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Quick Look: Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection

Brad and Jeff relive what some consider the best Final Fantasy, this time on the PSP.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Apr. 27 2011

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Drew

149 Comments

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Edited By sterbacblu

I don't know if it's sadder that I'm considering getting yet another version of Final Fantasy IV or that I'm waiting til PSN comes back to get a digital copy of it.

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Edited By onarum

ugh... could barely stand random encounters then and can definitely NOT stand them at all now, one of the reasons why for me Chrono Trigger was always far superior to ff games.

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Edited By Dallas_Raines

Yeah, I don't understand why they didn't port over the DS version.

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Edited By Kyodra

Already got the SNES Final Fantasies on GBA, that's all Final Fantasy I need. I wish Square Enix would get their shit together and make something new that was compelling instead of just endlessly milking and re-releasing the old ones.

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Edited By alwaysbeclothing

OH, Phoenix DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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Edited By Video_Game_King

Classics? The After Years is shit.

On a more positive note, I love that you guys have some Cho Aniki knowledge. Perhaps a Quick Look is in order?

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The fact that Jeff said this was the last Final Fantasy he really cared about makes me very sad for some reason.

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@ryanwho said:
" I wish someone could explain to me why FF4 has been "remastered" about 6 times now. Of all the games to remake. I really don't get it. "
I think FFIV is one of the most popular games in the series, it's definitely one of my favourites..
But I already own the PSOne, GBA (which is still the best version) and the remake on the DS, as well as the first part of the After Years on the Wii (which is awful beyond words).  I'm not going to buy another version of the same game.

If they done an HD version of V or VI like this.. I'd be a lot more interested.
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Edited By NoCookiesForYou

Don't kid yourself, everyone knows that the best Final Fantasy game is VI.

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Edited By MysteriousBob

The only FF games I've ever cared for are V and VIII.

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Edited By kollay

Fantasizing.

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Edited By ALavaPenguin

4 was quite good but I do dislike how this game hardly lets you play with a character and stick with it I remember.  One thing that bothered me a bit about how final fantasy games went.  You were constantly swapping characters forEVER  never getting to just pick a team and develop that team.  Probably one of the reasons I loved FFV so much.  6 was kinda like this but I feel it wasn't as bad with it, and for some reason I give it a pass, I feel it did it in a different way that was quite awesome.  With 6 your characters were so vastly different each one it was quite worth it jumping around between them to a degree and the story it gave you was SO good too.  Then at at a point you finally do get to make your party out of what classes you want.


I don't know at some point I hated how FF games just jerked you around all over the world every 5 minutes.  I feel in 4 it was ok to a degree with this issue, but 7 is where that got terrible.  You get jerked around to a new character every 5 minutes and have an hour of pointless cutscenes each time plus some lame minigame. 

I wish RPGs went back to the awesome format where you actually just have a few guys that almost always if not always stick together and you develop them as a team.  FFV did that super well and told an awesome story with it also.  Without all the feeling of you are just riding this story without any control of what you can do.


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@sixpin said:
" Play FFIV... AGAIN! "
Yee really?!
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This might be the only FF I've ever beaten.

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Edited By NekuCTR

Jeezus Brad, Spoilerrrrrzzzzzz.

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Edited By Reverseface

It's SES CELL !! NOT SEA CELL Muahahahahah

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If my PSP wasn't broke and I hadn't played this game a million times already, I'd be all over this. One of the best games ever, highly highly highly recommended if you've never played it!

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I had the original neutered SNES copy. I own a Super Famicom copy. I have FFIV Advance. I have FFIV DS. I shouldn't want this. But I do. I hate myself. Wallet -$40

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@paulunga said:
"And 6 is clearly the best 2D one. Better characters, graphics, systems, just a huge improvement in every single way. "
No, not "clearly". I like IV better myself. I like all the characters in IV, I only like about half of them in VI. I found Locke and Magic Anime Girl Terra to be incredibly boring lead characters. Cyan or Celes are pretty great, though.
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Edited By NegativeCero

Totally forgot Brad was supposedly working on a review of the DS game. To be fair, he was right that game was fucking hard.

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Who the heck says SeeCell?  Must be a US/British thing?

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Edited By ArbitraryWater

You know, it's still Final Fantasy IV. Which has been redone like 6 times. And Final Fantasy VI is better.

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@AlwaysBeClothing said:
" OH, Phoenix DOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN "
  
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@Mr_Skeleton said:
"

When I read the game title as Final Fantasy IV: the complete Kollection does that mean I played too much MK in the last few days?

"
No, it means you've played just enough MK in the last few days.
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Were we seeing the video and audio output a little after the guys? They seemed clairvoyant at times.

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damn imma have to find the soundtrack for this psp version.

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Just a note: Interlude is actually only about 3 hours long.

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Edited By allenibrahim

Looks like an alright port. I played hours of the DS version, suffered through it's old school dififculty, and then got to the Moon, went back to Earth to grind, saved, came back years later, and I don't know how to get up to the moon. I just remember loving it when it was not balls hard or grindy. 

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I can't wait to buy this for my PSPGO!

Oh wait...

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I've never played this one, but I do plan on picking up a PSP soon.  I think this will be one of the first games I get.

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@Chabbs0 said:
" @sixpin said:
" AGAIN! "
Again???AGAIN. "
Again!
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Never played a final fantasy and i wish i had

i really want to play the 'classic' ones from the 2D era, this looks like a good start
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So year is the review of the DS version Brad?

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@Gahathat said:
" @Chabbs0 said:
" @sixpin said:
" AGAIN! "
Again???AGAIN. "
Again! "
  
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2 quick looks per day, they should keep this up every single day.

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@Venatio said:

" @Gahathat said:

" @Chabbs0 said:

" @sixpin said:
" AGAIN! "
Again???AGAIN. "
Again! "
<Video of QL: Again here>
Damn! >: You beat me to it, shouldn't of watched the Quick look before posting it.
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I already have the DS version doubt the extra stuff is worth it

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@gale said:
" @Mr_Skeleton said:
"

When I read the game title as Final Fantasy IV: the complete Kollection does that mean I played too much MK in the last few days?

"
No, it means you've played just enough MK in the last few days. "
Ain't no such thing as enough MK.
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So is that tactics orge quicklook dead or what?

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@ArbitraryWater said:
" You know, it's still Final Fantasy IV. Which has been redone like 6 times. And Final Fantasy VI is better. "
I agree that overall VI is better, but I do love IV.
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dude! ff4! on gb!

dude!

dude.

dude!

dude. dude!

okay i'm going to hit play now.

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Anyone else notice that Brad casually says "I'm well equipped" at 13:00?

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Edited By Enigma777

Wait, since when are eidolons the default names of summons in the FF universe? Outside of 13 (and presumably 13-2) I can't think of any other FF game that uses that word...

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@Enigma777:  They called them that in Final Fantasy IX
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Edited By gnark1ll420

They really need to release this on XBL. I'd buy it again. Hell I'd probably buy this even though I have no PSP.

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@Enigma777 said:
" Wait, since when are eidolons the default names of summons in the FF universe? Outside of 13 (and presumably 13-2) I can't think of any other FF game that uses that word... "
I know 9 does it as well.
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I have never played this game. Of the main series I have played final fantasy 1,2,3,7,8,9,10,10-2. I understandably checked out after 10-2 never to return but I have always wanted to play 4,5 and 6, did they ever release a port of IV on the DS?

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@craigbo180 said:

" I have never played this game. Of the main series I have played final fantasy 1,2,3,7,8,9,10,10-2. I understandably checked out after 10-2 never to return but I have always wanted to play 4,5 and 6, did they ever release a port of IV on the DS? "

They got a remake of IV  on the DS. Unless you want the version which the original graphics you will have to get a GBA version (you can also get V and VI on the GBA)
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@gnark1ll420: Cool, thanks. I might have to pick that up, this piqued my interest but I don't have a PSP.