>In 1987, Final Fantasy, a last ditch attempt by Hironobu Sakaguchi at making a video game, was released in Japan>The game sold incredibly well in Japan, though when it released around the world, its reception was mediocre, but not horrible>The sequels, Final Fantasy II and III, sold far more poorly, and were, consequently, not released outside of Japan.>Then, in 1992, Squaresoft attempted another foray into the rest of the world, in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. The game sold well, inspiring Squaresoft to attempt to release their incredibly well-selling "Final Fantasy IV" to the world under the renamed title of "Final Fantasy II"Anons, you've played FFIV, I've played FFIV...so let's do something fun. Let's play FFIV if it was a fanfiction written by someone who really...REALLY hated women, and didn't want ANY female love interests around for Cecil. Ladies(Male) and gentlemen, I've got booze, and happy New Year. This is Final fantasy IV: Alter Destiny.
so as we go through the opening cutscene, I'll mention that I'm streaming live and drinking. Per global rules, I can't link the twitch or post my name, but you can search by game(the 2012 version). I'm pretty easy to find.Take a shot for >fanfic writing>Gay shit>The writer HATES women> Cringe
I believe this whole game was made in RPGMaker, and sometimes, you can tell.
>>729767208Oh, a Nigger thread for new years and it's not "Mario Jumpman Mario can't jump the fucking chasm". >you've played FFIVYeah but I never played After Years, so this'll be a good replacement I'm sure
Welcome back nigger.
so they absolutely broke the gameplay in this version. Darkness is FUCKING CRACKED.
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>>729767718how new?
>>729767208>The sequels, Final Fantasy II and III, sold far more poorly, and were, consequently, not released outside of Japan.Good to know FF was cursed from the start.
Tonight's cocktail: The Forgotten Face of your Father, a creation of mine:>1 shot vodka>1 shot orange gin>1 shot melon liqueur>1 shot blue Curacao>1/2 shot lemon juice>filled with cranberry juice
It was always weird the way the king spoke to baigan here.
>Kain>part of the red wings
>no Rosa themeshame.
oh there it is.
missed a screenshot. Cecil randomly throws in "As a dark knight, we can never be together"...which I'm 90% sure wasn't in the original game. The fuck?
FUCK I love the main theme of FF.
>Jump is literally a free damage upgrade, that has no charge up
first boss is free, but the ATB freezes as soon as someone takes their turn.
*gasp* we were sent to bomb the summoner village!
>Kain turns coat with you immediately, starts figuring out the ally situation
and after Rydia uses Titan...she's nowhere to be seen, and Kain is still with us.Because fuck rydia. That's a drink.
>>729768893Le bombe ring is... le bombe????
>Hylian Shield on the wall
>Rosa did NOT come after us because she was worried, leaving to being antlion feverBecause Fuck Rosa too. That's another drink.
Tellah joins instead of Rydia
onto the next boss. The early FFIV doesn't seem to have been changed much.
>>729767208>The game sold incredibly well in Japan, though when it released around the world, its reception was mediocre, but not horrible>The sequels, Final Fantasy II and III, sold far more poorly, and were, consequently, not released outside of Japan.>>Then, in 1992, Squaresoft attempted another foray into the rest of the world, in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. The game sold well, inspiring Squaresoft to attempt to release their incredibly well-selling "Final Fantasy IV" to the world under the renamed title of "Final Fantasy II"It's amazing how much bullshit you managed to spew in this post. Almost none of this is true.
RIP Damcyan.
>>729770004isn't it? I thought it got middling reviews because it was too hard, and the success of mystic quest is why FFIV got released internationally.Also, FFII and III did do poorly compared to I.
>that garbage clipping on the antlion
>>729770286mystic quest didn't even come out until after IV. 1 was decently successful in the US when it came out and they were translating II but it was already 1991 and the SNES was about to come out so they just decided to go with IV instead. II and III sold way more than 1 in Japan. III sold over a million copies. 1 only sold like 500,000.
>>729770460huh, well I guess I'm retarded.Also we're just fighting the antlion now instead of going into the cave for the gem to cure Rosa.
RIP edward's waifu.
Time for YOU SPOONY BARD and a scripted fight, after which edward joins the party.
>dumb women being dumbthat's a drink
so, uh...there's no ghost anna cutscene.
and...TELLAH FUCKING KILLS EDWARD
>I don't like this character so I made him diewell that's some fanfic writing. DRINK.
so for a tally of changes so far:>Rosa never left Baron castle I guess, so no Rosa>Rydia didn't get knocked out by summoning Titan, leading Cecil to save her and make atonement for Mist. This means Rydia doesn't ever forgive him>Kain stayed with Cecil, meaning no Golbez brainwashing because he's in love with Rosa>Edward FUCKING DIED
>Yang KEEYAH's his way through two enemieswe jason david frank now.
mommy bombey
>>729771342That's a big bomb
>>729771382U U U U
I guess Edward's exposition dump before getting killed was good for something
so who's your favourite final fantasy big villain (prior to the modern games)? I included the villains in the dissidia games.https://strawpoll.com/poy9kxQ9JgJ
Yes. The ENTIRE royal family of Damcyan died in the Baron attack.
cecil's darkness only takes like 10 HP
>ROSA was the one who got brainwashed instead of KainHAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
well, that's it, that's our story, good night!
ah shit, I missed Tellah calling her a harlot. That's a drink.
ENTER
>I HATE WOMENwritten by an incel or a woman?
>changing namingway to just changing windowst-thanks
>the alternatives are all trashLAME
so what hte fuck is going to be the logic since in the actual game, Leviathan is seeking out Rydia?
Will playing this game get me laid?
>She was like a mother to me
>>729773357yes.
These threads should stay on /vrpg/. They're kind of awful. I don't care what you're doing if you don't have an intelligent opinion on something, a literal chatbot could make a better thread than this. Its just lazy.
Oh hi Leviathan. Sorry, I don't have a super gifted Summoner with us. >>729773525how new?
There is...no explanation.>>729773357nothing else has worked, so why not try?
and onto Mysidia again.
>poisoned by the bartender
time for Paladin Cecil.
>a woman is joining cecil*gasp*
>>729773974>Cecil only admits lolisholy fucking BASED
>>729774057what about Rydia?
how the fuck did Tellah beat us here?
>>729774229Cecil kind of fumbled it by blowing up her hometown
dat ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vz186pjY0
Think they'll ever be another Final Fantasy game that will be relevant to the mainstream again? And I don't mean having a bunch of 40 year olds who grew up with the series buying it I mean full zeitgeist manifestation.
>>729774712Peak FF interest timed with the 90s anime craze hitting a fever pitch. You will need another perfect storm and/or a revived Japanese economy. Outlook unlikely, never say impossible.
>can't instagib scarmiglione with a phoenix downRIP.
>>729767208I thought Mystic Quest came out after 4
>>729774712I seriously doubt it.
>>729774827would a revived JP economy really do anything when JP culture, or at least anime, is still becoming more and more popular and mainstream?a better global economy where people can afford to buy things might help more. Its hard to justify an expensive ass pc or console when you can barely afford to pay the bills.Even really shitty anime get praised and eaten up.
>>729770460yes ff3 is the goat nes jrpg, everyone should play it
>hey, you know how this fight is super climactic, because Cecil has to confront his inner conflict, and win not through conflict, but peace?>nah, fuck that. BEAT UP DARK KNIGHT CECILThat's a drink.
>>729775050>is undead>dies
Thanks this'll be a fun watchI grew up with IV and its my favorite so I'm curious how badly they butcher it
CECIL BECAME A -WHAT-?!
>>729774827It's something I've been thinking about ever since that story from like a decade ago came out where SE execs were freaking out because children only knew Final Fantasy via the rythm games on the 3DS. Hell growing up in the 2000s no one my age talked about FF besides Kingdom Hearts, I only ever saw it discussed on forums and newgrounds parodies I shouldn't have been seeing at that age. Just feels weird that this franchise I had been told all my life was a "staple" was only that way for the millenials that came before me. I think the closest we got was the covid FF14 boom but that seems shot now too.
>hey, you know how Cecil has to reject his darkness to become a warrior of light(roll credits)?>nah, fuck that, he's a super special knight who uses light AND darkness!!!
>>729775246Kino twist
>>729775151>man conquers his demons through pure willpower and egoHow is this a bad thing?
YOU GET IT?BECAUSE THE AFTER YEARS EXISTS?!
We T.G. Cid now.
SUDDENLY ADULT RYDIA
Boss time.
FUCKING WHAT?Okay, so I played the first few hours of this game before I replaced my PC like a year ago, and I did get to fell knight Cecil...but I do NOT remember this.
>>729775505GILRUGAMESH
at least it comes with a banger cover of Battle on the Big Bridge.
>uses protect and shell
and I guess...Rydia is now a villain.That's a drink.
>>729775505Greg!
>palom breaks the Hold on her to attack rydia
sorry, himself.
AND JUST LIKE THAT, PALOM IS FUCKING DEADHAHAAHHAAHAHAHHAHAA
so, uh...how the FUCK is cecil going to survive Baron castle now?
>>729776127RIP T_T
weird ass choice of aesthetic for an rpgmaker fan game, not just using the SNES sprites or something
>>729776164with the will of the warrior.
I just noticed the blood pool around Palom's corpse.I guess flare didn't cauterize the wound?
>>729776127lmao whaaaaat
>>729776127I HATE YOU RRRYYYDDDIIIAAAAAA
"Well, he encountered a woman."
...why are they already speaking about the Lunar Whale?
Better than whatever Squeenix shits out these days
>>729776770because the lunar japanese are hunting them to extinction.
>mods ban me for calling people niggers>this tripfag literally calls himself nigger and is allowed to stay yet he never actually plays anything /v/-adjacent like dwarf fortress or x-com ufo defenseyou could at least play something challenging like the FF1 ultra hard hack and not the equivalent of a deviantart fanfiction you niggrish faggot
>get back to baron>kain is aggro
beat him back into sense. He's good now.
That's...NOT an explanation, Cecil.
>>729776203There's always stuff like FF Hatena if you want to go full SNES since it was made with RPG Maker 2000 limitations and not the newer ones.
Bump (of coke)
>>729769906Me on the left.
>>729770460In retrospect it was the right choice not to localize 2 and 3. Hell, you can blame Dragon Quest's lack of popularity in the west on their insistence on putting out translations that were way too late to the party. Did you know Dragon Quest 4 got an official NES translation? Well, no one played it because it came out in fucking 1993.
>tellah has enough MP to cast Meteo without killing himself...he's not going to die killing Golbez, is he?
>>729777606some people played it but yeah, generally the reason dragon quest was less popular in america was because the localizations were 5 years late
>>729772496The idea that Rosa can solo Cecil and Kain together is hilarious.
>>729777795it's okay, she has holy.
>>729775371Palom always wanted to be a Sage like Tellah, but I do think that having him just say "I want to grow up to be like Tellah" is too on the nose for him. Palom would expect to become a Sage that's twice as good as Tellah ever was without having to wish for it.
>>729777661Unless Meteo costs 103 MP he should be good.
so, let's see how hard these fights are.
>>729773728>INN INN INN
>>729772426Did Golbez plap her by any chance?
>>729777661Wait. Did this guy murder a five-year old in his fanfiction just because he couldn't figure out how to fit five niggas in the row?
>>729775151I slapped his shit in the japanese ff iv with lots og hi potions
...I don't remember Cagnazzo doing THIS.
>>729778493So Fell Knight's are well known then.
>so with Palom dead, how is Cecil going to survive baron castle and the death trap?>Enter RydiaTHAT'S A DRINK.
>>729778703>My hunger for toddler murder has not yet been slaked, Fell Knight!
>YOU KILLED MY BROTHERFucking women, am I right?
>Rydia summons Ramuh...why him?
>>729778841I cannot get over how fucking hideous this is. Can't imagine how it looks in motion.
How you can stomach playing something this ugly is beyond me.
>Yang for the crystalRemember, he values a random monk over his FUCKING FIANCEE
gay as shit? THAT'S A DRINK.
>>729773525Kys
That's ANOTHER drink.
>>729777060I got banned for nigger too. Its very inconsistent.
Using yang of all people for this feels especially strangeLike they couldve made it Cid and it would've made a lot more sense without changing anything
>>729779156Hey, I'm not calling anyone that.
This is a message from Lord Golbez. I await you at the Dread Isle.
>>729778841>>729778918Wait, the crusher room didn't happen?
>>729773525You are a fucking faggot and I hope you die from ALS twice
...the troia inn was not always a brothel, right?
happy new year, you cockmongling faggots.
>womenthey're doomed.
THAT IS FUCKING AERITH.
>>729779051Beautiful love triangle
>don't need the purple chocobo to get to the lodestone cavernDISAPPOINTEDso...how's the boss going to work without edward?
I just realized...where the fuck is my useless pall Cid?
Whomever designed these sprites is 100% an ass man.
>>729775505Holy KINO?!
oh hi, Astos.
HOLY SHIT
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ONLY I GET TO KILL CECILAt any other point I'd be cheering on this kino. I love this fucking trope.
>>729780035I remember these sprites well.
>>729779319you forgot your trip
>>729779994I figured porom would have died asap and he'd be in her place
>>729780464anon, I'm too drunk to take my trip off just to call you a faggot.
>>729780525whoops. >>729780452>>729780464same, honestly. I literally thought it was porom diyng.
>>729780525You're too drunk to quote the right guy, too.
just a reminder, rydia killed a FIVE YEAR OLD.Canonically, Palom is FIVE YEARS OLD in Final Fantasy IV.
>>729780723Cecil needs to stab rydia in the pussy
>>729779051>>729779217>Remember, he values a random monk over his FUCKING FIANCEERosa and Golbez saw Yang put his life on the line protecting Fabul's Crystal. Yet think he's leverage for the Earth Crystal.Narratively Yang would probably rather die if it meant the Earth Crystal was safe. And Cecil would know that lmao. The party could have just boarded Rosa's ship. Killed everyone and captured Rosa which would have fucked Golbez's plans. If he kills Yang all it means is he'd have absolutely nothing to bargain with.
>>729770286Mystic Quest was specifically a failure and is what convinced Japs that Americans didn't want easy games, they wanted good games.FF1 was not a "last ditch effort." That story is apocryphal and has been debunked.
do you think the dev got angry over the smokeshow enemy NPCs?
>>729779424it was, actuallyit also had the "member's only" club, and a pass was an absurd amount of gil I can't remember
>>72978141450,000 gil, but that's the dev room, isn't it?
