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FINAL FANTASY Community Thread: XV Mainline Entries and Counting
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This guy gets it.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
That's my normal face all the time.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Fire Emblem Blazing Sword. Just "Fire Emblem" on GBA. 7th installment of the series. Prequel Sequel to the JP Only FE6. Which is Sword of Seals and features Roy.
Yea
Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Sword to be exact. When it was brought over to NA, they just called it "Fire Emblem."
Great game btw, definitely one of the best FE games imo.
Ah okay thanks.
I was planning to pick it up but I couldn't find it for cheap. Looking now, it's only $40 on Amazon...hmmmmm
Path of Radiance is so good. I regret not buying it when I had the chance (I rented and beat it when I was younger). I really want to replay haha.
Professor Beef
Banned
I maxed out Rise's S.Link first because I never did it before. I can't fathom how I got through dungeons without her, holy crap. Constant health regen after every fight is like whoa.
I also friendzoned Yukiko for the first time. It was a difficult decision.
I also friendzoned Yukiko for the first time. It was a difficult decision.
I maxed out Rise's S.Link first because I never did it before. I can't fathom how I got through dungeons without her, holy crap. Constant health regen after every fight is like whoa.
I also friendzoned Yukiko for the first time. It was a difficult decision.
This is my first time through the game. I was like "Oh Yukiko's sweet" and then "HOT DAMN LAURA BAILEY IS IN THIS GAME. YUKIKO WHO?"
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
My favourite FE games are Seisen no Keifu and Thracia 776, in that order. >.>
worse president than beef, confirmed
meccanical pls.
dead to me.
worse president than beef, confirmed
Professor Beef
Banned
Even if I didn't like Rise's S.Link story, I would advise anyone playing it to get her to Max ASAP. Eventually she gives you back 20% of your max HP and I think 10% SP at the end of every fight.
I generally like her too, though the two characters she's voiced in Tales games (main characters anyway) kind of suck. Marta and Cheria to be exact.
Your vote doesn't count on this topic anyway.
Speaking of Tales games, I own Tales of the Abyss for 3DS. It will be my first Tales game.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Both are fantastic games. My personal favorite Fire Emblems are Sacred Stone and Awakening. Sacred Stones is where the series clicked for me, and none of my characters died. I was really bad at 7. My inpatients lead to a few perma-deaths, had tons of fun nonetheless, and some frustration. Path of Radiance was great, loved wrecking dudes with Ike's Aether.
Agreed. They should all do a musical together, especially Troy. I saw that TLOU alternate ending.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
you're cementing that you're worse than president beef right here.
and president beef has chao-imprisonment policies.
best get it out of the way now so you can move on to the titles that are actually good.
troy baker is part of tripp fontaine and they released a single back in the day
the_sun_king
Member
Good fan art, you say?
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Amazing, what can't this guy do.
First one I played was Symphonia for GC, so much fun. One of my favorite JRPGs of that generation.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I need to try out Tales of Symphonia one day. When does the HD version come out?
February 25/28. Gameplay shows its age a bit, definitely not as fluid as most of the Tales titles after it. Easily has my favorite Tales soundtrack.
Actually I'm all for imprisoning Chaos as long as this imprisonment leads to a Final Solution or mass extermination of their horrible, horrible race. Spearheaded by the death of that godawful rabbit would be nice, too.
My only gripe with Tales of the Abyss in the short amount I have played is the weird ass "skits" which is when the game stops me and makes me sit through two faces doing talking animations and some lame ass text that would work better with voices.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
While I'm super excited for Symphonia HD for PS3, I'm also super bummed that it's only 30FPS. GC's 60FPS was so great, except the the occasional slow down.
Loved the fan art you posted, the Terra and Garnet pieces specifically.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Wait 30fps? Forget that.
Professor Beef
Banned
Eh, 30 fps doesn't matter to me.
SCHALA DON'T SAY A WORD >:|
SCHALA DON'T SAY A WORD >:|
hipsterpants
Member
i played symphonia ages ago and thought it was pretty alright, i don't think i got very far. i'm playing Xillia right now as my first tales game that i'm actually going to beat. it's pretty good but jude is a goody-goody clownshoes that apparently doesn't believe that women can fight or something and milla is just an idiot. alvin should've been the protagonist.
Dude I love Balthier and Fran.
Hey so speaking of Tales which one is the one with Yuri and Estelle? They seem popular, what with their being in Project X-Zone.
Meccanical
Member
Tales of Vespiria.
tiggerkiddo
Member
How was that Tales of Abyss for the 3DS?
For better or worse the one thing that the game does really well is keeping you on a straight path for a long time so you don't have to worry about messing anything up. Auto-battle is your friend, use it often, enjoy the scenery and music.
Still 30 FPS.
At first, avoid using auto-battle except to ask the game what it thinks its mechanics are, or if you need to queue up attacks instantly*. Auto-battle is reasonably effective, but for most of the early game things aren't so hectic that you'll need it, and it'll make the game horribly boring.
Heck, at least for the first two chapters, you should put effort into careful placement of AoE attacks, and on using the triangle button to finish battles faster by avoiding some of your final ATB charge. You'll get very minor gains, but the alternative is spending the first two chapters doing nothing but hitting the X button twice every time an ATB cycle starts.
If FFXIII has one massive quirk to its battle system design**, it's that the reward-to-effort ratio for certain things is tiny, but that you should sometimes do those things anyway because they'll permit the game's low points to be mere "low points" instead of "use the disc as a frisbee" points. FFXIII is capable of being a blast, but you have to approach it, it won't come to you.
*Such as when you get a pre-emptive strike (and thus can attack immediately) or right after a paradigm shift.
**Well okay, it has like fifty massive quirks, but that's beside the point.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
It's also not Tales of Destiny DC either.
Is this Auto-Battle ala P4G auto battle or is it a feature deeply utilized in the game? I don't mind using it if it will make fights a little easier. And if what you are saying about the first two chapters is true, damn that's sad.
I think I have to go in with very little expectations.I really enjoyed it. The protagonist is extremely annoying in the beginning and the game drags on way too long but the music is great and the story is interesting.
At the start of an ATB cycle, you can queue up a selection of abilities/attacks* and then specify a target enemy**. Auto-battle does the first part for you.
*For your party leader to execute. You don't directly control other party members.
**Or target party member, if your party leader is currently using a medic or synergist role.
Obviously, manually battling to slightly adjust what a single character in a party of 3 is doing won't always have much impact. Auto-battle will take some of the load off of you, and allow you to focus more on the large-scale stuff happening (managing your party paradigm and targeting). The thing is, the battles are not always that frenetic; even when you don't care all that much about making specific things happen, manual battling can be more fun IMO. That's especially true in the aforementioned chapters 1 and 2, where you generally don't have much to do beyond managing extreme minutae, trying to turn a 15-second stomping into a 14-second stomping.
If you make the most of it, and can fit them into a time where you were just going to idle about anyway, it's not really that intolerable. Especially as chapter 1 is crazy gorgeous.
Qualitative expectations might be more important than how much you expect in raw quality.
Overall I quite enjoyed FFXIII, though I didn't go into it expecting to play a JRPG. Meanwhile, "no HD towns" still drifts its way through the still-burning internet firestorm.
Have fun!
FFXIII is sort of okay. My tip is to bear with the slow parts until you reach the really wide open area. If you enjoy that open area you're golden, if not there's not much else to say. Like, I think FFXIII is possibly the worst mainline FF game, BUT, that open area is a lot of fun, to the point where when I hear about LR I think it might be fun since it sounds somewhat based around that idea.
tiggerkiddo
Member
The open area in XIII is very pretty but...be prepared to die a lot. And you will LOVE Neochu.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'll stop. I think it's well-established that I don't like TotA.
Don't stop, I want to know your opinion about why it's so bad. Apart from the so-so last third I don't remember anything horrible in particular.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
It's okay. I don't like that abyss of a game either.
Give me more assholes, if that means more characters like Jade.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
I laughed, have to admit.
Edit: While on the topic of Tales of the Abyss and in the interests of trying to get back on the topic of Final Fantasy, I must say that my only exposure to
TotA is this awesome Final Fantasy 7 remake of the intro. I would be more interested in playing TotA if I could play as FF7's cast.
Professor Beef
Banned
I like this new Attitude Era Schala.
Meccanical
Member
I've always wanted to play the Destiny series since I heard those were some of the best. Shame it seems to be so hard to find these days though unless I'm mistaken.
I actually mostly liked Abyss when I first played it aside from the middle part of the game where it just drags like mad, but then I've come to expect that at some point in most Tales games. Then I played it again and found most the characters hypocritical and unlikable, which made it harder to care and proceed.
I actually mostly liked Abyss when I first played it aside from the middle part of the game where it just drags like mad, but then I've come to expect that at some point in most Tales games. Then I played it again and found most the characters hypocritical and unlikable, which made it harder to care and proceed.