LOL. Nice.

Ha ha.. Win!

no FFVI, kefka was the first of the bunch. He wore make up and had flowing robes and a evil witch laugh. I was confused as they kept calling him prince when clearly it was a she

kefka was actually a clown. Literally. Hence the makeup and crazy hats.

Oh, and he was evil, hence the evil laugh.

http://www.ffcompendium.com/art/6-kefka-a.jpg
you telling me this is a male....
of course he had an evil laugh but a high pitched one which made it seem like a girl

MWAHAHAHAHA!

Yes. No breasts+square jawline = male.

Also, referencing Amano's concept art isn't really fair, as his style is also very wiry. If you look at the in game portraits and sprites, its much easier to tell.

Um, Amano's art has ALWAYS been feminine. Every human form he draws looks like a chick. His art even made Cloud look like a pussy. I'm glad they started going with Nomura's designs.

Newsflash: This happens in every FF.

agreed needs edgar. the guy had a better story than sabin. he was the one witha the double headed coin and took kingship for sabin. also he use a giant drill and a chainsaw. most orginal weapon than the swords of extreme sizes or swords with a gun hilt.

Agree. For many FF7 was their first rpg, hence it will always be the best in their eyes.

You are right...

I love Magitek designs... even the box art is truly amazing:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Final_Fantasy_VI_Japanese_box.png

The "first RPG" aspect has a lot to do with it. My favorite FF's are VI,VII,VIII,IX, and X, in that order.
I never played IV, so I can hardly rank it. And I have yet to play XII, largely in part due to my fear of real time.

FFX is the only FFX I really love, and my first FF was FF on the NES :x
Though, I'd still put FF6 second after that, though I don't actually love it.

Agreed. I love IX as well.

Yeah, I thought that thing was a dog. Thanks for remembering his given name for me. I remember my old roommate naming him Steve for some reason.

He's not really a dog either. He's like this cat/dog/freak hybrid.

Nanaki is his true name.

See, and I always thought he was just a talking wolf. You know, since at one point, he howls at the moon.

Definitely VI... but it was an SNES game, not NES... or it was a typo? =p

Are we talking about the same FF9? I seem to recall that one meandering around the plot with no direction and then rushing the end which didn't make any sense.

I love FFIX. It's the last one I ever played for more than an hour or so.

@ Crono: the thing about FF9 is that it can't be rushed. I tried to do that in my first play through just to finish it off and move on to something else and it completely ruined the game for me.

Years later, after having stepped away from it, I decided to replay it with no deadline and to simply experience the game, much like one would play Animal Crossing (if that makes any sense). End result; i like.

I enjoyed VIII much more when I discovered you could REFINE magic and were not restricted to DRAWING all of it (this was on my 3rd play through, mind you).

I also feel it had one of the better endings.

I'm sorry, but the characters in FF10 were the worst.

Why can't square make a game with likable characters anymore? I loved all the characters in Chrono Trigger, secret of mana. Hell, even Secret of Evermore.

FF games haven't had likable characters since well before FF7.

I don't know, I think that IV and VI had the best characters and plot, not to mention dialogue. The whole "You spoony bard!" line is as Shakespearean as video games get.

I don't give two craps if characters are likable. It's how they're written, and where they go, how they go, and why they do what they do is important.
In that regard, the entire FF series has poor characters, for the most part.

If you want good characters, you have to look toward The Lunar series, Grandia series, Xeno-series, and such and such.

"FF6: Great effort for the time, second half ruined thanks to non-linearity"

Second half ruined due to non-linearity? But that's what made it so great! You decide what to do, not the game (and not in an overly SaGa-type way *shivers*). Alas, this explains why you enjoyed X and I, mostly, did not. X was way too linear for my taste.

Also, the series has some good characters. Personal favorites:
FF6 - Edgar (chainsaw FTW)
FF7 - Cid (gotta love angry astronauts)
FF8 - Irvine (initially creepy, but hey, shotguns!)
FF9 -
FFX - Auron.

Except how they're written and where they go doesn't mean 2 shits if I don't give a damn about them to begin with. Its hard to feel sad when Aeris dies if you think she's a bitch trying to butt in on Tifa's action (my wife's view, not mine). Its hard to feel the emotion in Tidus and Yuna's relationship when he has the mentality of a 12 year old and only gets through his problems by being hopelessly ignorant of his surroundings.

Tidus and the Vaan are the best examples. Angsty morons who don't know shit about shit and don't get any better/smarter as the game progresses. Not sympathetic at all.

Crapper characters make for crappy character driven RPGs. Linearity of FF10 sucked too. You could get through that game by holding forward and pressing circle.

Can you tell that I hate ff10.

"If you want good characters, you have to look toward The Lunar series, Grandia series, Xeno-series, and such and such."

Ahhhh ha ha! You almost had me with you bullshit list! If you hadn't posted this part I'd never have called your troll.

7/10, since you came so close.

"Ahhhh ha ha! You almost had me with you bullshit list! If you hadn't posted this part I'd never have called your troll."

But those games DO have awesome characters... and I DO genuinely love FFX.

God, anyone who likes FFX doesn't deserve to have an opinion.

Did anybody else ever see Dyne as resembling Stallone? Or was that just me?