@themcnoisy@Feena you know what gets me about it is that people complain about XIII and XV say it's combat is simple and "all you have to so is press one button" (which if you tried to do that you wouldn't get very far) yet when it comes to FFXII they sing it praises when thanks to the gambit system that game can LITERALLY play itself or the complain about it being linear when every FF game is linear they just hide it
now i still love FFXII (but i agree it's story is missing some of the humour of other FF's) but it still perplexes me that people moan about XIII and XV while praising the other games for doing the same thing
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@FullbringIchigo@Feena We all have our favourites in the series. Every FF game can stand toe to toe with the best games third party games of any given generation since the Nes.
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@Kindaichi i love VIII too but you know what i found funny, Squall told Irvine to take a warning shot as he was feeling nervous yet if Edna hadn't put that barrier up it would have hit her square between the eyes
some warning shot
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@Kindaichi disc 1 of ff8 is as good as any game gets. Then Squall dies so it all makes sense.
Massive fan of the FF8 stats and systems so I absolutely loved it.
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@themcnoisy I played the first disc so many times as I had a pirated copy back in the day and the second disc didn’t work. I must have played the first disc five or six times before I got a copy of the second disc.
I’ve only ever completed the game once and will probably never do so again as I could probably recite most of the first disc dialogue.
The junction system was interesting but did lead to some random battles where you would just use sleep on an enemy repeatedly as you keep drawing from them.
I also have an incredible ability at tapping the square button extremely quickly due to the GF boost ability
@Kindaichi no very easy actually. It makes perfect sense to me. The big problem is it cuts off the use of magic as a battle technique else you negatively impact statistics.
@Thrillho and that is the second problem with the junction system. Drawing continuously everytime a new spell appeared. Sometimes this would take an age if you got unlucky with the rng.
I would love to see a revamped junction system in the future. I can't see it happening though.
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@Kindaichi first off sorry it took so long to get back, i work nights but i always found most of the theories were quite silly, the whole Squall is dead one was especially dumb and while it was never actually explained it was implied that Edna or Rinoa saved him with their power
BUT the Rinoa is Ultimecia one was one i actually found plausible, especially with her using Griever but as you said that was debunked by Square, perhaps she was one of Squall and Rinoa's descendants?
as for the Junction system i never had an issue with it but then again i actually read the instruction manual which has about 14 pages explaining everything about it and most people didn't so it's their own fault really
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"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
Btw have you guys seen those news Episode Ardyn screenshots? And the anime? OMG it looks so good! I am actually starting to hope this DLC will be 15-20€ and feature a longer adventure than past 5€ episodes...
@Feena yeah it looks really good but i doubt it will be a big long one and it will probably be around the same price and length as the others
thing is IF the story is the focus and it does that well the that's fine by me
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"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
@Kindaichi there is also one thing about it when you think, you only become a Sorceress when one is dying and they pass on the power to another potential Sorceress so that would mean that basically even though they have different bodies they all have the same power and thus are all technically the same Sorceress plus you throw time travel into the mix and anything is possible
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"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
@nasty_hamster unless they are actual sequels like say FFXIII, FFXIII-2 and Lightning Returns FFXIII then no none of the games have a connection to each other at all, instead they share similar themes and motifs
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OK so the XBOX ONE and Nintendo Switch versions of Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age actually have features the PS4 versions doesn't including the ability to reassign Jobs AND a New Game+ mode
i hope the PS4 version gets an update to add these otherwise it's a bit of a kick in the teeth to the fans who brought the PS4 version
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@nasty_hamster Yeah, they’re all completely different games with very little in common between games; combat is quite different from game to game but with the biggest change being from turn based to real time combat.
The only minor continuity are names but even these are literally just names. Almost every game has a character called Cid for instance but none relate to each other.
Oh man I would have loved to have been able to reassign jobs in XII when I played it on PS4 recently. I proper messed it up and made the final battle of the trials thing a total nightmare.
@johncalmc yeah i just hope they also update the PS4 version to add it in
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Glad I waited for the Switch version, as it sounds like a proper improvement with these additions!
Although, interestingly, the Xbox One X version is actually the definitive version if you discount portability, because it can run up to 60fps like the PC version in addition to these other changes.
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