Wow, Cueil, little harsh. Shame on other people having opinions that differ from yours.
I actually played IV and VI before VII but didn't really enjoy them all that much.
I always prefered the Lufia series to FF series during the SNES days. I generally don't like things that are too popular/overrated, but I feel VII is actually just a really good game. I have literally spent hundreds of hours playing through it multiple times. Deep story, interesting characters, a fun battle system, fun minigames. It pretty much has it all. I think that's the reason it attracted so many people to the series.
My list would be:
FF VII
FF X
FF IV
FF VI
FF V
FF
FF III
FF II
FF VIII
FF IX
I never played XI and I just rented XII once and hated it.








