Final Fantasy Thread

[MasterEn]

Yes but their gain is too slow , actually that's quite impressive never played or was a fan of star wars...

so, enemies don't level up in general while playing? i saw them getting levels and job levels while playing. might just be because of the mod.
the kotor games are more of dungeons and dragons with a star wars skin pack. the best art are the moral choices, character interactions and the lore that was made canon by george lucas himself [that's how good the writing is].
if you play like a hero or jedi, it's more of the standard hero story. you're nice to people, you help them with their problems and your party members comment on your actions.
play like a sith, and you basically become a saturday morning cartoon villain twirling the most perfect curly mustache that ever existed. people react shocked that you did something only for money, not for it being the right thing to do, a couple of planets have horrible consequences from your actions if you go down the dark side. one planet becomes a full on battle gauntlet with everyone there if you pick specific actions during its main quest. you are also alone for the entirety of that last bit for that world against about 50 people, nearly all of them with force powers.
i defiantly don't want to spoil it, but if you are up for it, i would recommend the full playthrough of the first game over on the two best friends play youtube channel. it's a very good game.

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FF7 is my first FF game and I have a blockbuster FF10 but I haven't played that one yet, I gotta finish FF7 first.

how far are you in the game? we could let you know how much further you have left before the final boss.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

so, enemies don't level up in general while playing? i saw them getting levels and job levels while playing. might just be because of the mod.
the kotor games are more of dungeons and dragons with a star wars skin pack. the best art are the moral choices, character interactions and the lore that was made canon by george lucas himself [that's how good the writing is].
if you play like a hero or jedi, it's more of the standard hero story. you're nice to people, you help them with their problems and your party members comment on your actions.
play like a sith, and you basically become a saturday morning cartoon villain twirling the most perfect curly mustache that ever existed. people react shocked that you did something only for money, not for it being the right thing to do, a couple of planets have horrible consequences from your actions if you go down the dark side. one planet becomes a full on battle gauntlet with everyone there if you pick specific actions during its main quest. you are also alone for the entirety of that last bit for that world against about 50 people, nearly all of them with force powers.
i defiantly don't want to spoil it, but if you are up for it, i would recommend the full playthrough of the first game over on the two best friends play youtube channel. it's a very good game.

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how far are you in the game? we could let you know how much further you have left before the final boss.

Tactics has a dynamic difficulty enemies level up with you similar to my beloved 8.

Huh sounds interesting need to watch star wars first

 

[MasterEn]

Tactics has a dynamic difficulty enemies level up with you similar to my beloved 8.

Huh sounds interesting need to watch star wars first

okay. good to know that. i saw that there was an option in the in battle menu for each character called "ai". does this game have an auto battle system of some sort?
yeah, the original and prequel trilogy are very good, flaws and all. i would recommend watching them first, the games expect you to have a little bit of knowledge of star wars going in. everything else you need to know will be given to you in game.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

okay. good to know that. i saw that there was an option in the in battle menu for each character called "ai". does this game have an auto battle system of some sort?
yeah, the original and prequel trilogy are very good, flaws and all. i would recommend watching them first, the games expect you to have a little bit of knowledge of star wars going in. everything else you need to know will be given to you in game.

Yes auto battle personally I didn't try it I like to command the troops myself as I'm more confident in my decisions than AI from 98 japan.

Its risky but something I figured that you can do is send a spear head soldier who lures enemy into them then you strike the enemies with the rest of your units.

First I need to finish the terminator movies only 3 left before I watch something else.

 

[MasterEn]

Yes auto battle personally I didn't try it I like to command the troops myself as I'm more confident in my decisions than AI from 98 japan.

Its risky but something I figured that you can do is send a spear head soldier who lures enemy into them then you strike the enemies with the rest of your units.

First I need to finish the terminator movies only 3 left before I watch something else.

okay. i'll check it out later. might be helpful for a bit of level grinding.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

So my suffering is used to guide MasterEn as he notes down everything and ends playing like a pro on first try

 

[MasterEn]

So my suffering is used to guide MasterEn as he notes down everything and ends playing like a pro on first try
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oh, don't worry, my journey did not start off smoothly. i had 2 characters get ko'ed in the battle on the plains, ramza was still flat on his face when i got the last bandit killed. the random npc guy revived one of my other party members. i plan on finding that chocobo and getting 10, 15, 30 levels if possible. i heard about that one spot where the difficulty gets sky high with no warning. i'm going to be fully prepared for that.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

oh, don't worry, my journey did not start off smoothly. i had 2 characters get ko'ed in the battle on the plains, ramza was still flat on his face when i got the last bandit killed. the random npc guy revived one of my other party members. i plan on finding that chocobo and getting 10, 15, 30 levels if possible. i heard about that one spot where the difficulty gets sky high with no warning. i'm going to be fully prepared for that.

Early on you kinda short on money your best bet is becoming a knight I think that worked for me pretty well.

Since we are using emulators you can always save during battle before using certain skills that have high chance of missing idk if you unlocked any battle skill yet but breaking a weapon is legitimately OP with emulator save.

 

[MasterEn]

Early on you kinda short on money your best bet is becoming a knight I think that worked for me pretty well.

Since we are using emulators you can always save during battle before using certain skills that have high chance of missing idk if you unlocked any battle skill yet but breaking a weapon is legitimately OP with emulator save.

yeah, i noticed that. i was thinking of jumping over to knight, but i did see a few people discussing character growth over on gamefaqs and special characters are apparently good no matter what class they are in. it also seems like you get jp for any job that your character has access to. i might spend some time working on unlocking a few classes and getting abilities to set up some decent builds.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

yeah, i noticed that. i was thinking of jumping over to knight, but i did see a few people discussing character growth over on gamefaqs and special characters are apparently good no matter what class they are in. it also seems like you get jp for any job that your character has access to. i might spend some time working on unlocking a few classes and getting abilities to set up some decent builds.

Yes you are quite well rounded character starting with 60 brave and faith and you became more brave and faithful overall as ramza you can go mage builds or warrior builds it works both ways as you are a good frontline soldier and a decent caster.

Do remember to get the increased JP gain from thr squire job to later on get the +2 move ability high movement enables you to do a lot of maneuvers.

 

[MasterEn]

Yes you are quite well rounded character starting with 60 brave and faith and you became more brave and faithful overall as ramza you can go mage builds or warrior builds it works both ways as you are a good frontline soldier and a decent caster.

Do remember to get the increased JP gain from thr squire job to later on get the +2 move ability high movement enables you to do a lot of maneuvers.

yeah, i saw that ability and i made a bee line for it. i think most of my characters have it at the moment.
what does the bravery and faith stats do? i would guess that it affects melee and magic commands based off of playing other games.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

yeah, i saw that ability and i made a bee line for it. i think most of my characters have it at the moment.
what does the bravery and faith stats do? i would guess that it affects melee and magic commands based off of playing other games.

Basing off what it says in the help section bravery effects damage calculation the more brave the less damage taken basically brave people are good to be the meat shield role.

High faith is how good your magic is or other characters magic , accuracy of a spell and I think how effective it is basically magic stat from 7 and 8 similar to those , characters with high faith are grest casters.

I prefer a character having both high so they can be a generalist like the player with high bravery and faith ramza works for everything.

 

[MasterEn]

Basing off what it says in the help section bravery effects damage calculation the more brave the less damage taken basically brave people are good to be the meat shield role.

High faith is how good your magic is or other characters magic , accuracy of a spell and I think how effective it is basically magic stat from 7 and 8 similar to those , characters with high faith are grest casters.

I prefer a character having both high so they can be a generalist like the player with high bravery and faith ramza works for everything.

okay. i'll keep that in mind while prepping my characters. just got through the battle in the swamp. the game was insistent that ramza be ko'ed but i got him back up twice before the end. he was kneeling, but he is getting better.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

okay. i'll keep that in mind while prepping my characters. just got through the battle in the swamp. the game was insistent that ramza be ko'ed but i got him back up twice before the end. he was kneeling, but he is getting better.

What swamps??

I haven't tried it but if you die and turn into crystal/item I dont think you lose ramza is the only one unique in this im not sure if its actually that way.

 

[MasterEn]

What swamps??

I haven't tried it but if you die and turn into crystal/item I dont think you lose ramza is the only one unique in this im not sure if its actually that way.

this area. it seems to load up a swamp map. it doesn't look like it, but my characters went into murky water during the fight.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

this area. it seems to load up a swamp map. it doesn't look like it, but my characters went into murky water during the fight.

Uh yeah I don't go there much save for mandalia plains and igros castle.

 

[MasterEn]

Uh yeah I don't go there much save for mandalia plains and igros castle.

i'm still at the beginning, so i had to go there. if i can get a random battle to trigger there, i'll take some screenshots of the area.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

i'm still at the beginning, so i had to go there. if i can get a random battle to trigger there, i'll take some screenshots of the area.

Nah don't do it , its not that important I hope you are having fun in this glorified battle system of FF.

 

[MasterEn]

Nah don't do it , its not that important I hope you are having fun in this glorified battle system of FF.

i am. just got some new abilities and equipped them and i'm going to get some levels and jp before the next story battle.

 

[J.F.C]

Are any of the bonus dungeons of the GBA FF re-releases good? I always just play the original version of the games, but i've been wondering if i should also try out the GBA versions of FFV and FFVI since i think they have patches now that restore the SNES versions music so i won't have to listen to the GBA's soundchip.

 

[MasterEn]

Are any of the bonus dungeons of the GBA FF re-releases good? I always just play the original version of the games, but i've been wondering if i should also try out the GBA versions of FFV and FFVI, since i think they have patches now that restore the SNES versions music so i won't have to listen to the GBA's soundchip.

it varies between games and versions too. the psp versions of 1 and 2 have another unique dungeon not present in the gba versions. if you want, i can give you a full rundown of the first 3 gba games. i haven't played 5 yet, and i didn't get a chance to explore 5's dungeon yet.

 

[J.F.C]

it varies between games and versions too. the psp versions of 1 and 2 have another unique dungeon not present in the gba versions. if you want, i can give you a full rundown of the first 3 gba games. i haven't played 5 yet, and i didn't get a chance to explore 5's dungeon yet.

Yeah give me a qrd.

 

[MasterEn]

Yeah give me a qrd.

okay.
ff1 has 4 dungeons that each open up upon the defeat of a fiend. one for earth, fire, wind and water. it starts off with 5 floors and each dungeon adds 5 if i remember correctly. they are somewhat randomly shuffled around for each run through, but the layouts for each individual floor is the same.
each dungeon has 4 bosses; and uses bosses from other ff games. earth has the dark world bosses from 3, fire has the elemental lords from 4, 5 and 6 has some notable bosses from their games in the water and wind dungeons respectively. you will have to run through a couple of dungeons twice to fight them al and to collect the treasure chests, earth is shorter, so you have to make 4 runs through it.
the psp version has another dungeon open up when you are ready to enter the temple of fiends again for the endgame. it has a boss that changes upon how good you are at clearing the floors in it. there are 8 forms of this boss and vary in difficulty.
ff2 has in both the gba and the psp version an unlockable post game story that features 3 characters from the story along with a new 4th one. if you plan on playing this story, make sure to power up minuw, josef, and richard before they leave your party. oyu will be using them in the new story mode.
i haven't checked out the new dungeon but it should have some new weapons for each character that joins you and opens up as you proceed through the story. i plan on checking out when i get ready to play through the psp version soon.
ff4 has a new training dungeon unlocked before the final one and you have the option of swapping characters and getting them exclusive new gear in the new area that opens up at the base of mt ordeals. the post game dungeon has a new boss with an even stronger final weapon for each character and brings back the snes version of zeromus as a super boss. [he had a completely different look in the snes/easy type version]
ff5 adds a new job and dungeon after completing the game. i borrowed the game from a friend before getting to check it out, so my knowledge runs out on this. @starseeker300 just finished up a full playthrough of the game, so he should be able to fill you in much better on the extra dungeon in 5. and @Pandaprewmaster325 is very knowledgeable about each game and can help you out with 6. all i know is that a scrapped super boss is brought back for the post game dungeon in that one.
the 3d remakes of 3 and 4 also have some stuff unique to them; if you want me to, i can tell you about those as well.

 

[J.F.C]

okay
ff1 has 4 dungeons that each open up upon the defeat of a fiend. one for earht, fire, wind and water. it starts off with 5 floors and each dungeon adds 5 if i remember correctly. they are somewhat randomly shuffled around for each run through, but the layouts for each individual floor is the same.
each dungeon has 4 bosses; and uses bosses from other ff games. earth has the dark world bosses from 3, fire has the elemental lords from 4, 5 and 6 has some notable bosses from their games in the water and wind dungeons respectively. you will have to run through a couple of dungeons twice to fight them al and to collect the treasure chests, earth is shorter, so you have to make 4 runs through it.
the psp version has another dungeon open up when you are ready to enter the temple of fiends again for the endgame. it has a boss that changes upon how good you are at clearing the floors in it. there are 8 forms of this boss and vary in difficulty.
ff2 has in both the gba and the psp version an unlockable post game story that features 3 characters from the story along with a new 4th one. if you plan on playing this story, make sure to power up minuw, josef, and richard before they leave your party. oyu will be using them in the new story mode.
i haven't checked out the new dungeon but it should have some new weapons for each character that joins you and opens up as you proceed through the story. i plan on checking out when i get ready to play through the psp version soon.
ff4 has a new training dungeon unlocked before the final one and you have the option of swapping characters and getting them exclusive new gear in the new area that opens up at the base of mt ordeals. the post game dungeon has a new boss with an even stronger final weapon for each character and brings back the snes version of zeromus as a super boss. [he had a completely different look in the snes/easy type version]
ff5 adds a new job and dungeon after completing the game. i borrowed the game from a friend before getting to check it out, so my knowledge runs out on this. @starseeker300 just finished up a full playthrough of the game, so he should be able to fill you in much better on the extra dungeon in 5. and @Pandaprewmaster325 is very knowledgeable about each game and can help you out with 6. all i know is that a scrapped super boss is brought back for the post game dungeon in that one.
the 3d remakes of 3 and 4 also have some stuff unique to them; if you want me to, i can tell you about those as well.

Nah it's fine you've already done enough explaining to me. The new content does seem to be worth a new playthrough of all those games to me. Next time i do an FF marathon i'll be playing the GBA versions.

 

[MasterEn]

Nah it's fine you've already done enough explaining to me. The new content does seem to be worth a new playthrough of all those games to me. Next time i do an FF marathon i'll be playing the GBA versions.

okay. just checking. i'd say for 1 and 2, go with the psp versions because of the newer extra stuff. one boss in ff1 gets their own theme music instead of sharing a boss theme. and ff4 for the psp has the same content plus an extra bit of story from the 3d remake included. 5 and 6 are unfortunately left out of the psp library, the gba ports are the ones with the most content.
also, make sure to check out ff4 ultima, it's an extensively reworked version of ff4 but with tons of new stuff, extra bosses, a new game plus option and more. but i would play it after going through ff4 normally.