/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5085591
I bought it and finished it.

I finished it and have replayed it around 20 times.

Why would I drop the best FF game?

The end of the game.

30-35 hours. It seriously fell off after that and I have better things to do than play things I’m not enjoying just to be able to say I finished it.

Played through it a half dozen times easily. And most of those playthroughs I did the full grind of getting every character every magic spell.

>>5085591
I've finished it 3 times since it came out.

>>5085623
Sounds like you need to be a better judge of how much you're enjoying something. A little more awareness could have easily saved 25-30 hours of now wasted life minutes.

>>5085623
Nigga you slow.
The game is barely 16 hours long.

>>5085591
Fought a boss in a river while aboard a boat and thought it was stupid and stopped.

>>5085637
I liked everything up to the 35 hour mark though. Do you have trouble reading?

>>5085591
I got to the end. And never dropped it I guess, because I still replay it.

I played it once all of the way through in 2008 and again last year. Hahaha. Its actually a really good game. There is a point in the World of Ruin where it gets tedious from grinding and lack of coherent plot but its not so bad.

>>5085693
What changed so drastically?

>>5085591
When I realized I had 3 sepate 99hr saves

>>5085623
>>5085693
How did you not beat that game in that time?

>>5085591
Ten minutes in once I found out there's no gameplay.

>>5085591
First 30 minutes cut scenes includesld and I tried twice

>>5085591
10-15 minutes, you don't even get to play the game and 16-bit 'cut-scenes' are the worst.

>>5085591
Actually finished it but the first time I dropped it in Kefka tower (the one with wizards)). I'm always surprised by how good the content in the ruin world is, open world games should learn from it.

>>5085591
fucking WoR is too boring

>>5085918
Are you me?

>>5085869
This guy gets it

i dropped it a little bit after the opera scene and went back 2 years later. then i rushed to end it cause i was bored with the game.

When it ended. I just always seem to drop it when it ends.

>>5085753
If you pay attention to esper level-ups and try to keep MagPwr+ on your key players it's easy to avoid grinding in the WoW.

>>5085998
What's boring about it? That's when you get all the good gear and abilities

>>5085591
This and FFV are the only FFs I've replayed more than a couple of times. I love FFVI a lot but it doesn't have much gameplay or anything resembling difficulty so I tend to replay it with romhacks. Brave New World is great, I'll probably give it another run over the Christmas holidays with a hot drink for some comfy nostalgia. :)

>>5085591
I finished it at least 5 times starting in 1994.
The world of ruin rules, people are just fucking lazy and couldn't be bothered exploring it as it becomes non-linear at that point.

>>5085591
I actually recently picked it back up, had to drop after Terra got under mind control, picked it back up after watching a LP to remind myself of everything that happened and where I am with the game. I've now gotten the Blackjack, I revisited Narshe, and I'm attempting to visit the esper world.

Grinding a bit after some liches rekt me.

Also based Setzer getting a Bahamut summon early

>>5085591
when I got fucking bored of the game changing my chars at every moment. some hours I guess

Whenever it was you had to command teams of moogles around a cave.

5 and 9 are the only two FF games that held my interest long enough to see through to the end. I forced myself through 7 to see what the fuss was about and was left disappointed. I finished X too but it was so forgettable I don't remember much about it.

>>5086859
That filename implies it's part of a series. Got a link to the rest of them? Because that's hella nice.

>>5086876
Artwork from Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia

>>5086874
>Whenever it was you had to command teams of moogles around a cave.
What interests me about this statement is this:
>5 and 9 are the only two FF games that held my interest long enough to see through to the end.
In particular:
>9
It takes about 30 minutes for a casual player to get to that scene with Locke and the moogles, and during that time you'll already have killed a boss and fought a dozen battles. Meanwhile after the same amount of time in FF9 you're probably still wandering around Alexandria with Vivi and the only battle you've faught at all is the ONE tutorial battle.

It looks like you just don't like anything requiring the least bit of attention or decision-making.

>>5085613
Because it's still a FF game.

30 mins. Was boring as fuck

>>5086898
I've managed to plow through the retro FFs,with the exception of 8, fuck that game they're not that much of a slog if you know what you're doing.

>>5086904
>they're not that much of a slog if you know what you're doing.
Tap the action key? They're the easiest rpgs I've ever played, beating them isn't something to be proud of.

>>5086892
No, I just like good games, Muhammad.

>>5085591
Got it. Beat it. No regerts.

Now Chrono Trigger, on the other hand...

>>5085591
It's been the game I'll play in for a long time, put down, then go back to in a couple of months for a while now.

>>5085591
>how far did you get before you dropped it?
Not even joking....Pic related. Its on my list of things to do. I will get to it eventually, and wonder if I should play #2 before #3.

>>5087114
looks like you like visual novels not games. It's why you have anons like >>5086907 too ignorant to know there can be more to these games than tapping the action key.

>>5087626
>there can be more to these games than tapping the action key.
Like what? Muh immersion? Muh self insertion? Muh head canon?

>>5087632
As opposed to what you got from 9? Lol Not even him, you just look like a tool at this point.

>>5085591
>how far did you get before you dropped it?
Probably between 700 and 800 hours if I were to take a guess.

>>5085591
why would anyone drop it
it's short and easy

>>5085591
stop ruining things with your perfectionist grinding

>>5087632
There are people who only play for the combat, can you believe that?

>>5085591
I got to the World of Ruin on two separate playthroughs and dropped it both times. I like tbe concept of the WoR but found it annoying to actually play. Eventually I realized that while the cast had some charm it couldn't hold my interest. I've played four FF games (I, IV, VI, and VII) and dropped all of them, the series just isn't for me. Still appreciate art and music though, at least for the old ones.

Somewhere in the world of ruin. I was just wandering around and eventually got bored, or realized I'd been bored with it for a while.

My biggest gripe by far was that the ATB system was too slow, it might as well have not been there because battles actually went faster with it turned off. Yes, I had it set to max speed and it was still slow.

Anyone know if there's a hack that speeds it up? ATB is basically the saving grace of this series for me. I loved 7 but only because I could set ATB high and battles would be fast as balls and more like a menu-based action game than a turnbased rpg. Without that I wouldn't have given a shit about the game otherwise. In 6 ATB was just too damn slow to be any fun.

I guess I can't criticize the game for this too much since turnbased rpgs aren't really meant to appeal to people who want an action game, but I fucking love the ATB system at high speeds. I'd even give the shitty looking mobile port a chance if they really sped the ATB system up.

Is there a bigger normie filter than the WoR? lmao

"The battle system is too slow!"
"The game isn't holding my hand anymore so I'm bored!"

What a bunch of ACTUAL fucking noobs

>>5085591
bought & beat it back when it came out, now go take your adhd meds zoomer

>>5085591
The end of my sixth or seventh playthrough.

Should the Dragoon boots only go on a spear user like Edgar or Mog?

I dunno I put them on Cyan and he was kind of ass, just thinking of what I could do better.

>>5091605
Yeah, spear weapons get the full damage bonus. Also, Dragoon Boots alone aren't that amazing, it's the Dragon Horn that makes Jump really good.

From ffwiki:
"If a character equips the DragoonBoots, his or her Fight command changes to Jump, which deals 1.5 damage. However, if a character is equipped with a Spear, damage is doubled. With the exception of the Impartisan, only Edgar and Mog can equip Spears. A combo with the Dragon Horn will allow the character to either jump twice (75% chance), three times (18.75% chance), or four times (6.25% chance)."

Brother dropped it but I played all the way through

and it was the first FF I played all the way through

>>5089651
FF4 Free Enterprise (randomizer hack) is the most fun I've had with a JRPG since I was a kid. That's basically all the core gameplay elements with story and cutscenes removed.

Normal speedrunning is goofy, with obsession with step routes for the sake of RNG manipulation and ridiculous levels of optimization and exploitation of obscure glitches. But the randomizer makes most of that stuff pointless most of the time, and trying to beat the rando as quickly as possible puts just enough pressure to force you to execute in combat and make good decisions on where to go and what to do next.

>>5091226
>"The battle system is too slow!"
That one is a reasonable criticism of FF6. I mean, it's blazing fast compared to FF9 but if you want to see a fast ATB game check out FF4 on Battle Speed 1. The game all but fast-forwards to the next actor's turn once the current animation finishes. Even without seeing an ATB meter, there is a distinct rhythm and it's not hard to know exactly when your next menu is going to pop up.

There's a lot more waiting in FF6. (Not as much as FF9, but for me FF9 is almost unbearably slow)

>>5091226
FFVI was my first RPG ever and the WoR was just insane to me as a kid. The whole game up to that point felt like a roller coaster of an adventure, I wanted to keep playing to see what happened next. Then... nothingness. Desolation. I'm left wandering this dead world with no clear goal in mind. It was crazy and awesome going from story-driven to open-world in one game.

Bought it soon after it was first released for the SNES, and I still replay it to completion every other year or so.

the final dungeon when I had to fucking split my party again, said I'd get back too it one day but never did
I wasn't enjoying the game much anyway since the WoR
>lol remember all those characters? go find them again asshole
yeah, fuck you

>>5085591
The ending credits. This game is objectively a masterpiece and DESERVES to be completed by anyone who considers themselves a fan of jrpgs.

Right after you rescue Terra and hijack that fucking floating thing

It really didn't interest me much. The pacing felt really fucked up, almost as if 20 things were happening over 10 minutes. Kinda didn't dig it. People say FFIX is slow as shit but honestly that's my preferred pace.

>>5085591
near the opera once because the game kept crashing
then picked it up again and played up to the big fire but my pc broke and I lost the save
started again, dropped when I saw ultros at the opera again and decided I was just tired of dealing with that shit
reluctantly picked it up again and voile, the second half is miles ahead of the first.
Seriously, If only it started with scrolling text telling you about how some brave heroes lost against Kefka and then game was just the second half, with some bosses and parts of the first half, but with all the free roaming and recruiting and treasure hunting, all with the story being told in small doses as you sidequest until you think you can beat the dude...
FFVI was like christmas as a kid, you had to endure annoying uncles and cousins, but after it you got to play with a shiny new toy.