Does Sephiroth have some sort of, ultra-gorgeous cock that I don't know about? I don't understand why people lavish praise on him as 'the greatest badguy of all gaming history' because I tohught he was rather stupid and shallow. Hell, he doesn't even look cool or interesting, or anything short of total tosserism.
The only FF villain I hate more than Sephiroth was Ultimicia, she was just... just LOOK at her, you'll understand.
Anyway, my favs in order are like this;
1: FF6 - Story was great, and EVERY character developed really well and was useful, this game could only be more perfect if they updated the graphcs into 3D (without altering a jot of anything else) - but even as old as it is, it's storytelling genius. Most importantly, FF6 is the ONLY RPG i've played where playing the game through from start to finish, maybe doign the sidequests if you feel like it, is enough to get the EXP required for formidable power. Any of that boring training in one spot was totally unnessacary, and only served as overkill.
2: FF9 - After the folly of 8 and 7, 9 returned to the truely dramatic stoylines I had expected from Final Fantasy. FF6 beats this for various reasons, but most of all is the dificulty level (I found I had to spend hours in one spot leveling up so that I would NOT be slaughtered by the up-comming monsters.)
3: FF8 - first final fantasy I ever played. It was too easy though the story rocked, pity I was more interested in the group dynamic than the acctual planetary disaster.
4: FF7 - Like 6, you can ignore the rediculous graphics for the otherwise perfect story, but again - I was only interested in the group itself, and not in the overlaying story (though it did have interesting aspects.) FF7 is below 8 because Aeris died for absolutely NO reason, short of robbing us from the most powerful magic user in the game who had the most useful Limit Breaks.
5: FF5 - I never acctually finished this game, but I loved it right up to the point I played (I had to fight an adamatoise to get into a meteor and never got around to doing it.)