Hardest FF's? I'ld have to say tactics just for the over all-ness of it's hardity. And how it seemed the AI would seem to cheat all the time and absolutly slaughter me. Granted my tactics for every fight was go in with melee and stab the pointy ends of our sticks into the bad guys.

Although I would have to say FFII NES was also a very hard game. Granted it was laughably easy once you learned the glitches to level yourself up with, but till your stats are really high you just get beat up so badly. On top of that the the final dungeon was utter hell. Took me 2 tries through to finally make it to the end with everyone alive and a good amount of elixers and ethers in my inventory. Not to mention the inventory was horrible, nothing stacked, and half your inventory was filled with key items by the end of the game, makes for a very limited selection of what to bring to the final battle.

But I would have to say FFXI is a very very VERY difficult game. Considering all it takes for an entire BCNM party to wipe, is one mistake for some fights. On top of finding people with some common sense, let alone decent skills can be hard at times (Dark Knight trying to out hate a Paladin on purpose anyone >.<) Also some of the missions in the game are pretty damn hard at times, I only shudder now at the thought of what's after Promys and waiting to eat me in the Aquaducts T_T.

But ya those are my top 3 hardest FF's in no particular order.