For me it’s

  1. Final Fantasy Tactics

  2. Final Fantasy VII

  3. Final Fantasy XI

The three games I keep coming back to in the franchise.

Tactics has the best writing imo as well as gameplay.

Visually speaking VII’s aesthetic and music are peak FF.

And then when it comes to getting lost in the lore and world of a virtual game, I like XI.

Granted all 3 share similar themes like good writing, music, gameplay, etc. but those are my standouts.

How about you?

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’d probably say:

    1. Final Fantasy IX
    2. Final Fantasy VII
    3. Final Fantasy Tactics

    Final Fantasy IV is probably my runner up. It was probably the first RPG I ever played (just bits and pieces at a friend’s house - didn’t actually play it from start to finish until it was out on GBA lol).

  • Storm [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    X

    IX

    VI

    X is my all time favorite though. I’m glad it got a sequel for its epilogue. The world building is phenomenal. The way Pyreflies, Aeons, Fiends, and more are incorporated into Spira makes the world believable.

    My only gripe is that in the thousand years since Sin’s appearance, only five summoners have succeeded in bringing a Calm. That just seems so unlikely, and it makes more sense to me if there were more successful pilgrimages. Otherwise why bother keeping the pilgrimage as a practice?

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yevon used Sin as a tool of control, knowing it would just come back afterwards even if a pilgrimage was successful - the pilgrimages were about giving people hope that Sin could be overcome, not about actually defeating it.

  • buh [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    tbh I’ve only played 7, 7 remake, and about half of 10

    actually I also tried Tactics but I’m dumb and bad at strategy games so I gave up after 3 levels or so

      • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        lol fr. kill all but one enemy, leave them weak so they run away, then just sit your party next to each other and fuck each other up and heal and buff and whatever. just get job exp ez style. you can even pump stats up this way.

        also some classes/skills are way more OP than others (monk chakra and revive for instance vs traditional healing like a priest or a chemist)

  • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago
    1. XII - I really like the world building and how you actually play basically a side character that gets swept up in political shenanigans
    2. Tactics - Mostly nostalgia but also Ivalice again.
    3. VII - Warts and all. The game really pushed the genre forward in a lot of ways. It’s super ugly at points and very dated but still holds up in a lot of ways.

    I haven’t played Tactics Advanced, VIII, IX, or X yet so it’s subject to change. I also wanna revisit the first 6 pixel remasters at some point.

  • nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I like them all so it’s tough to choose. I’ll split into mainline and spin-offs

    Mainline:

    • 12 (Zodiac Age version)
    • 10 (International/HD version)
    • 5 (SFC version)

    Sequels/spin-offs:

    • 10-2 (International/HD version)
    • WOFF (Maxima version)
    • Final Fantasy Tactics A2
  • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Mystic Quest, Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King, and World of Final Fantasy, because I am 5 years old.

    OK, real answer is the boring Elder Millennial Who Grew Up With an SNES staples: 4, 6, and 7, but not necessarily in that order. And I do genuinely miss that WiiWare My Life As King city builder/hero management game sometimes because it was very chill. But otherwise, yeah. Death to Shinra, Kefka gets an Atma Weapon/Offering combo applied directly to the face, and ROBOT SPACESHIP WHALE FROM THE MOOOOOOOOON MOTHERFUCKERS

    Edit: FF1 Pixel Remaster isn’t half bad, either. It removes a lot of the tediousness from the original, which, yeah, that cuts the playtime down by around 60%, but it’s possible to actually finish the game without wanting to jab your own eyes out with knitting needles, which is nice.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Tactics

    8

    14

    This is the correct order and I won’t hear anything else about it. Tactics is undisputed the best, 8 has Doom Train and Alexander summons and they’re so fucking cool it squeaks 8 into second, and 14 would be 2nd if it wasn’t impossibly long and expensive.