The last *AMAZING* Final Fantasy game was X.

EVERY Final Fantasy game up to X were amazing. Ever since then, Square Enix hasnt been the same. They have gotten worse and worse every entry since. I think they arent the same company that they used to be. They are becoming the new RARE.

XI= just ok

XII = just ok

XIII = speaks for itself....

XIV =awful

Look at Metacritic for even more proof....notice a trend here?

Sure... I can go with that.

X sucked you in like no FF game since has managed to.Danm_999

EVERY Final Fantasy game up to X were amazing. Ever since then, Square Enix hasnt been the same. They have gotten worse and worse every entry since. I think they arent the same company that they used to be. They are becoming the new RARE.

XI= just ok

XII = just ok

XIII = speaks for itself....

XIV =awful

Look at Metacritic for even more proof....notice a trend here?

reachrocksman

Dude, that "awful" FF game WAS the last great one. And if by "speaks for itself" you mean "want to drive over the discs with a forklift" then you'd be spot on for FF VIII.

The way things are going, VI is going to remain the greatest FF game for a very long time.

Edit: apparently I don't know my roman numerals: I thought you meant 9 and not 14. Yeah, 14 sucked. Hard.

I liked XII more

I didnt like the linear story line, but other than that its pretty great

nah that would be VI.

Agreed, FFX is one of my favorite games

No. I prefer FFX but XII was the better game.

Nope I disagree. I enjoyed 12 and 13 more. Also I couldint stand the very very very forced romancein x. God did I hate it.

FFX is on par with FFXIII for better and worse, the last "amazing" FF was the ninth game for me and JRPG's have been going downhill since the PS1 died. I can see why FFX is so impressive to people who were kids when it came out ofcourse.

i believe you got it wrong ,ffx was the start of the downfall. till then ff had worldmap and were less linear, the transition of the games from 2d to 3d was bad,they didnt create cities,the made the games too linear to lower production costs,and many other things.

you want to see a game on par with the oldschool ff games? try lost odyssey. this game is amazing it is truly the only jrpg that has what old ff games before ffx had. simply amazing game. its a shame that sakaguchi wont work again for an rpg on a console,cause they dont sell as well as on handhelds and the cost is huge.

square droped the ball hard when they merged with enix, they were too afraid to go for ffvii remake,they were too afraid to go for fft-2/kingdom hearts 3 and they wanted to take a piece of the mmo-cake (huge fail btw). seriusly i dont expect them to recover any time soon.

the thing is breath of fire series is dead,suikoden series is dead,ff series is dead, and mistwalker moved to handhelds.what is left??? atlus/nippon ichi ,but even atlus isnt making a new persona game and focuses on handhelds and "catherine" .

u want good jrpgs? go buy ffxiii/lost odyssey/valkyria chronicles/tales of vesperia/eternal sonata/disgaea3 etc... go buy console rpgs and they will come back..

I actually agree with you.

not for me. i liked crysis core the best

not for me. i liked crysis core the best

max-Emadness

:? not sure if srs

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not for me. i liked crysis core the best

reachrocksman

:? not sure if srs

was about to say the same...game wasn't bad, but far from the best FF game...i mean leveling up is based on a freakin reel spin

not for me. i liked crysis core the best

max-Emadness

DUUUUUUDE!!! The word 'CrYsis' can only be used for one franchise. You have no right!

No the last amazing Final Fantasy was Tactics before that it was 6.

I agree. FFXII was awful. I didn't like it at all. Haven't played FFXIII yet. FFX is one of the greatest games of all time.

I also wanna add that it has one of the greatest sound tracks that ever made in a video game ............. one of the best endings too ............. damn, everything about this game was good ........... but I still think that FF IX is better when it comes to magic effects, doomsday anyone !

I'm going to go with VI. Even if I did truly enjoy XIII...

The last FF i loved was FFIX on PSX. Amazing game!

A lot of people seem to have forgotten about, or more likely never played Final Fantasy 12.

12 was amazing, had really great graphics for the time and the PS2, had the best battle system ever made for a Final Fantasy, and the most content ever put into one Final Fantasy game. The game world was huge, the monsters imaginitive, the art direction was great. The hunts and side quests, the dozens and dozens of hours of bonus content and world maps to explore.. Final Fantasy 12 was the king of the hill of the Final Fantasy games from a pure gameplay and content perspective.

And don't forget about the gambit system, you know the one that Bioware copied, watered down, and pasted right into Dragon Age?

I think it would be hard for any RPG fan, either a fan of JRPG's or WRPG's, to say that there wasn't at least a few things they really liked in FF12.

I can't agree yet because I haven't played XIII. XII was okay, but I lost interest half-way through.

i find that XII was a bad final fantasy but a great game. XIII was just bad all around. I would say X was the last great final fantasy

Nope I disagree. I enjoyed 12 and 13 more. Also I couldint stand the very very very forced romancein x. God did I hate it.

finalfantasy94

Did you play FF8? The romance in that game was horribly done, not to mention the game sucked.

X was emo filth, IX was a classic.

In terms of gameplay, music and world design? Sure. In terms of voice acting, character design (other than Auron and Jecht) and story? Hell no.

I disagree... but also agree with your for the most part.

FFXII was amazing to me... and review wise it was amazing everywhere except gametrailers.

No other FF game had better presentation/voicework than FFXII, plus the battle system felt fresh and was a great direction for the series... and FFXIII actually took a step backwards.

The Story was awesome too... I don't know about you, but I was getting a bit tired of the old sappy love story stuff. It was there in FFVII, huge in FFXIII, prominent in FFIX, and back to Huge in FFX. FFXII had a great cast of characters, and a story that didn't involve them around love.

The only thing I thought needed improvement in FFXII is the music. I miss Nobuo Uematsu... he's the greatest videogame composer in the world IMO. He's the sole reason why I enjoyed Lost Odyssey so much.

Everything else though, I agree with you. FFXI, FFXIII, and FFXIV just weren't my cup of tea.

Yup I agree with you Final Fantasy X was amazing.:D

Agreed, FF had it's heights between 5 and 10

A lot of people seem to have forgotten about, or more likely never played Final Fantasy 12.

12 was amazing, had really great graphics for the time and the PS2, had the best battle system ever made for a Final Fantasy, and the most content ever put into one Final Fantasy game. The game world was huge, the monsters imaginitive, the art direction was great. The hunts and side quests, the dozens and dozens of hours of bonus content and world maps to explore.. Final Fantasy 12 was the king of the hill of the Final Fantasy games from a pure gameplay and content perspective.

And don't forget about the gambit system, you know the one that Bioware copied, watered down, and pasted right into Dragon Age?

I think it would be hard for any RPG fan, either a fan of JRPG's or WRPG's, to say that there wasn't at least a few things they really liked in FF12.

evilross

Notsureifserious. FF12 is one of the worst JRPGs I've played. The character development was abysmal (which is dissapointing since I think there were some good stories to be had). Yes the game was huge and there were tons of hunts and side quests, but that was the problem. The only thing to do in the game was fight (with an extremely boring system I might add). Where's the chocobo breeding and racing? Where's the card games, opera sequences, crossdressing quests, sports games, arcades, etc etc etc that give a wonderful break to the action while adding humor in the other games? In FF12, you have to mope around in convoluted sewers and other lackluster environments. The game huge, yes, but it felt amazingly empty. It also rubbed me the wrong way that every character had exactly the same moves. Litterally no unique moves. Just lazy on square's part and makes the characters boring in combat.

The only good thing that I liked about ff12 was the main story (which was remenescent of FF tactics). I can honestly say that FF12 was the only game in the series that I've finished that I was bored almost the entire way through. It's truly the definition of trash (especially to square's standards).

I'll agree with that, X is one of my favourites in the series along with VII and IX.

It's the worse Final Fantasy game I've ever played, and I've played almost all of them (inclusing re-releases and remakes), except for XI, XIII and XIV. In my opinion the last amazing Final Fantasy (truly amazing - that could stand side by side on the shelf with my favorite PC RPGs back them) was Final Fantasy VI.

I repsectfully disagree with your opinion.

X had the best story out of any FF IMO but XII is the best game to me period...

I understand why people didn't like XIII but I thought it was fantastic.

To each his own.

Final Fantasy XII was just OK? :|

Wow. In some ways I would say it was better than Final Fantasy X.

Also you said to check metacritic and I guess this is just OKAY, huh?!

Final Fantasy 12 : 92WHICH IS THE SAME RATING AS FINAL FANTASY 10 : 92 :|

Idk, I honestly liked FFXIII about as much as X.