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Excels posted:This whole port was a direct result of Western fans crying for an English release, right? What was it people liked in the original strongly enough to try and get Square's attention? People wanted it to come to the west mainly because they wanted something to play on a Vita. Now the vita is dead and nobody cares, and it never came to the vita anyway On the plus side, I am playing FFX-2 on my Vita. The fights in this game are way less balanced than I remembered
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Baal posted:I like... Final Fantasy down with this sort of thing careful now Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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That loving Sned posted:Same here, mostly because the PC versions are really poorly optimised because they run on a single thread, and even ridiculously powerful PCs can't hold a stable 60fps. Plus, the videos in FFXIII are lower quality than in the PS3 version. I played XIII at full 60 the whole time through
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Where the gently caress is Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns (PC) Square?
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In Training posted:Where the gently caress is Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns (PC) Square? console superiority
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Aug 26, 2015 14:00
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corn in the bible posted:console superiority The superiority of running at a constant 15-20 FPS is definitely something I'm looking forward to going back to, yes.
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Artix posted:The superiority of running at a constant 15-20 FPS is definitely something I'm looking forward to going back to, yes. 20 fps is better than nothing at all
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Aug 26, 2015 14:04
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It's better to think of FPS as lightning's per second in this case and I think it's a good argument for a 60 LPS pc version
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Artix posted:The superiority of running at a constant 15-20 FPS is definitely something I'm looking forward to going back to, yes. It would probably run at about that on my current PC anyway. 
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Aug 26, 2015 14:08
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My computer would be lucky to break 5. FFXIII was extremely optimized and my computer can barely run it, I shudder to think what would happen with games that didn't have nearly as much polish.
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Aug 26, 2015 14:46
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Save some money and get new computers, games are even cooler when they're smooth and shiny.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HvJHVANG2k
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Kanfy posted:Save some money and get new computers, games are even cooler when they're smooth and shiny. Just buy a Wii u instead.
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I just cracked out a PS1 emulater and am prancing about on FFIX. I hated FFX because it had no world map so felt way too linear but loved VII, VIII and IX, would I hate all of the more recent titles too? I never played any of the 2D ones. Are any of those legitimately good or are they pure nostalgia?
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In Training posted:Just buy a Wii u instead. Nah, there's no Lightning on the weeuu, thus making it a complete waste of money.
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jiggerypokery posted:I just cracked out a PS1 emulater and am prancing about on FFIX. I hated FFX because it had no world map so felt way too linear but loved VII, VIII and IX, would I hate all of the more recent titles too? I never played any of the 2D ones. Are any of those legitimately good or are they pure nostalgia? IV V and VI are all good.
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jiggerypokery posted:I just cracked out a PS1 emulater and am prancing about on FFIX. I hated FFX because it had no world map so felt way too linear but loved VII, VIII and IX, would I hate all of the more recent titles too? I never played any of the 2D ones. Are any of those legitimately good or are they pure nostalgia? 4-6 are legitimately good and basically like 7-9 but 2d.
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jiggerypokery posted:I just cracked out a PS1 emulater and am prancing about on FFIX. I hated FFX because it had no world map so felt way too linear but loved VII, VIII and IX, would I hate all of the more recent titles too? I never played any of the 2D ones. Are any of those legitimately good or are they pure nostalgia? I-III haven't aged too well and IV is debatable depending on your old game tolerance, but V and VI hold up quite well still. However you'll want the GBA's Advance versions instead of the bad PS1 ones and you'll want to get the restoration patches for them that restore the original sound and look which were of lower quality in the original GBA releases. The Advance versions are way faster, better translated and have a bunch of extras including some bonus bosses and whatnot. And if you hate linearity and have a PC that can run a PS2 emulator then XII might be worth giving a shot, specifically the fan-translated International Zodiac Job System -version which greatly improves that game but which has not been released outside of Japan at least yet. It's a game people either love or hate but it's definitely quite open.
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The original SNES version of FF6 is perfectly acceptable still. The sound-restored GBA version is probably the closest there might be to a definitive version, but there's enough worth checking in the SNES release if you have access to that. Agreed that the GBA version of FF5 is the only version worth playing.
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Thanks all. Honestly, I was expecting you all to say every other game was utter shite. There goes an afternoon or two!
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Aug 26, 2015 15:25
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I like every FF. except 3.
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jiggerypokery posted:Thanks all. Honestly, I was expecting you all to say every other game was utter shite. There goes an afternoon or two! Contrary to popular belief, Final Fantasy is good.
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Aug 26, 2015 15:33
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I've seen the words FF so many times now I don't even remember what they stand for. I'm going to say Final Fight. A turn based RPG where you play Mayor of Earth Mike Haggar and his two sidekicks, a ninja and a convict.
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Baal posted:Contrary to popular belief, Final Fantasy is good. I've been in denial since my mid-teens.
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jiggerypokery posted:I just cracked out a PS1 emulater and am prancing about on FFIX. I hated FFX because it had no world map so felt way too linear but loved VII, VIII and IX, would I hate all of the more recent titles too? I never played any of the 2D ones. Are any of those legitimately good or are they pure nostalgia? 4 and 6 are definitely worth playing of the 2D games, maybe 5 also. I like 1 but that's definitely nostalgia since it was the first videogame I ever owned.
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I dont know about any of the others but if you liked the ps1 era you'll like ff6
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corn in the bible posted:I dont know about any of the others but if you liked the ps1 era you'll like ff6 I dunno man, I liked VII and IX but VI ranks pretty low for me. I wouldn't put it in the same category as disappointments like VIII or III, but I've always found it to be middling.
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CeallaSo posted:disappointments like VIII I actually really enjoyed VIII. Do I have problem? I really didn't understand the dislike for it.
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jiggerypokery posted:I actually really enjoyed VIII. Do I have problem? I really didn't understand the dislike for it. I also like 8, but you really can't understand why it gets so much hate? Cmon man
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Aug 26, 2015 21:46
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Nope, sorry! Don't get it!
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The plot has tons of random threads that come out of nowhere and are dropped just as quickly as they came, the main party is a weird mishmash because only rinoa and squall get much focus past the first disc, the gameplay is simultaneously incredibly tedious if you don't understand how it works and mindbogglingly easy if you put any thought into it.
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I'm not saying you're wrong for liking it but it's pretty easy to get why people would dislike it.
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jiggerypokery posted:Nope, sorry! Don't get it! It's the broken gameplay and disjointed plot. There's a lot that the game did right; it looks great for its time, and it sounds great, and it invented Triple Triad. But a game should be fun to play and an RPG should tell an engaging story, and it failed on both counts. Don't get me wrong; I still like VIII. I haven't played a Final Fantasy yet that I haven't liked at least a little bit, and I've played the vast majority of them. I'm just not willing to pretend it's better than it actually is.
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8 probably has the least likeable cast of any FF game where they actually try and give them personalities.
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VIII is the one game in the series I've just never been able to sit through. I've tried quite a number of times and have even gotten pretty far in some attempts but without fail I'll just lose steam and not be able to stand playing it anymore after awhile. I don't know what it is about the game but... blugh. Then again my first FF game as a kid was IX so... yeah I was hella spoiled in that regard. Going from the best in the series to VIII is a giant gap.
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Sakurazuka posted:8 probably has the least likeable cast of any FF game where they actually try and give them personalities. Vanille
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13 was pushing it but it also had Sazh
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corn in the bible posted:Vanille Vanille is neither the entire cast nor particularly egregious. Her affectations in the English dub are insufferable, sure, but her character is no worse than someone like Yuffie or Selphie. So I also support the claim that VIII has the worst cast. IX has the best.
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corn in the bible posted:Vanille Vanille at least has character depth. Most of the cast of VIII barely have much going on. Selphie for instance is just kind of there to be a bubbly personality. That's pretty much it she has no real character dept or plot significance.
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