Board 8 > Should I get the PSN version of Final Fantasy VI?

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Never had a chance to play the PSX version of the game with the added FMVs and such. As I'm sure most of you know it's far and away my favorite Final Fantasy. Beaten the SNES version about 10 times now as well as the GBA version once.

I always heard how bad the load times are, but I just watched a video of it on youtube and it didn't seem too awful...like 4 seconds at most.

so what say you

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If you feel like playing it, sure. The FMVs aren't anything special, and it's pretty much the same game.

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GBA version superior.

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thundersheep posted...
it's pretty much the same game.

This was the latest game I beat and I did it on PSN. Load times aren't ridiculous. FMV aren't too special and only happen at the beginning of the game.

It comes with FFV which is badass too.

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yeah I do feel like playing it

or more like

I'm looking for an excuse to replay it again

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no

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I don't think the load times were noticible at all really, maybe more than the cartridge but not really enough to interfere with the game.

There's just an opening and ending CG that shows various scenes from the game, and a trailer mixing the two.

I think there were some other extras like a bestiary and such but it wasn't quite to the same extent as CT's extras.

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The load times really aren't bad at all, though of course they are worse than the original (PSX game and all that). I always found some of the crying about them a bit bizarre, since they were sooo much shorter than load times of contemporary games like FF9 and CC (which take nearly 30 seconds to get into a battle). Chrono Trigger's the only one of the FFA/FFC re-releases that had especially bad load times and even then they weren't FF9/CC level.

Perfectly acceptable way to play the game. I don't think the various versions of the game differ in ways I find tremendously important, so I'd get whichever version you find most accessable.

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SHINE GET 64 posted...
Never had a chance to play the PSX version of the game with the added FMVs and such. As I'm sure most of you know it's far and away my favorite Final Fantasy. Beaten the SNES version about 10 times now as well as the GBA version once.

I always heard how bad the load times are, but I just watched a video of it on youtube and it didn't seem too awful...like 4 seconds at most.

so what say you

It's not the load times that are the problem it was the fazing method used for going in and out the battle screen Square used to mask it. I'm imagining people still have to deal with that no matter what.

Another interesting tidbit: Siren shows her ass in the summon gallery Anthology added. It's nothing spankable, but it's rather funny since it either means they goofed with censoring it or got REALLY lazy with "uncensoring" the entire game.

For instance, I remember they changed Ultima Weapon's "GO!" to "DIE!" yet didn't/forgot to change things like "Cafe" to "Bar/Saloon/Tavern".

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I bought this recently for the PSP.

For some reason i remember the loading times being SO much worse on the PSX, but for the PSP it wasn't TOO bad.

I'd say go for it, it is slow, but its not OH MY GAWD WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? CHRISTMAS? Slow.

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The load times are pretty bad. They are like other PS1 FF load times just with a black screen instead of circling the battle arena so its more noticeable

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I also think the load times are bad. If this was the ONLY version of FFVI available, I wouldn't complain, but why would anyone choose to play this version when there's a superior version out there? The FMV adds nothing, imo.

didn't you buy the superior Virtual Console version earlier this year?

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so these load times when playing are definitely noticable

but nowhere near long enough to make me go aughhhhh


yay replaying FF6 again I love it so much

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SHINE GET 64 posted...
so these load times when playing are definitely noticable

but nowhere near long enough to make me go aughhhhh


yay replaying FF6 again I love it so much

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From: junk_funk | #004
It comes with FFV which is badass too.

Wait, aren't they actually separate? Because they appear individually on the PSN store. (Same goes with CT and FF IV)

And the load times probably seem better on with the PSN version because it's reading through the hard-drive instead of a disc.

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From my short stint with the PS1 version, the load times didn't really bother me that much. Definitely not to the crippling extent of CT at least. IIRC they kind of made up for it with auto-dash even without sprint shoes, and wearing sprint shoes made your dash even faster.

Though I seem to recall the sound effects for the PS1 version being pretty bad in comparison which did bother me a little.

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