IGN ranks Final Fantasy series

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jkimball said:

Everyone accepts VII was the best, but people are tired of hearing about it, and it's  now considered cool to pick something else. So we see VI appearing as number one. Vi was cool, but VII was a turning point for the genre, and the gaming industry as a whole. Alexander, Cloud, Aeries, oh sweet, sweet Aeris, sepiroth, Red lion, the approaching asteroid...and of course, chocobo breeding! Who wasn't stoked to get a Chobobo that could cross mountains?

 

Half the games in the series could be considered a turning point. FF7 was the first heavily marketed game in the series, and the first game in the series for many western players; thus its unusually large fanbase. You are forgetting that back in FF7's time, most existing fans still preferred FF6 or FF4, and then when FF8 was released a lot of people preferred that game too. A good number, but not everyone, liked FF7 or accepted it as the best.