Final Fantasy Forum

The reason it's called Final Fantasy is because the creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was planning on leaving the videogame industry after completing the game. It proved popular though so he ended up staying and Square decided to make it into a franchise so when the new one came out they kept the name.  
 
Oh and a warning to anyone thinking of buying Final Fantasy II. I'll just say it is the worst Final Fantasy of them all.

How many times has Square ported this game?  I say screw this an stick with the superior port that was on GBA.

The paradoxes of life are what make life so interesting. =D

Not that I don't like the original Final Fantasies, but don't you think they could do something more than just continuously port them to newer systems? How about a sequel, or a story that branches off one of the original games? A little bit more original content than just the same old stories all over again would be nice.
 
Then again, I suppose Squeenix has their hands full with their newer RPGs, but I can't say I've liked any of them as much as FF4-6.

@John_Martone:  
Well some fans have debated if FFX and FFX-2 is a prequel of sorts to FFVII since the kid named Shinra talks about using the energy of Spira as a potential power source and along with his name it implies a relation to the company in FFVII. Interviews with the scenario writer Kazushige Nojima and producer Yoshinori Kitase have further alluded to a connection between Shinra corp and the young Al Bhed Shinra as being the descendents of the technological prodigy that journeyed to some other planet. 
 
Although this provides no real relation between the stories other than a little backstory to Shinra corp's creation. Other than that the direct sequels/after or another stories such as FFX-2, FFIV: The After Years have been the only sequels in the same universe. However this is excluding the world of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and any game set in the world of Ivalice since even though they are different stories that have no real relation to each other they do occur in a set timeline of that world. Games that are part of Ivalice, FFXII, FFXII: Revenant Wings, FF Tactics, FF Tactics Advance, FF Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift and Vagrant Story.(this is never explicitly said but it is alluded to) However the timeline is kind of screwy since they all have small differences in between them. Also FF Tactics Advance could be said to not really take place in Ivalice since it was actually just one created by Mewt's will. (Spoilers for anyone that was planning to play a 7 year old GBA game since you should have done it already that was a great game.) 
 
Also the only worlds that have really been outlined as a fairly fleshed out universe have been Gaia, (the most overated Final Fantasy of all time and it's merchandise train aka FFVII and company) Ivalice, (see above) and Spira. (FFX and FFX-2) I mean sure the rest have had a world as well but they have all been kept to one game pretty much. Maybe the Fabula Nova Crystallis will establish another universe although the only thing that has really been revealed about this trilogy of FFXIII is that all the games involve crystals somehow and share certain similarities or references to each other. I'm not sure if they are supposed to be in the same universe however. 
@TubeOxen:
You can always get FFIV: The After Years on Wiiware. In comparison to the original game though it's not that great.