How did YOU get into Final Fantasy?

[ShadyMilkman]

It was a year or four ago... I illegally ROMed it and Zelda II.... I swear I didn't know it was illegal. so... I ROMed FF1.... I was hooked! I'd play for hours and hours. Then I decided to rent FFIX to see if I'd like the newer ones.... second game I ever played on my PSone... THPS2 was the first.... so I am obviously SPOILED.... all these great games at first... got so disappointed when I realized I had played 7 through 9 and couldn't find 6 for the life of me.... Then I found Tatics... I am sooooo lucky that I found FF... although it's probably consumed at least 6-10 months of my life by now.

[Strider]

I saw Final Fantasy III (IV) in Nintendo Power and knew I had to have it. So, I went and bought it, and spent my days trying to beat it. Unfortunately, I let one of my friends from elementary school borrow it and borrowed NBA Jam in exchange, and never got my game back. I didn't beat FFVI until I got it on an emulator.

[SVENG52]

I GOT FFI WITH MY NINTENDO FOR CHRISTMAS ALONG WITH SOME OTHER GAMES. I GUESS LIKE 1986 OR 87 WHENEVER NINTENDO CAME OUT. I PLAYED IT AND BEATED IT REPEATEDLY FOR YEARS THEN STOPPED PLAYING RPGS FOR AWHILE. THEN FF7 CAME OUT AND I WAS HOOKED AGAIN. THE CYCLE REPEATED AND NOW WONDERING WHICH FF TO GET INTO NEXT ?

[GogoTheMimic]

SVENG52, is your caps lock broke?

It was in the 6th grade, which would be 7 years ago. I was at a friend's house and he popped out FFVI and we played it. I was bored out of my mind at first and didn't want to play it at all but I pushed onward. I'm glad that I did because when he finally felt that I could hold my own in the game, he let me borrow it. Of course, I called him every hour or so to talk to him about how awesome of a game that it is.

[m4tt]

Originally posted by El Mariachi
I saw Final Fantasy III (IV) in Nintendo Power and knew I had to have it

I think you got your roman numerals mixed up there, Juan.

I got into Final Fantasy about.. well whenever FF2 for the SNES was out (FFIV). Our neighbor used to "baby sit" us (my sister and I) during the summer. She rented that game a bunch of times, and we'd always play it. We never got really far, just up to where you first meet (SPOILER)Yang. I loved it. Then a few years passed without any FF action. About 1996 (when I was 15) my other neighbor's step brother came to visit and he had FF3 (FF6) with him. So I borrowed it and I played and played and played. I loved it even more than the other one. I almsot beat it, but I had to give it back. Two years later, as a junior in Highschool, my friend was selling his FF3 copy, so I bought it and loved it . Since then I've played all the FF games, except FF3j. FF6 is still my favorite, and it always will be!

[SpikingZero]

I was always told about how great Final Fantasy was and such, so then I thought I'd give the games a try. After being completely confused with both FFI and FFVI, I thought, 'Meh, whatever,' and just gave up.

But when my sister's friend gave her a copy of FFVII for her birthday, I thought, 'Cool. I'll have to give this a try.'

I did. And since then I've conquered FFI through IX. Yes, I did have a lot of free time.

[Female Ryuichi]

I saw the trailer for FFVIII on a demon disk, and was like "What the hell is it?" And my brother had to explain what an rpg was to an nine year old (how times have changed I now know the most about RPGs). Anyway i gave it no thought, until i read about in a magazine and saw there were 7 before it (which shocked my little mind). Then when i was about 10 (I'm now 13) my bro borrowed FFVIII from his friend. I've been hooked ever since.

[TogiB]

This is interesting seeing how other FF Freaks came to be. i geuss i will put my 10 cents in

I remember like 10 years ago watching my dad play FF1 on our Nintendo. i was intrigued by the game. it was my first experience into RPG's, and i didn't notice it then, but i really started to love it. when my family and i went to russia 4 years ago for, well 4 years, i started to crave the new final fantasies, i had not EVER played a FF game fully through, and i hardly knew a thing about them. but i quickly learned, bought FF 8 (in japanese!!!! how is that for a first experience with FF) and i loved it, but now, having completed FF 7, 8, working on 9, 6, and 5, i am probably one of the freakiest of the freaky. lol

[edczxcvbnm]

I first played chrono trigger...then I played FFVI because the person said 'Its like chrono trigger'. So I played it and thought it sucked big time in compairison. Can't move on angles. Whats with this retarded battles scheme. Where are the enemies on the screen. Where are dual techs or spells. The questions just kept coming. It didn't help much that FFVI had graphics from like 1992 either.

Then I played FFVII. It was cool. FFVIII was not. FFIX was. FFX was not. FFIV was. FFV was kind of just there. FFMQ was. FF1-3 was not.

FFVI still sucks now that I am older and know more.

As you can see I am not into FF games. They are purely hit or miss.

[Radje]

My cousin just said it was a realy long game(ff7) and that i wouldn't want to play it (I was like 7-8 i think.) I of course whisked it away and began. Took me a good 60 hours to complete and i loved it. I then bought 8,9,10. Then joined EoFF where i caught wind of the early ff's i had untill then thought of as unattainable games. I got 1,2,4 and 5, mystic quest too. And here i am. Giving advice to my newbie friends ^.^


(Advice= laughing at their utter, utter failure at any/all of the games. Trust me my lungs were stuch on pikes and the fed through my eye balls in the form of salty tears i laughed so hard.) ....*cough*....

[MagicKnight Locke]

(little spoilers)

Heres my history of ff:

Well,about 3 years ago i either saw one of my friends play it or we loaned games to each other but somehow i got my hands on ff7.I was 9 then.

In comparison me and my exfriend,now enemy was pretty different.

He had been playing that game over a month then and i just started.But i got to the part he was trying to get for a month in 3 hours!(he was stuck and remained stuck in the shinra building)Also he spent 2 hours trying to jump on the dangling metal bar(at the place where you climb up to the shinra building).Then i got to the midgar zolom and i was too afraid to cross the marshes once i saw how strong it was,so my ex-friend helped me out over it.
After that it was a straight line to the end... the two stops i managed was at Materia Keeper and demon wall but in the end i managed to beat them(i still remember how happy i was when i sent my sattelite beam on the idiot materia keeper and it died~~)Then when i finally got to the crater,i used save crystal too early and got totally kicked by safer sephiroth.While i was in the crater my computers Harddrive decided to break and my computer was broken.Later i backtracked back there with the help of some guides and kicked sephys ass.
Then on either christmas or my birthday i got ff8.Though my mom had almost bought me a lamer game,but it turned out to be a dos game.Up until a half a year later when i downloaded ff1 rom i only owned ff8 and ff7( i copied that).I couldnt save in ff1 since it was bugged and i quit playing it and finished it lately.Then about a year ago i got to eysonff and downloaded ff1-ff6 plus the emulators and got to finishing them.this year i got ff9...fflegends and ffadventure.

So thats my story of ff

[Angel_Reaper]

4 years ago when my boyfriend bought a playstation. He got a fighting game and I was looking for me one. He told me to hurry so i was going to pick up a game then i saw it........ Final Fantasy VII thats the one i want. So he bought it. and i have been hooked on it ever scince. I got Final Fantacy Chronicals, Final Fantasy VII - X. And i love all of them cant wait to get others. :freak:

[Octavious]

My brother had bought FF7 and Vandal Hearts one day...we went home and askedm e which one he should play first. I said FF7 and he began to play it. I watched it, i dont think i understood the RPG-Genre at the time, but I really enjoyed it. I ended up buying the game for myself (my brother doesnt live with us) and playing it...I was young, don't know what age. I kinda skipped all the text I could as well as ran from all the battles possible, but somehow i got to Sephiroth and could never beat the Angel form. I ended up reloading the game like 6 months ago..i leveled up a bit then wooped his ass. But yeah ever since I played 7 I got 8, then beat 8...and found Dr Unne's site, found out about emulators, and started playing all the classics. Then I bought 9, which is my favorite ff. Now I'm playing 10, and am patiently waiting for X-2

[Princess]

My brother bought FFVII and he and his friends played it, at first I thought it was really boring - but then.. I don't know, somehow I became an addict - I think I fell in love with Cloud, haha..
At that time I was 13..

[crono_logical]

I downloaded and played FF6 in an emulator Got me into RPGs in general, not just FF though