IT IS WORTH PLAYING.
If you stream it, I'll even help guide you through it!

I appreciate that, though I have no idea how to stream games and don't really feel inclined to do so.

Gotcha.
Well, bear in mind, folks who grew up playing a game when it was current and topical will always have fond memories of it. While folks that play after, well..... they may not see the novelty. I assume you have Doom as a basis for this. ^.^

Point is, FF6 is really good. The nemesis in the game is a massive asshole and the visuals, for the time, were so good.

If you want a good visual, the remake for Android/iphone looks pretty. But none of them are too buggy to play. They have rare bugs you have to go out of your way to find, but they're otherwise rock solid.

Just be glad you don't have swarms of newbies beating you over the head about how much better Brutal Final Fantasy 6 is compared to the original. XD

But visual fidelity doesn't concern me. I just wanted to make sure the game wouldn't collapse and become horribly unstable when I was halfway through it.

The SNES version benefits of one bug that allows for some effective power levelling: the Vanish/Doom/X-Zone trick :D

*puts on his scholar goggles* Basically, at some point of the game, once you have the spells Vanish and either Doom or X-Zone, you can cast Vanish on your enemies (turning them invisible) and the caqst Doom/X-Zone for an insta-kill. The bug relies on how being Vanished affects the chance of a spell hitting a character in the SNES version. Vanished chars are always struck by spells (because Vanish makes you impossible to hit with melee attacks, but extra vulnerable to spells)

Using that does make the game far too easy if you use it on the right enemies for power levelling. Plus, some enemies are immune to it, I think?

6 is my fav alongside 9, you get to supplex a train! \ ( °3°)/

I still need to play 9 some time. I've loved Freya all these years, but most of her story's still a mystery to me.

Some day I'm going to try to get back into FF9. I have been unsuccessful so far in powering through it, but it's been a looong time since I gave it a try.

Final Fantasy 9 is one of those games where even where the rest of the game can be excellent, the character designs and character interactions are SO bad it can kill my enjoyment of the game. Dagger and Zidane are fine enough I suppose. I really like Freya. But Steiner is FUCKING AWFUL. He is so annoying, and stupid to such an over-the-top degree that he has to be brain damaged, but there's nothing in the plot to imply that's the case. A shame he's central to so many plot shenanigans, at least in the early/mid game! Quina.. good God, the less said about her/it, the better. Etc.

This was the last FF game before voice acting, and it's actually a decent argument for having voice acting in the Final Fantasy games. There are many, many conversations and you can't skip through/speed any of them up. They're all played out at a rate of speed such that the conversations go by at the same speed a RL conversation would, but since the words are printed, you just want them to hurry up, or be able to click next or something like that. And there are plenty of "cutsie" long, drawn out conversations that are attempts at humor or weirdness. "Let's do this thing!" "Wait, did you say do this thing?" "I didn't say do this thing!" "But you just said to do this thing?" "Oh did I say to do this thing?" "You said do this thing?" "Why are you tricking me into doing this thing?" I am totally making that up but most of Zorn and Thorn's scenes are them constantly restating what the other just said and arguing about it in a verrrrry slow manner. Uggggh, I just want to skip it.

Look, I'm setting your expectations REEAAAAALLY low here, because this is like.. a bunch of peoples' favorite FF game, and you've probably heard them talking it up. So I'm going to try to make you think it's going to suck so you can be pleasantly surprised at enjoying it more than I said it would, rather than disappointed that it's not as good as everyone said it is.

But you know. Combat system, excellent. Story, excellent. Game systems, excellent. Music, excellent. It's just that that there are things dragging it all down. :D

Yeah, I've heard that the Sketch command is notoriously dangerous, and that the Evasion stat does nothing.

I like it when it adds 99 Super balls, 255 Excaliburs, 255 Paladin shields, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks, 255 Dirks and 99 Elixirs to my inventory.

Buggy as in some weird glitches with some skills, some bad flags on enemies (vanish + doom = win) and some stats not working correctly, not buggy as unplayable.

GBA version is better but loses in sounds (can be fixed with emulation and some hacks). Steam is the GBA just with new art-style..... Not worth it tho.

I love that game and know it almost inside out. If you did play feel free to poke me about things. the real impotant thing I could say now is, don't power level without espers.

Yeah Vanish as a status is the thing at fault. It makes all physical attacks have 0 accuracy, and magic attacks have 255, which bypasses immunities, especially for status moves. Therefore bosses immune to instant death can be killed ......instantly with that glitch.

It's more because the flags for the bosses are overwrite by the vanish status in the old games. In the new ones vanish doom does not work cause vanish no longer prioritizes over the 'anti death' flag on almost all bosses. Most have proper anti death flags too so no vanish stone either. X-zone/banish however does seem to still work a lot, but doing so means you get nothing.

It is extremely worth playing. There are not that many game breaking bugs (except when using Realm but you do not have to use her much) and it is just awesome. Still my favorite FF in the entire franchise with IX coming in second.

If you enjoyed the retro 8-16 bit era Final Fantasy games I'd definitely give it a shot. If not, for the sake of trying out a pixel Final Fantasy game that would certainly be a good one to give a go. I grew up on it so I have quite a nostalgia bias for it.

I'm curious about playing it regardless. I just wondered if the original SNES version still held up, or if later revisions made it completely obsolete.

Original SNES is very much playable.

The PSX port is pretty much the exact game, made to work on the PSX. They added in a few CG cut scenes, but that's it.
Don't play any of the Final Fantasies that were ported to phones or the nintendo DS or Game Boy. Keep away from those. >_>

The DS ones are fine. You only lose sound quality and if you like GBA sound chip music you won't miss much. I still own that one and love it to death. But he mobile ones are avoid at all cost.

I thought the mobile ones were just ports of the DS games, at least according to the gamefaqs docs that I read. So not only did they have "upgraded" graphics and sound, they were designed for the DS's analog sticks which mobile doesn't have. The Advance versions sound pretty good, but the DS versions, yuck. I can NOT stand the character models, and I wish they'd just stuck to the 2D engine. Not that FFIIIjp was great in the first place, but the remake for FFIV is horrific.

I will agree the FF 4 model were meh, but I did like everything else in that game. More so the return to it's proper difficulty level compared to FF 4/2 US. Which was nerfed very hard.

In that case, I'd go for the PSX FFIV version. I didn't play it myself, but read that it's nearly identical to the Japanese release.

Yeah. Tho again I do like the additional content for the 3ds one. Then fun you can have with the skill system.

To me, it is the best final fantasy, hands down.

And it has the best villain in video game history in it as well.

:3

But you're not biased. ;)

Not any more then the news.

:3

Heck ya its worth the play, some of the bugs are beneficial, like Psycho Cyan (google it and you'll see). Theres also a level jump bug too.

Also its the one game in the ENTIRE franchise where the main villain actually succeeds with their master plan. That and the Esper system is feckin awesome.

Yes but he didnt get his ultimate goal, Kefka managed to not only destroy the world and rule it but became a god as well

its totally worth playing. its one of my favorite final fantasy games. it has a few of my favorite characters in it.

Hands down, it's a high quality SNES title and one of the best of its generation next to Chrono Trigger. You honestly can't go wrong with it. It just has this timeless feel to it that makes it perfect to play whenever you get the classic RPG itch. : )

GBA's music quality is severely gutted, unfortunately. Steam version depends on if the new sprites bother you.

SNES version's perfectly playable and enjoyable... Overall I'd recommend the original.

It's buggy and laughably easy to break the difficulty. the GBA/Steam version does have extra content however.

Unless you try to vanish doom, reverse joker doom, or sketch invisible things, the snes version is perfectly fine to play. You only look into the former stuff if you're trying to abuse the glitches to speed run the game.

What bugs?
I own the actual snes cartridge.
I've never encountered any bugs at all.

Stuff like how the Sketch command can corrupt your save data, or how the Evasion stat does nothing, and all these other things:

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/.....antasy_VI_bugs

Never happened to me.
That's extremely odd.

Just remember the story translation has been lightened up and edited to be more kid friendly. You can get a good idea of what is really going on through the in game animation.
There is actually some really dark and emotional stuff in the game that makes in one of my favorite RPGs when I was a kid.

I have played some of the IOS version of FF6, and while I haven't beaten it yet I will say that it has some oddities and quirks that were kind of a staple with the 16bit era FF's and how things sometimes played out (Such as the opera if you screw up). Aside from that, there is a lot I like about the game, and I'd still recommend giving it a look.

FF6 is probably one of the better FF's in the series. I'd highly recommend playing it at all costs. You'd be missing out on quite a lot of gaming history and memes too if you don't. Ahh good ol ultros

Though I think a lot of people are kinda glossing over the point of this journal. I fully intend to play the game, but I didn't know which version I should play.

I know nothing about the other versions myself so I can't speak for any other version except the one I played myself so :V

Freya is the best FF girl ever. But yeah you'll like ff6, the bugs are really not huge, some even work in your favor letting you turn Cyan into a berserk slaughter machine. He basically starts countering his own counters with more counters and won't stop until every enemy is dead lol

Final Fantasy 6 is my favorite of the series and I believe the absolute best when it comes to gameplay, music, story, and characters. I would say the SNES is the best way to play it too, with the GBA being a close 2nd (GBA isn't first only because some of the music and sounds suffer in the port, which is strange given fans have hacked it to perform as good or better than the SNES) The ps1 version includes some cutscenes, but suffers big time in performance, so I would say just watch the cutscenes on youtube or something, then play the SNES version. PC version suffers from this too, just poorly optimized, bad ports in my opinion.

Not just "play it"...

Fuckin' play it. Best game in the series. :)

I fully plan to. The point of the journal was to ascertain which version I should play.

That is what I get for responding when looking at things in squint-o-vision. The Super Nintendo version is the only one I'll play.
Not a fan of the later ports. For me, the few bugs make the game.