tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571523352722739939.post2374650430062847405..comments2023-10-26T10:44:22.817-05:00Comments on Nibbishment: Top 50 Video Games: Number 2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266080182967401371noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571523352722739939.post-62056046709827533482012-06-28T21:57:50.679-05:002012-06-28T21:57:50.679-05:00Yeah, that version of FFIV is pretty sweet. It al...Yeah, that version of FFIV is pretty sweet. It also gets freaking hard at the end (just like the GBA version of Final Fantasy I gets harder, too), which is nice.Beauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10536865209845704133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571523352722739939.post-57924142868827363722012-06-28T19:55:13.327-05:002012-06-28T19:55:13.327-05:00If anybody is interested in wasting a lot of time ...If anybody is interested in wasting a lot of time reading/reminiscing about Final Fantasy games, I highly recommend the series retrospectives located <a href="http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=patff" rel="nofollow">here</a> covering all the main series games and a few side ones. As can be gleaned from titling it "The Rise and Fall..." the author skews in favor of the old school and views the peak probably around VI and somewhat VII. There's a lot of entertaining stuff in there.DKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571523352722739939.post-59982577542320787932012-06-28T10:20:19.633-05:002012-06-28T10:20:19.633-05:00II is bad, and yeah, there are a lot of situations...II is bad, and yeah, there are a lot of situations where you can render the game unwinnable. III is fine - it's a nice introduction to the job system.<br /><br />It's funny to me that you get IV and V mixed up. IV is an epic, large story with a ton of characters with set abilities and V is a smaller-scale story with five characters that's on the job system.<br /><br />VI tends to have a great reputation, but the fact that everyone can learn every spell drives me frigging nuts, so the gameplay lags behind a few games in the series (some would call this a plus, of course, but I find it takes away from the importance of each character) and the story lags significantly behind IX, though I've played a large part of Beau's emulator and, indeed, the better translation adds a <i>lot</i> to the game. I also would say that IX's soundtrack is the best of the series, and actually, Nobuo Uematsu is with me on that one. That's like picking between children, though. He doesn't know how to not be awesome.<br /><br />There's a Nintendo DS (or is it GBA?) version of IV that updates the translation of that game, and it too is more powerful as a result. Cecil is such a half-assed bad guy at the beginning of the SNES release, so his transformation into paladin doesn't mean much. In the truer update, he's thoroughly a rotten human being before he's thrust into his new circumstances, and the story is much better for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4571523352722739939.post-60711191675480813732012-06-24T19:08:44.066-05:002012-06-24T19:08:44.066-05:00I started playing II. It is not good. I actually...I started playing II. It is not good. I actually got myself stuck at one point in an impossible win situation. <br /><br />A couple times I've started playing through a true translation of VI. The dialogue is significantly better and resonates more emotionally. You can also play with an emulator and download patches to eliminate glitches that make the game easier and remove censored things in the U.S. version.Beauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10536865209845704133noreply@blogger.com