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Worst Final Fantasy Game?
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Tom Badguy
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Normally with this topic I would dive into the Final Fantasy Mystic Quest rant. Everyone has one. But lets stay with the main numbered series.
Final Fantasy X-2. A sequel to a game that's not even that good any way. X-2 was basically just going across the same game, AGAIN. Yeah, somethings are different. New characters, new factions, but it is just the same world from X.
The story is so throw away. Yuna and her Femme Fatale fighting group go around the world and pound on everything doing "Missions" try to be the best gang in Spira. YAWN.
The dialogue leaves something to be desired. The whole time characters are talking, I'm just begging for it to end so I can at least go clobber something to keep the little interest I already have.
The only thing this game had going for it was the Class System, which was awesome and the New Game Plus feature, which I love in any game.
But why would a sequel have to made for FFX???
Personally, no Final Fantasy game needs a sequel. The games have a Start and Finish. There are always the classic "I wonder what happens afterward..." thought, but none of the games really have enough pull to prompt sequels. But FFX??
X was sub par. Nothing special. Did we really need to find out what happened? Just let Tidus die or go back dreamland. The was the only part of X I thought was good. The main character dies(or disappears or whatever). X-2 ruined X's twist.
A close second is XIII. 60 hours of walking down a hallway. Didn't even want to finish it.
Final Fantasy X-2. A sequel to a game that's not even that good any way. X-2 was basically just going across the same game, AGAIN. Yeah, somethings are different. New characters, new factions, but it is just the same world from X.
The story is so throw away. Yuna and her Femme Fatale fighting group go around the world and pound on everything doing "Missions" try to be the best gang in Spira. YAWN.
The dialogue leaves something to be desired. The whole time characters are talking, I'm just begging for it to end so I can at least go clobber something to keep the little interest I already have.
The only thing this game had going for it was the Class System, which was awesome and the New Game Plus feature, which I love in any game.
But why would a sequel have to made for FFX???
Personally, no Final Fantasy game needs a sequel. The games have a Start and Finish. There are always the classic "I wonder what happens afterward..." thought, but none of the games really have enough pull to prompt sequels. But FFX??
X was sub par. Nothing special. Did we really need to find out what happened? Just let Tidus die or go back dreamland. The was the only part of X I thought was good. The main character dies(or disappears or whatever). X-2 ruined X's twist.
A close second is XIII. 60 hours of walking down a hallway. Didn't even want to finish it.
Cloud_Incarnate
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I don't know how it could be anything but FF12...
Its got a boring and unessisarily confusing storyline, the characters are hollow and even after hours of playing it you still feel like you know nothing about them....Vaan pffft...what a jerk. The battle system is just a mess...and even though I'm sure many enjoyed it, it wasn't final fantasy. It has no redeeming qualities and had 13, although it has its flaws, not been so good, I would have given up on the final fantasy series at 10 assuming 12 had set a new and much lower standard.
1 through 10 all have that special something
13 has charm and an interesting story
12...what a joke
Its got a boring and unessisarily confusing storyline, the characters are hollow and even after hours of playing it you still feel like you know nothing about them....Vaan pffft...what a jerk. The battle system is just a mess...and even though I'm sure many enjoyed it, it wasn't final fantasy. It has no redeeming qualities and had 13, although it has its flaws, not been so good, I would have given up on the final fantasy series at 10 assuming 12 had set a new and much lower standard.
1 through 10 all have that special something
13 has charm and an interesting story
12...what a joke
FFVII is the worst Final Fantasy for the simple reason that it doesn't live up to buzz about it. The storyline has been done before, maybe not in video games, but that doesn't make it original. The graphics suck ass. The materia system is okay, but in all honesty, it could have been worked out better.
The characters are okay, but they aren't these amazing portraits of bravery and wonderfulness that their fans make them out to be. All in all, the game is the Lady Gaga of the Final Fantasy world, with one side declaring it over rated, and the other side being fans who love it so much that they can't separate their feelings from the quality.
The characters are okay, but they aren't these amazing portraits of bravery and wonderfulness that their fans make them out to be. All in all, the game is the Lady Gaga of the Final Fantasy world, with one side declaring it over rated, and the other side being fans who love it so much that they can't separate their feelings from the quality.
Keep in mind - when VII was made, it was the f***ing standard. It was awesome to play because it blew away everything before it. When we all bought it in '97 or whenever (you DID play it back then, didn't you?) it took RPG's to a different place. It's consistently called one of the top 5 video games ever made, and for good reason. It set the bar.
I'm not saying you have to like it. You can dislike the story for whatever reason. But the game itself is what you have to take your opinion from, not the fans who babble about it. Over/underrated are irrelevant 14-15 years afterward.
Hindsight is always 20/20, which is why I won't bust on FFI. We wouldn't have all the others without it. I won't play through it as some rite of passage but hey, respect.
I forced myself through XII because I liked some of the characters. But it ain't great.
I didn't get through but maybe 3 hours of XIII. I think I went to go eat lunch and never turned it on again. Yawn.
Funny, for all the silly things wrong with VIII (mostly balancing issues and difficulty) it's still my favorite. I play the game to max everything out. I never lose a battle. The card game is deep and spans all 4 discs - if you never got into it before, you should check it out.
It's easy to criticize Square for trying new things (like the Junction system) that in retrospect weren't the groundbreaking thing they probably intended, but are still enjoyable in some respects. What I find unforgivable is the commercialization and bastardization of so many fun, foundational gameplay concepts that are missing in the later games.
Dear SE: give me a damn airship and then I'll buy your game.
I'd be very interested to see how many of the people who voted XI as the worst have actually played it. It's one of my favourites ><.
I'd say XIII, horribly linear storyline with unlikeable characters and none of the things that made an FF an FF.
I'd say XIII, horribly linear storyline with unlikeable characters and none of the things that made an FF an FF.
You do know that this game was made in 96/ 97 right ?? And was in planning since 94 ?
So ??
Why do you hate it just because of the graphics ? You do realize that FF6 has worse graphics than FF7 and it's one of the most poplaur Final Fantasies around ? Also FF1, is one of the poplaur, and that has 1988 NES graphics, right ?
You do know that this game was made in 96/ 97 right ?? And was in planning since 94 ?
So ??
You do realize that that's not an excuse. The story had been done in novels and such long before 96/97. It wasn't this fresh groundbreaking never done before sorta thing.
I do realize that the graphics off FF6 are not worse than FF7 in my opinion. They are sprite based, not 3D. In fact, I've always felt that if Square couldn't have done GOOD 3D then they should have stuck with those until they could. Some of us prefer graphics where we can tell that something's human, and the main characters don't look like legos, regardless of how "flashy" they are.
But what you missed the most is the point you made for me. I dislike FF7 the most because people continually try to prove you wrong about it. I don't like, it's my opinion. You like it that's yours. But it seems like every time you mention valid reasons to dislike it, someone feels the need to defend it, despite the fact that the same has been said about other Final Fantasies without anyone responding.
I responded because it looked like you hated the game solely because of the game's graphics, and defended FF7 because of that. And wanted to explain that graphic's are not everything, and a game shouldn't be judged by what a game looks like. Not because FF7 is 'awesome'.
cool-wings
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When I come to think of it most f them were pritty bad but ffII has to be the worst for the PS1 games ffI came close. On Ps2 I dont know whats worst ffx-2 or ffxii. What I first played ffx-2 i liked it and when I first played ffxii i hated it but then liked it later. But thay both had some good parts so I dont know really. FFxiii was the worst on Ps3 because its the only one but ffxiii is not the worst ff so my answer is probably a tie between ffx-2 and ffxii I cant say ffi or ffii is the worst because it was the first and the start of the ffs
I know I've already voted for FFII over a year ago, but in retrospect after having played FFXIII, I may change my mind now and go for Square Enix's latest offline flagship FF to be the worst. Don't get me wrong, I am not hating the game just for the heck of it, but were it a standalone game that was not affiliated to the Final Fantasy franchise, then I wouldn't have minded. But as I see it, FFXIII just felt so lacking to me that it did not even feel like a Final Fantasy game on numerous occasions.
I know Square Enix loves dabbling in graphical diligence, but does it excuse the compromising of other departments? Yes, the scenary looks really beautiful, the crystalised Lake Bresha location stunning and pristine, each rock polished to perfection and not a crystal out of place. However, the strict linearity just cheapens this visual delight in that FFXIII's locations are mere wallpapers that you run through in. The lack of actual interaction with the environment simply leaves a lot to be desired. Interaction with NPCs are simply eavesdropping (though in the context of the story, I suppose that makes some sense), although since the party is always running away from someone, the bare lack of interaction - as well as towns and cities to stop by and explore/relax in - just makes FFXIII's setting a soulless world. I know a lot of you guys don't like FFXII, but you can't deny that Ivalice feels like a living and breathing world with its different races and bustling metropolises. What do you get in FFXIII? You're mainly on the run and in wilderness areas limited by linearity. It just elicits from a player no real care for the world. Why do you care about Cocoon and Gran Pulse when it feels so soulless? Gran Pulse itself is
!
The storyline had some promising premises. The fact that being fugitives meant we could have a dynamic storyline with the usual melodramatic undertones. What I hated though, were some of the characters. Snow is an archetype I cannot stand, though in FFXIII's credit it's not the only game with this kind of character. I didn't like Hope either. I can understand his grief, but not when he wishes death on Snow every five minutes - rather than doing the reasonable thing and sit down to have a serious talk with him. I hated how easily shoved aside some characters are. Look at Nabaat's promising debut and then subsequently
. Raines had potential, but he also seemed to fall under the trap of
. I'd also like to stress that it was really disappointing in the villains department. FFXII had great villains that weren't simply black-white evil. Here, we have Barthandelus as our supposed main baddie. I didn't care about him when I first saw him in trailers, I have never cared since. Oh yes, as for
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I didn't like the Crystarium either. It seemed promising at first because I loved FFX's Sphere Grid, but the Crystarium is so horribly restrictive with how it caps and its linearity that it even felt like the game was holding your hand in developing your characters' stats. So what if I want to power-level or something? Let me! And even then power-levelling would never have been necessary because the game is mostly not challenging at all. Yes, I did face the several battles that were tough at first and had me engrossed, but on a whole, the Auto-Battle command thing, retry option and countless save areas meant that the game was a lot easier than it should have been (not counting the optional hunts of course). I like the speedier pace of the battles though, but not how limited it was being able to control only one character at a time, therefore restricting what Eidolons you can bring out. The Eidolons were at least more useful than FFXII's Espers here, but I still rarely used them. SE really do need to make summons a bigger player again. Boss battles themselves aren't hard in the sense that your tactical know-how is pushed to the limit. It's mainly because they hit hard and have staggeringly huge HP bars. Is this Square Enix's idea of what boss battles should be like? Just inflating their HP bars and hoping that time of battles = challenging?
I know Square Enix loves dabbling in graphical diligence, but does it excuse the compromising of other departments? Yes, the scenary looks really beautiful, the crystalised Lake Bresha location stunning and pristine, each rock polished to perfection and not a crystal out of place. However, the strict linearity just cheapens this visual delight in that FFXIII's locations are mere wallpapers that you run through in. The lack of actual interaction with the environment simply leaves a lot to be desired. Interaction with NPCs are simply eavesdropping (though in the context of the story, I suppose that makes some sense), although since the party is always running away from someone, the bare lack of interaction - as well as towns and cities to stop by and explore/relax in - just makes FFXIII's setting a soulless world. I know a lot of you guys don't like FFXII, but you can't deny that Ivalice feels like a living and breathing world with its different races and bustling metropolises. What do you get in FFXIII? You're mainly on the run and in wilderness areas limited by linearity. It just elicits from a player no real care for the world. Why do you care about Cocoon and Gran Pulse when it feels so soulless? Gran Pulse itself is
STILL linear! It is just a large stretch of a plain with linear paths winding off of it
The storyline had some promising premises. The fact that being fugitives meant we could have a dynamic storyline with the usual melodramatic undertones. What I hated though, were some of the characters. Snow is an archetype I cannot stand, though in FFXIII's credit it's not the only game with this kind of character. I didn't like Hope either. I can understand his grief, but not when he wishes death on Snow every five minutes - rather than doing the reasonable thing and sit down to have a serious talk with him. I hated how easily shoved aside some characters are. Look at Nabaat's promising debut and then subsequently
her swift death with no real purpose. What a waste of a character
writers giving up on what to do with him and dumping him all of a sudden as soon as he is revived. His whole "I'm also a L'Cie" thing was also out of the blue
Orphan - he totally came out of nowhere. Another lacklustre villain character that we could have done without that felt so tacked on
I didn't like the Crystarium either. It seemed promising at first because I loved FFX's Sphere Grid, but the Crystarium is so horribly restrictive with how it caps and its linearity that it even felt like the game was holding your hand in developing your characters' stats. So what if I want to power-level or something? Let me! And even then power-levelling would never have been necessary because the game is mostly not challenging at all. Yes, I did face the several battles that were tough at first and had me engrossed, but on a whole, the Auto-Battle command thing, retry option and countless save areas meant that the game was a lot easier than it should have been (not counting the optional hunts of course). I like the speedier pace of the battles though, but not how limited it was being able to control only one character at a time, therefore restricting what Eidolons you can bring out. The Eidolons were at least more useful than FFXII's Espers here, but I still rarely used them. SE really do need to make summons a bigger player again. Boss battles themselves aren't hard in the sense that your tactical know-how is pushed to the limit. It's mainly because they hit hard and have staggeringly huge HP bars. Is this Square Enix's idea of what boss battles should be like? Just inflating their HP bars and hoping that time of battles = challenging?
I responded because it looked like you hated the game solely because of the game's graphics, and defended FF7 because of that. And wanted to explain that graphic's are not everything, and a game shouldn't be judged by what a game looks like. Not because FF7 is 'awesome'.
Hating a game solely based on graphics is hardly something new. I mean graphics are part of most rating systems that game reviews use, and they are also supposed to considered in the overall package. So if I did dislike FF7 based on the graphics and that alone, I would be perfectly within my rights to do so, they are part of the game.
But I mean there's so much to hate, like the hole-filled storyline. In fact, the only part of FF7 I like is Aerith, and Zack, and that was more of Crisis Core. I do quite like Crisis Core for some reason, more so than Final Fantasy 7. I think it would be a much better game if Zack was the main character of F7, then Cloud.
That's my opinion. I dislike FF7. I dislike it for several reasons. Some people agree with me some people don't. That's the way opinions work.
Balthier of Archades
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It is my opinion that the worst Final Fantasy is clearly X-2. It's a Final Fantasy spinoff of Charlie's Angels without a Bosley. Terrible.
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FFXIII.
It bored me to tears. I cannot think of any redeemable qualities it has.
The story/plot is terrible. The characters are even worse. The battle system is dull. Everything about is all so ordinary. Every ounce of flair or originality has been drained from it. At least a bad games are interesting, FFXIII is just ordinary, it has no charm at all. It's poor.
It bored me to tears. I cannot think of any redeemable qualities it has.
The story/plot is terrible. The characters are even worse. The battle system is dull. Everything about is all so ordinary. Every ounce of flair or originality has been drained from it. At least a bad games are interesting, FFXIII is just ordinary, it has no charm at all. It's poor.
Tom Badguy
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I agree with this and I even like VII. Zack was a way better hero than Cloud.
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This thread is really confusing me. I don't understand why people are not even voting for X-2 or selecting Other(specifically towards Mystic Quest). None of the main series games were worse than X-2. I despise VIII but I know and acknowledge that it is one million times better than X-2. And if not X-2, then the obvious worse one would be Mystic Quest. I mean I see people talking about VII, VIII, XII, even I. These are Games of the Century compared to X-2 and MQ.
Who the hell would rather play MQ over VII or VIII? Seriously?
And whoever voted VI as the worst needs to be castrated.
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FINAL FANTASY IV.
I forget wether Ive posted in this topic or not. but ill share my views again.
This game. can burn in the deepest pits of hell. The only good thing abou this game is its somewaht satifactory story.
The characters were completely Redundant. It was stupid.
is stupid. Seriously. Cids
is so damn cheesy i sobbed.
I dont get why people worship Kain either. He's an hourable dragoon CONTROLLED. by the throwaway Villian's Throwaway Villian. The makes KAIN a throwaway villian. Just like the four elemental gods. Stupid.
The only complementary character in the game is That summoner. Rydia? she had no overused personality. that makes her awesome. (Also Golbez is koolio. but hes a throwaway villian. so He loses kool points)
I forget wether Ive posted in this topic or not. but ill share my views again.
This game. can burn in the deepest pits of hell. The only good thing abou this game is its somewaht satifactory story.
The characters were completely Redundant. It was stupid.
the fact that all but one of the characters Falsely die
"death"
I dont get why people worship Kain either. He's an hourable dragoon CONTROLLED. by the throwaway Villian's Throwaway Villian. The makes KAIN a throwaway villian. Just like the four elemental gods. Stupid.
The only complementary character in the game is That summoner. Rydia? she had no overused personality. that makes her awesome. (Also Golbez is koolio. but hes a throwaway villian. so He loses kool points)
The Last Ent
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Its hard to say which one is best, afterall, each game is good in its own right, but seriously, if I had to judge overall, it would have to be FFXIII-which I like though-since almost nothing to do outside of combat, too linear, no reason to play again, and too melodramatic/cheesy storyline/characters at some points besides the fact the antagonists absolutely are horrible [honestly the main one is a supposed god-like machine disguised as a old man who lokes like a real-life pope [no insult intended]
graverobber9
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I can't stand Final Fantasy IX. I understand that it's a strong fan favorite, but the hideous character designs, slow and clunky battle system, and simplistic ability system makes the game a far cry from my ideal RPG. I have rarely been so disappointed in an RPG.
Lionblade
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This. But out of just the mainstream titles I've played, I've enjoyed XII the least. I'd tell you why, but I forgot the story...
...oh wait. There is no story! No character development until 30 hours of so in. Plus worst battle system ever. Plus shitty dungeons and shitty "main" characters.
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