Not final fantasy but playing pokemon blue I managed to finally capture Mewtwo (my brother used my master ball on zapdos) and then batteries ran out. Luckily the old game boy was made of brick so it could take the punishment I dished out.
Gaming The Final Fantasy Thread
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Feeling slightly better about it now, keep 'em coming.
About 6 years ago I started playing FFVII again. Problem was, I didn't have a memory card. My mate was coming over the next day from Sheffield and said he's bring one with him. Naturally, I started the game and was just extremely cautious in boss battles and planned not to turn my concole off til he arrived. Anyway, after putting two shifts in and getting just beyond Rocket Town, my mate arrives. Without the memory card. I went absolutely mental as you can imagine.
It took me 5 and a half years to start FFVII again which I did late in 2013
I got to Lindblum last night. Just about to rig the Festival of the Hunt so Freya wins the Coral Ring for me
I'll do some extreme grinding/searching then tonight, I'll actually wait for you. I can save you time with that festival; Just lose the first fight with Zidane. I didn't want gil for winning and the second I realised you weren't gaining experience for the fights I actually beat myself up.
I want to get the treasure near cleyra that one of the chocographs was pointing to from Chocobo Forest. There's no way of getting there though.
Do you get to keep your chocobo in the airship that I'm going to assume we get?
You could build houses out of those gameboys.
On my first time playing FFVII I was near the end of disc one when my brother accidentally deleted the file. I reacted in sombre resignation and started anew the next morning.
Your chocobo stays on the world map while you're in the air ship
Agh, well I'm stuck getting it then. I've even walked to the place where it is and matched it with the picture from the chocograph. There are absolutely no tracks in that whole open area. =\
First rule of RPG games: save the game every few minutes. And you were grinding so likely you were somewhere in the world map which means that you could have saved anytime you wanted. You have only yourself to blame.
On the bright side though, that is something that happens to everyone for every FF game. I am pretty sure that I have screwed similarily in each of FF games I have played. The worst that has happened to me though was in The Witcher lat week when I had to turn back a few hours because of a stupid 'bug' in the game. It wasn't a saving issue (and I had multiple saves) but pretty much the same effect. Basically, I killed someone by mistake and a few hours later the game decided to go mad, and bring to me a fighter who kills you with a shoot and even if you kill him (highly difficult) he just continues respawning. A near game breaking mechanics. I even considered dropping completely the game.
Morale of the story, you are not alone when it comes to this.
Yup, I was bemoaning the timing. It was definitely a stupid on my part for not saving sooner.
Perhaps you need an upgraded chocobo to reach that area?
minor spoiler - the choboco improves and gets the ability of passing mountains, rivers and later on even oceans.
I'm so excited to download one later, Tomalonge which one are you two playing, might start that.
@Snowjoe , they are playing FF9 which is a great combination of the SNES FF games and PS FF games. It got the best parts of those games (although I don't think that it reached the heights of FF6 and FF7)
Yeah, get on IX. It's sensational
Ahhh, I was not aware of this, thanks.
As above, cheers buddy!
We're both playing 9, I'm waiting in the inn at the Mage Village on disc two currently. If you start this week I will actually wait for you, maybe even RM will wait too.
Have you went yet to the mage village. The best part of the game IMO. Vivi's dialogues there (and on things related to that) are phenomenal.
Yeah, I'd just come out of it to do my grinding when the Nexus died. It's a great part of the story, one that I might be having to do again tonight, I think. Haven't checked the damage on the save yet.
7 is my fave, and IMO the best, but I'd not argue with someone who thought 9 was the best. It's pretty much the perfect mix of everything FF, and quite probably the best to start with.
7 shits on any other FF in my opinion.
I'd say 6 was my second favourite, but it looks like it's getting knocked down by 9 so far.
I'd say 6 was my second favourite, but it looks like it's getting knocked down by 9 so far.
I have so many hours of fun ahead of me...
If you rate it that high already then there's a chance that 7's position could be in danger! You ain't seen nothing yet!
It isn't as serious as others (or probably doesn't feel so because of the faces of the characters) and is by far the most polished FF game right there. However, I think that in both writing, story, characters and game mechanics it fall short in comparison to 6 and 7. Which isn't a shame cause (almost) all games fall short in comparison with those two games. It is a great game to start playing FF, though I am not sure that then people will go to play 4 and 6 which while are great games (actually 4 is rated higher than 9 - something that I don't agree with, and 6 is rated higher than everything else bar possibly Chrono Trigger) but have bad graphics (compared to PS games which is normal because of platform). I was planning to skip the SNES games, but Redlambs suggested me to play 4 and 6, which in turn was one of the greatest gaming decisions I have ever made.
So, for that, maybe it would have been better to start with 4 and then play all of them till (and inclduding 10). Anyway, regardless of which game he starts playing, it would be a big shame to not play 4 and 6.
My favorites are 7 >= 6 > 9 >= Chrono Trigger > 8 >= 4
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Played some of that MMO beta on PS4, thought it was very average.
Should be an unwritten rule of the thread that any talk of a Final Fantasy, post X, is banned!
Agreed. Anything past ten isn't a final fantasy game.
Oh, 4 and 6 are absolute must plays as well, if someone is really worried about graphics, I suppose a copy of the DS remake of 4 isn't hard to find, I mean there are probably even dirty torrents of it for bad people.
I thought 9 was better than 6 though. 6 is magnificent, but after the change, the 2nd half of the game drags quite a bit.
Does that include Bravely Default, or Lost Odyssey?
Unfortunately that is true. The World of Balance is easily the best part of a game I have ever played. The World of Ruin isn't that great which is the reason why I put 6 slightly below 7 (and games like Kotor, Deus Ex and Mass Effect). As a complete package though, I still think that is is better than 9. Better mechanics, better companions, better story and better antagonist. The protagonist is better in 9 (Zidane > Terra) but that is probably because FF6 doesn't have a clear protagonist. Terra is recognized as the leader though Celes is by far the most important in the second part.
Dude, you have no idea. I'm incredibly jealous of you never having played a few of these. They're that good, they really are.
6 has some great companions, but I don't think there were any I enjoyed quite as much as Vivi and Steiner. Agreed on the antagonist though, Kefka is probably one of the best in all videogames, top 5 at least, probably top 3.
That Terra/Celes deal is a bit odd.
I thought Sephiroth was genuinely terrifying.
I'm all for antagonists hating people, judging people. But to him they just didn't matter at all, a genius mentality to put a villain at. Plus when you follow through his story there's a lot you can sympathise with.
I think I prefer Zidane as a protaganist than Cloud, I have to say.
I'm all for antagonists hating people, judging people. But to him they just didn't matter at all, a genius mentality to put a villain at. Plus when you follow through his story there's a lot you can sympathise with.
I think I prefer Zidane as a protaganist than Cloud, I have to say.
Thing is, while I agree in theory about Sephiroth, is it Sephiroth or Jenova? All those interactions until the end are Jenova taking on Sephiroths image, right?
I'd prefer Cloud if they didn't paint him as an emocunt in everything ever about FFVII itself, ignoring all that as best I can, Cloud would be my fave with Zidane a close 2nd, hmmmm, Cecil was pretty amazing too....
Your spoiler just blew my mind Earthquake. I never thought of it like that, maybe that's the case.
It's a really interesting theory.
IIRC, from when Cloud fecks him into the lifestream in the Nibel reactor, he floats off to the North Crater, pops in that crystal/cocoon thing and never reappears until you give him the black materia.
Of course, she could be taking on his characteristics, and there's speculation if this is all so, he's controlling her from the crater anyway.
Of course, she could be taking on his characteristics, and there's speculation if this is all so, he's controlling her from the crater anyway.
On short words, it is Jenova but she is being controled by Sephiroth. KingEric7 pretty much explained in details a few months ago.
Is it me, or is scan one of the most under-rated spells in the game?
I assume your comment is only half serious, but I object anyway. No matter how ridiculous you might feel when playing FF X-2, its combat and dress sphere system are actually very enjoyable. And I consider FF XII an absolute masterpiece, even if it's a less personal story with less developed characters as previous FF's. It's a stunning example of how you can keep the JRPG format fresh, and one of my biggest disappointments of the PS3 generation is that no other game (not even by SE themselves) took inspiration from it. I can't spare a single good word for what came after though...