The Final Fantasy Thread

Final Fantasy VI is an easy one: the Game Boy Advance version. Good retranslation, classic graphics, and an extra dungeon in the post-game if you really liked it. The sound has some quality issues that bothered people enough to make a patch for the rom, but it never personally bothered me.

Other versions of FFVI are the SNES (fine, but no extras); PS1 (no extras except a couple of FMVs that mean nothing to you; also horrible loading times), and PC/mobile (terrible redesigned graphics and menus designed for a touch screen). Just play the GBA version.

Final Fantasy IX, on the other hand, is a slow game through and through. It's very good, but I'd really recommend you start with 6. Anyway, I've heard the Switch and Xbox One versions have weird slowdown here and there, so that's out. The Android version seemed fine to me. If the PC version doesn't have slowdown problems, I'd just suggest that one. The original PS1 version ran fine, but I don't recommend it just because it doesn't have a speedup button like in the modern releases, which you'll really need, since I'm not joking about FF9 being slow as fuck.
Alrighty, thank you very much. I will get the GBA files now and lock my phone with a 12 character password out of spite. I promise to go back to 2-5 another day, but that effort being sucked out really did put a bullet into my motivation.
I am a heathen who likes the gba so don't ask me. I think visualboy advance is a nice and easy emulator to use so I use it.
Thank you. I’ll look into it. Currently I’m just using John emulators. They’re not bad, and have good frame rate. Works well on android, which is how I play these games for a more authentic feeling.
 
Okay, sorry for double posting, but I’m jarred how much the tone shifted in like 5 games.

”Magic and ancient kingdoms along with ancient beasts roam the land! Help us, 4 heroes of light!”

”See this witch whore? Yeah, she fried like 50+ soldiers in order to get away from us, now we got her hooked up to a mech that controls her thoughts, feelings and wants, to the point where she’ll stop breathing if we tell her so. Now, in her barely dressed form, let’s travel back down a huge ass mountain. Oh, did we forget, magic barely even fucking E X I S T S? And is S U P E R ancient?”

How far into the future did we go…?
 
Okay, sorry for double posting, but I’m jarred how much the tone shifted in like 5 games.

”Magic and ancient kingdoms along with ancient beasts roam the land! Help us, 4 heroes of light!”

”See this witch whore? Yeah, she fried like 50+ soldiers in order to get away from us, now we got her hooked up to a mech that controls her thoughts, feelings and wants, to the point where she’ll stop breathing if we tell her so. Now, in her barely dressed form, let’s travel back down a huge ass mountain. Oh, did we forget, magic barely even fucking E X I S T S? And is S U P E R ancient?”

How far into the future did we go…?
you'll really be surprised when the villain calls you the n-word at the end.
 
Okay, sorry for double posting, but I’m jarred how much the tone shifted in like 5 games.

”Magic and ancient kingdoms along with ancient beasts roam the land! Help us, 4 heroes of light!”

”See this witch whore? Yeah, she fried like 50+ soldiers in order to get away from us, now we got her hooked up to a mech that controls her thoughts, feelings and wants, to the point where she’ll stop breathing if we tell her so. Now, in her barely dressed form, let’s travel back down a huge ass mountain. Oh, did we forget, magic barely even fucking E X I S T S? And is S U P E R ancient?”

How far into the future did we go…?
Final Fantasy games all take place in parallel universes and FFVI takes place in a steampunk world. FFVI is notably darker than the others, but has fairly funny writing and generally optimistic characters with strong motivations.
 
I just bought myself the 3DS rhythm game and its surprisingly fun / addicting. So far have only played a few levels but the inclusion of 11 makes me so happy. Vanadiel has by far been my favorite MMO experience PVE wise with a story that made the world feel alive..i also feel like they did factions the best in 11 with rewards/story tying together into finales. Unrelated but they're bringing back Aion Classic next week which was my favorite PvP experience in mmo
 
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I think a lot of the criticisms about what it changes, what it drags out and so forth are true, the remake does that. I think the things it stretches out are interesting as I wanted to see and know more of Midgar and the supporting cast for it. I think your sentiment on Vincent getting drawn out and it being interesting is the possible good that can come from this approach. Just think, Yuffie got a DLC, just imagine what like Red XII or Cait Sith can get. We already got a taste of something that with polish can be fun with stealth sections in DoC.

Also, I just really love the combat in FF7R.
I've heard you don't actually get to play as Red XIII. He's only in your party and does his own thing without your input.

Okay, sorry for double posting, but I’m jarred how much the tone shifted in like 5 games.

”Magic and ancient kingdoms along with ancient beasts roam the land! Help us, 4 heroes of light!”

”See this witch whore? Yeah, she fried like 50+ soldiers in order to get away from us, now we got her hooked up to a mech that controls her thoughts, feelings and wants, to the point where she’ll stop breathing if we tell her so. Now, in her barely dressed form, let’s travel back down a huge ass mountain. Oh, did we forget, magic barely even fucking E X I S T S? And is S U P E R ancient?”

How far into the future did we go…?
If you've never played FFVI, you'll be in for a pretty excellent story. Even if the challenge isn't all that high*.

*GBA version has two bonus dungeons, both will beat your ass and will make you feel like you're playing one of the older titles in terms of difficulty.
 
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I've heard you don't actually get to play as Red XIII. He's only in your party and does his own thing without your input.
He does his own thing, but he can be loaded as a playable character, albeit without access to his Triangle command or Limit Break. In an interview they mentioned they were gonna make him playable, but due to expanding the length of Midgar they didn't wanna introduce him half assed at the end of the game. He's basically slated to be implemented come part 2.

Here you go, have this.

Edit: As for @Smug Chuckler 's list PSX for 1 and 2 is fine, but I actually wanna recommend romhacks of the NES FF1 to fix translation and bugs is also an option, tho you miss out on the bonus content. 3's DS remake annoys me because it nerfed Sage and Ninja to jack off to Onion Knight, so emulation is a good call. 4 PSP is a good call for the original 4. 5 GBA is big iffy, it adds things, but the music fixes are spotty at best, they try, but it's been said they're not fully fixing it, just trying too. 6 GBA I'm not sure if it suffers any issues.

Not so much disagreeing with his list, some I wanna give alternatives to and others I wanted to discuss the caveats of those ports.
 
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Best versions of the first 6 games

FF1 - PSX
FF2 - PSX
FF3 - ARRRRGH (famicom)
FF4 - psp sadly
FF5 - GBA
FF6 - GBA

good luck acquiring these or just wait until the pixeled remaster.
Got it. Thank you. Now I feel a little motivated. I shall name my party members after some of you in honor of the thread getting me going.
 
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Just in the sound department, but it's a handheld console so it's to be expected.
Ah same problem as 5, check RomHacking.net then. https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/657/ And as I was gonna say, someone's prob tried to fix and what do ya know? Here ya go!

Edit: I should be helpful and link 5's restoration as well. https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/563/ These hacks on top of fixing the instruments, also fixes the frame rate issues the games had in being ported to GBA, for both 5 and 6.
 
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I personally enjoy the DS remakes. 4 is debatable (I like the fair increased difficulty, but the other versions have more), but I think 3 DS is just a more enjoyable experience. Whichever version of 3 you go with, I recommend playing on an emulator with savestates. It's the hardest game in the series solely for the bullshit decision of having hours long dungeons with nowhere to save and weird sudden difficulty spiked.
Okay, sorry for double posting, but I’m jarred how much the tone shifted in like 5 games.

”Magic and ancient kingdoms along with ancient beasts roam the land! Help us, 4 heroes of light!”

”See this witch whore? Yeah, she fried like 50+ soldiers in order to get away from us, now we got her hooked up to a mech that controls her thoughts, feelings and wants, to the point where she’ll stop breathing if we tell her so. Now, in her barely dressed form, let’s travel back down a huge ass mountain. Oh, did we forget, magic barely even fucking E X I S T S? And is S U P E R ancient?”

How far into the future did we go…?
The reason FF9 is the way it is is because it's a love letter to the dragon quest-esque fantasy worlds of the first 5 games and was the last time the original creator's vision of the series majorly influenced the direction. It was shocking when people brought home FF6 and it was in this bleak, industrial setting.

In a way, FF4 was also a turning point like 6 since it was a focused narrative with big dramatic moments. The creators designed for this in the ways they changed the battle system to speed up the pace and lessen time the player spent outside of battle thinking about strategy and jobs.
 
In a way, FF4 was also a turning point like 6 since it was a focused narrative with big dramatic moments. The creators designed for this in the ways they changed the battle system to speed up the pace and lessen time the player spent outside of battle thinking about strategy and jobs.
This is only true if you're playing the non-hard mode version.
 
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Gameplay in FF4 was shallow since they spent too much time developing ATB and testing on new hardware, though they make it up with the story.
 
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Seems I spoke too soon about them never revisiting FF IX

The animated series adaptation is aimed at introducing 8 to 13 year olds into the world of Final Fantasy IX while still catering to old fans alike.

Do children born between 2008-2013 care about a game from 2000, released on hardware from 1994?

It seems like another thing for their parents who grew up with FF9 to foist upon their kids, when their kids should be outside doing kid things like competing to see who can scream the N word the loudest
 
It's the hardest game in the series solely for the bullshit decision of having hours long dungeons with nowhere to save and weird sudden difficulty spiked.
I never played the DS version, but FF3 NES was definitely bullshit. I gave up trying to finish the last part of the final dungeon.

I think it's got to have some kind of record for time between the last save point and the final boss.
 
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