Topic: Final Fantasy IV DS

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

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.

[The Last Belmont]

, 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.

[le052383]

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

[cecil-kain]

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.

[ChibiMaddiChan]

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.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

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?
...
...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

[DoctaMario]

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]