The Mandatory Games

[Quindiana Jones]

Since I'm going through the SNES era games - or at least trying to - I've been thinking about Final Fantasy games that everybody should play. The games that are so good that to call yourself a FF fan without having played them would cause your immediate exile.

Since we need order to control the fun, I'll limit this to five. List the five FFs that you think everybody should play and, if you have the time, your reasons. Since I haven't played all of them, I'll only be able to decide between the one's I have played.

Mine are, in chronological order:

1. FFIII
2. FFVI
3. FFVII
4. FFIX
5. FFXII

The reason for my choices (apart from them being my favourites) is that they provide an excellent overview of Final Fantasy styles. You've got Jobs, medieval settings, modern settings, ATB, character based story, world based story, the FFXII combat system (whatever it's called!), and Quina. I'm about to start V, which may replace III as the consensus here seems to be that it is ridiculously good.

Alrighty then! Your go.