Final Fantasy used to be awesome. I remember loving it on my NES when I was young, looking at the map and the monster charts, leveling in the ogre plains.
Final Fantasy 4 is my favorite, although Final Fantasy 6 is awesome too. Final Fantasy 7 is where the series dropped off significantly. I tried so hard to like the game, and even played it up to the snowboarding part. It just wasn't good and I ended up abandoning it.