What's your favorite Final Fantasy game and why?

Final Fantasy VI is just amazing. favorite game of all time.

<walloftext>Final Fantasy VIII will always be my favorite Final Fantasy title. Why? Well, certainly not because of the junction system; that crap was ezmode. No, I loved FFVIII for the character development. The personalities for the characters were relatively realistic given their circumstances, with the exception of Selphie, in my opinion. But that's another thing all together. Anyways, the characters were round and had a lot of depth. I felt engaged and I empathized with these characters. And, as such, I became emotionally attached to them. So much so that I was bawling my eyes out during the ending sequence of the game. I do not believe there was a single character that I could not sympathize with to at least some degree, regardless of whether or not I liked them. Other Final Fantasy games had awesome characters, as well, but I find FFVIII to have the highest quality experience in this regard. The overall story was a bit shaky, but easy overshadowed (for me) by the characters.</walloftext>

I'm a big fan of 4, 5, 6, and 7, all for different reasons. 8 and 10 probably follow after that. 9 was awesome, but I've never felt compelled to revisit it unlike the others. I'm with nobodyclaimedthis earlier, Suikoden is on another level, together with Xenogears for me.

FFVI is my favorite. Best story line, best baddie, best soundtrack. Also one of the few Final Fantasy games where I hated no one in the cast. After 6 though, I hated every other FF game other than 7 and 9... hahahaha :/