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Message: [QUOTE="Nidoking, post: 81639, member: 251656"] While I can't say it applies specifically to classic Final Fantasy for me, that does fall into this... I spent a huge portion of my earlier years absolutely despising turn-based games as a whole. When I was really young I just didn't really understand them and they seemed really boring. Like "...nothing is moving... this is all just menus..." I was kind of dumb, but I had NO understanding of why anyone would want to play them. Then, a few years later, I decided to give them another shot. The problem is the one I picked, while coming out during the golden age of JRPG's... was this. [ATTACH type="full" size="380x262"]27868[/ATTACH] I've come to at least appreciate things about this game, but by NO means was it the right choice or the game that would convert me. I had no idea of its reputation, though... so I just figured "Wow, I REALLY just don't like these kinds of games." So it reinforced my disinterest to the genre. Cut to years later... and a certain JRPG installment of an already monumentally popular series had been EXPLODING in popularity. Found it on sale like a year after it dropped and I was like "Okay... ONE more try. I'll give these games ONE.MORE.TRY." And that game was... [ATTACH type="full" width="382px" size="800x800"]27869[/ATTACH] ...and I... was... OBSESSED. I almost immediately fell in love with it. Something just clicked, and the ENTIRE genre's doors swung wide open for me. From there I wanted to go back and try as many Final Fantasy games as possible, and by extension Squaresoft JRPG's. This led to a domino effect finding me countless games I love and even my favorite game of all time. I did struggle, after this, for a time to adjust to older JRPG's... but I was determined. Eventually I broke that barrier, and to this day FF4 is still one of my favorite JRPG's. Sometimes you just need to find that 'right' one and it opens the gate, making so many previously unappealing titles suddenly shine in a new light. It just takes one. [/QUOTE]

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