Final fantasy IV : how i hate you!

Well after what seems like 100 years i think i am nearly at the end! Wow its a long game and one that at times i hated, stoped playing, played avidly. I have no idea if i enjoyed this game, just dicovered a need to finish it! Ony one else out there like this game? or hate it as much as i do?

dude i really like this game and enjoyed every second spend on it

never finished it...didn't want to go all the way to the final boss, and when I tried to...a couple of those dragons killed my party off..

it just got boring

i prefer the origonal to be honest, the voice acting annoys me so much in the ds version,i wish there was a way of turning it off.pmurph13

It would be awesome if their was a volume button on the DS some where.....

never finished it...didn't want to go all the way to the final boss, and when I tried to...a couple of those dragons killed my party off..

it just got boring

magitekk

Same thing happened to me, never beat the game because the final dungeon was stupidly hard. :(

Well after what seems like 100 years i think i am nearly at the end! Wow its a long game and one that at times i hated, stoped playing, played avidly. I have no idea if i enjoyed this game, just dicovered a need to finish it! Ony one else out there like this game? or hate it as much as i do?

zedzed123

How could you think FFIV was hard lol? I find it much easier than the hard-type snes version. Putting draw attacks and counter on cecil made things incrediablely easy. And yang was very overpowered, using 3x power ups than hitting a boss would almost KO them. I had a full group of level 99s, and full onion gear on Cecil, its not hard at all.

If you think FFIV is hard, i don't recommend you pick up Fire Emblem, because you might just kill your self with frustration.

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Well after what seems like 100 years i think i am nearly at the end! Wow its a long game and one that at times i hated, stoped playing, played avidly. I have no idea if i enjoyed this game, just dicovered a need to finish it! Ony one else out there like this game? or hate it as much as i do?

TotalX5

How could you think FFIV was hard lol? I find it much easier than the hard-type snes version. Putting draw attacks and counter on cecil made things incrediablely easy. And yang was very overpowered, using 3x power ups than hitting a boss would almost KO them. I had a full group of level 99s, and full onion gear on Cecil, its not hard at all.

If you think FFIV is hard, i don't recommend you pick up Fire Emblem, because you might just kill your self with frustration.

dude i really like this game and enjoyed every second spend on it

muhamed100

[QUOTE="pmurph13"]i prefer the origonal to be honest, the voice acting annoys me so much in the ds version,i wish there was a way of turning it off.Elduque21

It would be awesome if their was a volume button on the DS some where.....

I just think it's pretty difficult. siLVURcross

i prefer the origonal to be honest, the voice acting annoys me so much in the ds version,i wish there was a way of turning it off.pmurph13

You can turn it off :|...

I just think it's pretty difficult. siLVURcross

i hate it that i find mini-boss battles near the end of game and i cant escape.

i swear, behemoths are so hard, and give me the crappiest experince.

Seems to me like many people on this thread would prefer the action-rpg model in lieu of what FF4 offers. Sure, there are difficult monsters in this version of the game but the whole point of the challenge is to find ways to keep your party operating effectively. If a boss counters a physical attack with an overpowered move, odds are you should be using magic or summoning. Each character has customizable skills so that you can adapt to a situation, try experimenting a little before complaining about the difficulty. Some general advice that I've found effective: Don't be afraid to use Cecil as a healer, sure he's a tank but they've expanded his role well in this version to be a competant mage as well. Rosa is absolutely the most vital character to your party, during 90% of the boss fights after she rejoins your party you should spend the first two or three rounds setting up buffs with her and Cecil. Every boss in the game can be made far more manigable by casting Slow on them, again Rosa is your friend. One last pattern I've noticed is that bosses who counter magic tend to not counter summons, don't be stingy with your mp and let your mages soften enemies up so that Kain or Cecil can deliver that crushing attack. Speaking of attacks, enemies who counter physical damage can be neutralized by putting Blink on your characters and who knows that spell? All together now, Rosa.

Really, the game is not overly-challenging, you just need to develop strategy and think tactically. This is an RPG afterall, if you're looking to mash the attack button and win the game I would recommend Kingdom Hearts.

FFIV is a game that expects you to level grind... a lot! I got my party to lv 65-67 and the final area was just right in difficulty (I just ran away from all the behemoths and Deathmasks :P).

I really enjoyed this game. I hope they remake FF5 and FF6 for the DS in the future.

cbeck said it all, i've been playing rpgs since i was 8, probably my first was shining force. From the FF series, my first FF was FF VI for the snes, and that's what those type of rpgs are about: know what you're doing and be a good customizer, especially when sellecting special equipment.

Not trying to sound arrogant, but i'm a type of rpg expert battler, i finished FF IV with a party of lvs 60 and i didn't had all that skill setups or special equipment that you have to scavenge/steal for it. Sometimes i fight bosses poorly prepared, but i manage to win because i know what i'm doing, i know how to counter certain moves and i know how to battle effectively, but because sometimes i'm poorly prepared, the boss always ends being a bit harder and troublesome than expected.

There are other types of rpg experts, those who i call scavengers and armorers are those people who always try to look in every hole that they can find for the finestequipments/skill/item setups that they can find to counter bosses and be ready for anything,due to the nature of using best setups, they don't even need to be battle experts to defeat bosses.

Those types of rpgs are just like fighting games, people think you just need to mash buttons but no, in fighting games to be an expert you need practice and knowledge about the moves. RPGs are the same, you need knowledge of what you need to do and experience to figure how an enemy can attack and how you can counter it.