[game] FF XII + rpgs we playing now

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 02:38

Waiting on delicious FF4 remake for DS.

Persona · Post by **Persona** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 14:51

No FF3?

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Funny how my name comes from the P series yet I hate 3 and will most likely hate 4. I miss my oldschool P games. No want Tokimeki + dungeon crawler + annoying pop and rap.

*still waiting for Innocent Sin eng patch*

So far for me it's been IS > EP > 1 > 3

They need to remake 1, the loading was HORRID.

Apathy Wind · Post by **Apathy Wind** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 00:04

I wouldn't say I dislike P3 but it really isn't the same as the first two. I really loved it at first but it just gets too repetitive. And I've never been a fan of random dungeons. And leveling Persona is soooooooo slow.....

Still - determined to finish what I started

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 02:57

Persona wrote:No FF3?

If monies agree, I'll get FF3 to tide me over til then.

Gojira · Post by **Gojira** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 20:52

Shiny: Let me warn you, FF3 is incredibly annoying. You don't get to save that often, you can't buy phoenix downs from anywhere, and to top it off the last area of the game will take hours to finish without ever giving you a chance to go back and save or shop. I found it far more frustrating than fun.

Post by **Gunsmith** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 09:48

Apathy Wind wrote:I wouldn't say I dislike P3 but it really isn't the same as the first two. I really loved it at first but it just gets too repetitive. And I've never been a fan of random dungeons. And leveling Persona is soooooooo slow.....

Still - determined to finish what I started

HURRY UP! Levelling up isn't so bad, are you hoarding personas that aren't right for the area? Exploit weaknesses, combo, rinse and repeat! When they're all tired spend the next day chatting up girls innit

I have the Gunslinger character in Disgaea! Heheheh

Fuu · Post by **Fuu** » Wed May 07, 2008 09:07

hmm, what about espers? they look pretty pointless, especially since you lose your patners and you could spam quickenings that seem kinda broken(just killed adramelch this way)! Also to whom should i give them, does it matter? Dunno boost stats, etc.

Shiny · Post by **Shiny** » Wed May 07, 2008 16:08

Gojira wrote:Shiny: Let me warn you, FF3 is incredibly annoying. You don't get to save that often, you can't buy phoenix downs from anywhere, and to top it off the last area of the game will take hours to finish without ever giving you a chance to go back and save or shop. I found it far more frustrating than fun.

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Post by **Gunsmith** » Wed May 07, 2008 18:21

Fuu wrote:hmm, what about espers? they look pretty pointless, especially since you lose your patners and you could spam quickenings that seem kinda broken(just killed adramelch this way)! Also to whom should i give them, does it matter? Dunno boost stats, etc.

I just collected them all.

Ultima was kinda fun for a bit when I was around level 40 but when you've got weapons that are dealing 9999 damage then 3x 9999 is far better than 1 x9999 and 1 healer.

Dunno if it boosted stats but I gave most of them to Luke Skywalker as everyone else needed MP for spells

Apathy Wind · Post by **Apathy Wind** » Wed May 07, 2008 23:11

I found Espers to be completely worthless - I only used (or even assigned) them once due to the necessity of the story. I've read things suggesting Esper are useful due to their mega attacks but considering the lack of team support and the relative inaccessibility of said attacks I found them to be a waste of the ever precious MP bar.

Their worthlessness is especially disappointing since I thought FFX was the first FF game in which summon monsters were particularly worthwhile.

Post by **SonicTempest** » Fri May 30, 2008 08:49

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... s-With-You

Fuu · Post by **Fuu** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 14:05

Finished FFXII!
I liked it alright, but there's something that just doesn't click sadly.
I mean sure it's broken and summons are useless, but mostly little things here and there detract from the experience.
I can feel the heavy hand of Square over Matsuno, for instance Basch was intended to be the main character and most likely Vaan never existed to begin with, but damn if you can have a FF free of clueless teenagers.
Also the fact that you can choose your lead and see the characters in your party on the field, but in cities you're stuck with Vaan and only Vaan. I find this a little stupid detail that could have been fixed with no effort, and i'm sure that people that never ever used Vaan once they had the opportunity will agree with me. It's just kind of anticlimatic. And near the end people will vaguely recognize Vaan as a valuable member, but since he doesn't do squat in cutscenes and i never used him, it sure strikes as bizzarre praising this kid that has being running around buying things from shops and doing silly chores.

Cutscenes attacks feel too disjointed to the overall decent pace of the battle, i guess they are another stigma of the past.

Wyler and Mecha-Wyler were great.

Still one of the best FF ever easily, most likely my last though, and i really doubt i'll go back to it for the extras. Vagrant Story is still the definitive Matsuno experience, wonder what's the guy doing right now, hopefully his health problems are nothing too serious or even better it was only Square's facade to dismiss him.

Apathy Wind · Post by **Apathy Wind** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 23:11

Fuu wrote:and i really doubt i'll go back to it for the extras.

Hmmm... what extras did you skip out on? I can only speak for myself but I thought FFXII's hunt/esper/secret boss battles were the best thing about the game.

Fuu · Post by **Fuu** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 13:34

yes the hunts were nice, i actually did quite a few of them, my total time was over 60 hours. I don't feel compelled to actually do more though, nor i want to get the useless espers.

Post by **SonicTempest** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 22:26

So uh I wrote a review of Sonic Chronicles for DS!
http://www.sonictempest.net/2008/10/02/ ... otherhood/

Well, I mean, it's an RPG and all...

Some supplementary material:
http://www.sonictempest.net/2008/10/06/a-followup/