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Most underrated?

FF II 2 1.34%
 
FF III 5 3.36%
 
FF IV 5 3.36%
 
FF V 12 8.05%
 
FF VIII 29 19.46%
 
FF IX 40 26.85%
 
FF XII 31 20.81%
 
FF XIII 25 16.78%
 
Total:149
Xen on 15 March 2014

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AZWification on 15 March 2014

Easily  Final Fantasy IX. It's simply heart-breaking how little love that game gets sometimes.



                
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weaveworld on 15 March 2014

I don't know if there is such a thing as a mainline underrated FF. They all got their sales, they all got their scores and attention. From what I've seen on this forum IX gets a lot of love so that would have me say 8 is the most underrated... somewhat.



Veknoid_Outcast on 15 March 2014
DevilRising said:
Curiously enough, the FF game I consider most underrated is the one that you didn't bother to include (it would seem) on your poll: FF1.

While hard as piss at times, and an archaich grind-fest with an antiquated "buy your spells" system, nonetheless it is still a great, classic game, and ton of fun. Great soundtrack, great graphics for it's time, innovative and trend-setting for it's time (even though DQ1 did kinda set the tone). I would say FF1 is often the forgotten entry amidst a lot of the more popular ones.

After that? I'd say FFV, simply because Square was dumb and didn't give it to us on SNES, which it should have. It would have been worth waiting a bit to get FFVI in NA, because FFV is in all blunt honestly, ALMOST as good as IV and VI. I would personally put them in this order: IV, VI, then V. But that doesn't stop V from being a great game, which in it's own way has just about as memorable of characters, catchy music, a cool story, etc.

So yeah, those are my votes.

DevilRising beat me to it. I think it's the first game, too. It typically gets lost in the shuffle when fans debate the great FF games. Like DR wrote, it's tough as nails and most definitely a grind-fest, but it's aged surprisingly well.



Anfebious on 15 March 2014

The most underrated is Final Fantasy 5, and the saddest thing is that it's one of the best Final Fantasy games ever made.



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StarOcean on 15 March 2014

DevilRising said:
Curiously enough, the FF game I consider most underrated is the one that you didn't bother to include (it would seem) on your poll: FF1.

While hard as piss at times, and an archaich grind-fest with an antiquated "buy your spells" system, nonetheless it is still a great, classic game, and ton of fun. Great soundtrack, great graphics for it's time, innovative and trend-setting for it's time (even though DQ1 did kinda set the tone). I would say FF1 is often the forgotten entry amidst a lot of the more popular ones.

After that? I'd say FFV, simply because Square was dumb and didn't give it to us on SNES, which it should have. It would have been worth waiting a bit to get FFVI in NA, because FFV is in all blunt honestly, ALMOST as good as IV and VI. I would personally put them in this order: IV, VI, then V. But that doesn't stop V from being a great game, which in it's own way has just about as memorable of characters, catchy music, a cool story, etc.

So yeah, those are my votes

I decided not to add FF1 since it's still pretty popular with people from the NES/SNES era. I think as those gen of gamers age and the newer gen takes over, that FF1 may eventually become "underrated". As for now it is talked about decently often



forevercloud3000 on 15 March 2014

FFXII was my choice, I think FFIX is a close second.

FFXII had a great combat system and a really good cast of characters for the most part. The game has a few minor flaws but was really fun to play over all. It always burned me up that people swear it is too easy as you just set gambits and the game plays itself. I WISH these people would try this past the 1/4th mark in the game and tell me that works. Throughout the game you have to micro manage your characters on top of their gambits to be effective. Gambits purposefully take longer to react to certain situations, requiring you take the helm yourself in order to execute the best strategy. It is also one of the few games in the series that never has elemental magic become irrelevant. In most FF games you use spells for a time, then you can just strong arm the rest of the game. Not so much in XII. It was also the only one for me where I ever felt spells like reflect/blind/immobilize were a constant part of the strategy.



      

      

      

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dahuman on 15 March 2014

I think they are all pretty well rated in general, main line series pretty much all deserve their scores.



Squall1989 on 15 March 2014

I think FF8 is hugely underrated. For me it is one of the best games ever.



adriane23 on 15 March 2014

FF IX. It is the absolute best the franchise ever produced, but it's constantly snubbed in every top 10, 25, 50 whatever list I've ever seen on gaming sites.



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