Where did you hear about Final Fantasy from?

I personally was on Twitch when I learned about FF.

I've been playing FF since I was something like 6 years old. My family had an SNES and a copy of FF3 (FF6), and while at the time I could hardly play it, I remember my dad having a file at the end of the game and for some reason I just loved spamming Fire3 because dropping meteors on things as a child was infinitely amusing. I unfortunately did not win at all because what is Cure spells?

I think my next exposure after that was when my next door neighbor had a copy of FF7 when it first came out, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I picked it up from there, and I've since played almost every title in the series.

I was at the local game store many years ago and though "Hey, this new game sounds cool!" So I bought it and popped it in my NES. *shrugs*

My sister played FF8 when it came out and I watched her playing. Later she gave FF8 to somebody and got FF7 in exchange. And that was the first FF I ever played: FF7 on my sisters playstation.

I was back in the States for two months visiting family. My hubby had to stay behind for work and got bored while I wasn't around. He found FF14 on Steam and tried it out. When I got back he gave me a copy.

My first FF game was Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest. It was a spinoff game for the SNES but still an FF game all the same. A few years later my friend at the time told me about FF 7. From that point on I was completely hooked. I've gone back and dabbled in a few that I've missed, though.

I was into Phantasy Star Universe pretty hardcore for awhile (before it went to hell and was eventually shut down) but while I was playing that a family member brought up FF XI. I gave that a go, and it was easily some of the best times I've ever had playing a video game. After a time I moved to WoW.

Not long after that FF XIV 1.0 released and I heard some pretty bad things about it. When I heard it was being remade and that there was a trailer for it I checked it out. The "End of an Era" trailer was and still is one of the most emotional trailers I've ever seen. Started FF XIV 2.0 in open beta and I've played pretty regularly since...except for the few months I was gone this years because I was mad at SE. We're cool now though, especially with gunblades mostly confirmed to be on the way.

Heard about it from other mmorpg buddies, after a couple years I started playing it on and off (this game).

If you meant Final Fantasy XIV: Just bought the PS4 version at Wal-Mart for about $20. Liked the game so much I eventually bought the PC version. :)

If you meant Final Fantasy in general: Back in the 90s when I had a Super Nintendo I rented Final Fantasy II just on a whim. . . . . It's not my favorite franchise (that honor goes to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Dynasty Warriors series although I've only played a few of them), but FF XIV is my favorite MMO though.

A friend invited me to the game during HW launch.

Originally, I had friends playing FF7 on PS1. I didnt care for the art-style, but when FF8 and FF9 came out I watched them play it (and then later played them myself).
However, it wasn't until FFX that I really got hooked on Final Fantasy games.

(Now if only SE would put the 13 trilogy on switch and remaster/remake FF8, so I can have all my favorite FF's on switch.)

The very, very first time I heard about FF was when I was around 11-12 years old and a friend of mine was super excited to get the original FF for the NES for his birthday and would not stop talking about it. I didn't pay much mind to it because at the time, I was all about Ninja Gaiden II. After he finished it, he let me borrow it and thinking it was similar to Zelda, it collected dust until prickly fingers on the back of my neck beckoned me to give it a go. I was RPG hooked from there on out.

Fast forward several years, and a high school friend of mine asked me if I've ever played FF when we were talking about RPG games. He was referring to FFIII (FFVI) on the SNES, and I told him I played the original a long time ago. He let me borrow his copy and I got totally absorbed, and even went to a used game store to get my own copy when I knew I didn't want to put hours of game time in, only to have to return the game that was not mine. I also picked up FFII (FFIV), and talk about finding a golden egg.

I can't believe the amount of history I have with this franchise. FAR more than any other out there.

If memory serves, a (sort of) friend of my sisters ended up staying at our house for a while, letting us use his Playstation, and he had FFVII and FFVIII. I got to play FFVII (Somehow...Never figured out why my parents ever allowed it), and...Got hooked.

My very first turned-based game was actually Dragonwarrior which was published by Enix back in the day as Dragon Quest. I enjoyed it very much. I discovered I loved turn-based combat so it was no surprise that when I spotted NES Final Fantasy 2 on the shelves at the store I rented from, I picked it up and gave it a try.

Oh my god did it put it's hooks deep in my soul. It was the first time a game ever told a story that left me a little misty-eyed.

So it was no surprise I went back to play the first one and the 3rd one. I picked up the franchise again at VII on my Playstation, and played most of the way through VIII on my PC. And I played the heck out of Final Fantasy Tactics on my Playstation.

Then MMO's grabbed me and I never played another JRPG for awhile. Final Fantasy XI came out, but the idea of beign able to have several class abilities on one character is a huge turnoff to me, so I ignored it. I ignored XIV's initial release and relaunch for the same reasons.

However, wife and I desperately wanted another MMO. We tried BDO and we initially loved it, but it's lack of PvE server just killed the fun for me (I'm just not a fan of surprise PvP. Not knocking it, it's just not my cup of tea). So I started researching what was out there.

Two days of research between calls at work and I kept noticing FFXIV was coming up as a good MMO. I decided "Screw it, I love that universe, maybe I should give their system a chance".

Seven Hells.... I so wish I had given it a chance sooner. Because when this game booted up for the first time and I heard that old familiar scaling music that played on my NES decades ago, I broke down and cried. I did not realize how badly I missed this world.

So here I am, happily racing chocobos again and letting the game's musical scores turn me into an emotional mess. It's like I've come home after a long journey to find myself.

TV ads! This was like... 9-10 yrs ago! @.@

Glad to see new people in the franchise, makes me feel like I haven't wasted my life with it.

Personally FF7 was what got me into it. Got it for my 16th birthday. Played the start and was like WTF is this. Put it away and came back to it about a month later. After I completed it I was hooked.

Now being 38 I have tattoos of final fantasy, each room has some sort of chocobo, play arts Kai or ornament. Moogle.

Basically FF is life.

FFVIII is my first FF game that introduced me to the series which is partly why I have a strong love for Gunblade Job.

I’ve been playing FF games for as long as I can remember. I think 3 was the first one I played when I was very young. I could barely read, so didn’t understand the story. But I was able to figure out what most skills did, and I remember my uncle being very surprised at how good I was at the game for someone who couldn’t read yet. He still talks about it, and that was over 30 years ago.

But I truly don’t remember when I first heard of it. It’s one of those things that has just always been there.

I've been playing Final Fantasy since the original on Nintendo, back before internet and you had to figure everything out on your own. I've played near everything with the Square logo ever since!

Also played XI off and on for a while, and while I adore that game there are definitely some things I don't miss (paper dolls, PS2 limitations, fighting starter enemies the entire game...)

Some of the greatest RPGs ever made tout the Final Fantasy logo. I also like Chrono Trigger ~_~

Final Fantasy as a whole franchise or Final Fantasy XIV specifically? First time I played Final Fantasy was in the 90's. I saw this NES cartridge saying "Final Fantasy" and it didn't look like any other NES game I used to play. You know, the Mario games, Looney Tunes, Contra, Wonder Boy and others. So I gave it a shot, played it, suffered through it but I was in love with this concept of progression that not many games had a the time. Exploration, leveling, getting gear, magic, party customization... an actual story? It blew my mind. That was the begining of my journey in the RPG world and as fanboy of Squaresoft at the time, specifically. (The game started, you read "Squaresoft" and you knew you'd get good quality content).

Knowing about XIV was consequence of my already devoted life to the genre and the whole franchise.

I saw someone playing Final Fantasy IX when I was a kid and couldn't fathom the notion that Kuja wasn't a girl. I remember then going through Cleyra, the Garnet rescue, and Memoria.

Ultimately, though, visiting some people who had Final Fantasy X when I was in middle school prompted me to get X, X-2, and IX, the latter becoming my most played game. From there, I branched out and played I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and XIV, as well as some side games.

Boy, does that take me back... my dad used to buy these PC magazines that came with a demo disc (movie trailers, programs, games...) and one of those games was FF7. Later, I found a neighbor had a PSX and FF7 but had barely played it, he just got to the part where you recruit Aerith and we were amazed with how great her LB was; I was hooked, got the system and game for x-mas that year... never regretted it. :D

When the first one came out on NES.

Heard about it a few time reading Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) when I was growing up. I played FFVII at a friends house which was the first game I played, but after I got a PS2, FFX was my official first FF game.

I was given a PS1 as a gift, alongside a set of few games including FF8....

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The very, very first time I heard about FF was when I was around 11-12 years old and a friend of mine was super excited to get the original FF for the NES for his birthday and would not stop talking about it. I didn't pay much mind to it because at the time, I was all about Ninja Gaiden II. After he finished it, he let me borrow it and thinking it was similar to Zelda, it collected dust until prickly fingers on the back of my neck beckoned me to give it a go. I was RPG hooked from there on out.

Fast forward several years, and a high school friend of mine asked me if I've ever played FF when we were talking about RPG games. He was referring to FFIII (FFVI) on the SNES, and I told him I played the original a long time ago. He let me borrow his copy and I got totally absorbed, and even went to a used game store to get my own copy when I knew I didn't want to put hours of game time in, only to have to return the game that was not mine. I also picked up FFII (FFIV), and talk about finding a golden egg.

I can't believe the amount of history I have with this franchise. FAR more than any other out there.

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FF overall? Commercials for years and years and years. But I didn't know it wasn't a continuous, single game world.

FFXIV? On the forums of ESO when that game launched and people were complaining about the state the game was in -- someone brought up this game as a suggested solution (i.e. take the game down for a while and fix it).

First FF was FFVII on the PS1.

For FFXIV, was looking for a different MMO other than DCUO on the PS3 and heard about ffxiv releasing, was disheartened when I found out it got canceled, but when they brought it back and re-released it on the PS3 there was nothing but joy and have been playing ever since.

Never played any other FF game, always thought I'd missed out on too many of them to suddenly jump in.

The Noclip documentary introduced me to FFXIV though - thought it looked like my kind of game and decided to give the free trial a go. Booped up to the full game a week after that and here we are.

I think I remember first at least seeing stuff in like a magazine as a kid, like one of those old Playstation ones or something? But the first one I ever played was FFXI because my boyfriend at the time played it and introduced me to it. It was the only one I played until I heard about FFXIV originally, but I heard it wasn't great so I didn't bother. When I heard it was rebooting, it got my interest.

Beyond that, despite liking the JRPG turn-based formula, I never really got into any of the non-MMO ones. The only one I've played to completion are XII and XV.

Since the original on the NES. So many good memories.

Learned about FF back when I was like 10 years old. Played Final Fantasy on the NES, beat it, and loved it. Honestly, though, it wasn't until I played FFII on the SNES (actually IV in the series) that I became thoroughly hooked on the series.

I'm not a huge fan of the recent directions of the single-player games in the series. I really liked the storyline of X, but the series really hasn't been the same since FFIX. Fortunately, the strength of storylines in FFXI and FFXIV has been enough to keep me engaged.

I played KH so I became interested of FF series and I tried FF7:CC in PSP

if memory serves i watched my big brother play FF7 back in 97 or 98 n i started playing from there on which when i think about it now i feel old ._.

I played a bit of FFVII but never really got into it because I didn't have a Playstation. I'm not sure if I played Final Fantasy Tactics Advance or Kingdom Hearts first but I remember FFTA being the big AAA game for the GBA and it was truly a fun time, especially if I was stuck with my Mom when she was running errands. Oh and Crystal Chronicles came out around the same time for the Gamecube and I played that for awhile but never finished it. The game really depressed me, the idea that the world being covered in miasma and whole towns being destroyed because the Crystal caravan failed to return...Heavy stuff.

17 November 1997, when FF VII (best game ever made in existence) was released in EU.


This game since beta but it was so horrible I quickly stopped and continued on WoW. Then I bought it in 2014 on Steam when it was in a (at the very least) 'acceptable playing state'.

Now I put in reasonable amount of hours and play it alongside WoW, Destiny 2 & The Division.

As I recall it, I found a random web article about the relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV, and that I had about a week left to pre-order before the early access went live. I had been thirsty for a new mmo to sink my teeth into (I never even knew Final Fantasy XI or XIV were even things at the time, hell, I didn't really know anything about Final Fantasy at the time other than the Advent Children movie I liked). The only other mmo I had spent much time on was Fiesta Online, though that went to hell after it changed hands (seeing today's gaming community, I bet it would have become hell in a handbasket for RNG pay-to-win microtransactions). I had tried many other free mmo's, but they were all so obviously cookie cutter and uninteresting (And also being mass produced out of Korea by the same companies, I later found out).

So! I thought screw it. I called my local GameStop and preordered. (As of 2 years ago, I don't preorder games anymore, so GameStop ceased it's value to me).

I played Mystic Quest when I was a child, it was the first FF game released in EU iirc and I absolutely loved it, I then went on to play many more FF games, its probably the most important game series for me when I was growing up, I played them all with my sister and they were the best times growing up, especially FFIX, my favorite FF game.

Played Breath of fire 2 on Snes, i used to tell my brother these games are boring (RPG's) when i learned to play them i i did not know how to stack herbs in that game i kept farming and just filling my inv with like 20 herbs unstacked, he laughed his ass off and taught me later i got hooked, and then CT and then FF6, Then BANG PS1 Played all the good rpg's :O

For the FF series, it was 1994 and my younger brother (who was always more cluey about games than I was), rented an import US NTSC copy of FFIV for the SNES ('FFII' as it was then known), and I was hooked. I loved it. But alas I had to wait a few more years til 1997 when FFVII was released before I was fully inducted into the FF series proper.

FFXIV, I had been hearing the rumours about a new FF MMO that SE had been working on since 2006 (which at the time I was heavily invested in FFXI). Then I saw the E3 2009 teaser trailer for it, and knew I had to play it. Alas, when FFXIV 1.0 was finally released, a combination of technical issues with my computer, billing issues with my debit card, and finally my father passing away suddennly all conspired against me playing FFXIV 1.0 until three months after launch. But it's many issues (compunded by ongoing technical problems with my PC at the time) meant I only played it sparingly, even after Yoshi took over after Tanaka was made to fall on his sword, although I was willingly to give Yoshi a chance with his grandoise '2.0' plans. I ensured I kept my account active after fees were finally turned on. I ensured I paid enough subscription to secure Legacy Campaign status (mostly because I wanted that sweet chocobo mount in 2.0 ;)).

And when the end to 1.0 finally came, I was finally hooked. And I've been hooked ever since, through the Alpha and Beta tests for ARR, and into full service itself, I've always keep my subscription active, and will always love this game forever. :D

My first exposure to FF was back when VII came out on the PlayStation, I played it with a friend on their system. After that, I lapsed until I had a terrible case of burnout on WoW back in the Pandaria days when they said no new content for 18 months. Once they announced that, I said I'm done and started looking for a new MMO. I eventually found XIV a few months after 2.0 launch and have been here ever since. I remember hearing something about XIV when I was playing WoW earlier but it was mostly about the disaster chatter and how nobody should go and try it. Knowing what I know now, I wish I had, but you know what they say, hindsight...

Final Fantasy I back in the 80s.