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  • I played FF6 again

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #28071  by Don
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 5:36 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The game isn't as good as I remembered it was... got through World of Ruin in a very short amount of time and then decided I don't feel like playing through and level up everything again. In retrospect, the esper system is really annoying... forces you to find high MP areas. I got to Atma Weapon without anyone in the party having Cure 2 because I was distributing the espers in a random fashion.</div>
 #28074  by Gone to Shakers
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 11:34 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I used to consider the game to be almost on the level of Ocarina of Time, but in reality, it is FAR FAR behind the level that Ocarina of Time is. It's further behind Ocarina of time than The orriginal Legend of Zelda is from A Link to the Past.

As for FF3, I actually played it over the Winter break, and I still really like the game, but the game isn't really that long, if you know what you're doing, 14-16 hours shouldn't be much of a problem. Now go back and play Final Fantasy 2 =)</div>

 #28077  by Zeus
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:56 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>FF2 is about 8-10 now. That's why you just can't compare today's games to yesterday's game, the time in which they came out makes a big deal. I distinctly remember Super Mario Bros. being an extremely hard game.....in 1987. I can go through it in 5 minutes now</div>

 #28081  by Blotus
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 2:58 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>When I play through it now, I just don't use espers. It's more challenging that way, and the people who SHOULD be using magic (Terra, Celes, Strago's 'lore') still can.</div>

 #28082  by Torgo
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 3:38 pm
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>That's kind of what I did, but I didn't eliminate esper use entirely. I just limited them to natural spellcasters.</div>

 #28083  by Blotus
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 4:17 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I did that once too, but in the end Terra, Celes, Strago, and Relm got too powerful.</div>
 #28085  by Don
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 4:38 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>To get that kind of time you've to be running away on most of the battles.</div>

 #28088  by Stephen
 Mon Apr 29, 2002 11:23 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What, and take away the fun of making Gau your strongest magic user?</div>

 #28090  by Eric
 Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:20 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Best story? Personally I don't think Zelda, or Mario deserve their stories mentioned in the context of the game. :P But tOoT is actually easy the 2nd time through, though the Water Temple is still a bitch.</div>

 #28091  by Stephen
 Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:37 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I like OoT's story because it actually made Zelda a character instead of the usual damsel in distress. Still wish Link could've talked, though.</div>

 #28092  by Eric
 Tue Apr 30, 2002 3:18 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>He occassionally screamed at the top of his lungs when he got hit! What more do you want from the little guy?! :P</div>

 #28095  by Derithian
 Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:22 pm
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>ff2 had one thing most other ff's didn't....a hard final boss....damn that guy kicked your ass waaay to easily sometimes.</div>

 #28096  by Eric
 Wed May 01, 2002 12:23 am
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Maybe he kicked YOUR ass, by I handed his ass to him on a plater everytime I fought him. No RPG really has a difficult final boss, IMO.</div>
 #28098  by Don
 Wed May 01, 2002 4:28 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I like how they made him so that he's tough even with maxed out character (not that 9999 xp was really hard to get). I guess if you went and did the side quest with Kulex and the 100 jump stuff he wasn't too bad. Didn't get killed by him, but he was no pushover. Had to play pretty conservatively (Lazy Shell on Bowser = indestructible).</div>

 #28104  by Flip
 Wed May 01, 2002 10:18 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>nah, i'll have to disagree. Just like every other boss in history he had a pattern that you could pick up on and then just whoop the hell out of him.</div>

 #28106  by Judgment 1999
 Thu May 02, 2002 5:18 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah he did. If you ever power leveled up to lvl 99 though, it was the other way around. :)</div>
 #28116  by Don
 Fri May 03, 2002 3:59 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>If Rydia can't survive it then you've the problem of something like Weak + Big Bang or Nuke + Big Bang. Rydia's pretty good as a backup healer, and summon Asura is lightning fast.</div>

 #28149  by SineSwiper
 Tue May 07, 2002 2:08 am
<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Ever do just Terra? "No, don't cast Ultima...that's a waste of MP. Just do Meteor, and it does 9999 damage."</div>