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Game entry

Final Fantasy III

1994 · JRPG, Sandbox, Adventure · Super Nintendo, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U · Square

After 389 duels settled by the community, Final Fantasy III stands no. 119 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,825 ELO points and 77% of wins. Final Fantasy VII is the rival it has faced most: 19 duels, 11 wins and 8 losses. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 3 out of 69 (1994).

World rank

no. 119

ELO score

1,825

Wins

77%

Duels played

389

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About Final Fantasy III

Final Fantasy VI is the sixth main installment in the Final Fantasy series, developed and published by Square. It was the final title in the series to feature two-dimensional graphics, and the first story that did not revolve around crystals.

The game gives players up to fourteen playable characters, the largest cast in the series, and features the Active Time Battle pseudo-turn based menu command system. A party can consist of up to four characters, though some events require the player to assemble three different parties of up to four and switch between them.

Each character has a unique command ability, such as Terra's Trance, Locke's Steal, Edgar's Tools or Sabin's Blitz, and can also learn Magic spells from earning AP from battles with magicite equipped. Each character's rare Desperation Attack will randomly activate after using the Attack command when at critical health.

The community says

You'll say the cast is too big to develop properly, but that's exactly why it works, everyone gets a moment even the side characters you'd forget in most other…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,825 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Final Fantasy III sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 116 Deus Ex 1,826
  2. 117 Pokémon Silver Version 1,826
  3. 118 Final Fantasy Tactics 1,826
  4. 119 Final Fantasy III 1,825
  5. 120 Demon's Souls 1,825
  6. 121 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 1,825
  7. 122 Half-Life 2: Episode One 1,824

More games from Square

Released in 1994

The standing

Where Final Fantasy III ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Final Fantasy III stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 3 out of 69 (1994).

Where Final Fantasy III ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 119 5,035
JRPG 17 228
1990s 28 659
1994 3 69

The community

The debate

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  1. CosmoFox2

    You'll say the cast is too big to develop properly, but that's exactly why it works, everyone gets a moment even the side characters you'd forget in most other games, and that's what keeps me coming back to it in these duels.

    FrameKid2

    Yo también sentí eso con varios secundarios, aunque Chrono Trigger logra lo mismo con menos personajes y menos tiempo.

  2. SaveByte40

    23rd, 77 percent, none of it changes how tired I am of ranking these things against each other.

    LootPlayer95

    Oh no, a game that keeps winning most of its duels, truly a scandal we should investigate further.

    HaileyKnight

    348 duels and still climbing, that's not nothing.

    LuckyLegend1984

    The rank feels earned to me (not that ELO scores mean much on their own), the win rate backs it up too.

    BossPilot2

    ¿Con quién lo jugaste tú, o fue una partida solitaria de principio a fin?

    PixelDragon2

    I only play an hour or so most weeks, and even at that pace I never forgot which character arc I was in the middle of.

  3. ComboLegend

    On me l'a vendu comme le chef d'oeuvre absolu, résultat j'ai passé plus de temps à choisir mon équipe qu'à jouer.

    Alice_1995

    Replying to Éric_25

    je l'ai fini justement pour les personnages, chacun a son passage marquant et ça, ça compte enormément pour moi.

    Éric_25

    pourquoi tu l'as fini alors si c'était si nul ?

    TurboBard2

    Bref, un cast énorme ça marque, ça n'empêche pas VII et VIII de rester devant dans les duels qui comptent.

  4. Neon_Buisson

    Un jeu de 1994 qui bat encore régulièrement des titres bien plus récents en duel... ça veut dire quoi exactement, qu'on vote la nostalgie ou qu'il tient vraiment la route...

  5. AnaïsKid

    Je l'avais découvert chez une amie un week-end pluvieux, on a passé plus de temps à discuter des personnages qu'à avancer.

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