The idea I have with this thread is just answer a set of questions about your experience with Final Fantasy. Questions like:
What was your first Final Fantasy?
Which Final Fantasy was the first one you finished?
Did you explore more of the series afterwards?
Which Final Fantasy carries the most weight in your mind(or lives there rent free)?
Care to just gush about your favorite Final Fantasy moments over the years?
My first Final Fantasy was the first Final Fantasy. It was released in Japan in 1987, but it didn't release in the USA till 1990. I played it first as a toddler, my brother would let me start the party and go kill Garland, and then he'd take over. It was kind of a family affair. I have two older brothers, and we'd all share the same file, and generally the party was made up of our favorite classes with each of us named into the party. My favorite was the Red Mage. My second oldest brother's was the Fighter, and my oldest brother's favorite was the Black Belt. The last party member was always a WHM or BLM, and if it was a WHM we'd give the WHM a girl's name to try to round out the party. We all held the opinion that the WHM was innately a woman, heh. I didn't beat the game completely by myself until about the year 2000.
The first one I beat by myself was Final Fantasy IV, II back then, on the SNES. It came out in 1991, and I beat by myself at about age 5. It was also the game I played the most when I broke my right arm at age 6, as it was about all I could play. It was easy, but it wasn't completely effortless, and the story sticks with me.
Final Fantasy VI(III back then) was my next exploration in the series, and it is my absolute favorite. I could gush about it all day. It also served as the impetus for me to really embrace learning to read. Before Final Fantasy VI, I really couldn't read very well, and I was in speech and reading remedial classes in first and second grade before the PS1 came out in the states. It was the first Final Fantasy where I actually comprehended the story, and from there on out I wanted to play more Final Fantasy and read more, and it's the reason I fell in love with RPGs. The Floating Continent is my favorite Final Fantasy moment.
After that I played the rest of the series as they came out, until FFX. At that time, my brother went off to college, and he took his consoles with him, so all I had was my SNES, and no way to make my own money. So I missed out on X and X-2, mostly, only playing a smidge of them here and there when my brother was home on break.
Next he and I together shelled out to cover an FFXI subscription, and he left me his PS2 with FFXI so we could play Final Fantasy together with him moving across the continent to be with his daughter. Maintaining that sub made me unable to buy FFXII, so I missed out there too.
I played through FFXIII with friends in college on their brand new PS3s, and of course, later on I got my own and patiently awaited the FFXIV PS3 port. It didn't come till 2.0, of course.
FFXV I bought and did one quick playthrough. I didn't really like it, outside of the aerial bosses and aerial fights. If there had been way more bosses like Aranea and the boss you fight when she temporarily joins your party... (and she should have been permanent) I would have loved it. As it stands It's a solid 6, maybe 7, out of 10 for me.
Eagerly await FFXVI! And the concept of an alien parasite that consumes planets from FFVII lives rent free in my head!
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What was your first Final Fantasy?
Which Final Fantasy was the first one you finished?
Did you explore more of the series afterwards?
Which Final Fantasy carries the most weight in your mind(or lives there rent free)?
Care to just gush about your favorite Final Fantasy moments over the years?
My first Final Fantasy was the first Final Fantasy. It was released in Japan in 1987, but it didn't release in the USA till 1990. I played it first as a toddler, my brother would let me start the party and go kill Garland, and then he'd take over. It was kind of a family affair. I have two older brothers, and we'd all share the same file, and generally the party was made up of our favorite classes with each of us named into the party. My favorite was the Red Mage. My second oldest brother's was the Fighter, and my oldest brother's favorite was the Black Belt. The last party member was always a WHM or BLM, and if it was a WHM we'd give the WHM a girl's name to try to round out the party. We all held the opinion that the WHM was innately a woman, heh. I didn't beat the game completely by myself until about the year 2000.
The first one I beat by myself was Final Fantasy IV, II back then, on the SNES. It came out in 1991, and I beat by myself at about age 5. It was also the game I played the most when I broke my right arm at age 6, as it was about all I could play. It was easy, but it wasn't completely effortless, and the story sticks with me.
Final Fantasy VI(III back then) was my next exploration in the series, and it is my absolute favorite. I could gush about it all day. It also served as the impetus for me to really embrace learning to read. Before Final Fantasy VI, I really couldn't read very well, and I was in speech and reading remedial classes in first and second grade before the PS1 came out in the states. It was the first Final Fantasy where I actually comprehended the story, and from there on out I wanted to play more Final Fantasy and read more, and it's the reason I fell in love with RPGs. The Floating Continent is my favorite Final Fantasy moment.
After that I played the rest of the series as they came out, until FFX. At that time, my brother went off to college, and he took his consoles with him, so all I had was my SNES, and no way to make my own money. So I missed out on X and X-2, mostly, only playing a smidge of them here and there when my brother was home on break.
Next he and I together shelled out to cover an FFXI subscription, and he left me his PS2 with FFXI so we could play Final Fantasy together with him moving across the continent to be with his daughter. Maintaining that sub made me unable to buy FFXII, so I missed out there too.
I played through FFXIII with friends in college on their brand new PS3s, and of course, later on I got my own and patiently awaited the FFXIV PS3 port. It didn't come till 2.0, of course.
FFXV I bought and did one quick playthrough. I didn't really like it, outside of the aerial bosses and aerial fights. If there had been way more bosses like Aranea and the boss you fight when she temporarily joins your party... (and she should have been permanent) I would have loved it. As it stands It's a solid 6, maybe 7, out of 10 for me.
Eagerly await FFXVI! And the concept of an alien parasite that consumes planets from FFVII lives rent free in my head!
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