FF3 (NES). That was a neat game. 
Challenging, too.
I’m also going to agree with FFMQ being vastly underrated. That doesn’t mean it’s a great game (any more than FF7 being overrated means it’s a bad game). But word of mouth paints it as being the worst game ever, when it’s really a fun little game to play.
As for FF Tactics, as you can see just from this discussion, there’s mixed reviews about it (some rave, some pan) so I can’t really call it either overrated or underrated.
I have to go with the original. When FF Origins came out, there wasn’t much hype about it. I liked it a lot. I’ve always wanted to play it but when I got a NES cartridge, my NES was too old and I didn’t want to buy another one.
On another note, I personally didn’t care for FFVIII because of the junctioning system. I always judge games by their “fun factor” and the junctioning system as well as having to “draw” magic from enemies wasn’t fun for me at all. The story and graphics were good though.
I would have to say Mystic Quest. It was a pretty good game, even though it’s not really all that FF like.
What I really enjoyed about it was the dungeon structure and the “tools”. You could jump around dungeons, cut down trees, and neat things like that. It’s little things like that that make you forget about the endless battles you have to partake in to complete RPGs.
I think I’m gonna vote for 8 just because it gets so hated on by some people…
2, 3, and 5 have an unfair advantage in the “underrated” category because they all were not released in the U.S. at the time of their making, and only got released here as part of “anthologies” in the last couple of years (and FF3 still hasn’t had even THAT).
Why is 7 overated? I loved 7 and 8. The point is however, 8 is living in 7’s shadow for a reason. Look at the time Square spent on it. They spent 3 years on 7, 1 year on 8, 1 year on 9 and 2 years on 10. They put more effort in 7 and it shows. But hey I’m not condemning 8 either. It’s good, but to me it’s not that good.
They did not put 3 years into 7. They were working on a project on the N64 for a while, and then when Nintendo refused to switch to CDs, they went to Playstation since it could hold more data. Of course, the N64 project had 64 rights, so they had to make another FF game, which became FF7. Hell, the playstation wasn’t even out for 3 years I think. It came out in late 95, FF7 came out in early 97 if I remember correctly (Can’t check, at school).
Originally posted by Sephiroth Hayes
Why is 7 overated? I loved 7 and 8. The point is however, 8 is living in 7’s shadow for a reason. Look at the time Square spent on it. They spent 3 years on 7, 1 year on 8, 1 year on 9 and 2 years on 10. They put more effort in 7 and it shows. But hey I’m not condemning 8 either. It’s good, but to me it’s not that good.
Really…? 1 year on FF8??? That doesn’t sound right considering that with each game seems more technologically advanced than the last. Yes I know i know, that’s stretching it a bit, but FF7 was more advanced than FF6( for obvious system reasons:P) FF8 was more advanced than FF7 (I’m gonna exlude 9, because I’m unsure of how…evolved that game is from the others) and FF10 currently beats all the FF’s on systems, and of course FF11 is currently, top of teh technological list. Notice I am being blunt and making a generalized statement.
So…I don’t believe FF8 was developed in one year :\ Things such as planning, FMV’s and marketing take much much time, so I think FF8 was in the early stages of development when FF7 was being prepared to be released.
Originally posted by Sephiroth Hayes
Why is 7 overated? I loved 7 and 8. The point is however, 8 is living in 7’s shadow for a reason. Look at the time Square spent on it. They spent 3 years on 7, 1 year on 8, 1 year on 9 and 2 years on 10. They put more effort in 7 and it shows. But hey I’m not condemning 8 either. It’s good, but to me it’s not that good.
FF 7 is overrated because when it came out everyone was all: OMFG! GREATEST GAME EVAR! 2 COOL! etc., etc.
Sure it was a decent game, but aside from having nicer graphics (which should be an obvious expectation going to a more advanced platform), there wasn’t much that was drasticly improved over previous games. The materia system was new and good, but not something to wet your pants over. Yet people
thought the game was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
As for FF2 being under-rated, most people hate the advancement system, or at least that’s the impression I get. Hence, they tend to think less of it (like me).
And relating to Kaiser’s statement about the Japanese games having an unfair advantage, I wouldn’t call lack of attention under-rated necesarilly, people just don’t know about them.
8! Didnt you just love the music for balamb garden huh?
Ugh don’t get people like me started on FF8’s music -_-;; it sucked hardcore, save for a few brilliant tracks.
Originally posted by Sephiroth Hayes
Why is 7 overated? I loved 7 and 8. The point is however, 8 is living in 7’s shadow for a reason. Look at the time Square spent on it. They spent 3 years on 7, 1 year on 8, 1 year on 9 and 2 years on 10. They put more effort in 7 and it shows. But hey I’m not condemning 8 either. It’s good, but to me it’s not that good.
Well of course they spent more time on FF7 and FF10. Those are “transition” games; they’re using new hardware for the first time and have to figure out new ways to do pretty much everything.
Tactics was very underrated by many people who love RPGS.
Just because it’s something different doesn’t mean it sucks.
My favourites are: FFT
FFVII
FFX
FF8 was EXTREMELY underrated but its one of my favorite FF’s
FFVIII is definitely underrated, as all those before me have said. It has the best soundtrack of any game IMO. I loved the setting, and it’s very cool when Squall and the Galbadian soldier fight for the jetpack.
I agree, FF8 has a great soundtrack. For some reason, it feels much different than the other soundtracks.
Tactics also has an awesome soundtrack. It feels different as well, but that’s expected since it wasn’t written by Nobuo.
Hmmph. As far as I’m concerned, FF7 is the greatest game of all time, and I’m not overrating it in saying so, HOWEVER, I think that some people like it for the wrong reasons, such as the graphics, and the fact that Cloud and Sephiroth look uber cool and have big swords. FF7 deserves every bit of hype that it gathers, because its story is so amazingly superlative. It wasn’t in any way simple, and that’s what I like. It was a beautiful and complex storyline. As far as I’m concerned a game needs more than emotion for its story to be great cough FF6 cough, it needs complexity as well. From what I’ve seen FF7 is one of maybe two games that do so. I’m looking forward to when I can find the time to play FFT and Vagrant Story, because both of them are very hyped for the complexity of their storylines.
I went with 9 for underrated, but 5 was close behind. I haven’t played enough of 8 yet.
How is FF8 under rated? I saw major hype when that game came out, the only reason it seemed to fade was because it wasn’t “old school” enough and that turned people off. It was highly popular and still is if anyone cares to check out some of the message boards around the net and the media FF8 projects.
The ONLY logical answer is Mystic Quest. People (many of whom have never touched MQ) often spout such nonsense that MQ is the worst game ever made, and that it’s too simple or whatnot (while other games that are also simple, like SMRPG, are revered by these same people because it’s “hip” to like SMRPG, but not to like MQ). MQ has its merits, and anybody who thinks it’s the worst RPG ever has never played Drakkhen.
Originally posted by Jenova’s Witness
Hmmph. As far as I’m concerned, FF7 is the greatest game of all time, and I’m not overrating it in saying so, HOWEVER, I think that some people like it for the wrong reasons, such as the graphics, and the fact that Cloud and Sephiroth look uber cool and have big swords. FF7 deserves every bit of hype that it gathers, because its story is so amazingly superlative. It wasn’t in any way simple, and that’s what I like. It was a beautiful and complex storyline. As far as I’m concerned a game needs more than emotion for its story to be great cough FF6 cough, it needs complexity as well.
Well, I wouldn’t say that the Final Fantasy 7 storyline was superlative(mostly because that’s an unecessarily large word), but it does have one of the better plots I’ve seen in a RPG. As for complexity, it doesn’t even touch Final Fantasy Tactics though…
However, I do agree with you when you say that “people like it for the wrong reasons”. There are way too many Sephiroth and Cloud fanboys out there. It broke my heart to see those two in the finals for the Gamefaqs tournament.
Originally posted by Sorcerer
I think tatics is also seriously overrated. That’s like, my least favorite game ever, yet people go on and on and on about how it’s the greatest thing since porn.
Hey nothing is greater than porn:cool: j/k. But I would have to say FF8 because I personally thought that game kicked ass. I like gunblades they cool.