I think that FF 6, 7, and 8 are all pretty overrated.

6 gets so much praise for the storyline. Too bad the story COMPLETELY falls apart after the whole "apocalypse" thing. Not to mention broken skills like ultima, broken weapons like Atmaweapon and Illumina, and the fact that the whole "magicite" system totally broke character individuality.
7 was better about the storyline, but used the whole "false memory" idea as just a bit too much of a crutch. The graphics were great for the cinematics (we all love Square CG), but again the system suffered from the fact that the characters were fundamentally the same. And this time, they were fundamentally the same from the very beginning ... they were all materia users, and thus magic users, AND the skills were retained on the materia, not the characters. So there was no targetted character-building, just the interchangability of "swap this materia in, and now he's a summoner. Swap this materia in, and now she's a healer".
8 ... the CG was great (thanks in no small part to the incorporation of real MoCap), but ... Amnesia is the single most overused plot device EVER. It was overused in FF6, it was overused in 7, it's been tired in soap operas and other melodramas since the early 80's, and it was REALLY tired and trite in FF8. I'm glad they moved away from that crap in 9 and 10. Not to mention the whole "end of the world" sequence, leading up to the last disk. I mean, the world ending and thus the plotline dissolving like so much alka-seltzer was tried in 6, and was the weakest point of the game. Why revisit it?

Why is nobody here a big fan of FF4? I mean ... sure, it was an old game, and if you're playing the original difficulty some fights were sort of tough. But the pacing was great, the level design was interesting, the storyline was clear and elaborate, and there was a LOT of real character growth, albeit depicted in mediocre graphics. Not to mention excellent music.
And what's the problem with 10? You lot are giving 7 credit for being groundbreaking? And 8 for being well-paced? And 6 for being a good story? How about 10, with its consistent storyline, more human characters, better graphics, more interesting battle system, and generally better EVERYTHING than those three? Does everyone just discount it because it's on the ps2, and you all went out and bought Xboxes instead? I don't get it.