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Oh, VIII has some of the best music of the entire series. No doubt. I loved the beginning of this game. The Garden was great, the military concept was fun, but then they let Squall develop as a character, and it all went down hill from there for me. I actually didn't mind the battle system. I was fine with drawing magic and junctioning it to stats. I dug a lot of stuff about VIII, but I just can't get past those twists. They're absolutely heinous.
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I agree with you about that. everything was fine until that whole--"we were here together at an important time of our lives, but we forgot..." WTF?! Talk about contrived. (Although "Max Steel" paid homage to the game's Fisherman's Horizon crash scene--kind of funny...)
Anyway--on topic.
Does "Lord of the Rings" for the SNES count as RPG? If it does, then that and Link to the Past are the two games that got me hooked into the genre. Unfortunately, I didn't finish LotR because it had some weird glitch, but I was hooked. I've played LttP, OoT, Majora's Mask, and Four Sword Adventures, and LttP remains my favorite. I didn't discover Final Fantasy until VII, when it was recommended to me by a friend after I got my PSX.
Now, the weirdest introduction to a game series has to by mine to Suikoden. No referrals, no watching people play, and no reviews. I saw the cover art for the game, picked it up, and thought--"Wow--based on Chinese legend. I'm going to get this." And the rest is history.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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