MILF,

I think part of the reason why by the end of the game the characters in Xenogears or Xenosaga (not sure if you were joking on the CC comment as most of the characters in that game received very little development) may have appeared more memorable then say the characters in the FF games is because they generally spent about three times longer (Xenogears maybe even four times) developing them than the FF games did. But given the same amount of development that the FF characters were given I don't think the characters in xenogears or xenosaga would have appeared nearly as interesting as the characters in say ff7 were.