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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 9136793" data-attributes="member: 57112">Time for the totally necessary every time there's a thread about Final Fantasy Final Fantasy Rankings.Not Played:Final Fantasy XINever tried it, can't knock it.Final Fantasy XVII'll get there eventually. Gotta at least get through BG3 first.14 - Final Fantasy XVThis game makes me so angry. It could have been good. Driving around to classic FF tunes? Incredible! The battle system? Kind of shallow, magic is useless, items are cheat buttons. Everything else? Trash. Not the designers' fault necessarily; they took Nomura's passion project away from him to turn it into incomplete slop you have to buy the DLC to understand the story for. Don't worry Nomura, Final Fantasy Versus XIII lives on... in Kingdom Hearts... which makes as much sense as anything else in Kingdom Hearts, I guess.13 - Final Fantasy IIII'm sure if I had gotten to play this as a kid I would've been blown away. As it is, it's just kind of bland, and the scenario design really doesn't mesh as well with the potential of the job system (an example boss: make your party all Dragoons or die).12 - Final Fantasy VIIII don't even think the plot or the cast are even that bad. There's cool moments and neat characters there. It's just terrible to play. On every level. They tried something neat with the systems but it needed to trim about... half of them.11 - Final Fantasy IThe first, basically D&D the video game, and a pretty solid little game for the NES. Doesn't really hold up much anymore, but it's fine for the novelty of it.10 - Final Fantasy IVI get why people love this, I do. It's just that... it's not as good as any of the upcoming games. That and it's pretty much the only game in the franchise that fully does away with the customizability in battle system and party that the series is more or less known for from here on out.9 - Final Fantasy III get why people hate this, I do. It's just that... the remakes all fix the balance issues, it's an incredibly fun system, and the story and cast are, for the NES, absolutely astounding.8 - Final Fantasy XIIIThis one gets a bad rap. Yeah, it's super linear until the end. But I never really found that a flaw. The battle system, once I finally grokked it, is a hell of a lot of fun and can be incredibly intense. The story is, once I finally grokked it, pretty good, and the cast is actually mostly pretty great. If I were ranking sequels & spinoffs, XIII-2 would get even higher marks. Never played XIII-3 though. Timing mechanics are not my cup of tea.7- Final Fantasy XIIThe Zodiac Job System version earns this rank, otherwise it'd be quite a bit lower. I'm still not a fan of the "it basically plays itself" combat (FFXIII handles it much better, IMO), but I like the character builds you can make. The plot and cast pretty solid, mostly. Probably one of the best localizations of a FF game, period. Fun fact; my daughter caught me playing this game on my Switch during all the final airship battle cutscenes and asked if I was playing a Star Wars game. Me: "...Yeah, kinda."6- Final Fantasy VIConsidering all of the ways the game is essentially broken (the programming is held together by chewing gum and good intentions) it's kind of a miracle that it all still works so well. I have my quibbles with it, especially in the game's second half when they more or less abandoned all pretense of character interaction in the name of non-linear exploration (not and equal trade, in my estimation) but it's still fun as hell.5- Final Fantasy IXBeloved by many. This would be higher ranked if it for one problem and one problem alone: the battle system is too damn slow. Okay, two problems: the absurd steal rates mess with my broken completionist brain. Okay, three problems: the umpteen secrets meant to push traffic to their online traffic also messed with my broken brain. But Vivi!4- Final Fantasy XIVI'm not very far along in it, but I have a feeling I'm going to end up loving this. I can see the bits where the better storytelling is peaking through in A Realm Reborn that's going to pop in once I hit the expansions. It's definitely the funnest MMORPG I've ever played.3- Final Fantasy VIIThe Remake would top this list, and Rebirth is looking likely to top that, but the original game is still incredibly excellent, and hard to top.2- Final Fantasy VDoes it have the best story? No. Does it have the best cast? Also no (but it's closer!). But is it the best made game on this list? Yes, absolutely. The job system and the scenario design are top notch. I've probably played this game dozens of times, and I'm sure I'll keep coming back year after year.1- Final Fantasy XThe best story, the best battle system, the... the cast, FFX remains and will likely always remain my favorite. Yuna is definitely my favorite Final Fantasy Protagonist (SHUT UP TIDUS for the last time IT ISNT YOUR STORY). The worldbuilding is absolutely phenomenal.</blockquote>

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