Of the FFs I've played, I would say that I dislike VIII's system the most...but that's probably because I'm stupid and I don't understand it...or I haven't played the game long enough to understand it.

Also, these poll choices are really creative, Wolf! I enjoyed reading them.

And....also...
Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
If you mean by "good story" that the cast has a gloomy main character with a dark secret, a cheerful young girl with ancient magical powers that the evil bad guys want, they both fall in love and every cutscene is so over the top in emotion; that it feels like a soap opera writer did it, then no XII doesn't have that. It didn't have an unnecessary love story that the plot decides to focus on more than the you know... the actual story. It had a cast that wasn't the standard cliche cast that has plagued the franchise since FFVI (no gloomier side characters with darker pasts, annoying cheerful little girls, and older gloomy females who acts like a "big sister" to the cast, nor a thick headed brawler whose heart is in the right place but has a few quirks but is lovable the same ).
I would say that XII does still have these archetypes, though they aren't as extreme as they used to be.