7. The answer is always 7. I saw some video of it recently and man, I can't believe a game where the character models had cubes for hands could enthrall me the way it did. If somebody hasn't played the game by now I don't think they can go back and get the same experience as the people who played it when it first came out. I even have the FF victory fanfare as my ringtone, but I made sure to grab the FF7 version of it.
I have multiple favorites that I enjoy pretty much for completely different reasons. For me it's hard comparing and contrasting the presentation standards, and different play mechanics for a series that's been around for over two decades.
"Why 1,2,3,4,5,6 are mashed up all together? It's pretty obvious that will be the leader. OP never played the FF franchise before the PS1 era? "
I put them together because
#1. In a lot of ways those games are a lot a like. Once Sony got into the mix every Final Fantasy game was its own in almost every way possable
#2. More people have played the later FF games It made more since to me to put 1-6 as one item to give it a fighting chance. And even now when you look up at people's posts they are all saying FFVI when they place a vote for 1-6. That to me tells a lot on it's own
VI probably being the best, I think that was the first game that really came into it's own, but claiming the previous games were all "a lot alike" is just dead wrong. VI was definitely the first one that had a really epic storyline and serious character progression though, some of the previous games did attempt it but felt a little corny. And VI very much felt like the foundation for many of the later games, especially VII.
IV mainly because it was the first one I've played and because I really enjoyed Cecil's story of redemption, which they've never really used again. Kain's character, the conflicted best friend was also really well done.
I also really loved IX because it was essentially a massive throw back to the old games, pretty much everything in it was somehow referencing one of them, so there was a lot there that really made me smile. It also had a lot of really lovable characters, including a young "pretty-boy" lead, without him being a totally unlikable douche, like what we had in X and XII.
Hate to break it to you, but this poll already exists, on the correct forum, in a much more fleshed-out form, and with the correct spelling of the franchise's title.
Wow. 54 votes done and no one chose X-2 or XI. Lol. I would have chosen X-2 as my second fav because of the dress spheres and the way you can change jobs on the fly.
IV has the best balanced combat and fight mechanics. VI has the best storyline. I has huge nostalgia value for me as one of the first games I ever played as a kid.
"No one would have taken another look at that game if not for the movie and spin-off games. FFVII was a bad game deal "
That isn't the reason VII is held in such high regard. VII was a lot of people first japanese RPG. It really made it big in the west - much more so than previous Final Fantasies, or any other JRPG. Therefore a tonne of people have very fond nostalgic memories of it, and will therefore say it's their favourite FF of all time - and they did that even before Advent Children & the sequel/prequel games.
Anyway, personally my favourite is IX. I loved the universe and plotline. It was fantastic.
Sorry, hate every one of them I've played. Played 7, 8, 10 and 12 and hated them all. Always bugged me cos its like I'm missing out on something or I don't get something that everyone else understands - but for me they're just bad bad bad.
The Characters, the storylines, the freakin' music *argh*.
BAD.
Saying that I do own a factory sealed copy of FF7. But it says a lot that its the only "classic" game I have that IS still factory sealed.
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