Most unreasonably disliked FF title! Now with 33% more fan bias!

[Wolf Kanno]

Let's face it. There just seems to be a few FF titles that get a lot of disrespect and usually for asinine reasons. Certainly the popualr games like VI,VII, and X get nailed but they have such an overwhelming fanbase that love them. I'm talking about the games that get overlooked and just plain kicked to the curb whenever you wander into a "Most Popular..." thread.

I have created a poll so we may decide as a community which FF game needs a little more love


You will notice that a few titles may seem to be missing... IV and V I feel have strong fan bases and though they are overlooked quite often, it's rare to hear someone say something truly terrible about the game. I mean how often does the FFIV and V forums get the "THIS GAMEZ SUKS! YOU ALL LOZZORS!" type threads?

You will also notice I have not put XII in this either. This may be surprising coming from me if you have wandered into the XII forums but I feel XII is too new and is still within a "hazing" period that the fans put every FF game through when they are released. Basically I feel it is still too early to say how you really felt about it.

You will also notice that VIII is also on the list which is odd cause it has a large fanbase that love it but since this game is still a whipping boy by everyone else I feel it deserves to be there. I'm still iffy about placing IX on the poll so discuss if you wish.

[Karellen]

There is significant dislike for FFIII DS? News to me.

I think FFXI is the clear answer here. At least for the most part people have actually played the other games before they cast their judgment on them. 90% of the complaints I've heard about FFXI in some way related to its monthly fee. I mean, fair enough if MMOs aren't your thing but understand that the fact that it operates in this way doesn't speak anything of the quality of the game itself.

[Avarice-ness]

*runs in waving a flag*

FFVII IS FAIL!

FFVI IS THE BEST!

I had to do that for the sake of being a biased fan!

*running out then*

[Ramza Beoulve]

*runs in waving a flag*

FFVII IS FAIL!

FFVI IS THE BEST!

I had to do that for the sake of being a biased fan!

*running out then*

... ooooook...

Well, I'll go for FFVIII on this one, you know?

[Elpizo]

There is significant dislike for FFIII DS? News to me.

You'd be surprised.

Anyway, I voted III DS. Cause it's the truth.

"This game is hard!" "This game is too easy! They nerfed the original!" "This game is a disgrace to the original!" "This story sucks!" "Where's the story?!" "Where's Kefka?!" "Job system sucks!" "No savepoints suck!" "3D sucks!" "It should be on PSP!" "DS sucks thus III sucks as well!" "This 3D is freaking ugly!" "It should be 2D cause 3D is not close to the original!" "The difficulty is nerfed!" "Waah! I died on this boss!"

Ans so on... I left out the n00b-talk that often accompanies these posts, they are bad enough without that.

This game barely gets any respect and everything on it is critisized by at least somebody. I recently re-read an interview with the developpers, a very interesting one. Those people put a lot of effort in this game and the 3D was a concious choice. People should read up a bit before they act like idiots.

Xcomp’s Yuuenchi » “Creator’s Voice” - The Final Fantasy III Interview

[PeneloRatsbane]

I gotta say that the best one (XII) gets the most crud, its the best one for freaks sake!
But as its not on the list i'm gunna go with VIII it was good, just the junctioning shiz that damaged it

[Slothy]

I'll go with FFI-III if that's alright. Granted, most of the reasons people don't like them are valid reasons that I largely agree with, but I think the games need to be considered in context. They were great games for their time, and largely hold up well today from a gameplay standpoint.

I also feel FFX-2 should be on there. Too many people seem hell bent on saying the whole thing sucked horribly. Granted the story wasn't the greatest and many of the sidequests had little actual point in the grand scheme of things, but the gameplay was some of the best in the series. If nothing else, I can enjoy playing that game for the battle system for hours.

[Vivisteiner]

Id say FFIX, because I know people who dislike it because of the deformed characters and the fact that the main character has a tail.

[Bolivar]

I would vote for VIII, but I would put it in the same boat as X, for not being on the list. X has a large fanbase but gets trashed severely.

I voted for FFII. Out of all the Final Fantasys, even more than III and V, THIS IS THE ONE that everyone disreguards as not even worth playing. With it's PSX/GBA update (i play GBA on my GC!) this is possibly my favorite of the 2d Final Fantasy's. Call me crazy, but I love the story and the gameplay is the most interesting because you can really just mess around with it. Bow before the greatness of FFII!!!

[Elpizo]

I voted for FFII. Out of all the Final Fantasys, even more than III and V, THIS IS THE ONE that everyone disreguards as not even worth playing. With it's PSX/GBA update (i play GBA on my GC!) this is possibly my favorite of the 2d Final Fantasy's. Call me crazy, but I love the story and the gameplay is the most interesting because you can really just mess around with it. Bow before the greatness of FFII!!!

I liked II. Not as much as I liked FF I (I played DoS) but I liked it. Pandaemonium was awesome. And Soul of Rebirth was an interesting experience (although I found the ending a bit vague).

It's just that the gameplay, while a good idea, didn't really work out like SE intended, I think. It's a bit like VIII's junctionning, you can abuse the system to power yourself up incredibly right from the beginning.

[The Crystal]

I think FFXI is the clear answer here. At least for the most part people have actually played the other games before they cast their judgment on them. 90% of the complaints I've heard about FFXI in some way related to its monthly fee. I mean, fair enough if MMOs aren't your thing but understand that the fact that it operates in this way doesn't speak anything of the quality of the game itself.

Exactly. People dislike the game without even playing it. They don't even think about FFXI. This is why it's not being voted in this thread. The majority of people just ignore it.

Second place is FFVII. It have a large fanbase, but it's bashed all the time ONLY because it is(was) popular.

[Ouch!]

I think Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy XI get more crap for no legitimate reason than any other titles. That's not say there aren't good reasons to dislike the games, but they just seem to get a lot more shallow complaints than other titles. Usually when I hear someone complain about other titles in the series, they can present a good reason for such an opinion.

Vivisteiner presented the reasons I might agree that FFIX deserves the most unreasonably disliked FF title, but having played FFXI, I truly believe that game gets more crap than any other simply because it's an online game.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of reasons for anyone to detest Final Fantasy XI. Most of these reasons, however, are only discovered after playing the game for some time. Still, I hear more people bitch and moan about FFXI simply because it's an online game. The complaints have been going around since the game was announced as an MMORPG. I don't consider it unreasonable to not wish to play FFXI because it's online (online games aren't for everyone, after all), but there's no reason to go on about it being such a bad game just because of that.

As for the other titles, there are legitimate reasons for people to dislike the games. Final Fantasy I isn't exactly what someone who was introduced to RPGs with FFVII might expect, and that would naturally put them off of it. FFII's battle system is also good reason to shy away from that game. I never heard that FFIII DS got a lot of crap, but I never paid much attention to what people were saying about that anyway. Many people, myself included, dislike FFVIII because we're unsatisfied with the plot for many reasons (most of which are irrelevant to this thread anyway). FFTA was a disappointment to many because it's not what we expected for a semi-sequel to Tactics. As far as Crystal Chronicles goes, I've not enough experience with the game (read: never played it) to know if there's real justification.

I don't see many people blindly hating any of these games because of superficial details like I do with FFIX and FFXI, so I can't say they're the most unreasonably disliked FF titles. I might say that FFVIII gets more crap than any other game, but I wouldn't say that's entirely unreasonable.

[Bolivar]

I voted for FFII. Out of all the Final Fantasys, even more than III and V, THIS IS THE ONE that everyone disreguards as not even worth playing. With it's PSX/GBA update (i play GBA on my GC!) this is possibly my favorite of the 2d Final Fantasy's. Call me crazy, but I love the story and the gameplay is the most interesting because you can really just mess around with it. Bow before the greatness of FFII!!!

I liked II. Not as much as I liked FF I (I played DoS) but I liked it. Pandaemonium was awesome. And Soul of Rebirth was an interesting experience (although I found the ending a bit vague).

It's just that the gameplay, while a good idea, didn't really work out like SE intended, I think. It's a bit like VIII's junctionning, you can abuse the system to power yourself up incredibly right from the beginning.

indeed, these two games have alot in common with gameplay, they're without question the 2 most open ended systems in the series. I think that's one of the many possible reasons why VIII's protagonist was named Leonheart.

[Rengori]

FFX has a large fanbase?

[Wolf Kanno]

FFX has a large fanbase?

Not as large as VII's (think more like VIs size) but just as rabid as both of them...