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#27 Mar 02 2013 at 2:07 PM Rating: Decent
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Suddenly my sympathy for momma Behemoth has turned to bloodlust. These are good ideas.
#28 Mar 02 2013 at 2:11 PM Rating: Good
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I'd love to see a hunt system with rewards like that. Although I want to kill a giant cat... I will frame the butt and have a real cat-***-trophy on my wall :P
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#29 Mar 02 2013 at 4:40 PM Rating: Good
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Kachi wrote:
Can I just say all of it? (except for XII. @#%^ that Ivalice dungeon-crawling bastardization they tried to pass as a FF.)

The main thing for me would definitely be an integrated card game.

But for nostalgia's sake, I'm such a sucker, I'm really not that picky.

I thought the FF8 gameplay system was sort of poorly implemented in that game, but a variant of it would work very well in an MMO, I feel. So I'd like to see something like that, complete with summoning affinities for all. Doesn't look at all likely at this point, unfortunately.

Edited, Mar 1st 2013 10:13pm by Kachi


Those are fighting words sir!

I thought FF 12 was the best single player FF since 9, and easily in the top 5 (imo)... The fact that it was WAYYYY to easy was in fact a bummer, and there were other serious issues... but overall a stellar game, again, in my most humble of humble opinions.

The magic draw system in 8 would certainly be interesting in an MMO... however most likely impractical because it would promote single play rather than group. It would probably be really easy to mess up too.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2013 5:43pm by je355804
#30 Mar 02 2013 at 4:57 PM Rating: Decent
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There are a lot of interesting things they could do with magic drawing, though I felt that it was poorly implemented in 8. I wouldn't necessarily miss that though, as much as the ability to customize your statistics so deeply.

As for XII, I might have enjoyed it if I hadn't been playing XI for three years or so before its release. After that point, it felt like they just ported XI very badly into a single-player game. It just seemed to lack all the soul, nevermind the mechanics, of a traditional FF game, regardless of how independently good it might have been. Like many players, I was disappointed that they tried to reinvent the wheel rather than improve upon a well-working concept. It was, basically, a story-less (or story anorexic) dungeon crawler, and didn't even have throwbacks like the classic summons. The gameplay was largely ripped off of XI, the grid system was dumb, gambits, quickenings... really, I can't say that there was much of anything that I particularly liked about the game. Oh yeah, and lest I forget, they made Fran and Balthier perform worse with their native weapons for no damn good reason. And who could forget the stroke of brilliance associated with the Zodiac Spear?

Really did not strike me as worthy of a numeral. I might have thought it was great as a spinoff, part of the Ivalice series that it should have been, but going in expecting the ol' FF experience, I was roundly disappointed at pretty much every turn.
#31 Mar 02 2013 at 5:17 PM Rating: Good
Ffxii was the best, I never played xi thouh. I loved how it catered to my inner loot hound. Its awesome how early I was able to get some really good weapons (inc. The zodiac spear) was just really fun. I rekon I spent about 6 hours straight getting 3 ribbons in cerobi steppe juet zoning abd re zoning lol all good fun. Definitely the best ff game ive ever played
#32 Mar 02 2013 at 5:23 PM Rating: Good
And I dont know where u get that fran and baltheir perform worse with his gun and her bow. I always used the formalhaut with baltheir with dark shot equipped and a defense increasing accessorie and with fran she had the saggitarius bow with artemis arrows and cat ear hood equiped increasing her speed massively therefore her damage nearly rivaled the spear mechs were greatnin the game.also how did ya not like the gambit system I was constantly mucking around tweaking then made the game just flow nice imo.. ohwell to each his own :)
#33 Mar 02 2013 at 5:34 PM Rating: Decent
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I'd love to see a hunt system with rewards like that. Although I want to kill a giant cat... I will frame the butt and have a real cat-***-trophy on my wall :P


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#34 Mar 02 2013 at 5:42 PM Rating: Decent
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jarradstone wrote:
And I dont know where u get that fran and baltheir perform worse with his gun and her bow. I always used the formalhaut with baltheir with dark shot equipped and a defense increasing accessorie and with fran she had the saggitarius bow with artemis arrows and cat ear hood equiped increasing her speed massively therefore her damage nearly rivaled the spear mechs were greatnin the game.also how did ya not like the gambit system I was constantly mucking around tweaking then made the game just flow nice imo.. ohwell to each his own :)


For whatever stupid reason, they gave Fran and Balthier an added delay with their bow and gun, respectively. So they actually fired their weapons slower than any other character would, making them the worse characters to use the bow/gun.

I'm pretty sure the designers of XII were on lots of coke.
#35 Mar 02 2013 at 6:10 PM Rating: Good
Lol this is true it didnt really make a massive difference tho, well I dnt think so n e way
#36 Mar 02 2013 at 6:13 PM Rating: Decent
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It was just one of a long line of stupid design decisions.

I'm pretty firmly convinced that I couldn't enjoy FFXII because it was too much like FFXI, which I was already burned out on at the time. Having said that, from an objective point of view, there were lots of things done pretty poorly, and lots of things that I would expect from a FF that were absent. It was a very contentious release. Some people loved it, but there were a lot of pissed off fans when it was released.
#37 Mar 02 2013 at 6:18 PM Rating: Good
Its probs something to do with the weps being ranged ones small price to pay to be out of the fray even rhymed
#38 Mar 02 2013 at 6:25 PM Rating: Decent
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The nerfs were specific to Fran and Balthier, as in, they made Fran worse with bows than anyone else, and Balthier worse with guns than anyone else, even though they feature them using those weapons exclusively in cutscenes. It really made no sense, other than as a kick in the nuts to fans.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2013 4:25pm by Kachi
#39 Mar 02 2013 at 6:30 PM Rating: Good
Ahh well you have turned out ok I think
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