final fantasy VI play-through thread, kupo!

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.

Cool how the airship owner can make it rain w "GP Rain".

The smooth jazz intro to Terra's theme is so awesome!

smooth jazz?

I meant this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEkbb-A27k&list=PL1908FF1F127876AA

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

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....

I threw up my hands with the Fanatic's Tower and just used whatever relic it is that zeroes out random enemy encounters.

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.

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

(it was $3 on steam yesterday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQmQn7J0fk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HizdlmU0wwE

http://www.wikihow.com/Defeat-Kefka-in-Final-Fantasy-VI