Final Fantasy Thread

[MasterEn]

A prequel to the FFI? Well that's a bit more interesting. Yeah Anime GOT might be a mild term if they paid a bit more attention to the political intrigue but to me it reminded me of FFXIII but with the inclusion of towns which didn't warrant me to bypass the story flags I got from reviews. I'm putting stuff usually not my fair in my cart but the call of an RPG is too hard to ignore and Crisis Core I know isn't my flavor and just wanted to know if I should have given any the last FF titles a chance this sale or just look for an indie to fill the scratch.

yeah, crisis core is more of an action rpg. it's probably one of the better attempts of mixing real time and turn base together.
yeah, stranger of paradise is a prequel. you play as a man named jack. jack garland. the game seemed to have been rushed since it has a lot of environments based off of nearly every game in the series, but you move around a menu map with the world map in the background. you read textboxes with random names of npcs that were planned to be in the game. they're not; not sure what happened, but that's what they did. probably ran out of time most likely. it was most likely going to be open world and you would traverse a myriad of locations basically turning the world of ff1 into a final fantasy patchwork quilt.
i don't know much about 16, so; it could be good for all i know. if someone else has played the game, they can give you a better overview of the game without spoiling it.
starting with ff13, the games have increasingly become more and more cinematic spectacle flair and less about rpg stuff. and old games like ff7 aren't immune to that either; as seen with the reimagining games.
i'd check out some reviews of the games and go from there.

 

[DrunkGecko]

i want to clap tifa's cheeks

 

[TropicalFreeze3499]

i want to clap tifa's cheeks

Join the line, buddy.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Join the line, buddy.
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The italian parliament is all over it.

Italian Senate Accidentally Plays 30 Seconds Of Inappropriate Tifa Lockhart Video

Zoom vandalism has reached an unsurprising new low.

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[Tonberry]

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

What the hell? You guys turned the thread into lusting for tifa now......like arthas would say *YOU ARE PAST REDEMPTION*

 

[MasterEn]

What the hell? You guys turned the thread into lusting for tifa now......like arthas would say *YOU ARE PAST REDEMPTION*

calm down. it was like 3 posts.
it wouldn't have happened if you were around more. you left for like, 3 years to play chrono cross. you help keep things on track.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

calm down. it was like 3 posts.
it wouldn't have happened if you were around more. you left for like, 3 years to play chrono cross. you help keep things on track.

Man that vacation felt like forever oh well chrono cross was one hell of a game , you don't know man it may start as 3 posts in the blink of an eye suddenly there is 8 pages of tifa horny posting humans on the internet can be a little unpredictable at times

 

[Mopeybloke]

horny posting humans on the internet can be a little unpredictable at times

That would be very predictable behaviour though.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

That would be very predictable behaviour though.

Thats predictable but the rate wouldn't be

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Square for the life of it can't produce a game without their ATB system? The most "turn based" turn based game i played so far from them was legit chrono cross FF7/8/9 and chrono cross seem to use the same engine if I'm not mistaken? Just the FF8 one is more upgraded FF7 engine idk maybe you guys know more

 

[MasterEn]

Square for the life of it can't produce a game without their ATB system? The most "turn based" turn based game i played so far from them was legit chrono cross FF7/8/9 and chrono cross seem to use the same engine if I'm not mistaken? Just the FF8 one is more upgraded FF7 engine idk maybe you guys know more

the atb system was added in to increase the action and tension of battles. ff1, 2, and 3 have everything done in rounds. you put in all of your commands and then the game spins the rng roulette and what ever happens, happens. ff4 and onwards uses the atb system.
the atb system adds more excitement, more or less, because the bars themselves are affected by gameplay. they fill up individually for both the player's party and the enemies. this also allowed for more "thematic" and "cinematic" bits of story telling. ff4 was the introduction to this system, and they show it off a lot. the famous 'spoony bard' scene, the scene at mt ordeals when cecil changes classes and many more scenes are technically battles but with more focus on story than 'kill the enemy'.
every game engine is improved upon with each subsequent release. bugs are caught, shortcuts are found; optimization happens more often due to familiarity of the drawbacks and strengths of the hardware and engine. 8 feels better to play than 7 because of this, and 9 is the same with 8. and since 10 was made along side these games, it plays even better than those due to all of the knowledge and experience collected from making those games.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Square for the life of it can't produce a game without their ATB system? The most "turn based" turn based game i played so far from them was legit chrono cross FF7/8/9 and chrono cross seem to use the same engine if I'm not mistaken? Just the FF8 one is more upgraded FF7 engine idk maybe you guys know more

Chocobo Racing and Chocobo Tales

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

the atb system was added in to increase the action and tension of battles. ff1, 2, and 3 have everything done in rounds. you put in all of your commands and then the game spins the rng roulette and what ever happens, happens. ff4 and onwards uses the atb system.
the atb system adds more excitement, more or less, because the bars themselves are affected by gameplay. they fill up individually for both the player's party and the enemies. this also allowed for more "thematic" and "cinematic" bits of story telling. ff4 was the introduction to this system, and they show it off a lot. the famous 'spoony bard' scene, the scene at mt ordeals when cecil changes classes and many more scenes are technically battles but with more focus on story than 'kill the enemy'.
every game engine is improved upon with each subsequent release. bugs are caught, shortcuts are found; optimization happens more often due to familiarity of the drawbacks and strengths of the hardware and engine. 8 feels better to play than 7 because of this, and 9 is the same with 8. and since 10 was made along side these games, it plays even better than those due to all of the knowledge and experience collected from making those games.

OH yeah i remembered lol true first 3 games had haste increase hit rate , that explains a lot

 

[ChronoFiction]

Dissidia Final Fantasy anyone? I main Zidane Tribal and Kuja in these games.

 

[MasterEn]

Dissidia Final Fantasy anyone? I main Zidane Tribal and Kuja in these games.
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i got about a 1,000 hours between those two games. i mained the warrior of light the most, with firion, onion knight, cecil and kuja as back up mains.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Dissidia Final Fantasy anyone? I main Zidane Tribal and Kuja in these games.
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Definitely on top of the list if games to play just need to play FF10 first

 

[χKai]

Getting through some boring parts in FF7 and FF8 right now, just got done with Cloud's past and set my materia up to catch a chocobo to pass the marsh, since for some reason tricking the Midgar Zolom doesn't seem to work in this version.

Now I'm working through part of Laguna's story in FF8. Just gonna make a little bit of progress in each game. In FF7 I was just past the train graveyard when I started, so I've been playing it for awhile. Now I want to mess with my junction setup, but first I gotta deal with this Laguna bullshit..

It's too bad his story isn't more fleshed out like they intended. Whole thing feels kinda empty as a result. Just a boring slog before the good parts.

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

Getting through some boring parts in FF7 and FF8 right now, just got done with Cloud's past and set my materia up to catch a chocobo to pass the marsh, since for some reason tricking the Midgar Zolom doesn't seem to work in this version.

Now I'm working through part of Laguna's story in FF8. Just gonna make a little bit of progress in each game. In FF7 I was just past the train graveyard when I started, so I've been playing it for awhile. Now I want to mess with my junction setup, but first I gotta deal with this Laguna bullshit..

It's too bad his story isn't more fleshed out like they intended. Whole thing feels kinda empty as a result. Just a boring slog before the good parts.

Yep Laguna is awful. Just a giant waste of time once you get to the payoff. I'm sure they thought they had some profound point to make, but it really was "be a dumbass goofball with good intentions and good things happen".

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Getting through some boring parts in FF7 and FF8 right now, just got done with Cloud's past and set my materia up to catch a chocobo to pass the marsh, since for some reason tricking the Midgar Zolom doesn't seem to work in this version.

Now I'm working through part of Laguna's story in FF8. Just gonna make a little bit of progress in each game. In FF7 I was just past the train graveyard when I started, so I've been playing it for awhile. Now I want to mess with my junction setup, but first I gotta deal with this Laguna bullshit..

It's too bad his story isn't more fleshed out like they intended. Whole thing feels kinda empty as a result. Just a boring slog before the good parts.

There is boring parts? I thought there was only annoying parts idk i found the entire games enjoyable

 

[SherionVane]

I first played it on PS1. I think I was in middle school at the time. I love the whole series, but I don't like the online version. My ex-girlfriend was flirting with someone there, and I caught her. That's how our relationship ended. Unimportant details

 

[MasterEn]

Getting through some boring parts in FF7 and FF8 right now, just got done with Cloud's past and set my materia up to catch a chocobo to pass the marsh, since for some reason tricking the Midgar Zolom doesn't seem to work in this version.

Now I'm working through part of Laguna's story in FF8. Just gonna make a little bit of progress in each game. In FF7 I was just past the train graveyard when I started, so I've been playing it for awhile. Now I want to mess with my junction setup, but first I gotta deal with this Laguna bullshit..

It's too bad his story isn't more fleshed out like they intended. Whole thing feels kinda empty as a result. Just a boring slog before the good parts.

i made a post covering some details about the development cycle of the 3d final fantasy games. basically, ff7, 8, 9, tactics and 10 were all in development at the same time. 7 finished first followed by tactics in 97 and 8 came out in 99, 9 in 2000 and 10 in 2001. all of those started up in 94. i would guess that with 7 being the first one, it got the biggest chunk of workers on it while the others got just a few each, and as each game finished up, they would be dispersed to other games. and ff8 was intended to have 8 discs to tell its story, and that might not have been deemed possible with such a short dev period. hence why it feels incomplete.

 

[χKai]

i made a post covering some details about the development cycle of the 3d final fantasy games. basically, ff7, 8, 9, tactics and 10 were all in development at the same time.

Um, no..

I had the feeling that sounded really wrong and decided to fact-check you. There's no way they would begin production on several mainline entries in the franchise at once, and I didn't think they would, sounded.. Well, like a bad business idea. Without good reception, how would they know what direction to take the series?

 

[MasterEn]

Um, no..

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I had the feeling that sounded really wrong and decided to fact-check you. There's no way they would begin production on several mainline entries in the franchise at once, and I didn't think they would, sounded.. Well, like a bad business idea. Without good reception, how would they know what direction to take the series?

well, i was only awake for about 10 minutes when i logged in, so i was bound to misremember some details, but that makes things worse for ff8 since they planned so much stuff that 2 years would never be enough time to cover all of that. both 7 and 10 had more time and they are also incomplete.

 

[χKai]

well, i was only awake for about 10 minutes when i logged in, so i was bound to misremember some details, but that makes things worse for ff8 since they planned so much stuff that 2 years would never be enough time to cover all of that. both 7 and 10 had more time and they are also incomplete.

You didn't happen to be born until after the year 2000, did you
I guess that sorta explains all these strange fact mix-ups but it also kinda doesn't, as the information is all readily available online.