How did you get into FF?

[Relapse]

I had a GBC once and loved the idea of DW3. As i later got a GBA, i found that there were no DWs on it. So i found out about FF1&2 and got hooked.

[PuPu]

Friend got my FF7 as gift when I was ten years old and I hated it. Later, I got FF4, and it became my favorite FF until I got FF6 one year ago.

I never really liked FF7-FF10.

[ReloadPsi]

A total disinterest in FF7 led to me playing it out of boredom when I turned up to visit a friend who was having dinner. I was invited in and basically ended up going up to his room to "make myself at home". So I somehow gave FF7 a try... he was pretty shocked, I'm way better at the game than he is now, nine and a half years on. Sometime later I ended up downloading ROMs of all the other six; 7 was still fairly new back then.

[Bolivar]

I had just got a playstation and only had maybe 2-3 games. A good friend of mine who I discussed Genesis RPGs alot with, who was also a huge FF fan, insisted that I had to play FFVII. It was '97 and everyone was going crazy about it... I remember my little brother always watching me play, he told me years later that it was because he didn't want to be left out of all the conversations his friends were having about it at school.

As far as getting hooked, VIII didn't really do much for me, but playing IX (and having played the NES roms) definately got me addicted. Then FFX came out around the same time the next year, bought that a day after getting a ps2 and it was a done deal.

my little brother got FFVII... before that i thaught FF was lame, i was a hardcore Phantasy Star player, and thaught it was lame in FF games that the heroes waved their weapons at the enemies then the enemies would die, wheras in PS the characters actualy got up on their enemies and let them have it... yes i now know that it was a poor reason for disliking the FF Franchise, but have grown to love the storytelling in older FFs now especialy FFVI... i'm no longer judgmental of graphics, and merit the games by their story now, though the waving of the weapons i still view as super silly...

lol don't be ashamed...as someone who had actually played rpg's in the 16-bit era, i was unimpressed the first time I played FFVI (years later though), especially after a friend gave it an outstanding ranking among RPGs. They're all fun games, too, though.

[toad626]

Back in 94 I was 11 I think, and a friend of mine bought a used Super NES and in his pack of games that came with was non other than Final Fantasy II (IV). His family hated the game. And I asked to borrow it and lent him my Aladdin video game. Turned out we each like each other's game much more, so we decided to make the trade permanent. I got to the deal.lol. Later that year got FF3 (VI).

[Strawberry_Mew]

I first saw FF8 for the PC and really wanted it and my father bought it for me for X-Mas lol I have been a FF Fan ever since <3 all thanks to my father

[hhr1dluv]

My first encounter with a Final Fantasy game was probably when I was 11 years-old. A neighbor was babysitting my brother (and myself, I suppose), and he was playing FF7. I remember the game looked like the stupidest video game I had ever seen, because the enemies waited for you to hit them.

Honestly, what got me into FF was Kingdom Hearts. I had always played platformers only, but I loved Disney, so I really wanted KH. KH soon became a huge obsession of mine, and I became interested in the Square characters it introduced. I played FFX next, and then purchased FFVII and FFVIII. I figured I would play only the FF games that were referenced in the KH universe. Somehow, my collection of games expanded to include FFIV, FFVI, FFIX, FFX-2, and FFXII. I love these games now, though I still think I'd have a very hard time convincing my younger cousins to like the games. Honestly, I don't think I would have really appreciated them until I was 13 or 14 years-old, and I was fairly mature for my age.

[Tabris]

I had been at a party, and when I woke up the next day, a friend of mine were sitting with a hangover and playing VIII. I watched it for a while, thinking it looked really great. After that, I forgot about it for several years until I came over FF-X as a Platinum game. I bought it just for the hec of it, and was hooked after Besaid and Kilika.

[Rantz]

My older cousin gave me and my brother a load of his old movies and a Playstation with some games once, I guess he was just tired of it and decided to give it away. Among those games was Final Fantasy IX.

For a month or so, I just watched my brother play it. I thought it looked super cool and fun, but I didn't want to try it in case I sucked at it. I was like this with a lot of games at the time, don't ask me why.

Anyway, one day when my brother wasn't home, I decided to try it anyway. No one could see me sucking now. But I didn't suck, and neither did the game. A few months later I bought VII from a guy in my class for $5. He laughed when the deal was done and went "haha check out the graphics on the back it's a sucky game lolol". He thought he made the best deal ever.

My "collection" now holds VIII and Origins as well, both store bought. I'm planning on buying Anthology when I can, and then I guess I'll try and figure out a way to get III and VI. I've already played parts of IV and VI on emulators though.

[theundeadhero]

I was in the sixth grade when a friend of mine spent the night and brought over FF1 for us to play over. This was years and years and years ago.

[rubah]

one of my harry potter rpg friends sent me roms of the snes games and told me to find out what they were like for myself xD

[MJN SEIFER]

I got a strategy guide from... somewhere (can't remember but I can remember having it near when I got my PSX, so maybe it was a free gift?) that contained a really cool (IMHO) walkthrough to a game known as Final Fantasy VII. I just read it and I found it... "Intriguing I guess. I eventually got the game and loved it; I eventually continued to get FF stuff.

I loved that guide - it was my favourite one for some reason, but I've now lost it. It had a few errors, and worded certain things in a strange way (I can remember it thought that H05112 or whatever was Jenova for one thing). However it did very well not revealing spoilers (including that spoiler), yet still remained interesting. Something guides fail to do usually.

[Big D]

My friend had a PlayStation, and he showed me FFVII. I was amazed - "holy crap, a video game with depth and character development!" - and borrowed it briefly, just long enough to get utterly hooked. I eventually got a PS of my own, and received FFVII as a present for my 16th birthday, way back in 1999.

[leader of mortals]

My brother was an ff fan and I literally learned how to read from FF7(back when I was 4 or so). I got FF8 and didn't like it much, but I played as much as I could(game messed up then). Then my brother had 9 and I played that, thought it was okay at first but now it is by far my favorite. Got X with my PS2, and X-2 later. Kept myself busy with the old games and then I got FF12, which I played a little bit(only enough for one playthrough)

[Vermachtnis]

Played Mystic Quest at my Mawmaws way back in the day. Someday we rented Final Fantasy II.