My buddy in elementary school got Final Fantasy I when it first came out. I watched him play it for about five minutes and said "who wants to play a game where you walk through a town, that's stupid." We then went outside with one of his mother's books and pretended to be wizards fighting "demons" (his dogs).
I'd have to say 6, 4, Tactics, FFXI, 8, 10, 5, 7... the NES ones were brutal, and going through a long dungeon without a save, then dying and losing an hour's work, would usually be enough to make me take a break. I didn't replay the Playstation ones (other than Tactics and 8), and I have only played 9 once - lost one of my discs and never replaced it. I have only played through the first hour or two of 12; my friend owns a copy, and I play it sometimes when I visit her, but I never bothered to buy it myself. It seems to be one of those "you have to buy the strategy guide" type games; I love unlocking ultimate weapons and fighting all the monsters, and the game seems a little arbitrary about how it lets you do those.
Just hearing the music from
VI or
IV is enough to give me butterflies. But, to be fair, I don't feel objective enough to say how much of the love I have for the games is the actual content or just nostalgia. I know kids who go apesh*t over 7 because it was their first, but to go back and play the SNES ones, they just don't connect.
Edited, Feb 18th 2008 2:26am by Dandruffshampoo