Every atom of my being is telling me to let this slide, But I'm not going to. I hate Final Fantasy its complete trash and its got slowly worse over time. 7 and 8 where the 2 good ones everything since has been aweful. Its a cash cow and the men look more like woman then real life woman do, who comes up wit this crap.. Main Stream rubbish.
Time for me to pull the 'IMO' get out of flame free card.
Oh btw, I'm talking about normal RPGs not MMO or Action games with RPG elements.
If you think 8 is better than 6 then your opinion is invalidated. 9 was also better than 8. 10 was also better than 8. I'm only 20 hours in, but so far 12 is better than 8. In fact, out of all the FF games I've played, only 5 is worse than 8. All of those of course can be dismissed as opinion except for 6 being better than 8. Thats fact.
Anyway. If you aren't including Action RPGs or MMOs, Obsidian and Bioware are really the only RPG devs out there. Though I guess you can include Spiderweb, but I think a lot of people dismiss their stuff because the graphics are like 15 years old.