Least Favourite Final Fantasy

[Del Murder]

Being swayed by such trivial things is silly. Like the game or hate the game for the experience you get while playing it, not by any external factors.

People can not like FFVII, I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has played the majority of the series can consider it their least favorite. If you prefer the old school FFs then why would you dislike VII more than XIII? Or if you like the super shiny graphic games why prefer II over VII? It's the literal midpoint of the series right now so for anything you dislike about it chances are it was done worse in another game.

[Slothy]

Or someone could just hate FFVII for reasons completely unrelated to nostalgia or graphics. There's still the story, characters, gameplay, etc.

[Momiji]

Being swayed by such trivial things is silly. Like the game or hate the game for the experience you get while playing it, not by any external factors.

People can not like FFVII, I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has played the majority of the series can consider it their least favorite. If you prefer the old school FFs then why would you dislike VII more than XIII? Or if you like the super shiny graphic games why prefer II over VII? It's the literal midpoint of the series right now so for anything you dislike about it chances are it was done worse in another game.

Really, to be honest, I would have voted X-2 but it wasn't on the list.

[Wolf Kanno]

Being swayed by such trivial things is silly. Like the game or hate the game for the experience you get while playing it, not by any external factors.

People can not like FFVII, I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has played the majority of the series can consider it their least favorite. If you prefer the old school FFs then why would you dislike VII more than XIII? Or if you like the super shiny graphic games why prefer II over VII? It's the literal midpoint of the series right now so for anything you dislike about it chances are it was done worse in another game.

Come now Del, VII is toward my bottom of lists of FFs as well, while I can't say I hate the game, it leaves much to be desired for me cause I can't stand the cast (my least favorite cast) and the second disc is poorly written imho. Not to mention I found game balance goes out the window midway through it. Really, I just wasn't that impressed and parts of the game have not aged well since then. I feel these are pretty legitimate reasons not to like a game, I find it baffling when people hate on III, IV, VI, and IX but people have different taste. Go figure.

[Shiny]

FFXII blows like the wind.

[Del Murder]

Come now Del, VII is toward my bottom of lists of FFs as well, while I can't say I hate the game, it leaves much to be desired for me cause I can't stand the cast (my least favorite cast) and the second disc is poorly written imho. Not to mention I found game balance goes out the window midway through it. Really, I just wasn't that impressed and parts of the game have not aged well since then. I feel these are pretty legitimate reasons not to like a game, I find it baffling when people hate on III, IV, VI, and IX but people have different taste. Go figure.

So it's your least favorite and you've played them all?

I'm not saying no one can hate the game. I'm just saying anyone who has played I-XIII and thinks VII is the worst is odd to me. Chances are people who voted VII would hate at least one the ones they haven't played more.

[Wolf Kanno]

Yes I've played them all and its my third least favorite FF. I never had the serious issues with the other titles. I found VII to be rather disappointing and not living up to its hype. Doesn't mean I hate the game but playing through the game does not garner the same kind of enthusiasm or attention the other titles bring me.

[Clo]

not living up to its hype.

I hate to get into this, because people can dislike whatever they want, but maybe the very existence of the hype can tarnish something. Because I played FFVII when it first came out in the States, and it was a brand new thing no one had well-known opinions about, so I had this untouched experience of it.

This leads this down an extremely, extremely subjective road though, I just wanted to comment about the hype really. Because the subsequent hype of that game has MORTIFIED me.

In other news, I am very sad that FFVIII is up there, even though there's a lot of good reasons for disliking it. I just really enjoy that game, for bizarre little reasons. To the point where my boyfriend was nervous to confess to me that he didn't like it. Though I understood, it's sad.

[reinward]

toss up between XIII and XII for me, but i went with XIII

[Breine]

It's become cool to dislike VII because it's probably the most popular Final Fantasy game out there. But hey, people are totally allowed to dislike it, I'm just saying that it might be one of the reasons why it's getting so many votes.

As for my least favourite FF? Hmm, I don't really know actually... I haven't played XIII and III yet, but out of the ones I have played I'd probably have to say something like II. I just never really got that much into it - just lost the interest. Maybe I need to give it a second chance, eh?

[Erin]

Final Fantasy X-2. I hated that game.

[Xanthia]

... X-2.

Nothing more need be said for me

[Miriel]

Least favorite = FFVIII

SO MUCH HATE.

[aquatius]

I could never get much pleasure out of IV, for some reason.

[Raistlin]

Being swayed by such trivial things is silly. Like the game or hate the game for the experience you get while playing it, not by any external factors.

I agree with this.

People can not like FFVII, I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has played the majority of the series can consider it their least favorite. If you prefer the old school FFs then why would you dislike VII more than XIII? Or if you like the super shiny graphic games why prefer II over VII? It's the literal midpoint of the series right now so for anything you dislike about it chances are it was done worse in another game.

I disagree with this. There is much more to games than the graphics and settings, and it is certainly possible to dislike some of that other stuff from FFVII enough (story, writing, characters, gameplay, etc.). FFVII is not close to the worst for me, personally, but I concede that the writing is pretty terrible.

EDIT: My least favorite would have to be either X or VIII. I also approve of FFT not being on this list, since it is obviously superior and can be no sane person's least favorite.