Final Fantasy Megathread - People here, it sounds like sickness

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NikkolasKing posted:

So as I near the end of my second FFXIII run, I'm wondering something.

Which is the hardest FF game? We were talking about game difficulty and stuff the other page and while I know that no FF is really that hard, some have to be more challenging than others for one reason or another.

I would ask which is the easiest but it seems plain to me that VIII is the only choice. Or maybe II.

Then again, game difficulty is the most subjective thing in the world it seems. Ask ten people about how hard a game was and you'll get ten different answers.

Easiest would be X since encounters are geared for certain characters. Hardest would have the most archaic systems to wear you down.

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# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 09:55

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Kanfy posted:

Not sure what you mean by that, but X is definitely not the easiest game by any stretch as it has a number of pretty harsh bossfights and some of the most debilitating status effects in the series.

VIII is most likely the easiest one simply because it allows you to spam Limit Breaks so easily even if you don't otherwise smash it apart. Tactics Advance is incredibly easy as well if you count it.

After gaming for 20 years at that point, the PS2 era games did not seem so hard as when I was playing the early titles as a dumb kid. 30 years and having to select a potion 100 times is way more daunting when I have better mechanics to spend my time on.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2016 21:41

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The thing you should know about FF2, are that shields increase agility, which leads to you being able to better dodge attacks to the point where you would be taking 400 damage, versus 6000+ without using them. Heavy armor increases your strength, which can make fighting the Captains easier and to increase your HP/MP. The casting cost of spells is not even an issue with Swap if you have one spell to focus on building MP.
Having 8 evasion and 10 Magic Block makes every fight a breeze.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 00:18

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I never played the NES version.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 01:26

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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Probably FF13, because people can't grind and outlevel / brute force everything until the end. And even then you can still lose (lol Orphan).

You can't even beat FF13-2 because the dev fanfic can never lose in a canon fight.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2016 03:29

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Super Ninja Fish posted:

Whenever I'm losing a battle in FF12 and I have to run away, I then have to run around in circles as my MP slowly builds up and the characters cast cure on each other. I must be doing something wrong because the game can't actually expect you to do that. Someone wouldn't possibly have thought that was a good idea. Would they?

It is almost as if you are playing a roguelike.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 01:58

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Blackbelt Bobman posted:

It's not the real FFIX experience unless you unsuccessfully steal from Hill Gigas for an hour before quitting out of frustration.

This, but for half the boss battles. If I could, I would buff steal's success rate.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 14:53

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"As some may recall, the story of Final Fantasy XIII was spread out across three separate, complete games. What this means is that each Final Fantasy VII Remake �episode� will be on par with a Final Fantasy XIII game in terms of content."

Full of confidence in this one.

Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 6, 2016

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 19:20

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Pretty much.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 22:07

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Jenova infected animals are all over the place in the deep north, far as we know. Didn't matter what happened to Jenova in the crater.

Tempo 119 posted:

Surprise twist at the end of episode 1, Aerith is saved by the goddess Etro

It would be those people from that cell phone game.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2016 22:41

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widespread posted:

fal'Sbian

fal'Cis

# ¿ Apr 8, 2016 02:42

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corn in the bible posted:

YEP

It's me, Chara.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2016 22:54

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ApplesandOranges posted:

I imagine it's a little doable in IX, but you'd need to either give yourself an out for certain parts or bring lots of Potions otherwise; for example in the second Plant Cage fight, neither Zidane or Steiner have offensive commands, so you'd have to wait for Zidane to go into Trance while chucking lots of Potions at the team and Garnet. Most other fights can be dealt with using Trance or just having characters like Vivi in the party. Also means you have to let Freya or Vivi win the Festival of the Hunt.

Zidane would be nigh-useless til Disc 3 though.

Zidane should be stealing a ton of useful poo poo.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 00:55

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NikkolasKing posted:

So I'm playing FFVI and I got a couple questions related to the Job Class talk from a few pages ago.

1. So everyone has about the same basic stats? Because Locke is clearly a Thief but he's kinda like Zidane in that he hits really hard so he's more of a Thief/Warrior.
2. Is Celes a Paladin? Kind of reminds me of Cecil, to be honest.

Also, these were completely made-up and all but when we were assigning Jobs to FFXIII Characters, I didn't know Sage was a thing. Now I do, I'm pretty sure Hope is one. He really doesn't fit either Black or White Mage because he's amazing in both.

Everyone has their own variety of stats. A couple of them are obvious stinkers. The newer releases did give them flavor job classes. I think Celes was some sort of Rune Knight and the Berserker is obvious.

General Morden posted:

hey

the 9999 damage cheat makes it so stealing has a 100% chance of stealing items

hope this helps

That saves around five hours of boss bullshit.

Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 18, 2016

# ¿ Apr 18, 2016 22:50

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Cocksmith posted:

you know, replaying ff9, Zidane feels a little less "dashing rogue" and a little more "sexual predator".

How was that not the first thing to come to mind?

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 00:32

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Mega64 posted:

He's overcompensating a lot because he's a stupid teenager. It doesn't forgive his lovely behavior, but at least he does mature from it later on.

He did commit genocide early in his life.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2016 16:53

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fruitpunch posted:

Blitzball is a bad and unfun game: http://youtu.be/w0c7j46VJg8

I still keep playing it though because theres something so satisfying about it when its going your way.

The story of my experience.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2016 02:02

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Super No Vacancy posted:

blitzball was good just it gets way too easy too quick

If you don't leave the game, the other teams will never rubber band to your level.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2016 05:46

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Gamesfreak13563 posted:

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/2...-spell-useless/

Did he also work on Ultima in FFT?

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 01:24

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Square could do no wrong.

# ¿ May 1, 2016 15:26

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Xenogears is loving awesome and the chairs narration leads to a giant robot piloting a massive robot, that fights a larger robot.

Sakurazuka posted:

And then they squandered all their money on a dumb movie and got taken over by Enix

Hard to believe SE would not have existed if TSW did any worse.

Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 21:16 on May 1, 2016

# ¿ May 1, 2016 21:12

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corn in the fridge posted:

the only reason anyone ever liked xenogears ever was because it was evangelion the rpg complete with hot red head anime NAZI babe

Excuse me.

# ¿ May 4, 2016 16:50

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Mega64 posted:

Where are the other hockey teams?

They ate them.

# ¿ May 4, 2016 23:00

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bloodychill posted:

After all this hockey chat, I do hope there's a scene in ff15 where Noctis and co have to beat some dudes at bball to earn cred for some mission.

Disgaea 2 has you play a baseball game with the Prinny team. It goes to hell when you remember to pick them up and throw them at their team mates to blow them up.

# ¿ May 6, 2016 16:50

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So it did.

# ¿ May 6, 2016 23:05

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ApplesandOranges posted:

I can't actually remember, was it ever explained why it's perpetually dark in Midgar? Even in the upper areas of the city it's universally night.

Because Shinra.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 02:23

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It's only cheating if you get caught.

# ¿ May 12, 2016 22:32

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Baal posted:

Brave Fencer Musashi has better voice acting than FFX

The first hour was amazing.

# ¿ May 13, 2016 21:51

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Gologle posted:

By the way, about two weeks ago tidbits of gameplay from that Game Informer article I talked about before was released, so you can see for yourself what I read. The FPS looks overall smoother than Duscae, like the article said, but even in the video you can see some stuttering, in particular when he's on the boardwalk, which I called. It's unclear how much optimizing they will be able to do on the game before it comes release time, so I'm thinking FPS stuttering will remain a problem throughout the game just by virtue of how vast the scope of the game is supposed to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njWA_O2UKI

Not like the latest consoles have the excuse of being a decade old with ancient hardware. Current consoles shouldn't have so much of an issue with 5 year old PC hardware.
I doubt a 970 will be able to get to max settings if it gets a PC release, because FF porting.

# ¿ May 15, 2016 00:52

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Sakurazuka posted:

lol I have like 300 games on Steam dude. So far no-one has come up with anything other than more fps and comparing things to last gen consoles.

That is like second year Steam ownership.

Can't forget the modding. Want to play a different kind of game? I doubt anyone played a Space Harrier knockoff mod on the console games, but multiple genres of games have been modded into a Space Harrier clone on the PC.

# ¿ May 15, 2016 17:21

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NikkolasKing posted:

The translation is not the problem and has never been the problem. I don't speak Japanese and I never had a problem understanding the plot or appreciating teh characters. gently caress, even people who did understand Japanese thought things like Jenova was controlling Sephiroth. Then the Ultimania Omega shot that down but whatever.

I blame the years since they played it as well as misrepresentations in things like Kingdom Hearts, Advent Children and Dissidia.

What is this about Ultimania?

# ¿ May 19, 2016 22:24

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bloodychill posted:

I honestly enjoy localizations where poo poo gets made up. For good games with decent stories, it can suck but if a game or anime is fluff trash with bad writing and they have the blessing of the original developer, I say go hog-wild.

Most Funimation dubs?

# ¿ May 25, 2016 16:34

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Mega64 posted:

Except when Faris is involved.

Double spoilers. Why would you do this?

# ¿ May 27, 2016 04:29

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A smiley face high-fiving another offscreen.

# ¿ May 28, 2016 14:14

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Electric Phantasm posted:

More World of Final Fantasy screenshots here.

Why do the characters have stubs for limbs?

# ¿ May 30, 2016 21:20

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Any mention that chibi dolls game will be ported to Steam, in that site?

# ¿ May 30, 2016 21:32

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Mr. Fortitude posted:

Has this been posted yet? Looks like audio replacement is a thing for FF X PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-RpYn6sfk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWY2_cDH3ms
No laugh better than a clown's.

# ¿ May 31, 2016 15:59

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Mega64 posted:

In FF3DS you ram an airship into a boulder to blow it up and don't Game Over, and that's the game where you can Game Over in a random battle before you get to do anything.

The same airship in FF3 loving explodes and your guys are like, welp.

# ¿ May 31, 2016 22:50

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The White Dragon posted:

You bought a game with SaGa, specific caps, in the title. This is like going to a gun range and knowingly sitting next to the guy with an illegally-modded fully automatic assault rifle and complaining that you keep getting tagged with hot brass

Don't diss the burp guns. They are really loving fun to use, in a private setting.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2016 05:19

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# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 09:55

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NikkolasKing posted:

And so I'm wondering...is there a wrong way to play an RPG? And I don't mean something simple like taking an hour to beat the first boss, I mean playing it "sub optimally." It's one reason I really dislike action games or action RPGs like Star Ocean. You get really competitive freaks who laugh at you if you take too long or play on easy and even the games themselves can poo poo on you. They don't do that in Final Fantasies besides XIII.

There is a bird boss in Wild Arms 3 that hits your characters with an ailment that causes them to explode if they took an action. It seems you can reflect it away, completely trivializing the fight, but I always to let the affected guys blow up then revive them, so the whole party doesn't explode. It is very hard.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2016 14:58

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