final fantasy VI play-through thread, kupo!

http://i.imgur.com/0V2uttf.jpg

i am wearing a Sabin outfit at the moment

oh man, lol at the smooth synth jazz that plays whenever Terra has a sad

one thing you gotta love about VI is that it actually rewards you for searching in ridiculous locations for items in the towns

SABIN: Think a "bear" like me could help you out in this fight??"

:-0

kinda missin' Cloud's default "..." catchphrase right there

i'm exactly 2:00 in, and just reached the hideout.

how should we handle spoilers? tbh i've played up to maybe 30 hours in before, so i'm not too picky with people revealing where they are or whatever.

my problem is i renamed TERRA to Terra, thus committing myself to a scheme, and then as more and more characters showed up i became less and less happy with it

loooool

not gonna lie: i was tempted to consult a GameFAQ just because this may be the last time in my life i play this and i know there are thousands of secrets in this game that i'll never see. also, mainly, it's nice to have a head's up when a character is about to die or lose all their shit or something, so you don't blow a ton of gil in a shop just beforehand, or so that you can hand off your shit to other characters ahead of time.

but no, i will not. i'm playing this clean.

tempted to name everybody FARTPOOP xxp

What the hell is a repo man doing in a cave. who left their cadillac parked inside

always intense

sheesh, i skipped the far left classroom in Narsh the first time through (a couple hours through) because the guard itself was warning that i might need to level up a bit. i thought there might be a lvl 49 red dragon in there! i come back just now, leveled a bit after seeing some crazy shit in the first part of the game, and it turns out that far left classroom teaches the secrets of...how the reflect spell works...

*wolf cries in the distance*

http://i.imgur.com/N6qKrx4.gif

this game is great and also has the greatest soundtrack of all tiem

i havent played it in 10+ years and i still remember how the themesongs for all the major characcters go

kefka >>>>>>>>>

SABIN: Think a "bear" like me could help you out in this fight??"
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, November 3, 2013 5:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

he's more of a twink i think

http://i.imgur.com/deLAQRi.png

my friend and i were going to record a rock opera version of the opera like 8 years ago but we never got too far on that project

the big plot twist in this felt super momentous back in the day, like no other game had done anything quite like that before, and it happens deep enough in that you think you're approaching the end maybe and then oops no not even close. the sheer size/length of the game was pretty incredible at least to me.

the world of ruin felt revelatory to me as a kid, i remember i spent months exploring the various locations, trying to find all the characters and secrets. i think this was one the best balanced ff games, the last time i replayed it i was still finding small things that i had missed in past playthroughs, particularly from the first half of the game. but most of the really rare and hard to find things do nothing to help you play the game or hinder the story at all, they're rewarding w/o being necessary i guess.

the big downside is the game is comically easy unless you set yrself artificial restrictions and there are almost no tactically interesting decisions to make in any of the battles. also the formula they use for steal success rates is overly punishing for no real reason

oh man, shadow's the best

"just know that i may leave at any time"

jeez shadow, so mysterious! and so afraid of commitment!

Poll of best PC from this game would be great, except there are only eight of us who would actually vote.

my problem is i renamed TERRA to Terra, thus committing myself to a scheme, and then as more and more characters showed up i became less and less happy with it

Been There

lol ff7 didn't run fast enough on my mac... sad. got........................ rhythTheatrhythm Final Fantas

playing through this again, i find myself with a new urge to shout out loud "MODE 7!" at key moments

FUCK YEAH MODE 7!!

this game is great and also has the greatest soundtrack of all tiem

it happens deep enough in that you think you're approaching the end maybe and then oops no not even close.

what's funny is it's exactly the same plot twist as link to the past but it happens 12 hours in instead of 1, making it 12 times as :O

guys are you playing VI or VII? Cause it seems like you're discussing VII?

we're definitely playing final fantasy VII

i think i played the GBA version of this and i don't remember anything about it. :(

i am playing the game that allows me to yell out MODE 7!

played this way too late last night. i'm about 5 hours in just reunited the team at Narshe.

dayo have you played VI before? if so how far did you get before you quit?

you have to finish this game if you haven't finished it before. the final dungeon + battle + ending are fantastic.

i pledge to finish this game. enough is enough, i'm 30 years old, it's time to beat final fantasy VI

this is one of the only games i have finished in my life. i am bad at finishing games

played this way too late last night. i'm about 5 hours in just reunited the team at Narshe.

dayo have you played VI before? if so how far did you get before you quit?

Yeah I got up to the part where sabins blitzes started being like hadouken moves

I might have had an airship

we're definitely playing final fantasy VII
― 乒乓, Monday, November 4, 2013

I just lost Galuf. What do I do?? :(

afaict the thread title definitely says we're playing final fantasy VII. am i crazy here?? xp

Ha, when I played this it was on emu, with just a keyboard, and my approach was just to never fuck around with Sabin's blitzes at all. It was a minor handicap for a certain period of the game but nothing that really affected anything. I later had it on a cartridge and my strategy had become hard-wired - I never did get into Sabin at all. Wish I could remember what I named him though....all my characters were named after anime heroes IIRC.

Thread title says "VI" on my screen....?

on my computer this thread is about faceball 2000 wtf

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Final_Fantasy_Mystic_US_boxart.jpg

help i'm stuck

Thread title says "VI" on my screen....?

― Doctor Casino, Monday, November 4, 2013 1:06 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

Not sure what's going on with your computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QrWzsfghA

cause seriously, it says vi

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Spent a few hours yesterday wandering around that last dungeon and getting stuck :(

I finished this, yay!

I dropped in here just wanting to ask if anyone has played the new Steam release of Final Fantasy VIII and if it lets you change resolutions or anything. Because i started playing that and I'm only 5 hours in so I won't mind dropping if I can actually have super smooth and sharp polygons instead of pixelated polygons. I haven't seen anything about that anywhere (and it wasn't the case with the VII re-release) so I'm kind of skeptical on that front.

http://www.avclub.com/article/final-fantasy-vi-explores-human-pain-through-its-s-205365?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds

The landscape and experience of the World Of Ruin should be familiar to anyone who’s been truly hurt.[

[citation needed

lol

I'm playing FFVI now on the SNES. What a big game for a little console. Only recently got to the World Of Ruin and already so much has happened. The opera scene is art, man!

I now have unfinished game saves for FF I-V, perhaps it's time to move on to VI so I can fail to finish that one, as well.

sadly after having recently played through Earthbound and Chrono Trigger, this game hasn't quite got the same overwhelming buzz and some of the plotlines and dialogue feel a bit disjointed, but it did come out before those and it is a fantastic game

I was wondering whether I was playing it whether there were two opera scenes, because everyone goes on about it as one of the highlights of gaming ever, and it was just - fiddly and annoying?

Anyway I spend a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms about a year ago and got really into this, but I think I left it in one of the "try and reload to get the right monsters on the Veldt" sections.

the opera scene was a pretty unique thing at the time but like every rpg since has had a musical performance in it somewhere

idk if i'd call it a highlight of the game

dammit. i need a folder to hold of my ilx bookmarks for threads dedicated to doing something that i started but did not complete

yeah i never "got" the opera. but i didn't play it until the emulator era. not that long after in years really but an eternity in terms of gaming and console generations and such, all those SNES games felt like lost treasures unearthed by archaeologists by then.

God I remember getting stuck so badly at the post-apocalyptic bit where you have to find most of your party again. I always found the opera scene quite funny but not in a way that was intentional on their part.

Having emulated it recently I think I actually prefer V to this one

when i played the snes ones V still didnt have an english translation other than an awful fan patch so i havent played it

There's stuff in this game I'd never known what to do if I didn't cheat a bit and look up a walk through occasionally. The whole secret switch in the Ancient Castle is mad - is it mentioned anywhere in the game?

Also I think I've no way of getting Shadow. Shame, I never really got to know him very well, flakey-ass clown

Currently stuck on the Cultist's Tower. Even with Wall Rings, it's a toughy

i'm pretty sure i got all the ancient castle stuff without a walkthrough but it may have just been on the instinct of "surely there has to be a boss fight or something in here, i'll keep wandering around until something happens"

cultists' tower i def said fuck it and came back later once i found whatever it is that lets you skip encounters

Yeah I might try that. The trick is to use Wall Rings on all the characters and just let the baddies cast spells that bounce off you onto them. It should work on paper but...

Yeah Ancient Castle you have to (SPOILER) walk five paces away from the queen's throne and hit a button and it opens a secret area but... I'd never have known to do that. Maybe a random NPC mentions it. Someone upthread said there's an awful lot of that - certain parts of the game only open up to certain characters and knowing who to use where is tricky. It's hard enough making sure everyone in your party is equipped and relic'd and espered in the optimum. I still don't know what I'm doing with Mog, Strago and Gau (or Gav?) - so many random ways to use their powers, I can't keep up.

the trick here is to not use strago or gau iirc, bunch of fiddly deep-cut bullshit in my opinion from age 17. relm i also kept deep on the bench but mainly because her baffling ability also crashed emulators back then.

spent my evening absent mindedly grinding some of my weaker people while looking at my phone. now I've gotta make 3 teams and storm Kefka's tower. I seem to have lost Shadow at some point. oh well

relm i also kept deep on the bench but mainly because her baffling ability also crashed emulators back then.

― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino)

this wasn't an emulator thing, this was a massive bug in the 1.0 release of the game, they had to release a patched version

i don't know why ted woolsey decided to name a high-level spell after thomas merton

huh, okay. i'm sure I knew that at the time. garbled memories! i think i also resisted a lot of the "late" characters, they felt like the second-season's new thundercats to me.

Gogo is especially weird to be thrown in at such late notice. Not sure what he's good for other than being a consolation prize for not having the ninja

Dream team:
Umaro
Sabin
Celes
Terra

first time around I somehow beat the game without ever getting Terra back, which kinda blew my mind when she reappeared in the finale

whoa... so does she just kind of rock up, or is the ending different depending on who you have in your party?

I remember being really deflated when the world of ruin came around. Wanted my party back

it does feel a bit like WoR is less plot based and is more or less a series of side quests involving various types of dungeon. I didn't get to play Kefka's Tower tonight

xps ending is the same, but when the final battle is over there's a cutscene she joins, or something like that

been replaying this over the past month... as great as it is, it does suffer from the fact that it's way too easy. if it were just a tad harder it'd be a masterpiece.

but that opera scene? celes' suicide attempt? darryl's tomb? shadow's dreams? the apocalyptic nightmare that happens halfway through the game? so many parts of this game just break my heart in how devastating they are

is this for VI or VII

it looks like VI to me? unless you're making some joke I'm not getting?

one of my friends recently was telling me that life post-transition felt like living in the world of ruin, this cataclysmic event that ripped everything apart

since 2016 i've kind of been struggling with... for me, this world is a dystopia. no question. i've kept asking myself over and over, with the world being fucked the way it is, why i bother. i had this kind of idea in my head of "dystopia" as equating "world not worth living in". pain and suffering and injustice and all that crap.

thinking about ff vi as a dystopia just now, something just sort of clicked. for me games aren't about winning, they're about existing in a particular space, a particular time.

the first half of ff vi was fine and all. it was really on rails. a lot of set pieces. i guess it was a decent enough story and all but i wasn't really invested in it. like i have more agency in the story than i do in, say, "space ace", but not by much.

i liked the game better when i got to the world of ruin. i wasn't just going through the set pieces the game wanted me to go through in the order it wanted me to go through them. i could do things when and how i wanted to do them.

if i didn't enjoy doing that i could always just stop playing, but i didn't stop playing. i had more of a sense of accomplishment doing stuff when the game wasn't holding my hand and telling me what to do next.

it wasn't _hopeless_. that's the thing that gets me about it. various characters at various times struggled with despair, but the world itself... ruin and despair are very different things. dystopia and apocalypse isn't necessarily about everybody being killed, it's just, like... being separated from the people and things that are important to me. that's what i feel most acutely.

the story of final fantasy vi for me isn't about defeating evil or restoring balance. it's about connecting with people i care about but have become separated from because of some fucked up shit that happened. that's, like, the entirety of it. it's difficult and arduous and every single person takes work to connect with again. the payout for that is not just that they're back in my party. i am able to connect with them on a deeper level, know them in ways that i didn't back in the world of balance.

i could say, maybe, that if i could pick a dystopia to live in, it would be the World of Ruin, but the truth is that i live in the dystopia i live in, and i get to choose how to deal with it. i think i'm going to choose to act like i'm living in the World of Ruin. i can see myself being happy, living in that dystopia.

lovely post. and timely, i just got to the world of ruin last night, after having put the game down several months ago out of annoyance at running out of time on the floating continent. i look forward to approaching the dystopia with this in mind

great post, Kate - both about life, and the vibe of this game. you're right, it goes beyond the nonlinearity of the WoR, it's the sense of the characters having loved through so much, both together and apart. i'm sure someone somewhere has written about the "party" in RPGs and fantasy fiction as a form of chosen family, but this game may offer some of the best raw materials for the player to put together that kind of narrative and emotional connection. always liked the sense of having these different clusters of people who had been there for each other's particular low points and recoveries. barely any dialogue but it works.

i should probably find the time to replay it myself, it's been a while

i was rereading the game's resolution and i was honestly kind of horrified lol

i'm sure magic can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people but in the subculture i come from magic = queer

which means that i don't exactly feel driven to complete the WoR endgame, lol

great post; encapsulates some feelings i've also had about the second half of FF VI and why it sticks with you after so much time, though i never articulated it quite that way

FFV is when final fantasy became final fantasy for all the reasons I love
FFVI is when final fantasy became final fantasy for the other reasons

No look, this is great and all, like really, it's fantastic, but I yearn for the naivety, the pre-modern sensibilities of V. The difference in gameplay speaks for itself. No one is going to argue that VI wasn't a downgrade in terms of gameplay, and I'm not willing to write that off. I really love VII too, but so far, VI feels stationed between the masterpieces that are V and VII, not committing to either side. Obviously only a criticism that can be applied with retrospect. Also, I haven't even reached the WoR yet so I should probably just shut my damn mouth (fingers) and keep pressing on.

5 and 7 being better than 6 is pretty much gospel these days at least among more hardcore jrpg heads

i do need to replay this someday tbh, its been 20+ years now

Making me want to throw in 5 again. Which I can, since I bought the cartridge release of FF I-VI remastered on the Switch last year on a whim!

6 reigns supreme for me.

the pixel remaster of 6 fixes some of the gameplay bugs from the SNES version (like evasion not working properly). that puts it on par with 5 in terms of gameplay imo.

there's solid character building in 6 but it's through equipment & magicite rather than an explicit jobs system.

6 is better than either 5 or 7, no idea what the diehards are thinking

I admit I prefer 6 to 7 by some margin

HD2D remaster of 6 when