Hurrah, another FF obsessive :)
I reckon XII is prbly the best since VII ... didn't like VI as much as I feel I should have done (loads of people seem to rate that one as the best?). Using the Japanese numbers, 4 is good, and I thought V was very good, has the whole Jobs thing that they resurrected in IX and I maxed out all my guys across the board :shock:
If you liked VII, download a SNES emulator and fetch the ROMS off the internet ... its free, and once you get over the 16bit sprite graphics 4,5 and 6 are everybit as good a game as 7, although a bit smaller in scope. Its also amazing to see what Square managed to squeeze out of the SNES given its limited processing power.
Ahhh, the joyously wasted hours.
I liked X / X2, but they took forever to get going properly. Nearly shed a tear with what happens to Auron at the end ... I think its that whole cinematic style of the games that makes them stand out, there's always one character that you end up actually caring about, like in a good film.