I agree with both of these. IX is so clearly the best in the series and the perfect culmination of everything that came before it. It pretty much has everything the series wanted to say about itself. It’s like the perfect season finale to a show you dearly love, that then gets picked up by Netflix and just goes on and…

Hate to be pedantic, but you misspelled “Final Fantasy VI” multiple times in your “The Best” section.

Ddefinitely IX is a personal favorite. Just a beautiful, bittersweet love letter to it’s many predecessors, right as the franchise turned toward the future with X (and the way future with XI).

VI is a masterpiece, and it should be the one getting the mega-budget remake instead of VII.

> The heroes are a true ensemble with no standard protagonist.

Yeah, they are driven by Terra in the first half, whether it is a need to protect her, help her, etc.  And Celis in the second half, but yeah, of the core members....they all have solid arcs and drive the story.  Id argue that Terra, Locke, Edgar, Celis, Sabin, and Setzer are your mains, they are the ones pushing the…

Kefka is gonna build a monument to non-existence and he’s gonna make the Espers pay for it! 

Oh it’s not an attempt the debate is done, anyone you see arguing about it from now on is engaging in high-level roleplaying to relive the time before this question was answered.

Thank you!

I love as well that for the first half of the game you have a fairly generic evil emperor as the central antagonist, and then Kefka is like the comic relief henchman. But then Kefka gets gradually more dangerous and he ends up being like Starscream. But then Kefka ends up literally destroying the world and declares…

I recently replayed it and it holds up. It’s a great story and the fact the heroes lose at one point and the world gets destroyed is a pretty ballsy move.

FFVI is a) great and b) a good analogy for politics these days, with authoritarian madman clowns being elected all over the globe.

Best: IX. It’s the culmination of the PS1 era where Squaresoft was at its most creative high. It’s fun and whimsical in a way that Final Fantasy games apparently are no longer allowed to be since they’re now determined to solely be the fever-dream of a 13 year old edgelord.

Worst: All of modern day Final Fantasy. It’s…

I’m sure part of it is nostalgia, but VI really feels like a timeless masterpiece to me. The tech is old, but the opera scene is still sensational, the characters are still incredibly written, Ultros the awesome octopus is still hysterical and Kefka is still a perfect villain.

The best Final Fantasy game is V and it is not close. The worst is III (which actually came out the day I was born (and I’m of course talking about the NES one not VI)). Turns out a lousy job system utterly tanks a game and a great job system uplifts a game to the highest echelon of RPGs.

True, but not really relevant to my point, which is that the strange element of the situation isn’t that his sponsor dropped him, but that people are being sponsored to perform a fake version of their normal occupation in the first place.  

On the one hand, Bubba obviously forgot he was gonna be on national television. If he needed an out he could have just taken his resets and gone on with his day. There were enough crashes and I’m sure there’s a handful of other driver’s that have had a cup ride that would enjoy their extra exposure like Timmy Hill.

Psh Noob.

Thank you for not making this a bullshit crosspost with ‘Deadspin’. 

Hah! Absolutely agreed!