HOLY SHIT THIS GAME FUCKING BLOWS

HOLY SHIT THIS GAME FUCKING BLOWS

OH GOD IT SUCKS SO MUCH FUCKING ASS

PEOPLE JIZZ OVER HOW FUCKING GOOD THIS GAME IS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON!?

I'VE HAD TO WALK INTO INVISIBLE PATHS A HALF DOZEN TIMES, MANDATORY TO BEAT THE GAME.

THE STORM DRAGON IS THE FIRST ONE YOU FIND, BUT HE'S THE FUCKING HARDEST ONE IN THE SET!?

WHAT THE FUCK GAME FEEDS YOU THE HARDEST BOSS FIRST!? FOR FUCKS SAKES

THE ONLY GOOD SONG IS THE OVERWORLD MAP THEME, EVERY OTHER TUNE IS GARBAGE

THE COMBAT IS ALWAYS THE SAME EXACT INPUT WITH EACH BATTLE.

SURE THE STORY AND CHARACTERIZATION IS GREAT BUT WHO CARES WHEN THE BASE GAMEPLAY IS SUCH FUCKING GARBAGE!?

FUCKING SHITTING ASS BALLS I GO BACK INTO NARSHE AND THERE'S RANDOM FUCKING ENCOUNTERS HERE TOO!?

IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT SHIT HOLE ZOZO TOWN HAD RANDOM ENCOUNTERS ---STILL

THE WORLD ENDED BUT ALL THE TOWNS LOOK THE SAME ON THE INSIDE EXCEPT FOR TWO

THE AUCTION HOUSE EVEN HAS THE SAME NPCS SAYING THE SAME SHIT

FUCK THIS GAME

ECKS

FUCKIN

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Huerp can't refute you in any regard so let me sarcastically write you off without addressing any of the scathing criticism

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So, Final Fantasy thread, everyone?
What have you all been playing?
I have been replaying IX after probably over a decade of not touching it and goddamn, even in the pitiable state the background art is in that's a damn beautiful game with a great art direction.

>DEXvsSTR.webm

*Autistic screeching

This game rocks.

Did you try overlevelling? That makes the game shitty real fast. If you're underleveled it's really fun.

The tower is one of the best experiences in the series. When you finally get to the top, man? Holy FUCK.

Also Kefka is good for villains. Not too many bad guys out there who are just plain evil. He's not empathetic, you can't understand his motives, but you know, he's just plain vile! It's not his ambitions that make him evil, it's his desire to fuck up anything and everything pure about this world! Small village filled with innocent people!? poison the water supply! What? it's part of his job! Fuck you!

No I know he's fucking great

Dancing mad is an amazing song

Enduring the repetitive bullshit it takes to get to him has driven me up the fucking wall. This is almost as bad as FFIX and it's "let's pan the camera across the arena for 20 seconds before EACH SINGLE RANDOM BATTLE" bullshit

Both games suck, but IX is way worse. I coudln't give a single fuck about the entire first half of the game. They finally managed to be interesting towards the last quarter when the origin of Zidane was revealed but the queen and her black mage army was the most boring shit ever.

It takes some getting used to, I wouldn't recommend FFVI to anyone who is new to RPG's. I remember playing FFX for the first time and hating it. Along with FFVII. It took me a while to finally get into the way RPG's were handled, so I had to be babied all the way there, starting with Chrono Trigger, FFX and Secret of Mana 2. After those three, Dark Cloud 1 and 2 came, then I got into the habit of enjoying a lot of other games like Tactics and FFXIII. By the time I had played FFVI for the firs time, it was a breeze for the most part, nothing outside the opera segment felt annoying; well that and getting Gogo.

I definitely wouldn't recommend it as an RPG to start with though. It's really good as a game, but it has a lot of that "REAL RPG ACTION" people like, which can be really jarring and upsetting. Newer games tend to ditch this for more romantic and cinematic styles, so you don't really see it a lot anymore except in SMT.

don't understand the appeal of ff6 either

Fucking amazing

This common mob enemy uses an attack that is has no business being able to and one shots literally everyone in my party out of fucking nowhere

Final Fantasy VI is one of the worst rpgs I have ever played and Chrono Trigger absolutely devastates it in every fathomable category you can judge a game upon.

All of this despite coming from mostly the same people and being released originally on the same platform.

Chrono Trigger BTFO's 99% of games period.

But your complaints mostly sound like you're shit at video games.

>that UI

Gen Z get the fuck off my board

Chrono Trigger is babby's first RPG if you ask me. I love the game but every time I replay it, I always go, "why the fuck is this shit so fucking easy?"

I would definitely say FFVI is hard though. Definitely not easy.

To be fair if you're playing RPGs for the difficulty and challenge alone you have no business touching anything Square has made since maybe Final Fantasy V

nope

The world opened up and you can go anywhere in the airship

Except this random mob will one shot everyone out of nowhere unless you happen to visit this area towards the end so enjoy randomly dying.

Too many random fucking battles. Not FFVII nor VIII bothered me with the frequency of their random battles

I'm older than you but going back and playing this legendary video game because I never got around to it

Prior to the world's destruction opening up the only hard part was the frequency of the random battles grating on my fucking nerves and the Locke sections where you have to walk into invisible pathways to escape the town and progress the game. The fuck were they thinking, invisible paths are for secret items, not mandatory for progressing.


Not only is the UI garbo but the game won't render in 1080p

One of the worst ports to pc I've ever seen. Completely shit on by steam reviews.

Chrono Trigger is one of those games that gets insanely easy on subsequent playthroughs. Every fight is more like a puzzle than a brawl, so if you show up prepared nothing really poses any real challenge.

LOCKES THEME

>so I had to be babied all the way there, starting with Chrono Trigger, FFX and Secret of Mana 2.

It's too bad Mario RPG was released so late in the SNES cycle, that's probably the definitive "Square RPG for Newbies" game with Mario and a somewhat more involved storyline with "Save the Princess".

What's a game that gets insanely harder on subsequent playthroughs

You're playing a relic after experiencing roughly 2 decades of game design evolution. Learn to enjoy games at face value.

Also Locke's pathways were never invisible are you literally blind?

>One of the worst ports to pc I've ever seen. Completely shit on by steam reviews.

Play the SNES or GBA version instead. Only differences is translation script and GBA has extra content towards the end of the game

You have to walk behind a book case and when you're in the basement go through walls assuming doorways are there (right before you first find Celes)

I started with Paper Mario funnily enough.

That game was OK.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup creates a ghost of your character every time you die that will try to kill you

Also competitive online multiplayer games like League of Legends

Diablo II
Final Fantasy X
Shin Megami Tensei 3 and others
Odin Sphere
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Disgaea
A lot of Tales games

The game has trained you to test out and explore the terrain at that point though. How did you manage to get that far without your first instinct being to look for hidden passageways?

>I would definitely say FFVI is hard though.
The fuck am I reading.

This game was great. Also there's a bunch of random battles to make it more difficult. I bet you didn't even have the ATB on and on the highest speed and even still you're complaining about the difficulty.

In what way has this game in particular trained the player to test out the terrain

You explore every game

Even in Super Metroid there were invisible sections you could walk through, walls you could walk through. Of course you'd eventually do it, but when you're being stopped by a random battle every 4 to 20 steps the game slaps you for daring to be inefficient by slowing you down that much more.

A glut of random battles is not difficult but tedious and boring.

Aside from doing Chocobo Carnival stuff in XV, last one I played was VI, I stopped playing after seeing Terra and Sabin's adventures while the party was split up, for some reason I have a hard time getting into VI, it just doesn't interest me like all the others I've played.

I'm still waiting for V-IX to get the X and VII treatment for PS4! Zodiac age will do for now, gonna get it day 1 I'm excited. Never beat that game I got stuck at the judge.

It's definitely not easy, unless you overlevel which in that case, every RPG is easy.

OP may be baiting or retarded but this game does have a lot of huge flaws.

I hated having a party member switched for some other fucks after I invested levels and items into them. Happened constantly.

the magicite system encouraged me to keep switching the +2 strength and magic ones between my characters constantly. I would keep changing who had which magicite based on how close they were to leveling which was the most annoying thing in the world.

also the attack button is useless. Every character is pretty much going to use an ability. Never saw a reason to use anything besides chainsaw for Edward entire game. Only endgame when you get the multi hit scroll does attack because worth while.

VI is interesting in the way that the story branches and it allows you to do the scenarios in whatever order. It's weird how short some of them are when compared to the others though.

I'm definitely going to get XII as well if I have the chance, I have never played XII properly and I'm more or less giving that as my last chance to do it. Especially considering Zodiac Age is based on the International Job System version, if I'm not mistaken.

Even if you run from a lot of fights and conservatively level the game is a pushover that vast majority of the time.

Breaking rule 3, enjoy your ban.

yeah, min-maxing is a nightmare in this game

True, but I guess I am being biased because I'm talking about all the other sidequests and other fights that you don't have to do.

I just started III on DS alongside Dragon Quest 9.
When the fuck does III get good? It's slow as hell to fight.

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When you play the NES version. It's a bit of a weak game either way, though. Requiring that you cast toad or mini on your whole party to enter dungeons just isn't a fun mechanic in any way. V was a much improved implementation of the job system.