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My Summer of Final Fantasy!

Whew. Beat FFIII DS. For a second there I thought I was about to lose the final fight, but I managed to get lucky on a number of occasions.
 
Ourobolus said:
So I finally beat FFII. I have finally beaten this god-forsaken game. On the PSP, of all things, as well. Didn't even use the Blood Sword. After trying (and getting to at minimum the Jade Passage) on both NES and GBA, I finally bit the bullet and plowed through the PSP version.

Now I remember what was kicking my ass the last time - the black knights (death knights?) in Pandaemonium. Luckily, I managed to get past them this time, and the last level seemed a lot easier, although I certainly saved every five minutes or so. Totally forgot about the Masamune, too. Oh well (though I'm sure a lot of the difficulty was lost due to the PSP version. Maybe someday I'll go back and beat the NES one).

Looks like I'll have to find something to while away the time until RK's FFV challenge.
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Did you usually have a whole lot of HP? I think those Black Knight guys do damage in proportion to your max HP, so if your HP isn't 6000, you can heal a lot easier.
 
My Summer of Great Failure - Himuro

Anyway,
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Just got the Black Mask and going to Mysidia cave right now.
 
BluWacky said:
It's hard! Well, it's not FFIII hard, but still, I find it quite challenging. I'm about 7 hours in, just
got the airship for the first time; need to re-equip to deal with the Lodestone Cavern
, and have died multitudinous times. Just getting through the start of the cave where you
recruit Tellah
was hard enough!
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For that area, it became tons easier once I determined that the little mage gnomes did in fact have MP to steal via Osmose. That's one thing I like about FFIV, is that each dungeon and boss is tailored to the party you're going to have, so figuring out how to maintain the status quo as you complete the dungeon is part of the strategy.

As for my own progress,
I just defeated Golbez for the first time and had Rydia return. Now I need to head for the enemy stronghold in an attempt to retrieve the six crystals that have already been taken.
Gotta hurry, After Years is supposed to come out next week!
 
I finally got started with FF2.

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Didn't get very far yet, though, and I'm still playing SMT3, so we'll see how I do.

Minwu just now joined, so current party:

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Ninth floor of the fucking tower in Final Fantasy 2. Everyone gets confused. Everyone kills each other. Painful five fucking minutes.
I have had nothing but awful luck tonight. Sooooooo bad. Forgot to save after doing a bit and when I realized this, the battle I get into I get everyone petrified right off the bat. I lost to the Thunder Gigas on the 7th floor because I forgot to get the blood sword. And now on the goddamned ninth floor I'm fighting two enemies and they confuse everyone. Everyone! What the fuck are the odds. When I'm TRYING to get status effects to boost Esuna nooooooooo but as soon as I try playing the game it's all "Fuck you!"
FUECK.
 
Beat the Emperor! The Blood Sword is so clutch to having victory in this game. It is crazy.
 
That reminds me that I put FF3 on the back burner for now because I hate all the "cast Toad/Mini to cross this point!" dungeons early on. I guess after I beat Nocturne I can go back to it, maybe.
 
Himuro said:
After taking a gaming break I'm back to FF1.

Good God this version is so boring and easy. I haven't died once and I'm near the end of the game.

I'm nearing the part where you get class upgrades.

Sigh. Hopefully FFII gba version will offer more challenge?
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Well, class change is usually seen as the halfway point. I guess it can depend on when you do it.

FF2 GBA will have more challenge to it, but it has been made easier too. Not as easy as 1, but still the easiest version of the game there is.
 
I'm currently progressing with FFVIII again, (re)playing it never gets boring. Just met with Laguna on disc 3 and am supposed to go to Lunatic Pandora. But first things first, time to finish the optional quests!

After FFVIII, I could continue with FFIIIDS, FFIVDS, FFV (gba), FFVI (gba) and FFXII. And FFVII and Tactis are after those on my mind. I'll see where to go after FFVIII.
 
Got to Pandemonium.
Forgot to unequip the blood swords one time.
Got instant killed to death by those damn cats.
So much hate right now.
 
I've been playing FFX for at least a couple of weeks now (on and off, busy w/work). I've been making a point of avoiding grinding at all costs. Only one so far was building up overdrives to fight the
seymore battle that occurs right after the ronso are killed off
, where I had to get every aeon's + every character's overdrives up and just run through them (and I still ended up slogging through it as the best way to do it is to fight normally through at least the first half of the battle. Much later on the 3-part
yunalesca
slaughtered me after something to the effect of 45-60 minutes of mostly just casting life over and over again.

My characters are horrendously underleveled. Hopefully I can go back and find a shop so I can gear up on items+maybe get auto-med and I'm not stuck at that last save point.

Also, apparently they allow you to decline renewing contracts on blitzball players despite having no obvious method of getting new players at that point in the game, thus preventing me from playing some blitzball while I wait and maybe getting the rest of wakka's overdrives.
 
JRPereira said:
I've been playing FFX for at least a couple of weeks now (on and off, busy w/work). I've been making a point of avoiding grinding at all costs. Only one so far was building up overdrives to fight the
seymore battle that occurs right after the ronso are killed off
, where I had to get every aeon's + every character's overdrives up and just run through them (and I still ended up slogging through it as the best way to do it is to fight normally through at least the first half of the battle. Much later on the 3-part
yunalesca
slaughtered me after something to the effect of 45-60 minutes of mostly just casting life over and over again.
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Well, those are probably the two hardest "regular" boss fights in the game, or at least the ones that people seem to have trouble beating. I don't think you need to grind if you managed to beat them despite underleveled characters, just stride on. Besides, It'll probably be more rewarding that way.
 
One more try on the final dungeon of FF2 and then it's GIVE UP. This is causing too much stress and I have beaten the game before. I don't think it's going to happen this time.
In place of that, though, I'll start up FF2 PSP. That I have never beaten. Probably should have started on that to begin with. :lol
 
YouTube doesn't have the warning for ten minute videos anymore but it just deleted my video after letting me upload it? Boohiss!
Okay well, I got f'd in the A. Confused and killed. FF2 is a give-up. Gonna go to the PSP version, though.
 
JRPereira said:
I've been playing FFX for at least a couple of weeks now (on and off, busy w/work). I've been making a point of avoiding grinding at all costs. Only one so far was building up overdrives to fight the
seymore battle that occurs right after the ronso are killed off
, where I had to get every aeon's + every character's overdrives up and just run through them (and I still ended up slogging through it as the best way to do it is to fight normally through at least the first half of the battle. Much later on the 3-part
yunalesca
slaughtered me after something to the effect of 45-60 minutes of mostly just casting life over and over again.

My characters are horrendously underleveled. Hopefully I can go back and find a shop so I can gear up on items+maybe get auto-med and I'm not stuck at that last save point.

Also, apparently they allow you to decline renewing contracts on blitzball players despite having no obvious method of getting new players at that point in the game, thus preventing me from playing some blitzball while I wait and maybe getting the rest of wakka's overdrives.
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I was just doing the same! Here's the easy way to beat Yunalesca:
Run back up to the surface and steal life candles from the zombie Yevon priests, ten of these crafted onto an accessory will give you zombie proof
. Once you've got this, the fight is pretty easy. Also, keep in mind Yunalesca's final form casts multi death which form what I could tell had a 90%ish success rate. So bring someone who has a deathproof accessory.
 
I ended up beating her. I had to grind for a couple of zombieproof's for Yuna and Tidus, although it was pretty minimal. I probably didn't even need them - if you can hold back on unleashing everything you've got until the third form, the battle is pretty easy.

[edit] Ok, after that, I end up getting the airship, and deciding to head over to besaid, I wander around a bit, find what is probably required for one of the celestial weapons, and bump into what looks like one of [Mika's?] cronies. . "Infidel!", he shouts. "wtf are u doing here?" I think to myself, and bam, dark valefor. Game over.

It opens up by killing off one of my characters and the rest die while cursing the lack of escape option.

Glad I saved at least.
 
So I went on vacation this past week and got a lot of playing time with FF3 DS in. I was already pretty close to beating it, or so I thought, but it turns out that FF3 is the game that never fucking ends! Add in the fact that I died SEVERAL TIMES to
motherfucking Red Dragons
in
the Crystal Tower
after spending quite a bit of time in that dungeon leveling up and opening treasure chests. What a waste of time; I wish I could save anywhere so I wouldn't have lost so many hours of my life.

And you'd think I would have been good to go considering I was roughly level 50 entering the above-mentioned dungeon, but no! FF3 thinks level 50 is child's play! Other RPGs, you're lucky to get that far before the game ends unless you do a ton of unnecessary grinding. Not FF3. I ground (grinded?) to level 63 and attempted the last boss. Ha. Ha ha ha. ...Yeah.

So now I'm in the dungeon's first room, back up to level 63 (after losing 3 levels from dying at the last boss), using a GameFAQs strategy of killing
endlessly respawning Kum Kums that come from Blucks
to grind my way to level 70 in the hopes that I'm barely powerful enough to end this damnable game and move on to finishing FF4A.

GRRRAAAAHH
 
Hah. I can top that. I was wandering around trying to figure out where you get replacement blitzball players and the dark aeon sisters attacked me out of nowhere. First one hits Auron for 99,999hp and then they do their delta attack and do like 20 hits each on Tidus and Wakka for 99,999hp a pop.

Needless to say I think I'm done wandering around for a bit. Off to the highbridge in the hopes that the game doesn't end there.
 
"Wise from your graaaaave"

Aside from beating FFV (in that other thread), I also beat FFXII:Int. today.

What can I say? I've been playing this game on and off for some time now, and I can't say I was overly impressed with it.

I read in some thread earlier that many people seem to consider FFX to be the easiest FF to date, but I'll have to say that I thought FFXII was much easier. Thanks to the gambits, I hardly needed to do anything! Aside from some of the boss fights (Bomb King for instance), I did little more than move my guys around with the left stick while adjusting the camera with the right one.

At first I didn't have a problem with it, but it quickly got old. The hunts where especially tedious because it forced you to find all of the contractees before you could find the monsters themselves, and usually these people where in whole other locations. Such a time trap.

Speaking of time, It's a good thing I played the Int. version, because w/o the benefit of a frameskip button, I'm not sure I would have lasted through the whole game. Usually, if an RPG has an even moderately interesting story, I'm able to endure the eventual flaws with the battle system and press on, just knowing that I at least have the story to look forward to, but the FFXII story was just so "meh". Didn't appeal to me at all.

Graphically, the game is stunning though, and it made me think that the PS2 actually got a long way. The music wasn't all that great, but at least it had some VS/FFT vibes to it. It was ok, but nothing memorable.

For some reason or other though, I feel strangely compelled to try out some of the other jobs as well, but I don't know if that will happen anytime soon.
 
...whew. Just beat Final Fantasy 3 DS.

Sure enough, I ground to Level 71 before saving and making my final run through
the Crystal Tower and the World of Darkness
. By the time I got to the last boss, I was Level 73.

Kicked its ass. :lol None of my characters died at all. The only time one of them approached death was on the last turn, when Arc (a ninja) had less than 500 HP left out of a total of about 5,000. Refia (a devout) was set to heal him that turn but my lead character (a knight) went first and finished off the boss.

In case you were wondering, my fourth character, Ingus, was a geomancer. Love geomancers in this game. Free magic attacks!

I timed the ending cutscene plus credits sequence: 18 minutes long. :lol It's a Final Fantasy, alright!!

Anyway, on to Final Fantasy 4 Advance, which I started three years ago or so and left off about three quarters of the way through it.
 
How is the job system of FF3 anyway? I haven't really looked into it so I don't know how it compares to FFV.
 
Sword Familiar said:
How is the job system of FF3 anyway? I haven't really looked into it so I don't know how it compares to FFV.
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It's quite a bit more restrictive. Abilities are determined entirely by a character's job class; there's no mixing and matching like in FFV. In the DS version your characters can gain job levels which makes them stronger but doesn't teach them anything new, whereas in the NES/Famicom version there aren't any job levels and your characters' stats are largely determined by what classes they've leveled up in throughout the game.
 
I totally wanna do this. I'm currently in the middle of FFXII, FFIVDS (played the SFC version years ago though), and FFIV-2. I've played through all the others at least once except for V, and VI. I REALLY wanna get those checked off my list :(

I'm tempted to get the PSP versions of I and II. Are they worth it if I've already finished Dawn of Souls + Bonus dungeons?
 
Himuro said:
Please change the thread title back to "My Summer of Final Fantasy"!

This thread title is stupid.
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You were busy playing other crap. The title fit, especially going with your other GAF plays threads that you never finish. :(
 
FFIV DS Status Update:

Almost done. Got my final party configuration together, just have to tie up a few loose ends and then on to the final dungeon! Whee!
 
Himuro said:
I was busy playing what? Aside from Broken Sword ds, I haven't played any other game aside from Final Fantasy 1 since beatin Jak and Daxter.
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Yes, and when was your last post? Really, if you're going to make a thread like this, please follow through with it.
 
RocketDarkness said:
Perhaps we can compromise and call it "Our Summer of Playing Final Fantasy"?
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The thread change (done two weeks ago ago, which he just noticed now) was a playful jab at Himu never finishing any of these threads. When it takes a month to finish FF1..yeah, he's not really into following through.
 
Himuro said:
If FF1 gba weren't so boring, I would have beaten it by now.
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It's so painfully easy and short, it shouldn't take a month + another I'm playing this instead thread. :( And now you're going from 1 to 8 instead of 1,2,3...
 
Himuro said:
Who said I was playing these games in order? I'm not going through III because I want to play other stuff this summer, but after 8, it'll probably be 5 because that's what everyone else is playing, then 6, and then 2.

2 is one of my least favorite FF's. I'm not going to follow it up after this boring play of FF1.
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I'm just going by the last page where you said you were not going to do 3 and not follow 1 with 2, but 8 instead and didn't say you would do 2 or not. :)

Himu, it's just a playful jab.
and it BURNS MY SOUL after doing my version of thread
 
Red Scarlet said:
The thread change (done two weeks ago ago, which he just noticed now) was a playful jab at Himu never finishing any of these threads. When it takes a month to finish FF1..yeah, he's not really into following through.
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How about, in contrast to his, it could be

"My summer of trying to play through a series but getting to 1 or 2 while everyone without a life kicks my ass"

Then I could take part in it! (My gaming time in the past 3 months is (in total) 2 hours max lol)
 
Red Scarlet said:
The thread change (done two weeks ago ago, which he just noticed now) was a playful jab at Himu never finishing any of these threads. When it takes a month to finish FF1..yeah, he's not really into following through.
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To Himuro's defense, the summer is still young. The thread was made in May, which by many countries would be consider late spring rather than summer.
Not saying the change wasn't justified though, because it totally was. And hilarious to boot.
 
Himuro said:
I don't feel like playing 3. I mean, 5 is so similar. It'd be redundant to play 3 -> 5, wouldn't you say? If I'm going to do 3, it'll probably be at the end of the summer or something after I play some ps3 and wii games.
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himu said:
so this summer I decided I'd go through I-III, and V and VI.
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You're changing it all around.
 
Himuro said:
How is that a change? The only change I see is adding 8 and maybe taking out 3.
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And 2! Until whenever but you'll find something else to play.
Himu: I changed it for humor/supposedly you never finish these threads/humor to get you to go go go
.
 
Himuro said:
Well, I may actually like 2 this time and if it's not nerfed to hell and back like FF1 gba, I may go through it pretty fast.

I realized I started naming FF's by their numerical number and not roman number. I think the announcement of 14 made me do it. It's retarded typing XIV, I refuse to type that out ever again.
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2's not as nerfed as 1, but your stuff levels up a bit too fast. I might play 2 when you decide, don't know.
 
Red Scarlet said:
The Famicom version had job levels or some other name, they just made it cost less capacity points to change back to that job.
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Yeah, the job levels in FF3 make it so you can eventually reduce the cost of switching jobs to 1 or 0 capacity.

I actually prefer it to FF3 DS because you still have to swap jobs a lot in the DS version, but if you do, your stats are nerfed until you get into x number of random battles based upon your job level. In the FC version it just consumes a limited set of capacity points aka resources.
 
Himuro said:
I don't feel like playing 3. I mean, 5 is so similar. It'd be redundant to play 3 -> 5, wouldn't you say? If I'm going to do 3, it'll probably be at the end of the summer or something after I play some ps3 and wii games.
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No. If you're going to skip 3 you are missing out on:
classic adventure
a genuinely difficult FF game
a lot of fun job abilities/perks that don't exist in later FF games

Not to mention, in a lot of ways, FF3 is like the foundation upon which classic FF is built. Probably sounds weird considering there's 1&2 before it, but 3 brings in stuff that is now considered core parts of FF, like stealing from enemies, knights covering weak party members, geomancers, summoners, the dark knight and paladin classes from FF4 (hell, a lot of FF4's character sprites are redrawn FF3 sprites for the SFC), dragoons with jump...

It's not redundant at all. They have barely anything in common unless you want to drastically reduce the story/gameplay to its most simplistic form possible.
 
I'm getting more and more interested in tackling FF3FC after hearing some of you guys talk about it. I also watched gametrailers' retrospective on the game the other day and it had me intrigued. Considering 1-3 (and XI, but I don't consider it a true FF) being the only FF's I have yet to finish, and I've already hated on FF1 (thanks again for the speedrun, Red Scarlet!), it leaves me with only 2 and 3. Of those two, 3 seems to be the one that I might enjoy the most.
 
Himuro said:
Fuck it.

I'm beating this game tonight so I can start FF8 tomorrow and play it at work. I'll have to miss TNA, Conan, and the NBA Finals, and not read before going to bed tonight to pull it off though.
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You've got 4 dungeons left on FF1 or so, you can do it pretty fast if you want to.
 
Hey I decided to play and complete all FF from 1 to 12 before the end of the year (why settle for just summer!). The only ones I beat previously are 5, 7 and 10.

So I just beat FF1 Anniversary Edition on PSP last night. Cool art, but awfully bland, no strategy whatsoever, and I only died once, during the end boss. Finished it in around 15 hours.

I got FF2 PSP today and will start it later tonight. Is it better gameplay-wise than the 1st one?

Next one will be FF3 ds, FF4 gba, FF6 gba. I finished FF5 recently and am playing it on the side for the 4 Job Fiesta thread.
 
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