Square Enix undecided about FF5 and FF6 DS remakes

@Punkrawk Bbob

Kefka was evil. He poisoned Cyan's town and killed everyone; one of the worst things I've seen happen in the storyline of a FF game. Seph killed Aeris. I'm not saying Kefka wins on numbers, I'm saying between the two IMO Kefka was more evil. I don't really think he was "mad", I think he was evil.

As for not liking 7, I'll admit it's partially because of all the people who 7 was their first FF so automatically they say 'x character from 7 is the greatest of all time'. Secondly here's what annoyed me about 7 - the grind. The first 15 hours or so of 7 is just borderline sleep inducing. I hated the beginning. In fact I've tried to go back and replay 7 and I can't get through an hour before calling it quits. Such a shame too, I loved Red XIII and Vincent Valentine.

A lot of people hate X because of what it changed about the basic FF formula, but I actually liked it a lot. The new battle system and being able to use haste and strategic planning to give yourself tons of attacks at the beginning...a lot of times you could wipe out all the enemies before they had time to attack once if you did everything right. I did hate blitzball though; God did I *ever* hate blitzball. I'm surprised I got far enough in that just to get Tidus' ultimate weapon. But I loved Lulu. Doublecast FTW. =D Auron too.

I recently bought X again, as well as XII (haven't played XII yet, ever). Actually I haven't played any past X.

No, Kefka was quite evil. He was a sociopath and a sadist. Sephiroth, at least, had a specific goal in mind - to unite with Jenova and become a god, or whatever - and while he certainly did not have any regard for human life, most of the people he killed were in pursuit of that goal. Kefka's goal was nothing less than to sow the seeds of chaos and destruction and cause suffering to as many people as possible, because he thought that notions like love, hope and dreams were all a big joke, and he never even tried to make an excuse for himself. If that's not pure evil, I don't know what is.

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-Philosophy-Walkthrough-Blackwell/dp/0470415363/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272531492&sr=8-1

Good book if you're interested in philosophy at all. In short, Kefka is unable to be evil as he doesn't have a moral barometer. Kind of like how infants and young children can't be evil. Little Jacob doesn't understand that wiping poo on the wall is bad, he just does it because he enjoys it. Same concept applies to Kefka.

Just for the record, I do love Kefka, and definitely adore his representation in Dissidia. it further supports the idea of him just being batshit crazy, not evil.

That book looks like some silly intellectual wankery if I ever saw it, but it does seem clear to me now that your argument is derived from it entirely. Either way, it would be a lot easier to hold a straight-faced philosophical debate with you if you had not just spent this entire thread coming off as an aggressively condescending troll.

you don't have to be polite to be intelligent. in fact those two traits normally don't go together. The book had a point that I agreed with, figured I'd share that knowledge with you for no cost of admission.

Oh damn now you've left me in a pickle. I've just got into FF and I was wondering whether or not play the original or remake of FFIV. Same issue with FFVI, the original or GBA remake?

Was FFVI on the GBA really a remake? I thought it was just a direct port.

Actually dubbed "Final Fantasy VI Advance", it was a remake. Same graphics, but re-translated. Also, they added 4 espers and two dungeons to the end game.

It'll be easier to find the GBA remakes than it will be to find original SNES cartridges. At least, that is the experience in my case.

Kenaf: that's not a remake. That's still a port. You don't call RE4 on the PS2 a remake just because it had an extra mission.

The DS version of FF6 lets you run without having to equip the Sprint Shoes (or whatever they're called). So there's a definite advantage there. FF6 was also released on the PSX, so you might be able to find that version too. The FF6 port was the most improved version however.

Depends on the sales of what?

Yes! That would be awesome.

With that avatar, shouldn't you be saying, "MAKE IT SO!"?

They could just use the engine for FFIV DS.

If the game was ahead of its time, and the games that came after it were worse, then is the game really ahead of its time?

/philosophy

you do realize that FF6 is so wonderful in everyone's minds because it wasn't an HD next-gen remake? Meaning back when games left room for imagination, what you filled the gaps with yourself as a youngster made it flawless. Kind of like telling a horror story without showing what happens in the dark room, your mind creates a scene that is so much more worse than what they would create. Kind of like how when Lost comes to a conclusion, your answer to what the island is will be so much better (to you) than what the writers make it to be.

Too much detail = midocholorians. Keep it pure, keep it 16-bit I say.

You are outnumbered on this one, furrie. We all have jobs already, we want Espers.

Summons? Bah.

That may have worked back then but RPGs these days need to start giving the player the ability to customize the characters your way. If you can't change appearances then go with what jobs they have.

And keep your cheap shots to yourself, AGNPH boy.

What you said.

Oh goddammit. Reply-correction fail.