Did anyone else like Cecil better as a Dark Knight?

[Citizen Bleys]

Originally posted by Daventhalas
Cecil could have ruled if he was a red wizard.

You mean one of those pimp guys?

Nah, he should have been a drug dealer.

[eestlinc]

I don't think you could win with just Edward and Cid.

[TheAbominatrix]

Abilities made a huge difference in the earlier FF games, before all your characters could be carbon copies of eachother. Most especially in FFIV hardtype, you'd be screwed without the right characters.

[Daventhalas]

Feh, I bet you coulda done it with Edward, Palom and Porom, l'il Rydia, and Cid. It just takes tenacity.

[TheAbominatrix]

Because you'd have the sort of characters you need. A white mage is absolutely neccessary, and in that line up you have two. That actually sounds like a powerhouse team there, with Edward as an exception. Palom and Porom will learn every spell any other black/white mage can, given time.

Though it's a moot point that if you give it time you can win with anyone. That's true of all games. Especially if you're at high enough levels.

[Citizen Bleys]

Gilbert is actually pretty good in Fabul, if you give him the right harp.

[Daventhalas]

I'll tell ya a powerhouse team! 3 Red Wizards (FF1 style) and Grand Master (ff1 style) and a Sorceror (also FF1 style).


Sure, Sorceror isn't a playable character... but he should be. Then the grandmaster could work over anything with his fists of might! And the Red Wizards just pwn. They could work over any FF4 team.

Unless they kept their original 3 digit stats..... then they'd get all worked over. And I'd cry.

[The Man]

I never found Gilbert to be as crappy as everyone else seemed to. Go figure.

[cecil_pendragoon]

You see I believe that with Rydia and Kain alone you could beat the game. Yet a red mage Cecil would be interisting..... or better yet a Mystic Knight. Oh yah! Give him the power of elemental swordfighting and BAMMMM!!! you dead... very dead.... so dead your children's children's children would be dead. Now that and a red mage at the same time.... Cecil would just walk in on his own and just smack around Zeromus and laugh at him while he is crying like a baby....

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahah......:rolleyes2

[VashtheStampede]

Zeromus "Oh yeah? WALL!"


Sorry, you got PWNED

Anyway, Cecil is bvetter as a paladin in every way, IMO. Why the scene he changed was not blessed with a 3d movie in Chronicles is beyond me, though

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I don't even think Cecil looks better as a Dark Knight than as a Paladin. The colors he wore were prettymuch uniform, and it was hard relating to a hero whose face I couldn't even see.

[Rei]

I like my games to be balanced. I don't like how Paladin Cecil was the strongest, had the most health, and had a few spells. He was a wee bit too powerful. I would have prefered a Dark Knight Cecil, just because he had some weaknesses, although his health would've needed to have been jacked up quite a bit.

A Red Mage Cecil with the same capabilities as Paladin Cecil would've been overkill, kinda like T.G. Cid in Tactics.

[DJZen]

I agree with Rei, but if you recall, a red mage isn't supposed to be all powerful, they're supposed to be the most average class. They're better at fighting than mages and better with magic than fighters, but they're not supposed to be especially wonderful at either.

[Rei]

Well, Cecil'd always be a Knight, first and foremost. A Dark Knight is, well, a Knight weak against the undead and all that jazz. A Paladin is a beefy Knight with white magic.

A Red Mage Cecil, or whatever name they'd use, would, I imagine, be a Knight with both magic.s That's like Kain, minus Jump, plus, what, 15 spells?

Now that I think about it, a Red Mage Cecil (Red Knight?) wouldn't be all that bad, assuming he doesn't get supercharged physically, like the Paladin did.

[Marble]

I liked Dark Knight way better. Okay, so the Paladin's swords can pack some punch, but the white magic is pure worthless. And Dark Wave is the coolest ability in the game.