A poll for horrible nerds. What's your favorite of the Final Fantasy Games?

[Danger Mouse]

That is, if you're into them. I've been into them since I first played the original Final Fantasy on the NES all those years ago.
I have to say my favorite as Final Fantasy 9, with FF 12 a very close second. Both are just amazing.
Anyway, feel free to vote here. Contribute opinion if you wish. FFXI and FFIII not included.

[DarkTirade]

1. I think the series peaked at 6 and 7, but I don't know which one I'd choose as my favorate.

[Danger Mouse]

4. I liked 6 better than 7. I thought they were both fantastic...

but 9 was adorable, and that appeals to me because I'm a very sentimental and horrible nerd.
12 was just beautiful. It looked great, the music was good, it was different, fun to play, and the main villain was a huge change from other FF villains.

[DarkTirade]

5. 12 and 9 are the ones I haven't played actually.

[Danger Mouse]

7. You should! 9 is more old school style, with tons of references to previous FF's...

12 is just different. in a lot of ways. the main character in that one is more of an observer than taking a huge role in the action. makes for an interesting perspective for the player.

[DarkTirade]

9. Yeah, I've seen the first few minutes of 9.

None of 12 though. Was 12 PS2 or PS3?

[XOEnterprises]

11. PS2.

And badass. Very unlike the others, and in very good ways.

[Danger Mouse]

14. Totally. Even Cid was totally unlike any other CId.

[DarkTirade]

23. So was the Cid in FF8, but that one wasn't that great.

:P

[Danger Mouse]

28. In FF12, Cid is a dick. A major one. That's all I'll say.

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

34. That does sound more interesting.

:P

[Danger Mouse]

37. Oh, if you've played FF5, they put a HUGE bit of fan service in FF12.

Like, the biggest ever.

[DarkTirade]

39. Haven't played it all the way through

and it's been a while.

Heh heh... his name is Butz. :rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

43. If you remember Gilgamesh and liked him...

then yeah, some pretty serious fan service in FF12.
And yeah, Butz?? What were they thinking??
On edit: I hear in FF13 the main character is going to be named Phartz.

[DarkTirade]

48. At least it's not as bad as Soul Calibur...

they have a character named after a femenine hygene product. :P

[Danger Mouse]

49. his chucks serve a DUAL PURPOSE!

[DarkTirade]

61. ... eww.

:P

[Chan790]

2. III!

Unlike 50% of them it was actually released here. Redwings FTW!

You know that VII or X is going to win and you're going to be responsible...how evil.

[Danger Mouse]

3. No, no, you want FF 6, then.

[Chan790]

6. the damned numbers f$%ked me up...

they released it here for the NES as III. Why? Because apparently they thought Americans would go "Hey what happened to III, IV, and V?" I had to look it up. Really, there was a point to them screwing with the numbers?

Yay for VI. I can go vote now.

[Danger Mouse]

8. I would not want X to win. It had its strong points...but it had some major flaws.

This is the biggest one:

[DarkTirade]

16. Yeah, Rikku was the cute one anyway.

:P

[Danger Mouse]

18. Dude, she's like 12!

One thing that SERIOUSLY annoys me about ff games is all the characters look 20 but are about 15, and the 'grizzled veterans' are the ripe old age of 35, or sometimes *gasp* 40!

[DarkTirade]

21. Yeah, that is a little weird.

[Chan790]

19. As if!

It was so totally Kimahri...So brooding, muscled, hairy...and blue. :loveya:

[DarkTirade]

22. Bah, no horn.

What kind of male walks around hornless? :P

[Danger Mouse]

27. Hornless, hornless! Biran and Yenke are so fucking annoying.

They manage to be more irritating than Zorn and Thorn in FF9, which is an accomplishment. But I actually LIKED Zorn and Thorn.

[ZombieHorde]

10. Tactics is by far the best.

[Danger Mouse]

53. I am a terrible terrible nerd - I've never played it.

[mainegreen]

58. That is the correct answer.

I never got the Tactics haters. I've got ePSXe installed just to play tactics.

One of the best tactical style games ever made.

Love it still.

[ZombieHorde]

94. "I never got the Tactics haters."

Some people have a hard time with strategy and open progression. And others just know that they are not good enough people to deserve to play such a game.

[fizzgig]

12. ....

not that i'm really one to talk...i got really aggravated today because i couldn't evolve a pokemon in my pokemon pinball game :rofl:

plus, you've seen my entertainment center

[Danger Mouse]

13. pokemon...pinball? dude, i'm a total pokenerd. you should know that.

:P

[fizzgig]

15. yup...pokemon pinball

my high school bf bought it for my gameboy color about a brazillion years ago. i found my advance not long ago and am rekindling my love affair with this game :P

edit because my everloving z key is not working well x(

[Danger Mouse]

17. which pokemon were you trying to evolve? i have to ask. nerd union rules.

[fizzgig]

20. fuck all if i know....lemme check

it was a nidorian female

good gods...i did not realize how nerdy i was

[Danger Mouse]

24. nidoqueen. psh. nidoking is better.

:hide:
i can never settle on one team. but i love my heracross. something about a giant brawling beetle appeals to me.

[fizzgig]

31. now you're speaking a language i don't even understand

:P

seriously, i just want to get all the pokemon

[Danger Mouse]

36. is heracross in that one?

my favorite, along with gengar


and togekiss

[fizzgig]

40. i have no idea

and i'm too damn lazy to look :P

[Danger Mouse]

42. i'm such a nerd...

:cry:
...i'm pretty sure gengar's in it...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

25. VII, but I stopped around there, anyway.

III was also great.

[DarkTirade]

26. Which 3? Japanese or american?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. It was the SNES one.

American, I guess. :shrug:

http://www.juegomania.org/Final+Fantasy+III/fotos/snes/0/629_c/Caratula+Final+Fantasy+III.jpg

[DarkTirade]

33. Yeah, that one's actually 6.

They just didn't release 2, 3 and 5 here in the states, so 4 was called 2 and 6 was called 3 here in the US.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. The numbers, they burn!

:P

[DarkTirade]

38. Yeah, they gave up by the time they got to 7 and just called it 7 everywhere.

:P

[deucemagnet]

29. I only played VIII and IX.

I liked IX much better. Going to character classes and eliminating the long summoning animations were both good moves. The chocobo side quest gave IX a lot more playability, too.

[Danger Mouse]

30. Loved the chocobo side quest in FFIX...and yeah, i wasn't into the system for FFVII and VIII...

'design your own demigod' which they unfortunately brought back for X.

[PBS Poll-435]

41. Never got into Final Fantasy.....

I prefered the Phantasy Star series.

[DarkTirade]

44. I liked those, but I only got to play 'em at a friends' house now and then.

Didn't have a Sega.

Didn't have an NES or SNES either, but I played 'em on an emulator a few years later. :P

[PBS Poll-435]

45. It was strange...

I bought a Sega Genesis and the game came with it.

It sat on the shelf for about 2 months before I realized I had done all you could do with Sonic the Hedgehog.

Played the game for about 45 mins and then I realized I was hooked!

Classic 80's style music and a compelling story.

[Danger Mouse]

46. I have Phantasy Star II, III, and IV lying around...

just waiting for me to get hooked on at some point.

[PBS Poll-435]

47. OMG....II is the best, for sure.

I think I have beat that game like 15 times since it came out. And I still have my Sega CDX hooked up in the den....

So I may play it again when I have some free time.

[wickerwoman]

50. I'll buck the trend and say VIII

Although I've only played VI-X.

Yes, drawing magic sucked... but it definitely had the best setting and love story. GARDEN is probably my favorite FF place to just run around in and OK... yes... I cried when they were in space in their little suits and reached out... and altogether now...

"If smile is shown then I know you are no dreeeamer..."

Cried like a baby during the final sequence too.

Feel free to send me off to nerd hell forever...

[Danger Mouse]

52. I can respect VIII. The story was really well done and you cared about the characters.

Seifer is an interesting antagonist...not really evil like all of the others, just misguided and stubborn. Also, the storyline with Laguna I found really moving, and there were a lot of moving scenes in the game. It looked great, the music was very good. The gameplay was very weak in places, and there was a lot about it that was lame or pointless, but I think it was a much stronger entry than X.

[AZSlacker]

51. I chose VI

I was such a nerd that I ordered this game from Japan so I could play it like 4 months before it was released in the US. I was on the phone like every day to the Super Nintendo hotline to find out what to do next in the game as I don't speak/read Japanese. Fun Times!

[Evoman]

54. Not even fair.....6 beats the shit out of all the others.

Locke, Celes, Terra......what more do you need.

I think the new ones kinda suck. I hate that all the characters are so...flexible. They can ALL wield magic, and swords, etc. Yeah, one character might be SLIGHTLY better at magic, but I like specialization. It makes sense to me that the mages would be unable to wield a sword as well as a big, heave brute fighter.

In ff6, there is some flexibility, but most characters were usually really good at their specialization.

Flexibilty of characters is good if it's a one player game or has very few characters (computer rpgs), but sort of silly in these games. Plus, I hate dumb leveling up games like "licensing". It makes no sense.

[Danger Mouse]

55. Have you PLAYED FF9? It has the old character class system...

most similar to FF4 in nature.

[DarkTirade]

59. X had a bit of a class system feel to it

but they tried to combine it with the flexibility of the other games and it ended up not quite being as good as either one.

[Danger Mouse]

63. XII has an awesome battle system. No classes or anything...

which is a bit lame, but it's so much fun to play, you won't notice. I especially enjoy the Bestiary the game gives you, with interesting notes and anecdotes about different types of monsters and even bosses and villains.

[CatholicEdHead]

56. FF1 on the NES

[Danger Mouse]

57. Interesting choice. It was my first, and I'll always have a soft spot for it.

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

60. III for the NES was really good too IMO, but since it never made it to the states

only us geeks who have emulators have had a chance to play it.

Not sure if I'd consider it to be better than 1. They were still working out the formula. :)

[Danger Mouse]

64. The most infuriating aspects of FF1 were 'Ineffective' and those

fucking one-hit KO moves. Since resurrecting characters is a huge pain in the ass, losing a character to a one-hit Kill was always a slap in the face.
My favorite? A boss that almost always dies in one hit, but has a whole slew of one-hit KO moves, so if he manages to attack, he can still fuck you over even though he dies so easy.
FF1 was a bit of a dick.

[DarkTirade]

67. Yeah, but it was the first. You can't expect 'em to get it right right off the bat.

:)

*edit* Huh, I just noticed... you left out III in the poll.

[Danger Mouse]

70. It was 'kick your ass' hard. The only one in the series that was as hard was...

FFXII, actually.

[Alexander]

62. 7 was my favorite.

I didn't really get into many of the others. I was always more into Ultima.

[DarkTirade]

65. I tried to get into Ultima, honestly I did.

but other than the first few really old DOS ones, I just couldn't. And I couldn't get that deep into the old DOS ones because he was so busy making an expansive world that he didn't bother to do much with actual plot and dialogue and coherant story.

[Danger Mouse]

73. Re-listening to music from FF7. You're right, it is fantastic...

[elshiva]

66. Elrond Hubbard, thank you. FF II. No. 2 is the BEST.

Just because I said so. But also because at the end the final monster goes "GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ERRRRRRRR GRAMMMMMMMMM!" and vanishes in smoke. YEAH! Also, I like the woman who is a "caller" a special kind of witch who calls monsters to attack on your behalf.

[DarkTirade]

68. Was this for the Super Nintendo? Because that would make it actually #4.

The numbering for the first six got screwed up in the US because they only released 1 (NES), 4 and 6 (SNES). So in the US they got numbered as 1, 2 and 3.

[elshiva]

71. Umm. I dunno. It's the one where the guy gets in a fight

with a bard and hits him over the head and says, "You spoony bard." Mostly I watched my older brother play it, but he sometimes let me fight the monsters.

[DarkTirade]

72. Yeah, that's actually 4.

In fact, I think 2 was the only one that was never even translated into english. I tried to play a rom of it but couldn't read the japanese writing enough to figure out what the (*&% I was s'posed to do. :)

[Danger Mouse]

74. You can get I and II together as rom nowadays.

There's also I and II bundled for the PS1 or the Game Boy Advance, if you have either system.

[DarkTirade]

76. Ah, so they finally got around to it?

Nifty.

[Danger Mouse]

79. Yeah, but FF2 is still really difficult and frustrating.

The difficulty curve is incredible. You'll be in one area kicking ass, and then you move to another area and the monsters are drastically tougher. Bosses will eat you alive if you go in unprepared. One, in particular, the Lamia Queen, is a dick in every way imaginable. The stat system is completely unique in the series, and can be infuriating. And you will learn to hate, hate, hate Hill Gigases.
Have fun. :hi:

[DarkTirade]

89. Yeah, I know the stat system was weird in that one.

And there's a reason they didn't do it like that again. :P

[Danger Mouse]

93. It's interesting, but frustrating.

[elshiva]

75. Ok. Is that the one with the dolls attack and they're

all like "oh the Dolls, the Dolls" That freaked me out.

[Danger Mouse]

77. Calcabrina...many of the villains were named after demons in Dante's inferno.

Scarmiglion (called 'Milon' in the U.S. version), Cagnazzo, Barbariccia, and Rubicante.

[elshiva]

87. Gosh, I'm terrible with names. But I remember getting firebombs.

[Danger Mouse]

69. I got the re-issue of FF4 for the Nintendo DS. It is friggin SWEET.

[RevolutionaryActs]

78. I've only ever played Final Fantasy X, so I can't judge really.

But I just wanted to add that Cloud, Vincent, and Leon are hot. You know, for cartoons. :rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

80. Leon's awesome. Especially in Kingdom Hearts I and II.

Rev...I'm a nerd. :cry:

[RevolutionaryActs]

81. I loved Kingdom Hearts.

I started to play KH2, but I never finished.. hmm I think I know what I'm doing this weekend. ;)



It's ok, I'm a nerd too. :P

[Danger Mouse]

82. You should. KH2 is one of my favorite games ever.

It's fun, it's moving, it's cute, and the music is awesome.

[RevolutionaryActs]

83. I shall.

KH1 is the only game I ever finished. Which is really sad, but yeah. Well, excluding fighting games (Tekken and such), I finish those. I'm good at them too, I always kick my brother's ass. :rofl:


I'll get my nerd on this weekend, play KH2 and go to see the Dark Night which have I haven't seen yet, so no spoilers!!!!!!!

[Danger Mouse]

84. The Joker has sex with Batman near the end...

tearfully proclaiming 'I wish I could quit you.'
Or some nonsense like that.

[RevolutionaryActs]

85. Oooh.

That's hot.

[Danger Mouse]

86. Sigh. I should expect nothing less from the likes of you.

...
:hug: Okay. I missed you.

[RevolutionaryActs]

88. What? Come on.. Christian and Heath.. mmmm.

*eyes glaze over*


Huh? Oh! :hug:

[DarkTirade]

91. ... I'll be in my bunk.

[DarkTirade]

90. What about Sepheroth?

I mean, I know he's the bad guy and all... but he's kinda hot. :P

[RevolutionaryActs]

92. Oh, yeah! Him too.

Definitely.