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[ScrambledGregs]

With the re-release of Final Fantasy VI for the GBA (with added content, a new translation, and some notorious bugs and exploits fixed) I figured what better time to talk about this game.

Personally, Final Fantasy VI is up there with my favorite RPGs of all time, and easily my favorite in the FF series. I remember when I bought the game for the SNES years ago and being completely obsessed with it. I always got the sense that there was more to the game and I was somehow missing out on items, weapons, espers, etc. The fact there were about a dozen characters you could get, a handful of whom you can either accidentally or purposely miss getting, was even better. The story, of course, is one of the biggest draws to the game, and is paced and told very brilliantly.

SPOILERS
The transition from the World of Balance to the World of Ruin is one of the most note perfect and chilling parts of a game I've ever played, and I'll never forget knowing that Cid died because I couldn't get the right fish
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There seems to be a generation divide where people either say Final Fantasy IV or Final Fantasy VII was what got them into RPGs, but for me it was Final Fantasy VI.

[guywithoutsocks]

WARNING SPOILERZ LOL

I always thought that this was a very good game, and I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than FFVII.  (I am adamantly in the 'FFIV' camp.)  The story is fantastic, and the transition to the second half of the game (and the events pre/post-ceding it) was exceptionally well done in my opinion.  I thought that the World of Ruin could have benefited from a little more structure.  Specifically, if it had four or five more dungeons that became progressively available as you found more of the characters,that you had to clear in order to access Kefka's tower, I think I would have enjoyed the second half of the game much more.  I can understand that the freedom in this half of the game appealed to a lot of people though.

Hopefully this thread won't spoil the game for anyone, but it was released over ten years ago (I think).

/SPOILERZ LOL

[Johnny C]

I never played FFVII so this one stands in my book as my favourite Final Fantasy (next to, oddly enough, Tactics Advance).

[Narr]

Wow, we've come full circle.

I credit FF6 with my ability to read.  I was just a little kid at the time, and it's really what drew me into gaming.  I started to read a lot more after beating that game, too.

I'll pick it up just to own it, probably.

[Storm Rider]

Final Fantasy 6 is the best Final Fantasy game, period. IV and VII were both great, and I actually enjoyed XII a lot more than I thought I would, but nothing approaches VI.  The characters are incredibly deep, the combat system is simple to understand but varied to the point where it doesn't become rote, and there's tons to do beyond the main thrust of the story. I am definitely picking up the GBA port soon. As far as I'm concerned, FFVI is with Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, and the original Super Mario RPG as the best RPGs ever made. It's kind of a shame the genre seemed to peak about 10 years ago.

[JJMitchell]

Okay that settles it I need this game.  Now I just need to wait for the price to come down a little.  Or wait until I get more cash which will probably be about the same time.

[notselfcreated]

I bought a Gameboy Micro and preordered this game; in the meantime I bought the other FF Advances (I'm really diggin FFV). I'm a total VI junkie; every couple of years I'll jump back into it and get obsessed something awful. I wrote a Rage and Lore FAQ on GameFAQs (look for Skoobouy), which I guess I should update pretty soon.

My Mom paid $80 for this game when it first came out. I was 11. Spoiled little brat. But after seeing the sweet print-ads for the game, I just wouldn't shut up about it.



Lesee, clockwise, that's... Ifrit, Number 128, Mag Roader, Chupon, and Doom Gaze.

[ScrambledGregs]

Yeah, Square ads were bad ass back in the day. I still have this magazine insert that had all these pictures and this rambling, interconnected narrative about Chrono Trigger, FFVI, FFIV, Secret of Mana, and some other game I think. In the back of the ad it had soundtracks and t-shirts you could buy. Bad ass.

[Cartilage Head]

 Final Fantasy VI is on my list of games I am right at the end of. I think it is really, really great, and very unconventional for RPGs of the time period, seeing as how A.) Kefka wins.. at first, basically destroying the planet, and B.) the open-endedness.

 I really enjoyed it, and I need to geta round to beating it! I had been working on excorcising the Cursed shield and leveling up my party members for quite some time, and then I let it be for quite a few months.

[rasufelle]

I just got this game today.  I already have "Anthology", so I had it and I've got it on SNES, but I've never actually bothered to play it, interestingly enough.  Maybe I'll spend the time now that it's on my handheld.

[ackblom12]

Dragon Warrior was my first RPG and Final Fantasy 1 got me into RPGs.

FF IV showed me RPGs could be a hell of a lot more fun.

FF VI I still consider one of the best RPGs (JRPG or Western RPG) ever made.

[Storm Rider]

I never played FFVII so this one stands in my book as my favourite Final Fantasy (next to, oddly enough, Tactics Advance).

By the way, I too am one of the strange people who preferred Tactics Advance to the original. What I didn't like about Tactics was the seemingly haphazard difficulty level. There would be some levels I could blow through without even thinking about it, and then some that drove me fucking INSANE. About halfway through the game it got me so angry I put it aside and never went back to it.

[ackblom12]

Same here actually. I just thought that Tactics Advance was a hell of a lot more fun.

[Rubby]

VI is hands down my favorite game of all time. Nothing even comes close.
I'm a huge fan of the rest of the FF series, and games in general, but I really can see there ever being another game I spend as much time on as I did with VI.
Now I want to play it. I have the cartrage, but no SNES.

[ackblom12]

Sadly, you have the more expensive half.

[Spinless]

Sadly? What are you talking about? Now he can head down to his local gamestation and grab a snes for ?10.

[BillAdama]

Secret of Mana is actually what got me into RPGs, but FFIV is what got me totally obsessed with them.

FFVI though is still one of my favorite FFs.  There are a lot of things about it I don't like.  For instance, I never liked that everybody could learn all the same magic and had around the same HP, and had very little differentiation between them (Whereas in FFIV every character was different).  I never liked that the story lost all cohesion halfway through and you were just sort of stumbling around the world blindly picking up characters.  But it still had a great story and some of the best characters in RPG history, and a really fun battle system.

FFVI or FFV for me is the real watermark of the series.  FFVII is where they started descending into all this pretentious metaphysical crap with weird identity crises and teenagish emotional angst.  It's also when they discovered 32 bit graphics, and thus made the battles real slow and draggy.  They also decided battles shouldn't have any kind of difficulty or require any sort of thinking, and thus they became just a lot of mindless button tapping.  Starting with FFVII they essentially shifted the focus from gameplay to plot, and made the entire series about showing off their graphics and plots infused with the pseudo-depth of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

My FFVI cart's save battery is dying though, so I may have to get FFVI Advance just to play it without lag.

[jimmyjojoh]

Dammit- Ive got a DS and desperate for and RPG, I was goin to get new FF3, which is better 6 or 3. The graphics are much better on 3 cause its designed for the DS harware

[ackblom12]

personally, I love FF3, but 6 is a better game in every way possible, with the exception of not having the Job system.

[ScrambledGregs]

Exactly.

[Cartilage Head]

 Well the cast of characters covers most of the jobs you'd have with the job system.