Only ever played FFX, and I loved it! I think I should probably start from the beginning.
Gaming The Final Fantasy Thread
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All this talk is making me want to play VIII again.
Oh and Revan, not sure how near the start you are but once Cid gives you the lamp, you use that to get Diablo. At least I think it's a lamp.
Oh and Revan, not sure how near the start you are but once Cid gives you the lamp, you use that to get Diablo. At least I think it's a lamp.
I am at the very beginning at the game, haven't met Cid yet. I have spend most of the time getting the Card ability, trying the junctioning, carding enemies and about half of the time playing cards. Now I only need another 4 cards to get all the cards available of the first five levels. Also, until now I am having extremely easy winning card games, just playing defensively means that I either win or about 20% of the games I draw.
I got Quistis, my first level 10 card. Yay!
Yup, it's a lamp.
Score!
Wish I could forget all of that game and play it again. What a fecking storyline. What a world as well - probably the most original of the series.
I remember reading a variety of posts on some FF forum slagging it off not long ago, with there being a load of talk about how Chrono Trigger, Terranigma etc had far better storylines, music, etc... It was absolute nonsense and it goes to show how much nostalgia clouds judgement. JRPG stories don't come too much better than X's - it'd be absolutely perfect with better voice acting and a slightly better script. What made it so good is that you'd never go anywhere without there being a significant development in the story. It's what made the linearity of it work.
I never got a great distance into that one, as I had only borrowed a copy. The linearity was a slight niggle, but dang, it was so good it didn't matter. Probably the last proper Final Fantasy, IMO. Didn't like 12 or 13 at all.
Can't wait for the HD remake, just dunno should I get it for the Vita, or PS3, would probably get both if their saves are compatible/transferable.
Can't wait for the HD remake, just dunno should I get it for the Vita, or PS3, would probably get both if their saves are compatible/transferable.
Yeah, I'm the same Earthquake... There's nothing overly confirmed on the remake either, seems to perk up and die down easily.
I don't have a ps3 or vita atm anyway, but I am leaning towards getting a vita, then a ps4 on release, waiting to see speculation of dates and stuff.
I remember everytime I entered the lightning plains, I would put "Iron Maiden - Lightning Strikes Twice" on and leave it on repeat till I was out of there.
Just been pricing ps2's and ffx up on ebay there, only about £30-£40 anyway, might do that just for ffx
Probably order this friday. Play through it and bang it all back on ebay. Then with the money, dreamcast and shenmue. I am really in the mood to play ffx RIGHT NOW! Arghhh!
I don't have a ps3 or vita atm anyway, but I am leaning towards getting a vita, then a ps4 on release, waiting to see speculation of dates and stuff.
I remember everytime I entered the lightning plains, I would put "Iron Maiden - Lightning Strikes Twice" on and leave it on repeat till I was out of there.
Just been pricing ps2's and ffx up on ebay there, only about £30-£40 anyway, might do that just for ffx
Probably order this friday. Play through it and bang it all back on ebay. Then with the money, dreamcast and shenmue. I am really in the mood to play ffx RIGHT NOW! Arghhh!Gees, that's not a bad price at all.
Just junctioned 100 Tornado, and I can raise my strength from 28 to 64, or my HP from 800 to around 3600. fecking hell, that's really a big leveling up.
On a bad note, I have played more than 13 hours now and I haven't advanced the story past the first day when I defeated Ifrit.
On a bad note, I have played more than 13 hours now and I haven't advanced the story past the first day when I defeated Ifrit.
Yup. Junctioning is ridiculous. Quake has a similar boost to Tornado, so you could have both stats in that range.
I hear ya on the time, once you get drawn into it, it's crazy. I've 25 hours up on my save, and I'm not all that much further forward.
I hear ya on the time, once you get drawn into it, it's crazy. I've 25 hours up on my save, and I'm not all that much further forward.
It's already out...sort of. If you've got a decent laptop, acquire the FFX ISO, load it onto PCSX2, ramp up the D3D resolution scaling to a few times the native setting and voila...FFX with considerably better looking graphics.
I tried it on my laptop with Kingdom Hearts and it almost destroyed it, but it looked quality nonetheless. Will definitely be trying that with FFX when I sort a new laptop out, cackling manically at my circumvention of Square-Enix's money-grabbing whilst doing so.It's already out...sort of. If you've got a decent laptop, acquire the FFX ISO, load it onto PCSX2, ramp up the D3D resolution scaling to a few times the native setting and voila...FFX with considerably better looking graphics.
I don't actually know the specs of my laptop, tbh.
I remember trying to use PCSX2 or something similar to play Suikoden III years ago, and it was a stuttering mess, but that's a few laptops back.
Suikoden III is apparently notoriously difficult to emulate and will suffer FPS drops on occasions no matter what you have. Really fancy playing that at some point, I've never touched the series. Think you can play FFX above native settings with 2.3 dual core and an ok-ish graphics card so it's pretty reasonable compared to other PS2 games.
Still my favourite FF game preciously because of the world. Much prefer those sort of settings to the often dreary world of FFVII or some of the medieval type worlds.
I'll agree that the scripting could have been slightly better(translation issues always seem to be a big problem with games that have voice acting. X-2 seemed to have major problems with it) but I thought the voice acting was, for the most part, top notch, John DiMaggio especially. Yuna's voice actress was the only one who I thought wasn't that great.
The Suikoden series, especially the early ones are probably the only games I'd rate above FF. Only ever played II emulated, only once have I ever seen an actual copy of the game, when it first came out for 30 bucks, 30 bucks I didn't have handy.
Never came across the Tactics game or the DS ones either, but they're less important. Wouldn't mind emulation Tactics though!My attempt at emulating III was game breaking though, more frozen than moving.
Might have to download PCSX2, and try FFX, Suikoden Tactics, and probably another disastrous attempt at III.
I've just found out who this guy is...Kimahri and Wakka? How the feck do you pull that off whilst being one person?
Impressive. I may be being a bit harsh when I say that about the voice acting, to be fair. It's more the way it's done at times than the people themselves; the classic example being that awful scene when you're just about to leave Luca. Still, I blitzed through Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories not long ago after going through the original and it's nowhere near as bad as that. I was curling up and cringing at some points with some of the stuff there. Every single scene of Sora's story was at least as bad as that one in Luca. 15 straight hours of unbearable cringing.The Suikoden series, especially the early ones are probably the only games I'd rate above FF. Only ever played II emulated, only once have I ever seen an actual copy of the game, when it first came out for 30 bucks, 30 bucks I didn't have handy.
My attempt at emulating III was game breaking though, more frozen than moving.
Might have to download PCSX2, and try FFX, Suikoden Tactics, and probably another disastrous attempt at III.
Shit, I had no idea they were that good... Will definitely have to get on that at some point.
Reading up again on Suikoden now, other people are saying they're getting it working with pretty mediocre computers/laptops with certain settings so maybe it isn't that bad after all...
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Suikoden-III-Does-it-Work
Some useful tips in there for increasing FPS. PCSX2 is actually amazing, I can't bend my head round how people can make something like that. All the hacks and stuff that you can edit work so well to make games playable on laptops below the necessary specifications.
It's all personal opinion, of course, but for me everything about I and II were perfect, well, everything that mattered. I is quite short in RPG terms, and the graphics aren't good. Both have translation issues, but most games do IME. Combat is simple really, but not in a bad way. They're not difficult either(I'm never really bothered about difficulty as much as fun, tbh, and FF games are pretty easy too, really). Plenty of options and customizable stuff, especially in II. Music and stories are incredible though, and there's lots of variety between mini games, and the different combats, duels, regular battles and large scale army ones. All the playable characters and different runes and combos and such can keep you busy too.
Cheers for that link, seems like it's not going to be as much trouble as it used to be.
Well I'm sold on that, it sounds great.
No problem. I'm guessing it was just the older versions of PCSX2 that struggled.
I have become a powerful badass, with about 2500HP and 86 strength. My two other characters are still noobs though (waiting to learn the necessarily junctions on their GF).
Anyway, I just went to the first city after those two that are in the beginning of the game, and when I want to play a card game with someone, he is asking to mix the rules (same and open). So, I think that if I play some game, I can spread the open rule in this region, but is there anyway to abolish the same rule, or not. Also, if I spread the open rule, does this mean that when I play card games here, the rule will be randomly chosen from open and same?
Another thing, do I need to get all the monthly magazines in order to upgrade my weapons, or can I use a guide to know the necessarily parts for it, without caring to look for magazines?
Anyway, I just went to the first city after those two that are in the beginning of the game, and when I want to play a card game with someone, he is asking to mix the rules (same and open). So, I think that if I play some game, I can spread the open rule in this region, but is there anyway to abolish the same rule, or not. Also, if I spread the open rule, does this mean that when I play card games here, the rule will be randomly chosen from open and same?
Another thing, do I need to get all the monthly magazines in order to upgrade my weapons, or can I use a guide to know the necessarily parts for it, without caring to look for magazines?
From memory, keep asking people for a game until the text "it seems you play with rules not familiar, etc..." does not come up. If that doesn't come up before playing, I don't think rules spread. Are you in Dollet now? Said it before but don't forget to draw from every boss you come up against for GFs. You will only get one chance with some of them up until a lot, lot later in the game. One of these bosses is in Dollet.
Can't remember on the topic of magazines. I think they might be necessary to see them, but appear if you have the materials anyway.
Can't remember on the topic of magazines. I think they might be necessary to see them, but appear if you have the materials anyway.
I think you might need the magazines so you know what weapons there are. If you don't know the weapon then you won't be able to ask for it in the shop i think.
I just finished the mission when I had to kidnap Galbaldia's president by switching the train wagons.One of these bosses is in Dollet.
Didn't miss Siren in Dollet (Seed examination).
I searched a bit and it says that only having the parts unlock the weapons. So, I am using a guide for that part, just in case I miss a magazine.
Trains in final fantasy stress me out. I always feck it up. The amount of times I destroyed Corel in 7..
Nice one, yeah it's Siren. I swear to God, playing FF8 and FF9 the first time round without any sort of guide scarred me RPG wise for years. It's still left its mark now missing some of the GFs in FF8 that time round, but FF9 is the killer. There are genuinely some shite items in 9 that you can only get right at the start of the game that are integral in terms of getting some of the best equipment later on.
I physically couldn't play a game after that for ages without rampantly following a guide, checking during each area that I'd not missed anything.Wanted to say something about the 'Angelo' card you can get on the train in Timber, but it's not really important unless you're obsessive about getting every card earlier on. You can get it again at the end either way, and it's not a card that you'd use at this point over the likes of Quistis, Zell, etc...
Nice one, yeah it's Siren. I swear to God, playing FF8 and FF9 the first time round without any sort of guide scarred me RPG wise for years. It's still left its mark now missing some of the GFs in FF8 that time round, but FF9 is the killer. There are genuinely some shite items in 9 that you can only get right at the start of the game that are integral in terms of getting some of the best equipment later on.
Wanted to say something about the 'Angelo' card you can get on the train in Timber, but it's not really important unless you're obsessive about getting every card earlier on. You can get it again at the end either way, and it's not a card that you'd use at this point over the likes of Quistis, Zell, etc...
I am using a guide, it was very complicated, and while it is possible playing without the guide, I don't want to miss good things.
I got the Angelo card, but modded it into 100 elixirs. It wasn't that a good part to play, knowing that I have Ifrit, Diabolo, Quistis, Seifer and Zell as cards I play with (and all the other cards I could have got till now, except Angelo which I used to get those elixirs).
Probably wise, there are so many different card players and some of the rules of the games mean you won't get their best cards until you play them about 5 times or something. Urghh... the dreaded random rule. Spread that and it adds about 10 hours to your playing time.
You definitely do not need to have the magazines to make the weapons, if you have the parts, they'll show up on the list in shops anyway.
Hardest thing in the game is trying to get towns to abolish that shitty Random rule.
Aye, they can be awkward about that. 9 was probably the worst, or 12, apparently to get the best weapon you have to not open four specific chests early on, or something equally stupid.Nice one, yeah it's Siren. I swear to God, playing FF8 and FF9 the first time round without any sort of guide scarred me RPG wise for years. It's still left its mark now missing some of the GFs in FF8 that time round, but FF9 is the killer. There are genuinely some shite items in 9 that you can only get right at the start of the game that are integral in terms of getting some of the best equipment later on.
Wanted to say something about the 'Angelo' card you can get on the train in Timber, but it's not really important unless you're obsessive about getting every card earlier on. You can get it again at the end either way, and it's not a card that you'd use at this point over the likes of Quistis, Zell, etc...
Hardest thing in the game is trying to get towns to abolish that shitty Random rule.
Bloody mythril items...evil. That needed to be hinted at or something. I'm definitely not one for wanting a game to hold your hand too much but the mythril sword/vest became obsolete about 2 discs into the game! To have them as temporarily available necessities for synthing some of the strongest stuff in disc 4 was annoying.
It's one major kick in the stones, that's for sure.
Great to see some love for FFX!
Probably my favorite game ever. The crazy thing is that I've played it through about 5-6 times and never actually completed it. Got to the end twice and just never finished it (One time was due to fecking up on the celestial weapon stuff though). Lost my savings a few times too, must have spent hundreds of hours on this game.
Went to start it up with the aim of finally completing it the other week but my fecking PS2 AV lead has disappeared. Just checked E-Bay and can grab one for just over a quid, so hopefully can get that by midweek and have this bad boy fired back up from the beginning
Probably my favorite game ever. The crazy thing is that I've played it through about 5-6 times and never actually completed it. Got to the end twice and just never finished it (One time was due to fecking up on the celestial weapon stuff though). Lost my savings a few times too, must have spent hundreds of hours on this game.
Went to start it up with the aim of finally completing it the other week but my fecking PS2 AV lead has disappeared. Just checked E-Bay and can grab one for just over a quid, so hopefully can get that by midweek and have this bad boy fired back up from the beginning
Just abolished Random (and spread Open) in Dollet. Yay!
Nice! Now go feck up that bar owner.
Nice one, Revan. Will save a fair bit of hassle, that.
This talk of FF8 is reminding me that Squall was actually a pretty decent lead character despite the stick he gets. Definitely no Cloud, but satisfactorily complex nevertheless. Problem is, I went through Kingdom Hearts last month and they utterly and obliteratively bastardised his character in that game. I don't know how I'm going to take him seriously next time I go through FF8.
This talk of FF8 is reminding me that Squall was actually a pretty decent lead character despite the stick he gets. Definitely no Cloud, but satisfactorily complex nevertheless. Problem is, I went through Kingdom Hearts last month and they utterly and obliteratively bastardised his character in that game. I don't know how I'm going to take him seriously next time I go through FF8.
I absolutely love Squall in the first half of the game. Rinoa ruined him.
Long time since I tried Kingdom Hearts, remember pretty much wanting it just because Cloud and Sephiroth were in it, despite not being a big fan of Action RPG's, need to dig that up sometime.
As for taking him serous, I wouldn't worry, could be fun going through the game just having a laugh.
As for taking him serous, I wouldn't worry, could be fun going through the game just having a laugh.
Even for a Final Fantasy, the whole game really does go mental in the 2nd half.
I think I'm one of the few who preferred the second half to the first. It was outstanding. Had some great FMV's too, the one where Galbadia invades Balamb is one of my favourites.
Squall was likeable enough.
Squall was likeable enough.
Yeah, it's quality - no idea why I've left it until now to go through them. Unreasonably hard on proud mode at times! Sephiroth... I died countless times against him. I'm going to go through KH2 Final Mix when my laptop arrives because apparently there are some fights on that game that make the Sephiroth fight seem easy.
I'll probably have forgotten all about 'Leon' on that by the time I tackle FF8 next, to be fair. They made him such a tool in KH though, damn... the parting quote at Hollow Bastion was one of the most cringe-worthy things in existence.