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id say final fantasy 9, because its a great game overall, all the aspects of it are really good, the storyline, the gameplay , the music etc.

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VII is my favorite. VI is a close second, and I think it was largely the launching pad from which VII skyrocketed. For me, these together are the pinnacle of the series, and the highbrow critical acclaim of VI's boundary pushing graphics, story, and innovative gameplay paved the way for the continued innovation and massive popularity of its successor.

VII...I love it as much as the next person but IMO, VI beats it in every category..except the Mature rating (cussing etc...)

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FFT's "everything" -- the music, the political atmosphere, the complex battling -- is ingrained on my heart, and I don't think anything could kick that one off the mountain. Owning up to the runner-up is FFIX, though, and that's nearly as good in all aspects (sidequests especially). The main reason why it's number two, however, is because most of it's truly wonderful characteristics -- the ones that really make it have a unique feel, like the abilities-by-equipment system or how each character has only a set number of abilities -- are still derivative from earlier aspects. FFIX pulls them off wonderfully, better than I would have ever imagined, but it's still not enough to top the ol' Tactics horse.

FFIX gets points for the expansive feel that Tactics doesn't exactly have, and with future games not looking especially bright on the overworld map part, it gets a little a few nostalgia points. That it's an amalgam of all those wondrous concepts that previous games had, and that it can combine them into something peerless (at least on the PSX), it's certainly a nice sight. Now that I look back, it's almost like a swan song to the entire PSX era.

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Originally I was going to avoid this thread entirely, but I just have to have some input. I suppose then I should examine the three nominees for my second favorite Final Fantasy title.

Final Fantasy IV: This one was a giant of a game to me at first, the whole thing was, in a word, amazing it truly had a unique feel to it, and as the second release in the US it seemed like a gigantic leap from FFI. First, the addition of Named characters had my head spinning. What is this, Cecil? Kain? Gone were the generic titles, Knight, Thief, etc...and instead we had something with some meat to it, characters we could become attached to, a true love story, a story of redemption, failure, faith. The story was one of the greatest I have seen in the series, and still is hard pressed to be overturned. I think people ignore the amount of character development given to Cecil, Kain, Rosa and Golbez. These four were as pivotal to Final Fantasy 4 as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were to the bible.

The only dissappointing aspects of this game was the battle system and the magic system. I really wished that you could obtain better spells for some characters, such as not having Tellah be limited to the upper tier spells with crap MP. As far as battle is concerned, the amount of enemies was staggering in some cases. The number of fights, well, encounter rate I guess, was massive. But I was also about eleven whenI played this for the first time.

Final Fantasy IX: My god...this game was beautiful! It had soo much to offer in terms of character customization, side quests, nostalgia points, everything. The SD style was a great change of pace for the series, not to mention that some of the best lines are in this game. The only problem is that at some point it began to feel like a cookie cutter RPG. Hollow and lacking ingenuity. Yet, there was always this underlaying spirit of...something. It was an opus of sorts, mastering the emotional and mental manipulation required to give a game a soul. This was truly a god among ants.

Final Fantasy VIII: Yes, blasphemy I know, but hear me out. VIII had a major shift in place when you sat back and looked at it, a lack of non-human player characters. What? In a series bogged down with Onionkids, Moogles, Yeti's, Quina's(a unique creature indeed), Red XIII's and Khamari's, VIII was one of the few games where your party didn't encounter soem uber badd demigod and draft him in the first round as a member of the human race. Add to this the change of setting as a teenager in a military academy and you have a potential for excellence. But, as always, something spoils the milk. There was a plot for all of about 37.677777 seconds, and then, some absolute genius decided to make this a comedy of errors. The weapon design was bad, the plot had more holes than a Bush speech, and the 'twists' were just random moments of stupidity by game designers who rushed a product to match the sales of VII. This entire game was reminiscent of a stillborn infant, and yet, there is something about that makes me play it, over and over again. Maybe if they had spent more time on story and less on extra junk, maybe this would have been a better game. Okay,sorry, this was supposed to be a case for why I like the game right? Yeah...anyway.

I would hard pressed to say that My absolute second favorite Final Fantasy was an easy choice to make, but after searching my heart, I have concluded that it is indeed, Final Fantasy IX, I can say it no better than this

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Now that I look back, it's almost like a swan song to the entire PSX era.

Yep, that about sums it up for me too. Man, now I gotta go play it again!

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Easilly IV. The only one that comes close to VI in greatness.

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IV and 9 Tie. I haven't played 9 in awile though since my PS broke.
Although VII and IV are pretty close, VII is my favorite meaning IV would be my second. I guess I just liked VII's gameplay more and it had cooler sidequests. But all in all IV is a awesome game.

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FF9 wins the top spot, and no other game came close at all. Second favorite would have to be FF6.

Final Fantasy 7 cause FF6 will always be my #1 game, so second in line is FF7.

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2) If you have nothing to say in your post, click the poll vote and move on. Posts like "ff4 is my second best end of post" really are something that nobody can care about. GMH's intent is to get people talking about why your second-favorite doesn't quite reach the top spot, but why it's still so good.

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VIII had a major shift in place when you sat back and looked at it, a lack of non-human player characters.

I agree with you on this, Final Fantasy VIII could have been a great game if VII hadn't come out before hand. Thank god there wasn't a playable Moomba character in this one...I would've died. To me, it seems that out of the series, 8 is the most real just because it seems like it was set in the year 2000 using more guns that any of the eariler games and the way the characters were modeled.

Maybe if 8 and 7 had swapped release dates it would've been just alittle more popular?

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My favorite has always been VII, but it's a lot tougher to see what my 2nd favorite is. I usually have to pick between IV, VI, and IX. IV was cool because it had an epic story, VI had the most beloved characters, and IX had a nice battle system, a good story, and Vivi. But I chose VI. It was my first 2D FF (Unless you count FF Legend/SaGa, which I don't) and its characters were some of my favorites, especially Terra and Locke.

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I'm going with FF VI. Sure, it's defentaly one of the best in the numbered series, but with IV being my first, it's going to stay that way.
Oh, and the main villian of VI is the best in the series.

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Hell, this is harder than picking a 1st place. Didn't vote, can't decide.

It's gotta be between FFVI cos it was my first, luv'd it, best music and graphics (2D graphics). And FFVIII, generally a gorgeous game despite all the screw ups (limit breaks, etc).

Vii is my second favorite, with IX at first, but VII had great music, the materia system, some characters, and Cid make it #2.

This is actually a pretty interesting question, as there seems to be a fair bit more variation in the number of entries which receive a substantial number of votes. There are obviously still several games that do poorly, but perhaps this is a better method for discovering which games the FF community considers successful?

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My faveourite is FF6, so i vote ff4 as my senconed faveourite

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Second favorite is very hard for me.

In some ways i absolutely adore ff4, but i keep thinking about tactics in terms of characters.
Its like:I haven't even beaten it, but it stays with me a lot.I keep thinking about delita and ramza as characters, and compare the tragic story between them and the one between cecil and kain and rydia.

In terms of second favorite:Since tactics isn't there, it makes it easy:FF4 as second place.


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Final Fantasy V. It had a decent storyline, pirates, ninjas, possibly pirate-ninjas, princesses, kings, knights, and love. It is a little cliché, but well-executed; and I really like saving Crystals. And Sarisa was just plain awesome. Princess, pirate, and (for me) ninja all in one! I loved customizing my characters, and mastering every single class was more fun than it really should have been. The only things that put it below VI is the lack of nostalgia, and the fact that Terra is more awesome than everyone. Still, it is a very close second, and a really great game.

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FFIX

Were it not for this game, I'd pretty much have called the series a wash post-SNES era. VI got me to love these games for the characters and the narrative, and VII was a really rude awakening at just how sub par it was in comparison to its predecessor and VIII...yeah. Point being is that for as long as the series has been around, FFIX has been the only game post SNES to feature a cast of characters that I found engaging rather than completely alienating. I've said it before, this is easily the best written FF I've ever played and what makes it sooo good, is the focus on the theme of support and selflessness. This a game about people helping each other, be they old friends or complete strangers. I don't know why they never went back to this, but this was a story about characters being heroes.

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VII is my favorite. VI is a close second, and I think it was largely the launching pad from which VII skyrocketed. For me, these together are the pinnacle of the series, and the highbrow critical acclaim of VI's boundary pushing graphics, story, and innovative gameplay paved the way for the continued innovation and massive popularity of its successor.

I might have to reverse this now. Only because I just played VI again and have lost count of how many times I've replayed it, and cannot remember the last time I played through VII. VI is just an easier game to pick up and play. I've probably replayed FFIV (including remakes) more than FFVII at this point.

In terms of impact the game had at the time I played it, VII probably still holds the top spot. The early FFs blew my mind and made me fall in love with them, but VII was unlike anything else at the time, revolutionizing both RPGs and video games as a whole.

But to be quite honest, it doesn't seem to have aged as well.

Final Fantasy IV

What can be said about it?

Well, it's probably all been said, but I guess I'll say it again.

"There is something m,ore important than Justice and Righteousness. Someday you will see that," KluYa(roughly) states in the Hall of Mirrors. This is the theme of the game summarized as closely as possible in one sentence. In game, this is as close to true as one can possibly be.

This game is about people redeeming themselves. While I can't specifically name all of the situations where redemption takes place, there are plenty of examples in the game. Edward, Cecil, Edge, the twins, Rydia, and so many others become examples of this throughout the game.

Whether its justified (Rydia, Tellah), or a personality flaw (Edge, Edward), or even the overall plot of the game (the Giant is resurrected), the game represents initial failure, followed by the party redeeming themselves, or at least having the chance to do so. While, at least in one case, one person repeatedly failed to do so and paid the ultimate price, the rest of the party comes through in spectacular fashion, and imparts a message about success overcoming failure.

This is what it means to me. My interpretation, more than likely, doesn't match yours, but it is one that I hope was thought out.

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Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy VIII are my favorites so this is kind of cheating, Final Fantasy V would have to be next. ( GBA ver )

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Top Three fave Final Fantasies Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy V [ GBA ]

This one is very difficult for me, in all honesty. There is no doubt that VI is my favorite -points down at the link in her signature- and ties easily with Chrono Trigger as my favorite games of all time. The difficulty here is that there is also a tie for second favorite. This tie being between IV and V. While IV essentially launched the series in America and seriously brought the world of gaming to the proverbial table and knocked a nation for a loop with characters that changed throughout the game, developing more in depth personalities and actually reacting to strife rather than just walking by it, V gave us a major plot twist and an adventure no one was expecting.

In IV we are introduced us to the people of the moon, find out that we can walk on said moon, breathe its air and defeat great evils there, throwing in a major dose of science-fiction that would make Edgar Rice Burroughs ( Princess of Mars, anyone?) proud. One minute it's all fantasy and magic and the next, BOOM ANCIENT SPACESHIP AND ALIENS! LIKE A BOSS!
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It also gave us a soundtrack that so many of us went digging around endlessly for to listen to again and again. This game is in my opinion the reason Final Fantasy became so popular so quickly. It gave us everything we never knew we wanted and opened a world of doors we never saw were there.

In V, on the other hand, there is the notion of story. The plot twists alone in this make it a gem of a game and it should have so much more attention than it gets. IV dabbled in Science -Fiction; V brought it to the proverbial table and dropped a natural 20 critical hit in the middle of the gaming world. As with IV we had fantasy, magic and of course the ever beloved crystals but then like a bolt from heaven we find ourselves on another planet fighting a war we didn't know was taking place on two worlds at once. And then, to make things better these worlds are supposed to occupy the same point in space and time. Bam, there's my millionth hook into this game. Suddenly folding space-time. You had my attention, you now have my worship.

In addition, it also brought back the class system; but gave us the option to choose and switch between easily this time around. This paved the way for hundreds of different ability and class combinations, thus giving the game a replay value that is through the roof.

This one was a great question, in my opinion and it was really a pleasure to think about. Thank you!

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Final Fantasy IV, I'd say. While it hooked me more than any other, FFVI was the better game.

I suppose I'd have to go with IV. I always say my favorite FF is either IV or VI, depending which one I'm playing at the time. I've honestly probably played IV more but there are a few aspects of VI I just can't ignore. It really is the better game but nostalgia with IV might get to me even more than VI.

Why do I like IV so much, since this is what the topic is about... well, a lot of things. Cecil being a dark knight with a conscience is a good starter and his evolution as a person into a paladin was pretty damned neat, IMO. Bonus points because paladin is my favorite character class anyway. Being American and missing out on FFII and III for the NES playing IV for the first time on SNES was just amazing. It was such an improvement on every level (obviously, lol) and coming from the original to that, especially when you loved the original was a huge deal. The likeable characters and their sacrifices adds to this and my favorite FF character of all time, Kain (Mog notwithstanding because he's awesome).