Mr. Revolution
The One and Only
I found this forum by chance today. Much to my surprise, it had several interesting threads containing intelligent conversation with complete sentences and proper syntax--something of a rarity these days. I have long believed the intelligent conversation to be dead on Final Fantasy sites; you've happily proven me wrong.
A little about myself: I have been a fan of Final Fantasy since playing FFVI (or FFIII as it was called) on the SNES. Although I consider FFX to be my "favorite" (it's the one I've played the most times all the way through), I love most of the games in the series despite some of their shortcomings. My affinity for these games was not shared by my friends in the old days. Many of the kids in my schools never played the games and expressed no interest in them. They either enjoyed platformers or FPS games, and lost interest whenever I attempted to discuss the complexity of the FF plots. My college days saw little change other than a friend that watched his little cousin play through FFXII.
Indeed, outside of online communities, it's been rather difficult to find FF fans. Recently, I've taken to crafting fans out of my friends by sitting them down to watch me play. It was the only way to get them to understand the greatness of the franchise and dispel the myth that almost everyone seems to have: that the games are sequential continuations of one-another. I found that many people are turned off to the series because they fear picking up FFXIII without having played FFs I-XII, believing that they would be at a terrible disadvantage plot-wise. Now that my friends understand the independent structure of the characters, stories, and gameplay, they're more open to the franchise and have even purchased some of the earlier games.
Unfortunately, they are still greenhorns, so it isn't particularly stimulating to discuss with them Lightning's radical shift in behavior between XIII and XIII-2, or marvel at the irony in FFVIII where Seifer looks to Laguna as a role model whereas Squall sees him as a moron. Hence what brought me here, lol.
Aside from the FF aspect of my life, I'm also a fan of various animes, mangas, movies and books. Whenever I'm not playing Mass Effect 3 with my friends, I enjoy building Gundam models and lending my voice to fandubbing projects. I'm also a political scientist, so I spend the rest of my time writing and giving speeches on foreign and domestic policies.
Anyway, that's enough of an introduction for now. I'm off to go read some of the many intriguing threads on this site.
A little about myself: I have been a fan of Final Fantasy since playing FFVI (or FFIII as it was called) on the SNES. Although I consider FFX to be my "favorite" (it's the one I've played the most times all the way through), I love most of the games in the series despite some of their shortcomings. My affinity for these games was not shared by my friends in the old days. Many of the kids in my schools never played the games and expressed no interest in them. They either enjoyed platformers or FPS games, and lost interest whenever I attempted to discuss the complexity of the FF plots. My college days saw little change other than a friend that watched his little cousin play through FFXII.
Indeed, outside of online communities, it's been rather difficult to find FF fans. Recently, I've taken to crafting fans out of my friends by sitting them down to watch me play. It was the only way to get them to understand the greatness of the franchise and dispel the myth that almost everyone seems to have: that the games are sequential continuations of one-another. I found that many people are turned off to the series because they fear picking up FFXIII without having played FFs I-XII, believing that they would be at a terrible disadvantage plot-wise. Now that my friends understand the independent structure of the characters, stories, and gameplay, they're more open to the franchise and have even purchased some of the earlier games.
Unfortunately, they are still greenhorns, so it isn't particularly stimulating to discuss with them Lightning's radical shift in behavior between XIII and XIII-2, or marvel at the irony in FFVIII where Seifer looks to Laguna as a role model whereas Squall sees him as a moron. Hence what brought me here, lol.
Aside from the FF aspect of my life, I'm also a fan of various animes, mangas, movies and books. Whenever I'm not playing Mass Effect 3 with my friends, I enjoy building Gundam models and lending my voice to fandubbing projects. I'm also a political scientist, so I spend the rest of my time writing and giving speeches on foreign and domestic policies.
Anyway, that's enough of an introduction for now. I'm off to go read some of the many intriguing threads on this site.
Hope you like it here.
