I've always liked FFVIII because it dared to be different. I've always thought that the world wasn't quite ready for a revolution in the RPG world, so FFVIII being so completely different in many aspects, never quite made it. I was hoping that after FFVIII that Square would keep trying to make an RPG that was truly revolutionary but instead they churned out FFIX, so I was quite disappointed.

FFVIII is my favourite. IMHO, it was the revolutionary FF.