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If that's the PSP version, it's the definitive version of 2D FF4. You can safely ignore the small side-story, and the sequel will depend on how much you like the gameplay and how stupid you like your stories. But give FF4 a whirl, it's still pretty good for being over 25 years old.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Joe Mad was missing his comic book deadlines because he was playing too much Final Fantasy. The PSP collection? The best way to play some Final Fantasy IV. It's also the best way to play some After Years. But, I mean, it's still The After Years.
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bloom posted:Even with everything that got cut out Soul Reaver was really impressive for its time. I may be biased because I was in my early teens at the time, but the PSX era really stands out as a time when big name developers would still take risks on weird ambitious projects instead of playing things as safe as possible like they do these days. Ken and Chun-Li looking p good
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Mr. Locke posted:The PSP collection? The best way to play some Final Fantasy IV. Is it a good game though? I haven't played any Final Fantasy before 6 (besides a little of the original as a kid on NES), and just want to make sure I'm not signing up for a grindfest or otherwise boring rear end game.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Is it a good game though? I haven't played any Final Fantasy before 6 (besides a little of the original as a kid on NES), and just want to make sure I'm not signing up for a grindfest or otherwise boring rear end game. IV is the game most similar to VI out of 1-5. Youll have no control over party composition and theres less character customization, but everything else will be instantly transferrable.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Is it a good game though? I haven't played any Final Fantasy before 6 (besides a little of the original as a kid on NES), and just want to make sure I'm not signing up for a grindfest or otherwise boring rear end game. Final Fantasy IV is a fun and breezy experience. It's got some of the silliest melodrama in the series, but the combat's solid, the game keeps rotating characters into and out of your party to keep things fresh, the bosses are more like puzzles then stat walls, and the whole thing might take you ten hours if you take your time.
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I mean, Tidus is already buff. He's a professional athlete who wanders around in an outfit designed to show off his muscles. What that picture is is a square-jawed Tidus. (This is kind of like how people describe the blood elves in WoW as "wispy" when they're actually incredibly muscular, just slightly more proportioned than the gorilla-like human models.)
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Aug 7, 2018 15:37
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So I started replaying FFX. The characters still look ridiculous. I do appreciate the pacing tho. The trip from Zanarkand to Besaid is actually pretty cool and seeing that lush lagoon felt really nice. Maybe it has to do with the awkward dialogue but I'm not really feeling story. But I like the journey if that makes sense. Similarly I dont really care about the obviously half finished story in Zodiac Age or FFXV. I just want to go on an adventure. Now let's see if I can get to Kilika.
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Mr. Locke posted:The PSP collection? The best way to play some Final Fantasy IV. The best way to play The After Years is don't. Maybe read an LP but it's literally a bad wankfest of a fangame.
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The main villain of the game is the Pillsbury Dough Boy. How good or bad that is depends on you.
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Mr. Locke posted:Final Fantasy IV is a fun and breezy experience. It's got some of the silliest melodrama in the series, but the combat's solid, the game keeps rotating characters into and out of your party to keep things fresh, the bosses are more like puzzles then stat walls, and the whole thing might take you ten hours if you take your time. That's what I wanted to hear. My filthy casual rear end needs something to play before bedtime. Anybody else get the Ultimania collection? Thing is gorgeous. FF 4 and 6 are standouts.
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WaltherFeng posted:the obviously half finished story in Zodiac Age lol what (Complete agreement re: FF15, obviously)
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Instant Grat posted:lol what This is not a new thing, FFXII was the first of the Square "Leave half the game on the cutting room floor because we're way late in the development." It's just better edited together.
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Onmi posted:This is not a new thing, FFXII was the first of the Square "Leave half the game on the cutting room floor because we're way late in the development." It's just better edited together. I'll say. I felt it was pretty cohesive? Just a lot more high-concept than something like 9 or 10, obviously
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Onmi posted:This is not a new thing, FFXII was the first of the Square "Leave half the game on the cutting room floor because we're way late in the development." It's just better edited together. It starts to get pretty obvious some things were beginning to get stitched together around the time you get to Archades. Like, they had already designed the major set pieces for the latter half of the game, and had to very quickly string them together either with unvoiced cutscenes, “let’s follow Cid!”, or padding out time with the Pharos. It’s still a fantastic game though.
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HD DAD posted:It starts to get pretty obvious some things were beginning to get stitched together around the time you get to Archades. Like, they had already designed the major set pieces for the latter half of the game, and had to very quickly string them together either with unvoiced cutscenes, “let’s follow Cid!”, or padding out time with the Pharos. It's better than being told major events while looking at a rocking chair.
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I'd rather that than the last couple of dungeons in FF12.
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The mandatory bits of The Great Crystal are less awful than they first appear. The upper layers are horribly designed, and doing them without a map from the internet is basically impossible, though.
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a lot of character stuff wound up on the floor as well, like if you were saying "Man, Penelo has like no real character" that's mostly to do with the fact that all the Penelo related character stuff was kind of just cut and left on the floor. The majority of that stuff was picked up and shifted into the Sequel, Revenant Wings, as was everything to do with Kytes and Filo. One can argue it was for the best, since it kept things relatively focused, but well, at one point they planned for Airship combat and a host of other stuff. And for the record, we aren't talking about Vaan, the game was very much in concept when Vaan was added to the playable cast, no actual programming work had been started.
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They should do an interweb poll and see if people want Penelo's story added as Chapter Penelo DLC
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Instant Grat posted:The mandatory bits of The Great Crystal are less awful than they first appear. Even more so than FF13, 12 is a game I want to like, but just can't due to these rushed-feeling areas.
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Instant Grat posted:lol what Yasumi Matsuno was one of the writers for FFXII but had to leave the project due to health issues. You can tell his influence on the first half of the game when there's like a dozen different conspiracies to keep track of but then they just fizzle out way before the game actually ends.
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Aug 8, 2018 16:56
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WaltherFeng posted:Yasumi Matsuno was one of the writers for FFXII but had to leave the project due to health issues. He died? I'm making a bad joke about Japanese corporate life.
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Star Man posted:He died? Matsuno is very much still alive
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Instant Grat posted:The mandatory bits of The Great Crystal are less awful than they first appear. they still really blow my favorite is the artificial padding by design where visually you could just walk down the slopes in great crystal but in terms of map design you can't, they're unwalkable terrain and you have to go down a series of switchback hallways instead
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Aug 8, 2018 20:50
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Is there any Final Fantasy scene as impactful as the end of yorha?
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Gologle posted:Is there any Final Fantasy scene as impactful as the end of yorha? something is wrong with me. send help. lobster22221 fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Aug 8, 2018 21:14
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the best scene in a jrpg is when armic from unlimited saga forgives the antagonist because genocide is basically the same as fighting over fish
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lobster22221 posted:Can you summarize it for us non mmo-players? 
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nvm I am an idiot. lobster22221 fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Nier 2 has always been my favorite mmo
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Oh dammit. I could of sworn I googled it and had final fantasy 14 results. What the hell did I search last night?
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Gologle posted:Is there any Final Fantasy scene as impactful as the end of yorha? What about the scene where Prompto is revealed to be a whatever and no one cares and it literally never comes up again. Impactful.
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Saint Freak posted:What about the scene where Prompto is revealed to be a whatever and no one cares and it literally never comes up again. Impactful. The word you're looking for is former fatboy and I agree they should've gone back and addressed it.
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WaltherFeng posted:Yasumi Matsuno was one of the writers for FFXII but had to leave the project due to health issues. I dunno, "half a dozen conspiracy theories to keep track of that fizzle out and you just fight some demons" is how a lot of Matsuno stories go.
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MarsDragon posted:I dunno, "half a dozen conspiracy theories to keep track of that fizzle out and you just fight some demons" is how a lot of Matsuno stories go. yeah this is... well, if he left when the story was only half finished, they definitely nailed the formula after he was gone.
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Aug 9, 2018 03:42
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Maybe he never played tactics Ogre
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Saint Freak posted:What about the scene where Prompto is revealed to be a whatever and no one cares and it literally never comes up again. Impactful. To be somewhat fair, playing Episode Prompto first (as this thread recommended) makes that scene a meaningful and sweet conclusion to Prompto's character arc. Would've been a baffling wreck of a non-plot point without that DLC, though.
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You got me there
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"We can solve this gordian tangle of intrigue through diplomacy!" "Vayne just killed all the other factions at the start of act 2. Diplomacy has failed." "Oh. You said something about magical nukes? Let's do that then."
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