Of course they are going to reply like that. The whole point is Square Enix wants double dipping. If they were upfront about the pc release, many would just wait out the 8 month to 1 year delay.
FFXII: The Zodiac Age changes and additions: what's new in this Ivalice remaster?
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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Glass Rebel
Member
Sounds like they made the best 3D FF even better. As someone who only played the original, I am beyond stoked.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Biggest visual improvement (iq aside) is the removal of smallCAPS for character speech. 2-4x speedup seems to make travelling long distances for random sidequest shit bearable.
Worst improvement is the textures that really needed repainting but just got heavily smoothed with maybe a high frequency detail texture blended in.
Worst improvement is the textures that really needed repainting but just got heavily smoothed with maybe a high frequency detail texture blended in.
Actually lold reading this.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Yeah. This and the Turbo I'm not a fan of. But oh well. If others like it.
So, did they actually fix the compressed voices. I keep getting mixed messages.
The voice acting audio quality is better than before.
But it is still compressed.
Hippopuncher12
Member
I can't wait to play this next week, my 2nd favorite FF of all time!
How in the world is auto saving a casual feature. It's a quality of life change moreso than anything.
Shadow Ranger
Member
I wish I can spend time playing this...but I've yet to finish Persona.
These changes sound so good. I liked XII as it was, was disappointed IZJS didn't make it to the west, but TZA to have even more additions is simply awesome. A grand time is waiting for fresh players and vanilla XII players all the same.
These changes sound so good. I liked XII as it was, was disappointed IZJS didn't make it to the west, but TZA to have even more additions is simply awesome. A grand time is waiting for fresh players and vanilla XII players all the same.
DalikSkywing
Member
No magic spell buffering due to effect limits on PS2 hardware - all spells are cast immediately when ready
That means black magic is finally gonna be useful at endgame, here I go buffing my basch black mage while he brutally murders anything in sight
That means black magic is finally gonna be useful at endgame, here I go buffing my basch black mage while he brutally murders anything in sight
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Contica
Unconfirmed Member
They look worse now.
AuthenticM
Member
dude his "abs" looked like his skeleton.
OmegaDL50
Member
One of the biggest changes to the magic system is that basic versions of spells can hit multiple targets now. Unlike the original were only higher levels like Cura and Fira had an AOE.
This change is to balance out the fact that not every single class has the ability to use magic. Also Magic is considerably more powerful to make pure mage classes effective in the end game and optional hunts. Since classes are locked to a per character basis the boost was somewhat necessary to not lock characters into roles which would be ineffective later on.
You should teach us casuals how to manual save, so we can be a hardcore elitist gamer such as yourself.
He's a malnourished street rat, it was just authenticism!
I was never into playing games that I have played and 100 percented.
However, seeing this vid made me want to double dip for sure especially with the little convienient enhancements.
FFXII wasn't my favorite FF's. But it was definitely one of the best ones. Will be definitely checking this out
However, seeing this vid made me want to double dip for sure especially with the little convienient enhancements.
FFXII wasn't my favorite FF's. But it was definitely one of the best ones. Will be definitely checking this out
Dragon1893
Member
People defending Vaan's original abs? That's a first.
😂
SirNinja
Member
LOL. Oh yeah, nothing wrong with them at all. Except for the fact they looked inverted, painted on, and completely two-dimensional.
You can always show us how much of a xXx420No$copeMLGxXx gamer you are and just, like, I dunno, not use them?
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Contica
Unconfirmed Member
Against the three sausages he's got lind up on his chest now? You betcha.
Toe-Knee
Member
It lowers the stakes and makes the game easy.
Auto save ruins many games by making them far too easy imho.
Pinko Marx
Banned
All auto save does is do away with running through the same areas again. The major battles themselves is where the difficulty lays, so you just get to instantly retry.
Toe-Knee
Member
In some cases yes but it also reduces risk in other cases taking away some of the excitement.
Pinko Marx
Banned
What cases? Name a case where auto-save in this game would ruin it.
FlutterPuffs
Member
I'm not a fan of it, but at least my eyes wont focus first on his abs during cutscenes.
OmegaDL50
Member
The auto-save function only saves from transitioning from one area into another. Since FFXII is semi-open world it would have no effect on major encounters or boss fights. It reduces the tedium from "zoning" into the next area causing a loading transition. Which if you need to put the game down for any reason, lets you automatically resume from your last entry point of a map.
Also you cannot save inside dungeons with the exceptions of using specially marked save points, so auto-save is only useful when traversing the exterior world areas.
So there isn't any case where auto-save would diminish this game's challenge.
Yeah, no, it really doesn't. It doesn't make it easier at all, mainly for the reasons Omega listed above, it just reduces tedium. I'm gonna say I think complaining about the fast-forward is also pretty damn dumb, cause it also exists just to alleviate some of the tedium of the genre. Has zero effect on, for example, game balance.
BossDarkseid
Member
Oh, that's interesting.
I don't think Auto Save tends to make a game less challenging, it's a QoL improvement. This sounds like a good way to implement it, by potentially easing tedium but not being open to abuse in dungeons - which you could reasonably call the more "challenging" areas. Don't get how the increased Turbo speed is a casual feature either, it doesn't magically make things 4x easier >_>
If anything turbo speed might make it harder to make an adjustment in the middle of a fight.
OmegaDL50
Member
IZJS has overhauled the treasure boxes for the entire game. This isn't a new change for the PS4 remake, It existed even in the PS2 International release. Forget pretty much everything you know in regards to vanilla FFXII's chest drops as a significant portion of them don't even apply to IZJS.
So yeah unfortunately the Henne Mines location does factor into the Zodiac Spear.
BossDarkseid
Member
Yeah I played IZJS before and some things happened pretty quickly in combat that I was slow to react to. It's mainly useful for "trash mob" style enemies and just roaming about rather than bosses.
LordOfLore
Banned
No no no, the article's implication is that there is some completely new way of obtaining it, which is neither what you described nor the old "Don't open 4 random boxes in the entire world" -way.
Yeah nevermind, better answers above already.
I mean, if you've got your team set up to counter the boss perfectly then you'll be fine, but that's almost impossible to do without having played through it before or having a strategy guide.
If I recall correctly, the chest is now guaranteed to have the spear (though it's still something like a 1/100 chance to spawn), but you can also get it from doing some of the rare hunts and turning the trophies into certain NPCs.
edit: whup, beaten.
You can always ignore the autosave slot and go back to your last save if you hate it that much.
Not even lying when I say that invert x option is the best thing about this remake. Can't wait.
Zodiac Spear is easy mode now. Getting the new ultimate weapons is going to be fun.
Speaking of inverting, do we now if you can invert camera controls?
Speaking of inverting, do we now if you can invert camera controls?
OmegaDL50
Member
Actually 4X Speed might actually be useful for the Yiazmat fight. The speed up function helped in the IZJS Yiazmat fight at least.
It makes a 2 to 3 hour long boss fight into something that can be done in 30 minutes to an hour.
Of course, that's why said that.
That'd work if you already know how the fight goes and can set it up properly. If you don't then you'll just get eaten, which was my point. I totally see the use for those longer boss fights, it's just not something I'd use unless I had a perfect set-up for said fight.
The turbo speed is more for running through areas you've been to before or farming weak enemies for drops.. you shouldn't be playing the whole game with it, especially harder fights.
Coriolanus
Banned
iirc 9999 damage limit was removed, so that fight should be quite a bit shorter regardless. But yes, very nice that one can add the multiplier on top of that
Oh, that's what it was lol. I thought you meant switching x and circle's, the buttons, functionality.
SprachBrooks
Member
Is Recks Vaan's older brother?
Anyway, hyped as fuck for this. My all-time favourite FF and I never managed to complete it because I spent too much time completing side quests.
Anyway, hyped as fuck for this. My all-time favourite FF and I never managed to complete it because I spent too much time completing side quests.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Yup.
OmegaDL50
Member
No, I'm saying speed up worked in the IZJS Yiazmat fight, as in It was done before.
As I said earlier in this thread. A lot of the features being advertised as "New" in the Zodiac Age have already existed when IZJS release came out years ago on the PS2.