I can't stress enough that now when people say Uematsu composed only 9 full Final Fantasy Soundtracks, they are wrong. He composed 10. FFXIV 1.0 is a full Uematsu soundtrack….
@“treefroggy”#p79866
only 9 is kind of hilarious on its own. No one would use only to talk about, like, Peter Jackson movies scored by Howard Shore.
So I made it to the end of VII and I think I might be a bit underleveled or something. I can beat the first two bosses no problem but the third one is giving me trouble, my party only has ~ 5k hp and he is able to one-shot them. It has been really fun coming back to this game after not playing it at all since it came out. Like a weird combination of playing something I haven‘t played before and something I know intimately at the same time. As with all the Final Fantasy games I have been playing this year, the music and atmosphere in this game rules. I’m going to come back and work out my materia and figure out the right combinations of buffs and debuffs to beat the final boss.
In the meantime, I got a PS5 and have started playing VIIR. It has been really enjoyable so far. I hadn't had a new modern console or a PC capable of playing games since the PS2 until I got a Switch a few years ago so I missed out on a lot of VIDEO GAMES. Playing a new action game like this has taken some getting used to. Everything about it is very smooth and buttery -- the gameplay, the story, the dialogue, the side quests. It is so cool looking but if I'm honest the amount of graphics and the framerate makes me feel weird sometimes! It feels very indulgent like watching a Fast and Furious movie or eating a bunch of candy.
@“mindleftbody”#p79898 THATS GOOD that you‘re having trouble– this game has been played to death more than any other to the point where it’s more of a unique experience to do anything besides 1-shot the final bosses.
Hopefully you have multiple save files from before the final save point. The final dungeon is more expansive than you may think, and there are some really cool and trippy areas where you can get really sweet items and exp bonuses from some of the coolest and weirdest enemies in the game!
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@“mindleftbody”#p79898 Like a weird combination of playing something I haven’t played before and something I know intimately at the same time.
this is what I call "comfort food" games. It's why I save Squaresoft games for when I really need it and treasure my first playthrough more than anything.
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@“mindleftbody”#p79898 In the meantime, I got a PS5 and have started playing VIIR. It has been really enjoyable so far.
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@“mindleftbody”#p79898 In the meantime, I got a PS5 and have started playing VIIR. It has been really enjoyable so far. I hadn’t had a new modern console or a PC capable of playing games since the PS2
Your experience sounds like it will be just like mine. I have generally skipped the past 2 generations of games and so playing FFVIIR was my first time playing a game with graphics that good, LOL. Which is why I have 0 sympathy when someone complains about the graphical fidelity of that game.
I think the ideal VIIR experience is having played FFVII in the past, and playing Remake right off the heels of a VII replay. Which is what I did. So really our experiences will be similar as heck.
@“treefroggy”#p79902
I really like the remake so far, just escaped the church with Aerith and now we’re going to mosey over some rooftops.
@“mindleftbody”#p79974
Just the mention of this moment is tempting me to replay the game.
@“mindleftbody”#p79974 as an aerith fanboy, this was my favorite part to play remade. and I feel like they designed it to be cherished
I loved the part in remake >!where you go back to get the materia from inside of the giant fan. I think it would be great for everyone if we had more vending machines playing the chocobo theme in real life.!<
Just beat FF7 for the first time. I'll write “beat” instead of finished because partway through the game I was following cues from one scene to the next and I realized when it was too late that I missed a heck of a lot of side missions.
I enjoyed the experience and will probably revisit it in a year or so.
I’ve been casually playing Final Fantasy II again! Dawn of Souls GBA version. It kind of feels like FFXIV, going back to the princess leader of the rebels between missions…
My friend WT SNACKS is doing a FFXIV DJ event? Haven’t looked into it yet no idea how it works at the moment but shall peep later and attend if I can. What I do know is it’s Good music guaranteed SQ lives for tha music
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I have never played FFIV the After Years before
I want to play the PSP version, or perhaps the Wii version….
there‘s lots of versions. I’m seeing that even the Japanese version has english language options.
Anyone have an encyclopedic knowledge of these versions?
@“Syzygy”#p81444 thanks a ton, exactly the info I needed. side note, I am testing out the PSP port of FFIII for the first time (I beat it on DS and ios many many years ago when they were new) too bad the DS remake of FFIV wasn't ported to PSP… unless…. was it?
@“treefroggy”#p81445 It wasn’t unfortunately, they opted to do that IV Complete Collection that Syzygy mentioned. Also fun fact that the JP-exclusive physical copy of the III PSP port includes English as an option, it just displays whatever language your system is set to.
@“sabertoothalex”#p81446 yeah I’ve been playing that version of FFIII in English today. I just meant I want to play the 3D version of FFIV on PSP as well. I think it’s suited for it. Except the FFIII port is kind of half-assed, just remapped DS controls. The classic “hold A to rapidly procede through battle menus” is not possible.
Wondering what people think about ffx here. Ive never played it and started going through it on vita a couple weeks ago. Not totally sure what to think.
I appreciate a lot about it, its aesthetics are crazy over the top in a fun y2k way thats nostalgic to me. Those cutscenes are pretty, and make me wish i was playing the game on a crt in 2001. I like the battle system a lot, how you can switch between party members without penalty and they all have a specific role. The voice acting is cheesy and cool.
But in a lot of ways it feels like final fantasy: guns of the patriots. Theres like a 60/40 gameplay to cutscene ratio, and the story is making a whole lot of no-sense. The battles also take too long considering how high the encounter rate is (random encounters are usually something i dont mind). Also those orb puzzles really blow.
But so far, i keep coming back to it.
Idk, what do you guys think? Ive heard a lot of love for this game and a fair amount of criticism. Whats the official ic consensus?
This has probably been discussed to death, so sorry if this is redundant.
@“Updog”#p81460
I played it when I was 12 or 13 so my memory of it is pretty hazy, but there are moments in the story that still get stuck in my head 20 years later. Also, Blitzball is the best minigame in any game. I would have bought a standalone Blitzball game made in the vein of Madden.
I loved it.
Overall, I loved it and hated it. The voice acting is famously bad, but the game is fun from moment to moment and has an interesting story told interestingly. I think it's where FF games began struggling with coherence in their third act (every game since X has stumbled in this way, I think), but, even so, it has some banger moments in that final act!
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@“Updog”#p81460
There is quite a bit of discussion of FFX in the beginning of the thread, particularly within the first 50 or so posts, where I also wrote a rather detailed explanation of why I like it a lot.
Personally it is my favorite Final Fantasy, but I acknowledge that there is definitely a bias due to it being the first I played properly at the right age.
I do wonder about the random encounters thing, because I replayed FFVII and FFX within the last 5 years and played VI for the first time recently and I found the random encounters slightly more annoying and time-consuming in VI and VII than in X. Maybe it simply because I like the battle system of X more than the ATB system that I feel that way. Either way, I'm not a big fan of random encounters in general anymore (and probably never really was), but I paradoxically quite like a lot of games that have them...
i‘ve been replaying final fantasy x on my switch recently. not my favorite final fantasy game, but it’s my favorite one to pick up and play whenever i'm in the mood to play a final fantasy game. such a tight package and truly feels like a “this is what we learned from the ps1 games” when it comes to design