GT Countdown: Top 10 Worst Final Fantasy Games

[andrew8798]

www.gametrailers.com/videos/jn4tkj/gt-countdown-top-10-worst-final-fantasy-games

[andrew8798]

The list

10. Final Fantasy XIII
9. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time
8. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
7. Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
6. Final Fantasy: Legend (SaGa)
5. Final Fantasy II
4. Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
3. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
2. Final Fantasy XIV 1.0
1. Final Fantasy: All The Bravest

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Mystic Quest has a bitching soundtrack


Other than that... eh

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Interesting list there. I've never heard of most of them lol.

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I knew of most of them but the sequel to FFIV and the Wii Chocobo's Dungeon game

[Gopher Mod]

The only one I have a slight reservation about being on this list is Mystic Quest. Yes, it's simple, but it doesn't mean that it isn't fun. I do understand why they did put it on the list, but I wouldn't have. Instead, I probably would have put X-2 at #10 and knocked everything else up one spot.

[Spider2024]

Has anyone actually played FF4 After Years? 4 was my favorite FF game, but I've never gotten around to the sequel. How is it?

And Mystic Quest was awesome. Super simplified, but awesome.

[Red Impact]

XIII should be higher.

FF Legend shouldn't be on the list. It was a Game Boy game, and wasn't an awful RPG by any stretch. The worst you can say for it is that it was a bit dull, but nowhere near as maddeningly awful as XIII.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

XIII should be higher.

That game was just piss poor. Just essentially running in a straight line for 40 hours past boring scenery fighting Monsters with little story or little interaction. Plus the 2nd dullest cast of characters since FFXII. How can you have an RPG game with no freaking towns? I always enjoyed exploring towns, doing optional quests, chatting to people and just taking a break from fighting and such.

[H-Virus]

What the hell is All The Bravest?


EDIT: Nevermind. iOS game. Looks awful.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

I'm probably going to be one of the only people who didn't get the gameplay problems with Dirge of Cerberus, I just thought the game was way too damn short.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Mystic Quest should be called "Baby's First Fantasy". It is an introduction to RPG mechanics, it is not made for people who know how to play RPG's already.

It also is a rip roaring good time when you use a Game Genie.

[J is Justice]

Final Fantasy III is the worst I've played.

XIII-2 is worse than XIII, imo. Two dull as dirt protagonists, confusing story, no Eidolons. XII was also worse.

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10. The system and failed emphasis on online gameplay made it bad.
9. Personally, the original Crystal Chronicles should also be in the list.
8. People hate on it only because it was an "easy" RPG.
7. Never played.
6. Never played.
5. Really odd experience system (instead of general experience, you improved your Health and Defense whenever you got knocked around a lot) and many, many points of no return. A rather forgetful game.
4. Wasn't that game where Cloud rode around on a bike?
3. Never played. Of course, since it was made for cell phones, it probably wasn't going to be epic.
2. Never even heard of a "1.0".
1. Never played.

[SOR]

Came in expecting Final Fantasy 8 to be on the list (I like it but most hate it)

Never played any of these ones I don't believe.

[Red Impact]

Jan 18, 2014 10:29:39 GMT -5 SOR said:

Came in expecting Final Fantasy 8 to be on the list (I like it but most hate it)

Never played any of these ones I don't believe.

8 has been really vindicated by time. People were down on it because 7 was so popular, but they didn't realize how low Square would sink.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Jan 18, 2014 12:30:52 GMT -5 Red Impact said:

Jan 18, 2014 10:29:39 GMT -5 SOR said:

Came in expecting Final Fantasy 8 to be on the list (I like it but most hate it)

Never played any of these ones I don't believe.

8 has been really vindicated by time. People were down on it because 7 was so popular, but they didn't realize how low Square would sink.

basically that. it's a flawed game, and the writing isn't the greatest, but it's still got fewer annoying characters than FFX does, and FF13 is just the nadir of the main series (not counting spin-offs) in just about every way. I do still find much of the plot incomprehensible and pretentious, but FF13 was just so much worse in that regard.

[Red Impact]

Jan 18, 2014 12:35:59 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

Jan 18, 2014 12:30:52 GMT -5 Red Impact said:

8 has been really vindicated by time. People were down on it because 7 was so popular, but they didn't realize how low Square would sink.

basically that. it's a flawed game, and the writing isn't the greatest, but it's still got fewer annoying characters than FFX does, and FF13 is just the nadir of the main series (not counting spin-offs) in just about every way. I do still find much of the plot incomprehensible and pretentious, but FF13 was just so much worse in that regard.

8 was a simple, but effective, story at it's core, but Square didn't want that so they piled a bunch of obtuse garbage on it to try to make it seem more complex then it needed to be. It's a story that's easily fixable (as opposed to 13). But the combat system, while so abusable, was good. The characters were hit or miss, essentially only two mattered throughout the game, but Square had to try to shoehorn a way to connect them more and it came out horribly. I feel like I could fix the entire story with a slight rewrite, and that was really the worst part of the game.

10 was a pretty good story with a horrible script and voice acting. Best battle system to date, but unlike 7 and 8, it didn't allow any true customization of character roles, only the illusion of it. Even 13 did a better job with that by giving you 3 sphere grids to pick from for most of the game, so for a brief stretch you got to feel like you were making someone a better tank or a better mage rather than a better buffer.

So basically, at the time it came out, 8 might have been on the list just because Square's pedigree was so high that there little choice with as few games as there were. But since then, they've struck out so often that it comes off.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest gets a negative but understandable rep. I look at it as the Kirby of Final Fantasy games. When people think Final Fantasy, they think hardcore RPGs. Mystic Quest is like Final Fantasy for kids and it's a good game for a new gamer to get started on if he's just getting into the RPG genre. Believe me, starting your first RPG on something like FF VII is quite the jump.

[A Platypus Rave]

Jan 17, 2014 21:57:52 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

Has anyone actually played FF4 After Years? 4 was my favorite FF game, but I've never gotten around to the sequel. How is it?

And Mystic Quest was awesome. Super simplified, but awesome.

I played it... it was... alright my brother really liked it. But there is a lot of rehash involved.

I liked Mystic Quest but I understand why it's on a list like this as this is pretty much the quintessential "just hit A" to win game.

Jan 18, 2014 0:34:00 GMT -5 Red Impact said:

XIII should be higher.

FF Legend shouldn't be on the list. It was a Game Boy game, and wasn't an awful RPG by any stretch. The worst you can say for it is that it was a bit dull, but nowhere near as maddeningly awful as XIII.

Agreed.

Yeah, XIII was way worse than most of these though the top 2 are spot on.

I really don't think there was a thing I enjoyed about XIII.

Jan 18, 2014 10:13:38 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

10. The system and failed emphasis on online gameplay made it bad.

I don't know what you mean by that... 13 was a bad story being told terribly on top of the terrible system which pretty much plays itself... and I don't remember any kind of online gameplay.

9. Personally, the original Crystal Chronicles should also be in the list.

You are wrong -_-

Well unless you only played the single player... single player was pretty dire but it was a fun experience if you are playing with a group of other people.

2. Never even heard of a "1.0".

1.0 was the original release of 14... the one where the developers apologized for TWICE... and was so broken they took a scorched earth policy on it and completely rebuilt the game from scratch for Realm Reborn.