Worst Final Fantasy Game?

[xxglo]

I am going to have to give my vote to XII. Although I have given it chance and chance again, I found I just don't like it all the much. In trying not to compare it with the others in the series.... as a whole I still don't like it.

I generally care a lot about the story, characters and music in the games. Because although a good battle/level system can make things fun, I feel it's the emotion that really drives things forward for me, and I felt this game lacked it in all three departments.

Story/Characters: Although Ashe had a strong story, the others didn't. I found most of them were there just cause there was something in it for them, or because they were bored and wanted something to do. Thus I felt that there were little in ways of emotional ties to each other. They just kind of did there own thing... while going in the same direction to satisfy there own personal agendas.

Music: I just don't like it.... I miss Nobuo.... to me this felt worse then your average game music, there really was no urgency in the fights, no despair in the tragedy. It could be the most dire of moments and you'd be skipping through the meadow to a cheery upbeat tempo. A big bad boss would show up and no shudder would run down your spine when the music changed.... if it even changed.... I dunno... just didn't get any real emotion from it.

 

[Disaresta]

I'd say final fantasy 2, quite easily the worst leveling system and a plot that was grasping at straws though out. That being said it was one of the founding games and has reason to be flawed.

Aside from it I'd say x-2 and 13 are far and away the worst entries in the series. Which isn't really a bad thing when you consider the fact that they are still fairly enjoyable.

 

[ohmybasch]

I've only played from 7 and beyond, so I don't know about the previous ones before that. I think they're all enjoyable but I first struggled with XIII, it's a game that takes a very long time to become enjoyable.

I really hated the maps, well, they weren't really "maps", more like straight lines, and characters tend to whine a lot through out the game. I think what bored me in the beginning of the game is in fact the characters. Lightning was the only one I liked, the rest where just kinda asking for sympathy, even though something terrible had indeed happen to them, like what happened to Hope's mom, I didn't really feel anything because I hadn't known the character well enough.

I really like the paradigms or whatever they're called but it took me a long while to get into the "auto battle thing" since it just feels like your punching the x button all the time, though it's just like Gambits in FFXII more or less, I still like FFXII way better.

I also didn't like the fact that you have to wait till the crystlarium or whatever expands, I thought that kinda suck and also how there's monsters with ridiculously long health bars (kinda like fighting a mini-Yiazmat), that was also annoying though I love the staggering system.

Really in the end, I love them all and they're not meant to be compared with each other really, because they're all different stories, BUT FFXIII is probably the least enjoyable to me. Though it is one of my faves, again, it takes half the game to finally start enjoying it and that's what kills it and gets you so unmotivated to finish the rest.

 

[Amabdaan]

VIII for me, (havent played X-2), the characthers and storyline was nothing special to me, not bad just bleh...so were the graphics btw. The thing that makes this the worst game for me, has to be the card playing part...I really dont know why, but I would rather chase butterflies in FFX than playing those cards games.

 

[Lystan]

X-2 and XII are equally as bad for me. XII didn't even feel like a FF game, as well as X-2 just being plain ridiculous. I feel they are needing to get back to their roots and make games like the great stretch of VII, VIII, IX and X.

 

[Benrir]

i can rightfully say ff13, yes an ff fan cliche but it hardly suits as the best. my reasons are already pasted all over this site. The originals suited their time best and had a good measure of exploring and more playability. 13 is just.....poo in polite terms.

 

[AJP82]

I cannot vote for Final Fantasy X-2. If I vote for it, that will only lend it legitimacy as part of the FF canon. I cannot put that on my conscience.

With that out of the way, I'd say that of the FF games I've actually played, the one I'd rank lowest is probably FFXII. It's still outstanding visually and aurally, but V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X all have something that makes them stand out as much more memorable. V had great gameplay, VI is the greatest all-around game ever released, VII revolutionized gaming itself and had great character development, VIII has the most memorable story and great music composition, IX had a balance of all these factors (if not as good as the others in each specialty), and FFX was emotionally moving. As I consider graphics the least important part of any given game and sound quality less important than actual music composition, I can't honestly say that I found anything in XII to put it on the level of the others. It's still a fine game though. It'd be at least middle to top tier IMO of most other series, but in FF it's hard for anything ever released to top the SNES to PS1 releases.

 

[Sheechiibii]

XIII certainly. To me it's not even a FF at all. At least X-2 still felt like a Final Fantasy game, this was just terrible.

Xx..xX

 

[AerithG]

XII. It's horrible. The pathetic excuse for a storyline, the paper characters, the world of Ivalice, the battle system...You name it, I hate it.

I think the only thing good from that game was "Kiss Me Goodbye"-Angela Aki, which the game isn't even worthy to call its final song.

Many people hated XIII, but it actually was a breath of fresh air from the disaster that was FFXII. I really don't understand why people praise XII so much...

 

[Richard B Riddick]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Final Fantasy 8 is the worst in the series.

• In the intro, Seifer slashes Squall in the face. A ton of blood fills the air. Camera pans back to reveal a tiny 1 inch paper cut on Squall's forehead. It was like watching a parody... of FF.
• Squall's special ability is slashing someone then shooting them with a gun. Its a 'gun-blade'. Seems a bit redundant. Like ppl who made star wars rp characters wielding "16 bladed lightsabers" because if darth maul having 2 bladed, 16 must be 100000x better! Sounds parody-ish.
• The main revelation is that everyone in Squall's party lived in the same orphanage. As backstories go, that one was a bit 'meh'. Justin Bieber has a better & more entertaining backstory than that. Oh, burn.
• Laguna Loire doesn't get the girl. He winds up being a 30-40 year old virgin or something. Ack!!
• Rinoa isn't very independent. She gets stranded and is a stereotypical damsel in distress saying: "if you come here, you'll find me(so save me, dammit!)". Well, that's not necessarily a good role model for women. A woman of 2000 AD+ should probably have freed herself, beat up the bad guys and made sammiches for the entire team! Relying on men for things = perhaps becoming an outdated concept.

Etcetera, etcetera. Et all.

Don't get me wrong, I liked FF8 and a lot of things about it. I just thought it was the weakest title in the series.

Then again, I still haven't beaten FFX much less games that came after it, & can't comment on those.

 

[Sheechiibii]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Final Fantasy 8 is the worst in the series.

• In the intro, Seifer slashes Squall in the face. A ton of blood fills the air. Camera pans back to reveal a tiny 1 inch paper cut on Squall's forehead. It was like watching a parody... of FF.

The cut on his face isn't exactly small though...it stretches from the middle of his forehead, over his nose and stops at his cheek. There was lots of blood on Squall's face at the time too which made it seem even bigger.

• Squall's special ability is slashing someone then shooting them with a gun. Its a 'gun-blade'. Seems a bit redundant. Like ppl who made star wars rp characters wielding "16 bladed lightsabers" because if darth maul having 2 bladed, 16 must be 100000x better! Sounds parody-ish.

I agree that the Gunblade idea is kinda flawed and doesn't make much sense. But Final Fantasy often bigs up it's weapons. This sword was not double the size of Squall's body like Final Fantasy swords sometimes are, and so SE needed a way to make it special. They added a trigger. Bad idea but it's just as parody-ish as Cloud's sword.

• The main revelation is that everyone in Squall's party lived in the same orphanage. As backstories go, that one was a bit 'meh'. Justin Bieber has a better & more entertaining backstory than that. Oh, burn.

lol I love this. I did think this part of the game was the one place that let it down so I can't argue with that.

• Laguna Loire doesn't get the girl. He winds up being a 30-40 year old virgin or something. Ack!!

Okay, this is the only reason why I decided to reply to your post. Laguna is definitely not a 40 year old virgin. He was in a relationship with Raine, he married Raine, he fathered Squall. So no...definitely not a virgin. His story is tragic because Raine dies, which is really sad, but he manages to become the presedent of the greatest nation in FF8 and there's not reason to think he's going to be alone the rest of his life.

• Rinoa isn't very independent. She gets stranded and is a stereotypical damsel in distress saying: "if you come here, you'll find me(so save me, dammit!)". Well, that's not necessarily a good role model for women. A woman of 2000 AD+ should probably have freed herself, beat up the bad guys and made sammiches for the entire team! Relying on men for things = perhaps becoming an outdated concept.

Etcetera, etcetera. Et all.

Don't get me wrong, I liked FF8 and a lot of things about it. I just thought it was the weakest title in the series.

Then again, I still haven't beaten FFX much less games that came after it, & can't comment on those.

I think Rinoa's a very independant girl. She was the one who went about hiring SeeD, not the men in her rebel group. She attempted to stop Edea herself in Galbadia. When everyone was imprisoned, Rinoa went back to save them. The only time she needs rescuing is when she's posessed, and at that point she can't actually do anything to help herself so she can't really be held accountable for needing saved can she? Also "if you come here you'll find me" it's Squall that's worried he'll be alone, and Rinoa is telling him she'll be there for him if he needs her, it's not for him to come save her, it's the other way round. As we see at the end, when Rinoa actually does come to Squall's rescue and bring him back, she is the one who literally saves him.

I understand you'll probably still feel the same, but I just found some of your points unfair to the game. the games after X are definitely far worse than VIII, you're not missing out.

Xx..xX

 

[.Wolfie-kun.]

Personally, I hated XII - I don't even consider it an FF sometimes *hides*

I found the story and characters (Bar Balthier) to be rather bland and uninteresting, I also did not like the MMO-style battle system they attempted to incorporate. I had to force myself to complete it.

 

[Kalythe]

Still FFII, at least so far. I might go and retry it after now fully understanding it's gameplay but ehhhh.

 

[OmniWrench 8000]

Here are my three least favorites, which means they're the worst of all the ones I've played.

#3 X-2, #2 VIII, #1 XII

VIII and XII I find very dull, cumbersome, and some of the worst characters I've seen (except Squall, he's still cool).

X-2 is just weird. I prefer the Rykku and Yuna from X. I don't know what they were thinking when they made X-2.

 

[Bulett-4-M-V]

The worst Final Fantasy Game has to be either 12 or 13! All the old versions are so much better! Final Fantasy 12 and 13 ruined the game in my opinion, the battle systems were terrible and they were big let downs i think! Final Fantasy 1 - 10 (never played 11) were fantastic but that's all in my opinion <3

-Sean

 

[greenyxi]

My vote has gone to 12 and 13. While X-2 felt like a bunch of sidequests thrown together with some story elements here and there, at least most other aspects were good and FF-like. You look at 12 and see an offline mmo (sorta loses the point) with a story about politics (they're boring enough in real life). Then you look at 13 and see a battle system that is so tedious that you can barely make it through the game without putting the disk back in the case and never looking at it again.
Well...they're my 2 least favourites anyway...

 

[Cloudysky]

Personally, I think X-2 was the worst. The game felt almost like one big sidequest. I usually love lots of sidequests in rpgs however the way X-2 did it was terrible. Not to mention the story didnt really add to the original game all that much. I also didn't care for the way they portrayed the characters. So overall, it was really disappointing, especially after X.

 

[Starships]

• In the intro, Seifer slashes Squall in the face. A ton of blood fills the air. Camera pans back to reveal a tiny 1 inch paper cut on Squall's forehead. It was like watching a parody... of FF.

Don't want to jump on ya for not liking FF8 ( opinions are opinions ) But to be fair, the opening of FF8 problery looks really silly now to new FF players because of the aged graphics, though it is about 11 yrs old now. To be honest, Squall's scar did used to look quite deep back in the day.

I'm sure if Square Enix did a revamp of FF8, they'll make the scar slashing look more realistic


Laguna gets the girl in a way, but then he looses her.

I think Rinoa's a very independant girl. She was the one who went about hiring SeeD, not the men in her rebel group. She attempted to stop Edea herself in Galbadia. When everyone was imprisoned, Rinoa went back to save them. The only time she needs rescuing is when she's posessed, and at that point she can't actually do anything to help herself so she can't really be held accountable for needing saved can she? Also "if you come here you'll find me" it's Squall that's worried he'll be alone, and Rinoa is telling him she'll be there for him if he needs her, it's not for him to come save her, it's the other way round. As we see at the end, when Rinoa actually does come to Squall's rescue and bring him back, she is the one who literally saves him.

OMG this post is bloody brilliant ! Finally somebody who sees poor Rinny as who she really is ! Somebody who really is strong and not a damsel like haters say that she is.

the games after X are definitely far worse than VIII, you're not missing out.

FF12 and FF13 make FF8 look like FF7 lol.

 

[Tifa]

SERIOUSLY?! FFX-2 has more votes than the piece of garbage that is FFXIII? I'm flabbergasted! While X-2 story was its weak point, the combat system is easily the best in the main series by a large margin, and imo, that made up for the story's shortcomings.

XIII on the other hand had NO OTHER REDEEMABLE traits aside from HUUUUR pretty gfx. Really though XIII was a disaster and XIII-2 was even worse. Square should hurry up and put out another REALLY good FF title to cover up this embarrassment and never let the director that decided this game was a good idea to touch another FF game as long as he lives.

 

[~Griever~]

Definitely setting a trend in this thread, but I have to say XII - XIII were the worst in my opinion. XII had a non-existent story and lifeless characters and XIII (as many have stated) was just running along tunnels for around 20 - 30 hours. Not very fun. Also, I hated the auto-battle concept. Whenever I used that I just felt like it was one big quick time event