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Let’s discuss the Final Fantasy series of video games. What are your favorites? What aspects do you like about it? What doesn’t work for you? Feel free to share any thoughts that come up, or react to other peoples comments. Let’s get the conversation going!

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  • missingno@fedia.io
    2·
    25 days ago
    • 1 - …I respect the historical importance of this game.
    • 2 - Actually, dual-wielding shields and attacking yourself to grind evasion is peak game design.
    • 3 - Beta for FF5. Shame about that final dungeon.
    • 4 - First game that actually holds up.
    • 5 - Peak.
    • 6 - I liked this game up until I found out that I was supposed to be grinding three distinct parties the whole time.
    • 7 - I went into this expecting the first 3D installment to be another example of historically important but poorly aged. Was pleasantly surprised by how well it holds up.
    • 8 - I went into this knowing it’s the weird one. I was the sicko that liked 2, but I still couldn’t get through it.
    • 9 - Bought it alongside 8, when I dropped 8 I never got around to this. I will eventually… maybe…
    • 10 - Perfects the classic formula while still feeling sufficiently modernized. Uh, for some definition of modern…
    • 12 - Hated hated hated the combat. Painfully tedious to take manual control, automation is too primitive. And I don’t want to automate the game away, I want to play it!
    • LordJer@beehaw.org
      1·
      22 days ago

      2 gets a bad rap. Hitting yourself to increase max health works against yourself in the long run. Many late game monsters do % of max health damage. Characters with inflated max health will struggle more in those battles. I played the game normally with minimal grinding and ran into no issue.

      • missingno@fedia.io
        1·
        22 days ago

        Percentage-based damage doesn’t make you struggle more with more health, it just means a few attacks take the same number of hits to kill. You’re never any worse for it, and you’re still better against every other attack in the game.

        Also, I said evasion anyway, not health.