and how would you rank em? (no spinoffs, please. X-2 is fine)

heres mine

chronologically: FFX, FF8, FF9, FFX-2, FF7, FF2(4), FF3(6), FF1, FF12, FF3 (DS)

preference: FFX, FF3(6), FF8, FF2(4), FF3, FF9, FF7, FF1, FFX-2, FF12

... hopefully your list is bigger than 1

I -finished
II -finished
III (or 6 in Japan) -finished
VII -finished
VIII -finished
Japanese 4 emulator -finished
Japanese 5 emulator -finished
IX -finished
X -finished
X-2 -finished
note * I never played XI
XII even though I've yet to finish it with a savings that dates back to January 2007!

I played a lot of spin offs ( GC, DS, PSP, etc) but never finished any of them. I stick to the main series.

FFII (I played that when I was really young)
FFVIII (I played the PC version and I had a lot fun with it but the game was always crashing at the same place...I actually remember it was around the part with the train I think...)
FFX (Best RPG ever)
FFX-2 (Yurk...)
FFXII (Good game but not what I expected)

I've only played FF VII and FF IV DS, both were great!

FF I
FF II
FF IV
FF V
FF III
FF VI
FF IX
FF VIII
FF X
FF VII

FFVII
FFIV
FFVI
FFVIII
FFIX
FFX
FFXII

may favourites in order are:

FFX
FFVII
FFIV
FFIX

mine would be: FFVI, FFIX, FFVIII, FFIV, FFVII, FFX, FFI (GBA), FFII (GBA), and FFX-2

My favorites are (in order): FFIX, FFVI, FFI, FFIV, and FFX

FFIII....yep that's it...

FF4, FF1, FF6, FF7, FF8, FF9 FF10 FF5, FF2, FF12, FF3 something like that, US release order except FF4 before FF1.

Favorites:

FF4,8,6,10