Age Matters

[GameCynic]

I would like to point out that FF7 is the most impressive FF game, but FF6 remains the best. Ever.

Seriously, has anyone ever seen another RPG that manages to balance that many great characters so well? My goodness, you could make a case for 6 of them being the main character. They all had wonderful back stories...Terras lost memories...Locke attmepting to redeem himself...Sabin and Edger splitting up...Shadows mysterious past...Cyan coming to grips with losing his family...hell even Gau had interesting things to find reveal (if you had the dedication to find them all). It is a picture perfect example of how to sculpt characters in an RPG. No one character ever got more or less attention than they deserved.

All the touching moments (Poisong of Domma, "End of the World", Leap of Faith, Terra's awakening, Opera Scene, the Coin Flip, Kefka's Tower). I know there are about 100 other awesome scenes in this game that I could probably list off. The game flat out had heart and soul.

The graphics were at the top of its class. I still remember drooling at the games introduction of the Magi-Tech soliders marching towards the mines, not able to belive they could make such detailed backrounds and characters. The soundtrack is amazing, beyond the call of duty even for Final Fantasy. Again...Opera Scene anyone?

The gameplay was a fantastic upgrade...the Active Battle system was a great addition. Relics were a very good thing, and the espers added a new dimension to magic. The enemies had a huge varaiaty, and nearly all of them had littly tidbits of info you could use to exploit elsewhere.

It had good length, but it never got dull. The game always was moving forward with an important event. It never got too difficult, nor too hard...the game had a perfect balance (unless of course you level up like a madman).

Serious. RPG. Perfection.

[Punky Skunk]

Originally posted by Cloud
Nope, you are wrong. In addition to using the Huge Materias you can also get Master Materia by mastering every materia in the materia group you are trying to master. So .

Am I? I would be more convinced if you were making sense.

I must be insane but I remember only two ways to get the master materia. (1) The trade in Kalm and (2) mastering all materia in a class AND THEN getting the master from the huge materia (which there might be a limit for if I remember my disappointment correctly). I don't recall any master materia spontaneously appearing or huge materia freebies.

[StriderKyo]

Originally posted by teenwolf
The horribly contrived stereotypical characters, slow battles and attacks and ancient battle system, for the most part non-existant character development...Or how about the inane dialogue? ... the storyline was also touted but ended up being a mess with hardly any real feeling attached.

Uh, is Frogtown located in the Bizarro-world by any chance?

[Omni]

Originally posted by Rob
Am I? I would be more convinced if you were making sense.

I must be insane but I remember only two ways to get the master materia. (1) The trade in Kalm and (2) mastering all materia in a class AND THEN getting the master from the huge materia (which there might be a limit for if I remember my disappointment correctly). I don't recall any master materia spontaneously appearing or huge materia freebies.

I'm almost positive there is no limit for getting master materia from huge materia. And since you get a copy of a materia everytime you master that materia (like if you master All a brand new All will pop up) you can never run out of materia. It's just a matter of mastering every class 8 times. It's quite time consuming, but it can be done.

[Rich]

It can be done if you have a year to waste on your hands..

[Omni]

Nope, only 5 months.

[Josh]

Or less, if you play 16+ hours a day like I did.

[Rich]

Then you'll need about 2 weeks at 16 hours a day. I would get so bored of fighting monsters for 200 hours..

[Josh]

Never!

[MrKasualUltra2000]

Originally posted by Cloud
I played both of these games in 8th grade, when I was a naive happy little kid without a care in the world.?

shudup, you still are a kid.

concentrate on finishing h.s. and getting laid, play games later. i dont think I played games from the ages of 15-22.