Best Final Fantasy to Date?

[lukeisok]

In my opinion I feel that the best Final Fantasys were 8 and 13.

8 Because of the Amazing graphics (at the time) and 13 for the first female lead in the series.

What about yours and also your reasons? :eusa_danc

[samsaBEAR]

Didn't FF10 and 10-2 have female leads?
But definintely agree with 8, it was my first FF and has always been my favourite, I've played every game before 9, and 10-2 and 8 remains the best for me. There's one on SNES that is a closed second, I can't remember which one though

[Axel]

and 13 for the first female lead in the series.

6/10-2?

9 is my favourite though, not only was it the first I played personally (although I had watched others play 8 & 9), but I just feel it is the best in the series. I dunno what it is about it, but everything just seems the best about it (bar graphics of course). Both 9 & 10 felt the most like an 'adventure' in my opinion, maybe because there was more character interaction in general, what with 7 & 8 being led by dull characters. Also, 9 is my favourite story, and 9 has the best soundtrack, but again, this is all just opinion.

And if it means anything, FF9 is the highest on metacritic (with a score of 94/100). Next down is the likes of 7 & 10 with a score of 92.

13 is definately not the best FF, seriously. FF has really gone downhill, and it just doesn't feel like FF anymore, rather the newer games in the series are just bad games with the FF title slapped on them to make them sell.

[Coheed&Cambria]

pfft, 13 is mediocre and has nothing on any Final fantasy up to 9.

[FlyingJesus]

VIII is incredible. Never really understood FFVII fanboys when the game has so little to it, I absolutely loved the customisability of VIII as well as the storylines and character development - especially with the end video when everything fits into place. X for the sphere grid and weapon setup was also very enjoyable as it meant you could truly make your own characters, never played any past that though, with the exception of a few minutes on X-2 before getting bored of the women

[Axel]

VIII has the worst battle system I think. Junctioning and drawing is so dull. I think the best battle system, although IX is my favourite, has to go with X. With X, you could switch party members in and out during battles, and each monster had to be handled a different way, like Rikku dealing with machina, Wakka with anything flying, Auron with stuff with body armour etc, and the sphere grid was brilliant up until the point where everyone could unlock everything on the grid, and Yuna was hitting 99999 with her staff.

[samsaBEAR]

VIII is incredible. Never really understood FFVII fanboys when the game has so little to it, I absolutely loved the customisability of VIII as well as the storylines and character development - especially with the end video when everything fits into place. X for the sphere grid and weapon setup was also very enjoyable as it meant you could truly make your own characters, never played any past that though, with the exception of a few minutes on X-2 before getting bored of the women

X-2 was a lot better when you got further into it. The whole Job/Dress spheres thing I thought worked so well.

VIII has the worst battle system I think. Junctioning and drawing is so dull. I think the best battle system, although IX is my favourite, has to go with X. With X, you could switch party members in and out during battles, and each monster had to be handled a different way, like Rikku dealing with machina, Wakka with anything flying, Auron with stuff with body armour etc, and the sphere grid was brilliant up until the point where everyone could unlock everything on the grid, and Yuna was hitting 99999 with her staff.

I agree with the drawing aspect, but I loved junctioning and picking with GF to give to which character to unlock which stat to junction magic too. Having said that I always gave Squall the GF that let me junction magic to health and strength and gave him 99 Regen and 99 Ultima haha

[iMartyn]

Well I came into the series at FF8 which was pretty awesome, the card game in that is still one of the best things ever in Final Fantasy and I'm gutted they haven't carried it though.

BUT!!!

My favorite title so far is definitely Final Fantasy X because it had the wow factor graphically with it being the most impressive PS2 game to date when it came out and Blitzball was f'ing amazing.

[FlyingJesus]

noob4lyfe you use Aura for str because it's easier to get hold of (I never bothered getting Ultimas because it takes too long and magic is pretty crap for damage late in the game anyway) then Full-life on HP, Meltdown on vit, Hastega on spd... actually I might be talking crap I haven't played in ages, brb looking for my discs

[amarj]

The one thing I hated in FF8 was that the monster levelled with you, so there was no point in levelling.

My favourite has to be VII and X