Where did you hear about Final Fantasy from?

[WhiteArchmage]

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.

[MsQi]

When the first one came out on NES.

[LLSmoothJ]

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.

[Rasler_Heios]

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

[tinythinker]

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.

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).

[Derio]

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.

[Hazmick]

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.

[Doozer]

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.

[Ariel_Valmont]

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

[Thayos]

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.