http://i.imgur.com/0V2uttf.jpg
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:47 (five years ago) Permalink
i am wearing a Sabin outfit at the moment
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:54 (five years ago) Permalink
oh man, lol at the smooth synth jazz that plays whenever Terra has a sad
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:59 (five years ago) Permalink
one thing you gotta love about VI is that it actually rewards you for searching in ridiculous locations for items in the towns
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:12 (five years ago) Permalink
SABIN: Think a "bear" like me could help you out in this fight??"
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:59 (five years ago) Permalink
:-0
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:04 (five years ago) Permalink
kinda missin' Cloud's default "..." catchphrase right there
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:05 (five years ago) Permalink
i'm exactly 2:00 in, and just reached the hideout.
how should we handle spoilers? tbh i've played up to maybe 30 hours in before, so i'm not too picky with people revealing where they are or whatever.
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:06 (five years ago) Permalink
my problem is i renamed TERRA to Terra, thus committing myself to a scheme, and then as more and more characters showed up i became less and less happy with it
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:22 (five years ago) Permalink
loooool
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:23 (five years ago) Permalink
not gonna lie: i was tempted to consult a GameFAQ just because this may be the last time in my life i play this and i know there are thousands of secrets in this game that i'll never see. also, mainly, it's nice to have a head's up when a character is about to die or lose all their shit or something, so you don't blow a ton of gil in a shop just beforehand, or so that you can hand off your shit to other characters ahead of time.
but no, i will not. i'm playing this clean.
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:44 (five years ago) Permalink
tempted to name everybody FARTPOOP xxp
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:53 (five years ago) Permalink
What the hell is a repo man doing in a cave. who left their cadillac parked inside
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:56 (five years ago) Permalink
always intense
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:58 (five years ago) Permalink
sheesh, i skipped the far left classroom in Narsh the first time through (a couple hours through) because the guard itself was warning that i might need to level up a bit. i thought there might be a lvl 49 red dragon in there! i come back just now, leveled a bit after seeing some crazy shit in the first part of the game, and it turns out that far left classroom teaches the secrets of...how the reflect spell works...
*wolf cries in the distance*
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 00:05 (five years ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/N6qKrx4.gif
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 00:11 (five years ago) Permalink
this game is great and also has the greatest soundtrack of all tiem
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2013 00:54 (five years ago) Permalink
i havent played it in 10+ years and i still remember how the themesongs for all the major characcters go
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2013 00:55 (five years ago) Permalink
kefka >>>>>>>>>
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 01:00 (five years ago) Permalink
SABIN: Think a "bear" like me could help you out in this fight??"― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
he's more of a twink i think
http://i.imgur.com/deLAQRi.png
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 01:03 (five years ago) Permalink
my friend and i were going to record a rock opera version of the opera like 8 years ago but we never got too far on that project
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2013 01:32 (five years ago) Permalink
the big plot twist in this felt super momentous back in the day, like no other game had done anything quite like that before, and it happens deep enough in that you think you're approaching the end maybe and then oops no not even close. the sheer size/length of the game was pretty incredible at least to me.
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2013 01:45 (five years ago) Permalink
the world of ruin felt revelatory to me as a kid, i remember i spent months exploring the various locations, trying to find all the characters and secrets. i think this was one the best balanced ff games, the last time i replayed it i was still finding small things that i had missed in past playthroughs, particularly from the first half of the game. but most of the really rare and hard to find things do nothing to help you play the game or hinder the story at all, they're rewarding w/o being necessary i guess.
the big downside is the game is comically easy unless you set yrself artificial restrictions and there are almost no tactically interesting decisions to make in any of the battles. also the formula they use for steal success rates is overly punishing for no real reason
― Lamp, Monday, 4 November 2013 02:19 (five years ago) Permalink
oh man, shadow's the best
"just know that i may leave at any time"
jeez shadow, so mysterious! and so afraid of commitment!
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 02:55 (five years ago) Permalink
Poll of best PC from this game would be great, except there are only eight of us who would actually vote.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 4 November 2013 03:27 (five years ago) Permalink
Been There
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 November 2013 03:52 (five years ago) Permalink
lol ff7 didn't run fast enough on my mac... sad. got........................ rhythTheatrhythm Final Fantas
― color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that, Monday, 4 November 2013 04:20 (five years ago) Permalink
playing through this again, i find myself with a new urge to shout out loud "MODE 7!" at key moments
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 05:29 (five years ago) Permalink
FUCK YEAH MODE 7!!
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 05:30 (five years ago) Permalink
― Nhex, Monday, 4 November 2013 05:39 (five years ago) Permalink
it happens deep enough in that you think you're approaching the end maybe and then oops no not even close.
what's funny is it's exactly the same plot twist as link to the past but it happens 12 hours in instead of 1, making it 12 times as :O
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Monday, 4 November 2013 09:38 (five years ago) Permalink
guys are you playing VI or VII? Cause it seems like you're discussing VII?
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:16 (five years ago) Permalink
we're definitely playing final fantasy VII
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:27 (five years ago) Permalink
i think i played the GBA version of this and i don't remember anything about it. :(
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:29 (five years ago) Permalink
i am playing the game that allows me to yell out MODE 7!
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:37 (five years ago) Permalink
played this way too late last night. i'm about 5 hours in just reunited the team at Narshe.
dayo have you played VI before? if so how far did you get before you quit?
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:38 (five years ago) Permalink
you have to finish this game if you haven't finished it before. the final dungeon + battle + ending are fantastic.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:40 (five years ago) Permalink
i pledge to finish this game. enough is enough, i'm 30 years old, it's time to beat final fantasy VI
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:42 (five years ago) Permalink
this is one of the only games i have finished in my life. i am bad at finishing games
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:43 (five years ago) Permalink
played this way too late last night. i'm about 5 hours in just reunited the team at Narshe.dayo have you played VI before? if so how far did you get before you quit?
Yeah I got up to the part where sabins blitzes started being like hadouken moves
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:47 (five years ago) Permalink
I might have had an airship
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:51 (five years ago) Permalink
we're definitely playing final fantasy VII― 乒乓, Monday, November 4, 2013
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:57 (five years ago) Permalink
I just lost Galuf. What do I do?? :(
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Monday, 4 November 2013 17:58 (five years ago) Permalink
afaict the thread title definitely says we're playing final fantasy VII. am i crazy here?? xp
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:05 (five years ago) Permalink
Ha, when I played this it was on emu, with just a keyboard, and my approach was just to never fuck around with Sabin's blitzes at all. It was a minor handicap for a certain period of the game but nothing that really affected anything. I later had it on a cartridge and my strategy had become hard-wired - I never did get into Sabin at all. Wish I could remember what I named him though....all my characters were named after anime heroes IIRC.
Thread title says "VI" on my screen....?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:06 (five years ago) Permalink
on my computer this thread is about faceball 2000 wtf
― sleepingbag, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:20 (five years ago) Permalink
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Final_Fantasy_Mystic_US_boxart.jpg
help i'm stuck
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:32 (five years ago) Permalink
― Doctor Casino, Monday, November 4, 2013 1:06 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark
Not sure what's going on with your computer
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:34 (five years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QrWzsfghA
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 November 2013 19:09 (five years ago) Permalink
cause seriously, it says vi
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 November 2013 19:10 (five years ago) Permalink
fyi, not wanting to spoil but you should play that part over again if you got the suicide version of events!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 November 2013 17:26 (five years ago) Permalink
I just got Setzer, gearing up for the final battle. So basically spending another 10-15 hours (or maybe double that) running around the World of Ruin revisiting everywhere I went to before. At this point I start thanking the huge character list because I'll be able to switch out my currently leveled-up party for members who have been sitting on the sidelines most of the game.
The art in this game is pretty impressive, mostly in the huge enemy sprites. Everyone always talks about an FFVII remake (either super modern or retro) but what if they made a 2D Final Fantasy in the style of VI but using all hi-res hand-drawn art and animation? That would look so sick, wouldn't it? Has anyone tried that?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:17 (five years ago) Permalink
Playing this with an Xbox controller is wonderful because I'm using ZSNES and even though I mapped directionals to the d-pad the L-analog stick works too so I can just use that for Blitz attacks. It is way easier than I remember it being with a SNES controller, though the modern guys can never do d-pads as good as they used to be.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:54 (five years ago) Permalink
Cool how the airship owner can make it rain w "GP Rain".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:06 (five years ago) Permalink
The smooth jazz intro to Terra's theme is so awesome!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:46 (five years ago) Permalink
smooth jazz?
― Nhex, Sunday, 24 November 2013 21:07 (five years ago) Permalink
I meant this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEkbb-A27k&list=PL1908FF1F127876AA
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:21 (five years ago) Permalink
hahh right. i think of it as the esper flashback theme. as with other FF soundtracks, very cool interpolations of the main themes/character themes
― Nhex, Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:32 (five years ago) Permalink
Just made it through the Fanatic's Tower, loaded up everyone with Wall Rings and for the most part let all the baddies cast magic that bounced off me and killed them. At this point I feel a little lost and directionless, as I pretty much just fly around and visit towns and storylines seem to start up and end at random. I'm probably just being too lazy and not remembering that _this_ character is from _this_ town and when I enter Doma castle I need Cyan in the party or whatever for something to trigger. But still, it's all really damn amazing, and the storytelling is wonderful. Even if I have to look at a Walkthrough to be told to bring Gau and Sabin to the small house on the northern continent of the world of ruin, it's still pretty special when it turns into a comedy/makeover sequence that turns very dramatic and then ends with a typically optimistic and sort of Zen affirmation of Life. The whole Phoenix sequence was pretty special, too!!
I've been thinking of what to play next, and I really want to play Final Fantasy IX. It seems to work fine in PCSX but I was wondering, is there any way to change the resolution on these games? I know the backgrounds are all still art but surely there must be a way to go from pixelly polygons to nice and sharp polygons, even if the low-res textures will still be there....
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 November 2013 00:05 (five years ago) Permalink
I threw up my hands with the Fanatic's Tower and just used whatever relic it is that zeroes out random enemy encounters.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 28 November 2013 00:21 (five years ago) Permalink
Yeah I'm still loving this, but I'm getting a bit lazy, and now whenever I run into a bad guy I hold the FF button on ZSNES so all my characters are Level 50+.
The story seems to be the best out of all the FF games I've played, just because of the huge cast and most of the characters seem to have really good reasons to fight the bad guy beyond he's trying to destroy the world. Still, the look of FFVII is just so cool and minimal and colorful and weird, I have to rate it above VI for the battle animations alone.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:48 (five years ago) Permalink
FWIW I'm taking Strago and Relm to the newly resurfaced island and then high-tailing it to kick Kefka's clowny butt.
7 has wonderful environments and camera swoops and extravagant particle effects but man, those hands
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:50 (five years ago) Permalink
(it was $3 on steam yesterday)
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:51 (five years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQmQn7J0fk
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:43 (five years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HizdlmU0wwE
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:50 (five years ago) Permalink
http://www.wikihow.com/Defeat-Kefka-in-Final-Fantasy-VI
― 乒乓, Saturday, 30 November 2013 22:34 (five years ago) Permalink
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― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 1 December 2013 03:17 (five years ago) Permalink
Spent a few hours yesterday wandering around that last dungeon and getting stuck :(
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 1 December 2013 16:39 (five years ago) Permalink
I finished this, yay!
I dropped in here just wanting to ask if anyone has played the new Steam release of Final Fantasy VIII and if it lets you change resolutions or anything. Because i started playing that and I'm only 5 hours in so I won't mind dropping if I can actually have super smooth and sharp polygons instead of pixelated polygons. I haven't seen anything about that anywhere (and it wasn't the case with the VII re-release) so I'm kind of skeptical on that front.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 December 2013 06:34 (five years ago) Permalink
http://www.avclub.com/article/final-fantasy-vi-explores-human-pain-through-its-s-205365?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds
― Nhex, Monday, 9 June 2014 14:05 (four years ago) Permalink
The landscape and experience of the World Of Ruin should be familiar to anyone who’s been truly hurt.[
― goole, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:21 (four years ago) Permalink
[citation needed
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:22 (four years ago) Permalink
lol
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:41 (four years ago) Permalink
I'm playing FFVI now on the SNES. What a big game for a little console. Only recently got to the World Of Ruin and already so much has happened. The opera scene is art, man!
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:20 (two months ago) Permalink
I now have unfinished game saves for FF I-V, perhaps it's time to move on to VI so I can fail to finish that one, as well.
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:24 (two months ago) Permalink
sadly after having recently played through Earthbound and Chrono Trigger, this game hasn't quite got the same overwhelming buzz and some of the plotlines and dialogue feel a bit disjointed, but it did come out before those and it is a fantastic game
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 15:28 (two months ago) Permalink
I was wondering whether I was playing it whether there were two opera scenes, because everyone goes on about it as one of the highlights of gaming ever, and it was just - fiddly and annoying?
Anyway I spend a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms about a year ago and got really into this, but I think I left it in one of the "try and reload to get the right monsters on the Veldt" sections.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 26 January 2019 11:42 (two months ago) Permalink
the opera scene was a pretty unique thing at the time but like every rpg since has had a musical performance in it somewhere
idk if i'd call it a highlight of the game
― ciderpress, Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:13 (two months ago) Permalink
dammit. i need a folder to hold of my ilx bookmarks for threads dedicated to doing something that i started but did not complete
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:20 (two months ago) Permalink
yeah i never "got" the opera. but i didn't play it until the emulator era. not that long after in years really but an eternity in terms of gaming and console generations and such, all those SNES games felt like lost treasures unearthed by archaeologists by then.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:48 (two months ago) Permalink
God I remember getting stuck so badly at the post-apocalyptic bit where you have to find most of your party again. I always found the opera scene quite funny but not in a way that was intentional on their part.
Having emulated it recently I think I actually prefer V to this one
― don't let's be beastly to the gammons (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:02 (two months ago) Permalink
when i played the snes ones V still didnt have an english translation other than an awful fan patch so i havent played it
― ciderpress, Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:09 (two months ago) Permalink
There's stuff in this game I'd never known what to do if I didn't cheat a bit and look up a walk through occasionally. The whole secret switch in the Ancient Castle is mad - is it mentioned anywhere in the game?
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 11 February 2019 16:04 (two months ago) Permalink
Also I think I've no way of getting Shadow. Shame, I never really got to know him very well, flakey-ass clown
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 11 February 2019 16:11 (two months ago) Permalink
Currently stuck on the Cultist's Tower. Even with Wall Rings, it's a toughy
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 11 February 2019 16:13 (two months ago) Permalink
i'm pretty sure i got all the ancient castle stuff without a walkthrough but it may have just been on the instinct of "surely there has to be a boss fight or something in here, i'll keep wandering around until something happens"cultists' tower i def said fuck it and came back later once i found whatever it is that lets you skip encounters
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 11 February 2019 16:21 (two months ago) Permalink
Yeah I might try that. The trick is to use Wall Rings on all the characters and just let the baddies cast spells that bounce off you onto them. It should work on paper but...
Yeah Ancient Castle you have to (SPOILER) walk five paces away from the queen's throne and hit a button and it opens a secret area but... I'd never have known to do that. Maybe a random NPC mentions it. Someone upthread said there's an awful lot of that - certain parts of the game only open up to certain characters and knowing who to use where is tricky. It's hard enough making sure everyone in your party is equipped and relic'd and espered in the optimum. I still don't know what I'm doing with Mog, Strago and Gau (or Gav?) - so many random ways to use their powers, I can't keep up.
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 11 February 2019 16:28 (two months ago) Permalink
the trick here is to not use strago or gau iirc, bunch of fiddly deep-cut bullshit in my opinion from age 17. relm i also kept deep on the bench but mainly because her baffling ability also crashed emulators back then.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 11 February 2019 17:19 (two months ago) Permalink
spent my evening absent mindedly grinding some of my weaker people while looking at my phone. now I've gotta make 3 teams and storm Kefka's tower. I seem to have lost Shadow at some point. oh well
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 01:28 (two months ago) Permalink
relm i also kept deep on the bench but mainly because her baffling ability also crashed emulators back then.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino)
this wasn't an emulator thing, this was a massive bug in the 1.0 release of the game, they had to release a patched version
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:48 (two months ago) Permalink
i don't know why ted woolsey decided to name a high-level spell after thomas merton
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 02:51 (two months ago) Permalink
huh, okay. i'm sure I knew that at the time. garbled memories! i think i also resisted a lot of the "late" characters, they felt like the second-season's new thundercats to me.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 03:38 (two months ago) Permalink
Gogo is especially weird to be thrown in at such late notice. Not sure what he's good for other than being a consolation prize for not having the ninja
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 10:48 (two months ago) Permalink
Dream team:UmaroSabinCelesTerra
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 10:49 (two months ago) Permalink
first time around I somehow beat the game without ever getting Terra back, which kinda blew my mind when she reappeared in the finale
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:29 (two months ago) Permalink
whoa... so does she just kind of rock up, or is the ending different depending on who you have in your party?
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:27 (two months ago) Permalink
I remember being really deflated when the world of ruin came around. Wanted my party back
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:30 (two months ago) Permalink
it does feel a bit like WoR is less plot based and is more or less a series of side quests involving various types of dungeon. I didn't get to play Kefka's Tower tonight
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:35 (two months ago) Permalink
xps ending is the same, but when the final battle is over there's a cutscene she joins, or something like that
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 00:02 (two months ago) Permalink