Final Fantasy V

How far did you get? It took me 2 abortive tries before I finally got into the game

the beginning is easily the worst part

No, FF5 is really boring and generic in visuals and story

wrong

It’s the same with (2D version) of IV. Never bothered me though

>lighthearted high fantasy is "boring and generic"
how does it feels to be dead inside?

FFV is kind of weird in that the psuedo-futuristic stuff comes early (steamship and flying fortress) and then the rest is pretty standard.

I'm at the first castle, Figaro I think it's called? Having to do a bunch of obscure tasks in a city to get the story moving is annoying.

Imagine being less memorable as a boss than an evil cloud that doesn't even show up until the last minute of the game

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t. galuf's ghost

>Having no distinguishing aesthetic is good because the game isn't very serious and has a meme translation
How does it feel to be stupid and tasteless?

Oh, Cloud of Darkness is "memorable" alright... for being the shittiest villain in the entirety of FF history. So congrats, have a gold star, you are TECHNICALLY correct on the internet.

OP here and to be fair, locations of IV are more memorable than the ones in V so far. I mean, I still remember the miner town, the monster town, the castles were way more unique and thematically memorsbles than the ones in V. Here, almost every town/castle feel kinda generic.

keep working past that, it picks up pretty soon after that point

Literally every FF before 5, every single Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger AND FF9 all share a high fantasy setting. Hell, we can take even more common videogame settings and distill more games under a "generic" or "indistinguishable" banner, but guess what? It doesn't matters. Story tropes are tools, not flaws. Earthbound isn't any less of a good game because the "urban fantasy" setting is so cliche nowadays.

Also, "meme translation"? Now I'm curious of what FF you consider "good", because if you say FF6 allow me to take a solid minute to laugh at your face.

the music in the futuristic ruins is super kino

Chrono Trigger and FF9 have so much more going for them on the visuals and setting than FF5
Can't comment on DQ since I've only played 9 but it also wasn't anything special
And yes, FF6 is better on both visuals and story but let me be clear that I don't particularly care about the "son of a submariner" woosley crap in the SNES translation. That isn't good but it's still better than the FF5 GBA that everyone likes to pretend is hilarious when it's really on par with 4kids dub script

Because Kefka, that's why. You'll see.

He's not a tree you stupid meming faggot. It's clearly stated in game and in his true final form that he's a collective of evil spirits and monsters sealed inside a tree. But I guess you'd actually have to have played the fucking game to know that, wouldn't you?

Still haven't played this one yet. Got it for ps1.

Looks like a tree to me, faggot

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>Chrono Trigger and FF9 have so much more going for them on the visuals...
OK, Chrono Trigger is as generic of a high fantasy setting as it gets, so apparently when you say "visuals and setting", you mean LITERALLY graphics. Well, why didn't you say so earlier? That way I could discard your stupid opinion way sooner.

Semantics, his physical body is/was still a fucking tree, and a splinter at one point.

You literally don't even know what the fuck you're talking about, you stupud nigger. The "meme translation" was a fan translation of the Japanese SNES version and had nothing to do with the GBA version. Thanks for outing yourself as a retard that didn't even play the game

All the castles seemed pretty different to me.
Tycoon with the tall towers, Worus with the waterfalls. Fits nicely for their associated elements.
Karnak is kinda cramped I suppose so you don't see much of it, and the inside being lmao flames isn't really too interesting.
Surgate and Bal have their own distinctions as well, Surgate is a cramped castle done right, where there's still the small areas inside the wall. Bal has its large open courtyard.
Post Karnak the towns are a bit lacking I think. The town of Karnak is great btw, just its associated castle is bad.

>this is a tree
Get fucked you intellectually dishonest windowlicker

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that's after he absorbed the void, dickwad

Looks like a human, beast, heavy dragon and a heavy to me.

>nu-exdeath

V suffers from boring locales and awful, awful party members. it has the best gameplay of the nes-snes era though, rivaling DQ III

>Chrono Trigger is as generic of a high fantasy setting as it gets
Vfags are delusional.

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Those are still all the evil spirits he's composed of, his "true form". It's not some random adornment of shit thrown on the screen for no discernible reason like later FF final bosses would come to ripoff.

>awful, awful party members
Uh, what? I assume you're talking about Faris' poorly translated pirate talk, because otherwise the cast of 5 is great sans Krile, which is just kinda there for the most part

>I assume you're talking about Faris' poorly translated pirate talk
Dear lord I'm glad I didn't play the ps1 translation for my first time.
Been playing quite a few different translations, and watched a playthrough of the ps1 and it's really awful.
I knew of some of the hilarious awful stuff like Yburn instead of wyvern, and Karl Boss instead of Karlabos, but the pirate accent for Faris is just too fucking much.

Floating island of doom?
In my jrpg?
It's more likely than you think.

Well yeah, what else would I be talking about? Did you think I was shitting on ALL high fantasy just because I don't like FF5's lack of aesthetic?

No, the SNES translation, at least the one that I played, not sure if there are more, was very faithful to the original japanese, meaning it was very dry and dull
The GBA version is the "funny" translation that everyone likes for whatever reason

i played it on gba, every party member was just a moron bumbling around failing to protect crystals. perfectly summed up with the MC being named butts. still like it for the gameplay though, great for autism grinding

>island
Screaming "I didn't play the game" is not funny user.

'tism

>Post something factually wrong
>Get corrected
>lol autism
Concession accepted.

Dude, don't bother responding. It's just the same guy spamming the same bait because he's desperate for replies. It happens in every thread actually trying to talk about a specific video game. Some pathetic loser with nothing else better to do with their menial life has an autistic compulsion to ruin conversation in a thread because he thinks it's hilarious somehow

The Black Omen is as large as an island but it's not an island. It's a floating fortress.

You're literally a fucking retard because his name is Bartz in the GBA version. Fuck off retard and go shit up another thread

What ABOUT the Black Omen faggot?

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Final Fantasy V always bring the best FF posters on Yea Forums to actually discuss more than fanservice/waifu shit.

>Everyone I don't like is the same person
I never said anything about Bartz's name

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Exdeath is a tree possessed by a conglomeration of the spirits of people who died in an ancient war and their blood soaked into the tree's roots.

When you destroy the tree (phase 1) you free the legion of spirits possessing it and then fight those too (phase 2)

Apparently you haven't been reading tyr thread because it's just one guy shitposting relentlessly

I wasn't the same guy, just pointed out that CT isn't generic at all.

It's an autistic thing to get hooked up on, it's obviously not a literal island since it isn't surrounded by water, it is up in the air. It is constructed just like the floating ronka ruins, or the floating lefein ruins, it was never intended to imply that the black omen was a literal island, you thinking it is was meant to be literal is a thing an autistic person would do since they take things too literally, it is not a random call out on autism I am diagonising your autism. It is a common jrpg trope to have a floating "island", "continent" or whatever, especially when things are getting bad. Bringing up a common jrpg trope in a game is not a good way to show how it isn't generic.

>Exdeath is a tree possessed by a conglomeration of the spirits of people who died in an ancient war and their blood soaked into the tree's roots
Except for the fact that's not true? It's literally one tree they kept sealing monsters in. It's said pretty clearly in game

Name three more contemporary high fantasy games that let you visit the prehistoric era, post-apocalyptic wastelands and also feature an interstellar planet parasite.

That is irrelevant to everything I said. I just pointed out how shitty your specific black omen argument was, I don't care about your previous discussion of how generic or not chrono trigger is, take that to the previous user.

Name three more comedic high fantasy games with transdimensional rifts, two planets getting merged and also features an armor-clad tree spirit.

I didn't say V was generic though.

>that's not my argument, even though this IS the argument being made in the beginning of the discussion

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People only like CoD because she got Nomura'd into a hot as fuck demon woman straight out of someone magical girl anime.

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>Make wrong statement
>Get corrected
Why is this such a hard thing to understand for people in this board?

i never knew who cloud of darkness was until dissidia. i got stuck in that dungeon that forced you to be mini status when i played 3

>Make wrong statement
Make wrong statement fucking when? If you think I'm - news flash: I'm .

That shit almost made me quit III and then there's random moments in the game where enemies hit like trucks.

>Chrono Trigger is generic high fantasy
>No it's not
That's it. What are you even trying to argue anymore? We already both said what we wanted to say.

>If you think I'm
That statement wasn't wrong though

Someone who has played Dissidia explain to me how the fuck Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness don't hook up?

>One can want, but never obtain the Void

Oh nevermind, thanks Golbez.

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If we're going by Dissidia, I'd say Exdeath is more popular because he was both the strongest in tier lists and memed up by people with his VOID shtick.

CT is generic high fantasy in the same metric that FF5 could be considered generic high fantasy - if you look at "high fantasy" as only magic, castles and monsters. If YOUR argument is that both aren't, I don't really give a shit, I'm using the same metric to evaluate both, which would be the definition of "generic high fantasy".

I can't play FF5 anymore since all RPG Maker games look like it and I only play porn games made in RPG Maker.

So my body keeps getting ready for the porn, and then disappointed when there's none.

>"urban fantasy" setting is so cliche nowadays.

Besides Persona and maaaaybe Undertale, what other urban fantasy games are there?

TWEWY? Yiikes?

It's not a cliche imo.

What's this about a meme translation? I've only played it a billion years ago on a SNES emulator. Obviously a fan translation, was that a meme? What's the difference?

I don't remember it being particularly goofy, but it's been a long time.

Just look up ffv on gelbooru or something when you get too horny

A suprising amount of kickstarter indie rpgs.

The GBA version puts really unfunny puns and jokes on nearly every line
I would not recommend it

Pokemon
Devil Survivor
Shadow Hearts
Arguably FF15
Plus only like a billion indies

...and that just keeping it to RPGs

The best thing about FFV is that FFV by itself is well-known enough but not the really popular so you get less garbage porn

lena porn when

I mean, she was always like that in III especially thanks to based Amano concept art.

Quit lying, moron.

The green cloud is still massively better.

FF3's area variety is really underappreciated

Literally.

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comfy music

>defending the GBA version

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only good thing about this game is blue mage but then it came back in FFTA so this game is worthless

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when I first heard this I must have sat there for a good 5 minutes

>sperging out about non-existent meme translation
>giving a flying fuck about a slight graphical and sound downgrade for a handheld port

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Honestly one of the GOAT video game soundtracks
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>composing your best music for the worst game

*gulps*

>the worst game
acquire taste

Wait for someone to upload this
pixiv.net/member_illust.php? illust_id=75369284

What a laughable claim.

FFV is the only flawless game in the franchise and places around the top of them in a list. Secondly Uematsu's best music was for VI, which was an excellent game, and V's is merely the fourth best soundtrack in the series, behind VI, XIII-2 and VII.

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I hate the music too. Worst battle theme out of ANY final fantasy hands down.

FF8 and 10-2 say hi

>FFV is the only flawless game in the franchise
lol

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>My only grip so far with FFV it's that every location feel/looks the fucking same. That's a huge letdown in terms of world building and atmosphere in general. I'm the only one feeling this?

All the SNES FF games have this issue, since they reuse the same tileset for almost every town/cave/etc.

I thought they were wolfmen. Not humans with wolf helmet.

>I tried getting into FFVI and I just couldn't enjoy it. Why do people claim it's the best game of all time?
Nostalgia. Consider that FFV was never localized until the GBA era, whereas many people played FFVI on the SNES version during their childhood.

FFVI has aged horribly. Unlike FFV, combat is a complete joke and even bosses go down after just a few attacks. Nothing in this game can even remotely pose a threat to you, yet it insists on assaulting you with random encounters every few steps.

But what irked me most me was how godawful the writing is. FFV is a game that clearly wants players to be invested in the story, yet it never bothers to give any of the characters a real emotional stake in that story. Terra, ostensibly the protagonist, spends almost the entire game in a fugue state and going 'what's going on? aw, my amnesia, aw, my head'. At one point, Banon, the rebel leader, even asks her if she wants to help the rebellion. You can in fact answer no to this question, and if you do it repeatedly, the game actually accepts this answer. Guess what? The game completely ignores your answer and just continues with Terra helping the rebels. How on earth did they go with this script? FFV is a story where the protagonist literally does not give a shit, so why should the player?

All of the characters ring completely hollow. Cyan is introduced, and within minutes his kingdom and family is poisoned to death, and, minutes later he's cracking jokes about being an old geezer who's clumsy with Magitek mech, and we are supposed to take him seriously as a character and emphatize with him. Edgar, a literal king, joins the rebels, yet there's not a single line of dialogue in the game where he expresses any doubt or hesitation or other human emotion about abandoning the safety of his station. All of the characters are complete caricatures and it's impossible to take the story seriously as a result.

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i thought we had V in anthology for ps1

>IV gets Golbez because he's the main bad guy for most of the story
>III gets CoD even though Xande is the main bad guy for most of the story

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V is the best snes FF prove me wrong

>i thought we had V in anthology for ps1
Anthology came out in 1999, so my point still stands: most people played FFVI long before they did FFV.

I legit loved FFT and thought FFV would be able to feed my want for the job system. Oh boy, was I wrong.

They're not even in the same genre, you fucking retard