Census Results - Get your slack asses in here.

[Loony BoB]

*ashamed*

[Hollycat]

I completely forgot about this.

[Raistlin]

Who put VI as their favorite limit break system? Really?

I agree with Vivi; Quickenings were a pretty cool concept. They started out ridiculously powerful, but got to the point where you had to be really careful with them (unless you were an expert with massive chains, I guess).

[Slothy]

Who put VI as their favorite limit break system? Really?

Spooniest since you asked.

I don't get it either. I assume some damn good drugs were involved either while playing FFVI, voting, or both.

[Jinx]

*ashamed*

goddammit bob

[Jiro]

We're winding to a close now. Better late than never, right? I suppose I just wanted to prolong my own misery; half the time you people are wrong, and the other half you're wrong and make me want to rip off my own arm and beat myself to death with it. Do you even realise how terrible you have to be to force that kind of emotion on someone? You all need to go to a church and confess your grievous sins to God. Maybe he'll spare you because I certainly smurfing won't.

Favourite Unique Summon ------------------- Least Favourite Unique Summon
Magus Sisters.....................4 ------------------ Yojimbo..................3
Anima...............................3 ------------------ Eden......................3
Knights of the Round..........2 ------------------ Goblin/Imp..............2
Madeen/Maduin..................1 ------------------ Tonberry................1
Choco-Mog........................1 ------------------ Belias.....................1
Moogle.............................1 ------------------ Typhon..................1
Doomtrain.........................1 ------------------ Byrnhilda................1
Eden................................1 ------------------ Cait Sith.................1
Zalera...............................1 ------------------ Doomtrain..............1
Typhon.............................1 ------------------ Kujata...................1
Jumbo Cactuar...................1 ------------------ Crusader................1
NOBODY LOLS...................0 ------------------ Ixion.....................1

Favourite Unique Summon
The Magus Sisters in FFX. I love FFIV so the nostalgia there may have won me over, but I also enjoyed questing to get them, and found the way they were an interesting change from the other summons. If I'm not mistaken they controlled a bit differently when it came to actual gameplay which I found novel, but my memories of FFX are a bit fuzzy now.

Least Favourite Unique Summon
Belias. Utterly useless in FFXII, though I appreciate the irony of one of the hardest bosses in FFT being made into the worst summon in FFXII.

Favourite Unique Summon
FFX Magus Sisters. They're unique alright. And adorable!

Least Favourite Unique Summon
Yojimbo. Like the Magus Sisters above, there's no other summon like him, and thank goodness for that.

Favourite unique summon
Choco/Mog deals wind damage and also has a chance to stop (or paralyze, I forget which) the targets, meaning you then get some breathing space to heal up or continue dealing damage. Additionally there's the Fat Chocobo random chance which deals even more damage and is quick funny to boot. The summon is also cheap, and the easiest to master so you can give it to everyone!

Least favorite unique summon
Yojimbo. He's like the summon form of Gil Toss, and for that reason he is ineffective, expensive and unnecessary.

I don't get it.

Favourite Unique Summon
That Sephiroth summon 'Pale Horse' I think. I remember thinking "Wow. This is awesome...and it's gonna kick the tit out of me". I didn't mind the length.

Least Favourite Unique Summon
Doomtrain. It's a train. Although I wish I could summon a train to Manchester Piccadilly at 5.30pm on a weekday.

Favourite Unique Summon
Anima, despite how much I dislike FFX, there is something gleefully sadistic about using her.

Least Favourite Unique Summon
Ixion, smurfing useless horse thing... My GF always renames it "Useless" whenever she plays through FFX. It has no hp, no defense, even it's evasion is not that great compared to Valefore and it's unique skill and Overdrive are lame.

Half of these smurfing summons I have never heard of. Does that make me a bad Final Fantasy player? No, smurf you for even thinking that. It makes you hipster smurftards who hack the game data to find the names of random ass creatures who show up once in the series and then get trashed for being utterly retarded ideas concocted while smoking some really bad cactuar. I put Gamblet's quote in there not as an example of a moronic imbecile who struggles to understand simple questions but as an example of someone who gets that you shouldn't care about this one. Shout out to Freya who only answered "yer mom" to the question Favourite Unique Summon. Damn straight, girl.

[Raistlin]

A lot of FFX talk here. I definitely have to agree with Yojimbo for least favorite. KotR might be more deserving if it wasn't so smurfing long.

[Mercen-X]

[Slothy]

Census results update! You know what that means: Vivi22 is home sick and since I can't cough on you all, I'll settle for hating every one of you.

Favorite world map
First up, the los... wait, is it really fair to call them losers if they're in the favourite category?

The correct answer is yes, of course it is.
V- 2 total votes
VIII - 2 total votes
XII - 1 vote

Favorite world map: FF5 end map
Seeing how the world maps came together and made all sorts of sense was awesome.

Favorite world map: Final Fantasy V, it has like 3 world maps and they are every time so different, exploring them is fun.

Favorite world map: XII. The world map areas are locations/dungeons in and of themselves rather than in-between sections between towns or caves. If you're looking for traditional world map preference: VII. I like the progression and orientation the most. No jumping around and no plot depositing you at arbitrary corners of the world for story purposes.

No. No flip flopping. Unless you're name is Mitt Romney.

Third Place:
VII - 4 total votes

Favorite world map
Final Fantasy VII's is just barely better than IX's in my books. Not just plain fun to fly over but also fun to traverse during the storyline.

Favorite world map: FFVII. Perfect blend of areas plus you could go underwater.

Leave it to Del to like an underwater area. I'm sure there's a joke about sleeping with the fishes in there somewhere.

Second Place:
IX - 6 total votes

Favorite world map
The world map of IX was pretty great, and maintained a sense of adventure. Once you leave the Mist Continent, you're still limited to foot travel. Even as you gain more and more vehicles, the world doesn't immediately open up and allow you to go wherever you want, maintaining some mystery and exploratory value.

I almost didn't quote anyone because only Jiro actually explained his answer for FFIX people. Argh!

First Place:
VI - 7 total votes

In the interests of speeding things along because I feel like trout, here's what I said about it:

Favorite world map
Argh, this is tough. I'm going to go with FFVI I think because I liked being able to explore the world, then explore it in it's destroyed form all over again. FFV was cool too with how the two worlds fit together, but I have to give it to FFVI here.

Next up, and one near and dear to my heart:

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB)

Again, loser first:
CTB (FFX) - 2 total votes

I'd quote you guys, but apparently no one knows why they didn't like it.

Third Place:
ADB - 4 total votes

And four of you are proven insane. The men in white coats will collect you shortly. While you wait, let's all point and laugh at what you had to say for yourselves.

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB): FFXII's faux-MMO style. I prefer to be able to cleanly run, without getting the snot kicked out of me all the while.

As opposed to what? Being interrupted by a battle screen every five seconds?

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB)
ADB (XII's). It just doesn't feel like a Final Fantasy. The fact that you could switch accessories during battle can be so easily exploited and those goddamn enemy attacks that interrupt the fight are so annoying. I'm not even gonna start on the Quickenings.

Well, that's enough of that. Lastly, in a tie for first:
Turn Base - 6 total votes
CSB - 6 total votes

And once more, comments from the peanut gallery:

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB) - CSB, mainly because it's mostly flash and little else. Changing A.I. scripts gets old rather quickly and the limited roles and questionable A.I. scripts makes the game boring and frustrating. It's was a serious step back from FFXII's Gambit System/ADB.

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB)
Turn based usually. Most of the games are so easy to begin with that making it turn based takes away any pressure you may feel in battle. There are exceptions where turn based is quite interesting, such as FFT where enemies are almost always a bit of a threat and FFX where the turn based nature at least sped things up, and being able to see turn order on screen let you not only plan better, but see the effect of manipulating it. But when it's just bog standard turn based in your typical FF it's rarely that interesting a system.

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB): Turn Based. The fact that you never know what order the moves are going to come in forces you to play conservatively instead of using more involved strategies.

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB)
Inputting all of your moves in at the start of each round and letting speed handle the rest is very inaccurate, I feel. I like to know what moves I should use in every situation, rather than hoping the enemies don't hit a critical or target the same character etc.

Wait, what? I don't even know what that's a vote for Jiro!

Least favorite battle system (turn based, ATB, CTB, ADB, CSB): CSB. I don't hate it, but I don't like that it's so hands-off to the point that synergists and saboteurs just use EVERY buff and de-buff instead of just the relevant ones. It's not game-breaking at all but it basically encapsulates how thin the gameplay is of the whole game.

I guess that was more like comments from the census committee. Why? Because we actually explain our votes!

So here we are. Home stretch. Only two more to go, and I've got all day to complain at you. Will we finally finish this thing? Check in next year for the answer.

[Jiro]

I voted for the turnbased system from the original games xD I see how that was confusing though. Still, anything is better than setting your commands and waiting to see if they are still relevant after the very first move.

[Mercen-X]

I saw it as a vote for the battle system from Dragon Breath.

[Tigmafuzz]

and since I can't cough on you all, I'll settle for hating every one of you.

KEEP UP THAT ENTHUSIASM BUDDY! :<3:

[Quindiana Jones]

People who dislike the FFXII battle system are horrible idiots. :kishi:

[Raistlin]

Agreed. FFXII was a step in the right direction for more dynamic JRPGs.

[Jiro]

Click.

This is it gang. You've been abysmal failures all the way through. Can you turn the tides!? Welcome to the Final Countdown!!!!!

Favourite Recurring Summon

One Pointers

• Shiva
• Carbuncle
• Golem
  
• Ramuh

Look at these guys! They keep coming back for more and you can't even respect them enough to vote in their favour. These poor summons give it their all each time. Okay, so why do you like these one point performers?

Carbuncle (so cute ^_^)

Poor Carbuncle. Tries so hard and just gets called cute. I know girls who hate being called cute because it's about as complimentary as being called a walking sack of trout.

I would say Gilgamesh, but he isn't THAT useful. So I am going with Golem, because you can block attacks.

Gilgamesh isn't even the first thought in Gamblet's head. Way to devalue his contributions. Oh yay, you're my runner up and all you do is block attacks. smurf MAN HE'S A MEATSHIELD FOR YOU.

I don't really know which ones are recurring besides Efreet and Shiva. I prefer to see a new summon... honestly.

You hipster. No Final Fantasy game ever used Efreet!

Fiery Fourth (2)
Joint fourth place getters Ifrit and Phoenix are here to heat things up. These hotties are all about turning things to ash right. Maybe they can help me burn you guys at a level where you might actually realise just how much your life needs to change.

I am the God of hellfire and I bring you...Ifrit. Not quite as catchy but Ifrit is still cool. Or hot. But not in an 'I fancy you' kind of way.

You totally fancy him, dude.

Phoenix, as it often revives the party in addition to dealing damage. Coupled with the Final Attack materia in VII, it becomes an auto-revive, plus dealing fire damage, which can easily save the party's ass in a fight.

Oh look at that, I give the only well thought out explanation this time around. LIKE 90% OF THE smurfING TIME YOU USELESS COCK WASTRELS.

Theocratic Third(3)
It belongs to that fella Alexander. All I remember of him is that he is a castle in Final Fantasy IX and gets his ass utterly handed to him. Not very impressive (although the FMV sequence is smurfing superb a+++ would watch again).

Alexander, a giant robot fortress that sometimes has angel wings and fires Holy Light to purge it's enemies? Sign me up. It's also just nice to have an AoE Holy Spell. Though I wish the series would drop the Macross missile attack and go back to the Holy Laser Beam of Doom.

See this is the kind of responses we're after. Try and remember that for next time. How wicked does the Holy Laser Beam of Doom sound, man? smurf. Yes.

Sultry Second (4)
ahahahaha tricked you this one goes to Odin. What a kickass guy. Instakiller. He should release his own rap album.

Odin. I like summons that just completely annihilate everything, especially in FF VIII where he can be really useful.

Karifean proving he has never actually played Final Fantasy VIII and experienced the crushing disappointment caused by Odin's appearance.

smurfing First (6)
It doesn't alliterate after the smurfing filter smurfs with it but shut up I don't even care. The winner is Bahamut which is entirely unexpected because nothing smurfs trout up like Bahamut smurfs trout up.

Bahamut. I really don't have a specific gameplay reason other than it's usually one of the more powerful summons out there and I like Dragons. FFVII having 3 versions of it tickled me in all of the right places as a kid. Sure it's glorified black magic, but sometimes I just want to hit my enemy really hard.

Yeah man. Sometimes you just want to take your Bahamut and smash it into a census voter's head and hope that the Mega Flare melts their entire skull so that even if they come back as a zombie you won't have to look at their stupid smurfing face.