/vr/ - Retro Games

Show me an artist who can compete with Amano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0JnXdfoYpY

People remember VII differently than it actually is. It's not super dark and brooding. Cloud isn't a crybaby. Most of the hate for FF comes from the FFVII spinoffs and X onward, but even then only two of the games follow the stereotype that people hate all FF games for (X, XIII).

In reality the series sticks to some similar ideas but is constantly changing itself up in terms of tone and gameplay. Some are dark and moody (IV, VI) but others are fun and generally lighthearted. (V, IX) Expect different gameplay gimmicks in most of them, to varying degrees of success. Also expect some seriously sweet music in every single one.

I thoroughly recommend IV, V, VI, and IX.

If someone wants to hate Final Fantasy because it's simplistic and dumbed down from WRPGs, go ahead. But barely any of them are the melodramatic anime nonsense that people think they are. Usually the story is just various spins on "GO SAVE THE CRYSTALS".

Anyone got any good festive/comfy wallpapers? I got a comfy one now, but it isn't vidya related, so I was hoping one of you guys might have something.

pic unrelated, just one of my personal favorites.

>SNES FF thread
Fuck yes, I like the PS1 FFs but they are so inferior to the SNES games, yet every overlooks them for some reason.

>Favorite
V, it has an awesome leveling system and is one of the few FFs that is challenging outside of item/team management. Fighting Liquid Flame, Atomos and Neo Exdeath and the superbosses are some of the most pleasing moments on the series for me. Fuck Neo Shinryu.

>First
FFIV(or II back when I played it on SNES). A really good game, I remember playing it with my little brother during summer vacation and having a blast. Still a fun game to this day, the fairy tale and soap opera themes mesh together surprisingly well, and I love Golbez and Kain.

>Fond memory
I remember begging my parents for FF3 for months, then I got it on Christmas morning and flipped out, I was crying. I played it straight all day and beat it a couple of days later. I remember trying not to cry in front of the rest of my brothers at the end.

>Favorite character/side-plot
My favorite character is Galuf, his heroic sacrifice was a real surprise and really took me by surprise. It was also much better than Aeris's, you had spent most of the game with Galuf and you knew him, he was an extremely fun and up-beat character, and when he died you really felt like the characters cared that he died and did all they could to bring him back. With Aeris once she died they threw her into the fucking lake and were done with it, even if the game kept ham-fistedly trying to tell you Cloud had a crush on her to make it more powerful. As for side-plot, I greatly enjoyed Terra's, I love the idea of people moving on and finding a reason to liveAnother thing 7 took from the SNES trilogy, the personality development for her and Cloud are exactly the same in both games, and Kefka's rise to godhood.

>Do I want a remake
For V yes, for VI no.

>>1675429
Imagine they remade FFVI in 3D, but instead of giving it that bland hyperrealistic look that wouldn't match the game's tone at all, they actually tried to make it look like Amano's concept art? Just think of the opera scene being a moving Amano painting with full symphonic score. Everyone cries and the, "Is video game art" debate would have officially ended. But, unfortunately, this will never exist.