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I haven't played most FF's but my least favourite is V. It starts out good but when I found out that

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Galuf was an alien from another planet

I just gave up. Not even Bartz and his comic relief could save the game

This post has been edited by R8.50 Mango on 7th July 2009 10:10

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Quote (R8.50 Mango @ 7th July 2009 11:09)

I haven't played most FF's but my least favourite is V. It starts out good but when I found out that

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Galuf was an alien from another planet

I just gave up. Not even Bartz and his comic relief could save the game

So you stopped playing after five minutes?

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Quote (R8.50 Mango @ 7th July 2009 12:09)

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Galuf was an alien from another planet

Wrong.
Not true.
Not even close.
Also, the fact who Galuf actually IS kicks tons of ass.

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OK, but relevant to a worst Final Fantasy thread? -R51

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I'm trying to say, that his argument as to why FFV would be the worst is not true.

This post has been edited by SilverMaduin on 9th July 2009 08:38

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I hated mystic quest. Good god, the fire dome gave me so much crap. It's also a near rip-off of Zelda in several ways.

But I digress. If mystic quest was one of the choices you can bet I'd pick it.

But I think what the point was is the worst main series game.

This post has been edited by Messier17 on 7th July 2009 16:03

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If god is all-forgiving then why do we have to kill people in his name?

Oh no the fact that Galuf has to come to...whatever they call their plant...on a meteorite and travel through space to get there doesn't mean he's an alien.Of course not. You are right Silver Maduin. But sarcasm aside why do aliens have to be the green dudes with antenna's out of their heads?Besides it killed the game for me. At least FFT also had the job system and I could forget FFV

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Oh no the fact that Galuf has to come to...whatever they call their plant...on a meteorite and travel through space to get there doesn't mean he's an alien.

Well, what I'm trying to say is that Galuf didn't come from another planet. Or through space. Not exactly anyway. While the game does bore me at some points I took the time to play through it.
And I still have to point out that your argument is not true.

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Wait, so is FFIV bad because

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Cecil and Golbez are Aliens from the Moon

Is it? By your logic it should be.

This post has been edited by SilverMaduin on 9th July 2009 08:44

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"If you retort against this, so help me God I'll shove any part of your anatomy I can find into some other part. Figuratively, of course." - Josh

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I got stuck at the second fiend so I didn't discover that however It had things that made up for it like a decent story and people that didn't get on my nerves. Also Cecil is the only person in the game that I hate severely ...well him and Tellah

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I got stuck at the second fiend so I didn't discover that however It had things that made up for it like a decent story and people that didn't get on my nerves. Also Cecil is the only person in the game that I hate severely ...well him and Tellah

But... but... Tellah was the coolest in the game =(

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I got stuck at the second fiend so I didn't discover that however It had things that made up for it like a decent story and people that didn't get on my nerves. Also Cecil is the only person in the game that I hate severely ...well him and Tellah

But... but... Tellah was the coolest in the game =(

Yeah............Spoony Bard?

I don't think you should judge it until you play it all.

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I got stuck at the second fiend so I didn't discover that however It had things that made up for it like a decent story and people that didn't get on my nerves. Also Cecil is the only person in the game that I hate severely ...well him and Tellah

Cecil? a bad character? Dude he is a epic hero.


He is very empathetic and seems mature.

I also found to feel sorry for tellah.

It was very sad when he died,even though his mana was low.

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wow ff8 is the most voted so far i liked the game it was a different system that worked quite well once u got use to the gameplay unlike ff12
ff12 was basiccly star wars from liea's (ashe) view

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Cecil is just annoying and Tellah(Spoony Bard)...I just don't like him for some reason.The ATB seemed sticky to me like I'd press a button...nothing happens...I press it again... it takes twice and I have to correct and I never get anywhere.But I'll take Blitzsage's advice and play through it

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I- Pretty average. But I did finished it for the first time about an year ago. It mus have been awesome in the 80ies or whatever.

II- And then it came.
The characters suck. Big time (big guy can't well talk to people but talk to beavers okay). The system itself is awful. Leveling up magic is bo-ring.

III- it was alright, until the final dungeon and Ahriman came. White and Black magic suck in III, and that's not what you want when fighting a guy who likes to smack you down with blazing rocks from the skies.

IV- Now we're talking. Yeah. You spoony bard!

There's only one thing that annoys me. Kain is controlled by Golbez. Okay, I can live with that. But Golbez is controlled by Zemus? I like bad guys. But they take away all the fandom by goodguying them.

V- A light game with fun gameplay and Gilgamesh. Lots of Gilgamesh. And a sword named Excalipoor.

VI- Too good to talk about. I'm a Woolseyist. Son of a submariner!

VII- I liked it. A lot. Not as ultramegawesome as I thought it'd be. You know, because it's the most famous of all FF. And it felt... incomplete.

VIII- Yawn. Drawing sucks. Too complex. Time limits in dungeons. Double-yawn.

IX- Yay, it's awesome!

X- Halfway through the game and I had Tidus using Fira and Drain. I screwed up, but so did the Sphere system. The bosses are hard as hell, but I like the Transformer guy. «By all means... try!» I tried. I failed.

Don't know from here on. Enjoy my ramblings.

This post has been edited by Toransu Kuja on 15th July 2009 00:00

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Snooping as usual, I see?

Never heard of someone being a Woolseyist, but I guess I am too.

I think that FFII is much like Zelda 2: Adventure of Link. It wasn't necessarily good, but it introduced many aspects that would become important to the series. But perhaps II, III, and V are the worst FF's.

And in defence of Final Fantasy VIII, it was a good game, but not good enough. However, that is because of the games that came before it. In America, (check this out) you had FFIV, FFVI, and then FFVII, three of the greatest games ever. And it was nearly impossible for VIII to compete with that. I think because those games set the bar so high FFVIII, despite being a good game, had no way of living up to them. I would still place it as one of the better ones though.

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I personally voted for XI. The idea of an online-only game just doesn't jive with Final Fantasy in my opinion. That and Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles (Gamecube) wasn't on the list. I couldn't stand that game.

From the ones I have played (and I've been playing a while), VIII didn't grab my attention at all.

With that being said, (and the fact that I haven't finished a fair portion of the games), I'm going through a marathon right now while waiting for XIII. Starting with 1 and working through the US released games, so I'll get to VIII eventually. I've finished I and IV now, and I'm currently working in VI. Playing them on my PS3 since I don't feel like digging out the NES/SNES. So I'll give every game a second chance and play through to the end of each. Maybe I'll have a different opinion then, but I already voted.

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My collection:
NES: Final Fantasy
SNES: Final Fantasy II & III
PS1: FF Origins, Chronicles, Tactics, Anthology, VII, VIII, IX
PS2: FF X, X-2, XII

For me:Final fantasy 8

I simply found its gameplay too slow,and when it got a little interesting,it didn't save it by getting into fights every 2 steps.


I have tried to play several times,but i simply cannot get into it.


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Quote (R8.50 Mango @ 14th July 2009 18:20)

The ATB seemed sticky to me like I'd press a button...nothing happens...I press it again... it takes twice and I have to correct and I never get anywhere.

Actually, the reason why I didn't like FFIV's ATB (regardless of it being the first game to have that), was that enemies get to attack you even more than you're allowed to at them. I've tried slowing down the ATB speed, but it didn't stop.

For example:

- You get in a pre-emptive attack, the party count of 1-5 of your characters (depending on how many are alive) only get ONE turn before the rest of the enemies start attacking you at once. Because speed isn't influenced with enemies in battle, all their attacks are made instantly without going one enemy at a time to allow your character to interrupt. THEY interrupt for you.

- On some battles like that one monster in the treasure box at the Babel Giant (the same floor where you get to save before fighting the 4 Elemental Fiends), it uses a paralysis move ONLY, so if all your characters are paralyzed, then it's best to restart. This is why FF4's monster strategy had amateur effort, like that one snake woman in the Summoner's Cavern who only uses Earth attacks. I'm floating and laughing at her expense.

- When you're ambushed, you are forced to sit while ALL enemies in the battle attack you before you even do something at first. And right when your command window shows up, some more attack you.

This is why I found the battle with Rubicant to be terribly devastating;he gets to attack you first and foremost with 2 spells before you even attack him, and then counters you for that. Some battles were insanely annoying (not difficult, just annoying), and many battles in FFIV were damn easy (in fact, I've beaten a solo Cecil challenge twice and found it to be much easier than dragging more deadweight mages into my party.)

Don't say I'm wrong because that is what I found while playing on the ORIGINAL JAPANESE SNES version.

I'm not hating on the game, just saying that the battlesystem is quite sloppy. Thank god that FFV improved and evened it all out for both the party and the enemies.

This post has been edited by NeoEx-Death on 20th July 2009 19:21

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Quote (R8.50 Mango @ 14th July 2009 18:20)

The ATB seemed sticky to me like I'd press a button...nothing happens...I press it again... it takes twice and I have to correct and I never get anywhere.

Actually, the reason why I didn't like FFIV's ATB (regardless of it being the first game to have that), was that enemies get to attack you even more than you're allowed to at them. I've tried slowing down the ATB speed, but it didn't stop.

For example:

- You get in a pre-emptive attack, the party count of 1-5 of your characters (depending on how many are alive) only get ONE turn before the rest of the enemies start attacking you at once. Because speed isn't influenced with enemies in battle, all their attacks are made instantly without going one enemy at a time to allow your character to interrupt. THEY interrupt for you.

- On some battles like that one monster in the treasure box at the Babel Giant (the same floor where you get to save before fighting the 4 Elemental Fiends), it uses a paralysis move ONLY, so if all your characters are paralyzed, then it's best to restart. This is why FF4's monster strategy had amateur effort, like that one snake woman in the Summoner's Cavern who only uses Earth attacks. I'm floating and laughing at her expense.

- When you're ambushed, you are forced to sit while ALL enemies in the battle attack you before you even do something at first. And right when your command window shows up, some more attack you.

This is why I found the battle with Rubicant to be terribly devastating;he gets to attack you first and foremost with 2 spells before you even attack him, and then counters you for that. Some battles were insanely annoying (not difficult, just annoying), and many battles in FFIV were damn easy (in fact, I've beaten a solo Cecil challenge twice and found it to be much easier than dragging more deadweight mages into my party.)

Don't say I'm wrong because that is what I found while playing on the ORIGINAL JAPANESE SNES version.

I'm not hating on the game, just saying that the battlesystem is quite sloppy. Thank god that FFV improved and evened it all out for both the party and the enemies.

It wasn't sloppy at all.

I guess back then though you didn't have a chance choose what you want but even then these designs were made to create a challenge and in fact it works,only problem is that some of those boses were a bit too easy and it didn't create much challenge.

You also could fill your atb bar and then after that skip to another character use that character first to cast whatever is needed and even if its active it gives you a chance to cast spells like:wall or whatever.

In dificult enemies like the reaper guy who casts condemmed on everybody or big bang,if you don't know how to play this out and or your sloppy then he will wipe the floor with you.

I liked it actually,it didn't bother me much,i also liked ff5 gameplay,ff5 had far more variety in choice than ff4 but wasn't its atb or whatever more or less the same? or did you have a choice to make it realtime or whatever?

Hmm i would think you like challenges as people say that zeromus is terribly challenging,its true that he can be.

It is also true they attack first and in other games you get more of a chance to hit,i guess they could have added more attacks to annoy you with the weird girl who is half a woman half horse? or what was she? half spider? i forget.

This post has been edited by Magitek_slayer on 20th July 2009 21:46

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I picked FFV up again and put it straight back down. I was hopelessly underleveled and reaaaly didn't feel like grinding just to discover another boooring plot ploy.

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Seems like many ppl hate VIII
Didn't found it that bad, though I am biased cause it was my first PSX game.

FF II has a nice "lvl" up system, but it was horribly converted. I mean I used my spells VERY frequently, and they were simple still to weak. Also, it sucked that you always lost your forth character, so it was wasted energy and effort to let them learn any spells.
Also, I hoped the whole game along to find Leon (??), and you just get him at the end.

I didn't enjoyed Part VII that much, cause of this stupid materia system - There is simple not that much motivation to train or kill monsters or progress in the game cause it is like "Oh yay!! I just need to kill further 356712365 to get Fire 2!!! Yippieee!!"

I nulled my vote,mainly because i haven't played them all yet.I didnt care much for VII.Im just not into the whole science fiction deal.VIII is ok,though it did have flaws.IX i liked because of the storyline.I defiantly like XII because of the battle system.

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I got a new game to introduce to worse ff series

Chystal chronicles

It's story is as simlpe as it can get and its gamplay is as old style as it can get,plus the characters themselves are not very interesting.

Honestly i think its one of the worse ff's in the series if you count final fantasy 2 and legend 1 2 and 3.

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Seems like many ppl hate VIII
Didn't found it that bad, though I am biased cause it was my first PSX game.

FF II has a nice "lvl" up system, but it was horribly converted. I mean I used my spells VERY frequently, and they were simple still to weak. Also, it sucked that you always lost your forth character, so it was wasted energy and effort to let them learn any spells.
Also, I hoped the whole game along to find Leon (??), and you just get him at the end.

I didn't enjoyed Part VII that much, cause of this stupid materia system - There is simple not that much motivation to train or kill monsters or progress in the game cause it is like "Oh yay!! I just need to kill further 356712365 to get Fire 2!!! Yippieee!!"

I tried playing ff8,honestly i did but i couldn't get into the game no matter how much i tried,I died of boredom.

And yeah I find FFVII seriously overrated but ff8 and ff9 can sometimes be overrated.

I think honestly that ff8 takes too long to pace up and get interesting and by the time it does,it's not enough to keep people interested.


This post has been edited by Magitek_slayer on 9th September 2009 22:14

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dosent anyone think twelve was absolute claptrap? the whole fighting system was horrendous, even mor ridiculous names than usual(who calls there child vaan?0 and it was just lacking a certain charm,

also who thought that whole save onto a different game block thing when you was in a dungeon annyoying?

Yes I voted FFXII.

The battle thing was really irritating and the game is so looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong I end up stopping for boredom for a little while. Then go back, get a little further, and stopping again.`

FFXII was the only final fantasy i couldn't finish. the story lost me because it was not interesting or entertaining. the characters were very dull to me. and the gameplay to me took away the whole final fantasy feel to it. overall i wish it had never been made... yea i said it

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I voted for IX. I couldn't get into the story and I thought the cast was absolute crap.

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I voted for IX. I couldn't get into the story and I thought the cast was absolute crap.

I'm happy i'm not the only one slightly disappointed with ff9

While i liked the characters,i think somehow the gameplay and story suffers.


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Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Why do you most of you guys hate FFVIII?
I thought FFIV in gba sucked. I get stuck more than ten times, most of the non- battle graphics sucked, and the least of them all... who calls a guy Cecil???

Oh my word, FFVIII has the most votes? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? I would have to say out of all the Final Fantasy games I have played IX was the worst, played it for about 30 mins after renting it from the store and I sent it back shortly afterwards... Characters sucked they felt like "chibi" weird over the top midgety annoying characters and the main protagonist is a frigging monkey... I got to the whole medieval play thing and I was like... Screw this. LoL well that's my opinion. Seriously though FFVIII getting all these votes? The game is awesome the only downside is the junction system everything else was awesome, the laguna dream sequences man with the machine gun ftw. The garden batle. The weapons and weapon upgrade system/magazines, they were awesome man. Can't praise that game enough. Although FFVII is my favourite. Sephiroth ftw.

While VIII did indeed suck, I had to vote X due to the conspicuous absence of a world map, and the fact that it's characters failed to make me empathize and the plot failed to keep me interested.

Not so much a fan of Nomura's protagonists, and Tidus had his fingerprints all over him- even more so than Squall and Cloud.

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Don't you be tarot-fied,
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Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

I would add how annoying the gameplay was in ff2 japanese for the old nintendo.

I SWEAR!! that game really annoyed me to death.

stupid world map and that you cannot run away and to add those pointless trap rooms with 250% encounter rate.


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We are stardust.Our bodies are made from the guts of exploding stars.

Neil Degrasse Tyson.

X-2 by a mile...
imho 7 was the best one

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