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FactsAreUseless posted:Final Fantasy 9 is the best game in the series, easily, and you're all insane. You're so wrong omg let me tell you about MY favorite final fantasy you wrong guy
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Norns posted:You're so wrong omg let me tell you about MY favorite final fantasy you wrong guy
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Jul 28, 2017 15:47
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Okay I'm convinced
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Jul 28, 2017 15:49
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Sakurazuka posted:Yeah that was 9. Funny thing was it was (deliberately) the easiest game to find all the optional stuff in outside of a couple of things. GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Not that it's the game's fault, but wasn't IX the one with that completely-useless-but-still-full-price strategy guide?
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Jul 28, 2017 15:52
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The best final fantasy is when I had a fever dream and the plot of FFX was played with the combat of FFXIII except everyone was the talking beavers from FF2.
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Jul 28, 2017 15:54
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I greatly value your opinions on which Final Fantasy is the best\worst and I deeply care about you thoughts and feelings, thank you for sharing
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Jul 28, 2017 16:04
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What was the job combo in FFTA2 where you would cast a full map damage spell then teleport around smacking every enemy with a book twice? Illusionist/Scholar? I remember being really excited to get that unlocked, then being really sad at how boring it made the game.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:04
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WaltherFeng posted:That's what I trying to get across. I guess the only way to fix the game is to add subjobs. There are subjobs. Garnet and Eiko are white mage summoners, Steiner is a fighter mystic knight. Dreads guy is monk some kind of mage too, etc
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Jul 28, 2017 16:05
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Is there a Dragon Quest thread? I don't know if there's Dragon Quest thread but in any case DQXI was just announced as coming overseas.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:07
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precision posted:I posit that FF4 is the perfect old style JRPG. You don't have to grind, it's not too easy, it's never obtuse where you have to go next, almost every character is well defined both in and out of combat, etc. One of the most under appreciated parts of FF4 is how you can run instantly as soon as a battle starts. You only have to spend time in the battles that you want to. If Final Fantasy 9 had the same thing, it might have been playable. Pureauthor posted:Is there a Dragon Quest thread? I don't know if there's Dragon Quest thread but in any case DQXI was just announced as coming overseas. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3389824&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 DQ > FF. Guaranteed DQXI will be better than FFXII or FFXV.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:15
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Calaveron posted:There are subjobs. Garnet and Eiko are white mage summoners, Steiner is a fighter mystic knight. Dreads guy is monk some kind of mage too, etc Amarant is a Ninja/Monk. He has Throw (Ninja) and his Flair skill set is a lot like FFT's Monk abilities.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:18
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Emron posted:What was the job combo in FFTA2 where you would cast a full map damage spell then teleport around smacking every enemy with a book twice? Illusionist/Scholar? I remember being really excited to get that unlocked, then being really sad at how boring it made the game. Seer/Illusionist with dual wield. You can also use Geomancy instead of Dual Wield to do extra magic damage rather than physical. For better or worse you don't unlock the key ingredient, Magick Frenzy, until really late game and by that time you have plenty of other ways to trivialize the game like using a Scholar with lots of elemental absorbing armor.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:18
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Vargatron posted:Have you played the DS remake? The difficulty is considerably higher in the last half of the game and they added a few new twists to the bosses to where it's really interesting to play through again. I got to the end but never beat it. Would love to give it another go, but I've got so many games and so little time.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:27
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Harrow posted:Amarant is a Ninja/Monk. He has Throw (Ninja) and his Flair skill set is a lot like FFT's Monk abilities. Right, I forgot, it's been over 10 years but yeah pretty much every character in FF9 has a subjob
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Jul 28, 2017 16:44
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Countblanc posted:Seer/Illusionist with dual wield. You can also use Geomancy instead of Dual Wield to do extra magic damage rather than physical. For better or worse you don't unlock the key ingredient, Magick Frenzy, until really late game and by that time you have plenty of other ways to trivialize the game like using a Scholar with lots of elemental absorbing armor. That's true, I remember that. At that point you have full Goku moves on Adelle, I had my heal/mp guy on cannoneer, dual wield ninjas, all the broken poo poo. If FFTA2 had a speed up version, I'd gladly play through it again. It was my favorite DS game by a mile.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:52
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Calaveron posted:Right, I forgot, it's been over 10 years but yeah pretty much every character in FF9 has a subjob I think like half the characters don't really have a sub-job. Vivi's a pure Black Mage and Quina's a pure Blue Mage. Zidane and Freya have special abilities that aren't really associated with their main jobs (Thief and Dragoon respectively), but also aren't really associated with any other FF job, so while they functionally have a "sub-job" it's a job that doesn't really have an established name so I don't really know where they fall. Everyone else is like... Garnet is Summoner/White Mage, Eiko is White Mage/Summoner (fewer summons, more white magic spells), Amarant is Ninja/Monk, and Steiner is Knight/Mystic Knight.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:52
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Is there a chance to leave Pharos with Reddas still in my party after fighting Famfrit?
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Jul 28, 2017 16:52
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Raxivace posted:Is there a chance to leave Pharos with Reddas still in my party after fighting Famfrit? Nope.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:53
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Raxivace posted:Is there a chance to leave Pharos with Reddas still in my party after fighting Famfrit? No. Famfrit is one of the phases in what's essentially one continuous boss fight, after which you leave the Pharos and lose Reddas.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:54
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Alright I'll be putting that off for a good while then.
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Jul 28, 2017 16:54
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Thanks to whoever suggested making Aero the default spell for my mage in FF12. poo poo melts like crazy now. Is there a good gambit for Haste or should I not even bother with that and just manually cast it during boss fights? Balthier is my knight/time mage and it seems like he casts it every 10 seconds because I'm assuming it doesn't last very long. Is there a way to extend the buff time?
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Jul 28, 2017 17:20
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Elephant Ambush posted:Thanks to whoever suggested making Aero the default spell for my mage in FF12. poo poo melts like crazy now. There's licenses that extend your status effect duration but I think that's it.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:22
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Yep. Also if you get hastega he doesnt have to cast it as often! Hastega is like post game deep into the game iirc.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:23
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Elephant Ambush posted:Thanks to whoever suggested making Aero the default spell for my mage in FF12. poo poo melts like crazy now. I honestly don't think Haste is worth casting until most of your characters have the Spellbound license, which increases the duration of buffs cast on them. Even then, I almost always just cast it before a boss fight until I get Hastega, when I think it's finally worth it to have a gambit to keep it mostly constant.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:23
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Barudak posted:Yep. Also if you get hastega he doesnt have to cast it as often! 
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Jul 28, 2017 17:28
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I treat Haste pretty much just as a cure for slow just so it's not casting all the time. Oh, you wanted to slow me down huh, well gently caress you.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:34
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I set up a gambit to cast Haste on party member with the highest ATK weapon, because having Any—Haste ate up Penelo's MP and was obnoxious but just having it on whoever hits the hardest seemed better than nothing (and whatever MP-regen licenses I picked up on Penelo were able to keep up with the MP drain of casting Haste every 15 seconds at 4x).
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Jul 28, 2017 17:37
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Raxivace posted:Hastega, along with Shellga, are in the Great Crystal. RIP hastega, its body was never found.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:40
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Thanks. Esuna is loving awesome because now I can just it with all:any and not have to use up gambit slots for separate debuffs. Holy poo poo that sucked.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:40
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There's still a few statuses like Disease that Esuna can't heal.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:45
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Elephant Ambush posted:Thanks. Remedy Lores are even better, because they let Remedies cover things that even Esuna can't cure, like Doom and Disease. Any character with three Remedy Lores should probably have an Ally: any -> Remedy gambit, especially since you can buy Remedies fairly early on.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:50
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Should I bother with the creature capture stuff in FFX2? It seems like a lot.
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Jul 28, 2017 18:25
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The best final fantasies are 6, and 9. Final Fantasy 69, if you will.precision posted:Wakka is maybe the worst party member ever, personality wise I'm sorry you couldn't be friends with Blitzball Tim Tebow.
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Jul 28, 2017 18:37
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZUmdc1IYMc
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Jul 28, 2017 18:38
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blackguy32 posted:Should I bother with the creature capture stuff in FFX2? It seems like a lot. I never really did any of it but some of the fiend arena stuff is worth doing (and you can just use Yuna/Rikku/Paine) You can get the Psychic dressphere from the first tournament I think so do that at least Some of the creatures you can get are probably pretty strong though and they put a weird amount of effort into the fiend tale things so maybe it's worth checking out idk. I don't remember how it works but you can get some human characters through creature creator like Brother/Seymour/LeBlanc/Nooj/Baralai etc and some FFX party members (I think those are NG+ only though)
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Jul 28, 2017 18:53
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Harrow posted:I really liked the DS remake of 4. It's like a version of Final Fantasy that hung out with an SMT game for a while and really fell in love with making buffs super important.  Having Kain cry and it being a super viable strategy is a life-changing experience.
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Jul 28, 2017 19:16
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Harrow posted:Remedy Lores are even better, because they let Remedies cover things that even Esuna can't cure, like Doom and Disease. Any character with three Remedy Lores should probably have an Ally: any -> Remedy gambit, especially since you can buy Remedies fairly early on. Yeah I'm doing this for everyone. I love that it's a thing everyone can do.
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Jul 28, 2017 19:24
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Think I'm gonna install the FF9 high-res background mod and start a new game when I get home. All this FF9 talk has me ready to enjoy the chillest FF.ROFL Octopus posted:
Hell yeah. Y'know, I think FF4 DS is probably the most successful Final Fantasy remake. Dawn of Souls is pretty good, too, but FF4 DS makes such sweeping and cool gameplay changes that I can't help but love it. Also, I love the whole thing with seeing your lead character's current thoughts when you open the menu--I always cycled through my party members every time it changed just to see them all.
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Jul 28, 2017 20:00
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Shame FF4 DS is ugly as gently caress. Also has some bad difficulty spikes.
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The PC version's lack of ridiculous jaggies helps somewhat with the ugliness, but then the UI is just horrific so it's sort of a wash.
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