How has Final Fantasy changed you as a person?

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We all know that Final Fantasy games can have phenomenal story-telling. It's also safe to say that Final Fantasy stories have moved us all in different ways and taught us life lessons as human beings. Also, without Final Fantasy, none of us would be on this website right now. It would have never existed.

So what things have Final Fantasy introduced into your life, or, how has it helped you?

For me, I'd have to say Final Fantasy has taught me how important friendships are, and made me a more mature person and look at life a little more seriously.

It's also helped me bond with my younger brother as Final Fantasy X is his first Final Fantasy game and he needs lots of help. :)
 
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Final Fantasy has not affected my life or who I am at all. It's just a video game to me. It's entertaining and some of the games are my favorite but nothing beyond that. But if it did help you and if it helps others, then more power too ya'll.
 
I think it has changed my life a lot.

2 years ago, I would have never thought that I can play the piano. It was final fantasy music that really inspired me to self-learn this instrument. Nowadays, I spend a good 1/2 hour everyday on average, learning and playing final fantasy songs (mostly from the piano collections). I dare say my piano skills are intermediate (grade 4-6 probably). So in other words, final fantasy gave me free piano lessons :P

Not only in music, final fantasy has completely averted me from playing newer games, which are mostly FPS/TPS, etc. Basically, final fantasy saved me from violent/vulgar video games. I despise these kinds of games. I wonder if I had spent years playing such games, I may not be who I am, a hardworking, committed student in school. Final fantasy, although fun, is not an addictive series of games. I only play final fantasy game on weekends, for a few hours at maximum.

There are other things how final fantasy changed me as a person, but I am too lazy to elaborate. But nevertheless, I am so thankful I am introduced to such a wonderful series.
 
I second everything you just said above, I forgot to mention that I have started taking piano lessons so I could learn the great music from the series eventually. It's really worth it. And I'm glad I wasn't turned into a CoD fanboy and if it weren't for Final Fantasy, I probably would have went for an Xbox 360 instead of a PS3, which would have been a terrible decision for me.
 
No suprise, but FFVII convinced me to be a bit more green. Don't really have to explain why, but it wasn't enough to make me go on marches or stuff like that, but a lot of little things like turn the telly off when I'm done with it or to stop littering.

X, well, kinda made me a bit more critical of religion. :wacky: It's arguable as to whether or not that's a good thing, but after I played it, I did start questioning religion more, and after a while, I wasn't really convinced by anything I was told, noticed how people use it to control folk, and I ended up becoming an Athiest. :lew:

And one minor thing, when I was a kid, Tifa and Zell made me want to learn Martial Arts, that along with games like Tekken and Street Fighter, so dad enrolled me for Taekwondo, but that went to shits after 3 years. xD In the end, I just settled for doing weights once a day.
 
hmmm I would say that FF changed my life.. in an number of different ways. for a start, it made me go into graphics XD without FF and the amazing characters.. my graphics just wouldn't be the same. also, it made me look at relationships in different ways.. cuz i seen some of the relationships in the series and it made me look at them in a different way. finally.. it made me take hold of what i think of my self.. because i got a disability and due to playing FF.. it made me think carry on in my life and always believe.. like yuna said during the wedding scene 'believe, i can fly' or something like that :wacky: that line always moved me forward when i think i can't do something because of my disability
 
Final Fantasy inspired me to become a writer, I write short novels or fan fictions and i write screenplays for my short movies. Besides that, FF changed music for me as well with me only really able to enjoy Game Soundtracks more than actual lyric based music.
 
.Mosh said:
Final Fantasy inspired me to become a writer, I write short novels or fan fictions and i write screenplays for my short movies. Besides that, FF changed music for me as well with me only really able to enjoy Game Soundtracks more than actual lyric based music.
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Music Wise I can only agree with you 100%
 
Final Fantasy inspired me to become a writer
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Same here! It also got me into Japanese music.
FF inspired me greatly in art, music and literature. The opera from VI inspired me to become a classical singer, though I soon realised that, unlike Celes, you cannot just walk on stage and sing an opera out of the blue lol!
 
Well if it wasn't for FF I probably wouldn't be obsessed with anime, manga and by extension comic books in general. It has also inspired my own creative works so in this way you could say that playing these games from a young age to now has had an effect on my life.
 
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Well if it wasn't for FF I probably wouldn't be obsessed with anime, manga and by extension comic books in general. It has also inspired my own creative works so in this way you could say that playing these games from a young age to now has had an effect on my life.
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Right on- being into FF got me into other RPGs, and Anime. I prefer Anime that is a series probably because I love the immersiveness of video games and so the short films just aren't enough.
 
I remember,when I was ten years old,I had a dream about a rainy temple in which Tidus and Yuna were characters;the temple wasn't like anything in FFX,though.I didn't remember much about it when I woke up,but I remember feeling like it was a fascinating world,and I couldn't stop fantasizing about it.It blossomed in my head,and I imagined a whole world for that temple;I knew,before too long,that I would want to make something based on that dream.At first I thought I would want to make a movie about it,but I realized movies were too limited in scope;then,for the longest time,I thought I would write a book about it;but,eventually,I decided that I would become a game designer solely for the purpose of making a trilogy of games based on that world.

It's been so long and I've matured so much that,my current vision of that world is comepletely different from my original conception;but that temple's still there,and there certainly isn't a doubt in my mind that I'm going to work in the videogame industry someday.So,I want to become a game designer solely because of a dream I had that was based somewhat on Final Fantasy X.I haven't really been extraordinarily changed as a person,per se,but I know that that's enough of an influence that my life will now be completely different from what it would have been if FFX never existed.
 
Final Fantasy started my inspiration towards RPG games. With this interest, I further progressed in MMORPG's. My friends, who sometimes watch me play RPGs, say that its pretty lame how characters attack and then run back into position. To me, I feel like I am a part of the game, so everything feels active nonetheless.
Because of Final Fantasy, I feel the need to perfect all, if not, most of the games that I play and further pursue challenges that will test if you have really mastered the game.
Overall, I believe that if Final Fantasy has never come into reality, I believe my love for RPG games would not be as strong as they are now.
 
I was 11 when I finished my first FF game, this being FFX.

I was completely sucked into the world and the story, I was obsessed with it until I was nearly 13 (lol I used to wish blitzball was real).

There were so many incredible moments in FFX, but the ending scene,
when Tidus held Yuna on the airship as he was disappearing,
had a lasting effect on me.

Being so young, it was the first time I realised that the people who love me will not be around for ever, and that I had to make sure that they know how I feel about them in case I never get a chance to say goodbye.

Since finishing FFX all those years ago (can't believe it's been nearly 10) this is the one thing that has always stayed with me, and I am in Square's debt for creating one of the most meaningful stories I have ever experienced.
 
Final Fantasy has changed my life in a great deal of ways, some small and almost insignificant, others immense.

I could go on and on, but I guess I can boil all of my inspiration stories down into one statement; that Final Fantasy helped open my eyes to different aspects of life, spirituality, and responsibility, and continues to to this day.
 
I can only really think of one way Final Fantasy has really impacted my life... I had a very, very happy childhood, and I think Final Fantasy is at the very least partly responsible for the fact that I can look back fondly and smile. I feel very blessed that I can say such things, because I know not everyone can say the same thing.
 
Someone commenting on Friedrich Nietzsche once said that he could not convince, but only confirm. I for my part feel that way about most things in life, I think. I would never say that Final Fantasy – or any other videogame – actually changed me and I further believe that this conception of personal change is somewhat misguided, since very few events or experiences are capable of evoking a change of character on a fundamental level and with near-instantaneous effect. What I would say, however, is that Final Fantasy contributed to the ongoing process of becoming who I am and in general ranks very high on my list of the most important experiences coming from a videogame I ever had.


For me the series, in its most glorious moments, really shines as the essence of the JRPG and the epitome of virtual storytelling. The franchise encompasses some of the very best examples of why and how videogames can be a form of modern art, combining all the aspects of the visual, the musical and the written arts in one single medium – similar to what films do (which rarely qualify as art these days, too – yet fully have the potential to do so).


A Final Fantasy game feels much like an interactive book to me. The gameplay in roleplaying games could never be as important to me as the story, the characters that said story is told through, the art design and music and all the little details that make the final experience so much more than the sum of its parts. Seriously, Nobuo Uematsu alone is raison d’être enough.


So, while I don’t think that Final Fantasy has really changed me (Change from what, anyway? An alternative route of life I did not take by actually playing the games instead of… not doing so?), it really is part of who I am. I can say that about a lot of things, but Final Fantasy is certainly not the least of them.


To take a shot at summarizing my feelings about this: it did not push me into any other direction, but instead showed me that the path already taken was not necessarily the wrong one. It affirmed who I was – and that is very, very important to me.
 
I second Cid XIII-2 here. It inspired me to take up piano lessons and cultured my taste in music. It also prompted me to pick up fan art, and in essence gave me a good foundation in art altogether. :)

The fact that the older games required mass-reading might have been a direct influence on the fact that I'm somewhat of a bookworm today. Writing fanfiction really enhanced my writing capabilities back in English 101. XD

Aside from that, playing video games kept me glued to my house while my parent was out working two jobs. Who knows what trouble I might have gotten into otherwise. :D
 
Final fantasy hasn't really changed my life a whole lot, besides taking up a lot of my time to play it haha.

If anything, it may have helped me get into drawing, possibly, because I do like how the characters look and often reference off them when designing my own.
I think it's also given me an appreciation for RPGs. Who knows, if i never discovered FF, I may have never gotten into JRPGs.
 
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