we were all FF noobies at one time...

[kupo]

i searched the forums but couldn't really find a topic like this; but if i somehow missed it i apologize. anyway, our love for final fantasy had to start somewhere. so i ask, how did you get introduced to the final fantasy series?

[smurphy]

I first bought FF VII because I had 20 pounds and I didnt know what else to spend it on and it was critically acclaimed so I decided to take a gamble on it. So basically the biggest payoff of any gamble I have ever taken. I tried playing it but my young mind wouldnt take into consideration that O was the confirm button. I stopped playing because I didnt really understand the system and 6 months later I bought VIII and I suddenly "got it" and thus became addicted to both games. And I havent looked back.

[loaf]

Friend had FFVIII at his house, didn't know wtf it was. Tried it, hated it. 2 months later tried it again but actually read the dialogue and started to like it. Was at a different friends house and he just got FFIX for Christmas and I was watching him play it. Borrowed his PS1 few months later and FFIX along with it and beat it. Was my first FF to beat. Then the rest is history.

[Rocky]

back when I was a little kid, my mom wanted me to read a lot so I could become a smart young man, so she subscribed me to Nintendo Power. I saw stuff about a bunch of different games for the Super Nintendo that looked cool, FFII being one of them. I rented it and gave it a try, turned out to be really fun once I figured out how to play through it. Then for my birthday, I asked for FFIII, which I ended up getting! So FFII/IV was the first FF game I played, and FFIII/VI was the first one I owned. I think the next Squaresoft game I got after that turned out to be Chrono Trigger, so my RPG roots go deep!

[KainsBro]

Back when I was really young, my Mom bought the Final Fantasy 1 Strategy Guide, it looked really interesting, so while we was out, I begged my parents to buy it! I still have it to this day! The Guide too! It was On then, I bought every FF since! Except 11 and 13.

[Dodie16]

My older brother was big on PC gaming, and had a subscription to PC Gamer magazine. I would sometimes look through his old copies just to read up on different games and such. One game that really caught my eye was FF VII. That was actually the first time I heard of it. So I went on the computer to check out some more information about it, and for everything new I learned about the game, the more I wanted it.

I didn't have a Playstation console, and I couldn't get it for the PC because my computer at the time wouldn't have run it anyway, so I had to save up my money to pay for a PSX and the game. Eventually, I talked one of my younger brothers into going in half with me to buy a PSX. I bought the game on my own though, but I let my other brothers play it if they wanted to. I was hooked from the very first scene of the game. I still greatly enjoy that game to this day, and most every other FF game I've played too.

[SeaAlchemist]

My friend brought over IX and I wanted to play it so he let me play it but i accidently killed everyone in the party expect Garnet >.<

[Rhaps]

My friends and I always made *Status Effect* jokes like
Joey used Firaga!
Billy used STFU
Joey feels sadness. . . .
So a certain lady made me play FFVII to make me shut up with the jokes lol
addicted. bam.
. . . . . . but I still make the jokes

[The Dark Crystal]

Final Fantasy IX was the first game I was introduced to. When I was in the third grade my best friend Robert had the game and would play it from time to time. Though the first couple of times I watched him play it, I wasn't very interested (He was running around in the grass & fighting outside of Lindblum)

He stopped playing and never finished so I asked him If I could borrow the game, he agreed, and brought it to school the next day. After playing for the first 15 min I was hooked, and I completed the game in less then a month, opposed to his four years of playing

[Trodorne]

To be honest i am not a newbie anytime in the past. but i will be in the future. i actually time traveled from the year 2034 with my family when i was 6 but before then i played Final Fantasy 17 for the Nintendo Z360 unit. it was fun for a kid like me to play a game in 3d but the characters i still remember were lame and i just prefered the flashing colors and the big creatures. i traveled back with my family to the year 1990 and so working with the government and having easily made canadian social insurance cards. so long story was we picked up final fantasy 1 for the NES and the simplistic graphics were funny, and my parents said not to laugh at peoples misfortunes.

so im not a noob... yet.. but i know what your thinking. hey trodorne you just told us of the future and if the company sees this they will change the game. and then it would change you right? no actually due to quantum mechanics is that i have joined a different universe where that game is not made. so there for you can't change the past but only change the universal path in which you travel. for their are infinite universes that exist for every single situation like lets say in a universe final fantasy 8 was considered to be a good game (laughs to myself), or another one where Final Fantasy 10-2 or 12 were considered the best games ever. or when the movie spirits within came out that the company was so bankrupt that no one wanted to buy them and so all we have were up to 9.

so final fantasy 17was ok, characters lacked any common sense in any of their motives. just a bunch of weird teens who go around shooting and slashing at creatures trying to fight off the people of the planet to supposedly do good for them by rejuvinating the crystals which are dying. post apocolyptic story.

[kupo]

guess i should jump in here sometime. i played XII first right when it came out. my bf at the time got it and while he would be doing homework, he's let me run around and level for him. it was fairly addicting. then from there i went backwards...the next one i played was X and now i just bought the psp version of 1 a few days ago.

[Yang's bald head]

FF1 when it was just out. Got a NES for Xmas along with Final Fantasy I.

[Xanatos]

I never really cared to play Final Fantasy despite all the articles I read, good critics and suggestions I got from my friend even my brother and cousin, I guess I wasn't into RPG games at that time. I was searching for one RPG game though, it was Legend of Dragoon but instead of giving me that game my cousin gave me Final Fantasy IX by mistake, yea wright. Anyways, I tried it since I didn't have anything smarter to do at that time and I loved it, I was simply enchanted with the story. Unfortunately I only played few hours before my cousin decided that he needed back the CD-s.

After that I begged my father to buy me Final Fantasy IX, instead he bought Final Fantasy VIII. It didn't really matter since the game was really good but I was simply shocked by difference between VIII and IX and also because I though that VIII was a prequel to IX. I bought Final Fantasy IX later on and since then it's been my favorite game. I guess I was introduced with Final Fantasy pretty late, but hey it's never late to go through a great series.

[Ashelia]

I think it's less than 10 years ago when I first met Final Fantasy. I never had a PlayStation (wasn't a big console addict). I played games on my pc, and spent time on another hobby, which was graphical design. And more than once, I spent my time looking around the internet for nice graphics.

Eventually, more than once, I came across some awesome Final Fantasy graphics that caught my attention. So I started looking up info about what games they came from, and that's how I got to know about Final Fantasy. Still it would take about a year before I was gonna play it.

When I had more time, I remembered the FF games I came across earlier and started looking into it again. I was disappointed that most were released for PlayStation, a console I didn't own and didn't plan to get. And that's how my first FF was VIII, a random pick between the two that were released as a PC version as well (not counting XI Online, which wasn't released yet in that time anyway).
VII (again PC version) was gonna be the second one I played.

Years later (in 2006 I think), I finally decided to get a second hand PS2 and start looking for the other FF games I hadn't played yet. Since the PS3 release was announced, PS2 consoles were quite cheap those days. And since it was only for the FF games, I didn't plan on spending a lot of money on it.
I found a console with FF X and X-2 included, so they were the next games I played, followed by XII, that had just been released. IX was gonna be the next one, and the PS version of VI was the last one I got.

I know, the order makes little sense. But since the stories are stand alone anyway, I guess it doesn't matter

[GypsyElder]

My brother, I used to watch him play games all the time when I was smaller and didn't play anything other than old skool games. I was mostly interested in RPGs and I would always ask questions like "what's a potion for?" ect and then I got FF IX when I was like in the 6th grade or something.

And from there, I bossmed into a beautiful gamer nerd

[SuperSabin]

I was looking at alot of youtube videos about this game that i thought looked uber awesome and it was originally going to be just on ps3 until it became multi-console and years later I finally got to play it, FFXIII. Its so awesome with its good graphics and i've never seen the battle system before and i was like: "Wow its totally cool! I wish I got into the game earlier" and then i did ninja flips to the time FF1 and FF6 were out and i played them and i was like: "man these graphics suck! i'm glad i played FF13 first and returned to the good graphiced games era."

Nah just messin with ya. It started when my brother had both a Nintendo and a Super Nintendo with loads of games. I played both Final Fantasy 1 and Final Fantasy 3/6 when I was little. I wasn't very good at either game but I had fun playing both titles along with the other games we had at the time. Later on, the nintendo broke and my mom threw away all our nes games so i was raised on FF6 from then on and eventually i got a chance to play FF7 and all the rest, good times.

[winterborn86]

I remember it very well, my dad is obbssesed with car boot sales and one day came home with aload of ps1 games, final fantasy VII was amongest them, I saw, I tried, I loved and that is my story

[kurohime]

My Freind Leah recomended it so after a while of searching. i finaly found FF7, 10, and dirge of cerberus, i got hooked.

[2000 COMMON ERRORS]

I bought Dissidia because my sister's friend really liked the series, I instantly got addicted to the game, then I got FFX, and that's when I got interested in the rest. I have more than two of them, but I'm planning on buying more.

So, in short, I'm not really a long time addict, but I can't get my mind out of FF, never!

[Padraic]

My aunt had III (VI) on her Snes, this was when my brother and I were very young. About 4 or 5 years later my grandma got VII for my brother's birthday. He instantly got hooked, I sat and watched, captivated by the story. About two years later my brother and I went to visit my aunt again, taking a look at it we realized they were related and played it again. And after realizing none of the stories were connected we started collecting them. We have all of them ,save X and XII

[Jonathanx221]

My best friends Brother played games since the real oldschool days, and he's always been a huge Final Fantasy fan. He got my best friend into it, and when seven came out my best friend got it for himself, I hated it. I was a Zelda fan, I like hitting things with a chance of not getting hit back, but man, he let me play it, I started to pick up on it and understand the whole strategy deal... I was hooked. They were subscribed to every game magazine out there, then he got the internet, he knew about every damn game there is. Kinda like we do now, we know when games are coming out always because of this internet shit.

Well, basically I was young, and I played it with my best friend, and have been hooked every since. =]

[Mokkan Brushtail]

Oh man, well I was introduced to final fantasy by my friend, she had played, and beaten 4 and 6 on the super NES and let me borrow them...still have yet to beat either but I will eventually. the first one I bought and beat was Final Fantasy Tactics advanced, man do I miss my super awesome montblanc from that game...I remember that he was a time mage, and my main character was a ninja. but my two best were a moogle knight and a gladiator, they were the one wielding ayuvir blue for the moogle and red for the bangaa.