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Still The Real [Final Fantasy Thread]

Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
edited March 2010 in Games and Technology
Happy NEW FINAL FANTASY THREAD

A thread about Fantasy's that are Final. Not Phantasy. Not Dragon Quest. Not Lost Odyssey. Certainly not Wild Arms, Legend of Dragoon, Blue Dragon, or Star Ocean. No The Last Remnant or Infinite Undiscovery. Not even Kingdom Hearts (You want a KH thread, that's fine, go make one.

You can however talk about:

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII *NEW, So try not to spoil.
Final Fantasy XIV

and the Poor Unfortunate Spin-off games.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Final Fantasy X-2
Dirge of Cerberus
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronics: Rings of Fate
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years:
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
Final Fantasy Crystal Defenders
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord.
Final Fantasy Gaiden: 4 Warriors of Light
Final Fantasy:Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers.

I guess if you really want to you can talk about the Mana game released under the FF Adventure title or the three SaGa games released under the FF Legends Banner.

Anything about the games above is fair game.

This time around I'm going to do retrospectives on some of the missed titles. Basically the entire CC line besides the first one, After Years, Crisis Core, someone who truely loves the game and proves their worth to the thread can do Dirge, someone who has played more than a demo can do Crystal Defenders if they want. If one of you crazy importers can handle it they can do FF XIII.

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    harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I keep playing FF1. I can't stop. I build these bullshit parties and always manage to win somehow. Actually I just quit once I kill Tiamat. The Chaos Temple can fuck itself.

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    Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Sometimes I'll build a nice, simple, no frills party in FF1 (NES version of course) and get really ticked off when my white mage eats it on floor two or three.

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    korodullinkorodullin What. SCRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So when's FF Gaiden supposed to come out anyway?

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    Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    No firm date, but looking at past patterns I'd say Summer to Fall of 2010.

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    Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Argh, you beat me to it you son of a bitch.

    Here I was being courteous and waiting for the old thread to at least hit 99 pages, but nooo.

    I'll get you next time, Gadget.

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    EriosErios Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Glad to see the New Year's cheer has made it into the FF thread :P

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    Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Goddamn. I just can't beat this fucking mission in XIII. I guess I could wait until the post-game to do so, but I want that damn Grow Egg.

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    blaze_zeroblaze_zero Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I should go back and play some more Final Fantasy 1 again. But i'm still in the middle of VIII again...

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    PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Should replay more of FFVAdvance, which is awesomeness in handheld form.

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    CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Vincent Grayson wrote: »
    Goddamn. I just can't beat this fucking mission in XIII. I guess I could wait until the post-game to do so, but I want that damn Grow Egg.

    Here's the strategy:
    Make sure Vanillia has the Death ability.
    Make a party with Vanillias the leader, a defender and a healer (I used Fang and Hope).
    If you have it, equip the staff that increases the success rate of the death skill.

    Now, before heading into battle use up a barrier and power smoke. You can't get a pre-empetive strike, so forget about using a smoke grenade. Once in battle you should be able to hold out long enough to cast the death spell ten or so times. It took me around 5 or so tries to win, but it certainly can be done.

    And, you're not really going to be hurting for it until the post-game. I can see why you want it though.

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    DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I picked up my dusty DS the other day to play some FF3, and I remembered why I love this franchise so much.

    Then I got killed by a fucking giant eagle-man boss when he lightning-struck my party of Rogue/WM/2x Dragoon to death in two turns.

    ... I fucking hate this game.

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    PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Don't worry, everyone hates the Garuda.

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    DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I gathered, but christ, how much sodding grinding outside am I meant to do before I can kick this guy in his feathered arse? I've been grinding so long I maxed out my Rogue's class level, and the White Mage is in the late seventies. D:

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    CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    4 Dragoons is the way to go.

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    DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    CygnusZ wrote: »
    4 Dragoons is the way to go.

    Is there even enough gear kicking around in the surrounding towns to make that feasible? I know the weapons and armour shop are still closed at this point, so... *shrugs*

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    CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Dunxco wrote: »
    CygnusZ wrote: »
    4 Dragoons is the way to go.

    Is there even enough gear kicking around in the surrounding towns to make that feasible? I know the weapons and armour shop are still closed at this point, so... *shrugs*

    I think you can get four spears and a ton of armor just by exploring the town throughly. Also, I do think that one of the weapons stores is open.

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    A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited January 2010
    Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »
    Argh, you beat me to it you son of a bitch.

    Here I was being courteous and waiting for the old thread to at least hit 99 pages, but nooo.

    I'll get you next time, Gadget.

    Yeah, next time you can let it actually hit 100 pages. The threads aren't going to explode and kill the forum.

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    Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    CygnusZ wrote: »
    Vincent Grayson wrote: »
    Goddamn. I just can't beat this fucking mission in XIII. I guess I could wait until the post-game to do so, but I want that damn Grow Egg.

    Here's the strategy:
    Make sure Vanillia has the Death ability.
    Make a party with Vanillias the leader, a defender and a healer (I used Fang and Hope).
    If you have it, equip the staff that increases the success rate of the death skill.

    Now, before heading into battle use up a barrier and power smoke. You can't get a pre-empetive strike, so forget about using a smoke grenade. Once in battle you should be able to hold out long enough to cast the death spell ten or so times. It took me around 5 or so tries to win, but it certainly can be done.

    And, you're not really going to be hurting for it until the post-game. I can see why you want it though.

    Hmm. I guess I need to buy some more smokes then.

    edit: And yeah, I figured if I can get it before fighting more bosses, given the ridiculous amount of CP they give, that'd be nice.

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    gjaustingjaustin Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Dunxco wrote: »
    I picked up my dusty DS the other day to play some FF3, and I remembered why I love this franchise so much.

    Then I got killed by a fucking giant eagle-man boss when he lightning-struck my party of Rogue/WM/2x Dragoon to death in two turns.

    ... I fucking hate this game.

    FFIII is my least favorite Final Fantasy game by a significant margin.

    That even includes Dirge of Cerberus...

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    KitsurubamiKitsurubami Winnipeg, MBRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    The re-re-releases of FFI and II for the PSP look interesting. I know it'll be the same gameplay mechanics with a new skin, but they look very pretty.

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    RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Kitsurubami wrote: »
    The re-re-releases of FFI and II for the PSP look interesting. I know it'll be the same gameplay mechanics with a new skin, but they look very pretty.

    What's this now? They're doing this again?

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    Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Let's see.

    It's a set of PSP upgrades of a GBA sidegrade with new content of a PSX upgrade of 2 wonderswan color upgrades of two Famicom games.

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    KitsurubamiKitsurubami Winnipeg, MBRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Renzo wrote: »
    Kitsurubami wrote: »
    The re-re-releases of FFI and II for the PSP look interesting. I know it'll be the same gameplay mechanics with a new skin, but they look very pretty.

    What's this now? They're doing this again?

    If by 'again' you mean two years ago, yeah.

    Trailer

    They look really nice.

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    RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Oh, I thought they were doing another re-release for the PSP. Nevermind.

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    DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Renzo wrote: »
    Oh, I thought they were doing another re-release for the PSP. Nevermind.

    Have they released them for PSN yet?

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    ExcalipoorExcalipoor Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Is it silly of me to hope that FFXIV will support on-board graphics?

    I am concerned, because the system requirements for Last Remnant on steam are all "GTFO, puny laptop user"

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    nervenerve Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I just got Bahamut in FF13. The intro cutscene and fight for it was bad ASS.




    Also, the opening cutscene for chapter 11 (closing of 10?) is INSANE.

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    nervenerve Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Excalipoor wrote: »
    Is it silly of me to hope that FFXIV will support on-board graphics?

    I am concerned, because the system requirements for Last Remnant on steam are all "GTFO, puny laptop user"

    I doubt it, doesn't FFXIV use the same engine as FFXIII ? My computer probably can't handle it either :(

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    ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So, what's the latest news on FF Versus 13? It's supposed to be PS3 exclusive, right?

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    Satanic JesusSatanic Jesus Hi, I'm Liam! with broken glassesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I just accidently deleted my PSP FF1 save where I had everyone at level 99, just before the final boss (in case I wanted to beat his ass again.) At least I have a reason to play it again, as I love this game.

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    Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Play the real version of the game.

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    Satanic JesusSatanic Jesus Hi, I'm Liam! with broken glassesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    But I don't have that.

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    Darth_MogsDarth_Mogs Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Reynolds wrote: »
    So, what's the latest news on FF Versus 13? It's supposed to be PS3 exclusive, right?

    For now. We'll see how long that lasts when they realize it's been in production all this time, and they essentially wasted plenty of time putting most of the Versus team to work on the Main 13 to let Versus just kind of sit there. (Unless they managed to move forward with the game with a fraction of the team?)

    But it might stay exclusive, who knows.

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    Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Darth_Mogs wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    So, what's the latest news on FF Versus 13? It's supposed to be PS3 exclusive, right?

    For now. We'll see how long that lasts when they realize it's been in production all this time, and they essentially wasted plenty of time putting most of the Versus team to work on the Main 13 to let Versus just kind of sit there. (Unless they managed to move forward with the game with a fraction of the team?)

    But it might stay exclusive, who knows.

    They've been pretty adamant about it.

    I can't help thinking the numbers that come out of FFXIII on 360 will play a role in deciding the ultimate fate of that exclusivity though.

    edit: Woo! Killed that monster and got my CP-doubling item, now to finish the final dungeon!

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    dachishdachish Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So what's the opinion of the new Crystal Chronicles? I'm out of the loop and didn't even know it existed until a few days ago. Worth bothering with?

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    ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    From what I've been able to gather, it's a very interesting world with a cool main character, of a type that doesn't usually appear in typical JRPGs. Lots of exciting events involving his telekinesis powers, weapons, airships, and other wild battles.

    And, it's all ruined by the typical sloppy waggle controls that plenty of Wii games suffer from. I've heard after you realize you can't really pull off anything cool when you want to, the game nosedives really fast.

    The trailers and vids looked really cool, though.

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    Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I feel like there are few developers who can match Square Enix in the realm of making it abundantly clear how much they care about a given game.

    edit: To be clear, I'm including how well they show us when they don't give a flying fuck about a game, say, pretty much the entire Mana and Crystal Chronicles line.

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    Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I've give you Mana but they've put a ton of effort into each and every CC game.

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    DunxcoDunxco Should get a suit Never skips breakfastRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Am I the only one here who enjoyed the hell out of CC on the Gamecube? Best fun I had on that console with four other people since Timesplitters 2.

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    MinionOfCthulhuMinionOfCthulhu Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Satanic Jesus wrote: »
    But I don't have that.

    It's on the Virtual Console. No excuses!

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