My Maw-maw got a Super Nintendo with Link to the Past and Mystic Quest. So I played that before and after school before I had to go home.
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My Maw-maw got a Super Nintendo with Link to the Past and Mystic Quest. So I played that before and after school before I had to go home.
Hopefully ALTTP too? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Vermachtnis
To topic, my brother was introduced by a friend of his and my brother then introduced me to my very first RPG: The legend of Dragoon. For all who don't know this game, seriously, if you like FF, you'll LOVE this game.
So after TLOD he got me FFX for Christmas, and that's when everything began. :D
I had an RPG fan for a friend who tried to get me into his interests. He lent me FFVI and I hated it cause I found the menu based system to be boring from years of growing up on side-scroller beat em ups and Fighting games. I was an arcade brat, if I wasn't dying ever few seconds and trying to make the most of my quarters the game wasn't worth my time.
So he tried another approach and lent me Secret of Mana which was more of the type I played before. The combat was solid but what really got me was the story. I never imagined a game could have a real story attached to it with good characters that went beyond "save X from Z".
I ended up buying his copy of SoM and then asked to borrow VI again and give it a try. I fell in love with the games story which was unlike anything I'd seen at the time. I found FFII(IV) later and my fate was sealed from there. :love:
In Janurary of 1998, my aunt had just gotten a ton of money for something, I can't remember what (like $500,000 or something close to that) so she was blowing it all on stupid stuff, like a projection screen television in every room, huge stereo systems to go with them, etc. She bought all three consoles (PlayStation, N64, and a Sega Saturn) and would just buy random games here and there she saw and gave them to us to play. One of those games was Final Fantasy VII. My sister began playing it, I didn't really understand it and had never seen a game like it; it looked incredibly boring. So anyway she got to a boss that she couldn't beat (Air Buster, lol) and she told me to try beating it, since I "played video games way more than her", and I beat him on my first try, and I found it fun. I was intrigued.
Well when she finally stopped playing I started my own new game and played it all the way through and loved every minute of it. It's still probably my favorite game ever, terrible graphics and all. Then I borrowed my friend's copy of FFIII (VI) for SNES and played it, and loved it. Then I've just bought and played every one when it's been released since, and loved them all. :D
Got a PSX from my cousin along with FFIX and some other games, he was moving away or something and couldn't keep it. I just watched my brother play it at first, but later decided to try it myself. Fell in love with the atmosphere and the exploration aspect first, I think.
>>> I picked FF1 randomly at a flea market (thanks flea market)..:luca:
I'm surprised your cousin imported a PSX. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Rantzien
I remember thinking "that name is familiar" the first time I saw a copy of VII so I'm still holding to the idea that I played VI on a Snes when I was visiting my sister.
I started with I on the NES when I was really young . I used to think that the Wizards in the Marsh cave were the hardest battle and was constantly restarting my file :p
Games magazines. =\
The first I heard of it was from a Playstation Magazine with a review of FFVIII, and I thought it looked really cool. I had a demo disc with the intro movie and it captivated me... My first FF was actually IX, though.
The very last FF I mananged to own (besides XIII) was in fact VIII, the first one I saw. Needless to say, I was actually kind of let down. The game didn't seem to match the mystification of the intro movie, and even though I love time travel stories it just isn't meeting my expectations. Maybe I'm being harsh because of my levelling issue, but whatever. Maybe I should reserve judgement 'till after I finish it..
Um, but yeah. It was game magazines.
I got hooked by a buddy of mine. He was the little brother of one of my brother's friends. He wasn't the most popular kid and we didn't have much in common, but regardless, when my bro went to hang out with his, I would just follow along.
We didn't do much but play videogames together, and one day he was giving me a list of his favorites when FFVII came up as his #1 all time. So he suggested I play X at his house and that was that. I beat that in no time, then I bought VII and it was really over.
My brother's friend (who was, and most definately still is, a massive gamer and FF fan) lent my brother a copy of FF VII. My brother didn't take to FF as quickly as I did, so I played a lot of it and fell in love with the series. Me and both of my brothers love the games but I probably like them the most (I've played/completed more FF games than them)
My neighbor. I think I was 8 when I borrowed it and played it for the first time.
Pretty sure I never gave it back. :evilking:
Edit: That's not a smilie anymore? D'oh! Oh, and I guess I should mention it was FF I for NES.
Cousin showed off VII at various save points and ruined much for me. All the same, what I saw was nice and asked for my own copy from my mommy. But of course she didn't pull through and it was up to Santa to give me the game :mad2: smurf you, mom.
^lol.
I was in a shop with my bro looking to buy a PS1 game (my gaming obsession was starting to hit its prime). I saw FFIX on the shelf. My bro said his friend said that Final Fantasy games were good, so we got it. At first I was excited to play it, but I was a kid and I couldn't find the Ice Cavern in the game. I got bored and stopped.
A while later, during a period of boredom, me and my bro played through it again together from the beginning (this time managing to find the easily locatable ice cavern). The process was drawn out over months, but we eventually completed the game. My bro thought it was alright, I thought it was pretty good.
Life moved on, I played more games etc. But about 6 months later I had the urge to replay it again. My bro didn't want to do that, so I did it on my own. And that's when the obsession began. :)