Final Fantasy XII

[Atheus]

Yea it's an old game but I'm only just playing it now so I'm gonna rant about it.

First of all thank god for the real-time-ish battles. Reminds me of KOTOR... in fact the whole thing kinda reminds me of star wars... but never mind that, anything that reminds me of star wars has to be pretty good. Don't get me wrong though, when I played VII the turn based system seemed great with the new 3D graphics, and hey, FF is turn based right? Thats just the way it is. But no. I had no idea how sick I was of seeing that cutaway sequence before a fight...

The thing that get on my nerves is this licence board. It's nowhere near as interesting as the board from X. The worst thing about it is that it removes the ability (necessity) of specialising your characters - you can't find any good light armour? Fine it only takes a hundred points to switch to heavy armour. Want one of your characters to be strong and sturdy and another light and fast? No point - all your characters can have all the augments by level 30. Need another healer? No problem, just spend a few points and get some light magic and mystic armour - it's right near your swords and heavy armour, just a few squares away... And I have *way* too many licence points. I don't use the item which doubles the licence points earned as I feel it would be almost cheating.

All this is redeemed by the story of course. And the fact the game is f*cking beautiful.

 

[JJChicken]

Final Fantasy games are always beautiful :thumbsup: I haven't played much of X, none of XI and XII. I traded-in my ps2 for my ps3 and am waiting for XII to come out!

 

[Deeko]

I thought the game was a lot of fun. It was the first FF game that I actually did side quests as I play - it took me 85 hours or so to beat - usually I just plow through the first time to beat it. Part of that was because the stry wasn't QUITE as engaging as other stories, but mostly because I had fun doing side quests.

The license board was more of an annoyance than anything. After you filled out the middle section with status attributes, it became an afterthought. You still leveled like normal. I personally hated the sphere grid in FFX. Any change is good.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I hate the license grid because of the cross referencing you have to do. Can I fit this piece of armor? I can't? Where the slot? Shit, thats like 80 license points to get there. I hate it when I buy armor that my guy cannot fit.

Also, right now, in my Game, I feel like every ability tile I buy is a waste. Why the hell would I want to waste points on Poach or Numerology? In order to get to the good tiles, I have to keep buying useless ones.

 

[Atheus]

I've just been to Archadia... why do they all speak like cockneys? Do they speak like cockneys for everyone else or do I have some sort of special local cockney weasel version coz I bought it in the east end?

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I hate the license grid because of the cross referencing you have to do. Can I fit this piece of armor? I can't? Where the slot? Shit, thats like 80 license points to get there. I hate it when I buy armor that my guy cannot fit.

Also, right now, in my Game, I feel like every ability tile I buy is a waste. Why the hell would I want to waste points on Poach or Numerology? In order to get to the good tiles, I have to keep buying useless ones.

Sounds like you need to kill a few more monsters - I've never felt short of licence points. Try chaining 40 creatures for 80 LP. You'll get great loot too.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: Atheus
I've just been to Archadia... why do they all speak like cockneys? Do they speak like cockneys for everyone else or do I have some sort of special local cockney weasel version coz I bought it in the east end?

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I hate the license grid because of the cross referencing you have to do. Can I fit this piece of armor? I can't? Where the slot? Shit, thats like 80 license points to get there. I hate it when I buy armor that my guy cannot fit.

Also, right now, in my Game, I feel like every ability tile I buy is a waste. Why the hell would I want to waste points on Poach or Numerology? In order to get to the good tiles, I have to keep buying useless ones.

Sounds like you need to kill a few more monsters - I've never felt short of licence points. Try chaining 40 creatures for 80 LP. You'll get great loot too.

Well, that was only in the beginning. Now I have a backlog of 200 points for each of my mains characters, but I don't like wasting them on useless tiles, which I am surrounded with.

 

[Atheus]

I'm level 45-ish and I have all 3 quickenings and about 1000-2000 spare LP on each character. When I get to like 5000 each i'll finish the boards with everyone and hope a new board appears. It won't though probably...

You have to get the useless tiles to get your quickenings anyway - just head vaguely towards them and don't think about it too much. And get all the HP+ and combat+ ones with everyone.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: Atheus
I'm level 45-ish and I have all 3 quickenings and about 1000-2000 spare LP on each character. When I get to like 5000 each i'll finish the boards with everyone and hope a new board appears. It won't though probably...

You have to get the useless tiles to get your quickenings anyway - just head vaguely towards them and don't think about it too much. And get all the HP+ and combat+ ones with everyone.

Thats actually what I did. I have lines in all of my characters boards because i went for the Quicknings in straight lines.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

I started playing this a couple weeks ago. I like it. It reminds me of FF online which I actually enjoyed for awhile.

 

[Oyeve]

My game is still shrinkwrapped. I bought it at time of release. Just havent had the time to play it.

 

[Injury]

I built my levels and completed everyone's grid about 1/2 way through the game for no good reason. It was worthless because even after doing that, you still have to wait late in the game to buy the good stuff. That's the suckiest thing about the game.

I'm in the final place and haven't touched the game in about 3 months. I should finish just to finish, but I don't know that I care.

 

[Dacalo]

I am at Pharos/Third Ascent, how close am I to beating the game?

I am around lvl 60 and haven't done some side quests because frankly, I am getting a bit bored of the game. I do want to beat it though since I have put in like 62 hours. I just started playing again since stopping in 10/2007, so I have forgotten where I am story wise, ugh. Pharos, why the hell am I here?

 

[bolomite]

Originally posted by: Dacalo
I am at Pharos/Third Ascent, how close am I to beating the game?

I am around lvl 60 and haven't done some side quests because frankly, I am getting a bit bored of the game. I do want to beat it though since I have put in like 62 hours. I just started playing again since stopping in 10/2007, so I have forgotten where I am story wise, ugh. Pharos, why the hell am I here?

You're just about at the end, boss fight at the top of the tower, then you may head to the final location (don't want to spoil anything for you).

 

[Gunslinger08]

I've played just about every other FF and I just couldn't get into it. I really hate the battle system.

 

[Dacalo]

I beat it over the weekend. I just started Dragon Quest VIII which was sealed for like 2 years and it is a lot more fun than FFXII. I guess I am an old school RPG guy.

 

[Soundmanred]

This reminds me that I need to finish it!
I stopped a few months ago after going back into the mines...

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
I stopped a few months ago after going back into the mines...

I did this too and never looked back, but maybe i'll replay it one day. I really didn't like a lot of aspects of the game, but I respect that Square wanted to try some new things.

 

[Oyeve]

The cutscenes. I hate longass cutscenes. Other than that I love FF, except X-2. ug..