I hate these new FF fans (and by new i am including the VII die-hards). They play those and believe that nothing can be better than the first FF they played, and generally have no desire to play the old ones, or dont like them because they dont have pretty graphics. Now i'm a new FF fan, but my first was IX. When i was first deciding which to buy it was between VII and IX, and i picked IX because it actually looked like a fantasy game instead of a sci-fi game. I played VII and beat it, then sold it cuz i didnt like it enough to replay it. I bought VIII and regretted it, sold it back 3 days later. I like X alot, but it still doesnt have much of a fantasy feel to it, and the story is weird. I have all the old ones, though i've yet to beat most of them because they're hard >_< And the original Tactics seems to be a somewhat forgotten game among the new fans, but its my second favorite after IX.

And i blame the "final fantasy ecks" syndrome on poor schooling, because kids these days dont know wtf roman numerals are.