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Which Final Fantasy game post-X do you think is the best?
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XII takes this running away. It's not even remotely a contest. While all three are the products of troubled development, XII is at the very least a fun and compelling product in the end. XIII is like a weird avant garde game design project in seeing how little they could get away with in a mainline FF and XV is a weird hodgepodge of ideas and concepts scotch taped together.
It's Final Fantasy XIII for me, and it's really not even close. XIII >>>>> XV >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> XII.
Yes, I realize that's an unpopular opinion. No, I don't care. :D
Yes, I realize that's an unpopular opinion. No, I don't care. :D
XII hands down.
It's a damn shame that XIV is good, but stuck behind a monthly fee. I really wish they'd make a single-player offline title in that universe.
It's a damn shame that XIV is good, but stuck behind a monthly fee. I really wish they'd make a single-player offline title in that universe.
With the caveat that I haven't played XV, it's definitely XII.
Also Bravely Default is a cool game and all but I wouldn't call it the best because the writing is pretty bad, worse than most FF games I've played tbh.
Also Bravely Default is a cool game and all but I wouldn't call it the best because the writing is pretty bad, worse than most FF games I've played tbh.
Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon, FF XIII...you have some exquisite taste good sir.
XII since it is THE best Final Fantasy unless we're counting Tactics. I think those saying XIV are surely talking about the expansions since the base game is ehhhh...fun to play in short bursts but not exactly gripping. XII is far better than base game XIV.
Talking about development issues being a common point for all three of them avoids the fact that FFXII had development issues in being the most ambitious FF project to date, of which it largely succeeds at delivering what it sets out to do. Whereas 13 and 15 were much less ambitious in scope and had a deeply unfocused vision, compounded by Square's insistence in using troublesome internal engines that ended up blowing up in their face.
I have only played XV and XII: TZA early this in this order. XV was a huge disappointment. XII: TZA a huge pleasent surprise.
WhenI find the time I will play the XIII games or at least XIII itself.
I still hope SquareEnix will release a remastered XIII collection for PS4.
WhenI find the time I will play the XIII games or at least XIII itself.
I still hope SquareEnix will release a remastered XIII collection for PS4.
Pretty much. I give it credit for trying to do away with random encounters, but the battle system sucks the longer you play because it gets automated more and more.
WotG has my fave FF storyline. It's why XIV is a distant second for me, but if they keep up the quality that there is in Shadowbringers I can see XIV closing the gap.
XII, by a country mile. It's also better than most pre-X FFs.
The MMOs sound like they're really great too if you're into 'em, but controversial opinion time... I don't think they should be numbered mainline entries, simply by virtue of the fact that ongoing MMOs are completely different beasts compared to a single-player entry.
The MMOs sound like they're really great too if you're into 'em, but controversial opinion time... I don't think they should be numbered mainline entries, simply by virtue of the fact that ongoing MMOs are completely different beasts compared to a single-player entry.
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The thing about FF12, it's the least Final Fantasy like of the main FF games. At least FF15 draws deep from that Final Fantasy tradition in spite of everything it does to reinvent the series.
FF12 should have been called Ivalice Fantasy or Vagrant Story 2 or something.
XV is amazing. Maybe I can say this because I never played it, but I watched the game be played by multiple people when it came out, and it was such a big thing for me on it's release. Too bad for the numerous shortcomings, but the good things really stood out regardless, and makes me quite optimistic for the series' future.
Not including XI or XIV, I'd probably say XII. I didn't really enjoy XIII at all. I loved the gameplay and world of XV, but there were just too many messes with the story IMO.
Seriously. I mean sure opinions and all but the pill speaks for itself.
By default; XV. Even if I didn't enjoy how the story was told, I quite enjoyed what it was going for.
I...don't get the love for XII. Nothing in that game clicked with me. I clearly don't see what other people here are seeing in it.
XIII had abhorrent characters and poor worldbuilding, but there's a shell of a good game in there.
I...don't get the love for XII. Nothing in that game clicked with me. I clearly don't see what other people here are seeing in it.
XIII had abhorrent characters and poor worldbuilding, but there's a shell of a good game in there.
Because it's a great game and it is still the most ambitious FF to this day, wildly ahead of its time in 2006. The Zodiac Age made me love it even more with all the improvements that the game deserved to become a definitive edition.
XII is probably the best overall, but I prefer XIII. The artstyle and battle system are more my cup of tea.
