What are you playing?

Are you looking to play them in order? There's no real reason to suddenly jump to V and it's a pretty weak game on its own so...

If you're just running through them I'd stick with their numbered order, though 2 is basically the same as 1 with the introduction of actual story elements and a really cool "keyword" system that I would actually like to see come back in games.

Pretty much, yeah. He was pretty excited to see me get to V eventually, but that'll be another 3 games before I can do that. I've also had lots of people tell me to go play VII right away. I'll probably stick with the order, I feel that things will get too confusing otherwise. :I