Topic: Final Fantasy I and II

[couchmonkey]

I just read PGC's review of this compilation, and I'm interested to hear what other people think of making it easier to level up in Final Fantasy, as well as changing the magic system to a new, more modern version?

Personally, I found these two things combined to make the original game almost unplayable for me.  I loved it when it first came out, but a few years later, after playing a number of great RPGs on the Super NES, I found Final Fantasy had become like a chore.  What motivation did I have to fight the same monsters over and over for two or three hours just so I could make it through the next dungeon?

Of course, it's true that this will make the games a lot easier, and sometimes I think that "kids these days" could afford to spend a little more time leveling-up their characters.  Any other thoughts?

Personally, I'm very interested in this game now!

[God Speaks]

I wouldn't mind picking this game up later after a price drop but I doubt that will happen any time soon... *looks at price tag on FFTA* Nintendo is a really greedy publisher. BTW I have the original FFI. Got the game as a gift back in 1990, on clearance from a department store. Yay lots of memories.

[Nephilim]

I agree
but people love the old games, the same can be said about the orginal LOZ
If you played the orginal and you liked it, then its for you
but It really doesnt appeal to most people, no matter how hyped it is by people.
There is really are better RPG's from snes that need to be released (lufia 1&2) on gba rather then 2 over hyped bad (from aging) games for profit

[Draygaia]

After playing FFI and seeing as how Lufia was released on the SNes I thought that Lufia was really behind in what they should do in RPGs.  I rather see a port of Tales of Phantasia than Lufia.  Of course if you add it with II then I see Lufia I as the plus with Lufia II being the major game.

[BlkPaladin]

The game is alot easier with the magic point system in place, instead of the stock system it orginally had I'm virually flying through the game currently.

[ubercraig]

is the FF I + II worth it for the price?

[PaLaDiN]

If I liked FF6, will I like this?

[couchmonkey]

PaLaDiN: Not necessarily.  I don't know about FF II, but FF I was very much an old-school RPG on the NES, without much story (you even pick your own characters and name them yourself).  The original game also had a lot of levelling-up which, as I posted above, made it rather excruciating, but that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore.
I'd say that you're probably best off looking for this game used, and then only if you're a big RPG fan.  Have you ever played FF4 (Number 2 in the U.S.?)  That game is probably a little closer to what these ones are like than FF6.

[BlkPaladin]

Two had a full story line but I haven't played totally through it. (On the PSX) So I will just play it on the Gameboy. (Or in my case the DS)

Oh and the new caves in 1, they may seem very easy at first but they have something like a lvl 60+ boss at the end of the earth one and that is first one you open. They are diffinatly made to be played last in the game, at least before Chaos, as a form of lvling up plus they have some new armor inside.

Oh and the levistone isn't in the Fire lvl, it in the ice caves which if memory serves me correctly (and sometimes it doesn't) the ice caves where virtually usless in the orginal NES cart.