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hinch on 18 June 2020
Shadow1980 said:
I've only played 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 15, and 7R. 15 was the only one that I lost interest in. The combat was unsatisfying in pretty much all respects, the world wasn't interesting, and the story wasn't terribly engaging. It was pretty to look at, at least. I stopped playing it to work on other games, and I haven't had any desire to go back and finish it. I may get around to doing so one day.

Yeah that's the draw of Final Fantasy games if the game isn't fun to play it isn't worth it.

Even if a Final Fantasy game has a mediocre story at least it has charm and quirkiness to it and decent gameplay. The combat should be fulfilling and have depth to it. Hell, even 13 combat with its paradigm system was good once you got into it. FFVIII draw system was okay and the other Final Fantasy I've played had at least a good/passable story and gameplay whether it was turn based or tactics based.

15 was the first Final Fantasy I given up on just on the premise, it just lost the magic for me.



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gergroy on 18 June 2020

Of the ones that I have played, 15 is by far the worst. Crappy story, crappy characters, crappy combat. Not really anything good about it except maybe the graphics.

Also, as far as the op goes, going multiplat didn’t have anything to do with squares downturn. That is all square. It’s people like nomura who have pushed square to where they are.



Ljink96 on 18 June 2020

This is not even debatable, Final Fantasy II is god awful. I'd play XV, XIII, over II any day of the week.



OTBWY on 18 June 2020

FFXIII Franchise definitely. I agree with leynos on all counts except I want to add that the obsession Toriyama has with Lightning is weird and creepy.



The_Liquid_Laser on 18 June 2020

FF2 is easily the worst.  I am saying this as someone who really likes FF1, and I like retro games in general (if they are good).  FF2 is just a plain terrible game.  It's leveling system is also very similar to a certain Western RPG that I really hate.

If you only want to count games that made it out of Japan on their original system, then I'd say FF8 is the worst.  I actually really liked the characters and story, but the gameplay was just terrible.  I mostly just wanted to play the card game, because it was fun, while the main game was a huge chore.  Of the FF games that I've actually beaten, it's the only one that I never want to play again.

Haven't played FF14 though (neither O.G or Reborn), and I only played FF15 for an hour and then never came back to it.  All of the other games that got a North American release on their original system I've beaten, and most of them are extremely good.



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rapsuperstar31 on 18 June 2020

IX was the peak for me, 10 was good, and everything after that I haven't enjoyed too much. Beat XIII but took me a few attempts to get into it. Played about 10 hours of XV before getting bored with it and giving up. I haven't played VII remake beyond the demo yet. For now XV is the worst.



Chicho on 18 June 2020

I don't count X-2 as mainline but if it qualifies then that's the worst.



V-r0cK on 18 June 2020
Hiku said:
V-r0cK said:

Also FFXIV is constantly making Square decent money so it definitely cant be the worst FF game if anybody wants to count it as one.

I just really hate that Square used the mainline numbers for the online FFXI and FFXIV.  Like they just couldn't call it FF Online or along that line? 

The OG (original) FFXIV that the poster was referring to was a disaster, and Square Enix ended up shutting the servers down, while redesigning a new version, which would eventually be the one that a ton of people love.

The original Final Fantasy XIV, released in September 2010, was a critical and commercial failure. In response, then-Square Enix President Yoichi Wada announced that a new team, led by Yoshida, would take over and attempt to fix the issues with it. This team was responsible for generating content for the original version as well as developing a brand new game which would address all of the previous release's criticisms. This new game, initially dubbed "Version 2.0", features a new game engine, improved server infrastructure, and revamped gameplay, interface, and story. The original version shut down in November 2012, and was followed shortly thereafter by an alpha test for Version 2.0.

Oh that's right! Forgot all about that.  Guess they've been doing a decent enough job now covering their mistakes lol



Snoopy on 18 June 2020

FF7



NobleTeam360 on 18 June 2020

I'd probably have to say XV.