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Final fantasy 6 is the best one because I played it as a child. Final fantasy 1 is the worst one because I never played it and it seems really basic.
7 is also the worst because it sucks up all the oxygen in the room and prevents square from ever doing anything else. Can't wait for the remakes remake in ten years when final fantasy 17 doesn't sell like the remake trilogy did.
they could make a new game about a different bisexual ecoterrorist polycule but they won't
Why do they deny us our ecoterrorist polycules?
The best one is the one you played during your formative years and have the most nostalgia for. The worst one depends on if you want to form your own opinion or just listen to youtube essayists. If it's the essayists, then two is the worst because it different and different bad, or possibly eight because again, different therefore bad.
The real answer? The terrible gatcha mobile game auto battler that was one the most heavily pay to win mobile games ever made.
My favorite is 7 though and I didn't get to play that until I was in my late 20s
You're right, I really love FF6 : formative years, didnt quite read perfectly english then, too - so kind of "exotic".
The soundtrack hits different, I fantasized being that loner hero in the schoolyard, with the track of the open world playing in my mind.
Also I really love the artwork in the booklet (or was it?) from Yoshitaka Amano, it has a light and flowy touch to it. Ive recently learned that he worked on Vampire Hunter D, which was a show I shared watching with my older sister!
But like you said, nostalgia.
Oh yeah, All The Bravest, I forgot all about that.
There was also that FFVII mobile battle royale that shut down pretty quickly.
7 is the best because of ecoterrorism and also the worst because of the fanbase
i will also accept that the MMOs are the worst because MMOs are bad.
I have a soft spot for 4.
Aside from the MMOs, which I never played, 15 was the only one I didn't finish, so that tracks.
4 is underrated
4 is Overated honestly lol it and 6 are usually cited over 7
Really? I didn't know 4 was that popular
Yeah it's usually between 4,6 and 7. Sometines 9 but from the dozens of videos I've watched and read reviews/takes online. The 13 games have their fans and the odd 15 enjoyer too. It varies a little with the newer games (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)
The best is always the latest and the worst are all the previous ones because obviously they're not very Final.
Best? Depends on who you ask. 10,9,16, story of 14 are some of my favs though.
Worst? Boy trip FF midlife crisis edition trying to do a worst style Neir story telling. Aka 15. (The real answer is it probably just depends. But fucking hell I hate that game.)
Edit: lol I didn't see the body text before I posted.
I will only comment on what I played, imo Tactics is the best (with VII being a close second) while I is pretty weak and barebones. Not really that much of a hot take, seeing as I is the first and the winning formula hadn't been established yet. But it's wild how the best game in the franchise (again imo) is a spin off title.
Time to annoy the final fantasy fans.
I like 13, and lightning returns. 13-2 is extremely boring filler content where the story takes place in a 5 minute window in the ending cutscene of 13. 13 is how imagined my favourite movie, spirits within, as a video game because its still the best looking corridor ever put to the ps360 generation and i legit like the story and characters. Lightning returns continues to be a fever dream, it had a vibe i cant describe at all.
15 is my favourite gay coded boyband romp and I just love their outfits and car.
16 i love me some CLOIV REDFEEELD. Its what an E3 trailer from 15 years ago would be if it was a video game.
11 and 14 are great but thats cos i love MMOs.
Why do i love these ones? Because deep down i really dont like final fantasy. I bounced off 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 i think 10 was the first one I played and i almost died of boredom. I’ve played them all to completion so nobody can convince me that it gets good at hour 750. But I also say this is evidence that square also seems to hate final fantasy by shifting the games to something else entirely
Because deep down i really dont like final fantasy. I bounced off 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 i think 10 was the first one I played and i almost died of boredom. I’ve played them all to completion so nobody can convince me that it gets good at hour 750
At a certain point, you're just hurting yourself lol. Life is too short to force yourself to play so many games you don't like. It's why I still haven't played all the Dark Souls games despite them being super popular, either. Maybe one day I will try again, but it won't be forcing myself through so many if I know I don't like them. I'll try one and give it a try and see if it clicks more, and if it doesn't, meh.
But I give you bonus points for liking the ones nobody else does. I'm sure the devs who worked hard on them appreciate it.
its still the best looking corridor ever put to the ps360 generation
I think it was just a case of bad timing, everything was going open world or semi open world, and FF12 was very open, so people didn't like that this one was extremely linear, had it come out a few years earlier or a few years later once people started getting fatigued by big empty open worlds, it probably would've been much more well received.
IIRC the reason it got panned was because it was like running a long corridor, lack of towns and shops and overworld map. You had to play for over half the game before it opened up.
13 is the "dress-up game" right? always wanted to play that one. Killer soundtrack too!
Lightning returns is the dress up lightning game. 13 is the one where everyone was confused because the story was needlessly opaque using silly words for things but actually the story was quite simple. Also the game was one single straight line with no exaggeration at all.
Soundtrack is superb my favourite in the whole franchise
I haven't played a Final Fantasy game since FFVI, so that one is the best
Worst is Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Even as a little kid, that game was too easy
I like a challenge
Have you played any of the saga series or 7th saga (SNES)?
The best is Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~, because one of the main plot points is a protagonist tragically dying by mistaking a bomb for a football.
The worst is every Final Fantasy where this does not happen, which I think is all of the others (except maybe Kingdom Hearts??)
Best: 6. It was the peak of the 2D sprite era RPGs. Interesting characters, interesting plot, great game mechanics, plenty of fun side quests, satisfying ending.
Worst: 8. Baffling confusing nonsensical plot, an irritating time-sink magic-power grinding mechanism, and I didn't care if any of the characters (playable or NPC) lived or died.
I have no idea about post-8 games, never played them.
5 followed by 3/2 then 7, 1, 8/9, 12, 6,10,12,13 and the rest (I stopped at 15)
I prefer the classics. I also play the original release no re-release as they change the calculations every re-release.
Actually the goated answer because 5 has the BEST job system out of all of the games, except maybe 12 (i don't like non-Zodiac versions of 12 locking you into a job)
Tactics Advance has the best job system. Other aspects are lacking but the job system is great
7 is simultaneously the worst and the best
I don't think XV is that bad, but it's clearly unfinished even though it was in development for a decade. It's obvious when you go to that Venice-inspired city that has almost nothing to do in it, and the end of the game runs out of steam hard: one of the chapters is just a turret section. They also tried to sell extra chapters as DLC and tried to pivot to a separate multiplayer co-op mode, just lol, didn't care about any of that.
The story in general is just a big bunch of nothing, especially if you haven't watched that animated movie. I did enjoy just cruising around with my bros and the relatively open world, while clearly ripping off Xenoblade Chronicles, was fun.
but it's clearly unfinished even though it was in development for a decade.
CrystalTools at it again baybee, love to dump millions into an engine that barely works!
7 and 9 are my favourites. 7 remains the most relevant today because the story is marxist. People will claim it's because it was just the first 3d one but they're wrong.
I enjoyed 10-2 as well. 10 is my least favourite. I didn't touch 12. We don't talk about 13. I don't like the new ones either but mainly because the main character's feel so masculine it alienates me from the characters.
im pretty sure 8 is actually the best objectively
also x-2
idk what the worst one is
I liked 15 it was the first FF game I ever finished. It’s a little undercooked but the vibes are immaculate.
I did not care for 16 as a video game but if they released the cutscenes as an episodic series I’d watch it.
13 was the first one I played seriously and it kicked my ass (I wasn’t a sony kid and was born slightly before the n64 released)
best: 6/9/8
worst: 16/13/2
the order changes depending on the phases of the moon
I both love and hate Final Fantasy 8.
On the one hand: the Dollet attack sequence, the Garden Battle sequence, the soundtrack, Triple Triad, breaking the game with Triple Triad, Laguna being a lovable dork, the combined aesthetic of early 20th century Europe and high-tech, GFs erasing memories as a metaphor for war robbing children of their childhood, the way Edea's magic feels like a violation of reality and establishes why sorceresses are feared, trains, Selphie, and Selphie getting excited at the prospect of blowing up a train with a rocket launcher.
On the other hand: Triple Triad's Random rule, obnoxious scavenger hunts to upgrade your weapons, the orphanage plot twist, running in circles around Balamb to find Raijin, the momentum-killing sewer section in Deling, the sheer tedium of drawing 100 of each spell for each party member for the things you can't card mod, the Adel fight stonewalling me as a kid because I relied entirely on GF spam.
My favorites are 6, 9, 12, Tactics Advanced and Crystal Chronicles. I didn't finish 7, 10 and 10-2 felt like interactive DVDs, I hated 13, 16 and Type-0. I tried Tactics but didn't get into it because I played TA first, and I tried 3, 4, 5 and 8, but didn't really like them.
Ive only played
Tactics (too hard, was playing the ipod touch port, it ran so slowly I barely made a dent) Tactics advance Tactics grimoire of the rift
1, 2 and on the gba (released as dawn of souls two in one)
Of those. Tactics Advance is my fave. GOTR was fun in an unbalanced overstretched kind of way. I don't remember a damned thing about I and II. Tactics is meant to be the best of the ones above but I don't have the time to play now, alas
In my opinion?
10 is the best because it was the first one I remember buying for myself at Gamestop circa like 2004 & it really solidified my love for JRPGs (although it was not the first I ever played) because it was arguably the first 3D jrpg I played - I'm not counting Kingdom Hearts. Cast is great in both versions (even if the english dub is memed), story is great & doesn't ever really drag, gameplay is great and has all the hallmarks of a good FF game (lots of side-quests/interesting enemies/good minigames/etc)
14 is the worst because, while parts of it are literal diamonds in the rough (Base Heavensward is genuinely the best expansion imo, way before the WoL gets so overpowered they're basically a god, the Scions aren't completely annoying, and it is the introduction of the two best characters in the series - a serious story about how holding onto anger and violence over the past can ultimately lead to destruction unless you channel that rage into making it so no one has to experience what you did. Ysayle and Estenien spend the entire base expansion struggling with this & reach the conclusion that "maybe I'm doing this wrong" in separate but important ways. I'm still mad about Ysayle's ending but I've given up on FFXIV ever having like, a really well written female primary character. Alisaie & Krile lovers don't comment on this, I don't hate either but....Y'shtola fans please do some soul searching...) the rest is just 
Yes I probably will re-sub for Evercold & weep and moan the entire time because I dropped it in 7.1 and have to get through the rest of whatever Dawntrail is about.
I guess my real gripe with 14 really is that it is more of a MMO than FF11 was in a way. People love to say "14 respects your time!" and sure, it does in the sense that you won't ever really 'miss' anything if you choose to take a significant break, but this design perspective caters to the super casual who are less interested in actually playing the game itself & more interested in roleplaying/treating the game like a FF version of Second Life. I've played (on and off) since Stormblood and have never been an ultimate raider or anything, but I got really frustrated in Dawntrail (after coming back specifically for Endwalker after taking a break post-Shadowbringers) because it seems like they've spent the last 2 expansions just 'streamlining' things for the sake of making sure the base game/fights have no actual challenge to them & so people don't actually have to learn how to play a class. Healers still using Cure 1 40 levels after they unlocked Cure 2, Ninjas using their AOE on single mobs, tanks pulling 2 enemies at one time in a dungeon instead of the entire group because they don't know they're supposed to be using their damage mitigation skills. All fine in like, the base difficulties but god forbid you try to tell a healer "hey you should use Cure 2" in an Level 90 Extreme Trial because they'll hit you with the 'you don't pay my sub'. I hate that bald streamer fuck but he really did hit the nail on the head when he made that clip talking about how FFXIV's combat/difficulty is really just "can you avoid the bright orange circles that appear on the screen??"
Also the gooners of FFXIV really put me off because I could not escape them. I like playing dwarves/gnomes/etc in MMOs. Small characters are funny to me. So my sole FFXIV character for over a decade has been a lalafell. I knew going into the game that they were seen as children by the playerbase at large, so I tried my hardest to make him look like an old man and even gave him an old man name. My mistake because it resulted in constant PMs from weirdos like "so adorable!! you should come to this house plot and join our stripclub!!" - no, I'm not interested in roleplaying as a stripper in a child-sized body I know what you're looking for!!!
All in all, makes me sad because I did meet a ton of nice people on FFXIV who were just casuals; I don't mind that! 95% of the FC I was in were players who would be online for 8 hours daily just sitting in a public area with their in-game boyfriend/girlfriend whispering to eachother - whatever floats your boat I guess! But inevitably this always leads to drama. I remember getting so frustrated because I really wanted to do The Epic of Alexander ultimate and the FC had enough people who'd done it successfully that I spent like 2 weeks trying to plan a group around it; I remember logging in day of and having the FC leader tell me "Can we reschedule?? There's a club party going on that I really want to go to & I already told everyone else that we'd reschedule" -- mind you a 'club party' is a bunch of people just doing /beesknees in a housing instance and maybe roleplaying or, more likely, ERPing. I got so mad because when I said "can't you do that after? It shouldn't take us more than like an hour or two to clear the raid since there's only 2 people who haven't done it" they just hit me with a "um..no; you can use party finder though if you want :D"
runner up for worst game is 16 if we're talking purely single-player. Story was alright (if you ignore the whole Ultima plot...would have been a 10/10 story if it'd just stuck to the whole war of Valisthea with the eikons and mothercrystals & the way bearers were treated), gameplay was shit and felt like all the worst parts of 14 melded into a single player experience. SOMEONE FIRE NAOKI YOSHIDA FROM CBU3 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
Hating the egg man is problematic ngl
Best: 10 because it's the one I played
Worst: all the rest because I never played them
Amongst the ones I’ve played, 9 is definitely my favorite. Love the story and the gameplay. Not faultless, but definitely the most complete game IMO. I think the weakest is maybe 12. I didn’t make it far as the battle system flopped for me and the story just couldn’t grab me.
For the record, I haven’t played 3, 6, 8, or 15. Not counting MMOs.
feels like once you put out a FINAL Fantasy you should stop making more of them all the fucking time
