Final Fantasy general

I heard he's awesome with Phoenix, since he's untargettable so often, has excellent defenses, and has no way of naturally using his low MP pool.

I mostly know IV by... pretty much all the versions except DS.

So am I the only one here who beat Garuda without 4 Dragoons? I only used one Dragoon, and my entire party survived the fight.

Also, advice for FFIII. Monks and Geomancers are awesome. Also, Scholars suck, don't use them, just use Libra.

I used my powerhouse Ingus Dragoon and the rest just sat back and watched. Garuda died really fast.

Scholar's are actually quite lethal because of their Item Amplifier ability, but they are more worth it for changing right before a boss and then spamming all your attack items.

They boost the effect of the staves as well.

Which are like free spells because they don't vanish when used right?

Dragoons were really good in FFTA, passable in FFTA 2, and I never got to them in FFT.

I used 4 Dragoons to kill the Garuda.

edited 27th Aug '14 9:50:28 PM by VeryMelon

I think Dragoons were fine in FFT. dragon spirit is a good reaction ability, and the jump comes in handy every now and then.

speaking of the fft series i'm sad we haven't gotten a new one in years. i love ivalice ):

I know, right? They're really great.

I was looking at the stat growth for the jobs in X-2 and I found something quite weird: sometimes at least one of your stats go down when you level up. http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Knight_(Final_Fantasy_X-2)#Stats

I still think it's a misaimed fandom to praise/enjoy complete monsters, you should neither praise nor downplay their flaws. And would prefer it if we used the less black and white term antagonist, because for me There is no good or evil, just characters and their mentality. And I wasn't calling kuja tragic as much as a badly written sympathetic/tragic character due to how forced a lot of stuff about him is. Plus Kuja gets more Hype than he deserves.

And in regards to the protagonists helping out the bad guys, you left out in 9 in what is probably one of worst moments / badly written moments in final fantasy history with Garnets What an Idiot moment which took up several hours, ruined the love story a little bit, made the beginning of the game intirely pointless, and a bunch of other bad stuff, and got intire citys blown up.

Edit: Xion: I not trying to argue, I'm stating what was left out in the previous disccussion a few pages ago. Also what exactly am I wrong about?

edited 1st Sep '14 12:29:49 PM by jman7

Good to know someone's still around to dig up arguments from god knows when and still ignoring the parts where they were wrong.

Yeah, that's just weird.

FFIII DS - Refia get. She seems kinda cute.

A demo for Theatrhythm Curtain Call will be released today. It'll have...two songs: JENOVA from Advent Children and Edgar & Sabin's Theme. But apparently downloading it will also unlock characters in the full game.

Tried demo. I'm really bad at this kind of a game...

I've already done the soundtracks of the games I've played on Audiosurf.

I got Curtain Call. And I must say, the Quest Medlies are a huge improvement over the Dark Notes from the original. And unlocking characters is much less annoying. Also, so many songs, my goodness.

Roses of May and Battle 2 from FFV are free DLC until the 30th.

Oooh, Rose of May.

I hope it has/someday gets Protecting My Devotion.

It does, under the name Something to Protect.

Huh. Well, no accounting for translation.

Dang, this game flew entirely under my radar. Getting this, then Hyrule Warriors next week, then Smash the week after that, is gonna be expensive.

For anyone who has played Final Fantasy Tactics (the original, not 1.3, not Journey of Five, not Advance, not War of the Lions, vanilla damn it):

What was your party's setup? Did you make the Unique characters rank up to their strongest class, or did you choose something more thematic: all Wizards, all Priests, all Calculators, two Wizard/three Knights? Did you stick with your original Generics or move along to Agrias/Mustadio/etc? Did you keep Boco?

What's particular about vanilla that that specific is necessary? (aside from Advance, which is a different game entirely)