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Welcome to the "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project's seventh Side-Event: Final Fantasy!

You can vote for 3 games in this bracket. Vote carefully—you can't change your vote after submitting it. The top 4 games at the end of the week will advance to the next round.

1987 - Final Fantasy - NES
1991 - Final Fantasy Legend III - GB
1994 - Final Fantasy VI - SNES
1997 - Final Fantasy Tactics - PS1
1999 - Final Fantasy VIII - PS1
2001 - Final Fantasy X - PS2
2014 - Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call - 3DS

You are encouraged to discuss your choices and your reasons for selecting the game you did.

Voted for FF, FFVIII, and FFX. Sadly I'm almost certain FFVI would have beaten one of those if only I'd played it for more than thirty minutes. I loved what I saw...

This made me realize (or remember) Legend III got nominated while Legend II, a much better and more interesting game (IMO) did not.

They're arguably neither FF games, but Legend II had better monster/robot mechanics (especially robots, the full equipment dependency on stats is much cooler than buying perma-buff items), much more interesting world-building, a cooler stat-growth system, fun characters... It's so sad we didn't get the DS remake of either Legend II or III. They even released the soundtracks for them on iTunes US.

That said, I think my votes for here are VI and Tactics and maybe Curtain Call or X.

Niahak wrote:This made me realize (or remember) Legend III got nominated while Legend II, a much better and more interesting game (IMO) did not.

They're arguably neither FF games, but Legend II had better monster/robot mechanics (especially robots, the full equipment dependency on stats is much cooler than buying perma-buff items), much more interesting world-building, a cooler stat-growth system, fun characters...

It is puzzling. I preferred both the (quite limited/simple—charmingly so) original and II over III, but not enough to nominate it myself.

Niahak wrote:It's so sad we didn't get the DS remake of either Legend II or III. They even released the soundtracks for them on iTunes US.

Gasp! That is very sad, and I'm sad again to be reminded of it. It seems unlike Square not to crank as many of their remakes and releases into as many markets as possible.

>No Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games

I am disappoint.

Jordan wrote:>No Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games

I am disappoint.

None were nominated, IMO rightly not. (To be fair, I only played the first one, and it brought great shame on the FFT name. The later one may be better.)

All that aside, I read that the first one was being released on the Wii U eShop or had been released recently?

Kong Wen wrote:The later one may be better.

No... really not... sadly.

Kong Wen wrote:

Jordan wrote:>No Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games

I am disappoint.

None were nominated, IMO rightly not. (To be fair, I only played the first one, and it brought great shame on the FFT name. The later one may be better.)

All that aside, I read that the first one was being released on the Wii U eShop or had been released recently?

That's too bad, I always thought you guys were referring to the GBA games, one of which just came out on the Wii U.

The Shoemaker wrote:

Kong Wen wrote:

Jordan wrote:>No Final Fantasy Tactics Advance games

I am disappoint.

None were nominated, IMO rightly not. (To be fair, I only played the first one, and it brought great shame on the FFT name. The later one may be better.)

All that aside, I read that the first one was being released on the Wii U eShop or had been released recently?

That's too bad, I always thought you guys were referring to the GBA games, one of which just came out on the Wii U.

Final Fantasy Tactics is an excellent PlayStation game. The Final Fantasy Tactics Advance spin-offs, one for GBA and one for DS, are relatively awful.

Agreed, Kong. I'll go further and call them straight garbage.