You know, I keep thinking maybe I should play FFVIII one of these days to see if it's actually as bad as some people say it is, and then I remember the orphanage plot twist is a major part of the plot to that game and it pretty much kills my desire to play it.

Some good choices on this list. I'd probably have put FFVI and Chrono Trigger even higher but the odds are I probably haven't played most of the games you put above them. A lot of these are games I've never even heard of, which I guess goes to show you how interested I am in games compared to other people here.