/vr/ - Retro Games

Bear with it for a few hours until it really gets going. Then you're in for some amazing shit. It loses steam near the end but wins it back with an amazing final boss. He's easy but the music is incredible.

>>2154040
Don't bother with it, it's more overrated than VII. Play IV instead.

>>2154040

Just go fucking play it, stop making threads like this.

>>2154040
>anything i should know?
Yeah. Just play the game.
Jesus christ.

6 is one of if not the best FF there is.
Stick it out until the end.

>>2154050
I rarely ever see FFVI or FFIV get tons of attention.
Pleb

>>2154105
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>2154040
It's like FFVII but good.

prepare towels for the ending. the game is pure beauty

>>2154040
>i've only played FF VII

then you'll probably like FFVI they're kinda the same shit

Look up a guide for what to do about Shadow when you get to the Floating Continent (you'll know if it's the Floating Continent if you're on a floating continent), if you don't do a specific thing at this point, that character won't be available for the rest of the game.

>>2155268
I think its better when you figure that out on your own

why are you stealing other people's sense of wonder and discovery anon?

>>2155279
If someone told me back then that I didn't have to lose Shadow I'd have been eternally grateful

I just thought it was part of the game then

>>2155289
Shadow is too edgy for me anyway.

>>2155289

>he didn't wait for Shadow

Way to have no faith in your teammates, anon.

>>2154040
>anything i should know?

FFVII > FFVI

>>2155289
Just because you're a shitty friend doesn't mean nobody else can figure it out

Why would you just abandon your bro

coward

>>2154052
this /vr/ is not your fucking strategy guide, play the game and decide whether you like it or not. that way you can actually tell us your opinion about it then we can tell you how much of a faggot you are for liking it or not

>>2154050
Dont listen to this douchefaggot. FFVI used to be the gem in the rough, that nobody really took any notice to. For a long time it was more obscure than it is now, and not a lot of people held the opinion of VI being the best FF. But eventually a lot of people came to acknowledge that it was indeed a hidden gem and now its widely acknowledged as a great game. And then we have this hipster faggot whos all HURRR GAME TOO MAINSTREAM NOW HAVE TO HATE IT. As you can tell from his own post he only dislikes it because its "overrated". If nobody liked it it would be his favorite game.

>>2154040
VI is my second favorite game of all time. There are 14 characters, 12 of which have fleshed out stories that you can choose to complete or not. You'll have your favorites, you'll have the ones that you never use.

This game is all about the story. Whereas V is all about the job system, this game gives you an opportunity to experience a grand, operatic story.

The music is the best in the FF series. Even Uematsu has said that it's his favorite score from the series.

Give it a shot, play it for at least 6 hours and then evaluate. If you haven't gotten to Zozo, I don't think you've played far enough yet.

Have fun with it, OP. It's hands down my favorite FF game and a sparkling gem compared to the mediocrity of the next 3 games in the series.

Don't jump right away, wait.

Moogle > Wolf.

Choose the weapon over the summon.

Let all of your characters get sucked in.

When the Returners ask you to join, keep refusing.

Get the Cursed Shield, wear it in every battle (with a Ribbon), and it becomes the Paladin Shield after 256 battles won. Cursed Rings are shit, though.

>>2155483
>confirmed for underage
>never read a gaming magazine ever

>>2155483
what the fuck are you talking about? do you think ff Vi got its renown by fucking accident?

>>2155483
All of my WAT.

Is the Android version of this good or at least playable? I was thinking of buying this off Google Play as I will no longer have much time to sit around after the holidays and I'd like to be able to play on the go.

>>2155941
the phone version actually looks this ugly >>2155349

>>2155958
Oh dear god

>>2154050
>it's more overrated than VII

I don't see people naming their babies after Kefka, or writing ridiculous levels of fanfiction for the FFVI cast, so you're wrong.

>>2154040
Tina is beautiful.

Rem will crash your game.

>>2157034
only if you let her

>>2155528
>Terra at front.
>Implying she's the main character.

>>2157356
She was for the first half of the game, I suppose. Of course, you only need three characters to ultimately beat the game in the WoR: Celes, Edgar and Setzer. In fact, the next time I play I plan on doing the CES challenge where they're the only characters you get. It's harder, but an interesting way to play the game. I only really use 6 or maybe 7 characters anyways. I'll really miss having Cyan and Sabin, though.

jesus christ this snail

the shell ran out of mana apparently and i'm just mindlessly attacking it. No, I'm not using lightning.

>>2157862
oh never mind, it just died

>>2157862
did you just almost die at the tutorial boss?

...in a fight where you have an overpowered magitek armor and two npcs to help you out

>>2157869
no, it was just really tedious and repetitive, since I was just one-shotting all the guys before.

>>2155268
>Get to that part
>Brother is watching
>"Why don't you wait and see what happens when it blows up?"
>"Game over, duh."
>Ignore his request
>Finish game
>Read guide to see what I missed
>Feel like an idiot

Gau is the only blue mage I ever liked in any final fantasy and is in my opinion better that Relm and her gay grandfather.

inb4 all the gau hate

Kill all of the T-rexs and Megalodons for fat stacks of xp.

GBA version with restoration patch is the best version to play IMO.
Still can't fix the Ultima Weapon music but whatever.

>>2154052
>>2155372

Quit being autistic rage-nerds. The thread's just a good excuse for us to talk about a game we all enjoy. Regardless of why the OP brought it up, just enjoy the FF6 thread.

Why did they make Cyan so fucking useless, holy shit. All they had to do is to let you control other characters when his combo bar is loading and buff damage a bit. Just make player select any of his sword tech, and then order other characters around while his bar is reaching the point you've chosen.

Brave New World looks pretty great, any opinions?

>>2155839
That's about it. Although a bit too oblique in my opinion. Minor things like this are not really spoilers...

>moogle > wolf
If there's a moogle ever being held hostage, wait around for a minute.

>sucked in
This moment is in a random encounter on the world map.

The keep refusing thing is....subjective imo. You could try both ways with a save

>>2154105
lol what the fuck

Not calling it overrated, but people literally talk about VI all the time.

Vanish + Doom = Win Game

Also, use a Phoenix Down on the train boss.

Fighting bosses is for suckers.

>>2157694
The main character is whoever you choose to play as.

>>2158254

Do it on Doomgaze and you won't get Bahamut.

>>2158254
>Vanish + Doom = Win Game
Really don't fucking do this.
Don't.
You might just as well just watch a let's play instead.

>>2157927
I spent a ton of time getting all of his best rages (the ones that turn him into arguably your most robustly powerful character in the 1st half of the game and still one of the most powerful in the 2nd half). Even with the Rage FAQ, knowing about enemy pack queuing, and using Blackjack, that shit took forever. One of the good Rages is based on an enemy encountered only in Serpent Trench, and I with that section being so short I completely missed the enemy my first time through (discovered only after sinking hours into rage grinding, but granted i gained a ton of Ability Points). Was that shit amazingly frustrating/ cryptic back in the day, like one of those secrets that people would find out based on playground/ knitting-circle conversations? The Rage FAQ's introduction says that, before FFVI's ancient hex codings were decyphered, Gau was viewed as a relatively dull character — kinda useless unless you discovered certain high-power, specified-usage oddities such as Rhodox.

>>2158262
>hear about this glitch/oversight at the start
>it's obviously cheating, decide never to use it
>be in Kefka's tower
>got sweet ass Genji equipment and elemental shields distributed to all 12 party members; wyverns & demons getting rekt
>the battling is tough, and to be honest with you /vr/ it would be nice to go & wait out the rest of in-game eternity hidden away in the luxurious splendor of Edgar's castle, waited on by his servants & protected by his guards, making excursions to the Arena to gain wealth & fame, 10/10 could spend eternity there
>or safe in the skies in Daryl's airship
>even Castle Doma or the old man's island could be a serviceable new home
>but we made the decision to take down Kefka long ago
>fate of the world hangs in the balance and there's no turning back
>get to the last Statue of the Gods (last pre-Kefka boss battle)
>this asshole's going to fight *us*? did he notice the heaps of dead wyverns along our path? wtf?
>'ey, what was that glitch again? Vanish-darkness? no wait... i remember
>SKIP TO MAGE'S TURN
>MAGE HAS GEMBOX WHICH CONFERS X-MAGIC
>BAM ANDDDDD BAM
>KILL HIM IN ONE TURN
>HAH HAH HAH
>INDIANA JONES, NOW I KNOW THAT FEEL BRO! THAT FEEL THAT YOU GET WHEN YOU SHOTTED THE SWORD ARTIST, BRO! NOW I KNOW THAT FEEL!

>>2154050
IV is lame

>>2158370
http://youtu.be/_6-AOJm0sAQ?t=1h18m
1:18:00

>implying it's lame and not the greatest work of any medium ever created on the Blue Planet

>>2158262
It would destroy items.

>>2158191
Add both the sound and color saturation patches?

>>2155289
It's good to not be able to do some things like keep Shadow or Cid during the game. Builds character, especially the later one. Also gives you different dreams and slightly different scenarios afterwards.

>>2158283
I played this game as a kid when it first came out. 2 friends of mine played it as well. We only had the official strategy guide and our own wits to aid as.

No one really used Gau. We thought leap/rage was cool but ultimately a gimmick.

I just started another play through a few days ago after not touching this game in a decade or more, and I'm actually grinding the veldt. It's really great. I've been crushing the WoB with Aspik, Cat Scratch, and some of the other rages.

I'm actually going to see if I can download the official strategy guide to see what it says about gau. I wonder if we all just missed it, or if it really wasn't known to be strong at the time.

>>2159382
Gau is so op on the snes he was nerfed in every other version

>>2158283
>>2159382
>>2159385
Just leafed through the guide. All they really say is "you can learn lots of stuff" when you first get him and leave it at that. There's also a very unhelpful table in the back.

They mention lots of specific tricks (even vanish/doom) and strategies on bosses, but I never saw them recommend to use gau.

So yeah, none of my friends knew about the OPness back then at least.

>>2158283
I would just leap a couple of times and try out rages until I found 3-5 that were good enough, like Templar that had Fire2 before most of my people could/have learned it. Once those rages started to suck, I would go back and get a few more. A berserker character let me concentrate more on the characters that counted, another reason I love Umaro. Why have a beefcake where I have to select attack when I can have autobeefcake?

Also, I shared this before but again:

>Get to Shiva fight in the magitek facility
>Been using the brawler rage with Gau because it had high physcial damage and throw stone to confuse shit, also for high damage
>Fighting shiva
>Like, fourth turn
>Gau throws stone
>9999 damage
>Ifrit suddenly appears and the fight ends
>For the longest time have no idea what happened, thought I got incredibly lucky hit somehow
>Post this story on this board
>Anon informs me that if you are the same level as the enemy you throw stone at, it does 9999 damage

Fluke of flukes

>>2158509
>See that part for te first time
>So much pride
>Have to refight the 4 elementals
>Fire3, Lit3, Meteo, Ice3 and we're done here
>Get to 3 black ball cpu boss
>Get shit wrecked a few tiems until I figure out his gimmick

>>2157356
She is the main character. This idea that you can't switch out the main in an rpg is a recent thing.

shit go read a fantasy book some time. You'd be surprised that stuff actually happens when the main character isn't around.

>>2159691
then why is the world of ruin half entirely focused on celes? come to think of it world of balance also lets you pick up your group during branching scenes

>>2159691
There isn't really any real main character in FF6.