Final Fantasy Megathread

[Deleted member 560402]

I would just play the og. Hacks for previous FF's make sense because, while good, there are many frustrating/grindy elements about those games, for example, as much as I love FFT (my favorite), some JP reqs are way too much and it hurts the fun.

I can't recall anything in FF7 that felt annoying/unnecessary, gameplay wise. Maybe chocobo breeding? But that isn't that bad, and I recall kind of fun. But I just beat ruby to get my gold chocobo now :P

i like all the little mini games.

 

[Viviana Santos]

yeah then they made Dark Cloud which was also good!

Dark Cloud was not developed by Sony, it was developed by Level-5, Sony only published the game.

 

[DanCalibur]

Congratulations! My copy used to crash just before the final boss, more than 20 years later and I still haven't finished it

 

[smokeyviolet]

But did you beat the 3 Weapon monsters? Ultimate weapon, Ruby weapon and Emerald weapon. Ultimate and Ruby were handy enough to beat after a small few tries but the real beeeyotch was the Emerald weapon. Side quests, but have you really finished FF7? Emerald is a LONG fight with a lot of tweaking of materia, etc.. When ye see the bastard fizzle out after the last hit, it's quite a rush.

I definitely could've done way more than I did but it had been a month and I really wanted to move on to crisis core

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I would just play the og. Hacks for previous FF's make sense because, while good, there are many frustrating/grindy elements about those games, for example, as much as I love FFT (my favorite), some JP reqs are way too much and it hurts the fun.

I can't recall anything in FF7 that felt annoying/unnecessary, gameplay wise. Maybe chocobo breeding? But that isn't that bad, and I recall kind of fun. But I just beat ruby to get my gold chocobo now :P

I'd say that the chocobos are not super necessary. But I also hated trying to catch them so I never breeded them. They're cute in the remake though

 

[Bonkers225]

I cannot count the times I cried playing ff7

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I've been meaning to look into it! It looks fun :]

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I would but I think my computer would explode

Not talking about the full remake, but the PSX hack that's in Repo.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Not talking about the full remake, but the PSX hack that's in Repo.

That one is really good

 

[freebie#47]

The Legend of Dragoon wasn't developed by Square, the game was developed by Sony and most of the developers worked on games such as Omega Boost, so you're wrong.

-_- you do know FF7 was a collab with both Squaresoft and Sony(mostly after their issues with Nintendo at the time)...the sony team that did ff7 also did legend of dragoon. This fact has been known gaming history.

You should also warn you need to be ready to abuse save states for attack timing... Or maybe I just really suck

You and me both. I think the water girl and the purple martial artist had the least amount of combo inputs for attacks, but i haven't played it since early 2000. Sad to say i played on real hardware so no save states for me.

 

[Viviana Santos]

-_- you do know FF7 was a collab with both Squaresoft and Sony(mostly after their issues with Nintendo at the time)...the sony team that did ff7 also did legend of dragoon. This fact has been known gaming history.

Okay, so tell me which guys at Sony worked on Final Fantasy VII.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Okay, so tell me which guys at Sony worked on Final Fantasy VII.

I did

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I did

Me too.

 

[bigstinkie]

i believe a few sony employees did assist with the of the initial development of the prerendered cutscenes in the original final fantasy vii - not in any sort of major way, but i believe they were some consulting done at the time regard how they were rendered or the technology in general

 

[Viviana Santos]

i believe a few sony employees did assist with the of the initial development of the prerendered cutscenes in the original final fantasy vii - not in any sort of major way, but i believe they were some consulting done at the time regard how they were rendered or the technology in general

Oh! thanks for the explanation.

 

[diapered]

I'd say that the chocobos are not super necessary. But I also hated trying to catch them so I never breeded them.

True, they are not necessary, but my rpg ocd requires me to get the best equipment/items, and I can't just not get the best summon in the game >_< My first playthrough, I didn't know how to beat ruby so had to breed But it was still fun, racing your own chocobo was pretty cool.

You and me both. I think the water girl and the purple martial artist had the least amount of combo inputs for attacks, but i haven't played it since early 2000.

Using rose is suffering

 

[bigstinkie]

truly the playstation represented the peak of beauty

 

[Bomberman]

I need to replay and study FFXVI ( I just bought it on steam and its been years since I played, never beat the DLC either) before I make an article analyzing it's glorious story.

Final Fantasy XVI- Somber and Meaningful story with epic scale held back by easy repetitive gameplay.

While I am perturbed by the ease of difficulty in Final Fantasy XVI there is no mistaking the quality in the presentation. The visuals are a herculean feat, and the story is a sublime concoction of surreal and melancholic themes. The music is an epic blaring fiesta to behold. Final Fantasy XVI...

retrogametalk.com

I just did a review on it. I need to go back and play VIII

The only FF games I beat were, IX, X, VIIR, XVI and I enjoyed all.

I played 2 discs of VII, some of VIII (love its aesthetics but the story puzzles me), some of XII and XIII.

 

[freebie#47]

Using rose is suffering

And censored in the NA released...apparently anything blood was an instant M rating so it was changed to black goo....

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

For me FF7 never clicked for me .

It was interesting atleast but i prefer the 16- and 8-bit games more . Especially FF4 was more akin to my taste.

Grandia was my first step into JRPGs . Awesome game but one i beat way too many times and am burned out from it .

Another huge favourite of mine that i found recently on the Snes was Metal Max returns .
Everything in that post-apocalyptic JRPG just perfectly alined to make likings and its awesome . Check it of you can and want .

 

[job32]

Myself, I gave Metal Max a go. If I was 20 years younger, I would definately have put in the effort to get past where I got stuck/confused. There is a lot to figuring out the mechanics of the game. It did grab me more than a lot of games but I saved it and started playing another game. When I came back to it I just was more stuck, lol.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Myself, I gave Metal Max a go. If I was 20 years younger, I would definately have put in the effort to get past where I got stuck/confused. There is a lot to figuring out the mechanics of the game. It did grab me more than a lot of games but I saved it and started playing another game. When I came back to it I just was more stuck, lol.

Yeah , it has its quirks and doesnt explain everything to understand the systems , but i love that it is so open and doesnt force anything while it has no real story that limits the exploration of its setting and its world . The NPCs give great information about stuff that can be found in the overworld and even some secrets . It has the same approach that the Pokemon games had in the first 3 gens , for me atleast .

And for this game i did used sometimes a walkthrough to know what i must do for some bounties and how the weight system works .

Im a sucker for secrets , non-linear exploration and mysterious optional areas .

 

[job32]

Yeah , it has its quirks and doesnt explain everything to understand the systems , but i love that it is so open and doesnt force anything while it has no real story that limits the exploration of its setting and its world . The NPCs give great information about stuff that can be found in the overworld and even some secrets . It has the same approach that the Pokemon games had in the first 3 gens , for me atleast .

And for this game i did used sometimes a walkthrough to know what i must do for some bounties and how the weight system works .

Im a sucker for secrets , non-linear exploration and mysterious optional areas .

Yeah, maybe a walkthrough may have helped, but I feel guilty using them, lol. I have used them in the past and they are like a drug pulling you back when you get stuck. Probably not a good habit.

 

[nonesensefck]

I hear the Final Fantasy Main Theme and I get teary eyed. I make an effort to not listen to it in public. It reminds me of all of those adventures I had in FF9 when I was a kid. I love that game and specially the soundtrack.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Yeah, maybe a walkthrough may have helped, but I feel guilty using them, lol. I have used them in the past and they are like a drug pulling you back when you get stuck. Probably not a good habit.

You got a good point and i agree .

Somehow i wasnt really stucked in the game except about the water-cave , getting the Lockpick and getting the buggy .

Yeah and many items arent explained what those do which i used an guide fot to know it . Except i would use it but it wasnt still clearly explained and i thought i could waste them instantly through the use-option . But thats old JRPG design back then.

 

[fmsynthetic]

You should play PANZER DRAGOON SAGA .

Play Xenogears. Become awakened.

 

[Deleted member 767345]

I took a long break from it but now I have started it again it is actually an interesting remake of the original too. But of course that is a matter of taste and you can invest money in it but you don't have to. I have come a long way so far without investing any money before someone starts complaining again ! Do you also have experience with this ?

 

[MasterEn]

got a new clipboard that's about a foot wide and nearly 1 and a half feet tall. copy paper and cardstock fits on it very nicely. i can turn the paper around almost just like on my drawing tablet.
made a drawing using some pens and pencils that i got some time ago.
i like mixing both of those together; there's a lot of potential for some interesting drawings to be made.