Wasting perfectly good backstories (with a few exceptions, like VI and X-2) of the characters, sometimes not even establishing why the characters are along at all (X).

Milking games for MOAR MONEY without actually adding anything worthwhile. (By which, yes, I mean the Compilation.)

The recent obsession with having the "main character" be an Idiot Hero who acts as The Watson and The Ishmael in order to give easy excuses for world Infodumps and because, you know, You Suck.

I never liked all these revisions with changing names and numbering schemes and adding new weapons and dungeons among other things starting to make me think Final Fantasy is starting to be the Star Wars Special Editions of games. Final Fantasy 2, 3 and 5 aren't so great and I can see why they were left behind in Japan.

Final Fantasy was great when Nintendo still had it, it was obscure and attracted people who wanted it. The mystique is gone now after Playstation got it now that everyone plays it.

Utterly generic animesque plots.

Male characters that are so distilled as bishounen, that there's absolutely no way to tell what gender they are without being directly informed.