Second Chance

haha glad i'm not the only one. Don't get me wrong, FFX isn't the most complicated storyline in the series, it's not as complex or interesting as FFVII's, but it just doesn't GRAB you quite like the others, you have to grab it yourself and really look into what's happening, or at least i did. I think the fact that Sin isn't a human (at least in normal form like Sephiroth, Kefka etc) it put me off to begin with
 
yea there was one game i pplayed over that i didnt like first..it was suikoden 5....but it wasnt all that.anyways i loved every inal fantasy game i had played when i first started playin it. i love every bit of it
 
Believe it or not, but FFVI was like this for me. I got horribly stuck in ZoZo, and hated the game from that point on until I quit at the end of the WoB. Replaying it now, I still hate ZoZo, but was prepared before hand, and mature enough to enjoy the adversity.
 
Yup FFXII

I really didnt care for it much first time round, i didnt hate it but i really didnt think much of it as a final fantasy title. So i decided to replay it for whatever reason and i loved it, all the little things i disliked ie. the battle system, the storyline, the way you level up i liked it all. I ended up almost getting 100% completion i liked it that much xD I wouldnt mind playing it again but sadly my ps3 isnt backwards compatible and my ps2 is long gone. =S
 
FF: DoC. I thought it was a bit boring and tedious, until I played it again and really starting getting into the story. Except I deleted my save file (and I didn't realise how far I had really gotten), and haven't played it quite a while >_>
 
FFXII

I hated the battle system with a passion. I thought that the series was going to hell and gave up on that game for a year or so. Then I went back into the store after I traded it away the next year a felt like giving it a second chance. The game wasn't bad at all and the battle system wasn't as bad as I had first thought. It was actually refreshing and I started to like it.
 
It actually seems so silly now--when I was a kid and before I had access to a Playstation, I used to think anything after VI would be crap--"there's no way anything can top this or IV, they're just trying to make more money so they'll probably upgrade the graphics and pay less attention to the story" etc. I think maybe I was just jealous because those two were my favorites (still are), but I never even thought about getting a PS to try them out. I only ended up playing VII, IX, X, and XII at all because my husband had them already when I met him, and it was something fun to do while we were hanging out. But I was so surprised at how good they were that all those old feelings have completely gone away now. :) And something similar happened to me with Xenosaga too, and it ended up being my favorite series. It just goes to show that you should always finish games after you start them, and give iffy ones a chance :)
 
I had this experience with both VIII and IX.

VIII I quit about halfway through in a fit of nerd rage. I didn't get the junction system so I ended up just spamming summons. Plus the plot got really stupid somewhere in the 2nd disc, and Squall became a loser, pining over Rinoa. I came back some undetermined amount of time later, and finally groked the battle system. Now I think it's the best FF in terms of gameplay. Also, since I had had some life experiences, I didn't think Squall was being such a loser.

IX I felt kind of meh about the first time I played it, but really enjoyed it the second time.

I'll be honest, a lot of the reason I didn't like both of them the first time around was I was expecting something like VII and they just didn't deliver. Coming back with more realistic expectations, I was able to love them on their own terms.
 
I did this with FFXII. I let people's opinions and reviews get in the way of me liking the game. I ended up actually giving it a chance, and it is an excellent game.

I also think that I did this with FFX. That was my first Final Fantasy, and my first RPG at that. I had only been playing arcade type games before that, so I had no idea how complex RPGs can be. I got to around the Mi'ihen highroad, and was completely under leveled, so I just gave up. I did a little searching around, and came back to the game, and loved it.
 
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