Halloween the U.S. Release Date for FFXII 50
Along with trick or treat candy, gamers can look forward to Final Fantasy XII finally launching here in the states on October 31st. 1up has the story: "What better way to enjoy left over Halloween candy than by digging into an epic RPG adventure? Additionally, Square Enix will be releasing a Collector's Edition for $59.99 via EB Games and GameStop websites and retail stores featuring special packaging and a bonus DVD with Japanese and American trailers, developer interviews, an art gallery and featurettes on the Final Fantasy series. "
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:1)
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:2)
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:4, Interesting)
Not half as bad as Xenogears though, where you literally go from "Do you want to Save?" to "Do you want to Save?" without ever being in control of the game!
God I wanted to like that game, but the story becomes ludicrus, you realize that the only "character developments" are sudden and unrealistic, and the second disk mostly consists of 6 hours of watching characters sitting in an arm chair TELLING YOU THE STORY: "And then we went through this cool dungeon, and then we fought the boss, and then we went to this town, and then we were betrayed by X, and then we fought him." I know it was a rush job, but I wanted to throw the game at the wall. Xenosaga (the first one) and FFX don't even begin to compare, and I thought those games were cutscene heavy.
My favorite story revolving around the game is that my friend (who had already played the game) was watching me go through it. There's a scene where the main character and the romantic lead are in the main character's room, talking. This extremely sappy, cringingly over-the-top dialog goes on FOREVER, so after a while, my friend starts saying, "just press the 'fuck button'", "just keep pressing the 'fuck button'" (refering to the action button), at the end of the scene, the screen fades to black, and then fades back in again, and it's the next morning, and you see the female lead in his bed with obviously no clothes on, and the male lead in his boxers. I suddenly yell, "holy shit, you really did mean the 'fuck button'!", and we just started laughing at how rediculusly bad it was. Oooh, sex in a video game, that must make it, ya know, all "adult like". Pleeeease...
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:2)
I first saw that in Golgo 13 on NES.
When I finally saw a Golgo anime (years later) I laughed my ass off, it's got enough sex to qualify as hentai :P
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:2)
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:1)
Turned out people loved it, and it became not so final.
Re:It's not really the Final Fantasy, is it? (Score:5, Informative)
I see a comment like this in just about every FF thread anymore. It's the stock response for someone who doesn't care for the FF series and wants to make a witty remark on /. I'll repeat what I said in the last one:
Like most things, there's actually a reason and a story why they name a seemingly unending series "Final". Wikipedia has a nice summation, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy#Overvie w [wikipedia.org]
Or, for those who don't feel like following a link:
It should come with some older ones too (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:It should come with some older ones too (Score:2)
But, back on topic, yeah, I'll get this.
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Imagine the box art... (Score:1)
| Final Fantasy |
| I, II, III,.. |
| IV, V, VI,... |
| VII, VIII,... |
| IX, X, XI,... |
|
| XII!......... |
\_______________/
No wonder they won't do it, the ink alone would drive them bankrupt!
Re:It should come with some older ones too (Score:1)
Re:It should come with some older ones too (Score:2, Informative)
Can't happen... (Score:2)
1-6 will be completely out of the question by that point. When the Wii hits, Square will probably release 1, 4, and 6 on the virtual console. Nintendo will most likely want exclusive rights back for those games. Not to mention, IV was just re-released on GBA, and V and VI are soon to follow, not to mention the remake of III... that leaves I and II, which were just re-released 2 years ago for GBA, and then 2 years before that for PS1.
With all of this, there's even a good chance that Nintendo won't release
I might actually get this one (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I might actually get this one (Score:1)
Sure Square's ATB (and FFX regression)
Re:I might actually get this one (Score:1)
there's not a lot of hype about this (Score:5, Informative)
Re:there's not a lot of hype about this (Score:5, Informative)
There's a reason there's not a lot of hype about this. They released a demo with DragonQuest 8.
We've played it. It sucked.
Yes the demo is a piece of shit. I should've prefaced my comments by saying that I too hated the demo. I came into FFXII with very low expectations for playability. Trust me there's simply no comparison between that and the final version.
About the only thing worse than being placed on the strict rails that Final Fantasy games always enforce is having the battles stuck on rails too. The characters play the game for you - there was an article on Slashdot a while back about that when the Japanese version was released.
But what you're overlooking is that the battle system has been redesigned to fit a paradigm completely different from the traditional FF battle system. In old games, your characters would line up on one side and the enemies on the other and you would choose the commands they'd execute. This is no longer: the player is now completely responsible for every action and movement of all characters during battle. FFXII plays like an MMORPG - without the online component. Each character requires the same amount of attention and thought and interaction as a single character does in a traditional MMORPG. The amount of control added to the battle system means that there needs to be some way to step back and not micromanage every character's actions, especially when they often are repetitive.
What Square did was to invent a system of "if...then" statements that are extensively customizeable to allow the player complete control over the party. These rules can be changed on the fly and take the tedium out of playing a game with as much control as FFXII. I would think the addition of a "programming language" of sorts into which battles can be streamlined would appeal to the average
Give the final game a shot... rent it or something... because I know that your concerns will be alleviated. FFXII is one of the most foreward-thinking FF games released, and it's mostly in part due to its battle system which is as innovative as it is fun to play. There's a reason Famitsu gave it a perfect score, and most industry magazines/websites have given it high scores as well. I say from experience that it's among my 2 or 3 favorite FF titles (FFVI will always remain highest on my list, but that's another story...).
Re:there's not a lot of hype about this (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:there's not a lot of hype about this (Score:1, Interesting)
The game plays itself for you. I've seen the type of stories Square-Enix creates (thanks to the Final Fantasy movie and Advent Children), and "playing" a 40-hour long movie of that quality would almost be physically painful.
FFXII plays like an MMORPG
That, right there, is more than enough reason never to touch it. I played WoW bri
Too bad (Score:2)
Re:Too bad (Score:1)
It's really the cheap and easy way out. You don't have to figure out WHY you think the battles suck (CF Matsuno interview),
Re:there's not a lot of hype about this (Score:2)
XII's handling of this is exactly the same most of the FFs, just with a slightly less-insulting battle system, as they assume that auto-fighting is preferable to hitting the same button a bunch (true). This is an improvement... kind of.
To make it not be insult
Re:there's not a lot of hype about this (Score:1)
Re:better way? (Score:1)
Re:better way? (Score:1)
but you're implying that said person hasn't gone to the mall and waited in line the entire night to get his copy.
Re:better way? (Score:1)
Re:better way? (Score:1)
on another note is it just me or is my first post missing?
Re:better way? (Score:1)
Re:Final Fantasy 12 Collector's edition Special Bo (Score:1)
Oh, great... (Score:2)
EU Release Soon I hope. (Score:1)
Pfft... (Score:1, Troll)
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Re:Pfft... (Score:2)
While I haven't, of course, had a chance to play it, the art direction does lean toward that of VS, but I'm unsure about the everything else. The characters seem to have the same structure as the last few in the FF series; and while those characters have been
CG looks good (Score:1)
After watching the imported FFXII, I can't wait to hook up a PS3's HDMI port and put in FFXIII. Probably some wonderful [eye] candy even snickers can't even satisfy.
They's have to offer a whole lot more... (Score:1)
My feelings on this.. (Score:1)
http://little-gamers.com/index.php?comicID=1385 [little-gamers.com] [Depend on where you work, NSFW]
(Since FFX it's been getting more and more like Xenogears)
Head to head with the Revolution? (Score:2)