Poll: Is your first Final Fantasy your favorite?

[ThunderCavalier]

Not really. First Final Fantasy I played was X, but my overall favorite (and the best in the entire series, imo) was VI.

Seriously, Square. Please remake that game. If you already did the same with III and IV, why not the best one, VI?

 

[go-10]

my favorite was VII my first was II or IV in the correct numbering... The one with Cecil and Kain was my first the one with Cloud and Tifa remains my favorite

 

[tzimize]

So, I have a bit of a theory concerning the Final Fantasy franchise. It seems that, for most people, whatever Final Fantasy was their first is their favorite. I'd like to test this theory.

I know that for myself, this is the case. FFX was my first, and is my favorite.

So, what was your first Final Fantasy, and is it your favorite?

My first: FF7

My last: FF13

My favorite: Overall FF8

My favorite in terms of
gameplay: FF7
story: FF8
Characters: FF9

FF10 was plenty cool, but completely wrecked by the mostly awful voice acting and the terrible protagonist.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

I really like three of the Final Fantasy games (parts VI, VII and IX) and the first one I played (part IV, which I found pretty good back then but doesn't really hold up anymore) is not one of them.

I'd put the other Final Fantasies in the following categories:

Quite okay, but with some serious flaws: I, III, VIII
Barely played: II, V, X
Didn't play: XI, XII
Extraordinary waste of time and money: XIII

 

[deathzero021]

My order of play: 7, 8, 9, 10, 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 11.

My order of favor (from highest to lowest):
10, 7, 9, 8, 4, 1&2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 11.

connection? not much.

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

<---points to user name what do you think bro?

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

I say FF 12 is in my opinion the best simply because it had the best game-play, even if it wasn't quite on par story wise.

 

[Broady Brio]

My first was X.

The only other FF I've played is X-2. You can guess which is my favorite.

 

[D Moness]

My first FF was VII but my favorite final fantasy is VIII an tactics advanced.

Lucky to see a few more people preferring 8 over 7 (it is such a small group)

 

[Aprilgold]

FF 7 was my first ever FF game that I played. Played it through with my father when I was 4 - 5 and I can't remember much but that Sepiroth is a jerk and that grinding was tedious, but god do I remember that music.

My favorite is pretty much all of them, since their all special in their own way.

If you want to know my favorite then I guess I'll have to call the series of Tactics games. The ones on the DS rein over the others as my favorite, while never beating them all the way, their just more enjoyable then the rest.

 

[Jack Rascal]

I'd love to give it another go, but for whatever reason my PS2 cannot save PS1 games. Probably broken...

Get a PS1 memory card and it will. I know, fucked up...

OP: Can I say maybe? My first was VII and I love it, but I also loved IX and X. I don't know, too hard...

 

[NEDM]

First was FF1
Favorite was FF8

That being said, the people I do know who like the first they played, usually favor 7 the best

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

I feel left out, I've never played a FF game before.

Hopefully FF Versus 13 will be my first if it ever comes out.

 

[TK421]

No. Final Fantasy was my first FF, and my favorite one is FFVII.

 

[LittleBlondeGoth]

Oh God... For me the answer is probably yes. VII was my first (and you always remember your first) and that's the one that's stuck with me through all the years. It's probably a combination of characters, story, music and that feeling of opening my eyes to what an RPG could be and look like (I'd been Dungeon Master / Ultima gal on my Amiga till then). Course, once I'd played and beaten that, I went and found as much back catalogue and similar games as I could, and discovered things like the Mana series, so I owe a lot to my beloved VII.

However, there's a few that have given VII a real run for it's money. VI is very close behind, on account of being splendiferously awesome in every respect. Who gives a monkeys if it's sprites and midis? It's still splendiferous. And as other people have mentioned, IX was also a fantastic game.

I'm a little bit in love with XII as well, so much so I even dressed as Fran to the last MCM Expo. I know it gets a fair share of hate, but there's just something about it that makes me a happy bunny. As it were. See what I did there?

I don't truly dislike any of them, and I've played them all. Certainly some are better than others. Some have... let's call them 'experiemnts in direction' that didn't work as well as perhaps Square hoped. And yes, I'm looking at you here, XIII. But I'm one of those weird people who always tries to find the good in them, so...

 

[outovaeltaja]

On my part the answer is no.
My first FF was FFVII but my favorite is FFIX and second being FFXII.

 

[Simonoly]

I think my first was VII, but I was never a huge fan of it so my favourite will always remain as IX closely followed by XII.

Edit: Tits. Totally ninja'd above ^

 

[jjjonesy27]

My first was X, then X-2, then VIII, then VII, then I and II, then XIII and XIII-2.

XIII is definitely my favorite though.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

Not for me, I played VI long after any of the others and until then I didn't really enjoy FF.

 

[WoW Killer]

Oh God... For me the answer is probably yes. VII was my first (and you always remember your first) and that's the one that's stuck with me through all the years. It's probably a combination of characters, story, music and that feeling of opening my eyes to what an RPG could be and look like (I'd been Dungeon Master / Ultima gal on my Amiga till then). Course, once I'd played and beaten that, I went and found as much back catalogue and similar games as I could, and discovered things like the Mana series, so I owe a lot to my beloved VII.

However, there's a few that have given VII a real run for it's money. VI is very close behind, on account of being splendiferously awesome in every respect. Who gives a monkeys if it's sprites and midis? It's still splendiferous. And as other people have mentioned, IX was also a fantastic game.

That's pretty close to my experience. FF7 was my first (being the first in the UK, though my first Square RPG was Secret of Mana, and that definitely is still my favourite) and at the time I thought it the best game I'd ever played and would defend it to the death. Since then I played a lot of the earlier games in the series through emulators (though I bought them as soon as they were ported, honest!), and the one that sticks in my head is FF6. Now that I'm all grown up and not really into Japanime so much, I still have a lot of respect for FF6. There's something really special about that game. It's not any more advanced than FF5 in its graphics or gameplay, but somehow the developers squeezed more game out of the same system. Of all the FF games, it's FF6 that I'd point to and say "this is an example of good game design".

FFT happens to be my favourite, actually, if you accept that as a FF game. Otherwise, I'd say FF6.

The later games? No.