Census Results - Get your slack asses in here.

[Slothy]

I vow to take the next census much more seriously

Please don't. Your detailed answers have been one of the highlights of this census. Now if only more people would elaborate on their answers.

[Wolf Kanno]

The amusing thing about the Nailbat is that it's actually useful in the Temple of The Ancients just because the bosses in that dungeon are highly resistant to most magic, so a heavy physical based weapon is actually good, especially since it sports the highest attack power at that point of the game.

[Slothy]

It's that time once again folks for everyone's least favourite game: running down a list of your least favourite whatever and making fun of you for trying to think. This time around it'll be:

Least favorite world map:
And we'll start off with the one vote club:
VI
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Ok, I honestly can't wait to see the justifications here.

Least favorite world map
FFV. It wasn't bad, it was just okay.

I don't think FFV is the game you think it is. See, FFV had two separate world maps with a rich variety of towns and dungeons, and secrets that always seemed just out of reach. Until the two got mashed together and the new geography opened up all kinds of cool places to visit and explore that just sat their taunting you throughout the game. It's genuinely one of the coolest world map concepts in the series.

Least favorite world map 6 WOR

No explanation. Why am I not surprised. I guess the non-linearity of the World of Ruin was too much for him.

Moving on to our second place entry:
II - 2 total votes

I'm going to have to see the rationale here because I've honestly never played FFII for more than half an hour or so.

Least favorite world map: FFII's was pretty boring.

Ok, that doesn't really help me. What about the other person who voted for it?

Least favorite world map - While I would love to say the games that don't have them... Probably FFII, outside of the chocobo forest and partially due to the unforgivable out of bounds encounters, it's not a fun world to explore. The day you get an airship in that game is godsend.

Ok, I'm still a little in the dark here, but whatever. WK says it's bad, that's good enough for me, even if he did almost vote for games with a map like FFXII.

Next up:
VIII - 4 total votes

Now we're talking. What did everyone have to say about this one?

Least favorite world map
VIII's. Didn't feel so great and all those random draw points, UFO sightings and stupid on-map quests were annyoing.

Least favorite world map: VIII. Big and empty. You mostly just get deposited to the different corners by the plot anyway, so there's no sense of adventure which is the whole point of a world map at all. Not big on IX's either, but at least it has Hot & Cold.

Least favorite world map: FF8

Least favorite world map
FFVIII. There were entire continents that were barely used for the story, or even not used at all. That and it just seems fairly empty. There wasn't an abundance of towns or dungeons to visit and revisit from what I recall.

There you have it folks. FFVIII's map sucks. Even the guy who's favourite game is Crisis Core recognizes it so that's saying something.

And finally, in first place we have:
Real Time Map (FFX-XIII) - 8 total votes*

Let me grab my popcorn for this one because I'm sure it will be hilarious.

Least favorite world map: XIII o wait you don't even get there -.-

Least favorite world map: FFXIII because it doesn't have a world map.

Least favorite world map - FF13

FFXIII: voted hallway simulator of the year 2010.

But hold on, there were more votes weren't there?

Least favorite world map: Tie between FF10 and FF12. Any time you create a play area in which there is no scaling it is impossible to make the adventure seem large. Calm Lands? Size of your average farmers field. Giruvegan? Located like a few kilometers outside Rabanastre

You know, for a game which was handicapped by such a towering limitation as it being impossible to make the adventure seem large without making the map really really small, I really seem to recall FFXII being one of the biggest games I've ever played. I must have been mistaken though since actually having a massive world instead of just implying one obviously makes things feel smaller.

Least favorite world map: FFX (first you couldn't travel on)

Silly kids and your love of impossible flying machines that get you there with no fuss. It's the journey not the destination right? Oh wait, you said FFX? Yeah, that journey kind of sucked.

Least favorite world map: Anything that doesn't have a world map

Haha, I see what you did there. You're a clever one. I'll have to have the census Ninja's keep an eye on you.

Least favorite world map: FFXII. Does a province really count as a "World Map?"

When that province is bigger than pretty much any other two FF world maps combined? Yes, it does.

Least favorite world map: FFX

Do those of you that agreed with Sum1sGruj feel dirty now? Because you really, really should.

[Mercen-X]

I totally forgot I said that bit about the marbles. Bloody brilliant, I am!

That leaves us with the top spot. It goes to a special little something I like to call Gil Toss. I don't need to explain how wholly useless it is. Paying money to deal damage you yourself could probably do more than? Simply incomprehensible. The time and effort and battling needed to have enough money to make this a worthwhile skill actually levels you to the point where it isn't. So stop smurfing throwing money around and start punching things in the face. Jesus H Christ, you should save that cash for the casino.

I am proud to be the only person in the known universe to appreciate having a use for my Gil passed all of the crap I've already bought or no longer have a use for. I've got X,000,000,000,000 Gil when the monsters I originally fought only offered 5 Gil. Now what do I do with it? Sometimes in games where money becomes useless, I spend hours buying up and selling useless things (for half price) and repeating until I've spent all of my money. Seriously... I've done this. EXPLANATION Because the money became useless. I just said this three seconds ago. Pay attention!

License Board: Yeah, I should have remembered that. This is an axe. I can swing an axe. I need a license for THIS AXE? Is this a broken ability system or a legal system? (legal systems are usually broken anyway)

Junction is still sh...

Seriously! If you ask for help in most other FF games people are like "game's not hard dude, just grind a little more and try it again."

I usually ended up beating things at levels well below the suggested. Of course, that was starting with VII (exception to side-bosses Ruby, Emerald, Omega, Ozma, etc). Trying to play later parts of earlier games was bitchy as well.

[The Man]

You're not alone, actually. Over-levelled as I often am when I finish a Final Fantasy game I usually have way more money than I can ever possibly spend. Gil Toss is often more useful a way to get rid of it than anything else. Of course the way I play I usually end up with way more Elixirs and other things than I will ever be able to use as well (mostly because I never use them).

[Mercen-X]

I get rid of those when they work on Undeads. I believe there's at least one installment where Elixirs actually return HP to Undeads. I don't remember clearly.

[Jiro]

Have you got mad skills? Skills that make you the top pick in school yard football? Well then this is not the place for you. We only want to hear about useful battle skills here.

Favourite Skill

There are a lot of abilities in the Final Fantasy series. No, really. When you think about how many games there are, and how many individual skills are in each, then you're left with a metric smurftonne of them. It's a real measurement, trust me.

One Pointers

• Dragonheart
• Throw
• Manipulate/Control
• Mix
• Punch Art
• Mime

These are actually some useful skills. Let's start with Gamblet who is beginning to prove himself as a member whose opinion is not always completely invalid and wrong.

Punch Art from FFT, free healing and mana, versatile attack skills.

That sounds smurfing useful. And punching is a badass way to deal with enemies.

Mix (I love chemists, too bad most of the games don't have them)

I am going to alert all the pharmacies in your local area just in case you have some kind of weird psycho chemistry fetish.

Manipulate. I would like to use this in real life. I'm not a pervert or anything. I would just use it to have sex with thousands of women.

Not going to touch this one

Third Place (2)
We have a three way tie here, between Devour, Mug, and Darkness. I know that increasing your damage output is a good thing, but sacrificing your own life to do so seems unnecessary. The concept behind such a thing is somewhat concerning too. What are you doing, sacrificing your soul?

Darkness from X-2. All powerful.

I seem to recall a few X-2 based votes from you. Anything you're not telling us? Maybe we can start a fan club.

Darkness, loved it since I was a kid. Big damage to all enemies for hurting yourself. I also loved Gil Toss for giving me something to do with the ridiculous money I'm able to make by doing well... anything.

And you were doing so well until you mentioned Gil Toss.

Devour. Also did you know you can use it on Rinoa when you fight Adel? tit, answering all of these with FFVIII makes me wanna play it again.

I don't want to think about Squall devouring Rinoa. smurfing weird.

Devour. That frickin' needs to come back.

You're way too into this.

Mug is a great skill, because it allows you to steal without sacrificing damage.

Yes, it is a great skill. Where are the rest of the sensible people?

Second Place (3)
Do you like Sabin, because Blitz is in second. Blitz resulted in some pretty cool tit as Vivi22 will let you know:

Perhaps it's the fighting game fan in me, but I always liked Blitz as a kid. Always useful (what FFVI skill isn't really) and there was some challenge to using it as the game went on and inputs became more complex the stronger the Blitz. Of course, finding out the secret to doing them more easily kind of ruined that, but not on my first playthrough. Plus, and this isn't really mechanics related, but you can Suplex a train. What's not to love?

What's not to love, indeed. Except for the fact that Mugging tit is so much better? Anyway. Nobody else wants to tell us why Blitz is good, so we'll put it down to the train-suplex incident.

First Place (4)
It's nice to see a close contest. But I guess this skill just stole the show! It's... Steal. Do you like puns? I love puns. Puns are awesome. But you people are idiots. Why is Steal better than Mug? It's not, that's what.

Steal is probably my favorite, even though I don't generally like thief classes, I do like getting cool rare swag. In Tactics, a Thief is devastating on the battlefield.

YOU COULD MUG THE SWAG TOO YOU KNOW.

Steal. I steal from everything.

I guess that makes it just fine and dandy then. You people are idiots.

[Bubba]

Aww man... I'm so sorry everyone.

[The Man]

I actually like Steal more than Mug because sometimes Mug kills the monster I'm stealing from before I can actually steal the smurfing treasure. This is particularly annoying in one-shot boss fights, and I'm too lazy to swap it out just for boss fights so I usually just don't bother with Mug at all. True story.

Also how the smurf are Tools not listed. Seriously people, they're probably more useful than Blitz, and they're impossible to smurf up the execution for. (Granted I don't smurf up the execution for Blitzes anyway because I'm leet, but a lot of you aren't as lucky as I am).

[Rantz]

I want to rep Bubba's whole census entry.

[Mercen-X]

First Place (4)
It's nice to see a close contest. But I guess this skill just stole the show! It's... Steal. Do you like puns? I love puns. Puns are awesome. But you people are idiots. Why is Steal better than Mug? It's not, that's what.

And your smarta$$ery was prospering so well up until that bit. Ahem. What you said WASN'T a PUN. It was a "PLAY" on "words". Like when you feel like you're in a stable because you're surrounded by naysayers. Not a pun. A play on words. Your rep is officially dashed.

Also, I second what The Man has said. And you're a dingus if you disagree.

[Jinx]

Manipulate. I would like to use this in real life. I'm not a pervert or anything. I would just use it to have sex with thousands of women.

Not going to touch this one

That's what she said.

[Del Murder]

Like The Man said, steal is more useful than mug because mug might kill the monster.

[Loony BoB]

I don't want to think about Squall devouring Rinoa. smurfing weird.

Yeah. Weird. Also, what you're doing wrong is putting Squall in that thought. I mean, c'mon.

What do you get out of devouring Rinoa, Jessweeee♪!?

[Rantz]

A permanent +10 HP. That is to say, permanent until you get a game over because Rinoa died.