Would you beat FF VIII, Tactics Ogre, Xenogears, or Zelda: Ocarina of Time?

[Ouch!]

Chronologically, it's the first game in generally accepted time line, so picking up there is easy enough (Zelda games all stand alone anyway).

I thought that The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap was the first game in the Zelda time line...


Anyway, as for the topic: I'd probably say Final Fantasy VIII.

As I never played The Minish Cap, I wouldn't honestly know, but the timeline I saw after the release of Twilight Princess (finally showing the alternate timelines that spark from OoT) still had OoT at the beginning.