when you first heard of ff...what did u think it was??

[finalheaven]

im not sure if this thread has been poasted..but i looked and i couldnt find one ...sooo.

ok so when you first heard of FF the very fisrt time in your life...what was your first assumption of it..as in what kinda game /story did u think it was about?? u know what i thought...i actually thought it was some dodgy porn title....it put me off....so i didt really look further to know that it was actually a GAME... and an amazing game(s) it was when my friend introduced me properly............

[sh1nta]

how do u class change in final fantasy 1, for gba... ive been playing it for awhile i got 2 rublies the floater and im lvl 42, how come i havent changed classes yet, or how do i?

[Sephirothvsvader22]

I heard of it from my friend who said Final Fantasy VII was better than The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Then, I called him stupid. Afterwards, I watched another friend play Final Fantasy VIII and I thought it was kinda like Pokemon. I like Pokemon back then so I played Final Fantasy IX and then I stopped liking Pokemon

[DJZen]

First time I heard of it was back in 1989, and I thought "wow, that looks like Zelda only more text driven." I had no idea how correct I was.

[Sepho]

I actually had never heard of it, not even heard "Final Fantasy" spoken once, before I played FF7.

I was over at a friend's house, and he got it for Christmas. He'd never played an RPG and neither had I - prior to this experience, I had only seen one Turn-based RPG in action, and that was Legend of Legaia (which later turned out to be one of my favorite games), and that was only for a short while.

He had been playing it for a few days straight, and was stuck on the set of elevator bosses at Shinra HQ. He always used to give the controller to me when he got stuck in a game, so he relied on me for this one, and I had never played an RPG before. I asked him if I could just start a new game instead (because I HATE not starting from the beginning of anything - whether it be games, or movies, or what have you).

I picked it up pretty fast, and before I went to sleep at 5:00 A.M. the next morning, I saved my game outside of the Chocobo Ranch. He wasn't mad, though; we just saved over his game and beat it together over the next couple months (I didn't get to stay that often). I was hooked. I've since completed nearly all of the games in the series in a relatively short amount of time.

[rubah]

I heard passing references for a couple of years when I first got the internet. I didn't have a SNES or a playstation at the time, and obviously they hadn't sold ff1 in stores for years (it was hard enough finding mario bros. 2!) Back then, all the fanart was of ff7, and occaisionally ff8. So I recognized tifa and cloud sort of, and aeris, but didn't know who they were. I just sorta lumped them in with the other playstation games (or rather, 'all videogames' in my mind) I guess I thought it was more like a fighting arcade game or something.

Obviously, I didn't have much of a clue at all, so I asked my friend point blank on msn one night, and he was all 'It's about people that save the world' 'What people?' 'Well, it changes every time. Here's a emu and the snes games, go find out for yourself.'

and my forray into ff5 was begun.
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But before I played it, I thought FF8 was going to be like a western. Especially seeing irvine. and I had a junction system thought up inside my head-- it looked more like the sphere grid--, not to mention an AMV I saw of it to Kryptonite, which feels like an old west song. . .sorta not really. But it started off with irvine, who definitely looks the part of a cowboy:P

I thought ff9 would have a lot more exploring old ruins and stuff, also because of an AMV I saw for it (the atomx one to linkin park, incidentally. They showed that at a church I went to for a while even@.@)

For ffx, I didn't have as much exposure to it before it was released, because I had only played ff5 before then, so I was just wondering what exactly it was like to be a 'celebrity summoner' The Bikanel scenes that were up then reminded me of star wars though, especially phantom menace.

(SPOILER) I even had a scene in my mind for how aeris' death would be, since I had heard about that before I played ff7. It was strangely not like it actually happened, because it involved an actual funeral and sephiroth hanging to the side, sort of respectful-like, instead of trying to kill us all. haha

*has a over-active imagination*

and of course right now I think ff12 will be about a princess who is trying to recover her father's kingdom *coughs* but it looks like it'll involve a lot of escaping from the judges. yay. I didn't really like them that much in t-a -_-

[theundeadhero]

I first heard of it when my best friend at the time spent the night at my house and brought it over. We were talking on the phone and he was like, "Want me to bring over FF? What is it? It's this great NES game. Okay." He was at the temple of the fiends at the end of the game and couldn't figure it out. Me, never even hearing of the game before was like: try this, go over here, go down them steps, and lead him straight to Chaos without a single mistake! I forgot about the game for a while until later on at his house one day he brouht it out again and I borrowed it.

[JayDee]

my brother wanted to buy FF7 cause he read it
was really really good
i saw the cover and thought it would be stupid
then i watched him play it and thought it was cool

[finalheaven]

...hey wow people actually bothered to reply in this thread ^_^ thank you to all of u ! *hugs* its intresting how ppl start become intrested.. the thing is when i was put off..i didnt really look at it for about.....4 years..i heard some ppl in science talk about 7 and i thought they were kinda strange..until i going home with my friend and he really recommended it to me..this was about the time where Counter Strike was big and he said that ff7 was even better then CS..and he the type who playeds CS for like 6 hours a day... \^_^..anyway ok..im gonna stop......*enough of my life story* ((

[Ryth]

When I first heard of FF I was like 8, maybe 9 or something. My cousin Zack showed me FFIX and said it was a good game as soon as I saw it I knew it was in a medievil (sp) world of monsters and magic I didn't know what a RPG was at the time so I thought it would be a hack'n'slasher like Dynasty Warriors ( I didn't know what DW was either I just added that) and he said there was curse words and all. Then I played and I was entranced and then got very interested with games before I bought bargain bin games that were mostly crap like Glover. So I got Issue #1 of GameNOW a subscription to it a year later a subscription to Offical Playsation Magazine and after GameNOW went bankrupt I subscribed to Electronic Gaming Monthly. Also I got new systems alot and started out at 1UP.com and went Shining Force Central and here and many other places. So FFIX means a WHOLE lot to me but FFVII is still better.

[Doors]

I thought it would be a sprite first person shooter.

[Lain]

I was playing a lot Heros 2 that time. And one day my brother brought FF7. My PC was crappy then so I haven't much space on it. So bro must unistall Heros 2 to make space for FF7. I was so angry at him. I kept saying " You are horibble! You unistall my favourite game for some stupid something!? You are so selfish!!!!" I haven't talk to him for a long period. But he was playing and I watched him playing and soon I started to play too. Later FF7 became my favourite game ever

[UltimateSpamGrover]

I thought it was a Prince of Persia rip-off. Until my... (well, thats another story...) and I started liking FF7...

[Polaris]

I don't remember but I think that after my cousin told me the words 'FF' she said that was a game for Play so I didn't have time to think... but perhaps I thought that was a film!

[Ieatyourchildren]

One day, when I was like 7 or something, I was really into Mario64 and Starfox (which my cousin got me into, btw) Then, the same person who got me into Starfox had just bought ff7, which had just came out. Now, he was 12, I was 7, so he likely knew ALOT more about the game than me. I thought it was gonna be all fighting, and I thought, oh, its Starfox on the ground. Then he pulled out a playstation, and, since I only had an n64, I said, "whats that?" He said it was a game system like N64, and said most of the games for it were better than n64 games. So, he showed it to me, and I thought it was dumb. I thought, "why wait for the enemy to attack you when you can shoot people like in Starfox". Then, when I turned 7, my cousin bought me ff7 as a birthday gift. I never played it until AFTER playing ff9. When I turned 10...or 11...cant remember, just some immature pre-teen age, ff9 was a bit old, but I decided to try it anyway. I bought it cuz Vivi looked cool and cuz I had a slight crush on Garnet. (of course, I didnt know their names at the time, but I soon found out) Well, at first, I thought it sucked, but then I realized that games dont have to be about how many things you can blow up, but that they can be strong in storyline. Now, I dont play blow-stuff-up games unless they have a good storyline.