No offense to ya FF7 fans, but FF7 SUCKS! The storyline is horrible, linear and unoriginal, the characters are also stereotypical an' boring. If ya compare it to any O the great RPGs out there, Final Fantasy is nothing.
My favourite storyline in a game would have to be the Baldurs Gate series, it's just so open and massive, that everything you do, everything you are, every choice you make will have an impact on your game at some point in the future, whether it be 3 hours later, or 50 days later, the storyline is just so open and non-linear it's amazing. You can almost liken it to Morrowwind, games like this don't have a fixed storyline, they have a storyline ya can create as you play the game, and everytime you play it, there will be many differences. Anyone can write a good scripted storyline, but to write a storyline which is almost 'unscripted' is just amazing, in fact.
~Bing Bong!~