Final Fantasy Games Tier List 

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You can virtually solo the entire ARR storyline solo now in FF14 , which makes for a great single player experience, I'd give it a shot at least

Final Fantasy VIII would be much higher on my list. I think it gets a lot of hate for being the follow up to VII (My favourite game).

I wasn't super hyped about XV at first, then I got it and ended up loving it way more than I expected to. It may surprise you if you give it a fair chance.

9, 6, 14, 12 and 4 are in my top 5 best FFs. I love 9 to death it had everything that symbolises FINAL FANTASY!

I haven't played FF8 yet but it seems to be the most divise game in the series. People either have it as their undisputed favorite or they hate it because of this infamous junction system I keep hearing about. It must be doing something right in order to garner so much love from so many.

I almost agree with you completely. Like some others said, I disagree about FF12. I didn't fall in love with it my first time through. I did my second time. Even more with FF13. The first few times I played it, I didn't like it either. By the third or fourth time, it made a lot more sense to me, and then I really liked it. I've tried multiple times to play FF15. I just have a really hard time getting into it. Maybe if I made it completely through, I might like it better. I just don't know.

Excellent tier list, I haven't seen someone's tier list so close to mine. I have a soft spot for ff8 and would move it right above ff12. I just love the atmosphere with the gardens and thought seifer was a top tier adversary. Other than that, I 100% agree with you!

In some ways the lack of story helped the original FF. Without even thinking about it, you make up a lot of the minor story beats and flesh out your own characters as you play through it

Man, that placement of Final fantasy XII really hurt me. I love that game. One of my top 4 entries in the series

I fully agree with your list. My only opinion is 7 is better then 6, but as far as where the games belong, it’s perfect! You should give 15 a try, I didn’t love it, but I did enjoy it.

I thought I wouldn’t like FF15 either, but as I played it more and more, I’ve developed a strong bond with the characters and the world…. The ending was very emotional for me, I would rate it the best of all even though I loved 7 and 6 too

I think the big problem with FF13s Characters is the way how they evolve. Pretty much everyone beside of Sazh is not likeable in the beginning, they all have their flaws and are either jerks or just annoying, but that kinda is the whole point. They all have big flaws and that is why they fail so much in the beginning and pretty much play out like the antagonist wants them to play out. Every single one of them has big Charakter development over the story (well, maybe everyone beside of Fang) and that's why they succeed in the end. Lightning learns she can't do everything on their own, Hope learns revenge will never change anything, Snow learns he is not the main Character of the univers and needs to rely on others etc. While i think this is great Character development i think it's really bad writing. I can see while so many people drop it after a few hours because of the Characters. If you just hate everyone, it's not really fun. However: Once you finished the game once and replay it i think it's incredible good since you know where everything is going and you don't mind the annoying Character interactions in the beginning anymore. I finished FF13 like 4 times so far, every few years i just want to play it again. Only FFs i played more are FF7 and FF10.

My tier list is Final Fantasy 6 ( PS1 preferred ,) Final Fantasy 7 ( original ) Final Fantasy 3 ( for DS!! ) Final Fantasy 4 ( PS1 ) Final Fantasy 5 ( PS1 ) Final Fantasy 12 Final Fantasy 8 Final Fantasy 1 ( Final Fantasy Tactics is the shizznits ... Final Fantasy Tactics 1 and especially 2 are great. FFTA2 is one of the best RPGs I've ever played. Final Fantasy, The Four Heroes of Light for DS is incredibly under-rated and is also a very great game )

I'm a little surprised you didn't do the sequel games but I appreciated the thought put into all your choices.

I actually really enjoy the combat in ff13. The story is nothing special but I love the paradigm system and the soundtrack. 15 is rough around all the edges but after watching the credits roll its one of the ones I remember most fondly. 7 remake is now probably my favorite combat system to date.

X is definitely my favorite. Yuna is such a great character!

Final Fantasy 6 is still my favorite FF (and one of my favorite GOATs). That being said.......... I still vividly remember the years, months, weeks, and days leading up to the release date of FF7. My friends and I would read every magazine that hit the newsstands over and over. When we slept we would dream about it. Awake we would think about it. It would be the topic of conversation between us at school, at home, and on the weekends as we played other PS1 games to tide us over. We would wait with bated breath for the release of the newest issues of EGM, EGM2, Game Pro, Official PS Magazine, and any other video game magazine that even had a single photo of FF7. When Tobal no. 1 released with a playable demo we all put in some money so we could buy a copy and share the FF7 playable demo. To this day I do not think any of us every actually played Tobal no. 1, but it was legendary, and worth every penny. The anticipation the day before ff7 hit store shelves was nearly tangible. There were times when I thought I could cut it with a knife. Booting up ff7 for the first time became a generation defining event. Never before, and never since, have I seen or experienced hype that grew to such immense proportions. And due to the nature of living in the digital age this is something that can no longer be experienced in the same way. This level of hype is something that is almost exclusively 90's. Those who lived it will never forget it, those who didn't will never fully comprehend what it was like.

I don't think there's a single "bad" Final Fantasy game, just the ones you liked the most, and those you liked the least. My least favorite is VIII, but I would much rather play (and actually enjoy) that game than so many other games or series considered "good" by mainstream opinion. Hot take: I don't think you can consider yourself a "true" fan of Final Fantasy without having played them all and still be able to appreciate the best things, and criticize the worst. Because even the "best" Final Fantasy has some low points and frustrating issues.

I find it interesting that the combat being planned and deliberate in FF was a sore spot for some, and yet I found it to be more engaging for that reason. Made battles more engaging than just mashing/holding the a button.

FF6 is the GOAT! My favorite game of all time! I mostly agree with the entire ranking as well. My only big disagreement would be with FF12, which I really love. It is quite different in how it tells its story versus what we were used to in FF, but it has some really cool aspects to its story, and the writing & dialogue is super good. I love exploring the world of FF12, and Ivalice in general just rules!

I love FF8. I just played the remaster version and fell in love with it again. Picked up so many elements to the story that I missed when I played it as a kid. One of my favorite games.

My 13 year old brother listened to this video with me, and he agreed with your ranking exactly.

basically the same for me i would just switch 7 and 6 since i like 7 more but other than that this is awesome

We have the exact same list. I feel like the majority of people that grew up with the FF series have 6 as their favorite. I was born 1980 and I played all the US releases at release up to 13 which I never played, 14 which I didn’t play until I spent most of last year finishing up through the end of Endwalker and never played 15. I also hated the draw system in 8 and stopped playing somewhere on disc 2. Let me tell you this, you owe it to yourself to play 14. IMO it has the best Final Fantasy story and is up there with one of the best stories across all of gaming. I love those characters and villains so much. If you are tentative about group play, eventually the entire main story with be soloable with the trust system that lets the main NPCs join you in the story dungeons but that’s a little bit off in the future as they said they will add it to all the expansions over time. That said, the dungeons and trials aren’t that bad and if you are really worried about it just watch a 3 minute video on what the boss mechanics are for the dungeons/trials. It is so worth it. The music is S tier as well some of the best you’ll hear in an RPG. When I finished Endwalker my immediate thought was the entire experience is one of the best I’ve ever had across all entertainment. People complain about ARR being something you have to slog through to get to the good parts but I liked ARR too. It is probably the weakest section of the game BUT it world builds setting up the entire game and I love that type of stuff so if you are the same you will be fine. It’s also the weakest because the rest of the expansions are phenomenal. Whatever is holding you back from trying it... take a leap of faith worst thing that happens is it’s not for you and move on. Best thing is you play a fantastic game that will give you 100s of hours of entertainment. I picked up the complete collection which was everything through Shadowbringers for $15 last May right around this time actually, you would be hard pressed to find a better investment of $15 for entertainment especially if you are a FF fan.

Your tier list is perfect, excepted the Final Fantasy VIII on "bad", I really don't understand all the hate about it, for me that's definitively a great game !

For me FFVI is one of the best games ever made. VII is great, but i feel it is needlessly confusing, and actually tries too hard with the Zack/Cloud backstory. I think i wouldve liked it better if they just cut Zack out and gave his story beats to Cloud

Final Fantasy X is my all time favourite. Getting to meet James Arnold Taylor (Tidus), Tara Strong (Rikku) and John DiMaggio (Wakka and Kimarhi) was one of the greatest moments of my life.

Storywise, 14 is comparable or even surpasses the other mainline games. Especially Shadowbringers and Endwalker. Compelling settings, memorable characters, unforgettable villains, and a soundtrack that brings it all together

For me, I'm much more of a SquareSoft era guy: FF6 > FFT (the original, not WotL) > FF8/4 > FF10. I respect FF7, but while it's an iconic game, I never bonded with the characters (and I think Sephiroth is a boring villain) like I did the above games. FF9 was great. FF12 wasn't bad, but it's when the series started going off-the-rails for me. FF13 and 15 I just have to pretend don't exist. FF14 is the only SE-product that I have faith in.

Did FF8 dirty. Without historical context, that is to say judging on actual comparable content and not importance to series history, there is no way it falls below the NES and some of the SNES titles. Really downplayed the OST too, for sure better than FF9's and at least nips at the heels of FF7's. FF6 as top choice is a quality pick, though FF9 being so high is completely out of it's league.

FF8 inferior to 1,2, 3 and 5? That's some weird tastes in RPGs .

Good review overall. Thought 10 should have made excellent category. Also me personally, always liked 7 more than 6 but seen other reviews with 6 ranking better

11 and 14 are definitely comparable. Disregarding them because they’re MMO’s doesn’t change the fact that they’re main numbered titles that deserve a fair ranking. You should give 14 a fair try at least, it’s popularity and praise speaks for itself.

I find it common for ppl to feel like 1 had issues due to the attacks being ineffective, yet as someone who played this one the most, there is something to be said for making the battles more involved by the tactic of needing to plan out who hits what for roughly a certain amount. I see the need to plan out my attacks better than just mashing A as a positive. The biggest issue I see with 1 was that magic was so limited, instead of using an MP system, and all lower spells being useless once the battle use items are found.

Isn't the furthest to the left supposed to be the best in like any other tier list? I don't understand why you did it backwards to how their lists work.

I'll just copy my list from the community section comments: Here's my personal ranking, all just my opinion: 0. Final Fantasy Tactics (better than any of the mainline games) 1. Final Fantasy 8 (yes, I know, and I don't care) 2. Final Fantasy 6 (a true masterpiece) 3. Final Fantasy 9 (a stellar end to the Sakaguchi era of FF) 4. Final Fantasy 7 (a turning point for RPG history) 5. Final Fantasy 5 (a greatly balanced and fun game) 6. Final Fantasy 3 (a precursor to 5 in many ways) 7. Final Fantasy 15 (better than most people think) 8. Final Fantasy 4 (good, but unpolished) 9. Final Fantasy 2 (probably the best story on the NES, but the gameplay is flawed) 10. Final Fantasy 7 Remake (there are many good moments, but a lot of stuff is blown out of proportion) 11. Final Fantasy 13 (some good ideas are buried under dubious presentation) 12. Final Fantasy 10 (I just don't dig it, though the music and the love story are great, but the gameplay and overall story don't really appeal to me) I've never played 11, 12, 14 or any of the official sequels. And I don't consider any of the games that I placed low on the list bad, I just enjoyed them less than those that I placed higher. The lowest ranking game in my list is still better than many others games. Thank you for expressing respect to those whose opinion differs from yours, and of course I respect yours too. A great tier list!

13 had a good soundtrack, just because nobuo wasn't there doesn't automatically mean its bad

This is my list also except 12, it is and should be in the great tier but the least of those. I remember thinking Dragon warrior was so cool until the final fantasy series stole my breath away. Great list keep it up!

Watching these kinda videos just remind me how old we've become growing up with all these gems haha :D But overall I'm glad we did. If I look at the current generation of video games then I prefer our time with all those classics anytime! As always great work on the video. As tier lists go for me I kinda dont think that there is a "bad" or "horrid" ff game. Yeah 8 and 13 are both weaker than the rest (i agree) but I wouldnt call them bad. The one thing that stands out for me is that FF IV is my all time favorite title. I have soooo many good memories of it and it simply blew me away back in the day. Yeah FF VI, VII & IX are awesome and the objective best titles ngl but IV has a special place in my heart.

I can't believe how invested I am with this dumb series of games. When I think of how many hours I spent playing and how many times I've replayed these games, I have to shake my head. Wonderful rankings. I agree absolutely with every single one.... Except one. Lol. I was with you till FF12. I love that game. My personal favorite to play. As the rankings for best goes, personally, i would have placed it just below FF10 in the great column. And I don't like 10 very much, lol. I may love playing FF12, but it had quite a few faults. Definitely think it is better than good. I am happy you put FF 10 where you did. So many people put that one at the top, and it frustrates me. Solid game but the negetives were too hard for me to ignore. Plus, bitzball sucked. Lol....... (I've frickin played FF10 from beginning to end 3 times. God, the choices I've made) Thanks for the vid

Tier lists without 11 and 14 aren't really tier lists imo. I just don't see how you can leave two mainline games out. Yay they're mmo's but 14 is basically the closest thing an MMO can be to a single player experience and 11 now adays can pretty much be solo'd. Also if youve played all the mainlines you're really really really doing yourself a diservice by not playing 14, it has some of the best storywriting in the series if not the best, and considering you played 11 when it was released I can 100 percent attest its nothing like that grindfest 11 was

This is one of those times that I was there from the beginning and essentially grew up with the series so I have a ton of nostalgia for some of the early titles. I hated FF1 the first 2 times I played it funny enough, but that's because I was young and had never seen a turned based RPG before, but once I read the strategy guide that I received because I had a Nintendo Power subscription, I became obsessed, and that obsession still lives today. I base my rankings on how much I've replayed the games. FF4 being my favorite. I'll never be able to capture the feelings I felt the day I first played 4. A. FF7, FF9, FF1, FF4 B. FF5, FF6 C. FF10, FF2, FF13 D. FF8, FF12, FF3

For the most part I think he nailed it. I was so excited for XIII when it came out. A linear game where I could start a battle, put the controller down, and mow the lawn and come back to a win is not what I was happy with.

FF8 was a lot of fun and it was so much fun with how the controls were interactive and also it was amazing to see a futuristic game and also having lots of amazing limit breaks i will always love it

Great list! You should continue to stay away from FF XIV, though... Otherwise we may never listen from you again or have a new video to watch! LOL Now seriously, FF XIV has renewed my passion for the franchise, and it's a pretty good game (even with the crapload of required menial quests) that recently is getting a ton of features that makes it EVEN MORE solo friendly. So you can just buy it, beat it in under 4 months and be done with it, or come back when you like. I assure you wont be disappointed, at least not story wise. Peace!

Final Fantasy 3/6 SNES

As long as 6,7,9 is rated one of the best and 8 is rated as one of the worst, i agree with your list.

5 is my Favourite. I put it as Excellent in your tier. 💪 6 is mediocre to me. So it'll be just Good in your tier.

Pretty much exact same ranking I woulda done (maybe FFIII in Great though for its music)! But seriously you have to play FFXIV, its easily the best Final Fantasy game in terms of character, overarching story, and music. Having knowledge of the previous games elevates the experience even more. I'd argue it's even closer to the thematic roots of Final Fantasy than FFIX (crystals and warriors of light) so it's definitely a must play. It's even Hironobu Sakaguchi approved!! The guy's been literally spamming FFXIV on his twitter the last number of months since he started.

Final Fantasy 7 is my favorite and was my first ever one played that made me interested in the RPG genre. I'm glad to see it is put in the Excellent teir.

I totally agree with the entire ranking except for IX and X. I feel IX is the return to classic that was overhyped by the older players that played the classical FF before the 3D ones. I started with the 3D first. For me X would be higher because it was simply more fun and more exciting. IX had some interesting characters and side stories, but X had more interesting story to me, more fun gameplay, and one of the best side games- Blitzball, which was really fun actually- I think it might be maybe the most fun side game of any game I have played. So I would rank X next to 7 and VI among the best RPGs of all time. I believe some games just have a tight grip on you which was 6,7,X, but IX while overall polished game, it just felt sluggish and the story not as captivating as the very best ones for me.

Solid tier list! I agree especially with 9 and 6 on your list!

FFIV and FFVIII have gotta be my top 2 for straight nostalgia. Followed by IX

Pretty solid list. I'd put 12 higher but only because I loved FF Tactics and Vagrant Story so I'm biased. V would be in the good category for me. A robust job system but it lost strong characters in the process. A harder grade would be including revisions. 4 for the SNES was good not great. The DS' play was leagues better but I get not liking the chibi style. The new remaster may be the best way to play it but that would rank higher than the SNES version.

Pretty much agree with your ranking. 6,7, & 9 have always been my favorites. I kinda put the NES & SNES games in their own tier because they kinda laid the blueprints for good RPGs. It's difficult for a series to go on as long as FF has & not miss the mark here & there like I feel they did with 8, 13, & 15, in my opinion. Some good ones, some amazing ones, & not okay ones.

You had me 100% until VII. I feel like that one is at the bottom end of the Great tier. The rest of the list, I find myself agreeing with pretty much completely, which is a rarity with these types of FF rankings.

I've only played XV and the original Vll, XV is one of my all time favorite games, Vll didn't click with me because of the combat but story wise is amazing, I recently got lX and I hope it suits my style since I'm a fan of medieval fantasy.

FF8 main problem is that you don't want to use magic because draw is a nightmare. I don't mind to grind 100 of each spell (since xp/level don't really matter) but don't let me waste those draw on magic. Yes you can extract from card but it just break the game and make it worst.

But wowwww, putting FF8 in the bad tier, there is not much I know about anything, but I do no that is a daring vision you have. It is almost on par for me with FF7 and both just a little higher ranking than lets says FF9. Why? Yes, the story was flawed, Junction system was tricky and broken ( but fun), but dude come onnnnn the worldbuilding, the art style the overall story, the sci fi elements, the mothereffing Ragnarok and Galbadia Garden VS Balamb Garden, heck all The FMV's etc etc etc. As a young teemager it felt like I was in a Japanese Star Wars or something man, in the 90's! Just wandering around and finishing something like that, its worth at least in the positive grades. Nothing but love tho, now continuing listening to the rest as I rest my case.

My personal list would be quite similar! Listed from best to worst, it would go: A: VI, VII B: V, XII, X C: IV, IX, III, I D: VIII, II F: XIII The main differences seem to be that I rate XII higher and IX lower. I agree that XII's story has problems, especially the ending (it very much feels to me like a Game of Thrones situation where the writing abruptly falls off a cliff due to the loss of Matsuno behind the scenes partway through production), but I found the Gambit system really engrossing and got obsessed with the monster hunts. I don't mind "the game playing itself" as a replacement for random battles where I would just be mashing A to dispatch enemies with my basic attacks anyway; I like it that the game let me delegate that mindless aspect of battling to my dudes. I found the art style and character designs in IX gross and off-putting, which makes it harder to get invested in the story/characters, and I don't see a lot of positives to the gameplay compared to the FFs I put above it. The combat is plodding and basic, with a horribly designed "limit break" system in the Trances; Quadra Magic is utter bullshit, yet the game forces you to win at it to progress at one point; and tying progression to specific items which can generally only be worn by a specific character just seems like the traditional system where each character learns abilities at set levels, but with extra steps. I've come to expect minigames in FFs to be mind-bogglingly frustrating and awful, but it doesn't have to be that way: the ones in VII and VIII weren't bad, so we have IX's Quadra Master, Chocobo Hot and Cold, etc. to blame for that bad trend which continued into X and X-2.

Up the irons

Hahah as I’m probably the same age as you, I had relatively the same experiences growing up playing these games. I would rate them exactly how you have. 13 was the beginning of the end for me. They seem to have lost what made these games great. My idea how they can retain greatness is making a 3d ff that uses the oculus or ps5 headset. They were always pushing boundaries and how cool would that be for them to make the first fully immersive 3d game ever. Hell I would be even happy with a game that merged materia and a job system. Would be hard to tune but imagine the combos, would have lots of replay ability. I’ve always been a big fan of your summary videos and think you do a great job with the explanations. Keep up the good work.

For me, you are quite close to 100%

These tier lists for the FF games are fun when people give their thoughts to the placement of each game, rather than just worrying about the ranking itself. Everyone has their own tastes for the series -- I'm that rare FF heathen that likes FF9 the least out of all mainline FFs (and yeah, I've been playing since the original NES release of the first game). But always fun to hear others thoughts, good vid.

I know it's not thematically in line with the others in the series, but I would have like to see where you rated Tactics. Agree with 6 being the best. Agree with 7 taking the 2nd spot, out of the base FF games. If you factor in War of the Lions, though...I'd have to say 6, then Tactics WOTL, then FF7. Tactics was just so fresh, engrossing, and interesting it single-handedly renewed my faith in SquareSoft and the franchise.

You were way too mean to 8. It did so much right. The way it upped the stakes was believable until the end. They objectively had a better limit system than 9 with very distinct abilities between characters. I could go on for ages

2 and 3 weren't released on the NES in the USA but seems like you're saying that you played them that way.

I know I know, 12 gets dumped on, but really hard to see why you think it's better than 8. To each their own, but wow. My mind is blown with that. Then again I'm not a fan of X. For me X would be switched with 8. I will say it was the entire game. It's not anything like its predecessors, and for me the addition of voice acting just ruined it for me. I loved being able to read the texts and create the voices. Like when they turn a book into a movie, people for the most part always say,"read the book its WAAAY better" That's what X us to me as a FF game. More cinematic and for me it tried to hard to be different

Love your hat

Top of my list would be FF III FF IV and FF V. I need to force myself to play some of the later games. Something about them just never grabbed me the way the other ones did. I was amazed with FF III. The first time I played it on an emulator, I was blown away by the graphics and I fell in love with the job system. I really like the PSP remakes, wish they would of done 3 that way, as Im not crazy about the DS version.

The fact that you put VIII so low cancels out everything else.

I have not played a single FF game, but what I do know is FF8 has a gun blade, which makes it an Instant SSSS tier. I mean like, cmon, it’s a gun, and a blade, that is just so badass.

I can't fathom seeing 8 ranked under 12, I was able to sigh and shake my head until that point. The story of 12 is disjointed and uninteresting, the "main character" in Vaan is just....a hard flop for me. He's outshined by basically every other character but the game continues to follow his perspective. The mmo-lite style of open world combat felt boring and uninspired. The junction system in 8 was a pretty unique and interesting system for power progression along with leveling and gave a nice ability to customize skills for your party. The combat, limit breaks, and guardian forces(summons) were exceptionally well done with the added interactivity in the waning age of ATB turn-based combat. The story was fun and at times heartwarming. If im understanding his description right, he was so disinterested of 8 after 6 and 7 that he didn't finish it, I'm left wondering if he'd feel different if he revisited it now. Of course, his video and his opinion, which he has a right to. I was generally fine with the rest of the list.

I must be one of the very few that never liked 9. Way too much time spent watching instead of playing in the early game to ever get invested. FFXII, though, will always be in the top 3 for me. Amazing game and the gambit system was incredible.

Hell yes!! ANYTHING FF and I’m watching it, every time I see your videos I want to dust off the snes and play them again. 1 of the best things in gaming history that made me 100% love this game was when you could wait till time almost ran out on the flying island and save shadow. Completely blew my mind

13 and 15 get too much hate! Both have good soundtracks too imo. I would put 13 at lowest end of Good tier and even though 15 has a lot of flaws, I'd probably put it in the great tier. FF Spin off tier list next?

Excellent video. My personal opinion is mostly aligned with yours. FFXII I put a lot higher as it's probably the closest I'll ever get to playing an MMO, and I found it supremely entertaining - especially the remaster. FFXIII I didn't find as detestable as you did, but I'd still rank it Bad. Probably the game I'm least likely to ever play again. In the end I go back and forth between FFVI and FFIX being best in series. FFVII being third place in my book (the remake IMO is better than the original, but I reserve judgment until the final entry in the episodic series is released). Thanks for reminding me it's been awhile since I played some of these!

Honestly this is a good list. The only thing I would change is 10. Id put it next to 8 probably. The music, battle system and graphics are amazing. The leveling system allowed me to over power Yuna and dominate which… wasnt too fun honestly. The story was a bit too easy to predict, the main character was confusing to me and honestly I think Yuna or Auron would have been better at it. Finally the final boss (not sin) made me feel like I wasted my time. Sin’s fight was AMAZING but wow was the after party terrible for me. If I put 11 and 14 in those categories: 11 topest tier and 14, great.

13 better be buried under the bottom of the chasm of the abyss of this list. Probably best to not even include it, actually.

Well thought out list! My one disagreement with you is FF8, I absolutely LOVED that game. For me it's on the same level as 6 and 7. The junction system is confusing at first but it's really fun how you figure it out. The soundtrack was superb. I also saw myself in Squall so that helped lol.

I know that Final Fantasy VI is supposed to be the best game ever and it has received so much love over the years. And I’ve tried on more than one occasion to play it… but I could never get through that game. I thought the characters were very generic and uninteresting. They all had these disjointed motivations too. I lose interest in it every single time.

Loved your tier list....agreed with everything but the ff8 soundtrack...its just one of the best soundtracks ever made...disk 4 is insane, the castle theme, and the 4 amazing ost for the final boss alone made a soso final boss become my favorite final boss to play...game has too many plot holes and weak characters to be amazing...but soundtrack is were it shined

I have skipped XII back in the day. But I started playing XII Zodiac Age on the PS4, because I always wanted to try it and I’m on the hype for XVI, and man it really does it for me. I really like the diversity of the world, the game mechanics are different from the usual FFs. My personal Rank is this: FFVII/FFVII Remake, FFXII Zodiac Age, FFVIII, FF Tactics, FF VI, FFIX, Stranger of Paradise FF Origin. Those are the ones I’ve played and enjoyed.

People who refuse to rank Tactics because "it's not a numbered game" only make that rule because they know they'd piss everyone off when they rank it in the top 3.

Final fantasy 13 had some of the most memorable music so that in itself warrants a good tier plus the gameplay was great so overall i would say great

For me FF12 was amazing, the gambit system is super fun to play with..

My life is way to busy and stressed to do any youtube at the moment, but seeing a FF Tier list, my curiosity always creates a way

FF8 had an amazing feel and set of gameplay mechanics + visual style. I like the idea of the Gardens and the differing types of limit breaks the characters had. Gunblade was cool, Diabolos, Doom Train, Eden. LOVED the FF8 airship. I can kind of agree about the characters not being fully fleshed out though, they each had a unique and cool aesthetic but they aren't quite as "defined" in personality as Barret, Aerith, Red, Vincent, Cait etc. Although it had cool spells like Meltdown and awesome summons, you're 100% right about the Draw system... that was needlessly tedious and should've been balanced against the incentive to just grind 100 stacks for optimal stats. Makes for boring gameplay but then you feel like an idiot if you don't do it, and it also feels bad to spend spell stacks unless you really need to. Doubt it'll happen but they could make for a great remake with some rebalancing if they actually just fleshed out the characters a bit more, stuck to the story but then fixed up some of the weird timey-wimey elements. I imagine they could do some really cool stuff with the gunblade in a newer action combat / atb hybrid FF7 style.

Considering I would have done the exact same tier list (thanks god you put 6 at the very top.. I mean it even have a 2 player mode for god sake, who did that aside from seiken dentetsu) So for that reason I'd say go for the XV, I was like you at first, I didn't play it for like 2 years after its release and I played it on the steam version which is horrible with non stop freeze which doesn't happen apparently on the epic client version and yet I think it's a top tier FF. Like i wouldn't put it next to 6 7 9 quite but above ffx. Once you get into it (takes a bit of time) it's really an odyssey, you learn to know the characters a lot more, get attached to them, it's like you're part of their tragic road trip, it's simply excellent. The fighting part isn't bad but isn't amazing either, the music has some of the best FF tracks and also some of the meh-est tracks also so it's difficult to judge.. But the storyline is fairly simple and yet strong and the more you play, the more you let those characters grows into you the stronger the story and ending And while not the most amazing looking game, it's very special and the summons while too rare and too few are the most amazing looking ones in any FF. It's a very controversial FF, and the fact that they switched the online servers off really sucks cos it was kinda fun, but it's probably one of the most under rated ff (and we know you like that for your videos lol) Tldr: pick up ffxv, play it, give it an honest chance, you won't be disappointed

Using same guildines but before seeing his list..(never played first 3 in original format though). Prob some spicy takes here. Edit... apparently I pretty much agree with him, even not playing 15 lol 4)A 5)A 6)S+ 7)S- 8)D- 9)A- 10)B 12)C 13)C+ I sort of gave up and didn't play 15 past the tutorial

For me IX is the best one. After that its: 2.- VII 3.- VI 4.- V for the gameplay 5.- IV for the story 6.- III 7.- I 8.- II 9.- XII 10.- X 11.- XIII Haven't played XV. I really disliked XIII and I was not a fan of X. Basically, for me the series ended at IX and after that, it's like a different series. No Sakaguchi and no Uematsu really changed it to something else, for me. And my favorite FF of all time is Zodiac Brave Story (FFT)

Say what u want about 13 but that ost is top 5. I would put 2 in horrid, 8 in good and 13 in bad despite the fact I actually thought it was decent and fun with it's combat. I would also switch 9 and 10's placement and put 15 in bad as well.

going into this i feel like the tier ranking is more or less universal after all this time for the first 10 - the only debatable one was going to be 8, and - 9 was either going to be S tier for some or A tiers for others. - 7 is undeniable S tier even if someone didnt enjoy it - 6 was major shift in the direction of the golden era, which makes it rank right under - 4 and 5 have a special place in peoples hearts but they cant be ranked above the others - and nobody talks about 1 - 3. - X i guess is a grey area but not as divisive as 8, X is the transition out

Excited to see this one

Ten is up there with 7 and 6 imo. The best area 6,7,9,10

Maybe if you mentioned Triple Triad you would've placed FF8 higher.

I'm sorry to hear you're not a fan of FF8. For me, the story, music and overall presentation really won me over back in the day. Having said that, I don't blame you for focusing on its faults. It's not as replayable as the classics.

ffvi is truly one of the greatest games. i knew ffxii would be low on the list knowing the zodiac age wouldn’t be considered lmao. it was such an upgrade

Completed 13 4 times now, my favourite in the entire series!