Poll of the Day > What is th best Final Fantasy?

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BigOlePappy
07/19/25 11:51:50 AM
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Fun isn't it?

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Idiot_Savant
07/19/25 11:53:40 AM
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Tony Hawk's Best Final Fantasy

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agesboy
07/19/25 1:52:02 PM
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unironically, 13-2

fixed pretty much all my complaints with 13, has a wacky time travel plot, and serah's cute

unintentionally had the funniest ending to a game too. oh we won! but the main character's dead and reality is coming unraveled. everything's ultra fucked and everyone's about to go into a hundreds-of-years-long brooding phase

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MagicalPrincess
07/19/25 2:00:41 PM
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Final Fantasy IX is GOAT of video games period.

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FrozenBananas
07/19/25 3:38:29 PM
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Final Fantasy IX or VII

my own personal favorite is VIII, but Im not sure if its actually better than the others. I just love it more than them.

either way, PS1 is the best era for final fantasy

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Questionmarktarius
07/19/25 3:41:36 PM
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Tactics
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ParanoidObsessive
07/19/25 4:23:14 PM
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FFIV or FFVI, depending on my mood.

Most of the later games either had glaring flaws that never let them match my pure love for the earlier titles (FFVII), were soul-numbingly boring (FFXII), or I fucking loathed them with passionate intensity (FFVIII). And after XII killed the last shreds of interest I had in the franchise (which used to be my favorite ever!), nothing I've seen in FFXIII-XVI has been worthwhile enough to draw me back.

I liked FFIX, but I never liked it as much as a lot of other people seemed to (but I also tend to think those people were mostly just drunk on nostalgia). I like FFX (and X-2!), but they were never quite good enough to make me love them.

I never got into FFV - they skipped it in the US so I didn't play it until years later (on the PS1), and by then there were much better games out and I lacked the nostalgia for it to keep it fresh in the same way FFIV and FFVI managed to keep my interest. By the time I played FFV I didn't really care about any of the characters, and I never obsessed over the job system like so many other people do (in fact, because I played FFTactics before FFV, I mainly just saw the FFV job system as being a less enjoyable version of FFT's job system).

Speaking of Tactics, it was a great game, but hampered a bit by slightly wonky translation here and there. That and the fact that it was a tactics-based game (duh) instead of an RPG is what keeps it from the top of my list, but it's still probably either in my Top 5 or just outside of it. Again, where it would place exactly probably depends on my mood on any given day.

FFII was fine, and I didn't hate the leveling system the way some people did, but it never really managed to grab me either. I kind of liked the keyword system for dialogue, but it never seemed to really exploit it as effectively or interestingly as it could have.

FIII is the only early FF game I've still never played, though nothing I've ever seen about it makes me think it would really make much of a positive impression on me at this point. Especially having to step back into the retro gaming mindset without any of the nostalgia for it that I have for other games.

I don't consider FFXI and FFXIV to be Final Fantasy games at all. FF is an RPG, not MMO BS.

And the first FF was great in its time (and immediately supplanted Dragon Warrior as my favorite NES game/franchise), but a bit simplistic compared to later titles, so it eventually got bumped out of my Top 5 through no real fault of its own. But it's still my favorite NES game.

For a long time, Final Fantasy was my favorite franchise in gaming period, and Square was my favorite developer bar none. Sadly, that started changing during the PS1 era (when they started annoying me by releasing stuff like FFVIII while other developers were coming out with much more interesting games like Suikoden).

Now, Squeenix is basically just filed away in the category of "developers I used to love, but now kind of hate, and whose games I will never even attempt to play" (it is sadly a very large category at this point).

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KalloFox34
07/19/25 4:25:58 PM
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It's FF7.

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Cruddy_horse
07/19/25 5:10:10 PM
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Of the more classic titles X, I couldnt stand playing OG 7's chibi artstyle when I played in the 2010's, been meaning to try it loaded with mods though as the Remakes were incredible.
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captpackrat
07/19/25 5:10:33 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cb21d8ce.jpg

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ConfusedTorchic
07/19/25 6:21:52 PM
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adventure is just the first mana game

unironically i really like mystic quest, but official recognized titles it's either 5 or 8

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Beveren_Rabbit
07/19/25 6:27:16 PM
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captpackrat posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cb21d8ce.jpg


yes. the game where you can eat every enemy and kill God with a chainsaw.

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Joelypoely
07/19/25 7:21:58 PM
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X or XII
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ObligatoryFate
07/19/25 7:24:42 PM
#14:


VI
Great game and fantastic music.

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captpackrat
07/19/25 7:42:29 PM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
yes. the game where you can eat every enemy and kill God with a chainsaw.
That's Final Fantasy Legend.

Final Fantasy Adventure was basically Legend of Zelda.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5bdfa890.jpg

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NephalimTechno
07/19/25 8:23:43 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Tactics


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bachewychomp
07/19/25 8:31:14 PM
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Every time there's a topic where you're ostensibly supposed to talk about something you like, PO just gives it an extremely brief mention, while devoting ten paragraphs to the ones he doesn't like instead in a way that indirectly insults the tastes of people who do enjoy them, and then wonders why he is "unfairly" perceived as being a negative and complaining person

Anyway, I haven't played a lot of Finals Fantasy, just 6, 7 and the two parts of the 7 remake. Hard to pick one for me cause they all have a case
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bostoncelticsro
07/19/25 8:40:41 PM
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Tactics

but 10 for the regular series

4 and 6 were great too
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ConfusedTorchic
07/19/25 8:55:20 PM
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captpackrat posted...
That's Final Fantasy Legend.

Final Fantasy Adventure was basically Legend of Zelda.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5bdfa890.jpg


ConfusedTorchic posted...
adventure is just the first mana game

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Adventure

literally

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ooger
07/19/25 8:56:26 PM
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6

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SilentSeph
07/19/25 8:57:25 PM
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IX

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TheSlinja
07/19/25 9:27:25 PM
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tactics a2

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Shadowbird_RH
07/19/25 10:28:16 PM
#23:


6 and 7 are best, 5 and 8 aren't far behind.

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PMarth2002
07/19/25 10:33:21 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Tactics


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dj1200
07/19/25 11:04:21 PM
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Bio and r viii

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Glob
07/19/25 11:33:14 PM
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Ive only ever liked 3 of them. Of those, Id put 9 at the top, followed by 10 and then 7.

I used to place 7 higher and 9 lower but my tastes have changed over time.
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snae99
07/20/25 12:11:49 AM
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V

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fishy071
07/20/25 1:15:17 AM
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I've only played FFI to FFX-2. The ones I liked were FFIV, FFVI, FFVIII, and FFIX.

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ConfusedTorchic
07/20/25 2:29:30 AM
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TheSlinja posted...
tactics a2

what the fuck

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Vicaris
07/20/25 7:07:19 AM
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Lots of objectively incorrect answers. Empirically wrong.
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Nichtcrawler-X
07/20/25 9:20:22 AM
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Still XII.

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pedro45
07/20/25 11:40:50 AM
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Glob posted...
Ive only ever liked 3 of them. Of those, Id put 9 at the top, followed by 10 and then 7.

I used to place 7 higher and 9 lower but my tastes have changed over time.

What do you feel like changed?

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TheSlinja
07/20/25 2:31:59 PM
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ConfusedTorchic posted...
what the fuck
im so serious
im tired of a2 being lumped in with the sins of advance

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VioletZer0
07/20/25 2:48:03 PM
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I really hate to say this because it is such a clich answer and it is stupid popular, but it has to be Final Fantasy X.

FFX somehow outdoes the vibe of Final Fantasy VII and tells an utterly depressing story with a bittersweet ending.

The battle system of Final Fantasy X as of right now is still unmatched.
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VioletZer0
07/20/25 2:53:17 PM
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agesboy posted...
unironically, 13-2

fixed pretty much all my complaints with 13, has a wacky time travel plot, and serah's cute

unintentionally had the funniest ending to a game too. oh we won! but the main character's dead and reality is coming unraveled. everything's ultra fucked and everyone's about to go into a hundreds-of-years-long brooding phase

I don't agree at all that XIII-2 is the best but I will say it is by far the most overhated and underappreciated.

The "most unfairly overhated" spot was previously occupied by X-2 but people did eventually figure out what X-2 was trying to do and appreciate it for what it is.

People who played XIII and hated it were obviously going to skip its sequel but XIII-2 is miles better and unironically great.
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ConfusedTorchic
07/20/25 3:06:01 PM
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x2 fucking sucked shit ass

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wizardmentor
07/20/25 3:13:25 PM
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VI, VII and X are my top 3
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agesboy
07/20/25 6:29:09 PM
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X2 had one of my favorite battle systems (love class systems like that), but the rigidity of getting the true end was a major turn-off. the plot was whatever but not offensively bad like some people made it out to be. people REALLY hated dresspheres huh

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VioletZer0
07/20/25 6:52:10 PM
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agesboy posted...
X2 had one of my favorite battle systems (love class systems like that), but the rigidity of getting the true end was a major turn-off. the plot was whatever but not offensively bad like some people made it out to be. people REALLY hated dresspheres huh
Yeah the requirements to get true ending are bs.

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Garlands_Soul
07/20/25 7:26:04 PM
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9 or 7. I like 9 the most, but 7 made the biggest splash

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dj1200
07/20/25 9:08:02 PM
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II US III US or VII

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SinisterSlay
07/20/25 9:35:39 PM
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Shadowbird_RH posted...
6 and 7 are best, 5 and 8 aren't far behind.
Probably this for me.

agesboy posted...
unironically, 13-2

fixed pretty much all my complaints with 13, has a wacky time travel plot, and serah's cute

unintentionally had the funniest ending to a game too. oh we won! but the main character's dead and reality is coming unraveled. everything's ultra fucked and everyone's about to go into a hundreds-of-years-long brooding phase
Holds the distinction of being the worst one for me.
Why? Because it will 100% crash after your first portal to the new city place. I've never gotten past it.
There is a mod to fix it, I haven't used it yet but will eventually. But fuck SE for releasing the game like that.

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agesboy
07/21/25 1:19:58 AM
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i played the game on ps3 on release and the steam version fully twice and never encountered that

it's like sometimes randomly crash after i'd had the game open for like 6+ hours, but never consistently

if playability was a factor the worst for me would be 16 because any heavy particle effects dropped me to single digit FPS lol. it would almost be playable and then ifrit's flames or some dirt would come kick my PC's performance in the teeth

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Mystic_Myotis
07/21/25 5:45:40 AM
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VI, VII, or IX, though I am very fond of IV and V as well... I wish I could concretely say one of them but each has *something* I don't like that causes me to waver on which one I think is the best... ehm...

Let's go with IX. IV is my nostalgic favorite, but it's certainly not the best.

Also, I agree with others that XIII-2 gets way, waaaaay too much hate. It has some problems- namely the stupid QTEs that contribute nothing to the game at all- but it's actually a lot of fun.

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ParanoidObsessive
07/21/25 7:16:09 AM
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VioletZer0 posted...
The "most unfairly overhated" spot was previously occupied by X-2 but people did eventually figure out what X-2 was trying to do and appreciate it for what it is.

The funny thing is, I always saw X-2 mechanics as trying to pander to the sort of player who loved the class system mechanics in Tactics and FFV. But then everyone threw a hissy fit because "WOMG it's like dolls playing dress up! I don't want to play fashion simulator!" When it wasn't really that at all.

...though I'm not sure they did themselves any favors by having the game start with a literal idol concert.

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Questionmarktarius
07/21/25 10:47:45 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
But then everyone threw a hissy fit because "WOMG it's like dolls playing dress up! I don't want to play fashion simulator!" When it wasn't really that at all.
well... it was, but still a Job System game regardless.

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Ignac5000
07/21/25 11:21:49 AM
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The correct answer for top 3 FF games is 6, 7, and 9.

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Salrite
07/21/25 12:23:56 PM
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I haven't played them all so I can't say. But between 3, 4, 7, 12 and 7:Remake I'd say 7 and 4 are best. But the others are great too.
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wwinterj25
07/21/25 12:31:17 PM
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X for me.

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agesboy
07/21/25 1:48:38 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
...though I'm not sure they did themselves any favors by having the game start with a literal idol concert.
yeah but she whips out a GUN

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