Valefor aint too bad to kill, you can get Aurons ultimate weapon easily and have him hitting over 10k+, have at least 2 people with more than 10k health, unload overdrives (having attack reels helps) you can down him without being uber. But yea, Zanmato is handy lol.
Partially because of this thread I went out last week and bought a slim ps2 for 60 bucks and ffx for 10. I have thoroughly enjoyed it since.
The first time I played ffx, my copy was fucked up and right after I got the jecht shot and tried to continue playing it would turn black and play the music but never continue in the game. The worst part was I was given the option to save while in the black screen so there was no going back. I had to rent a copy to get past that(then return my copy).
Oh Rick Scarf, just FYI....if you have the international version (i.e. contains Dark Aeons), MAKE SURE you obtain all of the orb-treasures from the Aeon dungeons (I forget what they're called)on your first trip through, especially the one in Besaid.
I've still got my FFX for my PS2. This FFX happens to be one of the first 100,000 off the line. Not bad considering that it sold 6.6 millions copies as of a couple of years ago.
Perhaps it is silly, but that's how it's represented so it's dumb to have a guy just attacking air when he can already tell the enemy is dead. Also time definitely passes between people attacking, they aren't intended to be thought of as attacking simultaneously unless both attack bars happen to fill up at the exact same time, but even then I just consider it as one person makes the actual attack decision before the other.
As far as it being a product of its time, there's no reason why this isn't an extremely easy fix even for back then. I can understand that there are always certain limitations, but the game still is what it is. I don't say a game is better than current games simply because it wasn't able to reach its full potential when it was made. Though for what it's worth, even before the SNES came out I still couldn't stand how dumb that was, and I never found the story at all captivating.
Lol you sure you actually played it? I'm one lazy ass bitch, so that really annoyed the hell out of me.
You would have to be GODLIKE to have every attack land on an alive enemy in FF. 4srs.
Also, there were no time bars in the first FF. It was all speed stat based.
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I did find Dragon Quest to be better, though. There are always 2 camps - The DQ camp and the FF camp. FF games tend to be a little more easy and a little more forgiving - of course, when you die, you get a game-over. When you die in DQ, you lose half your gold but start from town. The main challenge from DQ is keeping that money, though, because you A: Don't get a lot of it and B: equipment costs a shit ton and C: Enemies are tough. I was never able to just button mash my way through a fight in DQ 8 if I wanted everyone at optimal health.
I highly prefer the Dragon Quest games to Final Fantasy. ESPECIALLY DQ 8 to FF12.
Yeah, the time bars came into play with FFVI. Before that, it was all stat based. I mean, it's still stat based, just with visual representation.
EDIT: Download the remake for the GBA or something. It fixes the battle/magic problem (giving you MP instead of allowing you to cast a certain number of spells per tier each rest period). I cleared it in... 14 hours 59 minutes, and I was using a speed up mod for most of the grinding. It makes quite a difference. Turns it into a rather enjoyable title.
I remember fighting a Don Tonberry (or whatever they are called) that was made by uber monster maker guy, and fighting it for over an hour and losing.
It was disheartening.
Yea some are tough. Don Tonberry is a good lvling method, I personally use the cactaur king method but Don Tonberry works well too. The best way to kill him is to use party members who you don't use much. When playing through I got most of my kills from Auron, Tidus and Wakka, I used Yuna, Lulu and Rikku to get SP but never attacked much. His Karma attack, the damage is based on the number of kills a character has made, so I'd get the girls attack up and then own him, his Karma would do hardly any damage.
You can use the don tonberry to get ridiculous amounts of SP.
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