One of the few FF games that Square didn't lose the source code to. Therefore they could port it to a ton of stuff, starting from the Wonderswan version. The only time the game has truly been remade from scratch was the DS version, while all others are derived from the WS port.
Final Fantasy fanboys can be sold the same game multiple times by simply changing graphics or "remastering" it to look worse. 4gays are especially bad since they all suck on the story's decrepit and withered schlong. The mechanics of the game are boring by today's standard, but they did help cement "JRPG standard" mechanics.
Doesn't help that the FF community, and especially the FF4 community, is filled with trannoids.
I played ds version first and because of that every other version is completely unplayable. I've tried playing the others and just can't. Other FF games weren't like that, If I played remaster/remakes I could still enjoy the earlier ones too
This. You should never play the remake of a game first. The original should always be played first and if you want to try a remake afterwards then do that. You will never get the original creators intent from any remake.
A remaster can be acceptable for some games, when they are strictly upscale-releases with zero changes. Bug fixes can be acceptable as long as they aren't iconic bugs
That's a moronic argument. It's not extra content to FFIV, it's a separate game - that's awful. After beating FFIV itself (which is great in PSP cuz of the extra content) just move onto another good FF
it's been years since I last played it, but it is significantly harder than SNES and GBA at least, I can't vouch for the other ones. I still have flashbacks of the final battle because of how many times Zeromus kicked my shit in IIIIII AAAMMMM THE WELLLSPRIIING OF DAAAAARRRRRKNESSSSSSS
Playing it now and it's actually hard, unlike the GBA or PSP version. Might be that I'm playing on the fastest battle speed and active but I'm getting my ass kicked after separating from Kain at the start. Have to cross the desert with only Cecil and each fight has at least 3 enemies, enemies which actually do decent damage. Now I'm in the cave to the north of the desert and I'm getting fricked by the the tiny mages because there's like 3 of them each fight and can actually kill my party (from full HP) faster than I can kill them...
Yes, it adds a lot of quality of life and improves characters and abilities that suck in every other version, but the battles are brutal to compensate. Even in common encounters you'll want to be using buffs and debuffs and targeting elemental weaknesses, you can't get away with just spamming attack at basically any point after the intro when it's your only option.
They were great, FF games need more post-game content. It's always better to have that stuff than not - and FF4 for PSP basically mogs the PR version on every front.
The DS version was ported to PC, but other than a mod that replaces the soundtrack with the one from the Pixel Remaster, there's nothing else. It's also worth noting that the battles run at 15fps, and the only fix that was available no longer works since they patched the game.
>that bit where about 5 minutes after Edward lost everything Cecil slaps the shit out of him and Rydia calls him a b***h
What the frick was their problem?
Ignore him man. The Pixel Remaster is just an uglier port of the SNES version with no extra content. The PSP version is fantastic and has a ton of endgame stuff for you to do, which you'll be left craving for. It's also widescreen and has new art.
FF4's encounter rate isn't nearly as bad as a classic Dragon Quest. You'll be fine.
The only thing that is lacking from the Pixel Remasters that is better in other versions is the post-game content for 2. Everything else that was added in other versions, like post game shit for 1, 4, and 5, that people b***h about not being in the PR is trash in the first place not worth the time to engage with.
The pixel remasters are legitimately the best non-original ways to play 1-6 in [current year]. And I say that as someone that has quite literally beaten 1-6 on every different version available, including the shitty ios ports of 5 and 6.
I really liked the DS version. The added challenge was fun, the music was faithfully and really nicely done, I enjoyed the cutscenes. The very rare time where a remake stands on its own 2 feet as a great way to play a game. I still love the SNES version, but if I had to pick my preferred version it's the DS version.
I played the DS version on PC and it infuriated me. The animations were all slow as shit so I had to change the frame rate to make it playable. This is fun most of the time until you hit a hard enemy or boss who just rapes you instantly and you don't have time to react
So you're dogshit at the game. 4 DS is one of the harder entries so I guess it makes sense you'd be filtered. US FF2 on SNES is more up your alley lol.
Were the cutscenes they made for the DS version ever released in full HD? That was the first Square Enix CG I ever saw and it blew my mind they spent so much money on a handheld game.
I like the later half of IV, but the early game up until just after Mt Ordeals is a bit of a slog. Every time I play this fricking game the first thing I do is kill off Palom and Porom because I can't be bothered to level them up ever. That whole section Cecil gets enough exp to carry me comfortably through until I get Rosa back.
They're "great" for FF games that haven't been upgraded already. FF2 and 3 are arguably great for PR, but for others - 1, 4, 5 and 6 there are much better alternatives available that don't rape the art style.
Honestly this. Any version released past the GBA should have the GBA content, there's no reason not to have it. This goes for any of them. Does the PR version of FFV even have the extra classes?
I just finished FF2 PR yesterday. Wow, it was so much better than people online say.
On to 3 now
I liked the PR versions a lot for all of them except for IV. Mainly because I didn’t like the remixed music as much as either the OG or DS’s versions of those same songs.
The PR for III is my preferred way to play the game from now on.
Gotta love how cherry pick the enemy sprites (which are good) while the rest of the game; environments, characters, etc. all look horrible.
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jesus frick that looks bad
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>homies sincerely think an all black
battle screen is good aesthetics
I get the charm for it's time, but PR adapts the games as they were intended to be while fixing all the bugs in the process, so even gameplay is overall better.
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>homies sincerely think an all black
battle screen is good aesthetics
I get the charm for it's time, but PR adapts the games as they were intended to be while fixing all the bugs in the process, so even gameplay is overall better.
based on these, psp wins.
og isn't bad its just dated now. the PR version of 1 is making me cringe.
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I sincerely hope you're joking, Anon.
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awful
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Sprites and font look way better, where's the problem?
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Sprites in PSP are RPGMaker tier, and the font in the Pixel Remaster can be swapped back to the original font seen in the SNES era for all games.
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>No option to use original fonts in Pixel Remasters, have to mod it in >Visuals in Tactics Ogre Reborn are perma-smoothed instead of just using a toggleable filter
What the frick is going on at SE? Aside from sheer incompetence?
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>Have to mod it
PC users really are cucks. Console versions come with it packaged in.
I really hated FF4. The game hates magic so much which sucks because it was pretty fun to use at beginning against the undead. For the the whole rest of the game magic feels weak and enemies often have a ton of resistances to mutiple types of magic. Many bosses are borderline immune to magic with how high thier resistances are and by the the you reach the end of the game everything is immune to magic and will use a super powerful counter attack if you used magic on them. I know the summoner girl summons actually hit decently hard, dont trigger the magic counter attacks and are cool but its too little to late.
The entire game is just you hitting attack with your melee guys and buffing them with your white mage while you are often better of having your black mage do nothing as the game will spit in your eye for daring to think theres any strategy beyond unga bunga smack
FF1 is pretty fun and can be beaten in under 20 hours. I don't know if I would have appreciated it as much if I hadn't already played other FFs, because I enjoyed seeing the characters and themes that end up being in later games
I'm probably just nostalgiagayging but I've played a lot of FF games and in my mind IV still reigns supreme. The whole game is just super cool and no matter how much I replay it I can't get enough. Also the CGI openings for it and TAY are really pretty and look cool. I do hope we eventually get a remake of IV in that style.
For context, it was originally made as an episodic game for japanese phones so it's broken up into an episodic format. I like the gameplay changes and the characters but for most of the game you retread old dungeons and refight old bosses for the most part and it's light in the way of an actual plot. I wouldn't call it bad but it's extremely mediocre. For some odd reason the japs apparently loved it enough to demand to have it packaged with FFIV which is how we got the PSP collection.
The old Steam ports based on the mobile versions (which are based on the GBA versions with the extra content) with mods. I'm replaying VI right now on these, pic related. The CRT filter is from ReShade.
VI is difficult. The script from the GBA version is vastly superior to whatever Woolsey had to crunch out with the little time he was given on the SNES. But the GBA version of the game suffers other issues with sound, music, some minor censorship, etc. The SNES version is also hilariously broken with some pretty major stats not even working at all.
Pixel Remaster uses the GBA script and fixes a lot of the major bugs too but the new sprites may not be everyone’s cup of tea (and it also includes the minor censorship introduced into the GBA version). Also it doesn’t include the new content from the GBA version but a lot of people didn’t seem to care about that originally.
SNES for the purest experience or DS for harder battles and a spiffier presentation. Every other version is basically the original game but with more flaws. The DS version is also on Steam if you didn't already know.
I unfortunately can't recommend the Pixel Remaster. The UI changes just make it a worse version of the game. I hate that minimap and the font they chose. The art and music in those remasters is pretty great, too. Really a shame.
PSP. Also came with the after years and yes that's a plus. You don't have to fricking do the tedious post game episode dungeons over and over again if you don't feel like it, those were literally designed just for people to play back in its wii days while they waited for the next episode to come out.
The only version worth playing is the PS1 version - original presentation and gameplay, restored content that was cut from the US SNES release, bugfixes, a better translation, etc. There's no downside. The DS version is a pointless exercise in trying to add depth to a game which is inherently simplistic, it's a waste of time. PSP version looks like absolute shit.
"Better translation" is code for soulless rewrite for spergs that care more about individual word-accuracy than conveying the proper emotion or message of intent. Dumb fricking weebs will never understand the difference
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Imagine playing through someone else's butchered interpretation of a previous video game LMAO
>Imagine playing through someone else's butchered interpretation of a previous video game LMAO
If you're playing anything other than the original JP version, you're already doing that.
Not that anon but the SNES English translation is full of errors and omits tons of dialogue. There’s a pretty good write up about it here: https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-iv/intro/
The PSP version is the superior version in general, but if you're wanting to have some challenge there's always the DS version. Otherwise you can just emulate the various different versions of IV if you want.
Pixel remasters >closest to original script as possible >rerecorded OSTs with the original scores in tact >slightly modernized/hd look but otherwise as close to the originals as possible in all designs, whether it be characters, effects, locations, enemies in battle, etc >modern day QOL features like running, speed up battles, auto battles, auto save
A literal remaster
PSP remakes >fricks with the script >fricks with the balance >adds a bunch of nonsense for a 'post game' and to tie it into TAY >looks legitimately ugly as frick with RPG maker tier main characters.
And somehow that's the "pixel remaster" according to you.
People like you are the people telling othersthat the PRs are dogshit, btw.
I've been playing the PSP version, its fine but man it looks, sounds and feels like an RPGM game at times. Also this game is linear as frick, there's like zero player agency.
>FF4 hasn't had a single good version released since 97
It's amazing when you think about it. Thankfully the original is easily available to anyone that cares.
People who don't like the watercolors suck wiener by choice, but you can take care of the loading times by cranking up the disc read speed to maximum in your emulator. It's honestly the best official release of FF4.
>ATB bug in every port from GBA onward >extra content is poorly designed and balanced >every portable ports crop the screen >DS version lacks basic QoL features that were standard for the series for over a decade >fricked XP gains in the latest """remaster"""
most releases are really bad.
i played the PSX version because it's closest to the original while fixing bugs. not a fan of remasters, they usually dumb down gameplay or ruin aesthetics
FF8 the recent remaster on modern systems
FFX the og game emulated with scaled up assets. The PS3 HD remaster fricks up a lot of the models and facial animations and is incredibly jarring when the main cast are HD assets and the normal npcs are still the original models. FF8 remaster does the same thing but it's far less noticeable
FF8 would be the original PC version modded but the clique of people behind those mods want you to pay for them, so just emulate the OG. Like the other anons said the FFX remaster is ugly as sin, there are mods to remedy that on the PC version but not completely fix them, so emulating the original version would be the go-to here as well.
8 remastered isn't great, tthey removed the interrupts when you get a limit break so you can blow right passed it easily now, and they added easy mode buttons, which I refuse to use, except speedup while drawing.
I noticed Steam also has a normal version of FF8 besides the remaster but with what seems to be some QoL improvements like faster animations and shit. That the go to one?
If you're going to buy the game, buy the remaster. That's the old port from the original 1999 PC release and is fricking awful and does not support controllers and has tons of compatibility issues with modern day hardware.
You're better off just emulating the original PS1 version if you're planning on buying that old version on Steam.
PSP or PR, depending on your preference for graphics and extra content (as well as PR having the original locked party at the end of the game). Ignore DS gays.
I - PSP
II - PSP
III - NES between it and DS. I didn't play it's PR yet and can't speak for it.
IV - Both PSP and DS deserve a playthrough. They're incredibly different.
V - GBA with the sound restoration
VI - ^
VII - PS1
VIII - PS1
IX - PS1
X - International
XI - Retail
XII - TZA
XIII - lol
XIV - YT playlist
XV - lol
XVI - Wait for the definitive edition
I like DS personally
PSP or DS. Pixel Demaster is gay.
Why are there so many different version of FF4?
Because it was the first good final fantasy.
>It's so good it needs to be remake 4 times
More like it's shit so they have to find a way to perfect it.
Cry more 5gay.
The NES FF is the first good FF.
But that is XVI
it's easy to shit out those pixel "remasters" and people will buy them every time
One of the few FF games that Square didn't lose the source code to. Therefore they could port it to a ton of stuff, starting from the Wonderswan version. The only time the game has truly been remade from scratch was the DS version, while all others are derived from the WS port.
Final Fantasy fanboys can be sold the same game multiple times by simply changing graphics or "remastering" it to look worse. 4gays are especially bad since they all suck on the story's decrepit and withered schlong. The mechanics of the game are boring by today's standard, but they did help cement "JRPG standard" mechanics.
Doesn't help that the FF community, and especially the FF4 community, is filled with trannoids.
I played ds version first and because of that every other version is completely unplayable. I've tried playing the others and just can't. Other FF games weren't like that, If I played remaster/remakes I could still enjoy the earlier ones too
Always the original
This. You should never play the remake of a game first. The original should always be played first and if you want to try a remake afterwards then do that. You will never get the original creators intent from any remake.
A remaster can be acceptable for some games, when they are strictly upscale-releases with zero changes. Bug fixes can be acceptable as long as they aren't iconic bugs
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If I want just FF4, DS or Pixel Remaster.
If I want FF4 and TAY, PSP.
Why would you ever want after years?
Why not?
It's shit.
>please give me less content
Quality > Quantity idiot.
That's a moronic argument. It's not extra content to FFIV, it's a separate game - that's awful. After beating FFIV itself (which is great in PSP cuz of the extra content) just move onto another good FF
It's not that bad, the main issue is constantly having to go back to low level boring shit at the start of every section.
I mean it's FFIV, that's already pretty fricking shit to begin with. At least you can have a fun party setup in TAY if you feel like it.
I played through TAY once and can't imagine ever going through it again. too much bloat.
Did he deserve to be cucked?
Who?
Who else?
Kain was such an edgy homosexual.
Kain was literally being mind controlled for half the game, Anon.
>"Cecil, it's time for your ass armour moulding session!"
>"Yes, King Baron..."
He didn't even rise to the level of cuck, he was just a pathetic simp incel. Rosa never once showed an interest in him, but he still through a fit.
Kain was cucked by Rosa stealing Cecil
Kain should have been a chad and fricked Rydia.
-I'M DRAGON MAN
I prefer PR, though it's very easy. Is it balanced off Easy Type?
DS is an entirely different game with the same story, honestly. Same for 3 DS.
PSP no contest
DS is a surprisingly soulful remake, SNES is a close second
Famicom + fan translation
you're just going to skip over the psx, and psp definitive version, huh?
PS1 version is basically the same as SNES
The SFC version is soul
Everything else is soulless
DS is legitimately great for a remake. Original is fine too if you avoid the butchered US release.
GBA + sound patch.
PSP for the after years
Is it true that the DS version is fricking hard? I think I played the PSP version before but only halfway through
ds version is considered the hardest version of ff4 so far
It's a bit harder but if you fight the majority of random encounters you should be fine.
it's been years since I last played it, but it is significantly harder than SNES and GBA at least, I can't vouch for the other ones. I still have flashbacks of the final battle because of how many times Zeromus kicked my shit in
IIIIII AAAMMMM THE WELLLSPRIIING OF DAAAAARRRRRKNESSSSSSS
Playing it now and it's actually hard, unlike the GBA or PSP version. Might be that I'm playing on the fastest battle speed and active but I'm getting my ass kicked after separating from Kain at the start. Have to cross the desert with only Cecil and each fight has at least 3 enemies, enemies which actually do decent damage. Now I'm in the cave to the north of the desert and I'm getting fricked by the the tiny mages because there's like 3 of them each fight and can actually kill my party (from full HP) faster than I can kill them...
Yes, it adds a lot of quality of life and improves characters and abilities that suck in every other version, but the battles are brutal to compensate. Even in common encounters you'll want to be using buffs and debuffs and targeting elemental weaknesses, you can't get away with just spamming attack at basically any point after the intro when it's your only option.
it's such a chore to play early FF games.
Having to meticulously research which version has the most content, least flaws, what patches you need
zzz
it's really not, the Pixel Remaster amalgamates most things from the other versions. the extra content in GBA and PSP aren't worth writing home about.
They were great, FF games need more post-game content. It's always better to have that stuff than not - and FF4 for PSP basically mogs the PR version on every front.
it's simple, just play every single version in release order and then choose your favorite
Do the PSP or DS versions need or have any kind of recommended mod, like how 9 has the Moguri mod?
The DS version was ported to PC, but other than a mod that replaces the soundtrack with the one from the Pixel Remaster, there's nothing else. It's also worth noting that the battles run at 15fps, and the only fix that was available no longer works since they patched the game.
>that bit where about 5 minutes after Edward lost everything Cecil slaps the shit out of him and Rydia calls him a b***h
What the frick was their problem?
it was a different time
Only Cecil is allowed to call himself a coward and cry.
Have any FF remakes/remasters added overworld encounters or encounter editors?
Pixel remaster: you can turn off battles, increase or decrease xp and gil gained
Thanks
Currently playing DW3 so I'm a little sensitive to overworld encounters right now
Ignore him man. The Pixel Remaster is just an uglier port of the SNES version with no extra content. The PSP version is fantastic and has a ton of endgame stuff for you to do, which you'll be left craving for. It's also widescreen and has new art.
FF4's encounter rate isn't nearly as bad as a classic Dragon Quest. You'll be fine.
The only thing that is lacking from the Pixel Remasters that is better in other versions is the post-game content for 2. Everything else that was added in other versions, like post game shit for 1, 4, and 5, that people b***h about not being in the PR is trash in the first place not worth the time to engage with.
The pixel remasters are legitimately the best non-original ways to play 1-6 in [current year]. And I say that as someone that has quite literally beaten 1-6 on every different version available, including the shitty ios ports of 5 and 6.
B-b-but old good, new bad!
Nah have a nice day pretend fan. The extra content for 1, 4 and 6 were fricking awesome.
By extra content for 4, surely you’re not talking about interlude or after years. If you are, the only fake fan here is you.
I really liked the DS version. The added challenge was fun, the music was faithfully and really nicely done, I enjoyed the cutscenes. The very rare time where a remake stands on its own 2 feet as a great way to play a game. I still love the SNES version, but if I had to pick my preferred version it's the DS version.
Semen stains the mountain tops
tell me the definitive version of every ff and why
I played the DS version on PC and it infuriated me. The animations were all slow as shit so I had to change the frame rate to make it playable. This is fun most of the time until you hit a hard enemy or boss who just rapes you instantly and you don't have time to react
So you're dogshit at the game. 4 DS is one of the harder entries so I guess it makes sense you'd be filtered. US FF2 on SNES is more up your alley lol.
>t. moron with no reading comprehension
Don't really care. You're still moronic.
Were the cutscenes they made for the DS version ever released in full HD? That was the first Square Enix CG I ever saw and it blew my mind they spent so much money on a handheld game.
soul
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SOVL
SOULLESS
forced soul
I like how snes looks most but the DS version is worth playing.
Why are you omitting the PS1 version?
It's just the SFC version. May as well just use one of the various fan patches of the SFC version instead so you can avoid loading times.
>loading times
Why do you keep repeating this lie in these threads? There are no loading times in the PS1 version of FF4.
Same with the SFC version, which is still inherently faster 🙂
best rendition of the theme of love
>DS version
My homie
fricking incredible
snes for OG, psp for the extra stuff
you want gba for V because they added classes, and there are some cool romhacks for that version.
I have not played the pixel remasters, they might be pretty good.
I like the later half of IV, but the early game up until just after Mt Ordeals is a bit of a slog. Every time I play this fricking game the first thing I do is kill off Palom and Porom because I can't be bothered to level them up ever. That whole section Cecil gets enough exp to carry me comfortably through until I get Rosa back.
Pixel Remasters are great, and Ganker is the only place that exists that tries to say otherwise.
I just finished FF2 PR yesterday. Wow, it was so much better than people online say.
On to 3 now
They're "great" for FF games that haven't been upgraded already. FF2 and 3 are arguably great for PR, but for others - 1, 4, 5 and 6 there are much better alternatives available that don't rape the art style.
Only complaint about the remaster is they should've had the GBA content too. It's fun to dick around in 4 with the party combos.
Honestly this. Any version released past the GBA should have the GBA content, there's no reason not to have it. This goes for any of them. Does the PR version of FFV even have the extra classes?
I liked the PR versions a lot for all of them except for IV. Mainly because I didn’t like the remixed music as much as either the OG or DS’s versions of those same songs.
The PR for III is my preferred way to play the game from now on.
You can revert back to the OG OST for every single PR title, Anon.
He could also play a version that just sounds inherently better, has more content and doesn't look like dogshit either.
>morons legitimately think the PR looks ugly
Gotta love how cherry pick the enemy sprites (which are good) while the rest of the game; environments, characters, etc. all look horrible.
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jesus frick that looks bad
>homies sincerely think an all black
battle screen is good aesthetics
I get the charm for it's time, but PR adapts the games as they were intended to be while fixing all the bugs in the process, so even gameplay is overall better.
based on these, psp wins.
og isn't bad its just dated now. the PR version of 1 is making me cringe.
I sincerely hope you're joking, Anon.
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Sprites and font look way better, where's the problem?
Sprites in PSP are RPGMaker tier, and the font in the Pixel Remaster can be swapped back to the original font seen in the SNES era for all games.
>No option to use original fonts in Pixel Remasters, have to mod it in
>Visuals in Tactics Ogre Reborn are perma-smoothed instead of just using a toggleable filter
What the frick is going on at SE? Aside from sheer incompetence?
>Have to mod it
PC users really are cucks. Console versions come with it packaged in.
christ the psp sprite is funky fresh.
Oh yeah forgot about that. Anyway I think I’m just burnt out on FF4. I’ve played and beaten it way too many times across many different platforms.
DS
I really hated FF4. The game hates magic so much which sucks because it was pretty fun to use at beginning against the undead. For the the whole rest of the game magic feels weak and enemies often have a ton of resistances to mutiple types of magic. Many bosses are borderline immune to magic with how high thier resistances are and by the the you reach the end of the game everything is immune to magic and will use a super powerful counter attack if you used magic on them. I know the summoner girl summons actually hit decently hard, dont trigger the magic counter attacks and are cool but its too little to late.
The entire game is just you hitting attack with your melee guys and buffing them with your white mage while you are often better of having your black mage do nothing as the game will spit in your eye for daring to think theres any strategy beyond unga bunga smack
I haven't played a single final fantasy game. I'm pretty desperate for any kind of fresh rpg experience, are the first few worth trying out?
yes (do not play NES 2)
FF1 is very basic, but its a pretty smooth playthrough. You choose your classes at the beginning
FF2 is the 1st one with a more fleshed out storyline, No "levels" per se, you level your weapon/magic by using them
FF3 has a job system where you gain more jobs as the story progresses and can switch jobs as desired
FF1 is pretty fun and can be beaten in under 20 hours. I don't know if I would have appreciated it as much if I hadn't already played other FFs, because I enjoyed seeing the characters and themes that end up being in later games
Whatever you do don't play any version based off of the SNES American release. It's babied down and boring as shit.
I'm probably just nostalgiagayging but I've played a lot of FF games and in my mind IV still reigns supreme. The whole game is just super cool and no matter how much I replay it I can't get enough. Also the CGI openings for it and TAY are really pretty and look cool. I do hope we eventually get a remake of IV in that style.
PSP > NDS > PR
No other version matters, even if you played the PSP version before both the NDS and the PR versions deserve their own playthrough.
Is The After Years any good? For context: I’m a big FF4 fan but never tried the sequel
>I’m a big FF4 fan
Then don't try the sequel
For context, it was originally made as an episodic game for japanese phones so it's broken up into an episodic format. I like the gameplay changes and the characters but for most of the game you retread old dungeons and refight old bosses for the most part and it's light in the way of an actual plot. I wouldn't call it bad but it's extremely mediocre. For some odd reason the japs apparently loved it enough to demand to have it packaged with FFIV which is how we got the PSP collection.
depends on what you liked about 4 but many ff4 fans didn't like it.
I wish Final Fantasy did what 4 did more often where Cecil already was with his waifu at the start of the game.
I found it weird with 16 that Clive and Jill STILL weren't together after 5 years passed.
I'd be more interested to hear which version of V and VI are the best?
AustinSV made yt vids showing all the versions and the differences.
The old Steam ports based on the mobile versions (which are based on the GBA versions with the extra content) with mods. I'm replaying VI right now on these, pic related. The CRT filter is from ReShade.
VI is difficult. The script from the GBA version is vastly superior to whatever Woolsey had to crunch out with the little time he was given on the SNES. But the GBA version of the game suffers other issues with sound, music, some minor censorship, etc. The SNES version is also hilariously broken with some pretty major stats not even working at all.
Pixel Remaster uses the GBA script and fixes a lot of the major bugs too but the new sprites may not be everyone’s cup of tea (and it also includes the minor censorship introduced into the GBA version). Also it doesn’t include the new content from the GBA version but a lot of people didn’t seem to care about that originally.
If you're not looking to play the original SFC version, then go for DS.
>2023
Get that turn-based shit out of this decade, it already soiled the 2010s
It's a minor thing but I like the DS version having thought bubbles come out of the characters head when you passed the game.
It's soulful.
GBA with proper music
SNES for the purest experience or DS for harder battles and a spiffier presentation. Every other version is basically the original game but with more flaws. The DS version is also on Steam if you didn't already know.
I unfortunately can't recommend the Pixel Remaster. The UI changes just make it a worse version of the game. I hate that minimap and the font they chose. The art and music in those remasters is pretty great, too. Really a shame.
PSP. Also came with the after years and yes that's a plus. You don't have to fricking do the tedious post game episode dungeons over and over again if you don't feel like it, those were literally designed just for people to play back in its wii days while they waited for the next episode to come out.
The only version worth playing is the PS1 version - original presentation and gameplay, restored content that was cut from the US SNES release, bugfixes, a better translation, etc. There's no downside. The DS version is a pointless exercise in trying to add depth to a game which is inherently simplistic, it's a waste of time. PSP version looks like absolute shit.
"Better translation" is code for soulless rewrite for spergs that care more about individual word-accuracy than conveying the proper emotion or message of intent. Dumb fricking weebs will never understand the difference
Imagine playing through someone else's butchered interpretation of a previous video game LMAO
>Imagine playing through someone else's butchered interpretation of a previous video game LMAO
If you're playing anything other than the original JP version, you're already doing that.
Not that anon but the SNES English translation is full of errors and omits tons of dialogue. There’s a pretty good write up about it here: https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-iv/intro/
To be fair that's true of all the older final fantasy games. They all had awful translations.
Rydia's dicky
Sorry anon, Leviathan stole that from you
they all suck, final fantasy 4 is a shit game.
Some of the art design is awful in the PP games, esp the 16bit games. No idea how they got oked.
The 3D version's vita port
For me it's PSPino
SE could've and should've done all the pixel remasters in the PSP style to make the truly definitive versions of all the games
The PSP version is the superior version in general, but if you're wanting to have some challenge there's always the DS version. Otherwise you can just emulate the various different versions of IV if you want.
Anon, I implore you to stop shitposting.
I hate to break it to you anon but your bait sucks.
we're not
it was very good on my hacked psp and so was 1
psp 3 > nes version of 3 aswell, they actually made the onions into characters.
Holy Dragoon Kain was a sick design.
fan translated japanese snes version
Looking at the PSP one makes me think that's the "pixel remaster" while the pixel remaster is just slightly touched up.
Pixel remasters
>closest to original script as possible
>rerecorded OSTs with the original scores in tact
>slightly modernized/hd look but otherwise as close to the originals as possible in all designs, whether it be characters, effects, locations, enemies in battle, etc
>modern day QOL features like running, speed up battles, auto battles, auto save
A literal remaster
PSP remakes
>fricks with the script
>fricks with the balance
>adds a bunch of nonsense for a 'post game' and to tie it into TAY
>looks legitimately ugly as frick with RPG maker tier main characters.
And somehow that's the "pixel remaster" according to you.
People like you are the people telling othersthat the PRs are dogshit, btw.
it's weird PR gets as much hate as it does in Ganker, they tend to like this kind of stuff and use words like soul, and call each other poorgays.
Original and Pixel remaster are too easy
The DS version is the best version by far
Anyone who advocates for any of 3D slop is a soulless Black person.
super nintendo.
I've been playing the PSP version, its fine but man it looks, sounds and feels like an RPGM game at times. Also this game is linear as frick, there's like zero player agency.
>FF4 hasn't had a single good version released since 97
It's amazing when you think about it. Thankfully the original is easily available to anyone that cares.
DS looks good now that I developed a taste for low poly.
pixel remaster with font mod
Pixel remaster looks like garbage compared to the SNES version.
Why? Because SNES is darker?
What version has that extra stuff where you can do the giant a second time with a fight vs all four fiends at once?
Playstation.
God tier cover art.
People who don't like the watercolors suck wiener by choice, but you can take care of the loading times by cranking up the disc read speed to maximum in your emulator. It's honestly the best official release of FF4.
>It's honestly the best official release of FF4.
Only if you're ignoring the JP versions.
The PSX port is one-to-one on gameplay and the translation is good.
Yes, but obviously if you understand moon there's no reason to play it over the original SNES release.
Eliminates a lot of bugs and has better music. All the SNES versions have bugs, PSX has fewer. Also running.
All the big bugs are still there, same with the music.
>No run button
>No cutscenes
Always play the PSX versions
There really is not a bad version of FFIV.
good joke lol
If you don't agree than at worst you're shitposting and at best you've never touched FFIV in any way.
>ATB bug in every port from GBA onward
>extra content is poorly designed and balanced
>every portable ports crop the screen
>DS version lacks basic QoL features that were standard for the series for over a decade
>fricked XP gains in the latest """remaster"""
most releases are really bad.
i played the PSX version because it's closest to the original while fixing bugs. not a fan of remasters, they usually dumb down gameplay or ruin aesthetics
The definitive version is the DS version on the actual DS; not the DS port on other systems. They neutered the difficulty for every non-DS version.
How do I into Final Fantasy? I tried VII but it was kinda boring fr fr.
most good rpgs start off boring
>How do I into Final Fantasy?
start with 10
>Start with the one that killed the series
moron
>How do I into Final Fantasy? I tried VII
it was a different time...
What are the best FF8 and FFX versions? Remasters?
FFX remaster fricked with the facial animations by injecting everyone with botox and killing their capacity to emote.
The originals, as usual.
FF8 the recent remaster on modern systems
FFX the og game emulated with scaled up assets. The PS3 HD remaster fricks up a lot of the models and facial animations and is incredibly jarring when the main cast are HD assets and the normal npcs are still the original models. FF8 remaster does the same thing but it's far less noticeable
Originals. FF8 remaster is somehow worse than the original; don’t know how they neglected (or purposefully left out) vibration and analogue movement.
Oh, and the menus run at 30fps instead of 60 like the original. Just an all-around butchered port. Don’t even pirate it.
For 8, I played the PC Remaster with mods
For FF8, original with mods.
FF8 would be the original PC version modded but the clique of people behind those mods want you to pay for them, so just emulate the OG. Like the other anons said the FFX remaster is ugly as sin, there are mods to remedy that on the PC version but not completely fix them, so emulating the original version would be the go-to here as well.
8 remastered isn't great, tthey removed the interrupts when you get a limit break so you can blow right passed it easily now, and they added easy mode buttons, which I refuse to use, except speedup while drawing.
I noticed Steam also has a normal version of FF8 besides the remaster but with what seems to be some QoL improvements like faster animations and shit. That the go to one?
No dude, just pirate the ps1 version. Don’t fricking buy a shitty port of a 25 year old game. The only decent version of FF8 is the PS1 version.
the OG pc version was good aswell.
steam was a mistake.
Just emulate it dude. No reason to play a more unstable version.
If you're going to buy the game, buy the remaster. That's the old port from the original 1999 PC release and is fricking awful and does not support controllers and has tons of compatibility issues with modern day hardware.
You're better off just emulating the original PS1 version if you're planning on buying that old version on Steam.
DS was kino
I'm going to say it, Pixel Remasters are the best 1-6, all that extra stuff is bullshit.
PSP or PR, depending on your preference for graphics and extra content (as well as PR having the original locked party at the end of the game). Ignore DS gays.
I - PSP
II - PSP
III - NES between it and DS. I didn't play it's PR yet and can't speak for it.
IV - Both PSP and DS deserve a playthrough. They're incredibly different.
V - GBA with the sound restoration
VI - ^
VII - PS1
VIII - PS1
IX - PS1
X - International
XI - Retail
XII - TZA
XIII - lol
XIV - YT playlist
XV - lol
XVI - Wait for the definitive edition