I agree, the oldies are certainly underrated by many.
Sure the graphics are lame, and sometimes irritating, but games like FFIV and FFVI (<3 FFVI) have such strong characters and a good storyline: these Fantasy games are definetly two of the best.
I'ld wish they'ld keep the athmosphere and style just like the oldies (or like FFIX, the tribute to oldies^^) in the new Final Fantasy games.. but i don't think that's pretty likely, it looks like it was getting more high-tech and Science Fiction more than, like, Fantasy
(surely if you look at the games FFVII, then FFVIII, and FFX >< what happened to Fantasy, like Faeries, and Black Mages, and.. Goblins
).