Final Fantasy Thread

[Pandaprewmaster325]

oh, no, no, no, no. it's not pathetic anymore in this version. it gets 4 actions per round, and it has minions this time. it has particle beam [ its the same attack in the nes version, just different name] with lightning [hits everyone], bad breath, protect, haste and bitch slaps to round out its arsenal of attacks, and they can occur in any order without any restrictions or time delays.
it's lv 60 with 199,999 hp.

Sounds absolutely crazy! And ripe for challenge

 

[MasterEn]

Sounds absolutely crazy! And ripe for challenge

oh, then you'll love the hidden super boss. it's lv 81, same hp, attacks four times a round, all attacks hit everyone and it knows meteor.

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oh, and the player's guide says that it's normal attacks inflect debuffs upon hit.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

oh, and the player's guide says that it's normal attacks inflect debuffs upon hit.

Those are fun, I like bosses that make me change my strat than be a giant HP sponge you can leave on auto battle for the first hour before it really gets interesting.

 

[MasterEn]

Those are fun, I like bosses that make me change my strat than be a giant HP sponge you can leave on auto battle for the first hour before it really gets interesting.

yeah, it also gains a new attack at the halfway point. it just swings it's giant sword and hits everyone in the party with it. the player's guide recommends being lv 82 [one level above it's] as the absolute minimum level but encourages higher levels for better results.

 

[Urpazurpa]

Interesting. Without getting too off-topic can you play the second without knowing the story to the first? Even if the gameplay's better I'd probably rather see the story from the beginning.

not that i rememver, it's been a long wile scince i played it, but i rememver having continuity bettwen them, regardless both games are extreamlly fun (i'm going to be honest i just came here to talk about world of final fantasy and how much i love that game, but hey recomending bravely default, is something i happy to do too)

 

[starseeker300]

not that i rememver, it's been a long wile scince i played it, but i rememver having continuity bettwen them, regardless both games are extreamlly fun (i'm going to be honest i just came here to talk about world of final fantasy and how much i love that game, but hey recomending bravely default, is something i happy to do too)

I really liked bravely Default overall. though I think the second half could have been condensed to take half the time it did

Spoiler: Bravely Default spoilers for the second half of the game

also screw Airy. Most despicable villain in gaming ive seen so far

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Some little details about FF5 that i like:

1-bartz sorcerer design is very reminiscent of minwu or mindu from FF2

2-bartz job as the dragoon also looks very similar to kain from FF4

3-faris ninja design is reminiscent of FF3 ninja color and design.

4-each character has a unique waiting to attack animation depending on the job this is most noticeable with reina different poses when she is told to do move she can have an angry or mean looking face as summoner for example , faris also has this the dancer job has different wait animation from the theif as the theif she places one hand on her waist and the other hand covering her mouth.

5-each character has a different dancing animation , bartz dancing animation shows someone who is alright in dancing , reina dancing animation is so smooth and flawless showing she is a very skilled dancer , i haven't seen galuf dancing animation but i seen krile and her "dance" is more like a cute 360 degrees attempt at dancing , and my favorite is faris her dancing animation is so awkward like she isn't used at all to doing feminine things like dancing it speaks peak personality man....

 

[Sheepy765]

Final Fantasy XV might have my favorite soundtrack in the series, holy moly.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Final Fantasy XV might have my favorite soundtrack in the series, holy moly.

XV means 15 right?

 

[Sheepy765]

I know I posted it in my status already but I made a playlist containing every Final Fantasy Soundtrack i could find on Spotify and it feels right to put it here too.

 

[MasterEn]

XV means 15 right?

yeah, XV = 15.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Dunno mate, FFXV allowed me to buy soundtracks of the rest of the series to play as I rolled in my awesome whip. And did I sacrifice 1 slot for the mp3 player? Yes, yes I did.

 

[starseeker300]

XV means 15 right?

yeah, its roman numerals

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

So I had few ideas for FF2 memes sadly i don't have the skills to make it into a meme video so I will have to make few compromises

Spoiler: Final Fantasy 2 meme complation

Firion when a character dies:

Me on my way to the church after Maria got hit once:

How guy communicating with the animals sounds:

Leila on her way to barge into the princess room to save Firion ass

Me wondering how minwu got past all the gurdians in the mage tower:

Gordon at the beginning of the game:

Gordon at the end of the game:

Firion when he 1 shots the emperor with masamune and level 8 berserk (dude was talking about how great he is or something)

"oh a door surely it has a chest wait why I'm i in middle of the room?"

Gareth after getting back home expecting a welcome back ceremony:

Leon not getting convicted after committing the most horrid of atrocities:

When you reach the sad part of the world music:

Firion after princess hilda turns into a lamia queen instead of getting him laid:

Pov: you have entered pandemonium castle and the theme kicks in:

Literally cid 0.0001 seconds after being completely fine:

I wanted to have few gifs with Firion bandana on the guys head but Idk how to do that , also had an idea of "strongest palamecian soldier vs weakest rebel soldier with this picture as the template

Problem is i wanted the rebel helmet and few photoshop changes to the guy on the left serving as the depiction of palamecian soldiers with red eyes and some other stuff this meme only works with photoshop man....

 

[starseeker300]

FF2 is genuinely good (at least the dawn of souls version which is the version I played). And while I understand the people who say it is the worse mainline FF game, I also still disagree and would say they clearly havent played FF3, but thats about FF3 not FF2. The game tried out a lot of different things and was very experimental, some stuff hit and has stuck with the series to this very day. Other stuff didn't.


Overall I'd say FF2 is misunderstood. I hear the SaGa games are inspired by it so I might try out one of those at some point

 

[MasterEn]

FF2 is genuinely good (at least the dawn of souls version which is the version I played). And while I understand the people who say it is the worse mainline FF game, I also still disagree and would say they clearly havent played FF3, but thats about FF3 not FF2. The game tried out a lot of different things and was very experimental, some stuff hit and has stuck with the series to this very day. Other stuff didn't.


Overall I'd say FF2 is misunderstood. I hear the SaGa games are inspired by it so I might try out one of those at some point

i've played both. 2 has a better story, game mechanics are on par with each other. the rabtoons video on ff3 is the best part of ff3.

 

[Cantarella]

ff2's plot is pretty wacky in a real entertaining way, yeah. always felt like the 'wauauuurgugh i have to equip 30000 pounds of armor and get hit by a slime for seventeen hours to even survive' sentiment was overblown.

 

[MasterEn]

ff2's plot is pretty wacky in a real entertaining way, yeah. always felt like the 'wauauuurgugh i have to equip 30000 pounds of armor and get hit by a slime for seventeen hours to even survive' sentiment was overblown.

it kind of is. i checked out the nes version a few years ago, and it had a set up like quest 64, where the individual stats had exp bars, so you could see how close a stat was to leveling up, so you would have an idea of when it levels up. that's not present in any other version. and the later versions are far more random with stat boosts. you can fight 3 singular goblins and get 4 stats upgraded, even for characters who didn't get a turn; but spend 20 minutes stat grinding and get one boost for one character.
the stats are supposed to increase more with stronger enemies, but there is nothing to stop players from powering up at the starting town for 10 hours. the nes and psx versions also had a mechanic where stats would weaken if not powered up after a certain amount of time. this was removed in the gba and psp versions.

 

[Zarathusta]

I only like the pixel remaster of ff2 as it gets rid of the tedium.
this theme really suits the story as well.

 

[Sheepy765]

I only like the pixel remaster of ff2 as it gets rid of the tedium.
this theme really suits the story as well.

I got rid of the tedium by removing all my characters’ equipment and boom! No grinding for levels or money!

 

[snes9x]

Dunno mate, FFXV allowed me to buy soundtracks of the rest of the series to play as I rolled in my awesome whip. And did I sacrifice 1 slot for the mp3 player? Yes, yes I did.

I liked listening to Balamb Garden theme on repeat driving around pretending I was playing a good game

Also I played XV on the base PS4 and the load times were so bad it was legit faster just to drive some places than fast travel

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

FF2 is genuinely good (at least the dawn of souls version which is the version I played). And while I understand the people who say it is the worse mainline FF game, I also still disagree and would say they clearly havent played FF3, but thats about FF3 not FF2. The game tried out a lot of different things and was very experimental, some stuff hit and has stuck with the series to this very day. Other stuff didn't.


Overall I'd say FF2 is misunderstood. I hear the SaGa games are inspired by it so I might try out one of those at some point

I don't hate FF2 problem is the game drops the ball on every big plot point the game story was building up some epic stuff then drops it immediately after , you hatch a wind drake egg? Oh guess what? You can't ride it and can only use it twice throughout the game..... Seriously square? Why not give us a dragon to ride around the map with?? The emperor design is rather awesome but ends up being too easy to kill and an underwhelming villain i mean without the PS1 FMV you see him 3 times throughout the game.

The game could have been way more but characters don't speak much leaving them not so memroable the deaths are supposed to be sad but don't hit hard like any other FF game character death cuz there is no attachment to FF2 characters you have too little time and have 0 interactions.

Too bad really cuz the game has some more dark and tragic elements to it than other games this is portrayed even better with the FMV sadly the entire FMV is better than the game itself and that tells a lot , yet it seems square aren't so satisfied with how FF2 turned out so you see lots of FF2 refrences in FF9 and freya story being similair to Gareth one both are away from home when it gets destroyed freya breaks down but Gareth is basically

Its so much of a letdown story wise what could have been an epic saga fighting a very powerful empire and slowly dismantling it at the cost of many comrades but the game fails at delivering that.... Gameplay wise i have not much of a problem save for an issue that locks you with equipment you already use cuz if you switch spell/equipment your performance goes down to 0

I did however like the small detail of using too much brute force makes the character loss intelligence and using lots of spells creates the opposite effect , square tackled the gameplay a lot but left the story how it is which is a shame

Thats why a remake would be great for FF2

 

[solidbatman]

FF2 story was whatever but man I adored the gameplay. It made me realize that I ought to go try out the SaGa games and boy oh boy was I not disappointed. SaGa Frontier has become one of my favorites and I likely would have never bothered with it had I not had so much fun with FF2. Like I said though, I honestly don;t remember any of the story lol

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

FF2 story was whatever but man I adored the gameplay. It made me realize that I ought to go try out the SaGa games and boy oh boy was I not disappointed. SaGa Frontier has become one of my favorites and I likely would have never bothered with it had I not had so much fun with FF2. Like I said though, I honestly don;t remember any of the story lol

Yeah that's the sad part gameplay has potential and a good story would make FF2 be among the best FF games many games with the number 2 in their name always overshadow the first installment , red alert 2 comes to mind along with red dead redemption 2 and resident evil 2 also WarCraft 2 and age of empires 2 so quite a shame FF2 ends up like that i swear square is sleeping on a gold mine....

 

[starseeker300]

I only like the pixel remaster of ff2 as it gets rid of the tedium.
this theme really suits the story as well.

That feeling when the string instrument kicks in

Spoiler: Vague Spoilers for multiple plot points in FF2

it seriously hits different after having played the game. Its Like Firion, Maria, and Guy's emotions on all the friends and comrades they lost along the way put in a way no words could ever describe