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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: cecil-kain on July 26, 2008, 10:08:39 AM
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Bought it, playing it, and lovin every power-leveling moment! --anyone else?
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In Reply To #1
I have tried it and i wasn't impressed!!
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It isn't worth it unless you worship everything that has to do with Final Fantasy (like me :)) You miss nothing if you already played other remakes. The DS version has like 5 minutes of extra scenes and the bonus content from the GBA version is removed. But I love kain in CGI
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In Reply To #1
I would have bought it, had I not already bought the GBA remake.
I DID, however, buy Final Fantasy III for DS and absolutely loved it! Goodness, that's one of my all time favorite DS games, right below Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait Of Ruin (only because it's Castlevania...sort of) and Super Mario 64. I need to expand my DS collection, but I don't see that many games that are really worth obsessing over, so I don't bother. :P
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Well those who have played it can you answer me questions.
1) While i don't mind difficulty, i dropped ff III because of the intense difficulty. (there where also other reasons but that's for another thread) What i was really turned off by was the fact that at the games start you can run in to enemies that can inflict status effects like stone just by hitting you. Is that prevalent in here early on or better yet, not at all.
....hmm...i think that's the only question i have. i might pick this up in the future if my question is answered to my liking.
oh here we go...another question.
2) Is the legendary phrase "you spoony bard" still in the game....perhaps put to voice?
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I played III DS. It's the only FF game I have ever played, also.
I'm trying to get IV DS currently. It seems inpossible to get it under thirty, unfortunately.
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FF IV is awesome, imo, and I'm not a big FFer myself. I seriously can't put it down, and the plot is pretty well done, especially considering how it's more than 15 years old.
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In Reply To #7
17 years. Yeah . . .
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FF4 is one of the best games ever played in my life. We still talk about the ending and some of the other parts every once in a while and Cecil was a huge inspiration for me as a character for lots of other stuff back then. Hell the 'Noblebrook' part of my name came from Cecil cause he never had a last name I knew of in those days so when I used the name for my own chars and stories Noblebrook was the name I gave him. A few years later when I made up Aridale I took it as his middle name cause that idea of Cecil and my own chars and stuff that came from it meant so much to me.
So... yeah... FF4... damn good game.
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In Reply To #5
Difficulty? I thought Final Fantasy IIII was WAY harder than III. :o
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In Reply To #5
Difficulty? I thought Final Fantasy IIII was WAY harder than III. :o
IIII = IV. Learn to roman numeral.
As for FFIII, I played the crap out of it on DS and I thought it was easy enough. I've played the NES original though, so I knew what I was doing, to an extent. There are still many moments in the game where there's luck involved, and many job classes are just downright useless. Still an okay game, in my book.
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IIII = IV.
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In Reply To #12
Oops, I need to read my posts before posting them...
Don't worry - I'm not THAT stupid...Well, maybe I am...
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I recently got this too, great remake, the mad doctor they added was a retard though. Reversing everything, dumbass. All I had to do was use 2 elixers and he was burnt toast.
Well those who have played it can you answer me questions.
1) While i don't mind difficulty, i dropped ff III because of the intense difficulty. (there where also other reasons but that's for another thread) What i was really turned off by was the fact that at the games start you can run in to enemies that can inflict status effects like stone just by hitting you. Is that prevalent in here early on or better yet, not at all.
no not early on later, but mostly only slow acting 20 turn petrification, getting hit and being instantly turned to stone is insanely rare. It's Insanely tough, but FF IV was always insanely tough. That's why it's my fav FF.
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I have to ask, was it REALLY necessary to port Final Fantasy IV to the DS when it was released to the PSX several times, and then ported to the GameBoy Advance a mere 3 years ago? Granted this is supposed to be an upgrade, but really, do we need ANOTHER port of this game? I have a small apartment and don
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In Reply To #15
Umm... I thought FFAnthology was V and VI. IV wasn't part of it.
I agree about the FFIV GBA version, but the DS version IS a significant upgrade from all.
About FF Chronicles, that version is not worth the $23, even with Chrono Trigger, as it's riddled with loadtimes and glitches due to it being a bad port.
So basically your 'real choices' here are:
-FFII USA (IV JPN Easy-Type) for SNES, on eBay, which is expensive and requires a SNES (not everyone still has one, even though I do)
-FFIV GBA (good port of the SNES one, with better localization and contains all of the stuff from the Japanese Hard-Type verion, as opposed to FFChronicles, which is a port of the Easy-Type USA version)
-FFIV DS - Not a port, as it uses a new built-from-the-ground-up system. New localization, new Job system, 3D graphics instead of 2D, and a small amount of extra content. VoiceActing and FMV are included, though this is just a perk.
I think the choice is clear: GBA or DS version. If you played the original SNES version you probably want to try the DS version, and if you're an absolute purist, you can get the GBA version for cheap, as stated before, and pass on the DS version.
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, you can get the GBA version for cheap, as stated before, and pass on the DS version.
yeah those are your best bets. I'm a IV nut and have all of the incarnations of IV but I have to agree the must owns are GBA IV and DS IV.
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I heard that the gba ff4 has a new dungeon in the game. Is that true?
Furthermore, Jorge D. Fuentes is right. FF anthology has FFVI not FFIV
hopefully, Square Enix makes a remake of the next two games so that we can get FFVI in 3d graphics
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Well...
I'm taking my sweet time here --power-leveling and exploring ad naseum. After awhile it occurred to me this remake is too good for its own good.
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I'll be in the minority and say I like VI more than IV, but I do like the remake of the latter on DS. It's pretty sweet.
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I'll be in the minority and say I like VI more than IV...
I don't think that's a Minority.
The game should have been remixed alot more --good god --do all the citizens of FF IV still sleep at the Inns? Where are these people's houses? Where do they eat? Where are their toilets? Modern FF's have a wonderful sense of scale but this one doesn't try to be anymore than a prettied up SNES game.
Actually you know those houses with no doors? Little tiny houses in town?
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...Those are outhouses. <_<
THAT'S WHAT I POSTULATE! The modern FF's are in steampunk/pseudo-modern times so they have toilets (also they're were in systems that could have more crap on the screen).
FFVI only had 'true' toilets in the Prisons of Vector.
lololololol :P
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In Reply To #15
Umm... I thought FFAnthology was V and VI. IV wasn't part of it.
That's what I thought, but then I checked it out on Amazon and they said otherwise, at least for most of the page it's listed on. Even the review mentions FFIV, but when you get down to the Product Features, it finally mentions FFVI. O_o [/Lessonlearned]