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Okay, so lately I find myself falling in love with Final Fantasy all over again. I've gotten older, gone to college, maintained friendships, and as I still have a few more years of college ahead of me I decided to take a semester off so I don't burn out after finishing my B.A.



In my spare time I have been able to indulge myself in music more often and started finding remixes of Final Fantasy music, which in turn led me back to playing the games, attempting fanart (this is interesting because I've never had an interest in drawing before this) and even adding to my tattoo collection. I'm not entirely sure what sparked it, but it seems like even though I know the details of each story, I play them again lately and am just as engulfed in playing the game as was the first time through.

Has anyone else experienced this rekindling of flame after having to grow up? I find it particularly fascinating because as I go through some of the ones I haven't played much since my childhood (playing VI now) I realize so many themes and metaphors that I didn't understand when I was younger and appreciate much more now that I'm passing the center of my twenties.

To top that off, I have my favorites, but I'm very attached to all of the main titles in the series from X and below so there has been plenty to keep this up with.

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 28th November 2011 00:52

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There was a stage a year or two ago where I played through my favourites again. I think that was IV to IX missing out on V. At first I was a little scared that I would be too wrapped up in nostalgia (of the numbered PSX era) and with my new perspective I would think they were not as good as I remembered. Far from it. I enjoyed them more than I did before. Not just that, I enjoyed them a lot more! Like you said there are masses of nuances, themes and metaphors I'd missed when I was younger. I don't really want to single any out for being particularly brilliant after so much time but VIII was one that I was sure would come across really badly now that I've not been a teenager for a few years. When I played it through again it held up well. Maybe I just thought it would be poor and it surprised me.

I played FFT through for the first time this year. Not really rekindling FFT but it certainly reminded me that FF games are, or certainly were, incredibly good games.

All in all I totally understand your sentiment. I'll get back into the series properly in another 5 years hopefully to rediscover and be surprised all over again.

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I only got introduced to the FF series in my later teen years, so I think it's still too early for a revival for me.

I didn't really have a large selection of games to "revive", though I have definitely revisited a lot of the older games I played as a kid, and in some cases I have found myself with newfound interest in the game, often surpassing my previous interest. This has been the case with the obscure GB game Tail 'Gator as well as with the Mega Man series, though in the latter case it might just be the fact that before emulation became a big deal, I didn't really have much chance to come in contact with it, only knowing about it mostly through videogame rentals.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 29th November 2011 18:47

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I've done this my whole life of being a FF fan. I used to play every tittle through at least 3 times each year as a kid and i still do at least 1 each year. I'm playing VIII now and last year it was X and XII.
While we're talking about this. Was I the only one who felt that, after beating (and Plating in my case) FF XIII that I'd probably never play it again?
I know i never felt like it was something i wanted to do again. It did make me like XII a lot more for some reason though....


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Quote (Sephiroth @ 27th November 2011 19:44)

Has anyone else experienced this rekindling of flame after having to grow up? I find it particularly fascinating because as I go through some of the ones I haven't played much since my childhood (playing VI now) I realize so many themes and metaphors that I didn't understand when I was younger and appreciate much more now that I'm passing the center of my twenties.

I really want to try to avoid sounding like the old curmudgeon I am, here, but I think you'll be really surprised at how much your life might change yet. I would have considered myself all grown up if you asked me before mid-2010, but eighteen months later I realize that I wasn't even close then. Not to make it personal, because that's not how I intend it, but I probably felt the same as you when I was midway through university and had nothing but free time on my hands. There's a long way to go an a lot can and will still change.

Now, that does have some relevance to the topic, as it has a great bearing on my answer, that answer being: no, I really haven't experienced any major rekindling of the affection I had for Final Fantasy through the decade between when Final Fantasy was released stateside and Final Fantasy VII did the same. That's not to say that I don't have nostalgia for the games, because I really do remember my first playthrough of them quite fondly, particularly Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VI.

For me, though, personally, I think I have a lot of factors that get in the way of me going back to relive these things, or even really wanting to. They're quite intertwined.

1. I work way too much. I've got a full-time job, I have freelance work that comes and goes, I have CoN, I have a house and a yard to keep up, etc.
2. I'm married to a non-gamer. I don't like monopolizing the good TV with games, and I don't like leaving her for hours at a time to game in another room.
3. Final Fantasy games aren't the only good games, as much as I enjoy them. No matter how good a game is, it's sometimes hard to justify replaying a game when there are so many great newer games to try.
4. Gaming has become more of a social experience for me. When I was younger and didn't have that much contact with peers, a long, engrossing RPG really did a better job grabbing my time. Now I'm just as likely to want to hop on Steam or Live and do a brief bit of gaming with my friends.
5. The amount of work I've put into CoN over the years has kind of dulled the joy of the old games a bit. Sometimes it's hard to separate the unpaid labor of the site from the fun of just playing the game to be playing it. Not all the staff feel this way, of course, but I also have thousands and thousands more hours of work poured into the site than everyone else.
6. I was older than most people when I started playing Final Fantasy. I was almost a decade old when the first one came out, and was already in university when VII was released.

The nice thing is that this doesn't have to ruin my memories of all the great games I played. I still remember them all, very fondly, even if I don't have the urge to play them again. For me, that's plenty good enough, though a little part of me kind of wishes that I did have the time and energy to play them all again to see if they did spark something new in me.



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Quote (TrueBOSS @ 30th November 2011 09:45)

While we're talking about this. Was I the only one who felt that, after beating (and Plating in my case) FF XIII that I'd probably never play it again?
I know i never felt like it was something i wanted to do again. It did make me like XII a lot more for some reason though....

Not me, I've already replayed FFXIII twice (though I only got platinum the first time I played the game-gil grinding for Treasure Hunter I don't intnd to ever repeat).

On the original topic, I've only been an FF fan since 2006 so it's a bit early for nostalgia.
That being said, I do enjoy replaying the games to experience them again.

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Spin-offs: FFIV: Interlude & The After Years, Crisis Core: FFVII, X-2, XIII-2, Lightning Returns, Type-0 HD, Dissidia, Dissidia 012, and Tactics (original & WotL).
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1. I work way too much. I've got a full-time job, I have freelance work that comes and goes, I have CoN, I have a house and a yard to keep up, etc.
   
2. I'm married to a non-gamer. I don't like monopolizing the good TV with games, and I don't like leaving her for hours at a time to game in another room.
   
3. Final Fantasy games aren't the only good games, as much as I enjoy them. No matter how good a game is, it's sometimes hard to justify replaying a game when there are so many great newer games to try.
   
4. Gaming has become more of a social experience for me. When I was younger and didn't have that much contact with peers, a long, engrossing RPG really did a better job grabbing my time. Now I'm just as likely to want to hop on Steam or Live and do a brief bit of gaming with my friends.
   

These are issues i have now a days with my life as well. I'm always working. doing chores and try to keep up with my internet stuff. I'm not married but i do live with my friends and they are different gamers than me. one is only interested in games like Halo and COD and the other is a very picky gamer so I can't play so much anymore. and when i do there are so many great new games to try i rarely play my old games anymore. And I try to never let them turn me down from going out and having fun with my friends and try to game with them online. Although I don't have that much of a social experience actually on my games. I mostly end up playing with rude people harassing me because I don't have a good Kill to Death Ratio on COD even if I won the match.

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Quote (Rangers51 @ 30th November 2011 16:21)

I really want to try to avoid sounding like the old curmudgeon I am, here, but I think you'll be really surprised at how much your life might change yet. I would have considered myself all grown up if you asked me before mid-2010, but eighteen months later I realize that I wasn't even close then. Not to make it personal, because that's not how I intend it, but I probably felt the same as you when I was midway through university and had nothing but free time on my hands. There's a long way to go an a lot can and will still change.

Y'know I've been shocked by how little gaming I've done in the past 18 or so months. I used to play as much as anyone. I'm a little concerned that the time will come when I just won't play anything and focus on work (probably a 60 hour week to begin with) or marriage, and after reading your post it seems inevitable. I fall into the 'mid-way through uni' category and already I have so little time with coursework and exams. It'll only get worse.

I'd like to think, like I said before, that I'll play them all again at some point in the future but your reasons for playing something new and the social experience (local co-op like FIFA) makes me think it'll be even less likely because I'm in a similar mind when the opportunity arises.

My point is that maybe the rekindling I've already done will be the only time. I'm thinking maybe I'm lucky I had the chance by the sounds of it.

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R51, how old are you? I didn't think you were that much older than me, but we've never had this discussion before, I guess. I'm three years into undergrad, but I wasn't eligible for financial aid and my parents didn't put back any money for college, so I didn't get to start until I was nearly 23.

As far as being busy.. I know what you mean. I haven't owned any of the current-gen consoles and I got rid of my older ones before I left for uni a couple of years ago, so this is a treat to have a semester with a little bit of time on my hands, because this is the first bit of gaming I've done in around five years or so..

And as for social gaming goes, in the years I've spent playing video games I have never liked social gaming. I prefer to play on my own and really have the chance to take in a series. And I think I become more of this mind as I get older.

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 1st December 2011 20:27

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R51, how old are you? I didn't think you were than much older than me, but we've never had this discussion before, I guess. I'm three years into undergrad, but I wasn't eligible for financial aid and my parents didn't put back any money for college, so I didn't get to start until I was nearly 23.

As far as being busy.. I know what you mean. I haven't owned any of the current-gen consoles and I got rid of my older ones before I left for uni a couple of years ago, so this is a treat to have a semester with a little bit of time on my hands, because this is the first bit of gaming I've done in around five years or so..

I'm a few months shy of 32 at the moment. I also missed most of the last console generation - I had both an N64 and a PSX, but I didn't get a PS2 until 2007, and I didn't have an Xbox 360 until 2008. I was on the more traditional university track, started at seventeen and was out just after hitting twenty-one. I was married at twenty-two, but even before then I was too poor to get new Final Fantasy games - I didn't have a new one between VII and XIII, and I only got the latter thanks to last year's Black Friday.

I suppose you could say that I made deliberate choices that reduced my time and desire to revisit old games, even FF games, and you'd be right. Just to reiterate, it certainly doesn't make me remember them with any less affection, though!

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It's certainly interesting to see the different views on this topic!

For my part, I agree with a lot of the points that R51 makes in his initial post, but with one big difference (well, that and several differences in personal circumstances) - I want to go back and rekindle the passion, but it's just not practical.

Right now I'm trying to figure out where my copies of IV, VI and IX are, so I can decide which one I want to fire up. But the problem is, I really don't have the time anymore. Being bogged down with a full time job and a relationship with a non-gamer means that the limited amount of time in my week which I am able/willing to devote to gaming has to be given to new gaming experiences rather than reliving old flames.

It's a crying shame really, because I would dearly love to get stuck back into the old classics. I've even thought about taking holiday time from work just to smash through a particular game before - but such pipe dreams quickly get destroyed by reality!

I need to become a student again.

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Quote (Sephiroth @ 1st December 2011 13:14)

R51, how old are you? I didn't think you were that much older than me, but we've never had this discussion before, I guess. I'm three years into undergrad, but I wasn't eligible for financial aid and my parents didn't put back any money for college, so I didn't get to start until I was nearly 23.

As far as being busy.. I know what you mean. I haven't owned any of the current-gen consoles and I got rid of my older ones before I left for uni a couple of years ago, so this is a treat to have a semester with a little bit of time on my hands, because this is the first bit of gaming I've done in around five years or so..

And as for social gaming goes, in the years I've spent playing video games I have never liked social gaming. I prefer to play on my own and really have the chance to take in a series. And I think I become more of this mind as I get older.

I'm definitely in the same vicinity as far social gaming goes. The two are separate for me. If I'm being social I'm spending time out and about with other people. If I'm not being social, I'm gaming. I think that's why I found myself on a gaming hiatus for a while, because I was spending time alone, I was out with friends all the time and being very engulfed in a social life. I now find that will be trying to make a better balance between the two. All one and not the other isn't good for me.

As far as nostalgia goes, I'm not a game re-player. I play through once and generally don't give it a second shot. But I do hold on to games that are favorites. I just don't generally play them again. In fact, I can actually ruin games for myself if I never complete them and just do several re-starts. Chrono Trigger has kind of been ruined for me like that. I've re-played through the entire game so many times without beating Lavos that I really don't care to play the game ever again. FFIX is getting to that point too. I've made the mistake of buying the remakes and re-releases but I'm not gonna do that again. It's never new enough of an experience for me. The only exception I see myself every making ever again is a full remake of FFVII so that I can enjoy that gaming experience that is visually on par with Advent Children so that I can experience the two as equal parts.

That being said though, I used to re-play games. I used to be a FFVI expert and an Earthbound expert and a FFT expert, etc but I think that had a lot to do with the age I was when I played those games. I was still a teenager. If I got a new game it was because it was a birthday or Christmas present, so I basically had to content myself with re-playing games I already had. Since I've grown up and am able to drop significant amounts of money on gaming, I now want to play more and different games.

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I find myself playing games once through and trying to get as much out of them as possible, as well. Not much replaying.

I don't play games as much as I used to, and I still feel I probably play them too much. But it's still rather different from how I'd play as a kid--I always feel (or for that matter, I know) I ought to be doing something else, and I think it's made it harder for me to get into complex games that I might just lose myself in.

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I've basically been playing the FF series since I could play video games (5 or 6 yrs. old). I grew up on VII, VIII, and X. I played XII when it came out, then really stopped playing until XIII came out. With XIII, My interest in the series came back and I wanted to play the games I hadn't yet. So over this last year I've been hunting down and finishing the ones I hadn't played yet. Just need I, II, and IX.

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Come to think of it, one thing I liked about FFIV is that it was so easy to pick up. All you have to do is to go through random battles, explore dungeons for treasure and bosses and plot advancement, and go from town to town or whatever, and occasionally do a sidequest.

No worrying about depth of strategy. No remembering who's leveled up what classes as in FFV, who's got what espers equipped and learning what magic or boosting what stats in FFVI, who's got what action materia and what support materia and what abilities and what stat bonuses/penalties in FFVII...

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ahh, i remember playing Final Fantasy 7 when i was just a little 3 year old! seriously! My mothers freind told us what it was and procceded to play it with us. so just a few years back my brother found/bought the game again, and just recently he let me borrow it! and in just half a year, i have already beat it 2 times and im on my third play through. Now that im older, i understand the perverted jokes and cencored dialouge. Takes me back to my childhood.

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 4th December 2011 00:51)

Come to think of it, one thing I liked about FFIV is that it was so easy to pick up. All you have to do is to go through random battles, explore dungeons for treasure and bosses and plot advancement, and go from town to town or whatever, and occasionally do a sidequest.

No worrying about depth of strategy. No remembering who's leveled up what classes as in FFV, who's got what espers equipped and learning what magic or boosting what stats in FFVI, who's got what action materia and what support materia and what abilities and what stat bonuses/penalties in FFVII...

So to you, Final Fantasy IV is a Dragon Quest game....

Final Fantasy IV was my first RPG, and I've been a fan of the series ever since. FF VII - IX is what motivated me to buy a PS1, and FF X was one of the first games I played when I finally got a PS2 several years later. I'm a hardcore gamer, and Final Fantasy is part of what made me that way. Sure, I don't play them all that much now, or even as much as I used to, but I'll be damned if I didn't ******* love replaying FF IV on the PSP earlier this year.

Sure, modern Final Fantasy games don't interest me as much, but I'll always have those older games. And hey, FF Type-0 actually looks pretty good, right?

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 4th December 2011 00:51)

Come to think of it, one thing I liked about FFIV is that it was so easy to pick up.  All you have to do is to go through random battles, explore dungeons for treasure and bosses and plot advancement, and go from town to town or whatever, and occasionally do a sidequest.

No worrying about depth of strategy.  No remembering who's leveled up what classes as in FFV, who's got what espers equipped and learning what magic or boosting what stats in FFVI, who's got what action materia and what support materia and what abilities and what stat bonuses/penalties in FFVII...

So to you, Final Fantasy IV is a Dragon Quest game....

Um...I guess this is a thinly-veiled criticism of the DQ series?

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Now don't get me wrong; I really do like games with a lot of depth. It's just that it's hard to find time to sit down and play them these days.

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Interesting.. I played Dragon Warrior long before discovering final Fantasy, but I still prefer the depth of Final Fantasy by far.

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Quote (laszlow @ 4th December 2011 22:43)

...And hey, FF Type-0 actually looks pretty good, right?

right, guyz?


FFIV was also my first RPG. I recall it being a large part of the reason I learned to read in the first place. Everytime I go back to an old square game, I'm also surprised by how good it is. I'm the same age as OP though, so maybe when I become bedraggled and torn with olditis, I'll stop caring too.

The most recent FF I replayed was FFIV, actually, about a year ago. It was the PSX version, and I was enamored with the active battle system in a five person party. The mechanics of it were suddenly the most wonderful part of the game to me for some reason, which I found funny. I do have to wonder when this will wear off too, though, since things like the story and characters struck me as being more flat.

I more recently watched a friend go through FFXII and FFII back to back, and holy-cow, what a difference. To go from a world completely rail-roaded with a series of red-x's that you have to go follow, to FFII where if you accidentally overstep your bounds (that nobody tells you about), the hand of God Almighty slaps you with a random encounter 20 levels higher than you. As FF get's older, it strikes me that the D&D style roots of the series will become lost, which saddens me.

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There was a stage a year or two ago where I played through my favourites again. I think that was IV to IX missing out on V. At first I was a little scared that I would be too wrapped up in nostalgia (of the numbered PSX era) and with my new perspective I would think they were not as good as I remembered. Far from it. I enjoyed them more than I did before. Not just that, I enjoyed them a lot more! Like you said there are masses of nuances, themes and metaphors I'd missed when I was younger. I don't really want to single any out for being particularly brilliant after so much time but VIII was one that I was sure would come across really badly now that I've not been a teenager for a few years. When I played it through again it held up well. Maybe I just thought it would be poor and it surprised me.

I played FFT through for the first time this year. Not really rekindling FFT but it certainly reminded me that FF games are, or certainly were, incredibly good games.

All in all I totally understand your sentiment. I'll get back into the series properly in another 5 years hopefully to rediscover and be surprised all over again.

I haven't played ff4 or ff6 in ages.

I might have to replay them some day,but for now:i find it kinda hard to replay it after beating ff6 20 times and knowing every inch of the map.

I don't believe for a second,that you cannot become a fan of a game just because its dated or if you didn't play it in its hey day.I greatly enjoyed chrono trigger and i even enjoyed ff8 a little.In fact:i think i actually enjoyed ff8 more than ff7.

I did have trouble enjoying final fantasies after 9.

X:I want to force myself to beat it,and i probably will some day.
XIII:I beat it but i had to force myself a lot,and i got absolutely no desire to replay it ever again

As for that whole understanding and appreciation for story:I understand completely.In your early teens and preteens,you are often too young,you are bound to miss the meaning for stuff,because you might be young and inexperienced and have limited knowledge yet.You will also sometimes fall in love with one game and begin to dislike certain aspects of games you liked.

Me:I used to love everything about ff6,but as years went by,i started to dislike terras theme more and more,and in fact:I like the main map theme in ff4 better.


Oh yeah:How old are you?

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I don't have much nostalgia for actually playing any FFs, but I do have nostalgia for the times in my life when I did play.

My day consisted of simple homework assignments that I could knock out in an hour or so (or during classes, so that they were done before I left school) and then hours hanging out with friends playing FF. One of us would be playing the latest title, and the rest would hang out and chat and provide moral support.

Nowadays, I don't even play FF. In fact, I haven't played a video game of my own in almost 4 years (and apart from a week-long stint at a friend's house during which time I played Mario Kart quite frequently, I haven't played any games during that time).

I'm too busy and don't really have much of a drive to play video games. But yeah, I get nostalgic for a time when my friends and all lived within 15 minutes of each other (at the moment it's closer to 15 hours) and could debate (rigorously) the merits and flaws of each of the FF titles (as well as D&D-related topics and other areas of geekdom).

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Nowadays, I don't even play FF. In fact, I haven't played a video game of my own in almost 4 years (and apart from a week-long stint at a friend's house during which time I played Mario Kart quite frequently, I haven't played any games during that time).

Hmm.

I play in shifts,but i often lose interest in games in the middle and turn them off and do go back to them for a while.The game has to capture my interest,or else it fails for me.Lately for some reason,i've been getting a crave for survival horror games.I've been playing some resident evil 3 lately and wanted to play silent hill 2.

I used to dislike survival horrors because it was slower and less action,but i actually enjoy the horror part of it quite a bit as it is interesting.


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Oh yeah:How old are you?

22, but sometimes I say 23 because I've forgotten. I started playing FFVII when it came out when I was 9 and VIII, IX and X in the years they came out, I think it was a year after each other roughly. I didn't play XII until I was 18. I think I was 16 or 17 when I played IV, V (not all the game), and VI. I wonder if 5 years in late teens counts as enough time for nostalgia? Probably not in my case, but I could see it happening for others. Taking Kane's point, it wasn't really a nostalgic time in my life unlike VII, VIII, IX and X.

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I played my first FF really late. I was 14, in 2004, so like someone stated, the whole FF thing is to recent for me to have a revival feeling.

But around this time of the year, I find myself with some free time that I rather spend in a lonely way, since my whole work/college life demands that I exercise my (lack of) social skills. That said, replaying some FF game comes in hand.

Also, I'm sometimes afraid of replaying any FF game that I liked because I've been noticing that my patience with the japanese games (aside for nintendo maybe) is diminishing as I grow old, so I'm afraid to destroy the fond memories I have about some of those games.

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Now THAT is nostalgic! -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 15th December 2011 12:59

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FFIV was also my first RPG. I recall it being a large part of the reason I learned to read in the first place. Everytime I go back to an old square game, I'm also surprised by how good it is.

Same (Unless Final Fantasy Mystic Quest counts then thats my first FF)

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I did have trouble enjoying final fantasies after 9.

X:I want to force myself to beat it,and i probably will some day.
XIII:I beat it but i had to force myself a lot,and i got absolutely no desire to replay it ever again

I have trouble enjoying final fantasies after 10.
X: itself was good and bad in its own rights but I enjoyed it and beat it.
XI: Final Fantasy as an MMO to this day sounds like a bad joke that isn't getting old. Even my love for final fantasy won't get me to play this.
XII: Was an interesting experiment. I hated it for a while but all in all in the end I did like it although it was different. it was, for me at least, definitaly a game that grew on you because I like it more now than when it first came out. Just wish it wasn't so short and had more to do than just the story and hunting marks.
XIII:Beat and the ONLY thing I liked was how the last 2 chapters you had to actually TRY REALLY HARD to get through to finish the game. I felt they gave FF fans a challenge here.
XIV: WhY!? WhY all the bad jokes!!! WHY!!!!?!?!?!?

This post has been edited by TrueBOSS on 26th December 2011 10:49

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