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I just started playing FF1 again. I was messing around looking for games for my phone to pass my time at work and I found FF1 being offered for my mobile for like $7! It's like a cross between the PS1 and NES versions.

At the moment I have two games going. The first is:
Monk, Thief, B.Mage, W.Mage all lv. 20 (fun while using magic and seeing who is stronger between the BM and the Monk, but a little weak at the moment.)
and the other is:
Monk, Monk, Monk, W.Mage all lv.9 (hilariously fun and extremely cheap. At something like lv.5 the monks need no gear, or most of the gear makes them weaker. My WM is constantly saving the day too.)


EDIT: I meant to say PS1 not PSP...

This post has been edited by Artinaaz on 12th April 2010 01:59

I have NES/PSX/PSP versions and always use the same classes and similar names.

Fighter NES Grey PSX/PSP Greyon
Black mage ALL Fade
White mage NES Mira PSX/PSP Mirara
Red mage ALL Yew

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I treasure those who I love that love me in return. <3

I've only recently got this game and I haven't played it too much but the class I stuck to was Thief, Monk, Black Mage, and White Mage. Just because it costs SO much to buy spells and Monks don't need anything and theives, well, they need barely anything whereas the BM and WM spells, they're just. Way too costly, though at least it gives me an excuse to level my characters up in the gil-gathering.

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"Pushed so far to the edge, we teeter just on the brink! You can lead me to the bloodbath, but you can't make me drink!" Rise Against - Tip the Scales

I've played through it once, my setup was:

Fighter
Monk
Black Mage
White Mage

It worked pretty well

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

I always pick:

Fighter
Monk
white mage
Black mage

OR:

Fighter
Thief
Black mage
White mage

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We are stardust.Our bodies are made from the guts of exploding stars.

Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Red Mage- White Sage- Black Mage and the old warrior. Characters are named after friends, the White Sage keeps dieing so keep on falling sorry for the friend named after the White Sage...

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Currently playing Chrono Trigger !!
Currently looking forward to Don't Know.

Quote (ZidaneTribal @ 27th April 2010 10:40)

Red Mage- White Sage- Black Mage and the old warrior. Characters are named after friends, the White Sage keeps dieing so keep on falling sorry for the friend named after the White Sage...

I once chose:2 red mages and 2 thieves and had trouble beating the game.

I didn't like the red mages that much.

The actuall hitting of the red mages was better actually than that of the thieves.

with red mages you can equip good swords and slash away at enemies,with thieves you are stuck with mediocre daggers with low damage.


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We are stardust.Our bodies are made from the guts of exploding stars.

Neil Degrasse Tyson.

I just did a run with
Fighter - AAAA
Fighter - BBBB
Redmage -CCCC
Whitemage -DDDD
(NES emulator with savestate, increased speed, and walkthroughs make the game sooo much more enjoyable but looks like I might need to check out some of the updated versions. Read some of the first replies and realized people weren't on crack "WTF there is no Monk in FFI?!", they were playing a different version. )

Beat the game at levels 25, 25, 25, 24. Anyone around here keep track of such things and/or wanna compete for lowest level to beat it? What's the lowest level you've beaten FFI with? I felt like I could have shaved at least a few levels. Maybe skip the castle of ordeals (that is possible isn't it?) but not sure what I would do without the heal staff. Heal staff, heal helmet, heal helmet, figher kills everything and battle ends with everyone at full life again was one of my main strategies for getting through dungeons.

This post has been edited by Flasher702 on 7th May 2010 01:31

Fighter
Theif
Red Mage
White Mage
Killed the game in two days

I've only seriously played Dawn of Souls but there I went with Black Mage/White Mage/Red Mage/Thief all named after my friends (with the Black Mage being me, hehe). Very expensive though, with all those mages, but still very effective team.

Warrior

Thief

Red Mage (Me)

White Mage

Solid party given the limited job class choices.

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The meaning of life is life itself.

We were put on this earth to follow our dreams unabated.

Started over using two fighters and two white mages

I use Theif
Fighter
Black Mage and
White mage
However these posts about the other parties some ppl had has inspired me to replay the game a bunch of times with different combinations.
thnx

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Stay Free

These are before class upgrade of course.
My most recent game was FIGHTER, THIEF, BL MAGE, WH MAGE.
And before that though the THIEF was replaced by a RD MAGE.

on my last playthrough i choose four white mages lets just say your in for hundreds of hour of leveling just to survive. Its not all bad though think of it this way you have 4 healers lol. ahh the fun of making a ff game into a real challange.

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Why is it that rpg's are now a dying breed?

Just recently replayed this and am almost done.
My party is the usual:
Fighter - Auron
Theif - Zidane
W Mage - Aerith
B Mage - Vivi

I'm playing it on a GameBoy Advance emulator and I have to say I don't like this version using the easy setting for EXP, GIL and price of items. I think I may replay it on my PSX.

My standard party is:

Fighter/Knight - Biggs
Thief/Ninja - Wedge
Red Mage/Red Wizard - Kefka
White Mage/White Wizard - Vivian

I tried playing with the default party once, but on my second time around, I found I liked the Red Mage better than the Black Mage. Once you get the Lightbringer sword (in Dawn of Souls & PSP, anyway), you can even cast Holy, so not being able to buy the highest level magic isn't that much of an issue for me.

In my most current playthough, I'm using:

Black Belt - Kimo
White Mage - Tina
Red Mage - Lucy
Black Mage - Bessie

In my very first playthrough, I used Thief, Black Belt, Red Mage, Black Mage, all named after myself and my friends.

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EGG TOSS
YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
LEMON-DY
HEAD SAUCE
JIM CARREY
IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
DAFFY-ROTH
- brentalfloss

My usual party is a balanced one:

Fighter
Thief
Black Mage
White Mage

I sometimes mix it up a bit though, swapping the Thief for a Blackbelt and/or the White Mage for a Red Mage for more power but still being able to heal efficiently.

I usually give my characters FF names too like you lot. Usually the obvious ones (Squall for Fighter, Locke or Zidane for Thief, Vivi for Black Mage, Garnet or Rosa for White Mage, etc).

I have never been much of a "magic user" in console RPGs. I prefer to straight up fight (even with casters). I have run through FF1 a number of times but my favorite party line up is 2 warriors 2 white mages. There really doesnt seem to be a shortage of weapons in the game and I hook up the mages with the Masamune and (I think) its Thor's hammer.

I've always gone with the standard Warrior/White Mage/Black Mage/Thief.

What can I say? I like playing it safe.

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VGM soundtracks that I'm currently obsessing over:

* Last Ranker Original Soundtrack - Yoko Shimomura
* Sonic Colors Original Soundtrack - WaveMaster Sound Team
* Final Fantasy XIII - Masashi Hamauzu
* NieR Gestalt & RepliCant Original Soundtrack - Keiichi Okabe

I just started a new game with...four Red Mages (Joshua, Elmire, Henrik, Dorine). Can't get much more balanced than that, can you?

This post has been edited by Insegredious on 16th December 2010 00:04

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EGG TOSS
YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
LEMON-DY
HEAD SAUCE
JIM CARREY
IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
DAFFY-ROTH
- brentalfloss

FF1 was my first FF and one that has a LOT of nostalgia effect on me.

First party:

Fighter - Link
Black Belt - Aron
White Mage - Mira
Black Mage - Lina

Favourite Party: Fighter, *, Red Mage, White Mage; gives you three beefies to block for the white and good damage output. * should be a Thief, Black Belt, or second Fighter. Thief is best for speed running (put him up front for flee), Black Belt/Fighter is a matter of taste, but Fighter generally ends up better.

Just for shiggles, I started a new game with the following party:

Knight - Scott
White Mage - Ramona
Black Mage - Kim
Thief - Knives

Anyone who gets the reference (I have a hunch that R51 will) gets one internet.

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EGG TOSS
YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
LEMON-DY
HEAD SAUCE
JIM CARREY
IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
DAFFY-ROTH
- brentalfloss

Quote (Insegredious @ 16th December 2010 00:04)

Just for shiggles, I started a new game with the following party:

Knight - Scott
White Mage - Ramona
Black Mage - Kim
Thief - Knives

Anyone who gets the reference (I have a hunch that R51 will) gets one internet.

SCOTT PILGRIM!

+1 internets to ME!

(im not bragging, i swear, im just a scott pilgrim fan)

as for my party -

Knight - Arcanus
Thief - Gareth
White Mage - illimina
Black Mage - Shogil

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Come closer, FEEL my wrath.

"fear not what you do not know or understand, for only fear is but one aspect of what limits us"
- Me

Long time since I played FFI, but I believe it was...

Red Mage
Thief
White Mage
Fighter

1st and fav from NES days: Fighter, Black Belt, White Mage, Black Mage

Others I've beaten the game with on various versions:

Fi, Th, Wm, Bm (who hasn't, right?)
Fi, Th, Bb, Rm
Fi, Fi, Bb, Rm
Fi, Fi, Fi, Rm (SUPER easy and SUPER expensive)
Fi, Fi, Fi, Fi (not as good as ^^^)
Fi, Th, Th, Rm
Fi, Fi, Wm, Bm
Fi, Bb, Bb, Rm
Fi, Rm, Wm, Bm
Bb, Bb, Bb, Bb
Wm, Bm, Bm, Bm (fairly difficult at first, also the MOST expensive)

I think I also started an 8-bit Theater party but I haven't finished with them yet. I'd also like to try with the "true" light warriors from 8-bit Theater sometime.

Hmmm... I'm noticing a pattern with everyone. I guess I am kinda unique in that my first (and favorite) set up has always been:

Sain - Black Belt -> Master (weak at first but becomes really powerful late game)
Zebb - Thief -> Ninja (high evade and a higher escape chance, also able to use low level black magic)
Fynn - Red Mage -> Red Wizard (high armor and damage in early game, good for buffs and debuffs in late game, plus some singular healing)
Sara - White Mage -> White Wizard (group healing and strong magic against undead. I also thought white mage was a girl)

I know that I am weird in that I didn't use the fighter or black mage, but I always found black mages to die too quickly and fighters were never good enough for me to NEED them. They can be useful for some healing then they become knights, but I enjoyed having a red mage more.

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That was my sin. And this... this... is my punishment.

I did Fighter Fighter WhiteMage BlackMage at first, back when I was a kid. I later switched one fighter for a black belt. I've also done:

-4 Fighters.
-1 solo Black Belt (3 dead Thieves). It sounds tough, but it gets pretty easy around 2 orbs in. Unarmed black belts get stupid powerful in the NES version. I don't know if that has been mentioned.
-4 Black mages. I don't even remember if I made it to Garland before changing my mind.

I'm not actually sure if I've ever done the classic line up. As far names, I don't remember, but I can tell you they weren't Squall or Sabin or anything with more than 4 letters.

I brought the PSP version at bluewater for £10 and I love the final fantasy series: my first time and Im near end already and i got it 5 weeks ago.
I went with these.
(fighters r called warriors in PSP & warriors r called knights)
JOB___/ NAME___
warrior / Dune
monk / spud
red mage / jojo
black mage / leo
NOW THEY ARE ALL LV41 AND WITH CLASS UPGRADES:
knight / dune
master / spud
red wiz / jojo
black wiz / leo
the names are from duane&brandos final fantasy rap cause I didnt no the proper names for them. Im currently trying to get through hellfire cave to beat the opsional bosses. ive played FF3 DS version, FF4 virtual console SNES version (called FF2 cause of the US), FF6 PS1 version

sorry if this was a mouth full. Im new here at CoN.

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My favourite series:
Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Poke'mon

currently playing:
Kingdom hearts 3D, New Super Mario Bros 2, FF13, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 1.