FFVI: I thought I was good at this game

[wallwalker]

So far, since starting to play FFVI again, I have done the following:

- Died horribly on the Veldt after going through the “Kefka powers up and gets the Magicite “sequence, and hadn’t saved after that cutscene. I think it was a Lich group that killed me. Darn zombies.

- Died again on the Veldt after picking up a ton of new Rages for Gau. (Lv. 5 Doom - Gau was my only character who wasn’t vulnerable and he was learning a new Rage at the time.)

- Died after the fight with the IAF and the landing on the Floating Island to a giant monster in a treasure box. Apparently I’d only thought that I had saved after landing, so I had to redo that fight as well.

- Died saving the kid in Tzen twice. I was right in front of the door when the clock ran out the second time.

- Had Cid die on me after one damn fish. Not a slow one, either.

- Died fighting tentacles in Figaro (after a long battle where Celes kept being picked up, tossed down, given barely enough time to heal herself, and picked up again.)

I do not remember ever having this much trouble with this game before. Must’ve lost my touch.

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Comments

[worlds_of_smoke]

YAY, ANOTHER PERSON PLAYING FFVI. XD

I'm juuuust at the beginning. I just left Figaro for the first time after Kefka tries to get Terra back.

[wallwalker]

Cool! Which platform are you playing on? Is this a replay?
(Also crossposting is working, apparently! Yay! Looks like there are a few glitches to work out, though. I wonder if I can set it up to post everything under a readmore link, at least at first?)

[worlds_of_smoke]

I'm playing it on my PC. I've never finished it, so I'm hoping I can actually finish it this time. -laughs-

(You probably could. But don't quote me on that. :))

[wallwalker]

PC - I'm guessing that's the Steam release? I haven't bought that one; I've had the old Anthology (I think?) version on my PS3 for ages, so I'm playing that one. Although I'm at least familiar with the GBA version, I haven't had a device to play GBA games in ages.

[worlds_of_smoke]

Yup, it's through Steam. I only have a PS2 ATM, so it's the only way I can play it. I'm supposed to get Joe's NES and SNES, though.

[samuraiter]

Oddly enough, I'm doing a replay, too, and I don't think it's just you: Ultros (GBA version) randomly annihilated Banon and got me a Game Over pretty early on. o_O

[wallwalker]

Ahhh. I sympathize - that probably happened to me when I was playing the game before, months ago, but I don't remember specifically. Ultros is SUCH a jerk.

[lassarina]

Wow, it has it in for you, seriously!

[wallwalker]

It doesn't help that I seem to have forgotten the importance of saving. Or I visit the save point and then forget to actually save the game. I have forgotten my roots. ^^;

(My latest: Accidentally stepping on the switch to release the Storm Dragon near Zozo (AFTER stepping on the save point) and getting wiped out by the dragon, only to wake up on the save point... in Daryl's Tomb. I stepped on the save point and forgot to save. Again.)

[lassarina]

oh noooooooo

I had real problems with Dragon Age because it doesn't provide save points but doesn't auto-save frequently enough for me and that was bad news bears more than once. Oops.

[novel_machinist]

<3

[wallwalker]

Ha ha, it's kind of funny, really. And a sign that I haven't been doing very much gaming lately, which is true. Of course, with school starting up again, I won't have time to do much of anything in a couple of weeks, besides learn Java and keep studying digital logic and such.

[novel_machinist]

We got back into playing the classics recently and it's a big difference from the newer games to the old ones. I really think that the older RPGs are harder. Of course, I am the kind of person who comes home too braindead sometimes to do anything but level grind so when I hit a story-playing-mood I am usually okay.

I did just speed run FF9 tho.