Honestly, VIII. The story gets a lot of **** but everything about it appeals to my sense of aesthetic and some of the visuals are just gorgeous despite it's age.
X-2 second because it's just so damn fun and it's super campy (which I love). And all those outfits...
This is going to be a bit controversial but FFX-2. Allow me to explain, I'm a gameplay guy. Give me good gameplay and I'll pretend that the story doesn't need improvement. The gameplay in X-2 International was everything.
Rankings:
FFX-2
FFX
Lightning Returns
FF6
Dissidia 012
Tactics
Type-0 HD
Dirge of Cerberus
FF9
FFXIII-2
Crisis Core
FFXII
FFXIII
I excluded FF14 since I haven't really played it much. I expect FFXV and FF7R to penetrate my top 5 easily at this point.