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everyone has the same goddamn opinions about it.
OHHHH THE LEVELING SYSTEM IS SOOO BAD... sure, it was bad in 1989 when the game was released. the nes version was bad, yes. but both the 20th anniversary edition(s) and the pixel remaster mitigate about 80% of the problems - it's faster to level skills up and NOT TO MENTION YOU DON'T NEED THE MAX LEVEL ON ANY OF THE SKILLS???? and it's like. yes, it's flawed. but it's not unplayable like everyone and their mom makes it out to be - just because the leveling up is smaller than a traditional level up doesn't mean anything. ALSO DO THESE PEOPLE JUST NOT LIKE RANDOM ENCOUNTERS???
which brings me to another complaint everyone and their mom has: the random encounter rate!1!!1!1. like yes, the trap doors are stupid and dumb. and there was a glitch in the pixel remaster version for literal months where if you had a status that would ordinarily wear off in battle it wouldn't wear off. Both of these are valid complaints. BUT THE ENCOUNTER RATE?? It's a final fantasy game and more than that it's a JRPG!! it's novel when the game DOESN'T have a high encounter rate!!! i don't know.
and like. these are valid complaints. final fantasy 2 is a bad game. i know this. but everyone comes to the same conclusion - that the majority of the problems are from the shitty leveling system and the random encounters. BUT EVERYONE????
i feel like the only contentious final fantasies are the popular ones. things like ff6/7 are praised because of the nostalgia, 8 has the wonky systems and lovers plot and most of the complaint is about that, 10 is (gestures) the tidus laugh scene. but the ones that are either "good" or "bad" are never talked about because they think they've bled the horse dry already or whatever the hell that saying is.
also the only arguments people have when talking about ff2 is "there's chocobos/cid". i don't know. final fantasy 2 is simple, but it was made on the nes trying out New Things, and obviously what was good about it stuck.
I wish we had the vocabulary system back, though :(
OHHHH THE LEVELING SYSTEM IS SOOO BAD... sure, it was bad in 1989 when the game was released. the nes version was bad, yes. but both the 20th anniversary edition(s) and the pixel remaster mitigate about 80% of the problems - it's faster to level skills up and NOT TO MENTION YOU DON'T NEED THE MAX LEVEL ON ANY OF THE SKILLS???? and it's like. yes, it's flawed. but it's not unplayable like everyone and their mom makes it out to be - just because the leveling up is smaller than a traditional level up doesn't mean anything. ALSO DO THESE PEOPLE JUST NOT LIKE RANDOM ENCOUNTERS???
which brings me to another complaint everyone and their mom has: the random encounter rate!1!!1!1. like yes, the trap doors are stupid and dumb. and there was a glitch in the pixel remaster version for literal months where if you had a status that would ordinarily wear off in battle it wouldn't wear off. Both of these are valid complaints. BUT THE ENCOUNTER RATE?? It's a final fantasy game and more than that it's a JRPG!! it's novel when the game DOESN'T have a high encounter rate!!! i don't know.
and like. these are valid complaints. final fantasy 2 is a bad game. i know this. but everyone comes to the same conclusion - that the majority of the problems are from the shitty leveling system and the random encounters. BUT EVERYONE????
i feel like the only contentious final fantasies are the popular ones. things like ff6/7 are praised because of the nostalgia, 8 has the wonky systems and lovers plot and most of the complaint is about that, 10 is (gestures) the tidus laugh scene. but the ones that are either "good" or "bad" are never talked about because they think they've bled the horse dry already or whatever the hell that saying is.
also the only arguments people have when talking about ff2 is "there's chocobos/cid". i don't know. final fantasy 2 is simple, but it was made on the nes trying out New Things, and obviously what was good about it stuck.
I wish we had the vocabulary system back, though :(
