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Let's Play Final Fantasy Tactics Together - Week 13! Get hype!
Wyborn
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Welcome to the Community Playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics: For Grownups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFVWiZkPcoU
"About as perfect as games come, and you must play it." -PSM Magazine
"Anyone who doesn’t think Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions isn’t worth owning just doesn’t like RPGs." -Digital Entertainment News
" If you missed it the first time, don’t miss it again." -GameTrailers
Oh Christ
It's baaaaaaaaaaaack! Welcome to the community playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics: For Grownups! We are playing us another big-ass RPG because it's what this community really craves it seems like!
OK. Fine. Big. Let's cut to the chase. Where to play?
Pretty much any Playstation platform. You can get the original to play on PS1, PS2, or PS3, you can get the original digitally on PS3, and you can get the remade version on PSP, Vita, and Playstation TV.
Wyborn, I didn't read your other thread because I ain't give a FUCK about FF12. To that end: how the Hell do you expect us to play these billion-hour strategy Jurps as adults?
Well, that's the point of us doing this as slow as we do! We try to partition out the game so you can get through it at a rate of about five hours a week (give or take), and you can always catch up whenever you feel like. We know you're busy people! We're busy people too. So let's take it easy and get through this together, without too much stress. You'll find the actual schedule further down the page.
So what do we talk about in this thread?
The idea is that as we play the game we'll talk about the parts we're playing through. Spoilers will abound, people, but the game has been out for almost a decade so we'll work out the spoiler policy as we go along. If anyone's playing for the first time, we'll be more strict about it.
When does this nonsense start?
To give people time to prepare, we're going to be kicking off this coming Friday, on the 23rd of October.
THE SCHEDULE
This is a 13-week playthrough, so everyone should have plenty of time to get along and caught up over the course of it.
Open the spoiler to see the general milestones we'll try to hit at the end of each week!
The battle begins October 23rd!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFVWiZkPcoU"About as perfect as games come, and you must play it." -PSM Magazine
"Anyone who doesn’t think Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions isn’t worth owning just doesn’t like RPGs." -Digital Entertainment News
" If you missed it the first time, don’t miss it again." -GameTrailers
Oh Christ
It's baaaaaaaaaaaack! Welcome to the community playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics: For Grownups! We are playing us another big-ass RPG because it's what this community really craves it seems like!
OK. Fine. Big. Let's cut to the chase. Where to play?
Pretty much any Playstation platform. You can get the original to play on PS1, PS2, or PS3, you can get the original digitally on PS3, and you can get the remade version on PSP, Vita, and Playstation TV.
Wyborn, I didn't read your other thread because I ain't give a FUCK about FF12. To that end: how the Hell do you expect us to play these billion-hour strategy Jurps as adults?
Well, that's the point of us doing this as slow as we do! We try to partition out the game so you can get through it at a rate of about five hours a week (give or take), and you can always catch up whenever you feel like. We know you're busy people! We're busy people too. So let's take it easy and get through this together, without too much stress. You'll find the actual schedule further down the page.
So what do we talk about in this thread?
The idea is that as we play the game we'll talk about the parts we're playing through. Spoilers will abound, people, but the game has been out for almost a decade so we'll work out the spoiler policy as we go along. If anyone's playing for the first time, we'll be more strict about it.
When does this nonsense start?
To give people time to prepare, we're going to be kicking off this coming Friday, on the 23rd of October.
THE SCHEDULE
This is a 13-week playthrough, so everyone should have plenty of time to get along and caught up over the course of it.
Open the spoiler to see the general milestones we'll try to hit at the end of each week!
Week 1: Character Generation to Battle 5 (Dorter Trade City 1)
Week 2: Battle 6 (Sand Rat Cellar) to Battle 10 (Fort Zeakden)
Week 3: Battle 11 (Dorter Trade City 2) to Battle 14 (Zaland Fort City)
Week 4: Battle 15 (Barius Hill) to Battle 18 (Barius Valley)
Week 5: Battle 19 (Golgorand Execution Site) to Battle 21 (Inside Lionel Castle)
Week 6: Battle 22 (Goland Coal City) to Battle 26 (Underground Storage First Floor)
Week 7: Battle 27(Grog Hill) to Batle 29 (Yuguo Woods)
Week 8: Battle 30 (Approaching Riovannes Castle) to Battle 32 (Roof of Riovannes Castle)
Week 9: Battle 33 (Doguola Pass) to Battle 37 (Bed Desert)
Week 10: Battle 38 (North/South Wall of Bethla Garrison) to Battle 41 (Poeskas Lake)
Week 11: Battle 42 (Gate of Limberry Castle) to Battle 45 (Inside Igros Castle)
*Point of No Return to the World Map*
Week 12: Battle 46 (Murond Holy Place) to Battle 50 (Underground Book Storage Fifth Floor)
Week 13: Battle 51 (Murond Death City) to Battle 54 (Graveyard of Airships 2)
Week 2: Battle 6 (Sand Rat Cellar) to Battle 10 (Fort Zeakden)
Week 3: Battle 11 (Dorter Trade City 2) to Battle 14 (Zaland Fort City)
Week 4: Battle 15 (Barius Hill) to Battle 18 (Barius Valley)
Week 5: Battle 19 (Golgorand Execution Site) to Battle 21 (Inside Lionel Castle)
Week 6: Battle 22 (Goland Coal City) to Battle 26 (Underground Storage First Floor)
Week 7: Battle 27(Grog Hill) to Batle 29 (Yuguo Woods)
Week 8: Battle 30 (Approaching Riovannes Castle) to Battle 32 (Roof of Riovannes Castle)
Week 9: Battle 33 (Doguola Pass) to Battle 37 (Bed Desert)
Week 10: Battle 38 (North/South Wall of Bethla Garrison) to Battle 41 (Poeskas Lake)
Week 11: Battle 42 (Gate of Limberry Castle) to Battle 45 (Inside Igros Castle)
*Point of No Return to the World Map*
Week 12: Battle 46 (Murond Holy Place) to Battle 50 (Underground Book Storage Fifth Floor)
Week 13: Battle 51 (Murond Death City) to Battle 54 (Graveyard of Airships 2)
The battle begins October 23rd!
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I'm gonna start NOW so that FloPAX doesn't make me fall behind immediately.
A challenge run where you are limited to specific jobs. Once you roll a job for a chapter a team member must always be that job with whatever secondary job you want on them. Monster Risk just dictates if one of your party members must be a monster, for the sadists of the audience.
I missed this game when it first came out, so it'll be cool to play through it. I've enjoyed the other Ivalice games (#MarcheWasWrong) so I have high hopes for this one!
But Heart, I don't have FFT!
Fortunately, it's very easy to acquire a digital copy. Here are the PS Store Links:
FFT Classic (PS3, PSP, Vita, unsure on PS4):
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/final-fantasy-tactics-%28psone-classic%29/cid=UP9000-NPUJ94221_00-0000000000000001
The War of the Lions (PSP, Vita):
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/final-fantasy-tactics-the-war-of-the-lions/cid=UP0082-ULUS10297_00-FFTWOLUMDL000000
War of the Lions is also available on the Apple and Android App Stores, as well. Keep in mind, it's $15 on the App Stores but $10 for either version on the PS Store.
I don't know if I'm actively playing yet, but I'll definitely at least be on the sidelines.
Get the PSP version. It has a new translation.
And I quote (from a SUPER early battle):
Milleuda: How can you nobles live as you do and yet hold your heads so high? We
are not chattel! We are humans, no less than you! What flaw do you hold there
to be in us? That we were born between a different set of walls? Do you know
what it means to hunger? To sup for months on naught but broth of bean? Why
must we be made to starve that you might grow fat? You call us thieves, but it
is you who steal from us the right to live!
Argath: You, no less human than we? Ha! Now there's a beastly thought. You've
been less than we from the moment your baseborn father fell upon your mother in
whatever gutter saw you sired! You've been chattel since you came into the
world drenched in common blood!
Milleuda: By whose decree!? Who decides such foul and absurd things?
Argath: 'Tis heaven's will!
Milleuda: Heaven's will? You would pin your bigotry on the gods? No god would
fain forgive such sin, much less embrace it! All men are equal in the eyes of
the gods!
Argath: Men, yes. But the gods have no eyes for chattel.
Milleuda: You speak of devils, not gods!
Does it control OK on a phone?
That's the only reason I'm playing it on my PS3 right now.
Man, if the choice is between playing War of the Lions on the phone or classic on a PS3 I would go with the phone every time.
The script is so much better you guys.
And playing it on a PS1 is disastrous because of the load times. Not as bad as Tactics Ogre. Which would be a bitch to 'Let's Play' it.
Also for anyone who hasn't played this before, the last fight of week 1 can be KILLER if you aren't ready for it.
If you want and feel you have time for it, go right ahead. This isn't a very strict format.
EDIT: And he along with most every recruitable character is exclusive to War of Lions.
DO IT ALL.
The PSP version has disastrous lag, though.
The original loads take a long time and has a much weaker script.
We might talk about version differences as we go through the weeks, and I'm all for giving people advice if they ask about the best version to get according to the options they have
But let's be chill, friends
Let's be chill friends
The exclusive:
EDIT:
I'd prefer load times to lag, that's just me.
Of course, but it's not like the original is Castle Shikigami 2 or anything. It had some pretty great lines too.
And Argath goes from being kind of a prick to a total upperclass asshole with the translation changes. Just look at that bolded part up there!
Same!
I think the conventional wisdom is: sure, if you're feeling it. I don't think there's any dedicated time set for it, but if a week's itinerary also opens up a sidequest, feel free.
I forgot this game is like, super Japanese
X is cancel and O is confirm
I am undone
Heh, import enough games and you get used to that.
Did a test run last week up to Mandalia Plains to make sure everything worked and yeah, they're working. Even the intro battles get crazy. One of the foes in the intro battle had fully loaded MATH SKILL (he only got a single use of Raise and it missed to rub salt in the wound).
The list. if anyone's interested:
Enemy Levels Doubled
Enemy Infinite JP (I'll explain how Enemy JP works a good bit later when the later jobs start popping up)
All Jobs Unlocked (this affects my side too, but I have to earn my JP, the enemies don't)
Rare Items Flagged as Useable by AI (this lets them use (and lets me steal) the fun stuff)
Item Levels Lowered (makes sure all the basic items (anything not tagged Rare) are available to the AI)
Rare Items Appear ASAP (Lowers the item level on rares so they can pop up earlier for the AI)
Enemies Equip Best Items according to their Level (makes sure they actually use good equipment/the fun stuff)
Oh! And the PSP has an exclusive class I think. Two of them. One is the Dark Knight, which you get after mastering all the other classes I think, and I forget the other.
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It went GH. It did very well. It also inspired a ton of copycats.
And for a moment there, after the first few notes of the opening refrain, or perhaps after that, at the dissonant notes of the chapter title melody, I could see the gears in his head, all "Could I get away with stealthily editing the Let's Play Together thread to Ogre Battle? I think I could"
Okay, maybe that thought process didn't actually occur. :P But I do know that if he tripped over a billion dollars in the future, he would be at Squeenix HQ the very next day, ready to buy the rights to Ogre Battle with as many cash briefcases as necessary.
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Try 2.
Onion Knight! I forget what he does, but he's either super bad or super good.
This is the way!