Thread 3846374

I can't think of another RPG that has affected my life so deeply.

>>3846374 (OP)
nostalgia juice is a powerful brew. we all have our favorite

>>3846379
It's more than nostalgia. By the standards of the time, the game was groundbreaking, a gamechanger.
The second part of the game had not been done before, where the world was torn apart and what had been set up as the end of the game was just the beginning of the end, and the rest was set in a destroyed world where the antagonist, effectively, had won.
And Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda's second quests on the NES don't count, since they were just harder versions of the same first game.

>>3846391
>It's more than nostalgia. By the standards of the time, the game was groundbreaking, a gamechanger.
Similarly, The Legend of Zelda (1986) was the Skyrim (2011) of its day, but a quarter century earlier. No video game, nor any game at all, so vast had ever been conceived before.

>>3846374 (OP)
It's definitely one of the best for me but there's so much variety. Chrono Trigger has a vastly different appeal, there's no other game that does what Star Ocean 2 does in a complete set. Other games have nostalgic advantage too, like Phantasy Star 1 in the west visually blew every other jrpg out of the water when it came out and could've easily been an intro to anime aesthestics for some. List goes on. I'm just glad FFVI is a game that exists, big impact on my life.

>>3846374 (OP)
It's one of the best yeah

>>3846414
>Other games have nostalgic advantage too, like Phantasy Star 1 in the west visually blew every other jrpg out of the water when it came out and could've easily been an intro to anime aesthestics for some. List goes on. I'm just glad FFVI is a game that exists, big impact on my life.
Am also overjoyed that FF3/6 (it'll always be 3 for me, a North American) exists and has been a part of my life and always will be.
The YouTuber, HappyConsoleGamer, who is amazingly good in his stories about growing up with games, JRPGs, and anime, frequently says Phantasy Star I changed his life and is his favorite game, though he was familiar with the anime aesthetic before PS1 came out.

His memories, in this video, of the launch of the N64 and, with it, Mario 64 match mine very closely, down to nearly idolizing the controllers and preferring matching colors for console and controls etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zstl-KRgeK0&ab_channel=HappyConsoleGamer

He's awesome to watch and listen to.

>>3846420
No game Mogs as hard as Final Fantasy III.

>>3846374 (OP)
FFVII's backstory about Cloud resonated with me more
Although I like FFVI too, not as much as FFVII
But VI right now is brimming with potential for a remake

>>3846430
Nice! I'll have to watch it. I remember watching a retrospective on Phantasy Star after the character designer died a bit ago, it was great.

Only idiots refer to it as 3.

>>3846391
>The second part of the game had not been done before
It was done before in Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle.
The devs acknowledge it, hence the strongest spell being called Ultima.

>>3846535
I love FF7 as well, one of the top Final Fantasies, along with 2/4 and Final Fantasy Tactics. I also love the original Final Fantasy from 1987 (released in North America in 1990). I've probably played through that one more times than any of the others, for some reason. Perhaps this is because it's maybe shorter.

>>3846537
HappyConsoleGamer is excellent.

>>3846549
I call it III because that's what I grew up with before we learned, in the later 90s, that it is actually the sixth in the series. This became common knowledge after VII was released and video game magazines had to explain the jump from 3 to 7 outside of Japan. But I fell in love with "Final Fantasy III," so there.

>>3846554
Yes, this is true, but Ultima was nowhere near as big as Final Fantasy; even before VII, Final Fantasy was probably the biggest JRPG ever, with a niche but sizable following outside of Japan (where RPGs were always popular).

>>3846535
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t94IKugw4tQ

>>3846581
I mean I get it he had such a nostalgia of the game
However I never liked when people mentioned FFVII being their favorite game yet instead use it to tell their life story which had nothing to do with the game
Or maybe I'm just a sociopath or smth

>>3846587
Did you watch the same video I did?
He never says FF7 is his favorite game in the video.
In fact, Phantasy Star I is his all time favorite game.
He was talking, in this video, about his experience during the launch of FF7 and what was going on his life. His channel is all about what was happening at the time of certain video game landmarks, including in his own life. It's like a vlog, sort of, but with excellent, relatable memories for people who remember those landmarks.

>>3846374 (OP)
I can't get this to work an any emulator. It plays the intro but then none of the buttons to start the game work. All of my input configuration is correct and still nothing.

>>3846597
>However I never liked when people mentioned FFVII being their favorite game yet instead use it to tell their life story which had nothing to do with the game
I didn't say he said it. I was giving an example, I hate when someone makes a video of VII they are just using it to tell a life story instead of the game itself

>>3846603
I personally like people's own stories about their experience with a game and their lives and the society during the time period when a game came out. It's interesting stuff, I think.
I already know about the game, so I don't just want reviews, though sometimes very in depth reviews and analyses are fascinating.

>>3846570
He's like a bizarro version of Gavin McInnes.

>>3846573
You've had over twenty years to get over it.

>>3846391
>By the standards of the time, the game was groundbreaking,
But not even that's true.
4 had way better story, 5 had way better gameplay

>>3846643
I guess so, since he grew a beard almost a decade ago.

>>3846709
Nah, it'll always be III to me. It's not something to "get over," not some injury. It's just my preference. It was Final Fantasy III, not VI, when it changed my life.

>>3846732
Nah, III/VI had a better story than IV, which was also phenomenal, and III/VI also had as good of gameplay as V. And we in North America didn't even get to experience V when it was fresh, only after it was already somewhat dated.

>>3846786
I mean he dresses the same and he has the same Canadian accent that Gavin does. But instead of being angry about politics, he's happy about video games.

>>3846794
>But instead of being angry about politics, he's happy about video games.
LOL yes
He has a good nature, which is a great thing to have, and which unfortunately is something lacking in today's political figures on every side.
I like hearing stories from genuinely nice and well wishing people and learning about how they are as people.

>>3846374 (OP)
Final Fantasy VI had the most iconic sprites thus why FFRK didn't change the sprites for the characters from those games.

>>3846819
I love the pixel art and sprites and general style, setting, and feel of this Final Fantasy.

>>3846819
FFVI sprites always remind me of RPG Maker 2000 because they were used so often. My brother edited Sabin's sprite into Johnny Bravo for my game.

>it CHANGED my LIFE
>Oh the memories
>My CHILDHOOD

Holy shit you couldnt be any gayer if you tried. Grow up

>>3846836
I've grown up too much and need to learn how to lighten up. By 18 I was serious, driven, and focused as hell on my goals, and that's about the age when I stopped playing video games.
You assume to know the kind of person I am and you do so from a place with very little knowledge, just a few posts I've made online. And yes, I've been very successful in life, financially and interpersonally.

>>3846978
Really, I've become a grouch and it's not the way I want to be, so I am going back to things that brought me joy when I was younger and non-grouchy as a way to change this tendency in myself.

Original, GBA, BNW or T-Edition?

>>3847222
Original first, then take your pick. T-Edition is great but I'd never recommend it for a first playthrough. GBA has nice extras but the weaker visuals and audio hurts the experience. Haven't tried BNW yet.

Someone needs to make a hack for the SNES version adding the GBA extra content. Surprised nobody has done that yet.

>>3847222
T-Edition has been fun as fuck but I can't see anything but the original snes version as the go-to for first timers.
>>3847230
>Someone needs to make a hack for the SNES version adding the GBA extra content.
Aside from Soul Shrine did the GBA add anything else? I believe T-Edition includes that

>>3846399
Zelda was not at all Skyrim.

>>3847266
>Aside from Soul Shrine did the GBA add anything else?
Dragon's Den, an optional 3 party dungeon with a bunch of superbosses. Also Gilgamesh and Leviathan, plus the option the save your game after the ending so you can get multiple Atma Weapons and Ragnoroks by stealing in the final battle.

>>3846836
What? Dude wants to share nostalgia and good times with others. Go eat some dicks and settle your tum-tum.

>>3847280
T-Edition does offer NG+ and I'm quite sure you end up battling Gilgamesh multiple times throughout the playthrough, same for Leviathan. I think the mod brings in most if not all of the extra content aside from its own stuff, just reshuffles things around to fit into the world better. Don't see any mention of the 3 party dungeon so the den might be missing.

I haven't finished the mod yet but there is no shortage of extra content, and there's still that post-postgame EX patch that only becomes available after clearing everything in the main game. I wish other FF's had this level of japanese autism to support them.

>>3847288
T-Edition definitely has way more extra stuff than the GBA version, but it also changes the entire game a ton. It's awesome and worth playing, but I feel like the vanilla SNES version plus the GBA extras hacked in would be the ideal version to recommend for first time players. The main reason people don't recommend the GBA version over the SNES version is the graphics and sound being worse. Even with the patches that try fixing that, you can't make it totally like the SNES version.

>>3847278
It's a metaphor meaning Zelda was enormous for its time, leaps and bounds bigger than any previous game, which is how many people felt about Skyrim.

>>3847281
>What? Dude wants to share nostalgia and good times with others. Go eat some dicks and settle your tum-tum.
Yes, I do believe he needs a large meal of hard dicks to settle his upset (or his butthurt).

>>3847296
Basic quality of life & vanilla+ mods are strangely uncommon in a lot of these games. It's always pushed to the farthest extremes so you often have these mods for the enthusiast types that are on their 20th playthrough and the newbies just get 5 different flavors of not ideal options.

>>3847307
>Basic quality of life & vanilla+ mods are strangely uncommon in a lot of these games. It's always pushed to the farthest extremes so you often have these mods for the enthusiast types that are on their 20th playthrough and the newbies just get 5 different flavors of not ideal options.
Which is why the original version is the best one for newbies.

>>3847313
>Which is why the original version is the best one for newbies.
Many such cases.