How has Final Fantasy changed you as a person?

Well, up until a few months ago, FF was just a really awesome video game series. But lately I thought of how useless people are when it comes to defending themselves. I always liked Tifa, and my body is built a lot like hers, and I just wanted to kickass. :ryan:

So I started to "dabble" a bit in martial arts, and I also just learned to generally defend myself better. I got punched a lil while ago, and before FF I would have been like "ow..." but instead I basically absorbed it and smacked right back, twice as hard. Haha purty awesome right :awesome:

So I guess basically just that, and lessening my social life just a bit sometimes :olivia:
 
Final Fantasy III and V make me want to learn how to play the piano. Also, I like the series for its storytelling and music. It gives me a some kind of nostalgic feeling inside.
 
Frankly, for me, FF 7, 8 and 9 have been teachers concerning story-telling and character development.

I've been writing stories since I could hold a pencil properly but where I come from, creative writing is not even a subject let alone taught anywhere. Plus it's not something you can be taught so much as you just grasp the whole thing. I played those Final Fantasy games during a time when a kid's normally exposed to less sophisticated forms of storytelling, like extremely juvenile literature.

Given that for some unnatural reason I was also reading some English classics and a bit of Stephen King, between those books and Final Fantasy I learned more about storytelling than the seminar in creative writing I took nearly 10 years later. Honest to goodness, FF, especially 8, is one of the biggest reasons I write the way I do.

Both its successes and failures in story-telling have taught me how to write my own plots and develop them into areas I hadn't thought of before. The games taught me what's good and what's crappy character development--for instance, FF8, as much as I love it, I still understand that character development was weakened and left largely to the player's mind. It taught me to avoid that, but it also taught me that what develops characters are psychology and circumstances. Shit happens and people change.

...I'm just being a complete nerd again.
 
Yes, Final Fantasy changed me a person. After playing FFVII and seeing the eco-environmentalists' love for the 'life-force' of the planet I was overcome with an indescribable urge to dedicate my life to saving the planet from dastardly manmade global warming. It's true.
 
Final Fantasy has changed me quite a bit as well.

One of the things it's done is inspired me to create this video games series I'm creating. I've been creating stories since I was in 1st grade, and been writing them down since 3rd. I've been working with video games since 6th grade, and am going into 10th. Final Fantasy has inspired me to create a massive RPG story - 13 games total. They each have their own story, but, all together, they create an even bigger plot.

Final Fantasy has also helped my brother in some ways. Whenever he's unsure of himself, like, when he tried to do a frontflip on a trampoline, he says "I can't do it". I then counter that and say facts like "You defeated Sephiroth! You can EASILY do this! You saved the world!" Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Another thing is that it changed with me is it brought me back to guitar playing. I hadn't been playing much guitar for about 6 months, but after playing Crisis Core, I had to learn the music for that game. Now, I practice all the time again, and just yesterday I played for 3-4 hours. My fingers didn't appreciate that, but, oh well. :P

Thank you Final Fantasy, and may you inspire more people to come.
-Bretboy129 ~ Bret Hudson
 
6,8,9,10 and Dissidia changed me.

6-First Shadow's words spoke to me: "Don't shut out your emotions and care like me." (Even though i have a Laguna - Squall attitude)

8 - Ultimecia's final words, "Reflect on your... childhood... Your sensation... Your words... Your emotions... time, it will not not wait... No matter how hard you hold on... It escapes you, and..."

9 - This game changed me because even after Zidane realises the truth behind him he still fights it's basically Cloud but better, i just respect and love the fact that he fights for his friends.

10 - No matter how hard something is always be cheery and never give up.

Dissidia - Jecht and Tidus beating the best cutscene, "Your still just a kid, you've got limitless potential running through your veins."

The cheery ones annoy me as i have a slight emo attitude.
 
Final Fantasy really hasn't changed my life...tbh

If anything I've wasted countless hours playing these games and getting closer to the characters in the games. Some are more relatable to me and others are not... But the one thing that I have gotten from these games is to not give up when the going gets tough...or when the road of life gets to be an impossible one. You can find strength in a lot of the characters in Final Fantasy. Even the ones that seem beaten down and don't want to go any farther...like Cloud. But he eventually overcomes his moments of self-doubt to do what the Final Fantasy characters typically do...which is save the world :wacky:
 
If anything, the Final Fantasy series - all of them up to and including FFVIII, and FFXII - have made me far more critical of video games than I may otherwise have been. They're not the greatest video games in existence, but they've set a certain standard that I expect all of the games I play to match or surpass. I attribute my standards to the Final Fantasy series in general, because VII and VIII were my first experience with RPGs.

I've played better, more enjoyable RPGs, so they haven't really changed me all that much as a person, although I'm not sure how much I'd be into RPGs now if I hadn't of played FFVII and FFVIII - the latter more than the former - when I was younger, more impressionable, and much easier to please.

There is the possibility of Liberi Fatali/Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec being responsible for my love of overly dramatic music, as well...I remember loving Edea's parade as a kid, and the opening sequence to FFVIII, because the music was nothing like else I'd ever heard at that time in my life. xD

Even back when I was a kid though, nothing said or done by the characters really had any of an impact on me: with the exception of FFXII and FFVI, which I didn't get to play until much later in my life, I find all the FF games are rather shallow and uninspiring.
 
Finaru Fantariji has changed my life in many ways. It has made me a much better person and changed my life around, before I met Finaru Fantariji I was on a path towards destruction and death. Thankfully Finaru Fantariji brought me back to the side of the light and I am still learning to live my life the best possible way according to the tenets of Finaru Fantariji. It also lead me to join thin Forumaru which has had many glorious impacts upon my life.
 
Almost half of the titles I played impacted me greatly but FFXIII had the biggest one since It led me to the special person in my life, and since we both liked fang and vanille, their love for each other impacted both of us, but focusing more on me, I was amazed at how Fang acts 98% just like me, and seeing her approach to things and especially on vanille made me change my overall attitude Im alot nicer than I used to be thanks to vanille and my love who likes her xD Even lighting helped me to see a few things differently.
 
Final Fantasy affected on my life

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. :)
 
It has taken over 400 hours of my life! That is the only way it has effected my life at all, great stories though.
 
Got me into JRPGs as a kid and have a lot of fun. I guess you could say my interpersonal skills may have developed..though I really have no idea. (and that could be said for anything)
 
Maduin and Modonna producing inter-racial babies make me see how beautiful and special interracial sex could be.

Without a doubt my favorite FF romance & the best in the entire series.
 
FF has taught me how easy it is to spend 100's of hours on the couch in front of a TV and 100's of dollars on munchies while on that same couch in front of that same TV... I wouldn't trade it for anything :D
 
GF-Lionheart said:
FF has taught me how easy it is to spend 100's of hours on the couch in front of a TV and 100's of dollars on munchies while on that same couch in front of that same TV... I wouldn't trade it for anything :D
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I have no choice to second that :selphie:

Ill also add it has taught a few life lessons but one of the main important ones I guess would be meeting a few strangers and becoming friends with them can happen, just shows me not to judge them too much, who knows how long i been doing that xD Not to mention playing FF it has increased my strategy side by alot, im way better at strategy in anything i can do, my sense of farming and such also comes from FF. Getting into Jrpgs or any rpg period is all because off FF ^_-
 
Lana Del Rey said:
Finaru Fantariji has changed my life in many ways. It has made me a much better person and changed my life around, before I met Finaru Fantariji I was on a path towards destruction and death. Thankfully Finaru Fantariji brought me back to the side of the light and I am still learning to live my life the best possible way according to the tenets of Finaru Fantariji. It also lead me to join thin Forumaru which has had many glorious impacts upon my life.
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You are pissing on FFF members with this sarcasme of yours.. if you talkin bullshit why bother replying in this thread at all...lmfao

You are indeed a FFF member so dont think you all hot shot or anything. You just a nerd like all of us... :lew:

Mr almighty..:ffs:

I dont believe one word you said there....

Anyways FF had some effect on me. I first played FF7 and I was immediately in love with the summons... especially the red Bahamut.. or one of them Bahamuts in FF7...

Only with FF8 it really changed my beliefs..I had countless dreams of Balamb garden and the whole military school thing ..I loved every aspect of it..

One of my friends had somewhat simillar dreams about FF8..
FF learned me the power of friendships and together you are stronger. There is a message they are telling in most of the games...perhaps what too obvious, but they show great emotions, aspects of life but in a fantasy coat. what more do you want.. that is why we love FF.

I have some ideas/stories planted in my head like a seed because of FF and NEVER till this day have I forgotten them....its really weird.. maybe one day I will work for SE and put my own ideas in the games..hell yeah :mokken:

Ok HAL? :ahmed:
 
...not actually that much particularly with characters hard to relate to and writing that overall isn't actually as good as what my younger self thought. Have any of the characters actually inspired me and given me a different outlook in life? Have any of them taught me lessons in the values of friendship and all that jazz? Uhh, no? It's taught me that a 100 hours of gaming time is a long time though.

Still, I guess it has inspired me to get into writing a bit more, but Final Fantasy was never really the pioneering source of inspiration in the first place. I've been writing incessantly since I could hold a pen and I've only been playing Final Fantasy for seven years, although to be fair it was only after I started dabbling with Final Fantasy that I started dabbling with the fantasy genre in general. Though as time passed, I learnt to approach fiction a lot more critically so rather than looking at for instance, the more recent FF games' stories as being all sublime and thrilling epic tales penned by sheer literary geniuses, and start seeing them as being on a whole, rather flawed and at worst, incoherent, sloppy and plain lazy. It's also introduced me to the fantastic world of story clichés and various writing tropes (both good and bad), cross-comparing different games and often being severely critical to each of them for my amusement.

Furthermore I can probably say it's made me a lot more critical of video games than I probably would be if I'd have never touched it. Final Fantasy alone has done a lot more to astound and disappoint me than practically anything else. As of now, I'm just so hard to impress and like Martel, it has set a standard that I constantly expect to see being reached or even better, surpassed. So if something does not reach that target, I treat it horribly afterwards, mercilessly finding as many occasions as I can to attack it.
 
It honestly hasn't in the slightest other than what the odd person has said about taking up countless hours which in honesty I probably would have just played a different game otherwise :lew: To a degree the characters and stories are well written, but looking back it's still all very basic stuff with the whole good v evil thing going on every game, the dialogue isn't overly great compared to something like Uncharted and the story isn't as complex as say, Bioshock or Heavy Rain. I did think Final Fantasy XII potentially had a great story with using politics, it was more complex than just good v evil but I was severely underwhelmed by the end. Knowing that Final Fantasy is based on fantasy and little realism I've never really associated myself with the story or the characters as I have with other games. All in all Final Fantasy has changed me as a person just as much as playing cod has made me more likely to join the army. Not at all.
 
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