final fantasy VI play-through thread, kupo!

yeah it's a great concept but tbh i find it annoying because i only have one pair of sprint shoes

someone said something like this upthread or in one of the other threads or in a dream but i like that as the game progresses certain characters develop shared histories that the other characters don't have. wish they were referenced from time to time tho: how awesome would it be if you did this procedurally, so that if you had sabin in your party when you infiltrated the magitek factory or whatever he reminisced about it later with someone else who was there. (for all i know they do this; i'm flying aimlessly around the world avoiding the floating island because i'm terrified that if i go there i won't be able to come back and I MUST HAVE SECRETS)

dayo otfm tho

i didn't grow up playing either this or LTTP so it's just now dawning on me that ocarina of time was not exactly novel in this regard

that rugpull was the height of game-story greatness to me as a kid (deus ex aside) but nevertheless i always suspected and now ff6 has confirmed that it was executed way, way too cravenly early

in lttp, i mean, but in oot too, because they are identical, because they are zelda games after 1988

like that as the game progresses certain characters develop shared histories that the other characters don't have. wish they were referenced from time to time tho

they sort of do, or do so obliquely. some of the dialogue btw locke and celes references their shared escape from south figaro, or btw shadow and realm. i think you can trigger certain cutscenes that reference gaul and cyan's relationship as well. there's not a tonne you can do as a player to influence these but party member selection can influence things a little - like if you bring both of the brothers to duncan's house in the wor or w/e. the relationships btw characters in this are really fairly dense and interesting i think.

i'm flying aimlessly around the world avoiding the floating island because i'm terrified that if i go there i won't be able to come back and I MUST HAVE SECRETS

haha this was really annoying to me - there are a bunch of things you can only do in the wob

party member selection can influence things a little - like if you bring both of the brothers to duncan's house in the wor or w/e.

i did see something like this -- walked into figaro castle at one point and somebody said "i wish sabin were here!" so i came back with sabin and there was a scene. can't now remember if it was an easter egg or if it was how to advance the plot but i was grateful for the nudge.

wait he says! do i look like a waiter?!

the only part 1 secret that you couldn't get back to was losing Shadow permanently, i thought?

I'd dabbled before but this is really the one that led to me spending a 1/4 of my life grinding away at jrpgs <3 >_<

So apparently you can do sabin's blitzes without the in-between arrows, i.e. ↓↓← instead of ↓↙←

What the fuck

lol i remember only getting good at the ↓↙← move via this game; was always hopeless at street fighter

Yeah you can totally do that stuff. Playing on emulator w analog joystick makes these easier to do but still kind of absurd how often they miss anyways.

especially once you get to the crazy 10-steppers

uh so is there a good snes mac emulator that can do button combos as a macro?

The only good one seems to be snes9x.

Dunno about macros though, maybe on a gamepad?

Keyboard config seems not configable

anyone have a good recommendation for a gamepad (under $40 if possible)? i don't mind playing FFVI using the keyboard, but i recently purchased Rogue Legacy for mac (it is soooooooooooooo good) and it would be a much better experience with a gamepad, kupo

i should probably take that question to a more appropriate thread, sorry kupo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FlbfPu_TA

I love Zozo

Lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4QOzi7_FUE

I'm in Zozo too. I actually made it through, climbed those buildings, got the Espers, went and got about halfway through the Opera thing. Got tired and shut off the game and forgot to save!!! So now I have to go through Zozo again. Blitzing Slam Dancers.

the music in zozo is my favorite so far i think, except maybe for the beginning of the floating continent theme where it pretends it's gonna be maddening looped fairy fountain twinkle for a few seconds before getting real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdAJBXbyKc

industrial percussion magitek facility theme also did not drive me crazy at all

all the music in this game is so classic

the zoso theme is so good. also the crazy chromatic melody in the battle vs Atma Weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwSfUqnDvA

This is going to sound really corny but I really love Setzer's line

'My life is a chip in your pile. Ante up!'

PRobably should have used it in my high school yearbook or something

I like all the old fan pages that come up when you start googling

http://www.icybrian.com/

i remember icybrian

Yeah, I think I saved right after I got that airship, so right after "Ante up!"

The opera scene was pretty rad. I really liked that sample they use for the voices, and the words on screen and notes not matching exactly works because it's opera so some syllabus are gonna be spanning multiple notes and whatnot. Also LOL at "You are speaking with octopus royalty!"

The female characters in this don't really get much to do story-wise. Celes is used as bait by multiple people at once and Terra is pretty much incapacitated (now she's an MIA Esper). Say what you will about Tifa but the one time she was captured she freed herself and then took command of an airship.

oh man, Ultros! I forgot about Ultros.

Agreed about the female characters; I want to say there are some stories actually driven by their actions later on in the game but it's pretty hazy.

the Celes plot in the WoR is pretty memorable. she kind of becomes the main character at that point

yeah terra and celes are both almost-main-characters moreso than any of the guys

http://i.imgur.com/KS1wwwQ.gif

man, i haven't even had time to play it for the last week. i got access to the airship, i saved the game, and then...nothing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSIkHrjPWTc

I like Shadow's theme. He's the mysterious ninja with an 8-bit Morricone song. Love that mouth harp sample!

duh not 8-bit i dont know why i wrote that. chiptune

8-bit morricone: http://gamecola.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/protoman.jpg

Playing the demo of Bravely Default, game feels like one huge love letter to classic FF, V and VI in particular

man, i haven't even had time to play it for the last week. i got access to the airship, i saved the game, and then...nothing

― reckless woo (Z S), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I got to the WoR and figured out that this is where I stopped playing last time

Dunno why, probably because I didn't want to SPOILER CATCH ANY MORE STUPID FISH FOR CID

that took like five minutes

I'm like one dungeon away from WOR I think. My last battle had Ultros jumping in and then we convinced him to have his portrait drawn by a little girl and he was all "Ok, Uncle Ultty is ready to have this portrait drawn!" LOL this would never happen in a modern RPG.

So i never learned half of Sabin's blitzes because XYDownUp, I can't hit Y because it will just back out of the blitz and put me back on the fight menu screen. So i just tried XXDownUp for the hell of it and it worked! Why on earth did they put Y on those blitzes when they knew that the SNES button for Y also meant going back into the menu?

Also, I fought some slugs that were called "Slurm". The stuff in Futurama has GOT to be a reference to this game.

888SPOILERS888

So I love that Zozo is exactly the same in the WoR

They don['t give a fuck about kefka

Also what the hell at the teen pregnancy diversion! Seems racy for a game that changed 'Holy' to 'Pearl' in order not to offend Nintendo censors

yeah, pretty surprisingly heavy stuff. so was the Celes suicide angle!

Just got past the suicide thing. Wow. Way crazy, way more sad than Aeris imo. She actually jumps.

I'm pretty much right after the WoR, and I like how they took away everybody and made me play with Celes cos she's a character I haven't leveled up that much and now instead of running around with my overpowered team the challenge is back again. A friend last night gave me a tip to wait before leaving the Floating Island for Shadow, which was great, cos he's one of my favorite characters in the game.

fyi, not wanting to spoil but you should play that part over again if you got the suicide version of events!

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?

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.