because he was a playable party member, i considered him a main character, also because Reeve played a role in plot development.
also, that was sarcasm in my original post. sorry for confusion

Wrong! Balthier is the leading man ofc. silly.

I voted Squall, was more memorable as a main character. More of a personal story, too.

Zack Fair from FF7 Crisis core

There is no best but there is a worst.... and his name is Squall. Vaan and Lightning don't count because those aren't real ff's.

Just my opinion really. Squall i find extremely annoying and i just couldn't relate to him. Not really a fan of FF8 so i may have some biased nature to Squall. But Laguna was awesome.

If i had to pick a favorite it would Zidane. That dude i can relate with.

Aside from Ramza it's inarguable that Squall underwent the most character development from the time you first pop in Disc 1 to the time the final credits are rolling. A bit baffled someone would consider him the worst.

I agree with u about Ramza. Not so much about Squall. Sure he went from being emo to a somewhat normal dude by the end of the game but man that was a sudden change the moment u put in disc 4. Like i said i don't like ff8 so its a matter of opinion. That being said im not the biggest ff7 fan and i think even Cloud had more character development than Squall. That dude had some serious issues. I speak of course of Cloud from ff7 and not from the hundred other non canon fan service games/movies they made.

All matter of opinion anyways have a nice day.

You are just biased against Squall. You said it yourself: "Squall i find extremely annoying and i just couldn't relate to him".

Just because you didn't like him, and couldn't relate to him, doesn't mean he didn't change, A LOT. He and Ramza are the deepest FF characters.

Cloud.
He had best background story.
Much kudos to the FFVII compilation project, gave sincere depth to his realationships.
He had a best friend, a girl legitimately interested in him, and a past.

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should of been mentioned.

This post was edited by BloNDeWoLF6 on Nov 26 2012 08:43pm

Thank you. Vaan was just the young poster boy because thats what the japanese audience likes the most.

Im going to have to go with Cloud. Squall and Zidane are a tie for second for sure.