Least Favourite Final Fantasy

[Red Mage Coffman]

It did stress how important Blitzball was, yeah. But... that's REALLY stupid. I understand the point of it, being a relief from Sin, having entertainment and whatnot. Imagine if WE were in that crisis. Would we be worried about Blitzball or saving the world from Sin? It just seemed really dumb to put THAT much emphasis on a sport.

I can understand what you're saying though. It was a pretty big thing in Spira and such. I just never liked it, always felt out of place for a world like that. Then again I didn't like Spira that much, but never mind that.

[Heath]

I was pretty convinced I was going to come into this thread and slag off either VIII or X, but having thought on and read some posts, I think I might plump for II. I didn't really enjoy the game much at all, whereas I definitely did with VIII and X. I can appreciate the game for what it tried to do and how it tried to innovate and likewise that its story and characters weren't bad for such an early game. Having said that, I just wasn't a fan of the game and have never felt the urge to play it again.

[Brandy]

THE SERIES WHICH I LIIKED MOST OF FINAL FANTASY IS SERIES VIII AND SERIES VI. IT WAS JUST AWESOME EXPERIENCE TO PLAY AT THIS

[Gamblet]

THE SERIES WHICH I LIIKED MOST OF FINAL FANTASY IS SERIES VIII AND SERIES VI. IT WAS JUST AWESOME EXPERIENCE TO PLAY AT THIS

And you are from UK?

[maybee]

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[Jinx]

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[NeoCracker]

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[Tonberry Time]

My least favourite FF game has to be, without a doubt, FFXIII-2. It just might be among my least favourite games ever. Other Final Fantasy have characters which annoy me, sure(like half the cast in FFXIII), but there's usually a few characters which I like. Serah and Noel? No, just... No. Not only that, but the combat system is a poor version of XIII's, the time travelling is a cheap gimmick(let's travel 20 years into the past! The only difference? It's NIGHTTIME) and I'm not particularly fond of the setting. Oh, and let's not forget Serendipity, the trouttiest theme park ever conceived. There's slot machines and chocobo betting and... Wait, that's everything. I had to turn on my FFVII save and spend a few hours in Gold Saucer just to cleanse myself of that traumatic experience. The only reedeming feature was that I could have a tonberry as a party member.

[Formalhaut]

Serah and Noel? No, just... No.

I actually really liked Noel. He's the first male protagonist in a long time that is neither aggravatingly whiny and / or insignificant, and also not depressingly sour all the damn time. I really like Noel and I hope he's in Lightning Returns.

As for Serah, I don't like her as much as Noel, but I don't dislike her. She's as stubborn as her sister, but lacks the initial "piss off" attitude Lightning did have in the first half of XIII. She's okay I guess, not the best protagonist ever, but certainly not the worst.

Not only that, but the combat system is a poor version of XIII's

Really? I think it's a slightly better version of XIII's system. The main reason is because you can change your leader mid-battle, and the death of a leader isn't an automatic game over (Unless the other member is fallen, obviously). That's a good start. There's also a wide variety of customisation in the levelling system! Unlike XIII, where the character's base stats are fixed, the modified crystarium system have role bonuses on those large nodes, which affect your stats quite widely. This involves some degree of forward planning, and I again loved that.

The monster system appears strange, but once you get used to it you can spend hours building the perfect monster. Hell, whole walkthroughs have a dedicated section on suggested monster builds. Plus, the ornament collectables are cute, sometimes self-aware accessories that just add something to the game.

the time travelling is a cheap gimmick(let's travel 20 years into the past! The only difference? It's NIGHTTIME) and I'm not particularly fond of the setting.

I both agree, and disagree. I disagree in so far that a mere twenty years isn't exactly going to change much, short of a nuclear fallout. You would be surprised even in real life how little twenty years actually does aesthetically. On the other hand, when locations have wide gaps between visits, for example 200AF and 400AF, I do expect more than just a change of time. Half the time, routes are blocked off by simple debris like in the Vile Peaks, rather than some more dramatic landslide or something. I'm not sure what I was looking for, just something more than a straightforward obstacle.

As for the settings, it depends on what your talking about. I found New Bodhum quite a quaint starting location, and it's very stark change in 700AF is very gloomy. The Bresha Ruins are featured a full four times, and it's okay I guess, if slightly boring after awhile. The Sunleth Waterscape has very good music and is incredibly different from XIII's incarnation of it, though I do wish you could explore abit more. Meanwhile, the Archylte Steppe unfortunately shrunk in size. Another disappointment was Augusta Tower. The world was just flat for me. Thankfully Academia 400AF and 4XXAF was very good, and surprisingly large. The locations aren't huge, but their more bitesized chunks, while in XIII the world maps was huge, but linear. That's what I think anyway.

Oh, and let's not forget Serendipity, the trouttiest theme park ever conceived. There's slot machines and chocobo betting and... Wait, that's everything. I had to turn on my FFVII save and spend a few hours in Gold Saucer just to cleanse myself of that traumatic experience.

Now this I can agree with. I'm sorry, but Serendipity had so much potential, but just fell flat. I kept hearing the assistants saying "There's a brand new attraction that's being built", and I downloaded Sazh's episode, and when I came back, their still saying the same damn thing. At the end of the day, you had:

Chocobo Racing: You were more a manager, but I liked it. The track was dull however and you just went round and round

Slot Machines: I wanted to grab a baseball bat and smash them. Getting 5000 coins to get the Lucky Coin Fragment damn near killed me. I just wedged the controller against something and read a book

Poker: Eh. I didn't much care for it.

Chronobind: I actually never played it, it looks convoluted.

The only redeeming feature was that I could have a tonberry as a party member.

The Tonberry is actually a very good commando. Good choice sir!

[Tonberry Time]

I should clarify I bit when it comes to the combat system, I'm actually quite fond of XIII's combat system, but when it comes to XIII-2 it just substitutes the summoning system with the monster catching. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I feel it's not enough flavour when it comes to monster choice. I wanted to see my tonberry slowly creep up on my foes and decimate them! Instead he just simply... Decimates them. The combat system isn't where XIII-2 falls flat though.

The time traveling part is where the game really shoots itself in the foot. If you're going to make time travel a major selling point of the game(and thus evoke memories of Chrono Trigger) they'd better make it worthwhile. More times than not the changes are so minor you either can't spot them or simply don't care. The place where you meet Hope for the first time is an excellent example of this. So while I agree that 20 years isn't likely to change much, why bother putting it there in the first place?

Collecting the crystals is another massive flaw of the game, with tasks either so tedious or convoluted that I don't understand why I should bother. It just comes off as busywork added by lazy programmers to increase the playtime.

And one's opinion of characters in the FF games always boils down to relatability and personal preference, I guess. Serah is just the typical timid female character, and Noel... If I remember correctly, he's supposed to be the very last human being in existence, right? If you're going to establish a character as a sole survivor, he should be tough, grizzled, bitter, unsociable, have some sign that this guy has been through hell. They could've made a great character, rising up from hopelessness and certain doom, instead we get the happy-go-lucky Noel, who couldn't be farther away from what I imagine a sole survivor would act and look like. Let's not forget the bad guy, whose name I can't remember, who has some of the poorest dialogue in the series. It's like it was written by the Soul Calibur-team.

And I don't like the setting because you never feel like part of the world in XIII's universe. Every populated area is just a set piece, a background. I simply don't feel immersed in the world as I'm accustomed to in previous FF-games.

Lastly, and I don't know why I failed to mention this earlier, I didn't really start to actively dislike the game until I first heard the boss music. You just don't put RAP MUSIC in Final Fantasy. That's sacrilege.

[TreasonWall]

I picked XI, which I intended to play for two weeks but only lasted six hours at. I'm afraid I can't sum up all the things that are wrong with it better than this guy did:
http://www.almaroc.com/final-fantasy...ucks-a-review/

I was also extremely unimpressed with XIII from what I've watched of HCBailly's let's play (a fairly big portion of it at that), but I haven't directly played it and for that matter, there's no way it could be worse than XI.

[Bloodnight]

FFII. Mostly because of battle system, but I don't really hate this game.

[Tardar Sauce]

As I mentioned in the previous thread, I hate them all... but the ones that get my blood boiling the most are the VII spin-offs.

[Egami]

Definitely XIII. I have yet to finish it, I am 40 hours into the game right before you fight The Proudclad for the second time, but at this point I am basically forcing myself to complete it as I already got sick of it. Even by around the 15 hour mark I was already finding the game a chore to play through. It is not only insanely linear and limited in it's game play, nor does it only has an awful pacing and storytelling, but it is also one of the most repetitive/monotonous games I have ever played. I regret getting this game even tho I only paid around 16 bucks for it. Worst FF ever, and I played Mystic Quest.

Right now I am more motivated to play through VII or X again than I am completing this game.

[comma]

Out of the ones I've played (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, 12, 14, Tactics), I liked FFX the least. I just didn't like the characters very much, thought most of it was corny, and didn't like the linearity of the world. Based on how you could run from one end of the world to the other, the entire game seemed to take place in no more than a few city blocks. Weird.

I looked into FFXIII a lot and even played a demo, but it didn't seem interesting enough to me to play. The bad things I heard about it seemed important enough to me that I'd probably dislike it, so I didn't bother.