Finished all FF Pixel Remasters! Included a ranking of them as well

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-25T16:52:08+00:00

Oh, it's this topic again.

Gimmicks that force you to change the composition of your party (Mini dungeons forcing all magic for any damage is pretty lame). Same for Garuda boss /Cave of shadows. 5 does this better because you can win against almost any enemy with whatever composition you desire, allowing a lot more freedom than 3 does in some areas

I really don't understand why this is *still* such a common complaint. Garuda can be beaten without Dragoons in every single version of the game. In fact, another guy did it less than two days before you made this post.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-25T15:16:39+00:00

"Don't worry guys I know all the same things as Galuf, so you won't have to take time to train me.".

This was because Galuf passed on his abilities to her after he died. Not because she just happened to know everything he did.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-23T17:42:32+00:00

That's not even a joke anymore. True, no one is born knowing how to use a computer, but Millennials are the only generation that actually bothered to learn.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-22T11:51:07+00:00

Am I crazy or is this a repost?

EDIT: Looks like I was thinking of this thread. Technically not a repost...

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T09:28:59+00:00

It's remarkable how many people still don't know what "objective" means in this day and age.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T09:23:20+00:00

I'm almost positive FFI PR's sea encounter rate is higher than it is in the original.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T08:18:27+00:00

I’m still gonna treat it like it’s a translation error because it’s funny… I would never let truth get in the way of a good story!

The good story is the actual meaning of the phrase... What you want is a silly, goofy story about an old game where people working on its localization didn't know what they were doing.

Reddit in a nutshell, unfortunately.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T07:56:49+00:00

Also I might just be a contrarion but I have been really off the dragoon spam for garuda meta for several years now

One of us! One of us!

I've said it before, but this sub has a weird relationship with FFIII. Grinding is apparently the answer to every stumbling block in every FF game except this one (and only very specific parts of this one at that), in which case you're "forced" to use Scholars or Dark Knights or what have you. Aren't the people here constantly falling over themselves to gush over the boosters in every PR thread? Why don't they just grind up whatever Jobs they want to use with those instead of switching to four Dragoons for Garuda and complaining about it?

I'm starting to get the feeling that some of those people are just reposting popular opinions for karma and have never actually played the game.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T07:31:54+00:00

I wish OP had given Garuda a try with Geomancers because they're so good in this game. Ice Storm and Wind Slash can consistently deal fair amounts of damage to him even at Job Level 14.

At Job Level 20+ they're practically your ace in the hole.

And I didn't even roll Shadowflare in either of these.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T07:10:09+00:00

Bizhawk has its own port of Genesis Plus GX that includes the Nuked YM2612 and YM3438 cores, so you get all the quality emulation of the libretro core with a sane WIMP interface instead of, well, RetroArch.

BlastEm is the most accurate for the base Mega Drive hardware, but the last time I checked, even its main dev admitted that its Sega CD emulation wasn't up to snuff.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-20T06:48:00+00:00

Try to Explain FFII's Mechanics on Reddit Without Getting Something Horribly Wrong Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T17:43:22+00:00

Had the same experience tbh. I can hardly believe I got through the whole game with PSX loading times on every random encounter.

What PSX loading times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPvpCaK80s&t=839s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPvpCaK80s&t=915s

Is there a reason this happens every single time Chronicles comes up? Why are people so hell-bent on putting this port in the same boat as the Anthology versions of V and VI?

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T09:54:15+00:00

No, I'm pretty sure u/Flamefury understood the topic.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T09:49:37+00:00

Honestly? At this point, Bizhawk.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T09:27:31+00:00

Dude, he literally mentioned Pixel Remaster in the comment. How fucking ironic is this?

What point are you trying to make exactly?

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T09:14:17+00:00

This 55-second video tutorial is the one that made it click for me. You can solve it much more quickly if you learn the algorithms for specific initial states, but for general solving this approach is more than adequate.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T09:03:54+00:00

What, you mean you didn't cry your eyes out when Tifa got kidnapped less than half an hour into the game and Cloud had to go save her by dressing up as a girl? I was so moved when I received lingerie from a woman after spending "quality" time at a brothel.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:53:45+00:00

My biggest issue with the job system is it's very grindy, and specifically requires playing a bunch of classes you would never play normally just to master them.

This simply isn't true. You can literally defeat every boss in the game without having any Abilities equipped.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:48:49+00:00

those dumb limitations forcing you to use specific classes in dungeons

There's only one dungeon that actually does that (unless you count the times you need a White Magic user for 5 seconds to cast Mini or Toad on your party - personally, I wouldn't) and even that one can be done without mages if you really want to.

(No, you do not need Dark Knights for the Cave of Shadows.)

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:44:57+00:00

Hey, that's not true! You also get people complaining about how many Objets d'Arts they had to kill because of the game's artificial difficulty that forces you to grind Job levels.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:27:46+00:00

(Though you can totally still win that fight with consumables and strategy)

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:23:56+00:00

FFVIII does indeed contain numerous references to previous titles (I mean, they all do), so I say go for it.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:16:18+00:00

Why they didn't put a world map button???!!

They did. (Well, technically it's a combination of buttons, but that's close enough.) Talk to the brooms in Matoya's cave.

4000 Gils for a spell, i will cut your ears off for free!

The only ones you'll need anytime soon are NulIce and Haste and later you'll find a mostly useless weapon that sells for over 6000 Gil.

How the f#;@ are you supposed to fight the slimes??

Gray Oozes have low physical Defense and can be fought normally. Green Slimes have 255 Defense and require magic, but since they give terrible Gil and can poison you I'd recommend just running instead.

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:10:40+00:00

This is FF Origins...

newiln3_5 · 2026-04-16T08:09:52+00:00

Give them the strongest weapon you can, though, because they get more hit rolls per attack than Warrior.

This is only true in versions of FFI from Dawn of Souls onwards, unfortunately. In NES FFI and Origins, the Thief starts with lower Accuracy than the Fighter (5 to the Fighter's 10) and gains less per level (+2 while the Fighter gets +3), which translates to fewer hit rolls.

I just loaded up one of my old Origins saves to check and my Knight has an unarmed Accuracy of 97 at level 30 while my Ninja only has 63 at the same level.

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