What is your favorite Final Fantasy, excluding VI and VII?

[hezeuschrist]

I picked FFIV. Obviously.

I personally feel that the character development and storyline was really leagues beyond all the others in the series. What might be my favorite aspect of the game though was the variety of characters abilities and the fact that you always had a set party. Members would come and go, die, grow up, or transform and each encounter with the umpteen different parties provided a certain challenge.

I'm seriously tiring of having gigantic 10 character casts that allow you to switch whenever you want. It really takes you out of the game to think that you've got 3 enemies infront of you, and 7 party members just sleeping without helping at all. No support, just like they're dead. But as soon as the monsters are gone, they're all alive!

[Lord Contaminous]

The long ignored Final Fantasy IIIj for Famicom.

Dude where's the FF3DS info? If nothing happens within a year or two, my connections with Nintendo might be CUT.

[blissfulnoise]

Final Fantasy VIII is my favorite including VI and VII.

[Jibbajaba]

I went with IX. A lot of people seem to not like it, but I thought it was a pretty darned good RPG. I was certainly hooked on it. It's hard though once you take VI and VII out. The only Final Fantasies I don't like are VIII and X. I havent played X-2.

I ALMOST voted for Tactics. That game was cool too but I couldn't really get into the storyline.

Chris

[hezeuschrist]

Hopefully soon enough we'll be able to get our hands on it stateside on the DS. I've tried emulating but I always have troubles with corrupted saves and the like. Back before FF Anthology I sat down with FFV and plowed through about 6 hours in one sitting... the entire save system didn't even work. I saved, it told me I saved, and I came back the next day, booted up the rom and it just instantly went to the new game intro.

That sucked, but I did play through it in it's entirety last summer. Great game as well.

[le geek]

I am a big IV fan, but I have to go with IX (I haven't quite finished it yet,but I haven't enjoyed a FF this much in YEARS!

Cheers,
Ben

[TEND]

Going with IV.

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Sorry, double post.

[Poofta!]

tactics for playstation. the gba was a stupid kids game.


tactics for playstation had everything, complex story, character development, strategy. you name it. its my 3rd fav FF, after 7 and 6.

[GobopopRevisited]

US III

...IX. After the _ness that was VII and VIII, IX was a refreshing look back at the rest of the series. Some of the best music in the series as well.

[Jibbajaba]

Agreed. IX had some really good music in it.

I'm going to have to give FF VIII another try sometime. Too many people say it's a good game for me to have dismissed it like I did, although I must have played at least 10 hours of it.

Chris

[Uzi 9mm]

XI is my favorite by far. Very addicting, probably the best RPG I have ever played. I guess X would be second place, although it is a bit repetitive.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

The original Final Fantasy Tactics without a doubt. That game is so good it makes me want to cry.

[PDorr3]

FF9 definitly, I loved the characters, environments, and especialy the ability system.

I also like FFTA, which I just started playing again. Boy I love how open ended this game is in terms of available jobs, any reccomendations on what jobs are really good later in the game?

[slip81]

I went with V

[DragonMaster Sam]

Final Fantasy IV, without a doubt. I think hazeuschrist summed it up pretty well.

[dreamcaster]

Final Fantasy VIII is my favourite FF overall.

Admittedly, I've only played VII and VIII. >.>

[Haoie]

I've played 4, 5, 6, and own 7, 8, 9, and FFT. Haven't tried any for PS2.

8 is overall winner for me, if 6 and 7 are excluded. It was my first for the PS.

[DDCecil]

I also picked IV, obviously . V and IIIj would be next. I've played through every FF so far, and IIIj-VI are still my favorites in the series.

[link1110]

5 is my favorite even including the two you said to exclude.

5>3>4>10>6>9>2>1>8>7>11

I'm using the DoS versions of 1&2 for the purposes of this list, if it were the NES versions, it'd look like this

5>3>4>10>6>9>8>7>1>2>11