*Man I'm so evil...*

As you can see, this poll limits you on your choices of your favorite Final Fantasy game. I've done this because these games have been overshadowed by other games (Final Fantasy 4, 6, 7-X). This will really determine the "REAL" best Final Fantasy game because we'll see if any one of these can win under the condition of being less known or less liked by the general public. Unlike 4, 6, 7-X which tend to get high votes anyways.

OH and in case you want to know more about these games (this is being directed to the fans of FF7-X here), I'll briefly go through these games.

Final Fantasy 2: This game is the very first FF game to really have any sort of plot. You, along with 3 others, escape from your home town which was being attacked. Because of this, you and your group get attacked and injured. When you awaken, you find that only 2 of your original group is with you. You want to help support the empire and revenge your home town... but where is the last member? This game is rather unique in how you level up your stats as the game does not go by experience points. Instead, depending on how often you attack, get hit, etc will determine your stats. An example would be that as you keep using Swords, you are able to strike multiple times with a sword.

Final Fantasy 3: This, unfortunately, was never released out in the US. However, you can pick this game up on an emulator and play it. The default rank for FFS is "Onion Kid," this rank originated from Final Fantasy 3. In this game, 4 kids end up saving the world with the power of the crystals. This game introduced the famous Job system that is present in FF5, FFT, and FFX-2.

Final Fantasy 5: Originally going to be released in the US as "Final Fantasy Extreme" for it's difficuilty, this game introduced another system, the Ability System. For the first time in an FF game, you are able to use the ability of a different class. Monks can cast white magic, White Mages can blow enemies with Fire and so on. As for the plot, it is rather low on story. Gameplay, however, makes up for it and becomes a really long adventure that will keep you hooked, even though it's not quite clear why you're doing what you're doing... maybe it's because the hero has the hots for the girl!

Final Fantasy X-2: A sequel to Final Fantasy X. Having a completely different system from Final Fantasy X, this breaths new life into Final Fantasy as it is more of a lighter side of Final Fantasy. Many will look down on the fact that the game is really pushing things into the corny side but if you look beyond that, you'll find a solid game with a great story that fills in many questions that were left open from Final Fantasy X. Highly recommended if you have played FFX and want to get to the bottom of what happens in the end.

Final Fantasy Tactics: A very unique Final Fantasy title that is about tactical strategy battles instead of normal turn-based or ATB battles. The story of this game is SO well done that you'll be enjoying this game of the story. The gameplay is also memorable as you raise an army of soldiers to discover the truth of an old story. You will find that Cloud and Aeris make an appearance in this game and you can recruit Cloud to your team as well! The deep structure of the story will keep any Final Fantasy Story Fan hooked and with so many things to customise, it is clearly a sidegame that is worth to be titled "Final Fantasy."

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Being the little brother version of Final Fantasy Tactics, this game is more in tone for those who like a little lighter on gameplay but like to maintain the many vast things that make tactics a great game. This is a very different tone from Final Fantasy Tactics as it is more aimed for the younger audience. However, even with the aim for the younger group, anyone can enjoy the game and it's many features. The new Law System is introduced, restricting you from doing certain things, but on the flipside, the opponent will also be restricted. A great game for the GBA and highly recommended for those who enjoy tactical games on the go.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: This game focuses a lot of teamwork and gameplay over storyline. While there is a plot, there is no character development because you create your own character. While this is not of the same calibur of a Final Fantasy game, you will enjoy this game with a group of friends. The downside of it all is that each player much have their own Gameboy Advance system. A lot of people do not have problems with this but those people who find it hard to find friends that can afford one can be at a lost. Recommended if you have friends with GBAs, it's also for good single player as well.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest: Otherwise known as "Final Fantasy USA." This Final Fantasy game is really supposed to be released before Final Fantasy 4 (u2) came out. Unfortunately, this game is extremely easy but features some good fun moments. Very different from other Final Fantasies and with a simple plot and very easy enemies, this is really just a few hours run through. The Final Boss of this game can be defeated by throwing a potion at him... interesting ne?

I choose FF5 cause it has an awesome storyline, good music and it's a challenge.

FF5 gets my vote here. I really loved this game, and got into it before FF4, though I ended up preferring FF4, this game is really good though. I loved its storyline and the characters, and the battle system was pretty good.

Yeah this gets my vote.

i only just got X-2 and by what ive seen it looks pretty cool, so that takes my vote.

ffx2 gets my vote ive had it since it first came out, ive completed it and im still playong it. although ffx2 gets my vote ffx anf ff7 are the best ff games. i dont know what ff11 is like because i dont have braodband to play it on. final fantasy 7 is my all time fav game ive had it for ages and have completed it about 15 times with every thing complet and im still not bored with it

I choose FF5 over FFX-2 because it's a better stand-alone. FFX-2 is only really cool when you've already played the prequel, so there.
And I love FF5... :)

Seeing as I've only played X-2 and V, and everyone knows my feelings about V. (Storyline? Uhhhh, where???) I'm gonna choose X-2. The characters had some depth, unlike those in V, and the battle system was actually pretty controllable, and enjoyable.

I really, really must try and get back into V, even if it's been a year since I've touched it. *Shudders*

FF5 owns, because of the great music and it was one of the best battle systems and it also introduced the job system, which revolutionised FF and it's later titles. Also it was the toughest and most challenging FF's to date and thats my reason.

Heh, this isn't fair. I've played all of them except Crystal Chronicles and no matter what you have said, FFVI is my favorite :p

Plus, Tactics, Tactics Advance, Crystal Chronicles and Mystic Quest aren just spin-offs of the series. They're not part of the series itself.

However, among those, X-2 gets my vote, 5 being second. Tactics is second if you consider the spin-offs.

5.

Surely X-2 is a spin-off as well?

I almost be FFV, but my bro deleted the emulator when I was at the last place to fight the boss.( I said place so i have no spoilers). It was a very good game, and one of the first ones I played, besides FFT. I found this a hard choice, but since i nearly beat FFV, i chose it.

I'm sure that i've I played FFT it would be my favourite... but since I haven't played it, i'll have to go with FF Tactics Advance. It's the one i've enjoyed most out of those listed.

I wish Square-Enix Europe would release Tactics over here :(

FFX-2 wasn't deep enough for my likin' so my vote goes to V (woulda gone that way regardless:p)

id have 2 say FFX-2

FF Tactics gets my vote. It's my second favorite FF of all time and my favorite isn't on this list. This game is so incredibly addicting it's not even funny. I must have spent at least 200 hours playing this game over the years. The amount of customization is amazing, the story is great, the graphics are good for it's time, and the music is outstanding. Everyone who has the chance to play this game should, you won't be dissapointed.

Originally posted by Durendal
FF Tactics gets my vote. It's my second favorite FF of all time and my favorite isn't on this list. This game is so incredibly addicting it's not even funny. I must have spent at least 200 hours playing this game over the years. The amount of customization is amazing, the story is great, the graphics are good for it's time, and the music is outstanding. Everyone who has the chance to play this game should, you won't be dissapointed.

Does that game even exist in English and for sale in England/America, thought it was one of those Japenease games that never made it to Europe or America.

I don't know about england but it was published in america for about two years. Then they stopped production for 3 or 4 years, after that it was re-released as a playstation greatest hit. I lost my copy, it took me a year to find another so I bought it for nearly 60 dollars and 3 months later my friend tells me he just got it for 20, I was pissed about that.

Squaresoft released it in America, but Square Europe never localised it - so FF Tactics joined the crowd with Xenogears, Legend of Mana and Chrono Cross of brilliant PS1 games i'll never see ;_;

...until I get a PSX (the dvd recorder thing, not the PS1), and mod my current PS2, that is.

Damn! No chance of finding one around here then. For cheap anyway.

My vote goes to Final Fantasy Tactics. I'm a fan of strategy RPG's, and this is my second fav (My first being Vandal Hearts, which was released in 1996, a year prior to the Japanese release of FFT.).

I'm just curious, how much effort would they really have to put into a game to localize it for england from the american version? Both countrys use the same language, it just seems silly to me. The only thing I can think of is that the machines in england run on a different frequency than those in america, but it shouldn't be that hard to adjust for that.

Originally posted by Durendal
I'm just curious, how much effort would they really have to put into a game to localize it for england from the american version? Both countrys use the same language, it just seems silly to me. The only thing I can think of is that the machines in england run on a different frequency than those in america, but it shouldn't be that hard to adjust for that.

It might have something to do with marketing it around here, it might cost to much money and not bring back enough profit. But it is a damn shame they didn't bring that game out in Europe. WAIT i know why it is because if they were to bring it out in England they would also have to bring it out for the rest of Europe wich means changing languages and so on.

I went with ffta because thats what Im currently playing on gbasp and it rocks! But I also think mystic quest was the shiz!

And single player ffcc is lame business! way lame business!:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Durendal
I'm just curious, how much effort would they really have to put into a game to localize it for england from the american version? Both countrys use the same language, it just seems silly to me. The only thing I can think of is that the machines in england run on a different frequency than those in america, but it shouldn't be that hard to adjust for that.

Well, the coding has to be slightly rewritten - Europe uses a PAL standard, while America uses an NTSC standard. Japan uses NTSC as well, but different to the American one - weird, eh?

That said, the amount of coding changes is miniscule. The hard part comes when you consider 'Square Europe' includes ALL of Europe - which means games have to be localised for Germany, Italy, France - and translations have to be done for all of the them. It's a long process.

Tactics!

Followed by V.

MogKnight, you are officially my hero for being bold enough to count Mystic Quest as a game.

However, I wish you had included Final Fantasy Legends I, II, and III (GB games). I believe it was III that, despite the rest of it being crappy, had a really cool system where you could change your characters from:
Monster <-> Best <-> Human <-> Cyborg <-> Robot

which was a cool version of the job system

Well, I was sticking with official FF games and not FF games that were renamed. Legends and Adventure were based on Saga and Seiken Densetsu.

i dunno about, most of dese cause i neva played em.. so am gonna go with FFCC, if it were online, it would be the bst game eva

I will vote for FF5. FFX-2 didn't really amaze me that much :(

well, from these limited choices I choose FF X-2 because...errr...dunno why but this game ain't that bad, pretty fun :D

well, from these limited choices


yer it is limited.. my favorates aint even on ere

i like x-2 cause of the hot chicks :)

Haha! X-2 is winning this one by a mile!
Hah...your all a bunch of morons.
Taking out VI and VII, tactics is the best, but no matter what games you take out of the poll, X-2 should always be a firm last.

FFT Advanced, i like the corrupt judges missions and i like the law system altough sometimes bugs me

FF5, though why such a limited poll laff

Of all of them, I still prefer FF2.

I liked the leveling system it was very different to the rest of the series, the characters wern't too bad either

Why is X-2 on the list? Its not even close to the best FF.

FF5, I loved Galuf....

ffX-2 cause its cool but ff5 is cool tooo

Final Fantasy 5, for me. Galuf = Old Man - whey.

Anywho, yeah I don't understand why everyone loves FFX-2. Most aspects of the game are exceedingly corny or irritating.

Final Fantasy 5, for me. Galuf = Old Man - whey.

Anywho, yeah I don't understand why everyone loves FFX-2. Most aspects of the game are exceedingly corny or irritating.

What anooys the most are thos scene when the girls are all excited about they're new missions and they do the "hi 5" and other "GROUPIES" salutations jow i miss old "kowaabanga"( teenage mutant ninja turtles)

I'd say Final fantasy 5... Ex-death is too cool.

FF Tactics. That's the only one on the list I have. I don't have enough life time to play the rest..

Final Fantasy V for me, I had so much fun with that game, and I think I never did so much training as in FF V lol

ff x-2 will probably be 1st coz is the most known...

Yeah, buit it doesn't make it the best, by any means :(

How could you put FFX-2 in that poll and NOT put in FFVIII?! Ah well, out of the ones given Id say FFV

This is hard because it's the less known ff that are in the poll, that's what makes it cool

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Final Fantasy V/Tactics are the best two on there, but why did you leave out VI?

The only one thats gettin my vote is X-2, because ive never played all the others except CC and 3. 3 is alright i just couldnt get into it, but Crystal Cronicles sucks balls I hate that game! I bought it when it came out and was so mad i through it across the room and broke instead of taking it back.

:notgood:

Whoever votd for CC is stupid!

Nice double-post, Nathan...anyhow. I didn't even play X-2, b/c I hated the ending to X so much. I've also heard enough unflattering things about it, that I never bothered to even try to play it. But in that list, I'd say 5, and then Tactics. I've aired my opinions about VI and IX being the best already...so yeah.

i like final fantasy 5 and 3 the best. especially 5 since it is a pretty long and fun game. fianl fantasy 3 is too short though only takes 15-20 hours and its done.

Final Fantasy II. mainly because it was a completly original idea of leveling for the game and was pretty cool. Plus the game was good as well.

I think 5 was pretty cool I enjoyed the characyers

I chose fftactics because is one of the first games i play along with ff7 so i have really good memories of this game. bacym..

I would choose 6 but it's not there.

its hard to decide out of 7 9 and 10

do you see any of them on the poll, my friend?

*laughs at X-2's almost 50% vote ratio*

FF Tactics hands down. The gameplay and story line are very addictive and I still have not had the same ending twice. (450 hrs later)

Over at GameFAQs, there were loads of people praising FF Tactics to be the best in the series! But unfortunately, I haven't played it much yet. I'm pretty sure FF Tactics will be in my top 3 FF games after I do play it but for now, FFV is my favourite from that list.

Thou hast attracted the fanboys (or girls). I say you should have included ALL of the FF. But, back on subject, I say it would be between FFII and FFX-2.