Last Final Fantasy game I enjoyed was FF8. I'm holding out for FF15, but we'll see. Blizzard have World of Warcraft as their only claim to the RPG genre, and it's an MMO. With that said, vanilla WoW and BC gave me the best memories I've had gaming-wise. But I'd consider WoW a role playing game, more so than most given you have as much control over your class/build as you do in most traditional RPG's, but I've been really disapointed with the direction WoW has taken over the years, and given such a decline seen in their only "RPG", I don't think Blizzard is in contention.
Go back the better part of a decade and Bioware was king. Given the direction of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, they're competent RPG developers now. I rate Bethesda very highly despite peoples critiscms for their games, particularly the bugs. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout 3 are the only Bethesda games I've played, but all were fantastic (though I personally only really enjoyed Morrowind and Skyrim, though I can acknowledge the other two were great achievements also). CDProjekt Red made two of my favourite games of all time. I can't say much else other than both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 were both amazing to play. However, that's only two games from the same IP so I'd say they need to release a few more games before I can say they're undisputedly the best. So from this list I'd have to say either Besthesda or CDProjekt Red.
I'd also like to nominate From Software, who develop the Souls series (Demon's/Dark Souls), and if we're counting dead studios, then Black Isle Studios and Troika games also spring to mind (the former seemingly revived).
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