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11110111011 posted...

I actually agree. FF1 is the best game in the series.

Based entirely on my own subjective experience while playing them on original release, I loved FF2 (FFIV) way more than the first game, and then FF3 (FFVI) was even better.

When FFVII came out, it felt better than FFVI in a lot of ways, but there were also ways in which it didn't feel as great. And it's aged much more poorly for me than IV and VI (or even I).

And then FFVIII came out and made me question whether or not I actually liked the FF franchise as much as I thought I did. Which made me more critical of IX and X when they came out. And then XII bored me into never caring about FF as a franchise again.



Black_Crusher posted...

The biggest draw for me has always been being able to make your party from whatever class combo you want.

That was never the draw for me. Maybe because I never bothered to do a ton of combos, and mostly just stuck to the basic Fighter/Thief/White Mage/Black Mage or Fighter/Red Mage/White Mage/Black Mage teams, so I never got much out of the option to mix-and-match. Or maybe the reason why I never experimented with different teams was because the idea of mixing-and-matching never appealed to me in the first place (chicken-egg).

Same reason why I always saw FFV as one of the worst titles in the series. For some people the ability to shift and mix classes and develop skills makes it one of the best games in the franchise (along with Tactics and IX), but for me the characters felt mostly dull and the overall story felt kind of lame and boring, so it's one of the worst early titles for me.

To be honest, the FF games were probably some of the first games where I started to see the narrative and characterization as being one of the most important aspects of a game (at least as relates to whether or not I'm going to like a game). I didn't fall in love with RPGs like Suikoden or Lunar because of the gameplay...