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In America: 7 for not being dumbed down.
Overall: Well besides those in America, I've only played FE6... so I don't know. I hear FE5 maps are gigantic though.

Although I'm enjoying Radiant Dawn more and more lately... I think it might surpass my love for FE7... despite 7 being my first Fire Emblem

Out of the three I've played, I've enjoyed Path of Radiance the most. It's got the best characters by far, the forging option is cool, skills help out, the support options are vastly improved, characters wield weapons based on strength instead of constitution (finally, women can wield weapons that are not of the Slim or Iron variety!), thieves can steal weapons as well as potions and junk, and its plot, though lacking in comparison to FE7, is still decent and sets things up for Radiant Dawn. The only thing that sucked was the ending for taking forever. Oh, and the ravens. But they have Naesala, so I forgive them because Naesala's awesome.

FE7 gets a close second, though. On my recent playthrough, I realized how FE9 doesn't have any terrain... the terrain of FE7 adds some tactics to the gameplay, and I wish FE9 had more than the occasional, out-of-the-road hedge to hide in. Also, FE7 easily had the best plot out of the three (7, 8, and 9) I've played, along with the best villain (Nergal) by far. (Heck, he's one of the best villains I've seen in any game.) Though I think the game's got quite a number of "strong, silent type" characters, at least the cast is better than that of FE8 and not too far behind that of FE9.

Definitely FE7.

I loved the storyline the best, the characters were awesome, it had the most chapters...AND little extra chapters "side quests", and it was just so FUN!!

FE8 comes closely behind, though, because of all the different classes and stuff. (I'm sorry if they got that idea from a previous one...I sadly don't know much about the games not released in readable english and stuff cry nobody ever tells me anything...)
WHEEE!!! blaugh
translation: YAY!!

radiant dawn is pretty cool...but i prefer the sacred stones idk why xD

I actually never liked abilities too much. Other than some cool things such as Adept, Vantage, and other cool ones, it kinda adds a sense of unrealism to the whole game. Think about the semi-abilities in 8. A general could randomly take no damage whatsoever. That can do some damage to you when there was no possible way to predict it.

Uwah! You're back! o.o

You had Homer as your character, right? biggrin

Mostly the same as 9. Elincia has a retarded one that prevents her from giving any killing blows. If she kills them, it revives them back to 1hp. And when Elincia and Tibarn are the only ones on your team that can kill enemies, that is not a good ting to have...