Final Fantasy VIII. The unique battle system, the progression of the characters, the twists in the plot, the stellar music... it's all great. The world theme was really weak and easily one of the weakest in the entire series, but otherwise it had a stellar soundtrack, much like most FFs do.

The conspiracy theories on why things get so wild and change so much after disc 1 are really interesting too. They're almost as fun as the game itself. Almost.

My favorite Final Fantasy game is FFX, but I only like the remastered edition, and this is the only game that I actually went in depth into, so I havent played the others much.

My favorite is Final Fantasy game is 6.  I love the story and I love the large cast of memorable characters that you can obtain.  Very fun game play and it have the best antagonist ever, a clown!  Well a court jester to be fully honest, but a clown non the less.  He is a cold, deceiving, heartless, monster that would do anything to satisfy his goals.  Even kill innocent people for no reason at all by poisoning their water supply.

My favorite Final Fantasy is a very lesser known Final Fantasy than Final Fantasy 7, and Final Fantasy 8, which are usually the main ones up that people talk about, at least where I am and when my friends talk about Final Fantasy. But mine is Final Fantasy 9, where I am from I am the only individual who likes Final Fantasy 9, I think the Character development in that particular game was amazing, I was able to fully understand, and like all characters, the memories of that game I also cherish both in and out of that game as well. The story was very good as well it was a childish, but it was still very well done, and written. The card game was addicting as anything, but most of the card games in the series is. The game play was very well done, really no frustration for me, and it never really got stale at any moment.  My favorite character would have to be the classic hero in the game Zidane I just like how he was developed as a character. The music was very beautiful never was annoying or anything like that. All in all it was a very solid and well game.

My favorite final fantasy game is final fantasy V.

Out of all the ones I have played I would have to say IX is my favorite.

My favorite Final Fantasy game is FFX, but I only like the remastered edition, and this is the only game that I actually went in depth into, so I haven't played the others much. But I do like FFXIII and all of it spin offs 

Ok ok ok, I have to admit that FFVII was like the most awesome game from the Square Soft.

I think it's a little unfair to be judging all of the franchise as opposed to breaking the franchise down by Dev team name.

Square
FFI-FFV
Square Soft
FFVI-FFIX
Square Enix
FFX+

I will go ahead and admit to most likely being wrong with the time line of Company name changes.

For nostalgia reasons I have to say FFIV because it was the first one I ever played (one of my aunts owned the game for SNES and in her file named a character for every person in the family [My character was Palom]. So I have to love the game.

Square Soft really knocked it out of the park with FFVII but for me a close second will always be FFIX.

I feel like Square Enix is really just trying to tread water until the next really big thing happens. FFX and X-2 had the best character development, look, and feel for this era, but I think that XIII has the better story line despite the lack of reward bug.

I really have to go with my personal favorite in this and one I knew straight from childhood. I still remember going to a friend's house and seeing it for the very first time, and getting hooked straight into the game and the storytelling of it. Final Fantasy IX offered a rich array of characters that each had their own personal story(For the most part) and the main of those characters had an unique storyline to it. It also had my favorite character in the Final Fantasy franchise in it, plus who could forget the card-game? You can spend just hours playing the card game inside the game.

Final Fantasy IX was my first and is still my favorite although I'm ashamed to say I haven't beaten it yet. I've gotten to the fourth disc and just never crossed that finish line. I've beaten X, X-2, XIII and I'm working on VII but so far nothing has surpassed my love for Final Fantasy IX. I just love Vivi and Zidane!

mine is final fantasy V
it was great

It is not very easy to choose between Final Fantasy V and VII, if you consider, of course, that the former has more limitations due to its console being older. Anyway, both made me have a wonderful time and got me stuck. FFV, despite graphic issues, is so cool with that jobs system and FFVII with chocobo breeding and tons of mini games which are not just things we have to do at a certain point in the game. I would go to the Gold Saucer just for fun!

Both are amazing!

I have played I to X and XIII, but I would say that IX is my favorite! To me Zidane and Vivi were great characters.

My favorite is Final Fantasy VII because I have only played a couple FFs and I think VII has the best characters and story of those which I have played. I also like Final Fantasy XII character named Balthier, but the game itself was not that good as FF VII was in my opinion.

If I have to pick one, then it is definitely Final Fantasy VII.  I have played every Final Fantasy game (yes even XI), and this is still by far the best.  The 3D graphics were ground breaking, and the story was incredible.  It was so intricate and complex, and it is hard to find a better story in any other game.  The materia system was a great way to develop characters, and it is still my favorite leveling system. I think the side quests are great and give you a ton of extra hours of playability.  The character development is amazing. Every single character has their own unique
story which is thoroughly explored in order to develop each one in to an incredible stand alone character.  Nearly 20 years later, this is still by far the best game I have ever played.  

My favorite Final Fantasy game would probably have to be Final Fantasy VII because to me that game has the best plot in the series and that game along with Pokemon revolutionized the JRPG genre and made it popular. There have been so many great games in the series but in the end I say FFVII is the best,

FiresOfAxel : OK, I was being a dork and "Like"ing the votes for Final Fantasy VI, but I had to reply to a post with a direct reference to me.  Of course, I had to choose Final Fantasy VI because I was nerdy enough to choose "Kefka" as a profile name...but I have to agree with you about the characters being the best-especially the main antagonist (ahem! )  Also, the story, music and side quests are just the best.  And the setting too!  Come on, a steam punk setting back before it was fashionable?  OK, I'm done gushing now.

So you get a hearty "Here, here!" accompanied with polite applause.

I have never played Final Fantasy 7, but my favorite out of the ones that I have played, I love Final Fantasy 6 because of the story, and I was able to figure out how to get through the game myself without a walk through.

I've started Final Fantasy III on the Nintendo DS. They have this interesting concept about changing jobs: freelancer, red mage, monk, white mage, black mage, warrior and something else. It's coming along nicely although did get stuck trying to find that gnome village because you needed a character that could use the mini spell and the only way to do that was to have a character that knew level 2 magic. All of my characters were freelancers, or that I did not assign them a class, so I had assign classes and level grind to get their job level to increase. Finally, two of my characters learned Mini so now I could finally move on. I was stuck there longer than I wanted to be.
My record on FF is I've beaten FF1 and FF2 as GBA remakes, and I've beaten 4 and 6 as their snes counterparts from the Wii Virtual Console. I have number 7 and 8 on steam but I've yet to play those so for now I'm doing 3 and then I'll get to number 5, Final Fantasy V Advance on the Game Boy Advance through Vizzed.

Final Fantasy VI is by far my favorite Final fantasy game, one of the greatest video games I've ever played. Final Fantasy IV is amazing too. It clearly set the bar of how role playing games are meant to be done. Never have I played a role playing game which so many magic / spell options and so much depth and scale, alone from a super Nintendo game. Kefka is also one of the all time greatest video game villains. He became a general, and then a god all on his own merits. The second half of the game was dedicated on rallying up your team again to take him down. 

I have to say Final Fantasy XI Because it was my first final fantasy game that made. It was one of the coolest experiences I had on the Xbox 360 at the time