Ah, well to clarify I can blast through VI in less than 20 hours. Whenever I played VII I got caught up grinding or playing minigames or Chocobo raising nonsense. I don't know how necessary any of that is, but the rewards always seemed to make the game easier in the long run.dunpeal2064 wrote: How on EARTH did VII take you 30 more hours than VI!? VII is a 40-45 hour game!
My hate for it is pretty exaggerated to be honest. I just think its the weakest FF game I've played for sure. III, IV, V, IX, X, XII - I find all of these games to be superior.dunpeal2064 wrote:There are probably more games out there than one person could complete in a life time.
Why force yourself to play a game when you know you don't like it?
Ah, it is the total opposite for me (I've played through the entirety of VII more than half a dozen times).BoneSnapDeez wrote:Ah, well to clarify I can blast through VI in less than 20 hours. Whenever I played VII I got caught up grinding or playing minigames or Chocobo raising nonsense. I don't know how necessary any of that is, but the rewards always seemed to make the game easier in the long run.dunpeal2064 wrote: How on EARTH did VII take you 30 more hours than VI!? VII is a 40-45 hour game!
I don't know the "ins-and-outs" of VII like I do VI basically.
Most FF games are already easy without grinding. That's EarthBound Zero only. Interestingly, when they ported it to GBA they used the EarthBound Zero release, rather than the original Mother, so it also includes the US edits (like the smoking crows no longer smoking).BoneSnapDeez wrote:Mother on Famicom.
The previous owner had a level 99 save file that I'm screwing around with. Then I'll play for real. I love this game. It has probably my second favorite Famicom title screen theme ever, after Metroid.
Oh, and I thought this game had a run button?! Is that only in the EarthBound Zero version?
That's correct. They were all set to release Mother as EarthBound (and you can see translated screenshots in one of the older Nintendo Powers) but then they backed out because they thought the SNES would completely overshadow it, especially with it being a quirky RPG when they hadn't really entrenched themselves in the US like they started to do in the SNES era. So the prototype cart got acquired by someone and when the rom community found out they raised money to buy the rights to dump the cart off him. So the extent of the post-dump hacking done was to make it EarthBound Zero to avoid confusion and to prevent the copy protection from screwing you over when run on an emulator.BoneSnapDeez wrote:Ah thanks...
Isn't EarthBound Zero actually a prototype of what was intended to be an NES game, not a typical ROM hack?
I have played the GBA version of Mother but not to completion. I'll have to look for those crows next time I play.
I have that issue!MrPopo wrote:They were all set to release Mother as EarthBound (and you can see translated screenshots in one of the older Nintendo Powers)
