Author Topic: Got Final Fantasy XII (Read 11177 times)

Strell · « **Reply #25 on:** November 01, 2006, 01:37:07 PM »

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I pause the cut-scenes by pressing start, Nitsu. CG or in-game. What happens when you do it?

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Yeah, you have no damn clue what you're talking about Strell. FF VII and VIII are easily the weakest in the series, but IX and X are nothing like them. And Final Fantasy XII has about as much in common with FF7 as a toaster has with a rock.

But continue, so far your ignorance is my pleasure!

That's cool. You spending money on a POS game is my pleasure.

What an excellent bon mot! You sure got me!

Yes, yours was much better, really.

The fact that you can't see that they all star prepubescent man women running around with a big artifact trying to stop the world from being destroyed, all while painting themselves up in a lot of useless cutscenes, doesn't bode well for you. I imagine you thought X-2 was a great game as well.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #26 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:15:53 PM »

why does everyone seems to hate FFVIII?

yeah, the story was subpar and the GF a pain, but the Junction System and Triple Triad were all kinds of awesome.....

Ceric · « **Reply #27 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:27:43 PM »

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That game is harsh. 12 level dungeons with no save areas and zillions of random battles is rough going.

My poor poor PS2 It only has so much time you can leave it on before it dies...

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #28 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:28:05 PM »

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I pause the cut-scenes by pressing start, Nitsu. CG or in-game. What happens when you do it?

It kept on playing and had a skip with "x" in the bottom corner. Again to be fair I only tired this once and it was a early cut scene. But still I should have been able to pause it.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #29 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:35:31 PM »

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why does everyone seems to hate FFVIII?

yeah, the story was subpar and the GF a pain, but the Junction System and Triple Triad were all kinds of awesome.....

FFVIII in my opinion is the least "Final Fantasy" game in the series. Leveling up was so broken it was easy. I mean 1000 exp per level. I had Squall at level 100 right after the Fire Cave part and before the next part of the game. That was like at the very beginning of the game.

I didn't get the Ultimeca part. It just seemed to come out of nowhere. It could have been mentioned, but it just seemed to me that it was thrown in at the last minute because Square decided that Edea wasn't going to be evil.

I like FFVII more that FFVIII and I hate FVII.

I did like the draw and junction part, but I didn't like that for some of the GF's you just drew them out of bosses, like Tiamat and the GF that it held. I like to fight them because it make me feel like I accomplished something.

Mario · « **Reply #30 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:44:14 PM »

Leveling up is always easy, in anything. Just just keep doing it. It requires nothing but time.

Pryopizm · « **Reply #31 on:** November 01, 2006, 05:56:10 PM »

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That game is harsh. 12 level dungeons with no save areas and zillions of random battles is rough going.

My poor poor PS2 It only has so much time you can leave it on before it dies...

I was referring to the post above me. The one that said the original was the best. That game is harsh. There's plenty of chances to save in FF XII, though I do begrudge them not having an auto-save system like FF XI had (by necessity, of course)

And as far as FF VIII goes...the plot was secondary. The point of the story was a terrible romance that couldn't have had two characters with less depth and chemistry. However, I loved the junctioning system, I loved drawing magic to increase my stats, and I loved the limit breaks. LionHeart makes me giggle like a little girl every time.

And Strell, I hope you continue trolling this thread, it really adds so much to the conversation. Aso, it's totally not against the forum rules and I'm sure no one would enforce them even if they were.

Ceric · « **Reply #32 on:** November 01, 2006, 06:01:48 PM »

That is one of the few cards systems I don't deem evil.

Strell · « **Reply #33 on:** November 01, 2006, 06:40:07 PM »

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And Strell, I hope you continue trolling this thread, it really adds so much to the conversation. Aso, it's totally not against the forum rules and I'm sure no one would enforce them even if they were.

You're the one pulling the personal attacks, pardner.

Kairon · « **Reply #34 on:** November 01, 2006, 07:12:42 PM »

Dudes!

Save some for Ian! Seriously!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon.aol.com

Svevan · « **Reply #35 on:** November 01, 2006, 07:42:12 PM »

Unfortunately Stan, Strell's trolling, however detestable, was only encouraged and thereby approved by your antagonistic comments. Strell, consider yourself unwarned because even if you did pick a fight, Stan continued it.

Game on.

Kairon · « **Reply #36 on:** November 01, 2006, 08:51:03 PM »

So uh... why is it a good thing that FFXII is like what FFXI should have been, and offline to boot?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #37 on:** November 02, 2006, 03:09:18 AM »

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Leveling up is always easy, in anything. Just just keep doing it. It requires nothing but time.

Yes, but Final Fantasy 8 required only 1000 points to get to level 2, to then get to level 3 and then for each level until 100. Not an increasing amount like 1000 then 2000 or anything like that. each level required only an individual amount of 1000 points to level up. That's just too easy.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #38 on:** November 02, 2006, 03:15:40 AM »

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So uh... why is it a good thing that FFXII is like what FFXI should have been, and offline to boot?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Because it proves (at leat to me) that Final Fantasy 11 should have been a seperate game in the FF universe and not a numbered part of the series. And FF12 shows that FF11 could have been offline and made a better game for it.

I played FF11 for like 4 months before cancelling because it was nothing but an exercise in frustration. There was not a goddamn thing in the game that was 100% neccessary for the game to be online only. It could have also been offline, becuase of the fact that you can play it solo, so why should I have to be online to play solo when the only online part was the auction house and seeing other people run around, which is neither good or bad, it got in the way more than anything. too busy.

ff11 could have been offline and everything about the game would have been better.

Ceric · « **Reply #39 on:** November 02, 2006, 03:47:20 AM »

I have to agree. Things would have been more balanced, crafting for the love of Mike I made the highest thing I could a hundred time why do I still have no ranks, plus finding a party and then following the person consistently is annoying in FF11. I enjoyed what they were trying to do but from my experience unless they seriously borked FFXII, from what I'm hearing they didn't, it be a better gig for me. If you have dedicated friends to play with FF11 is much different.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #40 on:** November 02, 2006, 04:35:17 AM »

Leveling up in FFXII is similar to FFXI, the amount of exp you get is small and you get money by selling loot you get after battle (you do occassionaly get gil as a battle reward), but the battle system is fun, and if you go through an area killing the same kind of monster over and over again your chain kill goes up and after like 18 or 19 kills your loot starts to become multiple loot, where instead of just one iten you can get two of the same kind or two differrent items. The highest I got was like 28 or 29 then my guest party member went after a different species of monster and broke my chain. But I did rack up a lot of loot to sell, and since you get around 1 LP (license points) per kill, if you go after chains you can rack up LP too, it takes a while, but enemies do respawn rather quickly.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #41 on:** November 02, 2006, 04:45:18 AM »

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Leveling up is always easy, in anything. Just just keep doing it. It requires nothing but time.

Yes, but Final Fantasy 8 required only 1000 points to get to level 2, to then get to level 3 and then for each level until 100. Not an increasing amount like 1000 then 2000 or anything like that. each level required only an individual amount of 1000 points to level up. That's just too easy.

since the enemies leveled up with you, it wasn't THAT easy.....

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #42 on:** November 02, 2006, 04:53:39 AM »

It was for me, I had squall at 100 right after the fire cave event at the beginning of the game.

Svevan · « **Reply #43 on:** November 02, 2006, 03:55:27 PM »

Unfortunately for YUO, leveling up in FFVIII would cause the enemies on the overworld and the bosses to level up as well. The easiest way to beat the game is to get really good at drawing, then vacating the battle post haste. If you can be level 5 at the final boss with all the spells, you'll cream her.

Ceric · « **Reply #44 on:** November 02, 2006, 06:31:59 PM »

lol. The meek shall inherit the earth... I should try that.

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Author Topic: Got Final Fantasy XII (Read 11177 times)