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Post by chibby on Mar 1, 2018 17:55:03 GMT -5
Then Ergheiz is a FF, too! Fun fact: the dungeon crawler included with it is better than Final Fantasy 1, 2 and 5. EDIT - I mean this! Holy crap! I googled this and I totally played this game in a K-Mart display when it first came out! I remember being super impressed and wishing owned it. To be fair, I thought that about 90% of store demos in those days. In other news, if anyone is interested in ports, Steam has all Final Fantasy (and square enix titles as a whole I believe) for 50% off until the 5th. I'm not ready to drop 8 bucks to play FF V or VI quite yet, but it's an option.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 1, 2018 18:04:26 GMT -5
FFVI looks pretty terrible, though. Should have left the graphics alone; the redrawn sprites are just... well, like a bad mobile game.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 1, 2018 18:10:41 GMT -5
You kind of answered yourself there Ex. You don't like replaying games. Games with variety in them with additional characters, class systems, unlockables, etc and all that jazz... that's a mega plus to replaying games that are enjoyable. Think you straight up said that's "mastering" them in ways too somewhere else. I've been playing Seiken Densetsu 3 consistently for 15 some years now, that and an emulator have always been the first thing I download when I got a new PC or migrated over to a new setup. And never once in those 15 years have I ran the same party or had the same experience. The FF's with the job system will lend themselves extremely well to replay value above the others. The Matsuno games are especially relevant to this as well with how awesomely systems heavy they are. There is no negativity to having more options. How do you even beat a fighting game by the way? I have about 30 hours on Tekken 7 because it's so fun online and learning new characters. I'll keep playing it. Not sure the joke applies to JRPG's. lol I'm excited to see all these additional trophies and unlockables I need to get for REmake. I really want to play the Invisible Zombie mode, but I guess I need to beat Hard and Real Survivor first. I don't care, sounds fun. I'll keep replaying this game and other favorites forever. Way more fun than digging through the Average Barrel of Fable's that you have at your side. A job fiesta thing might be fun next time I play FF5, but I think I'd rather just be more better optimized in my own personal choices. I tried to do a lot of jack of all trades when I played it which maybe gimped me in some spots haha. I was kind of experimenting and getting a taste of all the jobs. I think I'll be more focused next time I replay it and know which jobs to skip over completely.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 1, 2018 18:13:43 GMT -5
Yeah chibby, I already mentioned how terrible those Steam ports are. Also a lot of Square Enix games that get patched on consoles, never get patched on PC. Think wisely about your money spending...
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Post by chibby on Mar 1, 2018 18:25:24 GMT -5
Yeah chibby, I already mentioned how terrible those Steam ports are. Also a lot of Square Enix games that get patched on consoles, never get patched on PC. Think wisely about your money spending... I have the FF VII port and it seems... okay? Having never played the original I can't really say how it compares. I'm not planning on spending any money at this point, though I think some of the ports have the option to set the game to original graphics mode, for whatever that's worth (VII has that option anyway). If I really wanted to play one of the older (SNES era) games I'd just emulate. If I were going to sit down with an FF title, it'd be one that I already own. Probably VII or X. While we're on the subject, the Steam Chrono Trigger point is, supposedly, like SOOOO much trash. It has mostly negative reviews, mostly from players who love the game but HATE the port.
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Post by Ex on Mar 1, 2018 18:46:55 GMT -5
How do you even beat a fighting game by the way? Many fighting games allow you to pick a character and play through their story mode, after which when it's completed, you get some little cutscene resolving their particular ending, and then you see credits (usually) and can put in your initials for the score board. I consider that beating a fighting game. While we're on the subject, the Steam Chrono Trigger point is, supposedly, like SOOOO much trash. It has mostly negative reviews, mostly from players who love the game but HATE the port. A lot of people are pissed about the recent Chrono Trigger Steam port. I've been reading up on that. Apparently it's a port of the mobile version. Way to blow it SQEX! Looks like the SNES or DS versions are still the best way to go.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 1, 2018 18:52:05 GMT -5
VII is a much better port. I think that FFVI falls into the same category as the Chrono Trigger port. They just moved it over from mobile. Even the text fonts look awful.
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Post by toei on Mar 1, 2018 18:54:33 GMT -5
Yeah, the port is trash, but actually it's not quite as trash as FFVI. They used the same sprites, but there's a crappy filter over everything, and the menus are completely awful generic mobile phone garbage.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 1, 2018 18:59:35 GMT -5
Dude...I know fighting games have story modes, but who plays them for that. lol, my friends and I have been playing a lot of fighters actively for the last few years again for hangouts. It's different than just running through the story mode and then throwing it on the shelves.
FFVII Steam... I believe like the original PC release has midi files for the music. So you have to download mp3's somewhere and throw them in a folder probably. Maybe the FFVIII and IX releases are fine, but the rest sound like trash. Even the modern ones with tons of resolution/framerate problems and lack of patches. (Square is also expecting you to have a nuclear reactor to run FFXV).
I'll probably get the new releases of FFVII and IX on PS4 sometime and will stick with consoles for the remastered stuff too.
It's funny FFVIII didn't get a new updated release like the other PSX games. It seems to be the least supported one next to FFVI probably.
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Post by Ex on Mar 1, 2018 21:49:18 GMT -5
Dude...I know fighting games have story modes, but who plays them for that. I do, when I want to "beat" one. Some fighting games have surprisingly good single player campaign modes actually. SoulCalibur's Weapon Master stuff for instance. Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary campaign is fantastic. And to get things back on topic, Dissidia Final Fantasy is all about story mode. By the way, that game is now ten years old too! (At least if you go by its Japanese release date.)
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