Census Results - Get your slack asses in here.

[Jiro]

It pleases me to see that the Job System, if nothing else, made it to the top spot. For you see, it really is one of the most creative things the Final Fantasy series has ever made - without it sucking of course - and so I'd like to give you a chance to improve your standing in not only my eyes but the eyes of the good man himself, Vivi22. He hurts for you, people of EoFF. You cause him great pain and suffering. Let's try not to do that with this one, okay?

Favourite Job Class System

You all know what job systems are. 7 of you correctly voted for it in the previous category. Let's see which one you think is best. Suit up, gentlemen.

One Pointers

A job is not just a job. There's a difference here as there are differences in meatspace. Do you want a system that's horribly bias against you? No, of course not.

• Final Fantasy XI
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2

I was confused, for a minute, by the presence of Final Fantasy XI. I thought surely Loony BoB would have voted for the fourteenth instalment despite its tendency to utterly suck bollocks. But it turns out the vote was actually from Del Murder. Let's see what his reasoning was.

FFXI. Because everyone else will vote V or Tactics.

Wait, what? You're voting one way because everyone else will vote another? Way to skew the Census, pops! But at least you can recognise greatness, so you're spared some wrath this time.

Fourth Place (2)

Now we're starting to make progress. Sitting in fourth place with a total of two votes is...Final Fantasy XIII's Paradigms. I cannot believe only two people could see that the stripped back and simplified job system contained within Final Fantasy XIII was immensely well conceived. Look at the sheer number of combinations a party could have. Not only that, but each Paradigm set up has its own name, which scores several points of awesome in my book. I simply cannot comprehend why you people are so smurfing negative when it comes to this game to the point where you cannot even see the component pieces that are masterfully done.

Paradigms. I have not played FF I through VI so I don't have that many options, but I found the paradigm system to actually bring strategy to many fights. Although the dress spheres were also kind of nice.

You should endeavour to play the rest of the games as soon as possible good sir. Otherwise I will have to mock you in due fashion.

Third Place (4)

Look at how well we've done here to almost have a perfect podium set up. Congratulations on not sucking at that, this time. In third position we have some quite amazing; Final Fantasy X-2's Dresspheres. It's more than a simple dress up game, and was in some respects the basis for the Paradigm system seen later anyway. Fitting, then, that it would receive a couple more votes due to the one winning ingredient that Final Fantasy XIII left out: fanservice.

I actually loved the Dressphere thing, some of the outfits were hot and some were crazy-hot, though I admit some were just crazy

The job system of X-2, while primarily fanservice, was great in that you could switch to a select number of other jobs during the middle of battle. It gave you some functionality without making it a simple game of "pick the best class", but rather you had to balance your garment grids and then make the right choices during battle.

As you can gather, fanservice does play a role in the "popularity" of the system, however don't underestimate it. There is a wide variety of jobs with numerous abilities to learn, and you can switch between classes mid-battle. That sounds like a pretty good gig to me.

First Place (6)

Here's the gold medal time and once again we have a tie. While that would previously have angered me, I am beaming at that fact that you might just have made Vivi22 cry tears of joy. Why? Well, simply because our two first place entries are Final Fantasy V's Job System and Final Fantasy Tactics' Job System. You have redeemed yourselves somewhat. Try not to smurf it up.

As Vivi22 was the only one with enough eloquence to put his thoughts on either job system into words, and as Vivi22 already used that explanation in the category prior, let me just remind you one last time that you haven't let us down this time. I know you can feel the excellence in these two systems.

Let me wrap this category up with Bubbaforever's entry. Ever the comedian, isn't he?

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