in reply to Kairobi King: "OMG, WE CAN HAVE HOOKERS. This is sooooooooooo COOL. OMG, this is the coolest game ever." :p

I think another reason FF7 gets so much praise is because it was the first FF to have FMVs. And you go from FF6's 16-bit graphics to the "omg-this-is-fscking-amazing" FMVs. Although, to me, 16-bit graphics are the most beautiful graphics ever :p And the only thing better is 32-bit graphics that look a lot like 16-bit graphics XD I dunno why, but I just love 16-bit stuff. It looks so... cartoony and fun.

I haven't played FFX, so I can't judge it. But I did watch my brother play FFX-2, and I have to say that it's... really corny.

Of course, my favorite FF of all time will always be FF4 :p It IS the first FF I ever played (back when I was 8), and I've played through it more than any other Final Fantasy. FF5 coems at a close second because of the job system and the fact that the game has a lot more (in terms of story and just the game in general) than FF4. But I still love FF4 most of them all. Maybe it's because it's the first one I played XD

I did go back and play FF1, though. It was okay. I haven't bothered to play FF2j, and I really really wish they would rerelease FF3j.

As for this problem with playing the later ones in the series first, I have the same problem with the Mega Man series. I didn't really start playing Mega Man until Mega Man 7. I don't think the ones before it suck, though. In fact, I'm the one that sucks at them ;_; But I still respect them for being generally cool games.

Run Mega Man, run!