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Faris is [spoilr]a pirate[/spoiler]

>>2007372
Blue Magic is fun and exciting.
Just because you get new classes doesn't mean previous tiers are OP.
Sometimes its beneficial to go to the Bare class because you can equip anything on them. This is useful early on when you get a whip on a particularily hard boss.

>>2007372
>What do I need to know?
That it's the culmination of everything Final Fantasy. It's a celebration of everything that came before it, taking the best elements of 1 - 4 and making it 100 times better. It's a true masterpiece and marked the end of traditional FF games (until IX that is), in the sense that later games went on a different direction.

>>2007372
Once you get to the desert, after the Fire Crystal, you'll encounter some Chimeras enemies, they have the Aqua Rake (or Aqua Breath) spell, which is like the only Water Elemental spell you can get bar summon magic IIRC. It's really strong too, so be sure to get hit by it as a Blue Mage at least once.

The Freelancer class gains the abilities of any class that you master. I.e. Mastering the Thief class lets your Freelancer dash while holding the button, mastering the Geomancer class lets your Freelancer avoid damage from trap floor, etc...

>>2007391
Also, make sure that someone other than Reina is your main healer.

>>2007372
Get Barefist from the Monk class early on, and you can punch things to death with all of your mages without needing to use magic all the time. It also boosts the Strength of your current class to match the Monk's Strength, so they can do more damage with weapons, too, if need be.

Cherish the old guy. Love him with all your heart.

Are there preferred jobs for eah character? I just got the first set and don't know what to make anyone...

>>2007412
Nope. I change jobs all the time throughout the game.

>>2007412
Everyone's more or less the same, with some minor stat differences here and there. Making each one specialize in certain classes is fun, but be sure to have everyone learn the important stuff, like white magic.

FFV has a god tier ost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOmeL-TxyVw&index=2&list=PLA49C88B5CB69245A

the feelings you have for Faris may seem strange and even scary at first but there's no shame in being attracted to a man so dashing

>>2007372
>About to start my first playthrough of FFV. What do I need to know?

That you're a grown man playing simplistic children's video games meant for 10 year olds at the age of 30 that take 30 hours to beat despite having very non-interactive gameplay and discussing them on an anime image board.

>>2007435
How about we just treat this as an excuse to talk about this wonderful game?

>>2007425
I used to go sleep while listening to that album. Good times.

>>2007425
Would be perfect if it had the Bass line. FFV's usage of Bass is amazing.

Chill out smoke weed!

>>2007451
I agree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXaE7_HlPVo

Party monks is op as fuck. :P

Also enjoying the heck outta this game. Faris just gave the big reveal

>>2007486
The game gets better all the time up until the very end. Just when you think it can't get more awesome, it simply does.

It's probably the most packed FF in terms of optional content too.

How does it compare to FF6? I'll give it a play through soon anyway, just curious

>>2007454
You're probably joking, but FF6 has always been one of my favorite games for that. As long as you don't have ADD, it really makes you feel like you're living in a mystical dream world. Not that it can't sober, mind, I'm just saying.

>>2007506
FF6 has a larger focus on story and sacrifices some classic elements for that. FF5 is an amalgamation of FFs 1 - 4 with everything that made those games great packed in and made better. Job system and customization are top notch, it has an awesome and huge overworld packed with all kinds of secrets, from optional summons (pretty much all of them are hidden) to the 12 legendary weapons, etc.

>>2007547
Thanks, I'm pretty excited now

I've only played VI through X and I haven't really enjoyed the 3D ones all that much, so I'm hoping I'll fall in love with FF again. Not that those aren't perfectly fine games or anything.

>>2007547
>the 12 legendary weapons
I wish all the FFs had a glorious treasure hunt like that.

What's the best release of FFV? I've been wanting to play it for awhile

>>2007565
Honestly? One of the fan-translated ROMs. Can't remember which specifically. I remember I tried to play the PS1 version and that translation was a snoozefest, but then it was great fun when I tried it again with the emulator

>>2007565
GBA.

It has the most content and the best translation of any English version of the game.

>>2007568
>>2007574

Thanks guys!

>>2007568
Fan translated rom on what system? nes?

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/563/

>This hack completely restores the music and sound effects from the SNES original.

The framerate drop that was introduced when porting the game to GBA is almost completely eliminated.

All 3 releases of the game (Europe, Japan, America) are supported.

A new streamed orchestral intro is optional for the European version only.

>>2007582
>FF5
>NES
u wot m8?

>>2007435
Why are you here?
Mods really? Delete shit like this.

Went down into the basement of Worus castle because someone said something about treasure....

Got bodied by a monster pretty badly down there...

Prepare yourself for the Final Fantasy with the most fun gameplay and the best battle themes.

Don't be afraid to play around with your classes, it's fun to change them around and it keeps the game interesting. It's one of the harder Final Fantasy games but it's not so hard you need to care about min-maxing your party. Get creative! Take risks! Play without a healer!

And well, you will also witness the best moment in the whole series, but I am not going to spoil you here.

its shit

It's highly overrated by a vocal minority. The customization is not nearly as good as is claimed and the smartest way to go through is by using as few classes as possible so you can switch to Freelancer/Mime ASAP and skullfuck the one area with a bit of difficulty. The only instance where careful and thoughtful usage of the job system is necessary is the two optional bosses, and if you've been building your characters right, they'll be easy anyways.

The plot and characters are cardboard and the soundtrack, while having a few very memorable pieces, is mostly inferior to the other two SNES FFs.

I've always loved FFV the most, ever since I played it on GBA I just fell inlove.

Though I need to ask. I've been thinking about replaying it, so here's a question.
Just stick with the GBA version (I even have a modded PSP so I can play a patched rom with the SNES music) or should I attempt the SNES version?

>>2008301
>The customization is not nearly as good as is claimed

This is a man who's clearly never played the game. Short of two, maybe three classes, every class has a use in the game due to what they provide to Freelancer. Just relying on the SwordMagic+Meteor combo won't cut it in the late dungeon or post game.

>>2007587
Doesn't fix shit low resolution, ugly ass portraits, and the music is still sub-par due to hardware limitations.

>>2008301
>It's highly overrated by a vocal minority.
Every final fantasy game is.

>>2007574

my problem with the GBA version is that you can't turn off the Amano portraits. And Im not a fan of his work. Especially in 5 where his drawings look nothing like the sprites

>>2009131
There's a patch that removes them, there'll be an empty space though

So has anyone tried this hack for the SNES version? It's apparently a modified version of the original fan-translation.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1788/

Don't attack the Mime. Seriously. When you come across it, don't do a damn thing or it will destroy you.

>>2007506
>How does it compare to FF6? I'll give it a play through soon anyway, just curious

FF6 is like, if you took the jobs from FF5 and made them a different playable character. It also focuses on DRAMA and minigames/gimmicks more than just oldschool dungeon crawling fun. It is technically more advanced (graphics mostly), but it replaces FUN with STORYLINE.

>>2007565
GBA with the music restoration patch that also fixes some lag issues on a few attacks.

SNES version is also cool, but was never released outside japan, so you are limited to fan translations (and it was one of the earliest fan translations ever).

Playstation version is awful, avoid it. long-ass loading times.

>>2008946
You don't miss much to be honest by playing the GBA version. Just patch it and you're good to go.

>>2009258
>but it replaces FUN with STORYLINE.

As someone who prefers 5, this is just not true.

>>2009258
The problem with 5, there's other games out there that do the class system better and have more entertaining gameplay, while 6's story and characters are just as good no matter when you see them.

That said, if you didn't like them to begin with, it won't make much of a difference, but that's the big difference between gameplay (You can almost always improve on it or add more to it) vs story.

>>2008946
SNES version has better graphics and a better sound. The translation is okay at best but that shouldn't hinder you.

I think SNES > GBA

The four job fiesta is what makes FFV so replayable. I used to not care much for it but it really is fun as fuck.

>implying geomancer isn't the most fun class

>>2009131

>>2009131
>my problem with the GBA version is that you can't turn off the Amano portraits. And Im not a fan of his work.
That's a weird stance. Are you one of the people who hates Akira Toriyama but likes Chrono Trigger, or hates gays but has sex with his father?

>>2007587
Isn't there also a hack that changes the shading back to the SNES version? Would it be compatible with this?

>>2009131
I've only met one other person in my life who didn't adore the work of Amano.

It's like you two don't have souls or something.

>>2010559
It would be better if they danced.

>>2010563
That portrait really looks like shit. Sure it matches the sprite but that's all it has going for it.

>>2010591
I love Amano but I must say that in FF5 something always felt lost in the transition of his designs to pixel graphics.

>>2010565
Nope. Not for FF5.
That said, if you're using VBA-M, you could just use the Gameboy/real colors option to darken the pallet. On retroarch there's a shader that does the same thing.

>>2010564

Hey now, accepting your father's seed is an integral part of becoming a man. No one enjoys it but it has to be done, unless you want your penis to shrivel up and fall off.

>>2007547

Exactly what did FF V take from II or IV? It's got the grand adventure feeling of I and III with the basic job skeleton from the latter.

>>2010564

don't give me shit because your overhyped artists are complete hacks

Chrono trigger was saved by its sprite work

>>2010591
The portraits are lazy low resolution and badly colored crops of Amano's drawings.
I didn't mind them but they don't look good at all.

>>2010591
>I've only met one other person in my life who didn't adore the work of Amano.

He's a talented artists Ill grant him that but all the same he was a bad fit for the game and none of his works look like the character sprites and that's a real problem.

I also don't think he fits well tonally with the game

>>2011575
Because it's hard to translate real art into 16x24 cartoon bobbleheads

>>2011696

No. the 6 designs matched up much better for instance. Amano Celes looks like game Celes

V was just either Amano or the spriter not wanting to play ball with the other. But no body looks like they should

>>2009153
>There's a patch that removes them, there'll be an empty space though

link?

>>2009258
>FF6 is like, if you took the jobs from FF5 and made them a different playable character.
>Implying a dozen guys all spamming Ultima were "different" from each other.

>>2011787
Just search RHDN. You'll probably find it.

>>2007429
>man

>>2007372
>What do I need to know?

1. Bartz is the best protagonist in all of Final Fantasy
2. Galuf is badass
3. keep experimenting with different classes and abilities, because each and any job, even the most useless ones, can either be turned into a rape machine, or can give you an ability that turns some other class into a rape machine.

Even if sometimes only against two or three enemies in the game, but they are still invaluable.

For ex. Control skill + Blue Mage can be used to learn some of the most useful magics, or even do perfect kills on otherwise impossible to defeat enemies.

>Galuf's death
>just spamming Meteor over and over again
>feel like a badass

I gained some sort of personal amusement cause I was a big FFIV buff before I played FFV, infact, it was after the FFIV's DS remake when I picked up Final Fantasy V on the GBA and absolutely loved it.
Just find it great. Meteor is what killed Tellah, yet as Galuf, I just spam it.

Unless I've lost my mind, on the snes version there was an alchemy combination that fully restored your mana for the cost of a normal ether and one other item

it was inexpensive and let you cheese your way through any dungeon, just summon summon summon summon summon, no need to ever hold back

but the various faqs don't have this formula and I've never really cared enough to go back and confirm it

I think the faqs say it restores all your health or something

>>2011836
>>Implying a dozen guys all spamming Ultima were "different" from each other.

he it took lots of grinding to get them all there. It's like FFT in a way. If you make everyone master everything it's because you worked for it

>>2011879
>Im about to platy FFV for the first time
>this asshole posts massive spoilers

I hope your dick falls off

>>2007372
>What do I need to know?
That it's Butz, never Bartz.

>>2011863

I'd take Tifa over that mediocre harem.

>>2011927

>game is over 20 years old

Aerith dies lol

>>2008301
Big words, big mouth.
What are you trying to say, fool?

>>2012025

there's a difference between posting spoilers in a general discussion forum and posting them in a thread that opens with

>About to start my FIRST play through of FFV.


yeah, you're a cunt.

>>2012312

Nigga. Not even my fucking fault you haven't played a great RPG in this long.
Besides, doesn't even matter, he was a old man with a beard in Final Fantasy, what do you think he was gonna happen?

>>2012317

O.G Cid was also really old and he not only managed to live, he was also the most broken character in the entire series.

>>2012326

>tellah dies from casting meteor
>cid literally blows himself up to seal the underworld and lives

Final Fantasy in a nutshell.

>>2011837


http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=17873.0

found it! had to dig into the forums but it was there

>>2012317
That dudes a retard, its basically like getting mad someone told you Darth Vader was Lukes father.

>>2012337
>pretending FF5 is anywhere NEAR the Vader reveal

no you're just being a cunt. Even with the Vader analogy if someone mentioned to you they're gonna watch Star Wars for the first time and you spoil it for them unprompted then yes, it's you being a cunt.

This isn't a general open discussion FF5 thread. It's some guy who never played it asking for any advice.

Quit being a sperg and learn some damn manners.

>>2012343
>this fucking mad over a pretty insignificant spoiler
Galuf dying literally has zero effect on the outcome of the game. Thats the whole thing with the final fantasies, Tellah dying? It doesn't matter at all. Galuf dying? Who cares you get Kyrie like 10 minutes later and she has all of Galufs stats.

>>2011927

He is a cunt.

But Galuf's death is a great moment, look forward to it.

>>2012312
Only children and imbeciles cares about "spoilers." You can't spoil a good story by mentioning a plot development from it. When it's a good story, revealing plot points only makes it interesting. And bad stories come pre-spoiled by the sheer fact of them being bad.

So go to a rep-based forum community and sperg about spoilers there.

>>2012312
>Let's talk about the game! Invent discussion points for me, because I have none! Also, don't you dare mention anything important, because I haven't played the game yet. Now I'm going to sit ont he thread for three days without actually playing the game.

>>2012543
This is a silly argument.

There's plenty to talk about in FFV without spoiling anything. I don't care one way or the other, but I'm not going to sit around and watch your shoddy counter arguments.

>>2012543
/v/ is a better place for you

Fun fact: spoilers were found to actually increase the emotional impact of a major event.
Possibly for the same reason that suspense is more effective than surprise.

>>2007382
>in the sense that later games went on a different direction.

but that's wrong, anon. 6 was a lot like 4, but improved.

and 7 is a pretty good classic final fantasy, the only thing it had different was a borderline cyberpunk setting

>>2012543
>>Let's talk about the game!

>>2007372
>About to start my first playthrough of FFV. What do I need to know?

>hur dur spoilers are for fags

>>2012834
>the only thing it had different was a borderline cyberpunk setting

God, this criticism ONLY applies to Midgar.. Nibelheim, Tiera del Sol, Wufei, Cosmo Canyon, Golden Saucer, Cave of the Ancients, etc - how are any of these cyberpunk?

>>2013053
>God, this criticism ONLY applies to Midgar

it doesn't even apply to midgar. there's no serious hacking. there's no serious tech usage. There's no questions regarding the borders between man and machine.

Midgar was just a slum. A run of the mill slum

I got spoiled with this image. Not felling bad about it at all.

>>2010563
Somebody that can draw should make new portraits for all the characters.

- Don't Neglect your Blue Magic; it has a bunch of really useful spells, like Big Guard and White Wind.

- get an item like Turtle Shell, Dragon Fang, Dark Matter? it's a !Mix item, learn the right combos and there's almost no fight in the game you can't simplify.

- when fighting Atomos, cast the Sleep Sword Magic spell; it'll put him to sleep and make the fight a thousand times easier.

- there's two non-legendary Weapons of note near the end of the game; A Knight Sword that gets weaker if you run, or a Dagger that gets stronger if you run. The Dagger is almost always better in the end.

- Steal. You're fairly likely to come across an enemy with good shit to steal.

- Skip Heavy torso armor, Any class that wears it can also equip medium torso armor, which tends to offer stat bonuses. You're still stuck with Heavy Helmets though.

- Fire/Ice/Thunder Rods cast Fire3/Ice3/Bolt3 when broken. you can use this as a crutch if you're using a magic heavy party.

- Level the Monk class up to 2/3 to get a passive ability called Barehanded/Brawler; Equipping this gives a boost to your attack as long as you're unarmed, this is a great ability for White Mages if you don't have any magic secondaries or want to conserve MP.

>>2010591

His art looks nothing like any of the characters in the game. That's actually true for a lot of his stuff

I've played FFV on an emulator years ago and want to revisit it, how does the android port compare? It would be nice to play it on the go.

>>2014393
Some of the old tricks in the game (can't list any off hand right now) no longer work and the game is (in my opinion) ugly.

Maybe look into android emulators to play that way instead?

>>2014393
Stick with the SNES or GBA version.
It uses the snes music which is nice.
Content and translation wise it's a port of the GBA version with new graphics.

>>2014396
Rapid fire still never misses but I didn't' check for anything else.

If you're on android check out Final Fantasy Dimensions as well.
It's kind of like a very well done RPG maker FFV fanfic. It has a more refined but I dare say 'casualised' job system but keeping that in mind I had fun playing it.

Maybe I should play this again. I got really far like 10 years ago, but got stuck in a mountain near the endgame and never finished it.
Also these pictures got my interest:
>>2011863
>>2013849