I'd never played Dragon Quest (or Warrior, as it was known, back in my day) because . . . I don't even know why. But my friend Casey raved about them whenever my friend Dylan and I would talk about FF.

I purchased DQVIII for the PS2 in a used game store because it was super cheap (I was looking for FFX, which I was finally going to play) and started it . . . and hated it. Call me old-school-nostalgist, but I didn't care for the 3D overworld stuff. I prefer my RPGs nice and pixilated and overhead, thank you very much.

But then DQIV remade for the DS was on sale for $9.99! So I picked up a copy . . . played part of it, hated it, and put it down.

HOWEVER! I ran out of games to play last week and remembered I had those two DQ games that I paid good money for . . . so I popped DQIV in and . . . LOVED IT! I played it non-stop until I beat it in a matter of less than a week.

I thought to myself, "Yeah, well . . . I'm sure I'll still think DQVIII sucks!" but gave it a go yesterday . . . and LOVE IT!

I'm pretty sure aliens abducted me and reprogrammed me to love DQ.

Or I accepted them for what they were . . . which is NOT FF.

Who here also loves DQ? Who here hates DQ? Anyone else go through a hate-to-love arc?