Merrith
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Lost steam towards the end (the story at least). They made Cid a little too overpowered too. Game is awesome to replay with the JP scroll trick.
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Tactics loses points because of how stupidly easy it was. Outside of the first handful of missions there was no "tactics." It was using an overpowered Ramza and later an overpowered Cid to just faceroll all encounters. Shit even the first time I played it my buddy who lent me the game warned me the latter named NPCs are really strong so maybe not use them. Even not using the named characters outside of Ramza the game was mind numbingly easy. I guess I could have not gone a powerful double class system for Ramza and just single classed everyone but at that point the game loses a ton of depth just for artificial increase in difficulty.
I know I can't really compare a PSX game to PS2 but I far preferred Disgaea to FFT. I only make the comparison because I didn't play FFT on PSX I played it on PS2 then Disgaea afterwards.
I know I can't really compare a PSX game to PS2 but I far preferred Disgaea to FFT. I only make the comparison because I didn't play FFT on PSX I played it on PS2 then Disgaea afterwards.
I don't recall grinding on Ramza to make him good. I think it just naturally happened. I was tipped off that Blade Grasp was pretty much the balls so I went for that. I forget the other skills that broke the game as well. Possibly they should have just nerfed blade grasp so it didn't seem like it was 100% chance to miss. It was been a really long time since I played it but I remember if an encounter happened to give me issues I'd just sit Ramza in a corner for a few turns and constantly shout until he just went around the entire map killing everyone.
Final Fantasy 3 was one of my biggest time sinks, so many hours played. Sabin was my fav in the game, loved the blitz attacks and of course suplexing the train!
And Kefka is supreme madman! Perfect lead bad guy, other games should take notes!!
And Kefka is supreme madman! Perfect lead bad guy, other games should take notes!!
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I agree with shining force 2, but the leveling in SF1 resulted in way too random of level gains (and losing stats when you promoted sucked too). Some characters could be powerhouses (Bleu) if you got lucky with leveling or restarted until you got a good level, or they could get a couple of shitty levels and be useless because they would be dealing 1 pt of damage for the rest of the game making leveling them impossible.
Merrith
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Vanish basically made any magic land in the SNES version (no idea if it was fixed later). Doom, X-Zone, whatever. I abused the shit out of Vanish/X-zone on the Bracheosaurs.
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Yeah, vanish -> doom for bosses and vanish -> x-zone for trash.
There was that one area where magic wasn't useable...was that the Phoenix Cave? Or the Cult of Kefka Tower? One allowed only magic, and one allowed no magic if I remember correctly. Whichever it was, it always fucked me up because I pretty much just had one or two people with vanish and doom/x-zone and all other fighting abilities and equipment were shit.
Gavinmad
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There was no place that didn't allow magic. the Cult Tower was the place where you could only use magic and items. There were 3 ways to beat the magi-master at the top. One was the 'intended way' by using life 3 so someone would come back after he popped off ultima. The lulzy way was to get him real low then summon palidor so everyone in your party would jump, and hope that he died before the 4th person landed.
The pro way to beat him was to hit him with berserk so he would stop casting, and then rasp all his mana away.
The vanish trick was fixed in the FF6 advance release, along with some other bugs.
The pro way to beat him was to hit him with berserk so he would stop casting, and then rasp all his mana away.
The vanish trick was fixed in the FF6 advance release, along with some other bugs.
i played an beat I-VI about 12 years ago. i've been wanting to play them again recently and setting up my machine for hyperspin. i'm not on the up-and up about naming conventions so are were talking about III per chronological order or VI?
also, if someone would please fill me in on the most up to date de facto versions. should i play the playstations versions? the GBA versions?
also, if someone would please fill me in on the most up to date de facto versions. should i play the playstations versions? the GBA versions?
Gavinmad
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Generally speaking, the most recent releases of the older final fantasy games are all on handhelds, so GBA/DS, although I don't know if they did a handheld FFV. The playstation releases are just direct ports, the handheld ones are usually moderately improved games.
