I want to finally get into Final Fantasy 6In fact as a kid I almost beat the entire world of balance (it was the PS1 version).Which version should I choose? PS1 has those horrendous loading times, so its out of the question.I'm considering the GBA version, because of bestiary and additional dungeons. Pixel remaster looks like shit, it completely lacks the dark feeling of the original.Thoughts?
>>12300752Original SNES release, period. And no modding it until you've beaten it at least once on vanilla.
>>12300752It's a bit of a case of choosing your poison. The GBA version has additional goodies like the bestiary you mentioned as well as extra content and some QoL stuff like B dash, and its translation is undeniably better, but IMO it's brought down by several things. The most obvious is the graphics: they made the colors more garish to compensate for the OG GBA screen being so dark, and the resolution is also lower, resulting in significant screen crunch. The music is also worse in quality, with inferior instrumentation. Now, the music and the colors can be restored to the SNES originals through ROM hacks, but even so you'll still be left with the lower resolution and overall lower audio quality. There's no fixing those. Also, there's significant slowdowns when casting big spells and when riding the airship that weren't present in the original, and there's also no fix for that.The only real issues in the SNES original are the haphazard and censored translation, lack of B dash (though if you're emulating it doesn't matter), and maaaaaaaaaybe the bugs, which the GBA version has fixed the majority of, but only one of them is a nuisance in any real sense (the Sketch glitch), and it's easily avoided by playing the 1.1 version. As for the translation, there are numerous hacks that fix its problems, including one that is just a back port of the GBA translation, and almost all of them also fix most of the bugs and add B dash, so that's helpful. You'd only be missing the extra content and bestiary, but IMO the former isn't all that great anyway, and the latter is not a big deal.So for me, SNES with a hack gets my vote.
>>12300787PS1 would be so good if someone fixed the loading times. The bestiary is pure soul and it has a bunch of other cool features.
>>12300752Haters gonna hate but I'm playing the pixel remaster and it's fine, the sprites don't look quite as good but widescreen support is nice.
Original, unmodded snes game is the best version. Ff6 is my favorite game of all time and I've played it regularly since it came out. I've played every version multiple times and snes is the best. Ps1 version sucks and is the worst version. It's best to not even play ff6 if you're going to play the ps1 version. Gba version is okay but snes looks way better, sounds better, and Celes getting raped. Pixel remaster is 2nd best but it has a weird stutter issue present in every version/format
Total Graphics Uncensorship is an acceptable mod for a first-timer. All it does is change a few graphics back to the Japanese versions, which is close to how the game is played on PlayStation, with optional MP-curve restoration to play even closer to the Japanese version. But if you REALLY want to play with a text touchup (to be frank the original English translation does have a few issues due to its rushed nature) then the GBA Text hack is fine. It has button-dash and fixes a few bugs to play more like post-SNES rereleases, plus an alternate version that removes some of the added pop culture references. You should really avoid any other mods, especially if you're new to the game. Most of the other text hacks out there are either really bad literalist shit or some autist's weird hodgepodge version of the SNES and GBA scripts that they can never agree is right, smathered with a heaping helping of qol/bugfix bullshit (prepare for 'yesh we finally fixed the dreaded Sketch glitch'...which was something only in v1.0 copies of the game) and subjective fanfic approximations of selective 'uncensorship' by people who do not know any Japanese.Wow, the modding community for this game actually sucks for the most part, come to think of it. At least some of the General Leo hacks are pretty cool.
>>12300752This game is so ass and yet so many people want to play it. I suppose it's a big gateway to 2d Final Fantasy, too bad it sucks. I'd like to know what percentage of players come out disappointed
You'll notice that the biggest fans of FF6 are the same people who call it FF3
>>12302112that does make sense
>>12301694I'd say whatever version has those alternate sprites has to be the worst (ios?). PS1 loading times are unbearable though.
>>12302079Nah, it's good. One of the best balances of strong magic and physical skills imo. It also makes a clear line from ff4 to ff7 and why they went the direction they did (until 9). It's fun and good vibes.
>>12302497Oddly enough I'd say FF7 draws more from FF5 and Chrono Trigger than FF6.
/vr/ niggas will find literally any excuse as to why they can't play the original versions of any game
>>12302079I'm definitely one of those players who came out disappointed. Checked it out for the first time a few years ago and never even managed to finish it because of how boring it was.
>>12302579A story heavy game having a translation that was hacked together in a month is as valid a reason as any, retard.
>>12302676It's not a good reason. It's a mediocre reason the translation is really not that bad. FF6 is only "story heavy" by 1994 standards. There's an autist in another thread playing ff6 right now and it's rather funny how nearly everything he is pointing out as "improved" in the gba version is either not actually any better, or it's a sexual thing that was toned down for 90s tendie standards. Nobody ever had their playthough of FF6 ruined because Gestahl's line about breeding Kefka and Celes for magebabies wasn't there.
>>12302717SNES games barely have any story at all. Compared to all other SNES games it is fucking war and peace.
>>12302796That is true, but it's still not such a detailed and elaborate story that you really have to get hung up on translation. It's not like the original is awful, unless you really can't stand Ted Woolsey's tone (which is a very understandable preference, but still just a preference). The reason why FF6 in particular has generated such a controversy over translation is because people think of it as a story-heavy game but the amount of actual text is still rather modest, meaning any random retard with some free time can weigh in and even publish their own hack translation.
>>12300752SNES original. If you want to apply a hack to it, go for the GBA text injection one and STOP THERE. DO NOT PLAY ANY OTHER HACK THAT ADJUSTS MECHANICS OR APPLIES BUG FIXES. Seriously, the retards who mod this game are like the worst cases of badly applied autism to shit that doesn't matter (namely, bad localized lines they insist on keeping because of how memed they are, on top of gameplay hacks that are entirely subjective)
>>12300853Surely the load times are fine on the PSN release on a PS3? But you may as well emulate on your own then I guess.
>>12302928I could live with the battle loading times. The transition looks nice and the music starts immediately.What pisses me off is that when you want to open the menu it's almost the same time like waiting for a battle. This is complete horseshit. This was never an issue in FF7, 8, 9 etc. why was it so bad on a 2D game?
>I love retro games>But I would NEVER EVER play the original versions of games
>>12302943You're really seething at the thought of people not playing the exact version you did as a kid.
>>12302838Nah, the original translation sucks ass. Calling phenix down fenix down or some shit or Biggs Viggs and other weird shit.All the names should be standardized with later entries.
>>12302943The GBA game is closer to the actual original version of the game than the badly translated English SNES game, so if you're not going to play in Japanese, it's still your best bet.
>>12302967>All the names should be standardized with later entries.This is both cancer and aids
>>12302967Those are examples of things that were "fixed" in the Playstation version (which was 98.9% the same as the SNES translation), and that was the version that WASN'T held back by NoA guidelines.
>>12302994No fuck off, it's painfully retarded to have a series that's mostly connected through shared terminology and recurring elements to have like 6 fucking different names for the same thing because faggot translators can't decide on one de facto English name for it. It's one of relatively few long running video game franchises to have such super schizophrenic English releases, Squeenix should be embarrassed by it. Nintendo doesn't fucking change Luigi's game between different Mario games for a reason.
>>12303020>No fuck off, it's painfully retarded to have a series that's mostly connected through shared terminology and recurring elements to have like 6 fucking different names for the same thing because faggot translators can't decide on one de facto English name for itYes, but the blame for that is the LATER translators not the original ones. You are siding with the spermslurpers and making everyone else suffer for their faggotry.
>>12303045No, the names were butchered originally and bringing them to a shared standard where they make sense isvan improvement.Woolsey isn't going to let you suck his cock, you can quit simping for his mistakes.
>>12303335Do you feel the same about the renamed characters? Not specifically FF6, but more SE's inconsistent track record with them.
>>12303335They weren't butchered, they were better. They are still better.
this is what a god gamers collection looks likei might have ff3(ff6) i think my brother has itbut my steam collection is way cooler this stuff is widely available the SNES classic is the way to play have like 80 games on there with haikchi and retro arch...
>>12303403nice worthless plastic, fag
>>12303345I do. Just call them what they were called in nip, it's not like they have super Japanesy names or anything.
>>12303335Dude fire fira firaga is stupid. Putting numbers on them is kinda soulless but it doesn't look retarded like those names do. It is better.
>>12303345Dragon Quest from 8 onwards has been a series of localization catastrophes.
>>12305758>it's stupid because...it just is, okay?
>>12307127Nobody asked HOW it was stupid and I didn't attempt to explain or otherwise address that, fatty.
>>12307086>Thordain - Sounds like you're about to get slammed with the hammer of the thunder god himself>Kazapple - Sounds like you're about to get bonked with an inflatable clown hammerIt was better when it was called Dragon Warrior.
OP should play the game and then decide if he cares enough to play the definitive versions afterwards
>>12300752SNES by far: the Woolsey translation is extremely soulful, it doesn't have slowdown and the music is better
