LEAST favorite FFs?

[Hantz]

RSI have seen threads asking about people's favorite FF, but I don't think I've seen one asking about least favorite FFs. Make sure to tell why you didn't like it as well.

I did a search and couldn't find one, so oh well. If it does exist, I throw up my hands. May the mods have mercy on my soul.

As for my least favorites, FF2(not FF4 for SNES; loved that one) has to top that list. The leveling system drove me cuckoo. I mean, you have to level each stat individually. I ended up beating on my own players just to get their HP low enough to prompt a Max HP level. Lame.

FF7-8 are a tie for me after that.

8 was a little worse I think. The monsters leveled up with you. You really didn't need to go further than the first little area to level up to max. And you could just stay in a fight and draw magic indefinitely. I never used magic. Just drew a stack of 99, and put it on a stat. Lame-o.

7 didn't play terribly, but I just couldn't get into the characters, setting, story, anything. To me, Cloud is the most plain vanilla hero-type you could get. And Sephiroth didn't do a lot for me either. He didn't seem bad or cool or anything at all really.

I've heard people say 9 was crap, but I'm not sure why. It was one of my favorites. Anyway, your turn.

[Ellipses]

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I didn't really like 5 or 8. I like the job system present in 2, 5, Tactics, etc., but 5 just didn't do enough to draw me in, I guess. I think I couldn't supress the urge to try and level everything, but I knew the game would take forever that way, so it became this complete rock-and-a-hard-place situation I couldn't get past. Not really the game's fault.

8 was just... meh. I couldn't bring myself to care about the characters at all, and I honestly think it had a piss-poor story compared to the rest. Maybe the story got really good after the part where I stopped playing and made up for all that horrible exposition and stilted character development. But I'm not going to wade through all that on faith alone.

[Murphie]

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I really didn't like 7. Like, at all. I wanted to like it, because, you know - Final Fantasy. But no.

[Balfree]

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Cant say i enjoyed FF8 as much as all the others.. same as you: leveled battles and infinitely draw magic, yea.. lv1 flies had infinite thunders... <.<; you became overpowered real quick, but thats a choice... try beating the game without drawing more than once on each enemy, and without purposdly running around trying to get into battles either. Its much more enjoyable.

About FF7 though, your opinion is as valuable as any other, but i disagree with your statement about cloud... years ago there wasnt much to cliché with, nowadays it may seem like its an overused stereotype but back then it wasnt like that

[Raydeus]

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For me IX was the FF I liked the least, and curiously VIII has been the game I've liked the most, although there hasn't been a FF I didn't like or that I thought "what a waste of time" so far.

I'm ready for the next one.

[Taskmage]

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I really hated 8. Really overly complicated, boring, and ultimately abusable junction/magic system, disjointed, nonsensical story, flat characters with no backstory (oh wait they have one but they all forgot it), and an end boss you don't even hear about until the end of the game and are given no real tangible reason to defeat. You just have to stop her from achieving Time Compression, even though nobody can adequately tell you what that is, why she would want to do it, or why exactly it's bad. It'd destroy the world or something. Probably. They're not really sure.

Only saving graces the game has are Laguna and Triple Triad, which are both stupid, yet somehow vaguely charming and enjoyable.

[Murphie]

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I kind of liked the Junction System. But I totally agree re: Ultimecia. Also, she was a pushover (then again, most FF endgame bosses are). It was just a loooong fight. Followed by a loooong cutscene. Not that I minded the cutscene, but I'm just saying.

[Mhurron]

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I never really got into 4.

8 was a little worse I think. The monsters leveled up with you. You really didn't need to go further than the first little area to level up to max

They did the same in Tactics. Just because you could fight something outside of the Garden you started in at lvl99 did not mean that you could level at a decent rate, since they still gave low exp. You also would have only had access to a very small subset of the magic available. If you really wanted to hit 99 in this lifetime, there were really only 2 places to go to. Where you started wasn't one of them.

The monsters leveling with you meant that you actually didn't have to stop to level to anything if you didn't want to. Every mob and boss would have been just as hard at lvl1 as lvl99 the only difference would have been the tools you acquired along the way. If all you were interested in was finishing, you never had to stop to get Bahamut or Eden, you didn't have to stop to get 99 Flares or Ultimas, you just played.

I enjoyed playing 8, though I disliked having a limited number of magic as opposed to MP, but I suppose that it was required to make the Junctioning system work.

[Telera]

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6 and 9.

6: Just as ridiculously overrated as 7, but with even more vanilla-plain story and dialogue that made me just roll my eyes. The only saving graces were Celes (was that even her name?) Leo, and the Ninja, whose name I have also forgotten. Maybe the game should've been about their story other than Terra, who made a very bad typical damsel in distress/amnesiac straight from a Mary Sue fanfic. And I know alot of the old schoolers will roast me alive for that opinion, but believe me, I'm well used to it by now. And I stick to it.

I liked every other 'old' FF, though. Liked them better than alot of the 'new' ones. This was the only one that put me off so badly. FF4 is fun. ^_^

9: I love Vivi. I loved the atmosphere, but something about it didn't grab me as well as some of the others. I don't know if it was something in the story, or something in the rest of the cast that was missing. It's something I can't quite put my finger on that made me just not really play it again past my initial time through.


The thing I didn't get about Ultimecia... wouldn't killing her then achieve nothing? Unless you killed her grandmother who was likely a mere child at the time of Squall and Co. she'd simply come back anyway. You'd have to uproot her from the base, instead of killing her future self. If you haven't eliminated her ancestors, you haven't eliminated her. So they achieved nothing.

[Mhurron]

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The thing I didn't get about Ultimecia... wouldn't killing her then achieve nothing? Unless you killed her grandmother who was likely a mere child at the time of Squall and Co. she'd simply come back anyway. You'd have to uproot her from the base, instead of killing her future self. If you haven't eliminated her ancestors, you haven't eliminated her. So they achieved nothing.

Yes there seemed to be a little bit of a time paradox there yet not because of how they described it.

Ultimecia wasn't bad because she was a Sorceress, which she would have got by being passed down through generations, she was bad because she was projecting herself back onto the previous Sorceresses. She was the problem, not the simple fact that she was a Sorceress.

[Skoal]

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9. It seemed like they tried to go back to the old FF look with short characters. They ended up looking like somebody sat on them. I can remember alot of things about the FF games but I can only remember a few things about 9. Everyone was mean to Vivi and the Dyne(?) system sucked.

[durecellrabbit]

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Out of the FF games, that I've played, other than FFXI, FFTA and FF:CC which I like for the gameplay and/or multiplayer, none stand out more or less than the others. They all seem too similar to each other and none really compel me to finish them. I thought I like FF7/8 less than the others but I've just realise I'd never got further in any other FF games and it's probably cause I don't own them. Having said that I just finished the GBA remake of FFIV, which I enjoyed. I got it with M&L: PiT, which has such a bad story, it made FFIV's story seem amazing.

[Neomage]

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I hated FFTA and FF:CC. Both had rather redarded storylines, and the laws in FFTA drove me cockoo.

[Taskmage]

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I didn't like tactics advance either. It doesn't hold a candle to its predecessor. I enjoyed Crystal Chronicles, what little I got to play of it. Once you get the timing down, spamming -ga spells with a partner is very satisfying. ^^

[durecellrabbit]

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I hated FFTA and FF:CC. Both had rather redarded storylines, and the laws in FFTA drove me cockoo.

I don't really play games for a story though, although a bad story does ruin a game IMO. FFTA I like the battles and laws and law cards made the game more intresting. FF:CC, I like because it's a good long term multiplayer game.