I liked the old-school games more for the fact that they had great gameplay. FF5 is possibly my most favorite Final Fantasy, and for good reason. The gameplay was highly deep, and it was never boring, even when you were just going around a certain cave to build job levels. FF4 is a great game, as is FF1. Almost all of the old-school FFs had that special quality to 'em, and when you completed them, you felt as if you've accomplished something.

Now, new-school games are alright, and I thoroghly enjoyed FFs 7 and 8. I mostly enjoyed FF8 because it was highly different at the time than the other FFs, and it still remained fairly challenging. FF9 disappointed me because it was too easy, and I felt that the gameplay had lots of flaws. FF10 was also disappointed me because of it being 75% movie and about 25% video game. FF10-2 was much better gameplay-wise, but not as great as the old-school games. I have less faith in FF11, because to me it charters on unfamiliar terrority, that of the MMORPG. FF12 looks great, but whether the game itself will be good is something that remains to be seen. About the only new-school game that's truly challenging on a massively hard level was the first FFTactics.

Old-school wins in the end because they never disappoint, and always deliver a solid RPG game.