The Final Fantasy Thread

[Polarity]

whoops, wrong thread.

 

[Urbanmech]

7 remake wasn't bad though. It was way more competently put together. 13 and 15 suffered from things like major shortcomings in their battle system which 7R did not.

So the best that SE can come up with in the last 20 years is "decent" games, well that totally shook any doubts about FF 16.

It's the ff14 guy on ff16 and he wants to return to fantasy roots. We really just don't have a lot of red flags on this one imo.

Ahh yes so the Kingdom Hearts combat is the roots of Final Fantasy now....interesting.

 

[Jordi El Nino Polla]

7 remake wasn't bad though.

It wasn't good.

 

[Pissmaster]

It wasn't good.

It was pretty bad.

All I enjoyed out of it was the memberberries with seeing parts of Midgar in HD, but if you transplanted the game itself into a different world, I'd have hated it. I really don't enjoy the Kingdom Hearts-style battle system S-E seems to love now at all, it's ironically overly chaotic and overly simplified at the same time, somehow. Like, it gives me the feeling that there really should be a lot more strategy to it than there actually is, but there just isn't, and I get the sense that I barely have any actual input on what's going on in the battle.

 

[Marissa Moira]

It was pretty bad.

All I enjoyed out of it was the memberberries with seeing parts of Midgar in HD, but if you transplanted the game itself into a different world, I'd have hated it. I really don't enjoy the Kingdom Hearts-style battle system S-E seems to love now at all, it's ironically overly chaotic and overly simplified at the same time, somehow. Like, it gives me the feeling that there really should be a lot more strategy to it than there actually is, but there just isn't, and I get the sense that I barely have any actual input on what's going on in the battle.

the harder fights will require specific builds like using Barret as a healer. Because having magic barrier cast on the whole party is beneficial for the bosses who have skills that can wipe you out in one hit.

 

[Jordi El Nino Polla]

Tifa looked pretty shiny. I liked that.

 

[Pissmaster]

the harder fights will require specific builds like using Barret as a healer. Because having magic barrier cast on the whole party is beneficial for the bosses who have skills that can wipe you out in one hit.

I shelved it before I even got out of the Sector 7 Slums because Yakuza Like a Dragon had just come out and I had like zero desire to return to it

 

[LightDragonman1]

Again, I have little experience with Kingdom Hearts-esque gameplay and storytelling, so all the changes with the Remake don't look to be deal-breakers for me. Plus, I like action-focused combat, so yeah.

 

[Berrakh]

Again, I have little experience with Kingdom Hearts-esque gameplay and storytelling, so all the changes with the Remake don't look to be deal-breakers for me. Plus, I like action-focused combat, so yeah.

I think the story is bloated and I hope it's just an indulgent first outing. A lot of things that were originally the crux of OG Midgar actually feel smaller because of all the new embellishments around them. To me THAT is the real fear. Not action-combat, which was fun as you say.

 

[Jordi El Nino Polla]

I think the story is bloated and I hope it's just an indulgent first outing. A lot of things that were originally the crux of OG Midgar actually feel smaller because of all the new embellishments around them. To me THAT is the real fear. Not action-combat, which was fun as you say.

Also time jannies. OOoOoOooooOooOoOO

 

[Absolutetense]

Also time jannies. OOoOoOooooOooOoOO

I don’t regret buying the remake. Played through it two times on normal and hard and the dlc. Since I’m fan of 15‘s fight system I felt right at home.
Waiting for part 2 but not as enthusiastic as before part 1 was released.

 

[MysticLord]

Interesting podcast series I found about FFT, in the format of a book club discussion.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Gackt can choke on a memory stick duo.

"Gackt" is the noise I make when Nomura designs a character.

 

[JektheDumbass]

Regarding the FF6 Dragon's Den, I just wish the people who created the "super items" knew how the game worked. The two new spears are not properly flagged to deal increased jump damage, Sabin's weapon gives no boost to magic despite his primary ability relying on magic, Celes' and Terra's ultimate weapons aren't as good as the Lightbringer which you now get as many as you want due to being able to beat the game multiple times. Also it rustles my jimmies that there are now 3 umaro relics and you can only equip two despite not ever using Umaro.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Regarding the FF6 Dragon's Den, I just wish the people who created the "super items" knew how the game worked. The two new spears are not properly flagged to deal increased jump damage, Sabin's weapon gives no boost to magic despite his primary ability relying on magic, Celes' and Terra's ultimate weapons aren't as good as the Lightbringer which you now get as many as you want due to being able to beat the game multiple times. Also it rustles my jimmies that there are now 3 umaro relics and you can only equip two despite not ever using Umaro.

FF4's extra dungeon was even more hilarious because Kain gets a spear that casts Tornado on-hit sometimes. And for whatever reason they didn't bother to check immunity to Tornado when it procs.

Y'know...that spell that reduces a monster's hit points to the single digits when it goes off. Including the optional superboss...

 

[Captain Syrup]

Regarding the FF6 Dragon's Den, I just wish the people who created the "super items" knew how the game worked.

That's par for the course with Square remasters. By the time it's unlocked, the game is past over.

The whole "license" system was just stupid thematically. So we're a bunch of rebels fighting governments, and we're apparently bound by some sort of invisible ubiquitous authority?

 

[JektheDumbass]

I feel like if they called it the ability board, and you unlock it with ability points people would complain less tbh.

 

[Coldgrip]

I feel like if they called it the ability board, and you unlock it with ability points people would complain less tbh.

I feel like if they looked at XII, went "Nah, that's shit" and then scrapped it for something better people would complain less.

 

[Snekposter]

Also time jannies. OOoOoOooooOooOoOO

TIME JANNIES GET OUT, REEE! Fuckers still do it for free, too, even in vidya. There's no escaping the Janny Menace.

 

[Captain Syrup]

These Final Fantasy X fans can't stop molesting children.

FF4's extra dungeon was even more hilarious because Kain gets a spear that casts Tornado on-hit sometimes.

DoS grants access to some killer equipment. Thief and Black Mage were horribly underpowered on NES, so this alleviates that.