I didn't even really have to switch characters
On the "final fight"

Kefka was pretty easy
My characters averaged about level 50

I got Gogo and the snow monster dude

My fav rpg of all time

I prefer Earthbound over CT in my pantheon (with CT a close 3rd).

The quirkiness, originality and ultimately more memorable characters are what put it over CT for me.

>I prefer Earthbound over CT in my pantheon (with CT a close
>3rd).
>
>The quirkiness, originality and ultimately more memorable
>characters are what put it over CT for me.

Earthbound is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo underrated. easily my favorite game ever

Can't really go wrong either way lol

I'm pretty much due for a playthrough in CT sometime soon (after Mass Effect 3).

I rented this when it came out, but didn't get far and never felt the urge to revisit it. perhaps my adolescent mind couldn't process the whimsy, or I was annoyed by the sneaky difficulty (the first couple hours are harder than most of the game)...but now I see the light.

hilarious irreverence of Dungeons and Dragons-styled RPGs, fantastic music, little to no grinding and memorable characters. the localization is absolutely superb, like Working Designs but less sophomoric. loved this.

here's a beat that samples the music from it (at beginning) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBX5iB_Afds

FFVI (III) replay for the 10+th plus time and also finally going to get all the CT endings(already did the hardest one with just Chrono at the start of the game, my team of Chrono + Glenn + Magus is almost maxed out. I know they don't have any triples together which is a damn shame but those are my three favorite characters so they were my only choice really lol)!

Might start a ct game next
Gottem on my work pc lol

Like FF1 and 2, there were no save points in the final dungeon, so you gotta go through that and then beat the final boss(es) in one sitting. Not a good feeling when you get a game over and lose an hour's progress.

I am replaying it now.

Right after you flee the returners hideout, you have the river part where you have the infinite loop.....being the crazy rpg kids that we were/are lol, we got to level 20 (one hit kills against every enemy at that point) and then taped down the A button on a turbo controller...for 3 straight nights lol. Saban bum-rush or Terra ultima on Ultros ftw!

Just FYI: Our other go-to area for leveling up was on the Floating Continent....in addition to the ninja enemies, there's a monster-in-a-box fight (it's Hades Gigas, dude looks like a yoked Charlie Villanueva with a receding mullet and diamond in his forehead) where if you kill off all of your own characters except one (Celes because she's the first character you get afterwards and so every character will be at her level), you get ridiculous experience points. Also, unlike the ensuing iterations on PS and GBA, you actually keep all your earned experience points while keeping all the items you had at the save so you can rinse and repeat. We have a level 50 and a level 85 save here.

Lastly, best area to level up espers....the desert right outside Miranda (where you also get the Shadow-Realm dreams so you can level up while potentially dreaming while you recover at the inn.) 10 MP from Cactrot and 5 MP from the ugly, hoover vac looking monster(vanish -> x-zone works every time on this thing).

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3429573

Don't read the entire thread, just use the links in the first post to jump to each section.

A few parts are dry, like Relm's sketch glitch, but the rest of it is pretty fascinating and great insight into how the game was programmed.

thats how long I have been playing Final Fantasy 3, and I have never beat it. Over time I will find a Snes play it for a while then stop, or emulate it on my psp, now I have it on my Wii and iphone. Its my favorite RPG ever, but I have never finished it, I think the closest I got was the floating continent...weird huh.

>think the closest I got was the floating
>continent...weird huh.

I don't want to give anything away, but ummm...the floating continent is a game changer. If that's as far as you got and you think you almost beat the game, PLEASE revisit FF3.

The game is ridiculously addictive throughout but at that point, it's like unadulterated cartridge crack.

"I started reading the entire history of World War II. The farthest I got was when some Japanese carriers were heading toward Hawaii."

"I started learning how to physically move through space. I stopped right when I got really good at crawling."

"Man, sex is the greatest. Last time I had some, I put the condom on and then went outside for a walk."

Japanese planes closing in on pearl harbor.

>"I started reading the entire history of World War II. The
>farthest I got was when some Japanese carriers were heading
>toward Hawaii."

LMAO

You must not be a huge RPG fan I presume lol.

That's at most a third of a way through the game!

Do yourself a favor and sit on your wii or phone and just bang it out... one of the best gaming experiences of all time.

Cmon. If you're at the Floating Continent then you're not really that far away, maybe another 8-10 hours?

... it'll be at least 20-30 more, especially for a first-timer.

Oh, how I wish I could be a first timer for this game again.

A lot of the WoR stuff are optional though, but then again it would be pretty hard to go through the last dungeon if you don't do most of them.

before this last run

you are only scratching the surface its plenty of excitment after that

kefka was epic but i leveled my guys up so good
he was pretty easy

i think my celes and terra had learned every spell

no one was 99

but on avg they were all over 50

gau is worthless though he literally sat on th bench the whole game

if you start again and get to the last part

PLEASE UNEQUIP THE SNOW MONSTER CHARACTER YOU CANT USE HIM

i gave him the offering and gengi glove and one attack = 8

when i started the last part i couldnt use him nor could i unequip him

>gau is worthless though he literally sat on th bench the whole
>game

You have to put the proper time in with him because of all the monster hunting and copying you will have to do.


>PLEASE UNEQUIP THE SNOW MONSTER CHARACTER YOU CANT USE HIM

Umaro...from the Narshe mines!

Just don't give him Genji Glove or Offering though, haha

i've never played any of them

I really enjoyed it but was not into RPG's at that time. I would like to play this game I think.

Good thing about the SNES golden RPG's is that all of them still hold up *extremely* well to this day (versus FFVII, which aged horribly).