II and V are the only two I haven't played. Since II is considered the black sheep of the series, I opted to begin with V. Previous to the pixel remasters I tried the PS1 port of V. Mistakes were made. The menu lag and frequent graphical glitches soured that experience quickly.
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@Eel I am definitely going to buy VI. FF I I may pass on since I have that on my NES Mini and just played it recently. I also am thinking of getting V just because the last time I played it was on PS One years ago. Still on the fence with II and III though.
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Finally got back to FF IV tonight, been distracted with other games, mainly Hogwarts on the Xbox. Anyway manged to get the last crystal and went to the Land of Summons. Got Rydia the Leviathan and Asura summon. Now to find my way to the moon.
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Played a bit more today of FF IV. I got the rest of the summons for Rydia, Sylph, Odin, and of course Bahamut. Got Excalibur as well and now, I am about to tackle the Giant of Babel.
Well. all that I have left in FF IV is the final Dungeon. First though I need to do some grinding to get the Bomb summon for Rydia. This is the toughest one to get as it's only dropped by a certain creature and it has a low drop rate.
Once I beat IV, not sure if I will play VI or I next.
From what i gather these games got a patch relatively recently on switch though i haven't been able to find any details on what they did.
An issue i noticed was that sometimes after a period of time the battle menus would start to feel really unresponsive and laggy until the game was reset, looking on the subreddit it seemed that others encountered the issue across various games and it seemed to be specific to the switch version so hopefully the patch ended up fixing that.
Not relevant to this patch, but it reminds of a patch the mobile version of FF3 got some time ago, that basically only seemed to change the way waterfalls are rendered.
@Tasuki just fired up IV last night and only did the intro since it was fairly late in the evening.
I know you just played through it, so I wanted to ask. Would you say IV is rather cryptic or hard to establish what to do/where to go? I often use guides for some older adventure games or rpgs, so I'm wondering if it's necessary for this game?
@NintendoByNature If you follow the story it pretty much tells you where to go. Also you aren't able to go to some places until after certain events in the game. However there are a few side things in the game that you can end up missing because, the game doesn't tell you anything. So if you want to get everything a guide is useful.
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@eel@Tasuki got through the first major dungeon and boss ( the octopus one). Out of curiosity, are you guys also utilizing the exp booster? Personally, I hate grinding in games as they just feel like padding with little to no substance there. I made mine x2. Is that fair you think? I'm not sure if the original had a ton of grinding required so I don't want to do x1 if I'll have to do some grinding down the road.
@NintendoByNature I am indeed using the XP and Gold Boost, I believe it was X2 for both. To be quite honest your aren't missing anything not grinding for XP except hours of mind numbing grinding.
Yeah it was basically padding to make the games longer back in the day since they could only fit so much on a cartridge.
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