Your first encounter with Final Fantasy

[Diango12]

What brought you into the wonderful world of Final Fantasy?

For me I was a late recruit, I had in my hands my first Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Tactics in 1998. A friend reffered it to me and said it was a great game check it out. It was great I was well immerssed in the story and enjoyed every single part of it. The ending did it for me it was bitter sweet but felt good to finally finish it. After that it would be Final Fantasy throught out the way. After getting FF10 that sealed the deal for me. It would be later that I play ff6,ff9,ff7, and ff1. Still on my list: Every other FF game.

Tell us your first experiance.

[Sefie1999AD]

An old friend of mine told me to try out FFVII and he installed it on my computer. I was like, "You can't be serious? Is the whole game like this, having super-deformed cartoon characters?" He said that's the way it is. Since that was my first RPG, my first time through the game didn't go all that well, but I eventually beat it. However, I played FFVII again later, and that's when it turned out to be one of my favorite games.

[Misfit]

My mom played the oldskool Super Nintendo Final Fantasies and got me into it. :] :]

[Avarice-ness]

My sister borrowed FFI from my uncle back when I was 5 and I had watched her play it alot, then when FFVI came out as 3 on the SNES my parents bought it for me for my 9th birthday, then when I was ten I went to sea camp (a camp at the ocean basically) with my best friend and we stayed at her uncles who had FFIV when it was 2 on the SNES, I ended up falling out of the canoe and getting an ear infection, which caused me to play FFIV/2 the entire time.

Saddly, when we moved my FF3 cartridge disappeared and I have yet to find it, so then I was on a long FF haitus until I got FFVII when it came out when I was 12, then I just kind of went them as they went.

And now I feel really old, 'cause I'm 21.

[LunarWeaver]

I played VI, or III at the time for us in America, on a friend's SNES, but the first time I truly played it was when I got a playstation and VII back when I was 11. I was hooked after that and I bought VIII, IX, X (even X-2), and XII as soon as they came out and eventually made time for the oldies and Tactics along the way. Sadly, I still laugh at how ginormous Tifa's breasts are when I play VII in present times, so I have not matured very much since then.

[Diango12]

My mom played the oldskool Super Nintendo Final Fantasies and got me into it. :] :]

You have a cool mom

I still laugh at how ginormous Tifa's breasts are when I play VII in present times, so I have not matured very much since then.

Haha, no one blames you I would love to hook on Tifa meow

[Levian]

I got FF7 when it was released, and that was the first Final Fantasy released in Europe, so I was an early recruit. I didn't know how to climb ladders, so I forgot it for a while actually. I barely understood English at all back then.

[YTDN]

I saw an ad for X-2 in a teen girls magazine, bought it, my sister beat it, then she found out her friend had FFX, and we were hooked.

[BarelySeeAtAll]

Sephiroth, hehehaha

[Martyr]

I had a random encounter with some little Mexican kid who was like, "Yo, let's go to my joint and play video games!"

The moment that cover caught my eye- that rugged, yet shiny axe and sword crossed over the odd looking world and that cloudy civilization... I had a shiver. It was like destiny. i was enraptured in that world. I saw it. i saw everything. it was an amazing moment of clarity.

Of course, I wanted to play that and not Double Dragon 2 (Though Double Dragon 2 is an excellent 2 player game). Well, my friend didn't care for it, so he gave it to me, and I played it, and, although it wasn't as magical of an experience to play as it was a sight to behold, I was immediately enraptured with the music, and the character selection seemed epic. The scene transitions impressed me, and the graphics were spectacular.

The first time I died, I was so caught up in the game, that I almost felt a physical impact and I fell over (I was sitting on the floor) when a giant smacked my BM with a critical, killing him.

Final Fantasy 1 was one of the most Fantastic experiences of my entire life.
It's the reason why I'm here.

[Evastio]

FFII (for the SNES) was one of my first SNES games. I started playing it and that inspired me to see what the rest of the FFs were like.

[Jowy]

My mom rented me FFIV because they didn't have anything else at the video store except for NBA Jam. It was awesome.

[ValiantKnight]

I'll probably be stoned to death, but my first RPG that I can remember, unless you count Legend of Zelda as an RPG, which I would call it more of adventure.... was Super Mario RPG... around late 1997 or so.

After that I came to buy FFVIII, about a month after its release.
My first Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy VII came after. Then Anthology(VI and V) or maybe IX... Then after those two, Tactics.
After tactics came Origins(I and II), then IV. And lastly X

VIII, VII, VI+V or IX, Tactics, I + II, IV, X

Sadly... my mom wishes to buy me a "real" christmas gift this year, and has already bought III and XII, so I can't really go buy them now and have to wait in anguish and torment....

II is unplayed mostly and unbeaten. So is V. VI was nearly beaten then erased from memory card somehow... and I can't simply stand the load times sadly... but i'm trying to get a yearning to play it again, but with XII and III in 4 weeks.. well...
The rest are played and beaten, quite a few times.

II and V just started slow and I gave up on them to go back later and play... VI had horrible delay on controls or something....

[Meat Puppet]

I asked my dad to get me Cool Boarders 2, but he got me Final Fantasy VII instead. I guess it’s an honest mistake.

[RiseToFall]

To kind of sum it up.

I was in the 6th grade and FF VII just came out. People at school were talking about it, some good hype, some bad. Anyway, a buddy of mine brought it over and started playing it. He barely understood what to do (first time we've played an RPG) but I figured it out pretty easily. So he handed me the controller and I just couldn't stop playing. It was the first time a video game truly immersed me in it's world.

The rest is history, since then, I've gotten several of my friends into FF, and all still love it till this day.