Favorite Final Fantasy

[Elec]

VI. With a plot, characters and setting worthy of Tolstoy, music on par with the best cinematic scores of the day, killer depth, great, art, and just enough oddball humor to give you a chill while laughing, I find it manages to be emotional without being angsty and enigmatic without needing the type of lame anti-hero characterized by all the RPG heroes who are jerks and don't talk/talk very little.
Partly the reason why I deride VII so much. I don't mind it per se; I played it and enjoyed it, but the level of frenzy to which its fans preached its glory made me think that these kids don't take much to be impressed.
VIII I liked as well (the girly romanticist in me) although my foes who rabidly proclaim VII's ass-kickage over the rest of humanity tended to disagree with me. And then V (class-changing games are fun) and IV (another well-done story/character combo), then X (simply a fresh, exciting, and immensely satisfying game).

 

[navate]

I am a deprived heathen and have never played FFanything. =\
By the time I found out how cool it was, I had left my gaming days behind.

 

[D]

I am a deprived heathen and have never played FFanything. =\
By the time I found out how cool it was, I had left my gaming days behind.

Exact same thing here.... : (....

 

[bassfiddlejones]

*gasp*

No Final Fantasy!?

Heathens.


I picked FF8, because of the amazing plot and wondeful music. I loved the whole game, and the whole concept of the gameplay was great.

 

[Formless]

*gasp*

No Final Fantasy!?

Heathens.


I picked FF8, because of the amazing plot and wondeful music. I loved the whole game, and the whole concept of the gameplay was great.

The FF8 orchestrated soundtrack is wonderful. Damn midi game music.

 

[shinzo]

I want FFXII :'(
So i dont think ill vote untill i play that one
I really liked FFX simply coz it twas the first FF game i had actually sat through and played (didnt bother with X-2 tho)
FFXI wasnt too bad, and maybe JUST mabye i might get the upcoming Xbox360 version ^_^

 

[Elec]

Is XII even out yet? :-/

Oh yes, I forgot to say. Joining VII at the very bottom of my FF list is XI. I can't really stand MMORPG's to begin with, so the fact that I lost a lot of decent friends and acquaintances to this game, leading them to bore me to death with nothing but talk about what they did recently in this game made me loathe it all the more. Yes I'm an opinionated bastard, but it's like they were deliberately trying to bore me.

 

[shinzo]

lol @ Elec. Fair dues i guess, it as only untill i bought Guild Wars randomly that i actually got into the MMORPG scene. But i still think it is highly overated tbh.

and sadly, ff12 isnt out yet ((((((

 

[Lone_mushi666]

Final Fantasy VII in my opinion ...because of the storyline, gameplay, and especially, Vincent Valentine, and Sephiroth.
hard to beat those two

 

[Formless]

Final Fantasy VII in my opinion ...because of the storyline, gameplay, and especially, Vincent Valentine, and Sephiroth.
hard to beat those two

Sephiroth is easily the most overrated FF villain ever. :\ And Vincent has like.. no real importance toward the story.

 

[Elec]

Kazuo: I wholeheartedly agree. Sephy's...cool, I think. But not fantastic. Had he been the Golbez to someone else's Zemus to someone else's Zeromus...then we'll talk. :-*
Vincent may not add anything, but he's badass, and I think that fools a lot of people.

 

[Formless]

Kazuo: I wholeheartedly agree. Sephy's...cool, I think. But not fantastic. Had he been the Golbez to someone else's Zemus to someone else's Zeromus...then we'll talk. :-*
Vincent may not add anything, but he's badass, and I think that fools a lot of people.

Vincent was a really cool character.. I just have a thing for people liking people just because they're "bishounen". x__X

And about FF villains.. Kefka is EASILY the most evil FF villain. I wanted to kill him from the first time he laughed. >O Bastard.

 

[Elec]

Oh I concur. I mean, what a right bastard.

 

[Lone_mushi666]

Kazuo: I wholeheartedly agree. Sephy's...cool, I think. But not fantastic. Had he been the Golbez to someone else's Zemus to someone else's Zeromus...then we'll talk. :-*
Vincent may not add anything, but he's badass, and I think that fools a lot of people.

Vincent was a really cool character.. I just have a thing for people liking people just because they're "bishounen". x__X

And about FF villains.. Kefka is EASILY the most evil FF villain. I wanted to kill him from the first time he laughed. >O Bastard.

oh, i really didn't mean to sound like i like them because they are bishounen....i'm sorry. i really don't care much for "oogling" characters like that...
Vincent may not be really important to the story, however, i liked his indiviual story, and his combat skills (particularly his limit breaks)

and Sephiroth in my opinion, i think he is a bit overrated by people, but i still think he is the best FF villian (compared to other games)
*note* i have never played FFVI- so i can't talk about Kefka

 

[Wandering_Fox]

Oh I concur. I mean, what a right bastard.

He definatly was the most evil... My problem with later Final Fantasy games is you never meet the final boss until the end of the game... You just can't hate them for some reason. Until you battle the same boss for 4 hours and die...

 

[Alita]

My first FF of course ... FF VII

 

[Mukau]

Kuja is way cooler than Sephiroth anyhow.

 

[Formless]

Oh I concur. I mean, what a right bastard.

He definatly was the most evil... My problem with later Final Fantasy games is you never meet the final boss until the end of the game... You just can't hate them for some reason. Until you battle the same boss for 4 hours and die...

I just think alot of the later villains were either lame or not explained well enough. Do not read ahead if you don't want to know about the games before you beat them!



*****SPOILER ALERT*****



Sephiroth for example; a whiney, overdramatic "OMG ZETSUBOU" momma's boy. JENOVA was way more evil than him (she slaughtered the entire ShinRa building while Sephy left the empty ShinRa mansion burning and killed a few people outsite). It just bothers me that people give him so much credit for really.. not doing much.

Ultimecia was a character that deserved more screen/story time. She was beyond evil, but there's speculation that she is indeed Rinoa from the future. Rinoa had the wings, as did Ultimecia. She also used Griever as a summon, which was Squall's. How would Ultimecia obtain it unless she, at a point, was Rinoa and Squall had given her his necklace with Griever?

Kuja was pretty evil, but I don't think he had enough to do with the story, and he's not really the villain considering he's just being manipulated by Necron. Necron was a terrible final boss since he just came out of nowhere and was like "Hi, I'm your final boss. Kuja's my puppet and there's no real reason for me to be here. Let's fight" and that gave way to a really boring ending.

I'm iffy about Seymour. There were things I liked, things I didn't like. His other forms were pretty awesome, not to mention he could be a bitch to kill sometimes (Total Annihilation or whatever.. crazy move). SIN though was a great idea. A monster with a conscience, but no control over what he does? Makes for a very dramatic feel.

X-2 had.. Shuyin/Shuin and Vegnagun.. yeah, that game was terrible. 'Nuff said. x___X

Personally, I think the best villain from an RPG is either Kefka (FFVI) or Lavos The Time Devourer (Chrono Trigger). Lavos could be born in any time, any era and actually DOES wipe out the world in one era. Not to mention he kills the main character at one point. ;D Doesn't get much more evil than that.

Anyway, /end rant!

 

[Mukau]

Oh god yes, it makes me mad when people say "Sephiroth is the coolest villain ever and did you see when he blah blah blah" Jenova is way way way way more badass than Sephiroth. They should have give her/him/it way more backstory.

Jenova > Sephiroth.

 

[Formless]

DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED FFVII!

*****ANOTHER SPOILER*****




WAIT! Sephiroth DID do one admirable thing. Kill Aeris/Aerith. THANK GOD FOR THAT!