Topher has single-handedly proven that we're all some kind of chauvinistic pig who don't like girls.

Sorry Doomsan, fixed now.

I know you guys only did it as an aside, but one of my pet peeves with this game is that everybody on the internet, particularly on certain OTHER podcasts (cough*1Up*cough) seem to think that, unless we clarify that Final Fantasy IV was once released as Final Fantasy II eighteen years ago, people across the nation will be utterly confused and incapable of discerning which game you're talking about.

Square's done a magnificent job of re-introducing the correct numbering sequence. Anyone who needs to know which games is which already knows. It's been eighteen years, and the game has been re-released three times since then. The only people who don't know are people who don't play Final Fantasy.

If anything, we should be making the clarification whenever we talk about the Super Nintendo versions, because those are the ones that are wrong. Otherwise, let's just use the titles for the games with which they are intended to correspond and not use parenthetical names for games that already have the correct title. Let's just say Final Fantasy II when we mean the one with Firion, and Final Fantasy IV when we mean the one with Cecil.

And the same rule should apply to Final Fantasy III and VI.

I'm going to be really annoyed in twenty years, after this game has been re-released a half dozen more times, if we're still having to clarify the titles based on the Super Nintendo versions.

Topher Cantler, Thanks!

@Harris Hatsworth i loled thank you for that comment it totally made my century

Yay Naia!

PappaDukes, you've never seen Naia play FF4 (Or the After Years I suppose), she doesn't NEED to grind in them!

naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

http://www.netjak.com/review.php/370
Not sure if it's this one that goes into it most, but it's another crap-happened-but-games-helped story.

Prolly like Rydia most, but I've sided onto Porom (mostly on the GFAQs boards). As for Baigan (romaji shows it's "beigan", so it's like "bacon"), playing FFIV ADVANCE kinda negates that surprise, since they don't have character portraits. *goes back to listening; on the female roles thing (cue PaladinCecil's defense of Rosa)*

Ok... W T F? My iTunes version stops at 1:30:44 with chad saying "...this girl lost her mother to fire" and in the one from libsyn that exact sentence is at 1:03:03 but the show goes on till 1:30:44 o_O I'm confused...

It says II and III respectively on the carts that I own. That I bought in America. Back before most gamers my age even knew that the numbers were wrong. Technically, I have never played FF IV or VI, since I have never re-bought the ones that have been re-released, and the only time I ever play these games are in their original US SNES form.

So don't front like it's some big deal, because 80% of the US gaming public didn't even know that the numbers were off until they announced that VII would resume the correct numbering pattern. Saying FF II for the SNES is just as valid a statement as saying FF IV for the Super Famicom.

You mean... other people besides bloggers might know about the top-secret numbering system?? We'll be out of a job!!

Muh'fuckin' jokes, ppl. Jokes. Jaaaaayzus.

Just delete it and redownload to fix the cutoff. Happened to me and that fixed it.

@zero atma - haha, I hear ya. However, I could have gotten through the episodes as quick as the quickest. I just can't do that and keep a true RPGer conscience :P

Final Fantasy, for me, is all about grinding. I remember playing Final Fantasy III (using the US naming convention) on the SNES as a wee lad, and leveling up my characters, getting them to level max level of 99 for hours fighting those goddamn dinosaurs over and over and over again.

@flamecondor- I know I spoiled it like crazy. My one line can ruin the game for you.

Great episode, my second favorite so far (really, really loved that Earthbound one). Naia was a great guest. I just wish Topher wasn't MIA for most of the discussion. Ah well.

I'm actually going to be playing through FFIV Advance soon, since I missed it when it first came out. Yes, I love the DS version and really need to get around to beating that a couple more times, but I want to do all the bonus stuff in the GBA one too. Anyways, this was a great way to get me pumped for playing it again.

@Aiya, oh well guess I'll have to try and finish the game over the weekend and then listen, time for some serious power gaming me thinks *key the montage music*

Am I the only one who got the Pink Tail tail from the puffs near the end of the game? Yet another FF game where I maxxed out the time @ 99:59.