I perfrer 1-6. I still don't understand why people like 7. That was a prime case of using technology just because it's available when you really shouldn't. I've seen Atari games with better art direction and poorly translated anime with better plots.
6 i'd say wasn't old school though so much as the translation from the roots to the new version, what with the steam punk tech outside of Airships. Sure the earlier Final Fantasies had tech too(even 1)... but these were regulated to small dungeons of past great tech empires long since fallen.
Oddly enough the Final Fantasy games seemed to of lost all their humor and most of their personality when they got rid of the midget characters too. I don't know why.








