The thing that drops FFIV much lower for me is how they handled the end of the game… having to fight all the bosses was such a drag.

@@veevendetta3448 and thats what makes it so awesome

Your list is S H I T. At least the community knows how the rank. Don't ever make another video again B I T C H. You know nothing.

I love the battle system and how the damage went up over 9999

Mines too.. nothing beats FFX & idc what anyone says 😎

yeay someone who agrees ! IX and X has a special place in my heart as well

8,9,10,7

I think it was my first, I was 10 and I thought it was magical and make me love video games, I even have a cat called Tifa.

FF7 will always be the best

VII was the best and IX melodies make me wanna see the remaked version of IX

@@jenniferallen2234 I was going say I think all us boys had a cat named Tifa, but you're a girl so nvm lol.

My top 6 1. X 2. VI 3. VII 4. XIV 5. VIII 6. IX

I will say that in the Community Polls, FFIX was below VI for a good amount of time, until closer to when the polls closed! I think IX is a fantastic game!

IX is my favorite too! VI is overrated.

@@JLind854 if you think 6 is overrated you didnt play it when it came out

@@scabu3 you are correct sir I beat it for the first time a couple weeks ago! But this isn’t me saying “old game bad” I just didn’t like any of the characters. I loved playing V right before it tho that one’s pretty high up on my list now

@@JLind854 oh wow crazy. Never heard that perspective before. I tried 5 recently but its too hard to get through at this point haha. I could play 6 for nostalgia reasons tho

"You just had to be there when it came out." 💯 I was 15 when it was released, and that game was incredible, it overshadowed everything else at the time. Gaming will never be exciting on that level for me ever again.

for me that would be legend of dragoon in ff7 spot. Mostly because I never got to play 7 at that age, where I did get to play and fully enjoy legend of dragoon. If i had that same fond memory of 7, it might actually beat out x for me. but as it stands X is my #1, even though I have FAR more hours on both zodiac age and XIV.

I’ve been playing FF14 and there are many visual elements that feel a lot like 12 and make me want to go back and play that too. I don’t think I finished it when it came out and I need to correct that mistake.

FF12 and 14 in my opinion are the best in the series. Love that politics feel. You can imagine a whole world behind the games. The lore in some other single player releases were tacked on I found (not necessarily in meaningful ways).

Agree, FFXII the best

for someone who does not like starwars it is tough to get into. i beat it but i never looked back.

Fair

U forgot hes funny asking his soldier to clean his feet.

U forgot the annoying octopus that is equivalent to team rocket 😂

He was my fav until emet-selch arrived 🎉❤

@@gelofrancisco9725ultros lol

He was very over the top though. The best ff villain for me is seymour

It really should get a remake after 7 is done. Apparently a lot of internal Square Enix developers really want to do it so fingers crossed 🤞🏽 it happens eventually.

FF VI is old but "finewine" for me, i played VI for 3 times already and still ready for play again if i have a chance And if VI got a remake, yup Square take my money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are some really good modded versions of the SNES game. I loved Brave New World (though it's been years since I played it, and the developers changed their system very drastically at least once prior to when I played it so they may have again, possibly for the better!).

wouldnt get your hopes up on a proper remake, but alas i'd love to see it too

@@turkatron5747 Oh, I don't know. I definitely think it's quite possible. Square is very well aware of the demand, which they recently acknowledged in a discussion with Sakaguchi about the Pixel Remasters. Kitase even admits that many of the internal staff at Square Enix want to remake 6, so.. only a matter of time. :) We just need to keep asking, and we shall receive.

While I was playing XVI, I constantly thought about how much soul FFIV has by comparison. I really wanted a title that felt less like medieval Mass Effect and more like a continuation of IV or even VI (which I did not even really care for when it came out).

Shit man I was thinking doing the almost the same lmao. Cecil Dark Knight and Paladin on the arm, and Terra and her esper form in the forearm. I hope yours turns out incredible. Saludos desde Chile!

I have a tattoo based on Amano's FFI concept style. Unbelievable how games can be so life-changing!

It's my favorite too. They nailed everything with it at release. I revisit it often.

9 sucked

i also started with ff8. still have the box at home. damn, games used to come in a box :D one of the best final fantasy games ever made with by far the best soundtrack in all of the final fantasy franchise

Not my first, that was 7, but definitely my favourite with 16 right behind ^^

ff8 sucked. squall was virgin loser

I think maybe your selection is biased as it was the first game you owned. FF7 set the incredibly high standards of an RPG, which FF8 kind of took and dived with. FF8 was alright, but nothing compared to it's predecessor

@@davewalmash6849 what's my bias then? People just like different things 🤷‍♀️

Yeah, it is also my favorite FF game in terms of story!

@@evilproducer9647 ffx and xii are my best of em all as i hate the new approach

The story is amazing w game

For me FFX is also favorite but best ending is in FF8.

I love FFX for its story/music/main game playthrough but what ruins for me is some of the post game non-sense that every title afterwards whittles down

Chrono trigger 😭❤

Same here! Despite so many new entries since 6 there hasn’t been an entry that’s matched how deep the story was and all it’s characters just stood out beautifully because of it.

⁠@@hector4470 VI is deep? _Deep?_ I’d love for you to expand on this claim, if you have the time.

Completely agree. 7 just had the marketing, timing and system.

I just finished VI a few days ago for the first time. Idk I just thought it was fine. Didn’t like kefka as a villain at all and I only cared about maybe 3 or 4 of the main cast of characters. I enjoyed V a lot more personally

Taking an hour to beat the ultimate boss wasn't fun and having cheat codes built in made it worse. No sense of difficulty or reward. Just auto pilot

Did you finish the game. Then try the game minus w/o cheat. then tell me if it is easy, Maybe you don't even try@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject

Dry cast of characters, dry story and dry battle system bruh

Good list!

@@VictoriaSteelmountain thank you!

Ff13 is the biggest pile of dog shit lmfao wtf

I totally agree with you! Those are my favs too but in a different order: 1. FF15 2. FF13 3. FF7

@@NocturneCXIV I love it!

I was shocked. It's my favorite game of all time and fans rarely have good tastes haha

First Final Fantasy that I actually couldn't let go off once I started playing. It will always be number 1 for me.

My top 6 1. X 2. VI 3. VII 4. XIV 5. VIII 6. IX

@@504Trey Sorry try again lol

@@504Trey Correct :)

You're very welcome! It's always great to see the community coming together to vote on something like this!

In the spirit completely antithesis to that of your comment, what's your most controversial FF hot take? No disrespect btw... I'm mostly asking because I thought it'd be funny so I completely understand if you'd rather not answer (or if you don't really have one off the top of your head to begin with). I guess I'll go first... FFVII Remake/Rebirth are overall better experiences than the original in nearly every way and is a perfectly acceptable retelling of the original. Everyone upset about the direction the new games have taken are being unreasonable and are allowing their nostalgia goggles prevent them from enjoying games they normally would otherwise. I know that's sure to gain me a few irritated responses lol.

Agreed, FF9 has the best music, best characters, and best plot of any of the series' games I've played.

FF 7 is amazing so hyped for rebirth

Thank you so much! I really appreciate this!

It's my second favorite. Good gravy. I hate Seymour lol

100% And Auron as to be the most badass character they brought to life in the whole franchise. Down to the way he moves, his stance, the voice acting is spot on. "No time to waste let's go"

@@MindandSorcery I will agree there. He's a bad ass

X is what i consider to be a flawless game. Absolutely magnificent.

Amazing soundtrack as well, top 5 in series easily, though it’s my favorite

In my opinion, having not played the mmos or 16, it was the last good FF Game.

11 should easily be top 3.

@@ItsKhaan The problem is if people try it in its current state, they get a vastly different experience than the XI we all fell in love with. FFXI up thru Wings of the Goddess is my #1 FF, during its golden years when servers were full. Now, you can't even join an EXP party if you wanted. You're stuck playing with trusts all the way to 99, with half the servers being afk. Not the same as trying to open Garlaige Citadel gates with a bunch of random people, or accidentally linking half of Crawler's Nest.

You can always tell which FF ranking creators either never played FFXI or never got past the dunes by how low they rank FFXI.

2002 ushered in a new era FFXI was part of something great built off of many that came before i will never forget

True and the songs is good

i wonder if its just me, or if other people see the similarities within the overall story of ix and xvi. its almost a copy. never heared someone talking about it, but in both you have a failing civilization which tries to rebirth themselves into a new vessel. (somewhat)

@@k4yser xvi is a copy pasterino cuppachino of everything. The battle theme is copy pasted from ff8. The mog is from ffxiv. Lazy overrated yoshi p and soken

​@@k4yserYeah, Ultima's goal and history parallels the Terrans from IX. IX did the twist better, though.

​@@arisuaozoraExactly!!

FF1, 4, and 5 are also ranked far too low. 5 is very underappreciated among the American audience, and 4's story was excellent.

I feel you, but I've recently come to realize my memory of IX is better than the game holds up for me. IX was my favorite for a long time, but I also realized I hadn't played IX in years. I recently replayed VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII, and found that IX did not hold up as much as my memory of it. The story, gameplay, and overall feeling of the game fell short of what I previously thought of it. IX used to be my #1, but it is a lot lower for me now. Conversely, I enjoyed X when it came out, but has now reached near the top of the list after my recent playthrough.

@@BunchaNothinVery strange at least on the story front. I'll admit it has a few childish moments, but after studying more about existentialism after my first playthrough when I was just a kid, I really get quite a bit more out of the story. A lot of great themes underneath about the nature of agency.

@@BunchaNothin I played ff9 recently. It definitely holds up. If you're claiming it didn't hold up because of something about VIII or XII, then I think it's that your perception is off

@@fangiscool1 differences of opinion. Didn't say my thoughts were objective, because it's a matter of taste. Your response, on the other hand, is unnecessarily aggressive.

Definitely unlike any other FF, even XI!

Cause. You are the warrior of Light. And the Music Rocks

You totally get it! Even though my ranking is my own, the whole point of the video is to celebrate the entire series and what each game brought to the table. Thank you for recognizing that!

I loved the gambit system too; it is highly likely my preferred combat system. Real-time control of one character with positioning mattering, with control that can be switched between party members, setting up a plan before combat, with real-time pause if needing to make alterations on the fly. It is difficult to think of something preferable. Dragon Age Origins shares this system and also shines. The alternatives: Turn-based combat: This is fine, with FFX topping out on this list, but it is too easy to make optimal decisions - especially if they build upon each other. I am a strategist and tactician, so this is something I really dig, but again, it is too easy. It also makes most combat encounters a chore since you can not easily let the party go to town while looking around the area or just travelling through. Whatever FF13 is: This is awful. The game plays itself and you hardly matter. It is like real-time turn-based combat in control of one character with a built-in AI that makes optimal moves automatically. This is like clicker-hero combat, except you don't even click. MMO-style: Great, but you only play one character always. It is simlar to the gambit system, except you have to shout in real life at people rather than having a control scheme. Platformer-style: Otherwise known as Kingdom Hearts-style, this is what 15 and I believe 16 uses (not played either, but seen a fair amount of 15 while a friend was playing it, and seen trailers of 16). It is OK, but Kingdom Hearts done it a lot better from what I can tell. In particular, 15 seems a bit too auto-spam without much thought - building off the 13 playerbase I guess. Anyhow, the combat style itself can work (as Kingdom Hearts shows), but I still prefer the gambit system for being more thoughtful. --- Back to FF12 - sadly the PS2 was crippling to this title. They really should have waited for the PS3 to come out, which if I recall was quite soon after. The game couldn't handle multiple magic effects in play at the same time and so had to queue them - which relegated magic to being very suboptimal outside of healing (and even then, potions were often preferable). The Mist Charge system was garbage, but I have a feeling it came down to realising that players were not going to be using their MP much otherwise. The story was fine, with some elements being great - loved the Empire invasion part of it, although I might be bias as a Brit due to the voicing. The characters were all over the place, from the MC being a sideshow character that somehow got stuck to the party, the sidekick of the sideshow character making even less sense than that, two other sidekick characters that were kind of OK, then a wishy-washy princess/freedom-fighter, and then finally a kickass skypirate (rumoured to have originally been the MC before some bad decision making added Vaan and Penelo). If they had stuck to Balthier, Ashe, Fran, and Basch and expanded those characters a lot more with ALL the freed up time, this could have been great. The exploration was good, although the randomized/hidden/mutually-exclusive chests (before Zodiark Age fixed this) made it painful at times. The envionment and hunts were great. Visuals, great. Could have been better with the PS3, though. Music, fine. So, yeah, I think I would rank it in my top 5. Probably FF10 > FF9 > FF7 > FF12 > FF8 >>> FF14 >>>>>>>>>>> FF15/FF13/FF11. I've played FF6 but it was so long ago I can't really recall enough to rank confidently. Possibly after FF8, but maybe before. FF5 and earlier either I didn't play or I just cannot recall at all. Not played FF16 yet, might get around to it when it exits exclusivity. FF15 not going to touch; can't stand the storyline/characters, and the mechanics didn't seem up to much either.

my fav too !

You can sleep and you wake up you beat the boss

Final Fantasy XII TZA finish it and play the game - if you want the hard way.@@ricsrecipe6530

I'm kind of pissed that IX is often overlooked and ppl prefer VII over it. IX even has more enjoyable characters (I mean, look at Cloud, he's lame af if you compare it to Zidane)

@@mauricioore5359how is Cloud lame?

Yeah putting IX at #7 is ridiculous. Only FF that even comes close to IX is VI.

@@mauricioore5359 Yeah I really cannot understand how ppl would put VII over IX...must be rose-tinted glasses. I really found VII super underwhelming.

@@resetbutton7982 He's a boring character and pretty ugly too

I still have my guide in relatively excellent condition

7 is undeniable. I love 6 though.

yea 10 was the last good one for me… I tried the others after that… Somehow I cant really get into them…

Wow i think everyone has different taste. My best is still ff6,but i dont like ff7 and i dont even want to play ff8 and ff15 back then. I like ff10, ff12, ff tactic and even ff16(i treat ff16 like action game like god of war or dmc not an rpg game, the story is good the action is good, no complaint then it is good action adventure game).

Get a life

That's my same order as well with 8 and 9 after that

I have the game installed on my Steam Deck and will be playing through it again once I install the Moguri mod! Admittedly, its placement here is based off of shoddy memories from when I played it more than 20 years ago - but I'm the type of person who loves revisiting games just to see if my opinions of them change!

@@BacklogBattle the Moguri mod is awesome. Tried that a couple years back! I’d like to hear your thoughts on the game after a refreshed look! I also like to revisit games periodically to see if they hold up to my initial reactions and memories

For sure! Right now, I'm working on FFVI, but here's hoping I can get some time with it over the next few months!

@TheCakeling "Chivalry requires a knight to look after his comrades-in-arms. I will not abandon you! And I shall follow you to kingdom come if I must. You remember that!" Steiner to Zidane in Pandemonium

Many don't like 13 but I love it as well. One of my favorites.

I'm rewatching the cutscene movie with my wife right now and she's enjoying it. I love 13.

The Level 75 era was peak 11. Specially during ToAU and the early parts of Wings. Though leveling BLM and SMN was not fun lol

Yeah, I think the difficulty was both what makes it a nostalgic experience for me and one I could never return to lol

The soundtrack was (and still is) glorious. I've had the 3-CD soundtrack for nearly 30 years. The graphics were definitely amazing, too. FF-VI was such a huge leap over FF-IV despite being on the same console. The FF-VI "pixel remaster" opera song has actual vocals, which are nice to hear despite never being necessary in the first place.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! One thing that I've been thinking about too is that because there's only 16 (haha "only") Final Fantasies, there's this interesting conversation that's coming up with what games should be in the Top 10, with some saying that, "only good games need to be in that Top 10." But let's be real - not every Final Fantasy is going to hit home with everyone, and that's by design.

Just join literally any FF group, it is discussed as if it were the Holy Grail of games

@@ElectricLegend14 yeah I know it's famous among core fans but not so much outside of it

It was soooooo long Did you ever play through the game? All those random battles in the last castle? Takes most of your life up

VIII is definitely better story/music/design than V but V had the better gameplay Organizing a V party is soooo much better than rearranging spells/Junctions/GF's when your party swaps in VIII

I think the game's story takes a huge nosedive after the sorceress reveal but I agree it should be alot higher.

I had to share it when I saw it!

@BacklogBattle man I'm so glad they look a lot cuter now 😍 lol 😆