the battle ui in the ffix rerelease is a crime
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Okay, how’s XV?
kind of a bizarre choice after this one unless you’ve got a real block about emulation
love or hate kind of game
plenty of us found it revelatory as a kind of ‘oh final fantasy games have a way forward from their awkward era’ game, others found it intolerable for various reasons.
Honestly just try it out for a couple hours and return it if it doesn’t sit with you
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the biggest, realest block against emulation is HLE amirite, up top
the zodiac age version of XII is solid, tho it’s narratively a little ways away from 7 and XV
i liked a lot of XV but i spent a lot of the latter half getting tired of the party being pissy at each other because masculinity means not actually talking about your problems. it’s a weird game
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I’m just trying to get a handle of where the franchise is at since I haven’t played VII and enjoyed the ATB and slight action bent stuff found in this one.
play IX, VI, chrono trigger, tactics, V
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XV is the closest to that mechanically, though XIII is available on PC & folks seem to be feeling a lot of similarities between it and the remake
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Would vote 12 as my favorite. I liked the political drama and how you were bystanders forced to go along for the ride as the princess is essentially tricked into dooming her empire by Old Gods. I loved that you can program the game to play itself and it’s aesthetically great. Everything you did had a weight to it that made it feel more like an ARPG despite its structure and I like how as with the other “Ivalice” games its systems are internally consistent to the point where the game world also follows them (the NPCs in gambit shops also use gambits in combat)
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There’s no real consensus and if this thread is anything to go by every mainline FF has a lot of fans so I would recommend looking a bit at each one and going with whatever catches your fancy.
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i would actually really like for a sequel to adhere to the isometric style…!
…though i would not turn my nose up at a more souls-style vagrant story, either
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a more dark souls like vagrant story for wii u
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if you don’t like XV after a few hours you won’t like it but it’s definitely worth trying
anything before X you’re better off emulating, I think IV, VI, and VIII would be good to play after this if you’re into ATB styled turn based combat. there are great retranslation patches for IV and VI. VIII’s translation is terrific and can be enjoyed in its original form.
I haven’t played the VIII remaster the new character models make me think of mobile games so I’m probably never gonna play it. the original is totally fine anyway.
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Gonna drop these here so you can get some actual objective data to work with
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the problem with these videos is that for the psx version emulation is like objectively better in all cases lol
I guess the IX pc port actually has natively higher res assets so that’s maybe an argument to play that instead? idk. just emulate them lol.
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Emulation is subjectively better. Different people have different tolerances for the specific types of dickery and/or jank that emulation inevitably inserts. I personally can’t stand emulation of almost anything post-16-bit
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While we’re talking about FF and emulation - is there any way to get Retroarch to Fast Forward like ZSNES does? Also, wtf is up w/ bad sound emulation? It is making my FF4 playthrough pretty bogus
how does zsnes fast forward?
retroarch’s fastforward hotkeys can be bound in settings > input > Hotkey Binds
Is the Cactuar Summon Materia worth paying an extra $20
(I have a Cactuar plushie on my desk at work)