Question 1: How long have you been playing FF?
Question 2: Have you noticed any gradual or sudden shifts in your opinions on the series?
As for me...
1. I first played FF back in the late 90s but I was a dumb kid, used to things like Mario and maybe some fighting games. The mechanics of FF were far beyond me. I started to seriously play around 2002/3 which is when I beat all the Playstation/Playstation 2 FFs of the time.
2. I was absolutely obsessed with FFVII, to the point I recall reading my firstever fanfiction about it because I wanted to see the story continued. I also visited Sephiroth fansites. Then I played IX and declared it by far the best FF game ever. I also grew very resentful of VII because, back in the day, nobody gave a crap about IX and only loved VII. Why was this far superior game being ignored?
With the passing of time though, my feelings for IX have really dulled. I still, abstractly, appreciate some of it but overall it has lost its one magical hold on me. I'm back to really liking VII, though. I guess I've also come to be very critical about VIII. My opinions on X are more or less the same as they always were.