Which was the easiest Final Fantasy?

[Wolf Kanno]

Of all the FFs which did you feel was the easiest to complete overall?

[Pumpkin]

The one I had the easiest time with was VII

[black orb]

>>> IV was easy..

[VeloZer0]

FF12. It was so easy they took the liberty of making it beat itself.

[Fynn]

VI. I love this game so much but it offers the least in terms if challenge.

[Psychotic]

>>> IV was easy..

Depends which version of IV you played.

FF12. It was so easy they took the liberty of making it beat itself.

Indeed.

Though my vote goes to FFVIII and the fact that leveling up actually makes you weaker. This set itself nicely with my playing style and I did not get a single Game Over.

[Forsaken Lover]

I have never had an easy time with any FF.

I've always had some challenge.

Except in FFVIII. AND I WAS DOING A CHALLENGE RUN!

FFVIII is absurd because if you even vaguely understand the system, you can break it in an hour or two at most. It's not even a matter of going out of your way and getting Lion Heart on Disk 1 or whatever. You just have to use the Junction System. There, now the game is a joke.

Also note that the level scaling system is as broken as everything else because it means you have to put in even LESS effort by never fighting random battles. Just keep yourself at level 10 or some crap but Junction 100 Curagas to your HP and now you are immortal because even bosses will be doing triple digit damage for most of the game at most.

[Karifean]

Tch, not putting FFX-2 in the poll made this a bit more difficult.

FF VI, I'd say.

[Depression Moon]

I think VIII and IX are the only two games where I didn't see the Game Over screen during the events of the game. Oh wait I accidentally came across a Grand Dragon way before I was supposed to in IX so I did see one early in IX so it goes to VIII.

[Slothy]

VIII has the most abusable combat system, but XIII plays itself with no actual input from the player, and zero actual decision making required.

[metagloria]

VI has entirely too many ways to "break" the game. From early domination via Edgar's AutoCrossbow and Drill to later being able to exploit Vanish/Doom to obliterate everything and getting multiple Economizers at the very end, battles become a mere formality.

[maybee]

Final Fantasy IX


Final Fantasy VII comes next.

[Wolf Kanno]

I really want to say FFX since it has so many counter-intuitive game design elements in it's battle system that makes the game a cakewalk, but it at least it has the Monster Arena so you can finally get a challenge (about 30 hours into the game) but VIII is just too easy to break, and it's damn near impossible not to stumble upon this fact either. You should not be able to build a party of gods in Disc 1 with that little amount of grinding.

To be honest, starting with VI, the series tries too hard to be accessible and thus every entry after it is generally way easier than the five games that proceeded it.

[AssassinDX]

VIII for me for reasons mentioned, it's absurdly easy to abuse the system.

[Slothy]

You should not be able to build a party of gods in Disc 1 with that little amount of grinding.

I once tested how long it would take me to become unstoppable in VIII. My HP was several thousand before the third hour.