As someone who loves FF6, one of my biggest issues with it is how often Locke is shoehorned into your party during the first half of the game. The reason why this is a problem is that, frankly speaking, he kind of sucks. He's the only one who doesn't naturally have a special command that does damage, so he HAS to deal damage with Fight, and for most of the game, his weapons are nothing special, so for him to even remotely pull his weight, he must equip a Genji Glove and/or an Atlas Armlet plus be in the front row, so he'll be more vulnerable than the others. As for Steal, there's unfortunately very little that's truly worth taking from enemies until the Magitek Factory. He admittedly gets a bit better once he gets some good ranged weapons like the Hawkeye, but by that point you have access to level 2 Magic spells and things like Edgar's Chainsaw, Mog's Water Rondo, or several powerful Rages from Gau, which all shit on whatever Locke can do. But nope, you can't take any of them to Thamasa, but Locke has to come along for that.Which leads me to the reason they seem to push Locke so much into your party: his role in the game's central melodrama based around Terra and Celes. And frankly, it's not all that compelling. He quickly drops Terra for Celes once she comes around, and though he ostensibly joins the Thamasa trips for Terra's sake, the real reason he's there is so he can have a couple of awkward scenes with Celes that don't really go anywhere and the whole thing gets quickly shoved aside in the end. It's all pretty hamfisted, and I never much cared for it, opera stuff aside.And for all that, he's likely the last or one of the last characters you'll pick up in the WoR, because they based a huge two-party dungeon around picking him up, just to wrap up his central plot thread. Granted, by this point he does have access to some of the best weapons, so he's nowhere near as bad as in the beginning, but I always felt it was too little, too late.Anyone else agree?
>>12544430Chat GPT thread aside I always hated how in the pre FF7 the clashing between ingame speites and official art is fucking awful, like they don't even look like the same character 90% of the time. I'm glad they replaced that guy.
My party for the GBA's bonus content was Cyan, Celes, Terra and Lockedon't care, don't @ me
I don't love FF6, and Locke being a piece of shit is part of why.
>>12544430the game isn't hard enough for it to matter
>>12544435The artwork was always 100x better and has aged like a fine wine, whilst the sprites and pixel art just look like the default sprites from RPG Maker 2003. It's pathetic really. People would pay real money for prints of the original artwork. meanwhile no one would print out the spritework unless they needed something to shit on.
>>12544438Endgame Locke is great, the Valiant Knife is a very good weapon and he gets strong equipment in general.
>>12545104Amano was at his best when he was working for Tatsunoko.
SabinCyanShadowMogThis should be the only party in the game.
>>12545252>>12544430When I play final Fantasy, i just use the main characters. They're not hard enough to min max. So for 6, that's Terra Celes Locke. The 4th slot usually goes to Edgar or Cyan. Now if I'm playing a romhack that makes the game harder, i break out mog for sure. For 7, it's Cloud Tifa Barret. If I had a 4th party member, it's between cid and Vincent.8? Squal + Rinoa, the rest don't matter. Selphie has the least character development so definitely not her.9? Zidane Garnet Vivi Steiner. The other cast members are unimportant.X? Everyone except khimari.
I just use whoever looks coolestNothing else matters
>>12545437Yeah, that's the best thing about the WoR, you can use whoever you want and you'll usually be able to get things done. It'd have been nice to have been able to do likewise more often during the WoB.
>>12544435>Chat GPT threadi love how having a coherent grasp of English is now AI-coded among submental retards. off yourself immediately.
>>12545828I think it's more the fact that it's a post close to the word limit, and this alarms the retard, because God forbid anyone in this shitheap of a board actually put effort into their post and write more than a single line or question like "what went wrong?"
>>12545828NTA but It could be because the game wants to make sure you can actually utilize the steal command for as much of the game as would narratively allow, but instead you spent more effort "typing" a rant on a mongolian basket weaving forum about how he doesn't do damage. You could always just give him the relic that changes it to mug instead of making a template format complaint thread. Honestly, anyone who complains about being optimal in fucking FF6 doesn't come off as very bright to begin with, its a piss easy game and most of the options are intended for fun rather than necessity.
Why did he choose Celes οver Terra?
>>12546648Good question. One of the reasons he even got attached to Terra and swore to protect her is because she got amnesia similar to how Rachel did. But I guess she proved too autistic for him and he preferred Celes's spunk, which also reminded him of Rachel? Plus Terra doesn't know anything about love, while Celes at least seems to know the feeling.
>>12544430Characters only talk in scenes and your party members don't matter since everyone always ends up a carbon copy of each other via the espers.If they ever make a proper remake and not just a port my one wish for the gameplay is to give the characters meaningful differences not only in stats, HP, and MP, but in how and what magic they learn, and most importantly developing the unique character skills to be more in depth.>Sabin>Fighting game input action commands with a ton of skills to use>Celes>Spend a turn to null a spell if you have a sword equippedRunic could've had charges that carry over encounter and enable the use of special skills, counters, and MP management. But as is it's just a glorified skill tutorial against the digger.
>>12547231>it's just a glorified kill tutorial against the diggerThat's the only time i've ever used Runic on every playthrough, and Celes is always in my main party. It's not really necessary, unless you're doing a low-level run or something.
>>12545104>whilst the sprites and pixel art just look like the default sprites from RPG Maker 2003The other way around. A lot of western RPG Maker 2000/2003 games blatantly used sprite rips from SNES RPGs.
>>12544430He's the fastest character you have, this is good for using items preemptivelyHis boomerangs can be used from the Back row without damage penalty.You can also give him True Knight to cover other people low on hp
>>12547272Hearing people claim SNES RPGs are "like RPG maker" pisses me off to no end but I stopped bothering with those retards long ago
delicious morsel
>>12544430Both Locke and Celes kinda suck. VI tried and failed as far as I'm concerned in making an ensemble cast, Terra remains the most interesting MC throughout.
