anyway i am playing this game again and really enjoying it, theres just so much stuff and somehow most of the battles are genuinely interesting to fight despite my having put like thousands of hours of my life into playing this game and understanding how it works
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Thursday, 6 November 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
shocked they haven't made an FFT2 yet.
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
favourite class: time mage. i like their hats
this comment traveled thru time from 3 years ago to be super OTM right now
i missed this thread :)
― Neckbread (Will M.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Haste and Slow opened my eyes to the idea of "power scaling" in gaming in general. As an 18- or 19-year old I expected each successive class unlock to present progressively bloodier and higher-damage skill and spell options. It felt like Time Mage took ages to unlock and was kind of pathetic,
it was only much later when I realized that there's a reason they don't give you Time Mage right away and make you work for it.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 7 November 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link
secret hunt is the most busted ability in the game?
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Saturday, 8 November 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
they have! but they're for GBA/DS. i played the first one (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) and it's fun but suffers in comparison to the original. they added a Judge system which is sometimes fun but mostly annoying. and the story (disclosure: i only played through about 12 hours or so) was pretty mediocre.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 November 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
oh, duh, i'm sure you know about those. i guess you mean a sequel that takes place during the Lion War and isn't about daydreaming schoolchildren?
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 November 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
i liked the first ds fft but it doesnt have the same depth as the psx game
rn i am fighting the urge to manage my level advancement to maximize stat growth because i really dont want to fall down that rabbithole
― ≖_≖ (Lamp), Saturday, 8 November 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
i thought the setup of the gba one was really affecting
it sort of felt arbitrary and failed to compel once it got to landmarks on maps, though, a bit like legend of mana
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 8 November 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i tried ffta and it's not really much of a game. but maybe i should go back to it?
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 9 November 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
1997 Developer Interview, originally featured in Famicon Tsuushin magazine, newly translated:
http://shmuplations.com/fft/
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Saturday, 16 July 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
nice i should play disgaea
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 18 July 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
disgaea is extremely anime voice but the way it encourages experimentation and exploits is sui generis and great. i haven't played since the PS2 but i've heard the recent PC port isn't great.
― adam, Monday, 18 July 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
hmmmmhttps://noisypixel.net/fae-tactics-switch-pc-spring-2020/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2OcmU-KV-I
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 July 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
also the tactics ost is on spotify now so i'm playing that
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 27 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link