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8600537 No.8600537 [Reply] [Original]

Playing Final Fantasy on the NES. After 3 days and about 5-6 hours playtime I've just learned that I have to actually go to the weapon and armor screen and equip them to use them. I thought my mages hitting for one damage and fighter hitting for under 10, and having to heal and run back to town after every Ogre encounter, was just that classic Nintendo Hard gameplay.

>> No.8600539

That's pretty special, OP. Is this your first JRPG?

>> No.8600548

>>8600537
Oh, so you’re the kind of person who needs the reminders Dragon Quest games give you to equip your weapons and armor.

>> No.8600551

>>8600539
Aside from Pokemon games, Dragon Warrior Monsters, and Super Mario RPG, yeah. I played a few hours of FFVI like a decade ago. I thought that when the vendor asked me which character I wanted to give the weapon to that he would equip them with it.

>> No.8600596

>>8600539
>>8600548
To be fair to OP, the way the menu is set up is a little unintuitive since it can actually look like they are equipped given that each character has their own personal equipment slots. You'd have to actually toggle them and see that "E" appear to know you even have to do anything once the equipment is in there.

>> No.8600735

>>8600537
>Playing Final Fantasy on the NES
you mean the broke dick version where intelligence doesn't work

>> No.8600754
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8600754

>>8600735
we don't need intelligence

>> No.8600761

>>8600537
Made me kek, thanks for posting OP.

>> No.8600860

>>8600596
OP here. I read through the manual before I started playing, and double checking now, it does very clearly state that I have to equip weapons and armor, and includes a screenshot. This one is on me.

>> No.8600982

>>8600754
Most of the time mage and cleric felt like -2 in the party. In some areas, you could spam AoE to get quick levels but the time I’ve spent doing that I couldve finish the game twice with 4 warriors

>> No.8601000

>>8600982
warriors wont save you when the game decides to shit out 9 mindflayers at once at you though

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8601017

>>8600860
Way to crack the code on what 10 year old kids did instinctively 30 years ago. Kind of explains why most modern gaming is just TV 2.0 and completely devoid of any responsibility on the players behalf. Hint: later in the game, when you find enchanted weapons and armor, you can sometimes use them with the ITEM command to cast free spells on your enemies.

>> No.8601058

>>8600537
OP, do you have any early childhood head injuries?

>>8600754
Based and Balspilled.

>> No.8601136

>>8600735
>Did you know? I read some important trivia and need to share

You didn't actually need to share

>> No.8602601

I think Chaos sucks

>> No.8602607

>>8601136
Hey look its the guy who autistically defends all of the glitches in FF1

>> No.8602652

>>8600860
It's even funnier that you read the manual beforehand and didn't look at the status screen or whatever the game calls it a single time in nearly six hours. Thanks for sharing and god bless.

>> No.8602684

Retard

>> No.8602742

>>8600754
>>8601017
>>8602684
Based

>> No.8602805

>>8601017
This is the most bitter post I've read on /vr/ - Video Retro today.

>> No.8602814

>>8602805
Just because it's bitter, doesn't make it not true

>> No.8603103

>>8600539
In OP's defense I did shit like this too the first time I played FF. I was also like, 8