02-09-2013, 12:51 AM
Hello everyone, complete newb here
I've played FF3us over and over again. I'm nearing completion of my first natural magic run, and I had a ton of fun; it required more strategy than just the vanilla game, decent challenge (in comparison) and I felt it brought out the characters strengths more.
I want something like that experience, but more. I've discovered so many different hacks of FFVI that I'm interested in trying them out, though there are so many I have no idea where to begin. I don't want to "try them all out" because I don't have much time on my hands these days and I dread having to play through the beginning of the game multiple times just to find a hack that suits my style, or to get hopelessly stuck halfway through the game.
I've done a little bit of research, and have even started playing some of them: one of them was taking multiple turns just to kill the Narshe guards (that's not added challenge, that's called wasting my time), and another had the leafers outside of Narshe casting Holy. Both these hacks claimed to increase the difficulty while remaining balanced. How is that balanced? I want a decent, believable challenge. I do NOT want to abuse savestates.
So in summary I guess: is there a hack that brings up the challenge of the game slightly (while still being balanced... ), changes around the items/espers if possible (a fresh experience would be nice), and perhaps brings out each character's unique flavour more? It really doesn't seem like much to ask (from a design standpoint), but from what I can tell, most of the hacks are BALLS TO THE WALL DIFFICULT YOU FIGURE OUT 9 MILLION HP TOLD YA THE GAME WAS TOUGH. In essence I want to play a game that doesn't waste my time and flaunts it as a "feature"...
And if such a thing does not exist I will quietly see myself out and deal with FFVI advance I guess... interested in new enemies/dungeons but the graphics are really turning me off... I hope that isn't the option, though.
Thanks and I hope to participate more in the community soon!
I've played FF3us over and over again. I'm nearing completion of my first natural magic run, and I had a ton of fun; it required more strategy than just the vanilla game, decent challenge (in comparison) and I felt it brought out the characters strengths more.
I want something like that experience, but more. I've discovered so many different hacks of FFVI that I'm interested in trying them out, though there are so many I have no idea where to begin. I don't want to "try them all out" because I don't have much time on my hands these days and I dread having to play through the beginning of the game multiple times just to find a hack that suits my style, or to get hopelessly stuck halfway through the game.
I've done a little bit of research, and have even started playing some of them: one of them was taking multiple turns just to kill the Narshe guards (that's not added challenge, that's called wasting my time), and another had the leafers outside of Narshe casting Holy. Both these hacks claimed to increase the difficulty while remaining balanced. How is that balanced? I want a decent, believable challenge. I do NOT want to abuse savestates.
So in summary I guess: is there a hack that brings up the challenge of the game slightly (while still being balanced... ), changes around the items/espers if possible (a fresh experience would be nice), and perhaps brings out each character's unique flavour more? It really doesn't seem like much to ask (from a design standpoint), but from what I can tell, most of the hacks are BALLS TO THE WALL DIFFICULT YOU FIGURE OUT 9 MILLION HP TOLD YA THE GAME WAS TOUGH. In essence I want to play a game that doesn't waste my time and flaunts it as a "feature"...
And if such a thing does not exist I will quietly see myself out and deal with FFVI advance I guess... interested in new enemies/dungeons but the graphics are really turning me off... I hope that isn't the option, though.
Thanks and I hope to participate more in the community soon!