VIII?
Well, I guess it isn't XII at least. If not for the enemy level scaling and Gil paychecks, I might have enjoyed it.
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I find this comment funny, because VIII and XII are two of my favorite Final Fantasy games.
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8 was pretty, but not any fun
7 was fun, but ugly as sin
10 was pretty and fun, but totally linear
12 was more open, but lost any coherence of plot
Meh.
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Best because I enjoyed it. I can't stand the ATB system, so V is bad for that (though everything else was great), and XII had a boring battle system as well, and didn't even have story and characters to save it. The CTB system used in FFX I found enjoyable enough that I spent over 200 hours on saves for that game, playing the International release. Managed to beat all but Dark Yojimbo and the boss fight after the Dark Aeons.
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I got a bit further than that.
I also put super glue on my discs though...
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The case was damaged, I decided to glue it back together, didn't think of removing the discs. After realizing, I just figured it was only FFVIII and didn't care. :P
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Would be very nice if its ture, it´s my second favourite FF ^^ But the PC-Port was horrible, so I hope they put some work in it.
Btw, will it have a Squall-Save-Feature? ;)
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Gimme VI, then we'll talk. In the mean time, I'll be checking Steam every day for the Duke Nukem 3D/Shadow Warrior release slated for this month.
EDIT: Also, didn't we already have this thread?
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That one was awful.
Sorry, it had to be said.
However, while I can't stand the game, there is a fan patch a friend of mine is doing, adds more challenge to the game. You might want to wait for the public release. Its in final testing now, just the testers doing a full run.
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My first problem with the game is the ATB system. Of all the games using this battle system, I only enjoyed V, and I enjoyed that for the characters, story and class system choices more than the fights. Unless they were Gilgamesh fights...
Past that were the characters, most of them unfortunately didn't hit it off with me (Cyan being the only exception). The story also didn't draw me in, and I had to force myself to pay as far as I did (reached the World of Ruin no less than 3 times, not sure how many times I played without reaching that far).
Basically, a lot more for me to dislike than enjoy in most of the games of the series. It is a shame. I've owned almost every main game in the series and several spinoffs, but only enjoyed four, three of which I named earlier in the topic, the last being Dirge of Cerberus.
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So it was more personal opinion than the game simple being "awful" as in your previous post. I may not agree, but I respect your opinion.
Personally, I felt the exact opposite on most points. I've actually been replaying FFV over the past week and hate its implementation of ATB, though mostly for the "pausing" issue with the timer and the inability to skip to another active character without acting in some way. As for Gilgamesh... yeah, Gilgamesh :P
To the class system, the change from universal (and redundant) class to archetypical characters (Locke>Thief, Strago>Blue Mage, etc.) with universal magic access gave the individual characters more depth and personality and seemed a natural franchise progression (with FF9 being the odd man out leaning back to FFIV-style strict class-characters). I can't tell you how many times in V, when I knew a boss was coming up, I'd switch everyone to monk and be done in a couple "rounds".
For the characters it felt like they were a little more generous with the character story events, but you had to find them in the World of Balance (similar to Bartz's Music Box and the Tycoon Castle events). When it came to the World of Ruin, these events were directly tied (in most cases) to the re-recruitment of your party, though most characters had some additional events to be found later. For story, I dunno, it just felt like FFV was constantly rushing; FFVI was definitely slower.
System-story wise, two things in FFV upset me that weren't present in FFVI. First was the "get ship/chocobo, move 5 squares, lose ship, clear one dungeon, get new ship/black chocobo" that repeated constantly through the first world; it felt completely unnecessary. Second, was the negation of Galuf's sacrifice by giving Krile his exact stats/gear/levels and adding her to your party immediately; giving you "rule 63 Galuf" just took all of the significance out of his death.
General story, I'll say this: the only FF stories I hated were FFX/-2, FFTA/12 (12 mostly because it's a continuation of Tactics Advance/A2) and FF13/-2/Type-0 (and now -3 and vs. are coming -_-). Every other FF (including 11) had at least a good story. V was great, but as I stated earlier it just felt rushed.
All in all, however, this is opinion more than anything. I was mostly seeing if you'd pop up with the sadly stereotypical "FF7 is best coz Sephiroth!!1!" argument ;)
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Yeah but it turned out that retarded Square put it on its own digital service or something so it was a false alarm
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How unexpected. :o
Didn't think that would ever happen.
Wonder what this means about future FF games.
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What I really want: FFX and FFXII! Too bad that this will not happen :(
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Yeah, really not likely. VII and VIII were both released on PC at that time, and would require minimal work to get working under newer operating systems. The others would need to be done from scratch for PC.
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Yeah, I know. My PS2 died a noble death and the only possibility is to emulate a PS2. Problem with the emulation is: it is not very mature.
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I'd suggest taking another look at emulating 10 at the very least. Use PCSX2 1.0.0 (r5350) with the correct roms and make a 1 to 1 iso of the disks then it runs spot on with a decent PC. I've had no trouble playing through the whole game a month or so ago.
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Cool, an extremely over-hyped FF and very likely the worse FF.
Don't bother getting FF 6 or 9 unto Steam. It's not like those two are leagues better or anything. /sarcasm
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Read above. VII and VIII were released for PC way back when. The only others that is true for are the MMO titles.
And hey, they aren't better. All four suck. :P
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You're right about that, I just meant that it has never been ported so it's highly unlikely it will ever be, almost (or no SNES games at all? Not sure) get/got ported to PC. I think the most recent examples of old school ports have to be the Dreamcast Sonic games and Nights and so on. But that's SEGA, no one else seems to deem it necessary to bring an old game to modern PC's
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You'd be surprised. Sega has actually been pumping out ports from older consoles over the past couple years. On Steam, go to the Sega catalog and sort by price to see what I mean. With the recent retro movement, we're seeing revivals of older games, both PC and console trickling in. Considering old>modern PC revivals are usually harder to do (OpenGL rewriting, DosBox configuration/compatibility, texture tweaks/recreation, etc.) when compared to tool usage like RPG Maker, I think the only things stopping publishers are a lack of motivation, fear, and the ever present stigma of the Console-PC Barrier.
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Yeah, I've always been more of a Dragon Quest guy. Final Fantasies just seemed like they were written by and for weeaboos. Gasp The main character has amnesia and is really a prince! Gasp This attractive male is actually an attractive lady! Gasp This man doesn't realize who his true love is until it's too late!
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I might buy FF7 at 75% off on a Steam sale. I've owned this game for years, and never got it to run well enough to play it. Then again, the control scheme of FF games always turned me off. I hope that the remake gives a nod towards the existence of a mouse.
BTW, I just noticed that the new version has "Cloud saves". Is that a pun or what? :)
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Well, the original PC version of VIII had terrible music in comparision with the PS1 version. If they fix it - I'll grab it even though I already own it on disc and on PSN. I don't care about VII.
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VII maybe, but like said in other posts, you won;t see they other two unless Square Enix are willing to program their ports from scratch.
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...Not because I dislike the games. But because I thought I had finally escaped their PS3 bound tyranny when I came away and yet I doubt it would be too long before I bought them on Steam. If they come out, there goes my productivity as I attempt more needless challenges. Like getting Squall to Level 100 solo at Balamb Garden at the start of the game...Oh God, endless rounds of Triple-Triad that is repetitive yet enjoyable! And 7! I can see me now morphing for hours on end in the Gelnika trying to stat max everyone, or pulling that lever in Junon trying to get people to ridiculous levels early on (I have a thing for early level maxing) or trying to get a ludicrous number of Master Materia for the hell of it. Not to mention forcing disturbingly closely related chocobos to breed to try to get one the right colour like some kind of twisted, chocobo sex nuts, racist, elitist pervert.
Please Steam, for the good of my ridiculously expensive education, give it another 2 years or so.
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