I played most of the mainline FF games Because my sister's a huge fan. I really loved Tactics; probably the most tightly plotted Jrpg's i've played: The tactical gameplay wasn't that bad either. i've always had the itch to emulate the tactics ogre games since.

Weird enough Yoshitaka Amano's art got me into drawing at a very young age, way before i owned a video game console. A public broadcast channel down here had small commercial breaks featuring many artists and illustrators, and one of them featured a lot of Amano's art. I think his work was one of the first things i searched when i gained internet access.