Final Fantasy XII discussion thread for those playing the game

sorry sometimes i just forget google is beyond some on the internet

If somebody had said earlier on that this game is kind of like an absurdist fantasy novel wherein you control Paul Simonon 1981 I would have had much less shit to say about it

although the battle system is kind of ridiculously uninvolved, at least in rogue galaxy they made you hit buttons

I don't want to be at work whaaa I want to be home storming the castle from my futon

Paul has just met up with Joe Strummer 1981 and I'm trying to figure out if this means the rabbit stripper is going to write our biggest hit and then get kicked out of the party for a heroin habit.

Do they design these characters with convention cosplayers specifically in mind, nowadays? "lol somebody is actually going to try and dress like this no matter what I draw"

(yes I realize posts like this are grandpa-rocking-on-the-front-porch-with-his-glass-of-whiskey levels of cutting humor)

atlus has admitted to putting cosplayable characters more prominently on game covers.

I don't mean nec. "cosplayable" I mean more like bahahahaha make this in your garage, kids!! *evil ho-ho-ho*

Stupid me thought I could go beat a bunch of the level one hunts before I went to the sky city, resulting in me having to bolt for a save crystal with the doom clock ticking down, having not actually saved for a couple of hours.

This game is kind of an opiate drip, isn't it.

It's a good time.

ok, it is perhaps not a good design feature when like 3/5ths of a ludicrously drawn-out fetch quest can be completed at basically noob levels while the third act of same convoluted fetch quest involves walking up on the territory of some lvl 30 giant palette-swapped bullshit from hell

"Alpha Worgen" is on my shit list. As is my habit of not saving very often because it's not like any battles in the first 20 hours or so other than Mr. Optional Demon Wall put you in any real danger of a party wipe.

Fruity-ass wolf bitch motherfucker fuck you and your little magenta buddies I am going to kill you in a couple more days you watch.

Fuschia, that's what you are. Fuschia and so dead.

also how did it take me 22 hours to figure out that Balthier is gay?

Save early, save often. I am consistently surprised how 3+ typical wondering-the-woods mobs are able to all but wipe my party while I can stick it out and whittle down far more terrifying-looking boss fuckers. The timing and speed aspects of this game are more important than in any other RPG I've ever played, I think, even the tactical sort.

You know it's all well and good to be able to experience a lot of the intriguing gameplay elements of a MMORPG without having to deal with... other... people... but frankly this Basch kid plays the offensive tackle position like a fucking, I don't know, he's a slice of fucking Emmentaler is what he is. Sure he can dish it out but I just want him to once in a while you know STEP IN FRONT OF THE FAT TOAD THING THAT IS SLAPPING ME AROUND.

also the combat in the underground palace, with the five servings of evil fruits and vegetables? who the hell writes this shit?

lol i have never played this game, but i'm a fan of this ^^ post

Seriously that is probably my weirdest moment ever in a game. After they scattered, it was like 15 minutes of running around, all my ranged weapon experts in the party, two casters and Mr. Gay Gunslinger chasing these poor little vegetable-headed bastards around a giant arena, getting coated in eldritch pollen and subjected to midget headbutts. Then shooting the perpetrators in the back repeatedly as they tried to regroup. I give them credit for putting up a fight. I also take that credit away for being dumb enough for pissing off a man with a golden shotgun. BLAM!! oof ow uhhh I have been magical-retarded oof ugh BLAM!! BLAM!!

also the whole "CONGRATULATIONS" sequences after you defeat a boss are mad gay.

don't you hate final fantasy games? or am i thinking of someone else?

no I basically do hate them but on this one they appear to have remembered the salt

the last one i played was FFX. i finished it, but i think it permanently ruined FF games for me because i have no desire to play new ones or revisit old ones. like were they always that cheesy and i just remember them better? maybe did the limitations of the earlier systems force them to minimize their cheesiest aspects and tendencies, but once they had more ability to "flesh out" the games, they mostly just unleashed all the garbage that was lurking underneath all along?

or something else

this one is actually not all that cheesy. I'm still waiting for the whole thing to fall apart at the end, but for nearly 70 hours I've been pretty happy. Got my first "optional" esper last night, ran into him by accident, thought about running away, and used up like 90+ Phoenix Downs whittling away at the bastard. I HATE flying creatures. HATE them.

(I also ran into EXODUS THE JUDGE SAL (wtf does that mean) by accident, that turned out horribly.)

I remember the ending being okay? Not hugely disappointing.

how did all the cockatrices wind up cockney

oh wait ha ha ha I get it

ok I'm at the endgame and am now actually in the process of being really anal about trying to complete the hunts and get as much of the best gear as possible (I fucked up the zodiac spear, oh well, that's on the bullshit easter egg tip anyway, thanks free strategy guide). Currently, however, I haven't found a good place to powerlevel past 60 or so, even with embroidered tippets*, so I might burn out on this soon and just kill that prog metal looking fucko and be done with it.

I'm a little concerned that the level of innovation and jaw-droppingly excellent interface design (like wtf this is a japanese rpg menus are supposed to be retarded) is going to make the next couple of games on my plate somewhat disappointing.

To reiterate, based on FF installments previous, I'm frankly amazed at how much I haven't minded and even enjoyed the cast in this one. It kinda sucked when Reddas had to off himself (phil lamarr = still wanted him to do the hermes futurama voice)

*in Ivalice, the gayer the accoutrement, the greater the benefits apparently, although this is kind of a series staple right in there with fuking airships at this point I guess. That guy's wearing a little hood with kitty ears on top! I don't want to mess with him! That guy with the tuff looking belt, though, my grandma could fuck his shit up**. You kick some big ghoulish undead monster's ass and there's a pink candy necklace in its stash, WHOOO PINK CANDY NECKLACE TRY MESSING WITH ME NOW HIGHLANDER MAN

** grandma never leaves the house without that big froo-froo ribbon tied on

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I haven't played a jrpg since; it really does feel like they put a serious polish on the genre that is gonna be difficult to top.
Which may not be saying much, but you know.

I realized I'm actually kinda hopeful that the next three lined up won't feature a storyline based on Star Wars/Harry Truman. That would be a nice BOFA

BOFA?

http://www.mobilegstore.com/bofa.jpg/bofa-full.jpg

butt on face action

i think i'll finally get this today

man am i gonna have some BELIEFS 2 share w/u guys

i believe the falcons will make the playoffs, so that probably makes _2_

a coupla points for later elaboration

1. when you try to stack actions in a battle with several opponents (by several I mean >3 ha ha) the turn based nature of the battle system becomes a little bit frustrating. step outside your gambits with two of your characters and CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE FOUND THE EASTER EGG WHEREIN FINAL FANTASY DECIDES TO ACT LIKE WINDOWS AND SIT THERE FOR FIVE MINUTES WHILE IT THINKS ABOUT WHAT YOU JUST TOLD IT TO DO. Genuinely the most frustrating moment in a game I've had in a long, long, long fucking time. This is a fucking RPG. It should not present me with lag problems.

2. Do not attempt the pharos subterra just because you can kill pylraster. jesus fucking christ on a god damned popsicle stick those fucking toads and their little magical pony friends wiped me twice before I figured out lv66 just wasn't good enough. what in god's name.

3. The gun is good. I don't know if the penis is evil but the gun is good.

oh and 4. if you're going to put in some minigames, try to make the interface at least remotely approachable. the fishing and the footrace game in this are about as atrocious as the problem described in 1, above.

so i, uh, rented this tonight to help put up with my first week of laid off action.

should help take the edge off.

The variety of accents in this game are great, i must say. far better variety than your bog-standard vancouver/l.a.-area sci-fi channel quality.

also but fuck me is there a lot of Star Wars in this game, either directly or thru a co-mingling of sources

Jeez, even the Han Solo character is a bit more of a dandy than one would otherwise hope for

man, there is a FUCKTON of Star Wars in this

Just played the first Dr Cid boss fight, and was struck by how good the fight music was.

Then i remembered that it sounds almost like the battle overture from Wrath of Khan, which was some of the greatest fight music evah.

can't decide to get this for my new playstation 2 or not

pros:
it is cheap
i will enjoy it

cons:
i will spend lots of time on it
i will get angry at myself for enjoying at and spending lots of time on it

"new" ps2????? theres better games dude

altho reading this thread from the top im thinking maybe i never gave it a fair chance i remember thinking it was pointless in the worst way but maybe its worth replaying

i think shadow of the colossus is the only game that makes me miss my ps2.

how did all the cockatrices wind up cockney
― El Tomboto, Thursday, October 23, 2008

oh wait ha ha ha I get it
― El Tomboto, Thursday, October 23, 2008

remastered in HD for PS4

http://www.finalfantasy.net/xii/return-ivalice-final-fantasy-xii-zodiac-age/

teaser looks awesome

https://youtu.be/D2-bWotLKqo

Booooo, they pulled a Last Guardian and delayed so long they skipped the PS3 altogether.

sold

also, when is the last guardian coming out again?

2092, last I checked.

I've been playing the Zodiac Age edition on Switch and I'm mesmerized. I thought maybe all Final Fantasies after FF7 were complete trash but this one is really fun and engrossing.

9 and 10 are pretty beloved too! this one's more of a cult favorite

ff8: card game, good
ff9: kinda regular ass fantasy, good
ff10: blitzball, good
ff10-2: dress sphere, good
ff11: bad mmo
ff12: awesome game
ff13, 13-2, 13-3 (didnt play 13-3): fal'cie, l'cie, bad
ff14: good mmo
ff15: AFI dudes, good

i think the few people who made it to 13-3 really liked it but its a character action game?

13-3's soundtrack is incredible

hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY9gWIW02ng

I gave up on FFX, I kept getting mad at it for being stupid. I might pick it back up once I'm done with XII and VII (which I played before but never finished).

I might revisit 9 too but I dunno if the Switch version is any good?

which was the one that was more or less on rails? I really hated that one, bailed within a few hours

13?

10 seemed very railroaded to me but maybe i didn't get far enough into it

a lot of them are railroaded for the first half until you get the airship or w/e

first half linear, second half open world / revisiting earlier areas with new purpose is a pretty standard rpg structure