Most Average Final Fantasy

[Heath]

Before I start, I'm fully aware that I'm going to get mauled by statisticians for not specifying which average I mean from the off.

Which FF game would you say is the most average? I'm not going to be terribly specific, but in terms of - say - quality or relative to the other games, which would say is the median Final Fantasy game? Not great, but not bad, just there in the middle. Not necessarily a game that sums up the series on the whole, but perhaps the game you think would be a good barometer of success to judge a new game by (i.e. whether it's good or bad by comparison).

I'd probably say that in my opinion, FFIII fits the bill here for me. I'd say that it's a game that I always tend to have placed in the middle when I try to rank the games. I never have it ranked lowly (as I might have X or VIII), but at the same time it's never up there with the likes of IX, XII or IV for me.

Weird thread, I know, but I thought it'd be rather more interesting than the usual 'which is the best', 'which is the worst' fare.

[Flying Mullet]

I don't know that we've ever had an "average" thread before, just "best" and "worst".

I'm going to go with FFX. I would enjoy sitting down and playing it but if I got up and didn't get back to it for six months, if ever, it wouldn't bother me one bit either.

[NeoCracker]

Again, why isn't Mystic Quest ever in these polls?

Though I'm going to Say VII, basically for the same reason you picked V.

[Flying Mullet]

Again, why isn't Mystic Quest ever in these polls?

Because it's obviously well above average. There's no need to include an option that will get zero votes.

Though I'm going to Say VII, basically for the same reason you picked V.

Who picked V?

[NeoCracker]

III I mean.

I'm just a crazy loon.

[Flying Mullet]

Or maybe you secretly think V is the most average?

[NeoCracker]

Or maybe It was just a horrible Typo, and you're trying to use it to put things on me that aren't really there?

[Wolf Kanno]

This is actually a tough one... using your guidlines though...

FFI, cause it has a surprisingly good story, battle system, music and overall feel. Some games fall short while other games excel. FFI is my middle game cause I do feel there are FFs that can't even climbed to the originals greatness.

[Vivisteiner]

Because it's obviously well above average.

Its so far above average its not even funny.



My vote goes for nothing. I reckon its somewhere in FFs 1-VI (the ones I havent played yet).

[,,,]

I won't bother voting, but I'll say VIII. It's the only game of the series I'm lukewarm on. I don't hate it. It was kinda fun. But I didn't really "get into" the game and I wasn't playing it for fun or even because I wanted to play it for the sake of playing it, I was just playing it so there'd be one less FF I hadn't completed. I don't have any desire to play it ever again. But really, it wasn't bad. Kinda fun. But eh...

[mose-schrute]

I chose FFVIII for the reasons stated above. That being said, I'm replaying it and it's actually not as fun as I remember it being but it's not hard or annoying...and it also has a boring story.

[Big D]

For me, it's FFV. Good game, certainly, but just so... unremarkable in many respects. Most FFs have some element that's a radical departure from the norm, but V just feels like it's trying to tread the safest ground possible.

[Karellen]

FFIX and X both have an equal distribution of good and bad things. I'd probably go with X, since IX's good things are slightly better and FFX's bad things are slightly worse.

[rubah]

ff12 was so dull for having such a good combat system. . .

[Vermachtnis]

X, because it's good when it's good and bad when it's bad. I loved the Sphere Grid, but hated by the end when every character became clones of each other. I like the voice acting, but Yuna's voice changed tones randomly.