Morning Discussion
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I started playing Final Fantasy IV (II for SNES), for the first time ever, over the weekend. The music has been in my head non-stop for the past 24 hours or so.
I can't believe how many hours of awesome gaming I missed out on by not having a SNES growing up.-
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I'm pretty sure it's just my team sucking. I have Edward's walkie talkie so I can get my dudes equipped with real gear again, it's just the dragon's breath rips through my lines, and although Cecil does awesome damage, he can't do it alone.
I think part of the problem is that I didn't stock up on "real" gear for Cid and Cecil has slightly outdated stuff, which is not good. I can fix that with a walk back to Troia though.-
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I barely upgraded any of my armor for that area. While I don't recall my level, if you can make it to the Dark Elf in decent shape, you should be able to take him. If you're playing the remake on the DS, many of the boss fights were tweaked and it is far more important to go in with different tactics than trying to muscle your way through.
This is especially true for the scientist boss in ToT.
Dark Elf fight tip:
Try using tornado / weak if you have it, it will nearly kill the dark elf in one hit.
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funny you mention this. ive been playing FF IV all weekend on the PSP, the PS1 version. also loaded FF VII on in prep for when i am done.
FF IV is by far my favorite one out of the series. ive played it roughly 20 times all the way through and it never gets old for me. it is such a well put together game, i do not think i will ever stop playing it, like i have others. -
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Now had there been an equivalent system to the 360 or PS3 back then but at the power and hardware levels of the time (of course), I'd probably have been more interested - it was mostly a matter of the style of games to be found on the SNES back then, all twitch crap with the exception of a few notable RPGs. I just never found it very impressive or intriguing.
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my family didn't own a PC until I was about 11 years old in 1994, shortly before the first PlayStation showed up. I had an original NES growing up, as well as as Sega Genesis. I loved the Genesis, but I always wanted a Super NES. My parents wouldn't let me have more than one gaming machine at a time.
After we got a PC, I started playing MechWarrior 2, SimCity 2000 and Doom. I didn't own another console until I had a PS2 :)-
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Well the old-school RPGs just seemed really clunky/cludgy back then and the more important aspects of story and plot were just too alien for me, coming from the Japanese school of studies. Platforming back then never really floated my boat either, so unfortunately (to fans of these old-school, famous games) none of these really excite me as emulation-bait. :( Sorry man.
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All you guys loving on FFIV (which is totally the best FF game ever made by the hands of man or god) please remember this:
http://kotaku.com/5161587/the-esrb-rates-wii-final-fantasy-iv-sequel-
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They are touching it up and throwing on an HQ filter from what I've seen. The story and scenario also seems to be a little out there and pointless. For $5.00? Yeah it's not bad, can't go wrong. I just don't see why I should jump and down or rush to grab it.
Square of 1991 is very different than when this was originally thought up (few years ago?). If anything TOSE probably created it....-
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That's why I haven't touched CC. Yes it *might* be a good game, but if I want to play it I'll check it out some time. I see no reason to clamour towards it simply because square felt the need to slap "Final Fantasy" on the box when it means nothing.
Nintendo is the same way these days though. Every platformer besides Galaxy isn't them. Metroid, StarFox - not them. Hell was Twilight Princess even them? The DS game isn't I believe. One of the top console devs reduced a publisher.
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