Thanks. I'm not the biggest RPG fan on the planet, but I've tried some of them. The only JRPG I usually play is Pokémon... There's lots of customization in those too. 

I've been searching for this movie for ages.  

To be honest, I've beaten all the single player FF games and none of them compels me to replay them over again except for FF7. I've played 7 so many times and I don't know why. FF7 Crisis Core is the reason why I bought a PSP too.

SE themself stated that they haven't bested FF7 in terms of sales and success.

Hello...Chrono Trigger? Paper Mario TTYD? Xenoblade? Have you even played Final Fantasy VI?

No, that would be the worst RPG ever made. Now Tifa on a bikin,in a beach, doing dirty things with those two arguments, that would have been the best game ever made.

Have all these years of hardcore German porn destroyed your imagination?

I feel like after a certain level, it doesn't really matter if you're "the best". Final Fantasy VI, VII, IX, Chrono Trigger, Pokemon, Suikoden 2, and more all deserve a rightful place at the top of the list in some way or another.

VII was a turd that only casuals and mainstreamers love because it was their first JRPG.  For the rest of us it marks the decline of the Square we loved and the start of the mediocrity and mainstream appeal poisoning we have today. 

Real FF fans and JRPG veterans know that 4 and 6 are the best and most timeless and endearing Final Fantasy games and that Xenogears is actually the most incredible story ever told in any form of media.

The demographic that favors VII was probably 15-18 and drove a Civic with neon underglows when VII came out.

Just compare the nearly hour long ending sequence of IV and VI to VIIs stupid 30 second FMV. It's lame.

Wow... then you must have never used the gambit system properly. It may sound like auto-pilot, but its depth of customizations allowed for near infinite possibilties.

You could set a character to use a certain type of heal spell on the party when HP dropped below a certain percentage, or to use a focused more powerful heal spell when when one character recieved instant and extreme damage. You could have one particluar character set to constsantly evive your fallen party members and then have another party member set to only revive the healer if he dies. You could set you party to use certain types of attack spells after a certain prompt..eg, cast or use an item that makes chracters weaker to fire magic, and that will trigger all your chracters to use fire magic on that character for the duration of that status effect. Or casting slow on an enemy can prompt a party member to cast haste on all of your party..etc

I could go on forever, the gambit system was honestly the most ingenious and deepest party management system I have ever seen and allowed you really do so much more in combat rather than micro manage everything. If you have a perfect gambit setup for any combination of party members... its really a beauty to watch everything fall into place.

Gotta say, the Final Fantasy series never really grabbed me. Though the argument in the OP seemed to be a little .. weak.

My personal favorites (not necessarily games I'd call the BEST in the genre) would have to be Shadow Hearts, Xenoblade, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Persona 2, and Tales of the Abyss. Unfortunately, I missed out on a lot of classics from the PS1 as a kid since we never owned the console, and playing them now just doesn't have the same impact.