I was lucky enough to come by this series of gaming genius one glorious spring day 10 years ago.......... As I came home from a tough day at school, I was greated by my dad who always had the fridays off... he'd been shopping with my mum and picked up a new game for the PS1, at first I really didnt care, just ANOTHER GAME, as i went up to my room to do my homework... upon completion i went downstairs to watch some TV to find my dad playing a game which looked like small block shapped men running about a strange factory and on the odd occasion the screen would spin and a battle would commence, and thats when I saw it... THE GUARD SCORPION.

Needless to say later that night I went on to begin my own adventure, loving every second of it, my dad on the other hand, well it wasnt his cup of tea. AND THE REST IS HISTORY!

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My first experience was probably watching my cousin play Final Fantasy VII on his Playstation one Easter. It took me a little while, though, before I decided I wanted to play it. I mean, it looked interesting and all, but for some odd reason I never made the move to get it...though it may have been due to my lack of a PS1 at the time.
The first game I ever played from this great series was Final Fantasy IX.
Now it colors my perceptions of the world.

Good question.

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Yeah, you picked up the game because I let you borrow it, ya damn nark. Never forget!

I first saw the game being played by a friend of mine who was casting a shitload of magic with some dog/cat looking animal. I thought to myself, "screw that junk, that's gay, I'm going home" (I was 13 at the time). Game looked retarded; I didn't want to play it.

Apparently my friend though was facing Emerald Weapon and was casting magic or a summon with Red XIII obviously. I bought the game 2 eyars later off of eBay for a steal of $40. I got it together with a brand new copy of FFX as well. $40 total; I'm love'n it.

I didn't play the game though until about 6 months later after I had finihsed FFX and FFIX first. Loved FFVII from the very first play. Great game.

My dad rented the game when I was younger and we put it aside as never really liking the whole RPG thing, then a few years later, my brother lent me a copy of his mates version of FFVIII, I then tried VII again and loved it

this was the third final fantasy game i played the first was ffx the second was ffx 2 lolz i played ffvii because of advent children coming out, so that was why i played it though i want to play ffviii

This game was hyped for months, if not more than a full year, by every game magazine out there. As a fan of FFVI (III) and Chrono Trigger, I preordered it and got that tight t-shirt with it that had Cloud on the back. Got it the day it came out and played quite a bit.

i started playing ff7 my m8z played it so naturally