Most Underrated Final Fantasy

[BustaMo]

I just got a copy of FFV Advance and replaying it now. I considered making a LP thread, but it was too troublesome taking screenshots for it. A lot of the game is fuzzy for me, though, which is why I wanted the GBA version (didn't want to replay the PSOne release).

I don't blame you there. I believe that version of FFV (PS1) turned a lot of people off and made it more underrated since the graphics were aged a bit AND the load times on the Sony system took longer than my 94 year-old Great Aunt completing a Tough Mudder event.

[Darth Ganon]

Then the game crashed while saving and I lost about an hour. At least my file didn't end up being corrupted.

But this is scary to think about if it becomes a regular thing. You can't safeguard yourself from a game freezing on you during a save.

[Wolf Kanno]

There area quite a few underdogs, but I'm giving this to FFIII because I feel its the entry people look over the most. It was screwed out of its placement in the franchise due to being released almost twenty years later in the West, and everything it brought to the genre is considered standard fare now. Games like FFV and XII do not get the recognition they deserve as well, but at least those titles have passionate fans or the general fansbase tends to have a favorable opinion of it. III is simply just forgotten.

[Edge7]

As I said in my initial post, I'd love to sing FFIII's praises had I actually played a significant portion of it. The fact that its community is so small is truly a shame, if I didn't already have a full backlog of RPGs, I'd definitely give it a go.

[SocialKonstruct]

I think that FF12 is the probably the most controversial and underrated Final Fantasy game of the series. Granted I remember playing it on PS2 and it didn't have that same feel as FF10-2 but I loved it.

Granted the fast-action play style rather than the story-driven slow combat RPG created a ruckus amongst FF fans back in the days. Like Final Fantasy Tactics I think over time folks have begun to appreciate the revolutionary nature of FF12 because of the rather quick, on-the-fly RPG style and job system which are now incorporated in various games today.

[Loony BoB]

Voted for V. The next three I'd place would be VIII, XII and XIII. And those four combined are the leading four on the poll, so I'm happy.

[Example]

I would have said IX, but it's garnered quite a fanbase in the last decade. So V I guess.