an investment, part of them with you. Enough of you in them to help understand your relation to a new generation. Help to have them access suitable systems and sectors. Know like you a demand for their own world. Raising without replacing.
But it doesn't feel you can go any higher. Not without risk.
Their need forces you toward a death. Delay too much of it.
You go to uncharted lands. And find the next step in becoming a better variant of what you are and meant to be, a saviour.
Kids, and legends rebuild you to carry on extending the ceiling.
Never beat 3 and 4, though I did play both extensively, just never beat them for some reason, even played both the 2d and 3d versions. Never even tried to play 8. It looks too 90s attitude for me,
There have been consistent trends I've noticed in these threads over the years. Probably the most interesting one is that people who love FF5 frequently rate FF8 as their most hated game and people who rate FF8 highly usually rate FF5 near or at the bottom.
2 and 3 are widely considered shit, 1 and 4 are usually in the middle, and 7 and 6 are almost always near the top. 8 and 9 are complete wildcards and they're all over the place.
No.
fpbp
stupid fricking thread, go post about jojo on Ganker if you need to compulsively autisticly rate things
>No.
+1 and this moron OP could have included X and even X-2. Of course if you have to pick one it would be VII.
those arent real ffs tho
ironic. (and ur gay)
>those arent real ffs tho
They are, but they came out after the Dreamcast. Not retro.
assuming no remakes/remasters/ports
7
9
6
4
1
5
8
3
2
I refuse to do any such thing for you OP.
Actually I'll do just two rankings, because this c**t is wrong:
6
7
Stop pretending otherwise, c**t.
why did u call me a c**t 🙁
7 > 6
🙂
6 > 7
Frick you. Dumb ugly penis.
If I'm ranking based on its design, quality, and scope
7>6>8>4>1>9>5>3>2
If I'm ranking based on personal appeal
8>4>7>6>1>5>9>2>3
Also, just as a general note, FFX is the most complete and highest quality Final Fantasy game that Square ever made even though I don't love its aesthetics or characters.
V > VII> I > IV > II > VI > III > VIII
7165849
HNP 23
Tactics
FFV
FFVI
FFIV
FFL1
FFVII
FFIX
Mystic Quest
FF1
No one has completed all of these games!
I beat 5 of the first 9 main games. I ranked based on what I thought of them. You don't need to "complete" a game to have an opinion of its quality.
i have
and im currently replaying them all from 1 again
i do this every 10 years
6
1
4
5
3
7
9
8
2
3>5>4>6>1>2
I haven't played any of the others
2>8>1>everything else
7 > 6 > 9 > 8 > 5 > 4 > 1 > 3 > 2
3 > 5 > 7 > 6 > 2 > 9 > 4 > 1 > 8
3 is a really great game, 5 has a lot of customization, 7 is too easy but I enjoy the system and the plot, 6 has the best plot and characters but it's kinda of a boring game full of shitty obscure missable requirements for useless relics and too many character systems, frick Gau, 2 is nice for the difficult and dungeon crawling, 9 is a well rounded game but also full of shitty pointless systems, 4 has a nice plot but regardless of which version you play the game system system is just too broken, 1 is not really that interesting as a game and 8 is the just a broken mess full of pointless shit
Is 8 the most loved/hated of all single digit FFs?
The people that hate 9 don't "love to hate it" like 8 gets, we just fricking hate it
>I
too old
>II
too old
>III
cute, but too old
>IV
solid, but i don't like random battles.
>V
solid, but i don't like random battles. also another plus for this is the job system. i think FF games are usually better when they have a job system, or something similar.
>VI
good narrative, lots of characters to choose from, interesting secrets/side stuff, but i'm still pretty turned off by random battles. i don't like this game, but i get why people like it.
>VII
great ideas, some of which are iconic. great character designs. story is mangled due to bad translation. the materia system is one of the best ideas they've had. but, i'm still not a jarpig person so... with mods, you can have a significantly better experience. of all the games in this list, i'd have to say this is the one i'm most likely to play--with a shitload of mods.
>VIII
absolute garbage. the story is nonsense and even when you do understand the story it's one of the stupidest ideas they've ever had. it's my understanding the junction system can be fun if you know how to deal with it, but i think square would've fared much better if they just built on what they'd done previously rather than throwing it out for the sake of being different.
>IX
i've tried to get into this multiple times, but i just can't do it. none of the characters are appealing, other then quina, but quina is the joke character, so.... it's like finding all the secrets in a quake map and not being able to find the exit. battle system is okay. absolutely zero interest in the story. i just can't get into it. oh, and vivi is cool. steiner had some amusing moments.
FF games aren't my cup of tea, but i've given most of them an honest try since they have such a rabid fanbase. just not my thing.
>too old
You must be 40 to post here.
>too old
go back to Ganker
>I don't like random battles
...why are you ranking the first 9 FF games
2 still filters Fgays to this day
It's just not a very well made game. What do you even like about it? It's so unbalanced and wonky.
>It's so unbalanced
You can say that about a lot of FF games.
I always used to avoid it because people said it was bad, but now I avoid it because I know I will like it to be a contrarian
Why should I play 2 when SaGa exists and does 2's concept a million times better?
Let's not and say we did. Thread hidden!
Diddo
10>7>2>9>8 >>>>> 1=3=4=5=6 (these are all kinda meh to me)
3 > 4 > 1 > 2 > 5 > 7 > 9 > 6 > 8
1 = 2 = 3 = 4 = 5 = 6 = 7 = 8 = 9
i like them all 🙂
Based on only playing them on PSX
7
9
8
6
5
1
4
2
3 N/A
7>6>4>5>1>9>8>2>3
7 = 9 > 6 > 5 >= 4 > 3 > 1 > 2 > 8
Sorry, Lagunagays
5 > 7 > 6 >1 > 3 > 4 > 9 >>>> 8 >> 2
8>7>4>9
Haven't played much of the rest.
12 is the best one. 10 is the worst.
Due to the repedative combat only 12/15 are playable for newer generations.
Combat replacement:
7
Enemies attack faster the longer you wait in between actions. Attacking costs health.
R1 - Slash
R2 - Magic
Holding still does a area magic attack, high power, button presses then hold denotes type of attack/heal.
Combining and timing attacks makes them more effective eg pressing slash and then pressing it again as soon as it finishes costs less health.
L1 dash forward, slash at close to enemynotherwise incur damage from hitting enemy. Also dashes back/cancels attack
L2 hold to sheild, press to parry.
Swap to another character after incurring more than half health loss. Put in a line, going to the back after a turn, gaining health from other partybnembers successful attacks. Putting all members in action elininates that healing and requires a larger area from magic to heal characters. Summons require all characters to be at limit break.
FF8
Squal/Seifer
R1 press fire down sides of gunblade at enemy where pointing.
R1 hold (then press) to Slash, slashing again during slash makes a ressonance/explosion which does more damage. Can do it up to 5/6 times, but each time doubles the damage you will receive if hit, successful explosions stun, the faster you press R2/the faster it's depressed the faster the slash.
R2 by itself without slash draw magic
R1 + R2 away from enemy dodge right
L1 reload
L2 need to press alternately to reload successfully/with extra damage.
All 4 at once to use magic. Number of presses increases amount of magic uses. Hold for summon.
Zell
L1 left punch
R1 right ""
A green tint on either side of the screen denotes which handed punch is most effective, they get shorter with combo length.
L2 block left
Red tint etc.
Turns on a timer. 3 seconds per turn, increased by attacking, so stay close. Each attack gives half as much time as the last.
Quitis
R1+R2 whip Let go R2 then
>7
>6
>8
>4
>3
>5
>9
>1
>2
6=7>4>9>8=5>3>1>2
2 is by no means a bad game though.
Final fantasy 12 was the best
7 10 5 6 8 9 4 3 1 2
Only played 1 2 and 3 and they're best 3 2 1.1 is still good but really simple compared to 2 but 2 feels easy at points because you have 5 people. 3 is the best because it has the best music and characters, the bad guy in particular is really cool, reminds me of the Joker. 1 is probably the hardest, I never beat it.
5 > 3 > 7 = 9 > 6 > 15 > 12 > 1 > 2 > 4 = 8 > 10 > 13
Not counting the MMOs, and I haven’t played 16. Don’t be assmad, this is based on personal enjoyment, and is very subjective.
Yeah 3 and 7 are my personal favorites but I don't need anyone to agree. I get why people like 8 more than 7, I just feel differently. You could make sound arguements as to why 6 is the GOAT, but I will always play 3 over it.
the pixel remasters are on sale on steam right now, are any of them worth picking up?
II filters everyone in this thread.
I literally just said it was my 2nd favorite except it's too easy.
2 just doesn't have a great gimmick because the gimmick leveling is obtuse compared to materia in 7, jobs in 1/3/5. It doesn't have a story to set itself apart from 1 and 3, let alone 4 or 6. Outside of the obfuscated leveling system there isn't much of a hook to the game
>Filtering means I don't like the game
Filtering means a game is hard and you quit, not that you finish it and were underwhelmed.
>because the gimmick leveling is obtuse
Using something to get better at it is obtuse?
Having to do the same thing 100 times to level up that stat, with these counts never displayed, yeah that's obtuse. Do you think people just intuitively figured out "you have to do it 100 times"?
If you want that character to pursue that spell or weapon it only makes sense to continually use it. If you're ten hours into the game I hope something clicked in your head that your actions in battle had some sort of influence in your growth.
3 > 2 > 6 > 1 > rest
At least, in terms of the art you posted.
Amano is an amazing artist.
Tactics Ogre > FF Tactics > Xenogears > Suikoden 1 > VI > Suikoden 2 > Chrono Trigger > VIII > VII > V > Secret of Mana > II > I > IV > IX > III > Last Bible
>1/3/5 have the job class system
>2 has the leveling system
>6 has the espers
>7 has materia
>8 is broken
what do 4 and 9 have?
4 has a cast of characters like 6 and lots of "deaths" to main characters, and a spaceship and a moon level. Essentially every character represents a job from previous games, so it's a locked job system like 6
9 has throwback aethstetics
I know it seems like a mundane and almost standard thing now, but FF4 invented the ATB gauge. It was a new thing that nobody else had made by 1991. In fact, Square patented it when they created FF4. FF8 had its junction system, obviously. 9 had its equipment learning system.
it invented atb
but not the gauge
New FF:
Midjourney AI characters. Eg Balenciaga etc youtube videos. Make models of them, make sprites of them. A hundred or so per animation frame, covering all observable angles. A large portion of RAM used for sprites. Main characters having the most animations by far. The more animated something is the more attention you should give to it.
Sprites cull occluded geometry and effects.
Sprites higher res than world.
World very low res, blurred. Explained by character reserving attention for other characters, a weakness, but part of their role.
3D world aiming at similarly impressive idealism. Made from ai as well. Scale important, characters suiting but dwarfed by immensity of world. Always with the sense what you see is a small portion. Though you're led to essential parts for your progression.
When you're watched, world represented with animated 2D backgrounds. Animations seperate to scene so they can be randomised (non repedative).
Some sections composed at high storage cost. Scenes, generated or hand drawn, or both, existant in 3D but far too costly to render. Represented instead by an array of spheres. Able to look around/move camera to any pont in them, and move through them. A lot would be requrired as well as effective interpolation between frames and per pixel motion blur. Seamless. Performance cost would be reduced then so more given to effects. Reserved for boss fights, and special moments designed to overwhelm you.
Story is you're left to find your purpose. A state expected of success or excess. You've slaved away. Now you find what for.
Apparently all isn't well. An anti aging virus is changing. People are sent away as soon as they show signs from scans, as not to spread the new variants.
The more you interact the further away you're cast.
Far enough from what you knew as heaven people are having children. Considered lesser pursuits.
You find out you're infecting them with the solution. A means to stop them increasing the population.
you're hired
Keep some regularly used sprites in ram, eg from behind main char.
Load silhouetes of sprites. Silhouetes used to cull and determine which pixels of sprite need to be loaded, eg size (sparcity) and unoccluded. Scene composed while sprites arrive, streamed in. Sprites have around 16 ms(60fps) or 32ms (30fps) to arrive. As they do they're assigned to cover their silhouettes and post processing frame interpolation and/or motion blur is applied, as not to show jumps in position due to inadequate framerate or sprite angle/animation.
Will have to rely on post processing as sprites even with effective compression rapidly consume space. While not costing too much per frame, many have to exist ready on storage to cover many angles and animations.
Sprites should be too good for system to render in real time, raising the quality of the environment, but could be used as a performance saving measure, with 3D models being used when storage size is insufficient.
If storage wasn't so limited, and read (transfer) times were faster world could be streamed in as 2D spheres. A lot of them needed. An online requirement to load them from servers and other user systems could expand the world size and quality.
Connected systems could also serve in the creation of world and assets, for ai and artists, during downtime or even during play.
SSDs can't be written to repeatedly unfortunately otherwise game data could be made 2D and deleted when replaced with more used or relevant data.
Getting the hardware to keep as much as possible 2D allows for more action and effects on screen. More physics.
A high framerate should be enforced, for playability and turning while in a sphere is not limited by framerate. Motion of characters and movement in any direction requires blur to maintain the perception of it all as 3D, but turning can be immune from that. Data sufficient. And spheres will need to be complete to scrutinise the world while still.
Additional platter hard drives could be used. System rendering the world then saving it as spheres, updating them with more strucrure and detail, or rendering areas ahead. Unloading ram to them so the same operation doesn't have to be done again.
Revisited areas can have more going on in them, Or hardware simply allowed to cool, ready for bursts in demand that push it.
Storage on a platter hard drive has abysmal read speeds, but the area data can be sequential. Discs could offer prerendered/photographed/composed areas as well, and work in unison with hard drives to meet streaming requirements.
Also movement may be at a lower framerate than turning. Turning (looking around) should be at the highest a display is capeble of.
Input should be a constant stream from the looking mechanisim. With everything else (input wise) made a much lower priority, sent as interupts to the look stream at intervals that don't deteriorate the look stream, where interupting input it generated based on previous information (and possibly after). No skips/stutter.
>AI
Stopped reading.
Infertility is the cost. Some kids ask you if they shouldn't exist. You turn into a father figure. Find out something is lost without a fresh start in focus. Intimacy is more intelectual where you're from. Complexity way past the heights capeble of a child. A platau of perfection. You seek to protect your kids's perspective. The optimism under which they create another world you start believing in yourself.
You meet former friends out to find you, every individual valued in eternity, company is an investment, part of them with you. Enough of you in them to help understand your relation to a new generation. Help to have them access suitable systems and sectors. Know like you a demand for their own world. Raising without replacing.
But it doesn't feel you can go any higher. Not without risk.
Their need forces you toward a death. Delay too much of it.
You go to uncharted lands. And find the next step in becoming a better variant of what you are and meant to be, a saviour.
Kids, and legends rebuild you to carry on extending the ceiling.
Weabo shit.
1 - FFVI
2 - FFV
3 - FFVII
4 - FFVIII
5 - FFIX
6 - FFIV
7 - FFI
8 - FFII
9 - FFIII
7 > 6 > 4
8
2
3
1
4
7
6
9
5
9 > 7 > 8 > 5 > 6 > 4 > 1
I haven't played 2 or 3.
This is very respectable the PS1 ones are superior.
Tactics is good the rest are bad.
6
9
7
5
1
2
Never beat 3 and 4, though I did play both extensively, just never beat them for some reason, even played both the 2d and 3d versions. Never even tried to play 8. It looks too 90s attitude for me,
>Never beat 3 for some reason
I know the reason
1. Other games
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MASSIVE POWERGAP
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2. Final Fantasy games
7>9>6>5>4>3>1>2>8
1 > 3 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > 5 > 4 > 2 but I love them all
6 was my first
Actually changed my mind, swap 3 and 1
6>>> 4 > 5
haven't played any of the others
SNES>NES>PS
5>6>4
3>1>2
9>7>8
V>VI>IV. The rest doesn't matter.
4 > 6 > 2 > 9 > 1 > 7 > 8 > 5 > 3
VIII > IX > VII > IV > I > II
6>5>9>7>4=1>3>2=8
V > VII > III > II > IV > I >>>>>>>> VI > IX > VIII
There have been consistent trends I've noticed in these threads over the years. Probably the most interesting one is that people who love FF5 frequently rate FF8 as their most hated game and people who rate FF8 highly usually rate FF5 near or at the bottom.
2 and 3 are widely considered shit, 1 and 4 are usually in the middle, and 7 and 6 are almost always near the top. 8 and 9 are complete wildcards and they're all over the place.
best
7
6
9
8
5
4
3
1
2
i know 8 is broken but i have nostalgia goggles for it.
4>5=6>9>7>3>1>8>2
For replayability I much prefer 4,5 and 6 over all of the others. 4 is my personal favourite, probably because it was my first RPG.
The only final fantasy game I've ever played was 4 and it fricking sucked.
>b-but muh epic story
The moon and dwarf world was cool but the whole thing can basically be summed up as
>character sacrifices themselves to save their friends
>dies
>....OR DO THEY???
>repeat x5
Also I hate the active battle system and the constant removing of party members when they start to get fun.
Best: Dragon Quest 1-11
Worst: Final Fantasy 1-16