/vr/ - Retro Games

I started playing FF4 for the first time. Played FF1 and FF3 before it, very little JRPG experience before those two.

Why... why is the combat so BAD?

It's real-time but it's not?


I feel like I'm being punished for wanting to do anything but mash Fight, and you can't choose your classes so I'm forced to go through the magic menus with the caster classes, and I'm being hit more for having to do it.

But it's not real-time so even if I can go fast enough, I still have to wait for the next turn. I can't just use the fast-forward key for long fights or grinding like I could with FF1 or FF3.


Just, why would they do this to me? It's so unfun, it simultaneously forces you to rush through battles without thinking while also being tedious and making you wait.

Is there a patch that makes the combat like the old Final Fantasies? I don't know how I'm supposed to play this fucking game, I'm three hours into it and I'm just taking damage I shouldn't be taking and making stupid decisions because the game's strangling me to hurry.

>there will never be another good mega man game

>>1898736
but beating him for the first time makes you feel like God.
>>mfw I'll never have that feeling again

>tfw you've never done anything anyone would consider an accomplishment and you suck too much to ever do so

I remember being a kid and thinking a game was super hard and feeling great beating it. Years later I find out it's considered easy.

I guess I beat Megaman and Bass as Megaman, but even that isn't really anything.

>>1052704
>tfw 18 and legitimately like Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones, but everyone pegs me as a hipster for it

>>944072
>tfw disowned