What was your first Final Fantasy game you played?

[The Omega Weapon]

The first ff game I played was FF7. Before then I never heard of FF before, but after playing it I loved the final fantasy series ever since.

[SaintDave]

final fantasy IX. loved every minute of it.

[StarChild]

final fantasy IX. loved every minute of it.

same here ^__^

[drunkymonkey]

Yep. Final Fantasy 9. I didn't love every minute of it (I lost a lot :( ) but my favourite FF ever.

[scrumpleberry]

Final Fantasy 9, but as I was a wickle child, I got stuck on the second black waltz and gave up! :D I couldn't work out that he would attack with magic if you attacked with magic...

[drunkymonkey]

Final Fantasy 9, but as I was a wickle child, I got stuck on the second black waltz and gave up! :D I couldn't work out that he would attack with magic if you attacked with magic...
The Waltzs were gits, weren't they?

[Avarice-ness]

FFVI when it was FF3 on the SNES, back in 1994. <3.
Then FFIV when it was FF2 on the SNES.
Well... My sister played FF1 on the NES and would give me the controller but I was to little to comprehend it. =/
So FFVI! =D

[Topcat]

Final Fantasy 7 was my first. All my friends were playing it, i remember watching my friends playing it and at first i thought it was boring, a few weeks later i was hooked!:D

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

My first FF was Final Fantasy 8 i got as a Christmas present...:D

[SaintDave]

how pants were you at your first final fantasy. i gotta say i was pretty poo i didnt have a clue what i was doing but i loved it anyway. lol.

[~SapphireStar~]

I breifly played 7 some years ago in Ireland, for like 20 minutes, but I dont consider that my first. FF8 was my first because I got the guide, bought it instead of renting it and I just loved everything about it.

[Topcat]

It seems to be that the first FF you play is your favourite, thats certainly the case for me and lots of others i've spoken too. I suppose its the whole nostalgic value. Is this the case for everyone here?

[Shiny]

Final Fantasy 9 (the choice was between 8 and 9 at the time and thankfully I chose 9)

[Dreddz]

FFIII ( snes ) :choc2:

[DanteV9]

Final Fantasy VI. Haven't finisihed it, yet I still say that this is one of the best games I have ever played.

[*~Angel Wing~*]

It seems to be that the first FF you play is your favourite, thats certainly the case for me and lots of others i've spoken too. I suppose its the whole nostalgic value. Is this the case for everyone here?
Yes it DEFINETLY is for me!!! :D

Final Fantasy VIII was my 1st, and it's my favorite game in the whole world!!! :heart: :kaolove2: :kaohappy2

[Griff]

how pants were you at your first final fantasy. i gotta say i was pretty poo i didnt have a clue what i was doing but i loved it anyway. lol.
.....what?

oh, ff7

[Evolavas]

FFVIII, but I was a youngin' back then so I really didn't understand it. My real first FF was FFX. After I beat it, I went back and played all the other ones. Thus starting an addiction which soon took over my life....Well not anymore.

[Zeromus_X]

It was either IV or VI, but I think I gave up on IV and beat VI first because I could never beat Zeromus. <3...

[Leeza]

FFI would be the first FF that I have played. :cat:

[mooglebunni608]

FFVII
Still haven't finished it XD

[oddler]

I played FFIV first when it was back on the Super Nintendo.
Rented it.
Stayed up all night.
Played it until I had to return it.
Even after I had already beaten it.
Sadly, it wasn't my favorite, though. I'd say my favorite Final Fantasy would be FFVII. Cliche, yes... but it is the best. :p

[Yuffie514]

Final Fantasy VII, 1997. i was just watching my cousins and brother have their go at The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (the only formidable game that made Super Nintendo for what it is) - which i rate as one of my best video-game moments. i wasn't really playing, but it was so much fun getting warped into this fantastic game. anyways, a few days later, my brother borrowed one of his friends PlayStation and Final Fantasy VII. he or one of my cousins played until about the end of disc #1, then my brother went a bought a PlayStation 2 and Final Fantasy VII of his own. voila! the same story - always told in different in a different fashion...

[Twilight Edge]

final fantasy IX. loved every minute of it.

[Darkwing Bahamut]

Final Fantasy X was the first one I played.

[Marly]

Final Fantasy X was the first one I played.
yup. and it almost put me of final fantasy for life

[Dark Paladin]

Final Fantasy 7 was my first. All my friends were playing it, i remember watching my friends playing it and at first i thought it was boring, a few weeks later i was hooked!:D

[BakerMan]

Final Fantasy X. The best one in my opinion. I have 600 hrs on it.

[~SapphireStar~]

I have 600 hrs on it.
Is that possible and what were you doing?! The story, plus the sidequests dont take that long.

[Zeromus_X]

Power-leveling and catching monsters, I'd imagine. (Still...not that long, unless you were doing it the 'normal' way.)

[Craig]

final fantasy IX. loved every minute of it.

[Dell]

Final Fantasy VII. But I like Final Fantasy XII more.

[silentenigma]

Final Fantasy Origins. I am oldskool.

[Zim-Pro™]

Final Fantasy X. The best one in my opinion. I have 600 hrs on it.


FFX was the first final fantasy game i played,then X-2
im gonna soon by all these and beat them!:)
(owe there may be other NON-FF games in the with them!:eek: )



1.Final fantasy I
2.final fantasy II
3.final fantasy III
4.final fantasy IV
5.final fantasy V
6.final fantasy VI
7.final fantasy VII
8.final fantasy VIII
9.final fantasy IX
10.final fantasy X
11.Final Fantasy Adventure
12.final fantasy XII
13.final fantasy XIII
14.final fantasy X-2
15.final fantasy tactics advance
16.final fantasy before crisis
17.Final Fantasy Agito XIII
18.Final Fantasy Versus XIII
19.Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
20.Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles The Crystal Bearers
21.Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Ring of Fates
22.Final Fantasy Tactics
23.Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
24.Final Fantasy: Legend I
25.Final Fantasy: Legend II
26.Final Fantasy: Legend III
27.Final Fantasy Adventure
28.Final Fantasy XI Rise of the Zilart
29.Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia
30.final fantasy XI Treasures of Aht Urhgan
31.Final Fantasy Anthology
32.Final Fantasy Chronicles
33.Final Fantasy Origins
34.Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls
35.Final Fantasy III DS
36.Final Fantasy IV Advance
37.kingdom hearts I
38.kingdom hearts II
39.blade dancer lineage of light
40.Dragon Quest I
41.Dragon Quest II
42.Dragon Quest III
43.Dragon Quest IV
44.Dragon Quest V
45.Dragon Quest VI
46.Dragon Quest VII
47.Dragon Quest VIII
48.mystical ninjas
49.cowboy bebop the video game
50.gradius I
51.gradius II
52.gradius III
53.gradius IV
54.gradius V
55.jak and daxter
56.jak II
57.

(FIRST POST!!!!:tongue: :tongue: )

[Diddy21]

My First was FF3 on the SNES

[AdVenT]

IX was the first one I played. VII seems to be the first one a lot of people played. Hmm....

[starseeker]

X-2. The old skool games made me realise how bad it was.

[Chris]

To be honest, I don't really remember. I must have been FFVII, but it's a little unclear at the moment. :(

[Galbadian Soldier]

The first ff game I played was FF7. Before then I never heard of FF before, but after playing it I loved the final fantasy series ever since.

Same here, I never heard of it either until one day after school my friend wanted to show me a sweet scene from a game hes's been playing(I never played games before then) and it was the death of a certain character.After I saw that I knew I had to get FF VII and a ps1 and since then I've been a gamer and Final Fantasy fanboy :D

[LunarWeaver]

VII was my first...I was only 11 then, yeesh.

[atlanteay]

I have 600 hrs on it.
Is that possible and what were you doing?! The story, plus the sidequests dont take that long.
probably doing the thunder plain quest to get Lulu's ultimate weapon thing:rolleyes2 worst sidequest ever:p

my first ff game was FFVIII and i loved it. First saw these play cards of them from my friend then i learned about final fantasy and then started to look for which number it was and finally found out it was 8:p It's my favorite game;)

[Leen-Leen]

Final Fantasy X was my first and my favorite. I got hooked on to it when my friend wouldn't stop talking about it, so I decided to try it out for myself. And I love it. I've finished the game but I still play it for sidequests. (Darn those lightning bolts.)

[<<MiKo BaHaMuT>>]

Mine was FF V on PS 1.
But back then I just started gaming and didn't know about Final Fantasy.
Judging from the CG models at the game cover, I thought the game was beautiful...
But who knows it didn't have CGIs except for the intro and ending so I lost interest and bought FF8...

So to be more accurate, I should say the first FF I've played is FF VIII ^^"

[Lynx]

final fantasy mystic quest. it wasnt the first one i beta though 3 for the uspernintendo was the first i beat.

[Elpizo]

First FF I ever played and got into? If my memory serves me right it was FF I on DoS. It was the first one I finished. Of course I heard of FF before, a friend of mine was all love about FF X. And I played some NES games which happened to be FF's, and some SNES game which happened to be FF's, but I didn't know that at that time.

Then I started playing FF IV, because I saw Child Rydia's menu face and I thought she was cute, so I wanted to play that game. ^^"
After that, I pfinished VI, than V. Then I finished IX. Lol, and that all in... yes, it'll be close to one year.

[charliepanayi]

FFIX - my brother bought a second hand copy back in the summer of 2001.

[DarkLadyNyara]

Dawn of Souls. :D

[DoomAntenna]

I played FFIV first, but didn't finish it because I got bored on my way to the final boss (though I always thought Rydia was awesome). Then FFVII, and didn't finish it because (this is not a spoiler, just what happened to me) Cloud opted to switch sides in the final fight and kill everyone, then himself. I was demoralized, so I didn't try again. I did like the game a lot, though. Then I played FFVI, and finished it. I absolutely loved that game, so it's the one that truly got me hooked on FF. Then I finished VIII, and loved that one too. My favorite would have to be a toss up between VI and VIII. I'm on IX now.

[Tempest]

Final Fantasy I on the NES back in the day.

[Crossblades]

FF IV, back in the SNES ages when it was known as FF II. Was bored of it at first, but then fell in love with it when I replayed it

[Hambone]

When I was 4 or 5, my dad got me and my brother a playstation 1 and FFVII. I didn't understand it at all and we couldn't save anyway because we didn't have a memory card. it was eventually stolen. 4 years later, my brother got FFX and was hooked on it. I decided to give it a whirl and now am hooked and FFX is my favorite FF. Then, I beat FFVIII. Next, I beat FFX-2. After that, I bought another copy of FFVII and beat it. Then, I beat FFIX. And now, I am currently working on FFVI.

So, my FF playing history is:

1. FFVII (didn't beat it)
2. FFX (beat it)
3. FFVIII (beat it)
4. FFX-2 (beat it)
5. FFVII (finally beat it)
6. FFIX (beat it)
7. FFVI (still working on it)

[Rogue]

im proud to say ffmystic quest then ff8

[Ryth]

Final Fantasy IX, I loved it, I'm glad my cousin let me play it.

[YasuKaida]

ffVII, and its my fav.

[KingSpider]

Mine was FFVII, my friend bought it and I soon did the same, we kind of had a race at it but I lost because he had to borrow my Disc 3.

But anyways, my first definitely isn't my favorite

After VII, I played VI because a different friend practically worshipped it, so I opted to give it a try, and I absolutely loved it.

My favorite one out of the ones I've played and beaten
(FFI,IV,VI,VII,IX) is probably IX

[BardTard]

I liked FF8 the best. It was fun and had the best characters I think. All except for one I don't like. FF8 was the first one I played actually. :D My favoritest game ever!

[Sylvie]

VII.

Final Fantasy Player since I was 5.

:D

[SuperNatural]

The first Final Fantasy game I played was either Final Fantasy 6 or Mystic Quest back in '99. My friend had the ROMs for both games and forgot which one I played first. Well, the first Final Fantasy game I bought was Final Fantasy III/VI for the SNES. Good times, never beat it though. Got to the final part of the game and never beat it.

The first Square game I played was Super Mario RPG for SNES back in '96. I was only 6 years old! Great game. Possibly my favorite Square game ever, but I'm bias like that. It also had a cool FF cameo: the secret boss Culex.

[ff7+ff10 gurl 100]

FF7 was my first and favorite FF game I played :) My older brother (hes 4 years older) gave it to me for my 8th birthday. Loved it :D

[BardTard]

FF8. I was at my mom's then-boyfriend's house and got bored so I played FF8 for the first time and I've been addicted to it ever since. :D

[SuperNatural]

Oops! I forgot! Final Fantasy VII was my first Final Fantasy game that I played. I remember playing it at my cousin's house. He loved the game, but I hated it and still do. I remember laughing at how bad the graphics were and this was back in '97 when it first came out. I still think it is an over-rated game. I ended up buying it on sale a few years later and sold it because I just couldn't get into the game.

However, the first FF game I got into was Final Fantasy VI or Mystic Quest like I explained above.

[Northcrest]

First Final Fantasy I played was FF VII. Which was also my favorite.

[Pure Aerisbeauty7]

The First Final Fantasy game I played is Final Fantasy VII.:)

[TidusMaster]

FF6! I was the bomb:kaoangry:

[Dr. Acula]

the first Final Fantasy i played was.... ff6, i think, for a snes emulator on my computer. the 1st i'd ever heard of Final Fantasy was ff7, but i never played it (i was five when the game came out). Then my bro went and lost disc 1, so now i can't play it!!!! (and i can't seem to find it in stores.....) :cry: :cry: :cry: :mad2:

[Aurongel]

...mine was FFX I heard about the FF series, but never played one, until I saw FFX for 6 bucks on amazon

[licence]

Final Fantasy VII.

But the first one I was old enough to really care more about was VII.

[Morridor]

The first Final Fantasy I ever played was Final Fantasy I for the NES. I played it when I was small and that game really drew me into the RPG genre. The problem was I could never get pass the first boss in that game because I didn't understand the idea of leveling up when I was that age! Now I do though, MWUAHAHA!

Danny

[Tal]

Final Fantasy VII and i hated it. It just felt weird but as i got used to it it grew one me and i fell in love with it, now i couldnt live without FF.

[Cookie]

Final Fantasy VIII. Someone used to talk about it all the time until i got really frustrated and forced him to lend it to me. This was back in year 2 or 3, don't know how old i was.

[wakka]

I watched my older bro play final fantasy VII three times then i played final fantasy VIII which was my first one.

[Exlyn99]

Final Fantasy 10! It's the best fictional creation I know of!

*please don't quote me on this, unless if it's for agreeable purposes*

[Maux]

Final Fantasy 10! It's the best fictional creation I know of!

*please don't quote me on this, unless if it's for agreeable purposes*

Totally agree. I was bit of a latecomer into the series, but FF10 hooked me in. I was able to buy it real cheap and was one of the first games I bought for my PS2. I do believe I saw a friend once play Final Fantasy FF8(had no idea what was going on, but it looked intriguing), which is the reason why I picked up 10 in first place. It took me forever trying to figure out how to do the sphere grid and on my first play through I don't think I used it at all until Operation M. FF10 is still one of my favorites.

[The Knights of the Round]

when i was i dunno in fourth grade maybe third ( omg long time ago ill be in 10Th grade this year, anyways) i was at the store and i had been a fan of zelda since the NES version (yeah that rocked) i saw FF VIII. now it wasnt my favorite, but the cover looked cool. so i checked it out and liked what i saw, so i bought it. Had it not been for that day that i just decided hey what the heck i would not have bought FF VIII and therefore never played FF. Man I am thankfull

FF Is the best series EVER.

[chrisfffan]

my first was 8 and its my favourite iv played all the others! 7 had the most meaning to it but i just love final fantasy 8 iv just started playing it again!

[ama124]

my first ff was VIII but i never really got into it. I liked it but i was young and never got around to really play it and enjoy it.

but FFX was the first one that i actually played it through and enjoyed

[Crimson]

FFVIII was my first :D

[Elemental Alchemist]

My first ff was IX. Before I didn't know about ff, but a cousin gave it to me for my birthday when I was 8 years old or so. I didn't care about the cover, but the title intrigued me. Thus began my love for IX!

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

VIII and I'm so very glad it was

[Ender]

The first I ever played was FF I, years and years ago, but I found it too hard at the time and got rid of it.

Many many years later an ex-girlfriend told me I had to play FF IX, and it totally hooked me. I'm now going back to beat all of them in order. :D

[cecil+rosa]

ff7 was the first one i played and ever since that day i have been cursed with not being able to stop playing


cause it was awsome

how i got it was my friend left it at my house and when i called her she said i could play it untill she came back

[UltimaMasamune]

X-2. The old skool games made me realise how bad it was.

ditto here but it had a fun battle system

[boys from the dwarf]

the first FF i played was FF7 around my cousins house. id also seen FF8 and 9 around my cousins house. id hadnt played on them much but i thought they looked really good so i started collecting them. the first i owned was FFX. i got that when i got my PS2. then i started collecting all of the others and i now own all of the ones in the main series apart from FF3 and i also have FFTA.

[tidus_rox]

Final Fantasy X is my first. Once i played it i bought some of the older ones (IX and VIII) but X/ IX still hold strong and my favourite game in the universe!!

[The Crystal]

My first was FFIX, and i loved every second of it.

[abrojtm]

FFI, way back in the day.

[Araciel]

FF 1 when i was like...7....my mom loved it too and we shared the file

[Marluxiaswife]

i think my frist final fantasy was ff6 or ff1 i know it was one of those...
:confused:

[Paul]

my first was Final Fantasy VII, and I still think it's the best. but over the last 9 or so years (jesus christ), i've played most of the other ones, and I can see why some square traditionalists don't like 7 for its departures from the series.

in my opinion though, it was 6 that started off the departures. it was much darker and more technological than 5. FF7 just carried this on. something needed to be changed anyway, because the first 5 Final Fantasy games basically took place in very similar game worlds. now every game world is different, and there's more risk of people not liking it, but at least they're trying new things.

[Rocket Edge]

V

[Goldenboko]

IX been addicted every since.

[Quindiana Jones]

^ Same.

[ff_freak277]

my first was ff7.
i was too young before that to ever get into any other games.
then i bought a playstation and bought ff 7 a little while after it came out.
i <3 the series now.

[Eminem's_No.1_Fan]

my first was ff7.
i was too young before that to ever get into any other games.
then i bought a playstation and bought ff 7 a little while after it came out.
i <3 the series now.

what are you, my clone!!?? cause i thought i only had one clone

[Nifleheim7]

The first ff game I played was FF7. Before then I never heard of FF before, but after playing it I loved the final fantasy series ever since.

Same thing here...

[Odin2006]

my friend's copy of FF1, way back in 1994, I was 8 years old at the time I was hooked on RPGs from that day forward.

The first FF I owned was FF6 (FF3 back then) in 1995. I can't remember how many times I stayed up all night playing it. It was a complex as heck for a pre-teen, it took be 3 YEARS to beat it :eek:, longer then any other RPG I ever owned.

[50calCerberus]

i think the first one i played was 8 but i was litttle and couldent get into it awile ago the first one i played completely was 10 i liked the characters and the story then 10-2 and went on from there and tried the rest only one i havent tied yet is 7 and 3 you cant find 7 anywhere i like dirge of cerberus the best so far though vincents the chit:D

[Lynx]

final fantasy mystic quest or final fantasy 6 (final fantasy 3 at the time). i played them both in the same day but i cant remember which i played first that day. i knwo 6/3 hooked me and i kept playing that until i beat it. got so obsessed had well over 2000 Hp before the world of ruin.

[feioncastor]

my friend's copy of FF1, way back in 1994, I was 8 years old at the time I was hooked on RPGs from that day forward.

The first FF I owned was FF6 (FF3 back then) in 1995. I can't remember how many times I stayed up all night playing it. It was a complex as heck for a pre-teen, it took be 3 YEARS to beat it :eek:, longer then any other RPG I ever owned.

God, how I love and respect you.

I played FF4 (or FF2, I guess) for the SNES, renting it from Blockbuster every weekend. My brothers and I could not beat the Magus Sisters in the Tower of Zot (because we didn't think to kill the fat one first) and then we moved away, leaving block buster and our save file behind.

We bought FF1 for the NES and loved every difficult and trying second of it. We rented FF2 some more around 1996/7, and made it to Zeromus, but got aced by his superior technique, Mortal Attack Blizzard Fist, also known as "Big Bang". I didn't actually beat Zeromus until about 6 years ago.

Then FF3 happened to me. I haven't been the same since. So MANY nights up until the sun came up. That's what the weekends were for, back then. We ALWAYS stayed up all night playing that game. It was the most surreal gaming experience that I've ever been part of.

I genuinely mourn for those who didn't play FF games until FF8 or 9. I guess that 7 was really good, but it had NOTHING on 6. NOTHING. Not even close.

[XandrewX]

FF4 was my first...

[Elfen]

Final Fantasy VII (PC version)

[Fire_Emblem776]

FF VI on the emulator in 2002

[Odin2006]

I genuinely mourn for those who didn't play FF games until FF8 or 9. I guess that 7 was really good, but it had NOTHING on 6. NOTHING. Not even close.

Definitely. I think The series has generally went downhill after FF7, too much concern with graphics and not enough on gameplay and plot. FF10 would of been fairly good if it wasn't so linear.

[cat_manda]

My first was final fantasy 8
I remember my bro getting it, and for the first couple of months i thought it was the most boring thing i had ever seen.
Then, one day i played it, and i gotta say...
I was hooked and felt rather idiotic at thinking it was boring haha
now i'm trying to get some of my friends, well, teh girls anyway, to play it...they don't have a problem with games, some just don't lay it ad others can't be bothered...rather unfortunate :P
if only half of them tried it, i'm sure they would like it haha
but since ff8, i've only played 10 and 10-2...i never saw 9 and 11 was online, so i couldn't be bothered...but as soon as 12 comes out over here...well, i'm getting it :P

[charliepanayi]

I genuinely mourn for those who didn't play FF games until FF8 or 9. I guess that 7 was really good, but it had NOTHING on 6. NOTHING. Not even close.

Definitely. I think The series has generally went downhill after FF7, too much concern with graphics and not enough on gameplay and plot. FF10 would of been fairly good if it wasn't so linear.

Well I played 9 first (followed by 7 and 8), but I wound up playing 6 eventually anyway - and lord knows you could find enough people (myself included) to argue with you saying it was all much better pre-FF7.

[Jowy]

Final Fantasy IV at the ripe young age of six. It boosted my vocabulary!

[manashima]

FFVI back when I was 8 in 1994. First time I played it I started from an high schooler friends existing file, that was at the part where Locke was in Figaro, and I had no idea what to do so I quickly returned it. Like a month later I got it again and started from the begining and loved it.

Got all the way up to the Final boss but a defect in the game erased it! I was so pissed, I returned it to whoever my cousin borrowed it from. Then came FFVII when I was about to be 11(september 10th is my birthday) so when it was released I remeber how shocked I was over the games graphics (but now thats come to pass). Then I dont know which was first FFanthology or FF8, But I know I got FF8 for my birthday again in september.

But FFIX is by far my favorite though.:D

[jill]

6 was the first one I played...but I was a little kid messing with my big bro's Nintendo, so I don't think that really counts :rolleyes2 I loeved watching him play (until he got to the end and cussed at the screen all the time) My first FF that I played seriously (and actually my first game EVER) was VIII. I loved it SOO much and it was the best game EVAR!!...until I got IX this summer and it became my new obses... I mean, favorite (and will be for quite a while, I think). Sometimes, though, I almost feel like a traitor. :( I still owe it all to you, Squall! Yeah, that was long, sorry.

[Evol]

Final Fantasy 8

[James16]

the old school game boy color FF. I think it was called Dawn of dreams or sumtin if i recall right. Played it when i was in 3 grade. you could play as a blob or like 6 other races . I loved that game so....:cry:

[Disco Potato]

When I was 12 I kept hearing things about FF9, so I decided to rent it. I got stuck in it really early on though, and I've never gotten around to playing since :p. But then one day I talked to my friend about it and she convinced me to play FF8, and I actually played that one all the way through. FF7 is my favorite though :p

[feioncastor]

Final Fantasy IV at the ripe young age of six. It boosted my vocabulary!

If you didn't know the word "Spoony" before, you do now.


Well I played 9 first (followed by 7 and 8), but I wound up playing 6 eventually anyway - and lord knows you could find enough people (myself included) to argue with you saying it was all much better pre-FF7.

I'm sure you're right. And you are all entitled to your opinions. Obviously, the "best" Final Fantasy isn't absolute. It varies from person to person. Even those who claim the games were better before FF8 will still argue over whether FF5 is better than FF6.

I personally feel that when they made FF7, they did an excellent job on the game, but they also realized that they could sell games just by making them look pretty. As a result, you get a game like FF10 where the graphics are breathtaking, but the gameplay is horribly lacking at just about every moment.

I'm not a programmer, but it seems like it's easier to come up with flashy graphics than it is to come up with catchy gameplay and an incredible story. Square is always trying to make the gameplay in each different and unique, which is a great idea. It just seems like they got lazy on the last few games. They didn't need to put a lot of effort into making catchy, innovative ways to interface with the story and the characters because they could hire guys with the book knowledge necessary to make the prettiest FMVs you've ever seen.

Keep in mind, this is my opinion. I didn't outright HATE Final Fantasy X, either. I liked it a lot. I'm just saying that Final Fantasy had built up quite a name and fan-base for itself, over the first 6/7 games. They had a lot to deliver when FF8, FF9 and FF10 came out. I had really high expectations, and when I saw the commercials for FF8, I was really excited because I figured I'd get a new, interesting gameplay with a fascinating story and the ever present Nobuo tunes, and now I'd get SWEET graphics as well.

They only delivered on the graphics, and partly on the music.

Gameplay, by its very nature and definition, is the thing that makes you like a game. You can't like a game for very long if all you like is the fancy graphics. Take Tetris for example. The game is virtually unchanged, after all these years. No fancy graphics. The music on Tetris rocks, but you only do get the 3 songs. So why do people play Tetris? Because of the gameplay.

I started playing Suikoden Tactics about two months ago. The story is neat as all heck. It's quite bizzare, even early on, and I enjoy the story a lot, overall. But I can't play the game much longer because the gameplay isn't enjoyable for me.

More examples being the Mario games, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3, Super Mario World, and so forth. They did have a story, usually about a princess getting nabbed by Bowser, and Mario going through a lot of work to save her. But honestly, we didn't play the game to see how the story ended, like you might in FF7 or FF6. It was fun to play, no matter what the story behind it was.

[black orb]

>>> FF1.

[RiseToFall]

VII

[Alex151]

VIII which might be why I favor it above the others

[Seita Firemaster]

FF8. then after i got to the Ragnorok on 8. I eventually picked up a copy of 7 and became upsessed with any and all RPG hence those games.

[Wild0ne]

Final Fantasy I for the NES...Then IV (II) for the SNES...And then quite possibly the greatest game of all of time...VI (III) when it first came out...I must have spent over a hundred dollars renting that game over the course of a year before I beat it...

Then came VII, amazing....Awesome game, the only game I thought was better then VI. Then VIII came and sucked sooo bad...No MP??? Summons die?? Cant learn magic?? Where's the typical legendary swords?? This aint a Final Fantasy!!! Then it seemed to go downhill from there...Thankfully Square made FFT to hold us over for awhile...

[daiyu]

FF1, on the original NES system. Ah the memories, going to have to go back and replay 1 and 2 (aka 4) someday... that was back in the day when leveling up was still a major pain.

[Takara]

FFIV was the first I played, but the first one I beat from start to finish was FFVI.

[Se-davvero-esiste]

IV was the one that popped my cherry (so to speak I'm not THAT weird). Then it was VI. Then I played through Mystic Quest...yes, I have nerves of steel.