how many people have played crisis core??
anyway to my list
ff7 - crisis core - it made me cry so much, plus zack is the most likeable ff character ever
ff8 - for me the matureness of this game and its futuristist setting, not to metion the whole time travel plot really impressed me big time
ff7 - i still play it on my ps3 just to remind me of good old days lol.
ffx - a very good game, although some characters can be irritating

MOST HATED: FFXII - it was a downright waste of my money, i hated the way the changed the how the summons worked, i hated the gambit system, and most of the characters were really irritating, i did not even complete it coz i hated it that much

No, you just sound pretentious.

That would be the same as someone saying that you are not a true fan if FF1 isn't your favourite.

For the record, I started on FF1 on NES, I even had two cartridges so I could have two saves. I also got Legend 1-3, Final Fantasy Adventure, and Mystic Quest even though they weren't true FF games (I didn't know it at the time, it was before the Internet was used by anyone normal); I probably played FFL2 30 times or something (it was one of my favourite games of the time. I also got every FF title when they were release. By your logic, I am among the most qualified person to make the choice. I still consider FF8 to be the best. I can tell you that the series came A LONG way in 10 years, much further than it did during the second 10 years.

1.

WHY? -- AWESOME music (Best BAttle theme in a FF Game), great cast (yeah Tidus had REASONS for ebing how he was, I understand him completely).

Finall......BEST BATTLE SYSTEM in a FF Game ever, very startegy orientated, the summons were GRAND!

Loved the game......absolutely loved it!

The first time you leave the first town with yuna & fight with the following battle theme.....EPIC memories & feelings!

9.85/10

Here's a music piece to stir up memories for you all:

2. 

THE BEST Characters in a FF GAME. Locke, Terra, EDGAr, SABIN, SHADOWWWW!

fighting the TRAIN.....going tot he other world, KEFKA with his laugh in that weird sound on SNES.....wow absolutely loved this game!

The music was fabulous too....

If your a FF FAN & don't like this game.....your NOT an FF fan, simple as that.

This is not the MOSt popular FF6 song, but its one of my favs from it!

9.8/10

3.

Just recently played this on the NDS & LOVED the game.

imo some of the BEST FF Sound Pieces, great characters, compelling story, FUN Gameplay. It was a ball to play, it stood as my favorite, but towards the end it got a bit boring & slipped down to 3rd.

9.5/10

Here's a memorable piece....the AIRSHIP THEME.....fills you with adventure!

4.

Now we get onto the less impressive games of the series.

FF8 was NICE.....the combat & music were great. The story, not too great.

9.4/10

5.

NEVER went crazy like some do for this OVERRATED game......but nonetheless it is AAA.

Characters you remember forever, at the time good graphics, AMAZING CGI scenes, imo not too great a musical score except for 3 tracks, aerith's dying scene was cliched & i LAUGHED when she died in fact, how could anyone cry. Sephiroth is a freak & a silly viallin, Cloud is boring.

9.33/10

6.

oh my god, a FF game with a STORY I didn't give a rats ass about & characters I didn't care one bit about, was this possible, yes it was. But the story picks up like after 20 hours....so thats good. Balthier is likeable, who is the main character again, he was so crap I don't remember him! Ashe is memorable......the rest meh.

Gameplay was very nice on the other hand, music was great in parts. Matsuno leaving the game halfway through really showed, by the end the game was a MESS plot wise.....an absolute MESS. But its still AAA.

9.01/10

7.

SAME complaints as FF12 almost. Except I found the characters extremely boring. FF9 was a boring game in fact.....ONLY FF game thats not AAA for me. The music was the saving grace of the worst FF ever in my opinion.

8.9/10

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I think FF13 will be my new number 1!

Why? this trailer

1. FFIX 10/10
2. FFX 9/10
3. FFVI 9/10
4. FFVII : Crisis Core 9/10
5. FFVIII 8/10
6. FFIV 8/10
7. FFVII 8/10
8. FFXII 7/10
9. FFX-2 6/10
10. FF : Origins 6/10

1. FFVI - Why? because it simply has the best story and best music in the history of RPG's

2. FFVII - Great gameplay mechanics overall, and has the best system in any FF - The materia system

3. FFXII - I'm going to get so much flak for this one, but to me it was a huge step over the traditional FF formula, it was really challenging (only beaten by the Dark Aeons/Penance FFX difficulty and the Shinryu/Omega FFV difficulty) if you cared to do all the sidequests, and it was a blast if you wanted to grind for items and levels.

4. FFIX - The return to the classical formula, after two techno-gothic-punk themed FF's which so much classical masterpiece scores and a great character selection.

5. FF Dissidia - http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=86317&page=1 I think that this thread sums it up perfectly.

6. FFV - The FF with the most possible customization, even surpassing FFII in that aspect. Also the story was really superb, and the shinryu/omega battles were the hardest in any FF so far.

7. FFIV - The best character selection in any FF IMO, all of them are really well developed and have such a rich story, especially Rydia, Cecil and Edward, that spoony bard xD

8. FFX - It was a great FF, don't get me wrong, but after all the waiting for a 128 bits FF, I was really dissapointed at the first moments of the game. FFX only picks up really after you defeat Yunalesca, giving you enough freedom to explore the game world like a real FF should always let you do, not give you an on-rails RPG experience (my GF is here at my side almost killing me for putting FFX so low, she loves the game xD). It has a good story and two of the best challenges in all of the FF-verse, the monster arena and the Dark Aeons/Penance fights.

9. FFTactics - One of the best SRPG i've ever played, and one of the hardest as well, which only made it even better IMO.

10. FFVII CC - A good story based on the FFVII universe, explaining a lot of lose ends and a great focus on Zack's story. Genesis and Angeal were a bit glued together to the FFVII-verse, and the mission system was repetitive as hell. One of the best combat systems on any FF so far.

11. FF Mystic Quest - I love this game, even if it's so far down the list, due to the all the flaws and the sheer simplicity of the game, but it has an unique air in it's whole story, and i love using the weapons as tools to advance in the game.

12. FFVIII - Triple Triad is the best mini-game in the whole history of FF xD Also I love the Guardian Force-Junction system. It has one of the most convulted and unexplained histories in all of the FF games, since most of it was cut down to allow the game to be released in it's scheduled date.

13. FFX-2 - A spin-off that for all it's purposes worked well, even though it doesn't have any classical or unique moments to be mentioned.

14. FFII - One of the best customization options in all FF games, which was huge at the time the game was released. The story lacks a true sense of pace and the characters feel totally incomplete.

15. FFI - The classic, the big grandpa of them all, and also the most simple of them all. I've replayed this game over 10 times, in both the NES, PSX, GBA, PSP versions, due to it still being a great game, albeit simple, as i stated above.

16. FFIII - The FF that started the true job system (FF had one, but they were fixed jobs) which to me, is one of the pillars of all the FF-verse. Worst story in all FF games.

17. FFVII Dirge of Cerberus - Worst Final Fantasy game ever made. The battle mechanics really suck, the controls lag like hell, the difficulty is all over the place, the story makes no sense at all, the Tsviets are glued even worse than Genesis and Angeal were, and that final battle which should be epic, as every Omega battle should be, was really lackluster.

VII = the best, it was also my first JRPG game ever!

X = The best FF game on PS2, it was also very fun, bad voice acting aside.

XII = It's quite possibly the longest FF to date, i also like the upgrading system in this one alot. eveything else was bad though.

VII = Playing it now, its good, just good... but i can see why alot of VI fans hate VII, but i still prefer VII over VI.

IV = i hear was fun, want to try it some day.

II = Will play asap.

I = maybe someday, just to see where it all started.

Overall VII is my number 1 ranked over all, theres no beating the legend, the rest i could careless about.

A list after my own heart... well put.

6 - Great Music, Refined SNES battle system, Characters that are easy to care about

4 - Fantastic Music, Underwhelming but solid gameplay, story with alot of plotholes but generally likeable cast.

9 - Cool cast, nice battles, probably the "average" final fantasy

1 - Very entertaining gameplay, immersive world, bad difficult curve

2 - quite a letdown, grinding beyond belief, broken spell system, uninteresting cast

I probably have the most retarded list of Final Fantasy game preference ever.

1) Final Fantasy VII - I played it for the first time in 2005, and it's by far my favorite FF game. I really like the way FFVII builds up, and although Aeris' death meant nothing to me since I had known about it for half a dozen years, the game still had a huge impact on me. Recently replayed it on my PSP and adored it once again. The materia system is so brilliant, and does the best job of making you feel like you're constantly accomplishing something (you're leveling something or someone up just about every other battle by the end of the game).

2) Final Fantasy IX - At times I felt like Square was trying to do too much with IX, but in all honesty I loved the game dearly.

3) Final Fantasy X - Some of the characters dragged X down for me, but for the most part it was absolutely epic. Great plot twist.

4) Final Fantasy III - Starting to get into the FF games I don't really like. Although there was a lot of level grinding in III, I felt it did a great job with character classes.

5) Final Fantasy VI - Call me crazy, but I don't like VI very much at all. At times it was great, and other times I just grew really bored with it. I've never played a game where I went back and forth between loving and loathing so much.

6) Final Fantasy VIII - For whatever reason the setting of VIII did absolutely nothing for me, and if I don't get drawn into the world, then I have no interest in the game.

because he's probably been playing the series for a while now and if you look you'll see the list differ between those who have played the series since the nes/snes day and those who first played 7 and those who first played 10