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I'm MAKING one, dude! Fanfiction ROCKS!
Well, it involves this new character.... and everyone else...(except Shadow. He died, remember?)
and then there's a new, less power-hungry emperor and NO INSANE GENERAL.
I'm still thinking of a main villain, though.
And I AM NOT DONE YET.

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I think the end to FF6 is pretty conclusive and doesn't really facilitate a sequel.

There are good options for prequels, but the group wouldn't exist yet.

I think what would be best for extending the world of FF6 would be a series of animated shorts about the individual characters and histories of their universe (like they did with Last Order). I think an FF6 anime to fill in story gaps and flesh out the characters would be great.

sup guys, new in here but i agree with you. i would like to see a prequel. go more in depth with madium and madonna(i think thats there name). also you could have kefka back in it and some of the other characters. i would really like to see shadows past.

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I think the end to FF6 is pretty conclusive and doesn't really facilitate a sequel.

There are good options for prequels, but the group wouldn't exist yet.

I think what would be best for extending the world of FF6 would be a series of animated shorts about the individual characters and histories of their universe (like they did with Last Order). I think an FF6 anime to fill in story gaps and flesh out the characters would be great.

sup guys, new in here but i agree with you. i would like to see a prequel. go more in depth with madium and madonna(i think thats there name). also you could have kefka back in it and some of the other characters. i would really like to see shadows past.

Welcome to CoN. I would like to see more of the Esper World in general. I haven't thought of that.

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personally...clyde should be the main character....

and it should solve some problems with character dramas!!! XD

If I were making a sequel to Final Fantasy VI, I'd use the Magus Sisters as the main villains. They'd be referred to by more proper names, like Cassandra, Amanda & Minerva. They'd be exiles from Thamasa and distant relatives of Strago. Their goal would be to revive Magic, but unlike Kefka they would keep it balanced by each holding the power of one of the Statues. They would be searching for Shadow/Clyde because he absorbed some of the source of Magic when he fought Kefka on the Floating Continent, and is the key to Magic's revival.

While the Magus Sisters are hunting for Shadow, the other Returners are trying to help with restoring several of the towns damaged by Kefka's Light of Judgment. Edgar would be worried about the possible return of Magic, and order archeological teams to find tomes and artifacts from the War of the Magi, so that they would be prepared in the event of Magic's rebirth. Terra would be running an orphanage built for the children of Narshe, and Setzer would be helping Edgar by keeping an eye on the Auction House in Jidoor, bidding on anything related to the War of the Magi. There wouldn't be a grand reunion, instead one or two of the original Returners would be involved in the story at a time.

One of the side quests could be Setzer and three party members (possibly new characters) would be in a bidding subplot, and Zozo thieves would try to spy in greater numbers, and the player has to choose between keeping more party members in the auction, bidding in a row to discourage others from bidding at higher prices, and sending party members out to take care of the spies. Weapons and armor can be bid on in order to fend off the thieves later if too many spies see the party bidding at high prices.

There would be several subplots to tie up loose ends, such as Gogo's true identity, reclaiming treasures stolen by Zozo thieves, the fate of Shadow/Clyde's partner, what became of Cid on the Lonely Island, and the cult of Kefka.

Instead of a sequel I think a prequel would be better. A whole story about the War of the Magi would be awesome. It would give background for the original and have some pretty sweet context being in the middle of a huge magic war! I think some new characters would be pretty cool too although I would expect some connection to the original (ancestors of characters?). Since FF6 was one of the greatest video games created with such an epic cast of characters I think a polished seque/prequell would be pretty dang cool.

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Instead of a sequel I think a prequel would be better. A whole story about the War of the Magi would be awesome. It would give background for the original and have some pretty sweet context being in the middle of a huge magic war! I think some new characters would be pretty cool too although I would expect some connection to the original (ancestors of characters?). Since FF6 was one of the greatest video games created with such an epic cast of characters I think a polished seque/prequell would be pretty dang cool.

I wholeheartedly concur. they've done FFVII to DEATH!!!

*ahem* as I was saying, let FFVI have it's rightfully deserved place in the spotlight.

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Since FF6 was one of the greatest video games created with such an epic cast of characters I think a polished seque/prequell would be pretty dang cool.

Unfortunately, they are stuck on FFVII. They won't think about V or VI until they've destroyed VII more than they have already.

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*ahem* as I was saying, let FFVI have it's rightfully deserved place in the spotlight. thumbup.gif

Hopefully they will. But if they think that the GBA port of FFVI was a "remake" than they need to think again. All the other games -- save FFV (which needs to be remade as well!) -- have been remade once or three million times.

FFV and FFVI are the only older games that haven't gotten their remake. I think that the best of the Final Fantasy series needs to be remade. I'm tired of this new shite of FF titles.

Now are RPG games will be centered around like Kingdom Hearts -- more XIII junk. If they keep this going, we'll never see a remake of FFVI. We'll see endless Cloud character rip-offs, Tifa rip-offs, Aerith rip-offs and Sephiroths! Which has actually happened a lot

I wish SE would get their head out of the crapper and think about other fans, fans that liked the REAL FF games like FFV and FFVI.

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the next should be__all characters usable even Siegfried
new dragons, dragon Gods and Goddess
27 Demons to hunt with weapons as the rewards
5 guest star characters from other rpgs
3 cool airships
more betrayals and reconciles

-fight Minerva is a great idea!!! Nova
-fight Odin and Raiden together
for the Ultimate technique
-fight Gilgamesh for his secret treasure
[Excalipoor the sword that gets smack
by all the swords] j/k
[randomly cast All Creation Beam
killing all enemies]

bringing the Magi back is cool,too
or just dueling with everyone to the death [
one can only dream

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Kefka should stay dead.*laughs* Have a new evil rise up, 'cause you know evil villains are like cockroaches---they come back, or you can kill one and another will show up to take its place. I haven't gotten to the end of the game just yet so I don't know what the ending is, which also means I have no idea what I would want in a sequel for it.
However, I would love it if they made a reunion movie like they did with FF7: Advent Children.
A team-up between FF6 & 7 characters would be interesting though. I haven't played either FF7 or the KH (Kingdom Hearts) series, but I love playing Dissidia and Cloud/Terra is my Dissidia OTP. ^_^

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I think the end to FF6 is pretty conclusive and doesn't really facilitate a sequel.

There are good options for prequels, but the group wouldn't exist yet.

I think what would be best for extending the world of FF6 would be a series of animated shorts about the individual characters and histories of their universe (like they did with Last Order). I think an FF6 anime to fill in story gaps and flesh out the characters would be great.

sup guys, new in here but i agree with you. i would like to see a prequel. go more in depth with madium and madonna(i think thats there name). also you could have kefka back in it and some of the other characters. i would really like to see shadows past.

Oooh that sounds cool. It would be great if they made an anime series or just some ovas.

Here's an idea for a good FF6 sequel... Or at least one that isn't awful:

The premise of the game would be that three years after Kefka's defeat, the children of Mobliz develop some sort of terrible illness... And even though Magic has disappeared from the world, Terra is sure that the disease is magical in origin. Nobody believes her, but she convinces Locke and Celes to help her search the ruins of Kefka's Tower, because that's the only place where any remnants of magic could possibly still exist. While they're searching, they find that the three statues of the Warring Triad are still there. And when Terra touches one of them, the Triad resurrect themselves. It turns out that magic still exists in some form or another, and that is what caused them to awaken.

It turns out that Terra is the cause of the disease in Mobliz, because she is the only being in Mobliz that possesses any sort of magical abilities. The people of Thamasa also find that they can still use magic, but they don't have any form of the disease because they all are innately magical.

Cid theorizes that although the connection to the Esper World was severed, magic itself didn't really disappear.

The mission of the Returners: To stop the Warring Triad from destroying the world.

They succeed, but when they finally reseal the Triad in the statues, halfway through the game, Kefka shows up, and describes in hilarious detail how he painfully sealed his spirit inside the three statues and when they were resealed he came back to life. He lost his godlike abilities, but he's still a magical maniac. So he shatters the statues, and permanently absorbs their powers, and the second half of the game progresses from there.

They have to stop Kefka, and Save the world. And there will have to be a lot more plot than the meager outline that I've set out here.

A few loose ends form the original game can be tied up, and we can go from there.

So what does everyone think?

A prequel going back to the War of the Magi or even events that happened twenty year before the start of the game (when we saw a younger Emperor gathering espers or Maduin and Madonna) would be great. There's so much potential really because the story from FFVI was so rich. Backstory could be filled in since we already have a vague guide to what happened before.

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Well I thought up a couple Final Fantasy sequels one for 6 another for 7 one actually happened only with a different name and slightly different gameplay. As long as you don't get too off topic you can guess which one.

But my Idea was a prequel with Shadow called Final Fantasy VI Shadows of the Past which would chronicle Shadows life till his introduction in FF6. I only got to draw a few gameplay ideas forgot what happened to them but my idea was...

Equipping magicite shards

Vision magicite goes on head features would be like in FPV thermal vision,night vision,x-ray vision ect.

Attack/Throw magicite goes on Hands L/R would let you magically charge shurikens and weapons with different magic spells. Ultima would be rarest spell.

Defense magicite equipped on body would be like shell,barrier,reflect,ect.

Step magicite goes on feet would enable you to sprint,hover, well I just added this one dance would work like Mog's dance ability's and ect.

Unfortunately I never got to the point of fan fiction for it then again I was thinking leave it to Squaresoft as it was still called at the time. Well what do y'all think?

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By the way if there was a sequel the lead villain would be none other than Shadow who in the sequel had absorbed the power of Kefka from the collapse of the tower

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hello: new member here, but I found this place while doing my bi-yearly playthrough of FFVI and using Djibriel's guide. saw this topic so I thought I'd give my two cents.

I agree wholeheartedly with those that say that a sequel would be foolish to create. it would require far too much explanation as to why magic is still here -- when it was EMPHATICALLY erased from the world in the game -- and too many people would be rooting for a revival of Kefka. wonderful madman that he is, it's just cheesy, and it's kind of hard to really bring him back effectively.

I would, however, agree that a prequel could be excellent. and since we're on the subject of Kefka... why not his story?

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/930370-fina...dvance/48457872

the story of Kefka is a 30-year-long tale, not counting anything in the events of Final Fantasy VI. if you really wanted to, you could make the "Warring Triad" (sorry, Advance players, they are still the Goddesses to me) be his final opponents, midway through the actual story of FFVI... or, possibly, General Leo / Celes, a few years before the events of the game begin.

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I'm a new member, and I realize that this post has been quiet for months now, and I do apologize if it's frowned upon that I'm bumping it. I just finished reading all of the posts and felt like adding some things, though I'm not sure how much actual content can be extracted.

First and foremost, FF6 is my all-time favorite RPG. Everything about it is fantastic, but I'll save gushing for somewhere more appropriate.

Anyway, one thing that seems to mostly elude the other posters (at least as far as their posting content concerns) is that there are a few things in FFVI that could make a sequel very fertile ground.

Naturally, a return of Kefka should be a no-go. Yes, he is an iconic villain and his shoes are incredibly large to fill, but bringing him back would not do justice to the epic story that makes FFVI, IMHO, still the best RPG of all time, bar none.

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The book of his story has closed (although he is still viable for a prequel, perhaps with a glimpse into who he was before the fateful Magitek infusion that made him what we all know he became).

Also, reviving the Espers would also take away from the story of the original game. Their story has, also, run it's course.

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Magic itself can be debated, because it's not really a Final Fantasy if there's no magic, but it's revival (or the ability to learn magic) would make for a hard sell to be believable. After all, the Warring Triad was drained by Kefka and ultimately destroyed just prior to Kefka's own demise.

This would lead one to believe that items such as the Elemental equipment (specifically any that teach spells [Imp Gear, Shields, Cursed Ring] or casts a spell as a random effect) would become inert, or even be destroyed.

That massive hurdle aside, there is some fertile ground to be tilled for a sequel. Being that the Warring Triad created and governed magic in the FFVI universe, I've always wondered about what other deities would also exist.

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After all, the Warring Triad was not ultimately all-powerful, as evidenced by Kefka being able to drain them of their power.

But they were deities nonetheless, which gives rise to the potential that other deities, whom governed the creation of, say, human beings and other life. Granted, these deities (if there are even more than one) may no longer have existed even as of the War of the Magi, as there is no mention, but they could also have simply kept themselves hidden from their creation long enough for any records of them, if any such existed, to have been lost (perhaps such records could be unearthed in the WoR as part of the back-story for the sequel) and subsequently forgotten (or only remembered by only a select few).

Truthfully, there could be some measure of tie-in to the original game in that, perhaps, these records had been found and, say, spoke of one deity whom forged creation and ruled over it. The tie-in could be that it was these records that led the Cult of Kefka to worship him, erroneously believing Kefka was that singular deity incarnate, as it's never spoken of why the worship Kefka, and could give a little credence to

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why Strago joined them in the first place. Though the fact that every enemy is a magic user in the Fanatic's Tower and that only magic is usable tends to point to the fact that they worshipped him as the God of Magic, having drained the Warring Triad and caused the apocalypse.

Unfortunately, I don't have any solid ideas as of yet on how to go about forging any of this speculation into a worthwhile plot. Instead, I only have these few ideas, thus far, and my belief that, as much as I love the characters of FFVI, I don't believe that any of them should star in a sequel. And the reason I believe this is because I think that if they did, it would ultimately weaken the rich FFVI world. I mean, c'mon, the same group ultimately saves the world (even if it gets misshapen) from more than catastrophe? What does that say about the potential for the rest of the world? What happens when our band of Billy Bad-A**es finally dies off completely? Who would save the world, then? I know the 'get the band back together' has worked in a sequel before (FFIV:TAY), but in order for it to work, the catastrophes have to be impossible to duplicate

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as is the case of FFVI, but a sequel would have to be held to the same standard, which would require the ultimate destruction of whatever turns out to be the object of greed, as the Warring Triad and Magic was in the original.

However, this is not to say that the cast should be long-dead and forgotten about (well, maybe some of them have passed on, what with Strago being pushing 80 as it was), but, instead, mostly take roles like Arvis (maybe more fleshed out, but I think you get the picture) or even Banon (in that they're a major NPC for a part of the game AND get to playable, if in a short stretch), though I'd reserve the Banon role for only characters who would really be suited for it, depending on how much time has passed between the end of the original and the sequel, though it would probably best be restricted to characters like Edgar and Celes, those who are established experienced leaders. Taking a page out of FFIV:TAY, other characters could see brief stints of playability: Sabin could take over as Blitz Master after Duncan dies (since he's really the only one left, as is) and (re)teach the player how to use the Blitz command for a party member (one of his students) and things of that nature. The new cast would have to have their own quirks and uniqueness, of course, to separate them from their predecessors (or else, it's just NuLocke, NuSabin, NuMog, etc., with a different sprite), but also retain the richness (except when it came to the hidden characters) that made the original characters great. I think doing it in this passing-the-torch to a new generation of heroes would be the best way to handle a sequel, as it keeps the characters present and part of the story while not making them the focus and thereby giving us, the fans of the original, closure and conclusions to the story that enraptured us. Plus, we'd get to see how they'd age and mature (Did Edgar ever move past being a flirt? How would Strago's death effect Relm? What really happened to Shadow? What does the future hold for Locke and Celes? And maybe, just as a nod, what is Gogo's true identity?)

As explained in that rather long-winded exposition, there is still stuff that can be expanded upon in the FFVI world, and there does exist fallow ground for a sequel. Ultimately, no sequel will ever fully stand shoulder to shoulder with FFVI (the original always stands above by establishing the world and original story that make the sequel, or prequel, possible), nor will it please all of the fans to the degree we'd all, as a whole, want (case in point, I've seen quite a number of remarks that people would like to see the band get back together on another epic adventure, but I'd prefer to see them take a back seat to a new generation, while still playing important, NPC roles). It's the old adage of 'you can't please everyone', just modified that you can't please everyone absolutely.

On a personal note, though, I don't think FFVI will see a sequel of any kind, ever. A prequel I could see, especially a War of the Magi one (as it's a pinnacle event and would be akin to LucasFilm using the events of the Clone Wars to catalyze the original Star Wars trilogy, then going back and making the movies about those events), but I think a sequel will always sit in the realm of dreams and things unofficial.

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The destruction of magic is, as mentioned, a very hard thing to undo convincingly, and magic is a staple of Final Fantasy.

On a semi-unrelated note, I believe someone mentioned something about hating Star Wars somewhere earlier in the thread (though it was, of course, months ago and may be a different thread I'm thinking of). Personal feelings on that intellectual property aside, it is my hope that they don't (or at least didn't when they made the post) realize that a GREAT deal of Final Fantasy is inspired by Star Wars, from the Biggs/Wedge recurring characters (Luke's wingmen in the Trench Run), to much of Firion's character arc in FFII (follows a similar path as Luke's), even to the War of the Magi (Clone War) and the Ultima Weapon (Do ya really think it looks like a lightsaber and is supposed to be the ultimate weapon by accident?). Granted, it's very acceptable to like one without liking the other, so this is mostly useless. Just kinda struck me as odd. But I digress. This post is long enough.

[Final Note: I realize I use 'After all' and 'Of course' a bit more than I'd like, but I don't really want to nitpick my way through my post and reword things. Spent the last hour getting these thoughts into coherence.]

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Naturally, a return of Kefka should be a no-go. Yes, he is an iconic villain and his shoes are incredibly large to fill, but bringing him back would not do justice to the epic story that makes FFVI, IMHO, still the best RPG of all time, bar none.

I just got a mental image of a B movie using this premise.

The Return...of KEFKA!!

DUN DUN DUNNNN!

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I glossed over all the previous posts in an effort to limit my redundancy here, but before I throw in my two cents I'm gonna point a few fingers at other people.

@ NP's 2 year old RTS idea: I thought it was good, and the first thing that jumped to my mind was that nifty little project... Del_S, (or Djibriel, maybe?) did, I want to say, although I could be mistaken. It took all the countries of the FFVI world and made up a guide-book atlas type of thing. It sort of outlined all that stuff in a cool way... or maybe it was FFIV? Haha.


@ Nova: This is by far one of the better ideas I saw in this topic. I really liked the whole premise there.

@ anyone who said "prequel": Sort of sucks that those guys who were actually doing it bottomed out.

Someone else mentioned the whole thing being done by descendants of the original cast and new characters all together- that idea clicked with me too.

Another nifty idea would be a combination of NP's post apocalyptic recovering world in the form of a RTS RPG like Fallout. It already almost sounds like Fallout, actually.

Of course if you wanted a sequel taking place in the lifetimes of the original characters, they'd have to be picky about what and who to include and leave out lest they appear overly gimmicky and cornball. There's always the 'others' like Ultros, Ziegfried, and Lone Wolf too, but I almost enjoy the fan-fiction about them better than I do the thought of them as playable. (Nevermind that one of those is mine .)

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Final Fantasy Fallout...hooooly crap that just sounds too awesome!

Quickly followed up by Final Fantasy Fallout: New Jidoor.

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Final Fantasy Fallout...hooooly crap that just sounds too awesome!

Quickly followed up by Final Fantasy Fallout: New Jidoor.

Now how about this: Final Fantasy VI fallout... where Zozo is the only populated town. How's that for a reversal of fortune?

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Heck no, I'd hate to see a sequel.

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1. The ending to FFVI is the most beautiful ending I've ever seen, I have a feeling that a sequel would destroy that feeling of "freedom" you got while watching it.
2. Also related to the ending, do we really want a Final Fantasy game without any magic?

A prequel would be cool though; maybe we'd get to see Kefka before he turned mad!

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Heck no, I'd hate to see a sequel.

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1. The ending to FFVI is the most beautiful ending I've ever seen, I have a feeling that a sequel would destroy that feeling of "freedom" you got while watching it.
2. Also related to the ending, do we really want a Final Fantasy game without any magic?

A prequel would be cool though; maybe we'd get to see Kefka before he turned mad!

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Wouldnt they work the lack of magic into the storyline, probably someone is trying to give magic a comeback?

Though that is probably rather cliched.