Wow thank you for making me change my opinion about Final Fantasy fans people in this thread. So there are some of you aren't pretentious, arrogant, elitist & rude (unfortunately the general impressions your fanbase has given me on this site).

Well I began the series with FF13 and its one game that really blew me away & now I'm playing FF12.

So I can only have a top 2:

1. FF13
2. FF12

I'm planning to buy FF10 next.

My,

Top 5 FF Games:
1) FF VI
2) FF VII
3) FF IV
4) FF IX
5) FF VIII

Top 5 Main Characters:
1) Terra
2) Cecil
3) Bartz
4) Cloud
5) Squall

Top 5 Villians:
1) Kefka
2) Sephiroth
3) Exdeath
4) Zeromus
5) Kuja

Top 10 Girls:
1) Celes
2) Terra
3) Rinoa
4) Aerith
5) Tifa
6) Garnet
7) Lenna
8) Rydia
9) Yuna
10) Ashe

I have to say, I have some friends particularly both guys and girls that enjoy FF's as well, And they don't get into the hating rants :P. However, I could be wrong (Please correct me yes) but atleast in my experience, the FF fans in webforums, tend to troll and be rude to final fantasy's they don't enjoy as much. Including youtube. D:.

I'm a long time fan of FF (pretty much since FFII for the NES) and I agree that there is quite a vocal elitist crowd of FF fans, not only on this site, but on the web in general. That makes me extremely sad, and I've always said that with fans like these, FF needs no enemies. 

Glad that you're enjoying the series so far Bear in mind that each FF is going to be a different experience. In the end, I just you have fun with them

Which are the 5 Best FF OST's in your opinions (I do not want to spam the webforum with FF) :P will people follow?

1. FF6
2. FF7
3. FF8
4. FFXIII
5. FFX

Aha, not in order of my favorite FF's at all. FFIX's soundtrack I loved, And had some of Uematsu's Best songs, however I thought imo the soundtrack part of it was not as consistent.

Thats how I'm going to go into each one. While I haven't liked FF12 that much I can appreciate places where it clearly outshines 13, the script & writing is very good & the exploration/optional content is extremely good from the get go. What shocked me is its the diametric opposite of 13 in just about every way, that could have played a part in me liking it less, its still a very good game.

Now I loved 13, its definitely one of my all time favourites now but its script wasn't that great but the story was good & the characters were excellent, the story they had could have been told in a much better if the company had hired script writers or if they had made the FF12 script writer work on 13. You should be happy to know that FF13 has got many newcomers interested in the series & most of the newcomers to it really liked it, hopefully these fans won't turn into that elitist crowd your talking about.

But I'll say so far so good, I'll be going into FF10 expecting something new. I just need to finish FF12 now.

I don't know many FF fans where I work, a bunch of us did get 13 & we all liked it a lot. Before that no-one really talked much about FF, it was all Call Of Duty or Halo. Now however we do discuss "How to beat mission 54", "What paradigms the best", "Which girl has the best ass in" (Vanille usually wins that one) & so on hahaha. 

This is why I consider FF12 to be an important entry in the FF series. It's how FF13 was concieved, to bring new blood like yourself into the series. And yes, that makes me extremely happy, the more people that enjoy FF, the better, since this series deserves all the recognition that it can get

Also, i'm glad that you enjoyed FF12. I agree that it's extremely different from FF13 in pretty much every department, but to me that's only a good thing as well, since each FF is like a fresh new experience Personally, FF12 is my second favourite FF, mainly for the reasons you outlined, the writing, the story itself and the exploration. When I went for full completion, I spent over 200 hours in it, because the sheer amount of things to do.

The same happens with FF10, there's a hell lot of things to do and explore. And it's going to be very different from FF12 and FF13 as well, so I hope you'll be pleasently surprised  

There's never enough Vanille's Ass...

I realize this isn't on-topic, however, I almost always feel the need to butt in when FFIV is being discussed.

About a year ago, a few members and I had a discussion on how this game is easily one of the few masterpieces in the series.

While the game is owed its due criticism, I'm unsure some of what it is getting here in this thread is warranted.

Edit: I should probably expand: I thought FFIV to have some of the series' strongest, best developed characters in the game - Kain and Rydia both immediately come to mind; Along with that, it is easily is the most thematically coherent among all iterations; and though the story was nothing extraordinary (it didn't have to be) it was conveyed in a manner that was incredibly easy to follow, coherent, focused and was aided with a pretty tight script (DS version, of course).