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Final Fantasy IX tops the list for me, followed closely behind with Final Fantasy XII. Its a tie between FF X and X-2 (I love the story of X, but love the battle system of X-2 more! Oh decisions!) Then FF VI followed by VII and VIII
When i think about it its a tie between VII and IX. VIII is a love/hate for me and i haven't found any ~VI games for console. (Emulation doesn't have the same feel) Along side VII and IX would be XI, just because of the vast amount of time i've put into that game.
VI and XI.

Where XI is concerned, a finer MMO has not yet been crafted. Right around the time Abyssea hit, they had figured out how to make the game work.
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VI and XI.

Where XI is concerned, a finer MMO has not yet been crafted. Right around the time Abyssea hit, they had figured out how to make the game work.


FFXI was incredible, I agree!

My personal favorite is FFXIII-2 though! They took everything great about 13 and made it better!
Another "What FF do you like?" thread.

I love FF6. I admit whole heartedly that nostalgia has a fair bit to do with it. I play this game through on almost a yearly basis. I think that the pixel art is unmatched in the SNES era. I feel that they did an excellent job of making a game with a huge cast of characters interesting. Even though the combat was very basic, I never found fights to be a chore or something I didn't want to do. Perhaps it was the battle music, backgrounds, and character animations that kept it interesting but it's very rare for combat not to feel like a chore in an RPG.

I also loved FF9, for some of the same reasons and some different ones. Although I really didn't like the weapon AP system (nothing makes me more annoyed then having to be stuck with a low quality weapon just to learn a skill.) I found the game to be fun and the battles to be sufficiently interesting.

I really, really loved FF12 and feel that it is easily the best 3D Final Fantasy. Combat flowed perfectly, hunts were a great distraction, challenges were all appropriate. Aside from Penelo and Vaan I liked the characters. Excellent game. It's a shame they put it out on the PS2 though. The PS2 was already near the end of its cycle, even though that hasn't stopped it from selling like crazy. I feel as though it would have made an amazing launch title for the PS3.
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My personal favorite is FFXIII-2 though! They took everything great about 13 and made it better!
That's probably the stupidest take on the series I've ever heard.. But hey, your opinion. I absolutely hate with a passion XIII and can't even imagine trying it's sequel.

Anyway, to answer the topic.. Probably VII.IX & VI very close though.

FF2, FF3, FF4, FF6, FF7 and FF9 are my favourites so far I only play FF3 which I downloaded off the appstore for my iPad :)
FF8 - FF7 - Tactics - FF6 - FF10 - FFIX - FFXII - FFV

Final Fantasy 7 was the game that got me into console rpgs and the whole Playstation era. I remember using my first paycheck to buy the system and the game, and not being able to afford a memory card for a week (and the hilarity that ensued from not being able to save, although I did get pretty damn good at the game up to the Midgar Zolem part...). I've played it three and a third times through, not counting the innumerable early restarts.

But I always liked FF8 a little bit more. It might just be that I was in highschool and found the initial cast very easy to identify with, or it could be that I had time to build up anticipation for the game due to following press coverage. You could say FF7 hooked me, but FF8 was that firm tug that actually SET the hook. The only "problem" was that it was so easy to abuse the mechanics. I didn't get a character killed until some time on the third disc. It was also one of the first games that gave me guru status with my gamer friends. They'd get stuck on something, and call and I'd walk them through it - or I'd show off how easy boss murder was when you kept Squall, Zell, and Irvine in critical health and rolled through Limit Breaks every turn.

Tactics gave an entirely different experience, but still ended up being a favorite. I had all these weird superstitions pop up, because I was almost always under leveled, and had my victories rely on skill and luck in equal measure. There was one fight I could only win with my foot in the box for a twelve pack of sunkist.

FF6 is a 16bit classic, so it pretty much speaks for itself. It was the first FF I dove into after beating 7. I recalled articles about it in game magazines, and how a friend raved about it and decided to dive in.

Final Fantasy 10 was fun, and the whole Tidus / Yuna / Seymour triangle happened to strike a chord with me due personal issues at the time. It was nice to vicariously bust up your sorta/but not quite girlfriend's arranged marriage.

Final Fantasy IX had some good parts, but the character design and naming of certain elements just put me off. Adelbert Steiner? I get his pomposity and the whole supreme fealty thing was part of the joke, but he just looked ridiculous and I never really used him in combat that much. I couldn't really identify with monkey boy Zidane either. It had some fun game play, but I guess I was too spoiled by the "modern" approach of 7 and 8 to really appreciate the comical fantasy schtick at the time.

Final Fantasy XII started strong with me. I enjoyed the change up in setting, and while the costume department seemed to think it was appropriate to make everyone's outfits out of less fabric than you find in a pair of paper towels, seeing my equipped weapons and shields when I walked around was cool. I got used to the semi-mmorpg feel, but never quite liked it. Then my estimation of the game plummeted when it turned into "climb this boring tower forever." That was where I stopped playing (of course, Xenosaga 3 had some say in the matter).

Tried 4 and 5, but was too spoiled by the next gen iterations to get into them. Never tried the online ones, and have yet to wade into XIII.
My personal favorite would definitely have to be Final Fantasy 6. To this day, I still consider it one of the best games I have ever played: The music was incredible, the characters and their backstories were fantastic, the storyline was brilliantly executed... The only true flaws I saw about Final Fantasy 6 was the lack of directions when you reached the World of Ruin, and the training you would have to do afterwards to face Kefka.

But of course, this training hardly holds a candle to the grinding you've had to do in Final Fantasy 2. Now that is a game I simply could not enjoy; not even in the revamped version.

Truth be told though, Final Fantasy 8 actually was the first game in the series that I've played, as well as the one I disliked the most for a very long time. But as I grew older, I learned to appreciate it more, even though I still think that grinding materials for better weapons was a stupid concept. It's a shame that my copy of the game no longer works, though...
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