View Poll Results: Have you played this game?

Voters
31. You may not vote on this poll
  • Yes, it was pretty cool.

    22 70.97%
  • Yes, but I wasn't impressed.

    4 12.90%
  • No, its on my backlog

    5 16.13%
  • Reganomics!

    0 0%
Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast
Results 16 to 30 of 36

Thread: How many people have actually played this game?

  1. #16
    tech spirit
    Join Date
    Feb 2003
    Location
    Virgo supercluster
    Posts
    17,950
    Articles
    2
    Blog Entries
    2

    FFXIV Character

    Mirage Askai (Sargatanas)

    Default

    I started playing it once, didn't finish. It was the NES version.
    everything is wrapped in gray
    i'm focusing on your image
    can you hear me in the void?

  2. #17

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Elpizo View Post
    It's the best game in the series and whoever disagrees is a smurf.
    Guess I'm that Lady Smurf then.

    Yes have played it and yeah it was pretty neat-o

  3. #18

    Default

    I've beaten it twice and is one of my favorite games! It certainly doesn't get that much love, same as FFII...*sigh*

  4. #19
    Newbie Administrator Loony BoB's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2000
    Posts
    52,431
    Articles
    53
    Blog Entries
    19

    FFXIV Character

    Loony Bob (Twintania)

    Default

    I played it about thirteen years ago but I never got any reasonable amount of hours clocked on the game and I can't remember anything about it. Where does that fit in the poll?
    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

  5. #20
    KentaRawr!'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Earth!
    Posts
    8,304
    Blog Entries
    3

    Default

    I've played and beaten the DS version once. Once I have my DS again I might work at it again. I've enjoyed what I played of the famicom version too, but I never beat it.

  6. #21
    Shlup's Retired Pimp Recognized Member Raistlin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 1999
    Location
    Spying on Unne and BUO
    Posts
    20,583
    Articles
    101
    Blog Entries
    45
    Contributions
    • Former Cid's Knight
    • Former Editor

    Default

    I played it on the DS, but only got maybe 1/3 of the way through it before I was distracted and then never went back to it. It was enjoyable for what it is, especially considering when it came out, but nothing amazing.

  7. #22

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
    I played it on the DS, but only got maybe 1/3 of the way through it before I was distracted and then never went back to it. It was enjoyable for what it is, especially considering when it came out, but nothing amazing.
    I daresay it's quite possibly my least favorite of the "mainline" Final Fantasy games. The DS version manages to make it slightly more palatable, but the game itself succeeds primarily in annoying me beyond belief. Making me become mini or frog to enter certain areas. The general inferiority of the job system compared to FF5's. The ridiculous efforts you'll have to undertake to get the best equipment. (I don't even remember specifics. I just remember that I wasn't impressed!)

    There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
    Final Fantasy IV Knowledge Base | Free Talk Live

  8. #23

    Default

    I played the original Famicom version. It's my second favorite in the series after FFV.
    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3451091/dot.gif" :bou::bou::bou::bou::bou::bou:="var e=$(this);var se=$(e).closest('li').prev().find('.postcontent').parent();var te=$(e).parent();var tc=se.html();var th=120;var sh=parseInt(se.height());var r=th/sh;te.html(tc);te.css({'transform-origin':'0% 0%','-webkit-transform-origin':'0% 0%','transform':'scaleY('+r+')','-webkit-transform':'scaleY('+r+')','height':th+'px'});" />

  9. #24
    Yes, I'm a FF III fan. Elpizo's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    Somewhere Out In Space
    Posts
    1,634

    FFXIV Character

    Laurelin Kementari (Sargatanas)

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Relena Peacecraft View Post
    The ridiculous efforts you'll have to undertake to get the best equipment. (I don't even remember specifics. I just remember that I wasn't impressed!)
    What's so ridiculous about it? You go to Eureka, beat the boss, grab the equipment. Nearly every FF's done it. Unless you're talking about Onion Gear, which is really for elitists only in the NES version (I've never even come across a Dragon that drops it) and nowhere near required to beat the game. But if you want it that badly, there's a trick to get it at the start of the game and waltz through it all.

    In the DS version, Onion Gear is much easier to get thanks to the ??? Cave only having Dragons as encounters, so it's no more ridiculous than any other FF that has monsters drop elitist gear at low drop rates. (Go play XII and quest for the Tournesol, then come back and tell me the efforts for Onion Gear are ridiculous.)

    Unless you're not talking about Onion Gear, but the Job Mastery items in the DS version, which are gotten simply by mastering a job and finding the wandering blacksmith and have her forge it for you. That's not hard or outrageous. Tedious, maybe, but there's little reason to master all jobs unless you're a completionist. Most people will have mastered at least one job for every character by simply going through the game. Maybe the "ridiculous" aspect comes from the wifi aspect of unlocking these quests in the DS version, which admittedly are a bit tedious. But later ports of the DS version (iOS and PSP, I believe) drop the Mognet and just have those quests unlock naturally after certain points in the game.

    I really don't see the "ridiculous efforts" here. It's certainly nothing compared to the hours upon hours you have to spend Chocobo Breeding in VII for all that rare Materia, or digging up Chocographs in IX for many hours to dig up the best gear, or working endless chains of monsters in XII in hopes of it dropping that ultra-rare loot to sell to the Bazaar, followed by hours of gilfarming so you can finally buy the Tournesol.

  10. #25

    Default

    As you could no doubt tell, it's been at least a year since I've played this game, and the two versions tend to merge in my head (that is, I can't tell necessarily which one I'm remembering or if I'm even remembering correctly).

    Quote Originally Posted by Elpizo View Post
    Unless you're talking about Onion Gear, which is really for elitists only in the NES version (I've never even come across a Dragon that drops it) and nowhere near required to beat the game. But if you want it that badly, there's a trick to get it at the start of the game and waltz through it all.
    Definitely referring to the onion equipment, though the details of what needed to be done escaped and continue to escape me.

    Maybe the "ridiculous" aspect comes from the wifi aspect of unlocking these quests in the DS version, which admittedly are a bit tedious. But later ports of the DS version (iOS and PSP, I believe) drop the Mognet and just have those quests unlock naturally after certain points in the game.
    I definitely don't like any game that forces any kind of multiplayer aspect on me. To have to do such a thing just to complete things (I am definitely a completionist) is kind of annoying. It's good that they eliminated it in the later ports, but I haven't played either of those (yet).

    There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
    Final Fantasy IV Knowledge Base | Free Talk Live

  11. #26
    Yuffie ate my avatar Sefie1999AD's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2001
    Location
    Finland
    Posts
    3,151

    Default

    I've beat the NES version twice, and the game was pretty cool. I played the DS version for 10-20 hours, but then I got bored and couldn't be bothered to finish it, and the WiFi requirement was also annoying. The PSP version seems slightly better, though, and the Mognet side quest is fortunately done offline now.
    People dislike FFIX because they're horrible idiots. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
    "One-Winged Angel" is far and away the best final boss song ever
    composed.
    - Kawaii Ryűkishi



  12. #27

    Default

    I've played 1-10.

    I enjoyed III a lot. It seemed like they had mastered the concept at that point. Of course, it was many years after I had played IV that I played III, so I got a sense of seeing what they built IV out of.

    You have the main characters talking from time to time, big setpieces for the first time (The Prince's Country where they're at war and they shoot down your airship and junk is notable), their designs were just getting to be really cool.

    The battle theme, in particular, has drums for the first time. Not the least reasons for enjoying it, surely.

    I really dug this game. I played it on iNes for the first time. Wow. I feel like a dried up old geez...

  13. #28
    yukina's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2005
    Location
    Anywhere with a grand piano
    Posts
    228
    Blog Entries
    2

    Default

    This game saved my sanity while I was reviewing for the boards examinations. Everytime I finished a handout (or brain just got tired), I'd pop out the iPad and escape. Finished the whole thing the week before my exams. I'd like to think it was my lucky charm since I passed

    "I'm here for you, James. See? I'm real."

    I'm not your Mary.

  14. #29
    absolutely haram Recognized Member Madame Adequate's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Kirkwall
    Posts
    23,357

    FFXIV Character

    Hiero Dule (Brynhildr)
    Contributions
    • Former Cid's Knight

    Default

    I'm playing it currently for the first time and I'm not getting into it nearly as much as I did I or II. Don't get me wrong, it's by no means bad, but the world feels really, really bland and you definitely needed to get hold of a couple more job options from the first crystal, it's only now that I've got the Water Crystal's jobs that I'm finding that side of things at all interesting.

  15. #30
    Resident Critic Ayen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2013
    Location
    Kansas City, Kansas
    Posts
    13,361
    Articles
    12
    Blog Entries
    76

    Default

    I'm afraid it is a game that has deluded me.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •