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Final Fantasy XV
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Zephyria on June 02, 2012, 12:42:37 PM ---I've been a Final Fantasy fan for a long time, but it's hard to be excited about it at all anymore. Honestly I don't think the franchise will ever recover to the quality of it's PlayStation days. Speculating here, but the buyout/merger with Enix happened right around the time I began to grow disillusioned with it (beginning with X-2). All the games afterwards have been fun, and "decent" RPGs, but there has yet to be a masterpiece from Final Fantasy since then. Now it's just a money tree for Squeenix.
Myself, I'll always hearken back to VI and Tactics (not that GBA spinoff).
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The PS1 Tactics is excellent, and SE somehow managed to make an under-par PSP port for it.
Nikkoru:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 02, 2012, 12:03:53 AM ---
* Tidus
XII is OK, and it has tons of content to mess with for one game (so long as nobody decides to try farming 99 of the spears), albeit the story is kind of lacking and the protagonist is such a noob.
Also, why so little mentioning of XIII-2 here?
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Final Fantasy 12 was not only the most beautiful game for the PS2 with the possible exception of Shadows of the Colossus, but one of the best written - the best in the Final Fantasy series barring the original Tactics. While Vaan is a protagonist, and you do control him at the beginning, he isn't a main protagonist such as Cloud, Squall, Zidane, or even Terra. The story and game play doesn't really elevate any of the playable cast to such an obvious position.
There wasn't an overawing single moment, just hours of technical excellence.
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 02, 2012, 03:54:08 PM ---The PS1 Tactics is excellent, and SE somehow managed to make an under-par PSP port for it.
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I played through them both in the last 2 months, the PSP version is every bit as enjoyable as the original -- particularly with the cell shaded art style and wider perspective. Though having War of the Lions on a handheld console is enough for me.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 02, 2012, 03:54:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zephyria on June 02, 2012, 12:42:37 PM ---I've been a Final Fantasy fan for a long time, but it's hard to be excited about it at all anymore. Honestly I don't think the franchise will ever recover to the quality of it's PlayStation days. Speculating here, but the buyout/merger with Enix happened right around the time I began to grow disillusioned with it (beginning with X-2). All the games afterwards have been fun, and "decent" RPGs, but there has yet to be a masterpiece from Final Fantasy since then. Now it's just a money tree for Squeenix.
Myself, I'll always hearken back to VI and Tactics (not that GBA spinoff).
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The PS1 Tactics is excellent, and SE somehow managed to make an under-par PSP port for it.
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Ah! I completely forgot about FFT and the PSP port. This is definitely among their best along with 6 and 7. It still felt short for a storyline and the gameplay was about half-broken. I liked Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together's gameplay better and the character variation made it well enjoyable. I've spent about 150 hours on that game and I spent about 400+ hours combined on FFT and FFT:WotL.
Ashall:
Tbh I never could get into the Tactics games. It gets old fast and the barely winning every time was not healthy gaming. Well maybe I just wasn't so good at it. Lol Still have Orge laying around maybe I'll try to get back into it.
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on June 02, 2012, 09:00:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on June 02, 2012, 03:54:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zephyria on June 02, 2012, 12:42:37 PM ---I've been a Final Fantasy fan for a long time, but it's hard to be excited about it at all anymore. Honestly I don't think the franchise will ever recover to the quality of it's PlayStation days. Speculating here, but the buyout/merger with Enix happened right around the time I began to grow disillusioned with it (beginning with X-2). All the games afterwards have been fun, and "decent" RPGs, but there has yet to be a masterpiece from Final Fantasy since then. Now it's just a money tree for Squeenix.
Myself, I'll always hearken back to VI and Tactics (not that GBA spinoff).
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The PS1 Tactics is excellent, and SE somehow managed to make an under-par PSP port for it.
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Ah! I completely forgot about FFT and the PSP port. This is definitely among their best along with 6 and 7. It still felt short for a storyline and the gameplay was about half-broken. I liked Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together's gameplay better and the character variation made it well enjoyable. I've spent about 150 hours on that game and I spent about 400+ hours combined on FFT and FFT:WotL.
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It might be the thing with the storyline which jumped from the enemy from being human to demon instead, or that JP bug in the PS1 version.
And PS1 Tactics Ogre was especially hard on chaos route.
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on June 02, 2012, 08:42:09 PM ---I played through them both in the last 2 months, the PSP version is every bit as enjoyable as the original -- particularly with the cell shaded art style and wider perspective. Though having War of the Lions on a handheld console is enough for me.
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I definitely did not shell enough perspective for what I meant. The PSP version of the game FFT is still indeed excellent.
--- Quote from: Ashall on June 02, 2012, 10:08:06 PM ---Tbh I never could get into the Tactics games. It gets old fast and the barely winning every time was not healthy gaming. Well maybe I just wasn't so good at it. Lol Still have Orge laying around maybe I'll try to get back into it.
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If that's the case, you'd probably drop it about one third of the way.
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