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[Game On] Final Fantasy I (yes, the first one)
busfahrer
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(I hope this is the right place and the right format, and I hope that retrogaming isn't frowned upon; in other news: I suck at OPs)
I have recently decided to learn about the history of video gaming. This is one of the first lessons since, aside from Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy coined the console RPG genre like no other title. Also, even if it's only a chiptune, the music is hauntingly beautiful. Join me in playing this classic like it's 1987
For starting troubles: Your party screen can be accessed with the Start button, it is there that you have to equip your weapons and armor after you buy or find them. Took me a bit ;-)
Screenshots in all their 8-bit glory (Yeah I know my character naming scheme isn't too creative, wanna fight about it?)
I have recently decided to learn about the history of video gaming. This is one of the first lessons since, aside from Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy coined the console RPG genre like no other title. Also, even if it's only a chiptune, the music is hauntingly beautiful. Join me in playing this classic like it's 1987
For starting troubles: Your party screen can be accessed with the Start button, it is there that you have to equip your weapons and armor after you buy or find them. Took me a bit ;-)
Screenshots in all their 8-bit glory (Yeah I know my character naming scheme isn't too creative, wanna fight about it?)
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Your naming convention is much better than mine. I think my party consisted of
FOOD
CARL
MR T
and last but not least
BUTT
Good luck.
When someone told me about the boat puzzle, and it actually worked unlike every other lie that kid feed me, my mind was blown.
That said, I just can't play it, the original game is way too old school for me. It's sad because I remember passing this game over so many times at the rental store when I was young. My tastes were different back then though and this game always intimidated me when I picked it up to look at it.
I'll definitely be getting the iPhone port when it hits though.
Did you succeed?
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Oh yes, my grandparents loved me! My 9th birthday and months afterward were excellent.
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You can't actually be stopped from beating the game unless you intentionally impose some contrivances on yourself, or you do silly things like going into a fight, and then proceeding to cast spells that you have no charges for or use equipment every turn that does nothing until the enemy kills your party.
If you actually had the patience and time to kill Imps in the starting area until you hit level 60, you can render all challenge in the game null and void.
I still kinda regret not finishing it.
Play FF4 (US:3) instead. This game is better left in the halls of memory.
Yeah. 1-3 are better left to their remakes.
I think I could kill more stuff.
Kill more stuff 8-)
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Also, it was possible to die: gas dragons, those mage-named things that could kill you in one hit (I forgot the name of the spell/ability), or being mass stunned into oblivion by undead.
My friend and I, who were actually more jocks and this was our first RPG, pretty much holed up one summer and played this straight through (I guess it was a couple weeks) - we were about 13. This, and All Star Baseball. Those were the days.
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FF4 is 2 in the US. US 3 is FF6.
To the OP: In the fire dungeon there is a hallway that is filled with nothing but ogres. If you go into that hallway and kill them, you will get a lot of exp (relative to the area) and I think if you kill enough of them you get some cool sword or something
Cheers, I hope I will remember that once I get to said fire dungeon
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FF3 (original NES Japan FF3) is still an awesome game with gameplay and graphics on par with FF4.
I did a single white mage playthrough once. Not really all that hard, just grind on the Eye in the Ice Cave until max level.
To be honest, white mage parties are not hard because you have a lot of healing power and the exit spell. Black belt or thief would probably be the most difficult.
If person A wants me to get item B from place C, that usually involves grinding until you are strong enough to face the enemies at place C, right? Or am I doing it wrong?
Also, you need a shitload of pure potions, right? I needed 3 in one fight against a bunch of arachnids at least, and that was just one fight.
Furthermore, I don't let my black belt equip any weapons, correct?
edit: speling
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The beauty is that you can(but definitely should not unless you're patient and bored) beat the game as absolutely any class. Solo. Yep. Just kill off the other three right away and go nuts. And this is even in the original where the max level is only 50.
Though I like to go two fighters and two red mages when I'm in the mood to auto-win. Little expensive, but no biggie. Three fighters might even be easier overall... just less convenient in some spots.
Maybe I'm just crazy. I go through the original Dragon Warrior about every year, too, and that game is basically 95% grinding.
Due to one of many bugs, elemental and "attuned" items do not caused extra damage to the thing they are supposed to hurt. But it's still a nice sword.
You really are pretty new, huh?
Potions and Pures are pretty cheap, many people buy 99 of each as soon as they can reasonably afford it. You can learn a Pure spell too but that's only 9 casts at the most. Also, it's only poison, you don't have to cure it in the same fight. In the turns you spent curing it you may have prevented more poisonings...obviously a person who is already poisoned can't get any worse.
IIRC, Black Belt has a pretty easy time, actually. At high levels they throw so much damage around it's crazy. And I think if you stick to regular BB as you level, you can get crazy magic defense(I'm pretty sure they swapped the growth rate of the BB's and the Master's mdef).
The trick(and this is good advice for any playthrough) is to abuse on use items. Especially the heal helmet and staff. I think that's what they're called. Just leave one weak enemy left and freely heal your party with those to avoid using potions and spell charges.
EDIT:
And make your Black Belt naked when he hits level 11(guessing) or so. Before that he is a bit better with some chucks.
My copies of the DS/GBA version have been swallowed by a black hole.
edit:
After checking some screens I'm very impressed. I think I'll have to get a copy next time I see one. FF2 be damned, I don't need 'characters' and 'story' getting in the way of my leveling up.
I'll have to do some reading and see if other improvements were made in the port.
I definitely prefer classic dragon warrior gameplay to FF gameplay (beyond the first one, though I did have fun with that game as mindless as it was)
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That's the whole point of it, isn't it? ;-)
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