What's your history with Final Fantasy?

[Tazo]

Started with ff7 and went up from there. Went back at one point and played some of the older ones for the story. My favorites to this day are Xenogears, FF7 and FFTactics. Played FF11 for many years and loved it; it was the first MMO I played.

[RyujinUzikin]

I started off with 8 and 9, then 7, and then kept getting all ff titles I could get my hands on, like the ps1 re-makes of 1,2,4,5,6. I enjoyed a lot my experience up until ten when it comes to the regular ff games, and I enjoyed my time in ff11. I met a lot of great people, and through a lot of struggle I managed to get to the level cap and enjoy briefly some end game content.

After that I have been jumping from mmo to mmo trying to find that feeling again, and I never had any luck. With the re-release of this game my hopes got up again. I can't say I am disappointed, but I see the potential this game has, and if the developers put their hearts to it, I'm sure this game can reach higher goals in the future.

[Sephirah]

When I was a little kid before I really started gaming, I played Final Fantasy I, and III (VI). Not much mind you, my experience the first time in FFI was walking straight upto Prince Garland without any preparation and getting my face stomped. I was still a bit young to really get into games while my older brother was playing III(VI), so the first one that I ever played completely was VII, and I absolutely loved it. I also enjoyed 8, although it wasn't nearly as good as 7, I think it would have been received better if they had released them 7, 9, 8.

I loved 7-9 and tactics, 10 had a good battle system but I really disliked Tidus. Never played 10-2, loved 11, and 12 reminded me of an offline 11, so I liked it. I really dislike the entire XIII franchise though.

I have to say XIV has been the best FF story I've played since 9, and it has really restored my faith in the Final Fantasy series. If it had failed again, I probably would have written FF off as a dead series.

[Sandkat]

Started with FF1 WAY back in the 80s. Played everything since thing, including original gameboy versions and Mystic Quest.

Still got them all too. Boxs, booklets, and maps.

[ErikMynhier]

I started back on my NES, Garland tried to knock us all down. Played on to 4 which became my favorite. Played on from that to the present, had a torrent affair with FFT.

For mmo's I started back with Neverwinter.

[faris]

GIGANTIC POST IS GO.

I started with VII, because I was a kid at the time and my parents screwed up my christmas present. I wanted VIII from seeing commercials on the TV about it; and got VII. However; I really liked it. I remember actually crying at Tseng getting stabbed, but I didn't feel much for Aeris. I got pretty obsessed over Vincent Valentine at that point, too.

My next one was VIII, and I really liked that as well. I remember playing it with a friend and she got annoyed with me for spoiling the end of disc 1, and stopped playing. Oops. My save file also got way further than my sister's, and so she stopped playing. I'd excitedly tell her about Ragnarok and the Lunar Cry, and she wouldn't be all that interested.

Earlier friend had a chipped copy of tactics, and I asked to borrow it. she gave it to me instead because she found it boring. I really, really really liked it.

After that, I wanted to play the older games. I asked, without any avail, in the local game store if they could get hold of FF1 and 2 for me; but Square didn't do remakes back then, so I couldn't. However, I got hold of the playstation version of VI, and adored that way more than VII and VIII put together.

IX came out, and of course I got it. I loved it, even more than VI, even though I remember people around me not liking it because it wasn't cyberpunk like VII and VIII. I thought it more charming, tbh. And bits of it were so emotional. I actually cared so much about every character.

After that, I got X, and hated it. I think I only got to the part with the fayth before I traded it in. for me, it was a mixture of an unlikable protag, unlikable love interest, and too much religion reference which got me.

After that, SE put out ports of older games! I played IV on GBA and loved it more than anything ever. I could go on about that game until the end of days, it's just perfect in every single way.

After that, II. I finally got Origins on Playstation and played FFII, and while I hated the combat system, I really, really really adored Minwu. My little obsession with him is still around today, ahaha. and my god, the soundtrack. beautiful. I played III and I around that point, but II was my love.

I finally got V, and liked it. I don't remember too much about it though, other than Faris being awesome. And Lenna being adorable.

I bought XII, thinking "it's a great series, maybe X was just a bad point" and hated that even worse. Again, Unlikable protag, and the gambit system just confused me. I gave up on that around about the first time you meet Gilgamesh.

I bought Dirge of Cerberus because Vincentttt but disliked it simply because i don't like FPS. I completed it though; and generally thought it was a pretty horrible spinoff. ....Pretty, graphics wise, but horrible. I still have nightmares of those Cait Sith stealth missions.

Then I bought XI. Goodbye, 4 years of my life. So much of my real life wasted, but so much fun had. I adored it. I completed all of the expansions, mained a blue mage, and left a few months into abyssea. Trial of the magians to me, was nothing but "Yeah, we're not giving you any more content" and I just..... bleh.

I bought Crisis Core and actually really liked it. That was a good spinoffprequellything.

I bought Dissidia, and enjoyed it. Though I really hated the characterizations of Cecil, and Terra. Cecil ended IV as a person that was very apprehensive over Golbez being his brother, and... well, Cecil's whole. "BROTHER~" thing in Diss didn't go over well with me. Terra being the weakest female character ever as well was a bit "wha" when she was pensive in VI, but so strong emotionally. Ew. But Shantotto was amazing.

I played IV: The After Years, and I hated it. I hated lots of things about it; mainly the storyline being not that far removed from IV, just happening to different characters, Rosa only having one line, practically, which was "Kain!" "Kain?" or "Kain...!" and the awesomeness that was the Hooded Man was ruined by the Holy Dragoon thing. It was awful. Really, really, really awful. and cheap. and awful. And nonsensical, since Kain doesn't have deceased Moon!father Kluya to even turn him into a holy dragoon what the hell is a holy dragoon anyway.

Dissidia 012 was awesome. Admittedly, I hated Lightning being the main character of it and every single character bowing and scraping to her while never ever telling her to just quit her damn whining, but it was worth it for me simply because of the explanation of the Warrior of Light. Goddamn. That. Was. Epic. And what a prequel to FF1 it was. Really, really, really amazing. Like, properly amazing. A+, SE.

I haven't played XIII, and I really don't want to. Ever.

XIV. I played 1.0, and disliked it. Immensely. I stuck with it because XI was all but dead for me and it got much better with the GC/Dalamud storylines and such, but eh. 2.0! I can't really make a judgement on 2.0 yet. it's way too early.

[Telrunya]

I've played so many Final Fantasy games but the only one I have actually played all the way to the end was FF13. Wow... that's kind of pathetic lol. I need to go back and finish 7 and 9

[NovaUltimatum]

I've played so many Final Fantasy games but the only one I have actually played all the way to the end was FF13. Wow... that's kind of pathetic lol. I need to go back and finish 7 and 9

I've often found that the FF stories reach their peak towards the end of the game after you have invested time into understanding the world's culture. The game rewards you by taking things to epic and often metaphysical proportions that'll lead you to the world's ancient mystical areas that nobody has travelled to before. (Be it the moon, another planet/dimension, crystal tower, the distant future/past)

My only advice is don't give up on the games if you get bored in the middle of them, there's often a great ending you'll be missing if you do. (perhaps with FF12 as the exception). I even found this to be the case with FF13's games. They seem to save the best music/artwork/architecture of the ending areas that reveal the game's underlying mythology or 'truths'.

[Nysneirdre]

I started back with Final Fantasy I a long time ago. I remember seeing it for the first time when I went over to my cousins house and he was playing in on the Nintendo. If I recall correctly he was farming in the hall of giants!

I tended to favor the earlier fantasy type Final Fantasy games. I stopped playing them as they started to get goofy with the guns and other stuff. The last one I played was 8. My favorite from the earlier games was 4 and 6 or otherwise known as Final Fantasy 2 and 3 in the USA. I would love for them to take the lore from those two games and make completely new games with the updated technology. Use the basic stories and world and totally redo them into brand new games.

[Ran1880]

ahem FF13*cough & I did enjoy it...