No, I don't remember that being an issue at all. Because no one was really invested in that story and as far as anyone knew, FFXIII had a pretty clean cut ending.
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FINAL FANTASY Community Thread: XV Mainline Entries and Counting
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No, I don't remember that being an issue at all. Because no one was really invested in that story and as far as anyone knew, FFXIII had a pretty clean cut ending.
Cool, cool. I was just curious what with Lightning being on the cover and all.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Y'all seen the new remake trailer right?
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Wasn't impressed since it's entirely based on Type 0's ARPG battle system success.
Not fond of the stuff they did to the battle system of what was shown.
Grabbed FFX/X2 for PS4 on Black Friday. So now I own it for PS3 and PS4 lol.
That being said, FFX looks pretty decent in some parts, and terrible in others. New music is nice, no idea if the "expert" sphere grid will be the way to play or not, but I figured I might as well go with something new since I'm probably only going to play this through one more time.
Also, during the in game cut scenes it seems like the audio arrives a full second or two before the characters mouths move... Was it like this when the game released and I'm just noticing it now?
That being said, FFX looks pretty decent in some parts, and terrible in others. New music is nice, no idea if the "expert" sphere grid will be the way to play or not, but I figured I might as well go with something new since I'm probably only going to play this through one more time.
Also, during the in game cut scenes it seems like the audio arrives a full second or two before the characters mouths move... Was it like this when the game released and I'm just noticing it now?
Xux
Member
It looks pretty neat. The gameplay looks more KH than XV which is a very pleasant surprise after Duscae. I just hope you can play as the other characters (that the scene where you're seemingly under control of Barrett isn't just a one off special ability thing) unlike FFXV.
Meanwhile, in FFXIV, I've been up to some shenanigans!
It turns out I'm terrible at designing my own character and/or the Warrior of Darkness just respects my impeccably generic tastes.
I defeated Midgardsormr in single combat! For those of you not in the know, Midgardsormr is the boss of the final dungeon pre-Heavensward. He's not the final boss of the "midseason" storyline between ARR and Heavensward, which is Vishap, but like, he's the boss of the last dungeon before it, so it's a pretty big deal. Especially that I did it as Paladin!
Suddenly acquiring a taste for soloing Level 50 dungeons as Paladin, I decided to challenge Snowcloak. I beat Fenrir and I gotta say, it was a hell of a lot easier than clearing Keeper of the Lake alone.
I haven't yet been able to clear Pharos Sirius alone as Paladin. I can do it 2 Man with hilarious ease, but alone is tough. I can reach Siren, but between her mandatory, unavoidable confuse stuns and the adds who grab my legs and result in an automatic failure because I cannot break them, she's possibly the most challenging-yet-possible boss to fight alone so far. I managed to get her to 10% before running out of time. When I have time I'll probably go back and show her who's boss.
Lastly, I defeated both Ifrit and Shiva (the former not pictured since I did it on Vita). Ifrit really isn't a challenge (okay Ifrit Extreme probably is), but Shiva was a rush. The need to understand what she does, how to respond to it, and then feeling all the little parts begin to click was great.
The confession I have for that is that I couldn't beat her till I'd hit 40% echo. I can probably do it in less, but I wiped a lot due to trial and error.
Still, FFXIV is a WHOLE lot of fun, possibly the most fun I've had playing a Final Fantasy in years.
It turns out I'm terrible at designing my own character and/or the Warrior of Darkness just respects my impeccably generic tastes.
I defeated Midgardsormr in single combat! For those of you not in the know, Midgardsormr is the boss of the final dungeon pre-Heavensward. He's not the final boss of the "midseason" storyline between ARR and Heavensward, which is Vishap, but like, he's the boss of the last dungeon before it, so it's a pretty big deal. Especially that I did it as Paladin!
Suddenly acquiring a taste for soloing Level 50 dungeons as Paladin, I decided to challenge Snowcloak. I beat Fenrir and I gotta say, it was a hell of a lot easier than clearing Keeper of the Lake alone.
I haven't yet been able to clear Pharos Sirius alone as Paladin. I can do it 2 Man with hilarious ease, but alone is tough. I can reach Siren, but between her mandatory, unavoidable confuse stuns and the adds who grab my legs and result in an automatic failure because I cannot break them, she's possibly the most challenging-yet-possible boss to fight alone so far. I managed to get her to 10% before running out of time. When I have time I'll probably go back and show her who's boss.
Lastly, I defeated both Ifrit and Shiva (the former not pictured since I did it on Vita). Ifrit really isn't a challenge (okay Ifrit Extreme probably is), but Shiva was a rush. The need to understand what she does, how to respond to it, and then feeling all the little parts begin to click was great.
The confession I have for that is that I couldn't beat her till I'd hit 40% echo. I can probably do it in less, but I wiped a lot due to trial and error.
Still, FFXIV is a WHOLE lot of fun, possibly the most fun I've had playing a Final Fantasy in years.
SuperChoco
Member
Some segregated thoughts
1. Really glad that the game is utilizing different maps. Though I liked the pre-rendered backgrounds of the original game, I felt it really held back the dungeon design of the original game.
2. I'm really liking that they went with the action route for the game. If anything, to give the different characters different playstyles. I was rather annoyed how similar all the characters were in the original game. I am hoping the camera won't be as bad as it was in Type-0 and I really hope that the combat mechanics will be good unlike Dirge of Cerberus.
3.The frame-rate was looking kind of sketchy. Obviously its early in development and it could have just been the stream, but it was looking a little choppy. Hopefully SE can bring the game to a consistent 30 on PS4 or otherwise.
4.If given the choice, I really hope I can rename Barret to Blade. Though they specifically called out Cloud's name in the trailer, so that looks unlikely now. I really like his new look.
Overall, its okay.
Grabbed the FFX remaster on PS4 the other day and booted it up just to see how it ran... now I'm hooked to it again. Got past the operation Mi-hem (sp?) stuff today.
I've really been meaning to replay this one, since I haven't as much as the PS1 FFs. This is really making me want FFXII remaster like crazy though.
It's also making me realize where a lot of the FFXIII stuff people hate came from, lol. The maps on this are so bad. It seems weird that they wouldn't even try to make the paths wind a little bit. They're all straight lines so far. That said, I still adore the game (I also fucking love XIII, so sue me lol)
I've really been meaning to replay this one, since I haven't as much as the PS1 FFs. This is really making me want FFXII remaster like crazy though.
It's also making me realize where a lot of the FFXIII stuff people hate came from, lol. The maps on this are so bad. It seems weird that they wouldn't even try to make the paths wind a little bit. They're all straight lines so far. That said, I still adore the game (I also fucking love XIII, so sue me lol)
SuperChoco
Member
For shits and giggles:
Play Station (PSX) Releases
Final Fantasy 7: September 7, 1997
Final Fantasy Tactics: January 28, 1998
Final Fantasy 8: September 9, 1999
Final Fantasy Anthology: September 30, 1999
Final Fantasy 9: November 13, 2000
Final Fantasy Chronicles: June 29, 2001
Final Fantasy Origins: April 8, 2002
Steam Releases:
Final Fantasy 11: Ultimate Collection: April 19, 2013
Final Fantasy 7: July 4, 2013
Final Fantasy 8: December 5,2013
Final Fantasy 14: February 18, 2014 (steam version, non steam was April 14, 2014)
Final Fantasy 3: May 27, 2014
Final Fantasy 4: September 17, 2014
Final Fantasy 13: October 9, 2014
Final Fantasy 13-2: December 11, 2014
Final Fantasy 4: After Years: May 11,2015
Final Fantasy 14: Heavensward: Jun 23, 2015
Final Fantasy Type-0: August 18, 2015
Final Fantasy 5: September 24, 2015
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13: December 10, 2015
Final Fantasy 6: December 16, 2015
Final Fantasy 10: "soon"
I'll do a PS3 list later.
Play Station (PSX) Releases
Final Fantasy 7: September 7, 1997
Final Fantasy Tactics: January 28, 1998
Final Fantasy 8: September 9, 1999
Final Fantasy Anthology: September 30, 1999
Final Fantasy 9: November 13, 2000
Final Fantasy Chronicles: June 29, 2001
Final Fantasy Origins: April 8, 2002
Steam Releases:
Final Fantasy 11: Ultimate Collection: April 19, 2013
Final Fantasy 7: July 4, 2013
Final Fantasy 8: December 5,2013
Final Fantasy 14: February 18, 2014 (steam version, non steam was April 14, 2014)
Final Fantasy 3: May 27, 2014
Final Fantasy 4: September 17, 2014
Final Fantasy 13: October 9, 2014
Final Fantasy 13-2: December 11, 2014
Final Fantasy 4: After Years: May 11,2015
Final Fantasy 14: Heavensward: Jun 23, 2015
Final Fantasy Type-0: August 18, 2015
Final Fantasy 5: September 24, 2015
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13: December 10, 2015
Final Fantasy 6: December 16, 2015
Final Fantasy 10: "soon"
I'll do a PS3 list later.
Poor FFIX.
FINAL FANTASY X HD REMASTER
Is there any normal, casual strategy to defeating
? After the second phase especially. I don't think I'm underleveled at all, and I really want to avoid having to grind for any ultimate weapons or items for Rikku to mix. It's driving me and my boyfriend who is watching me crazy lmao 
Is there any normal, casual strategy to defeating
Lord Braska's Final Aeon
FF9 has been in my backlog for quite some time now, but next week, I'm finally gonna start playing it. I'm basically going in blind: I've seen pictures of the main characters and I know that it's set in a medieval world (as opposed to FF7/FF8), but that's virtually all I know about the game. Having heard a lot of good things about it, I'm really looking forward to playing it.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
FINAL FANTASY X HD REMASTER
Is there any normal, casual strategy to defeating? After the second phase especially. I don't think I'm underleveled at all, and I really want to avoid having to grind for any ultimate weapons or items for Rikku to mix. It's driving me and my boyfriend who is watching me crazy lmaoLord Braska's Final Aeon
Don't recall having much trouble with it. Just have either Yuna or Lulu Doublecast your choice of Holy/Flare/Ultima. Maybe get a Mental Break in there with Auron if it works on him. Wakka can attack the pagodas but not sure its necessary. Cast Protect and stuff.
Well I beat FFX today after grinding and raising my stats a bit. Started a little bit of X-2 and was turned off by the battle system. I'm not a fan of turned based games at all, but I would rather have that than ATB. Configuring it to Wait doesn't help much... I'll do my best to get used to it but it doesn't feel hopeful
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
You learn abilities through equipment. Its weird at first but you get used to it.
Difficulty is pretty standard. No hard parts other than the optional secret super boss who you will likely need a walkthrough to even find much less fight.
DamonForever
Member
NVM, didn't read properly.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Hey, if any of y'all download Cloud let me know how you like him.
I'm still really disappointed about Cloud's alts. The SOLDIER uniform would have lent itself so well to some proper, drastic palette swaps (affecting hair/eyes as well as the outfit) - Tifa, KH Terra, Neku and obviously Zack would have worked perfectly; and the AC outfit could have lent itself to an Auron palette; even a decent Lightning one.
I guess the current state of affairs was mandated by S-E, but it's still a shame.
I guess the current state of affairs was mandated by S-E, but it's still a shame.
Professor Beef
Banned
He's quick. Doesn't hit that hard, but it's easy to build his Limit meter which leads to KOs.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Enjoying the new Bowser more. Cloud is alright though.
Goddamn it, cheatengine's speedhack doesn't work with the FFVI android port that came out on Steam tonight. The game's painfully slow at times, all I want is to be able to play it at 1.5x-2x speed but nah, no emulator, no nothing seems to work. It's always either no fast forward at all, super choppy and shit fast forward or either normal speed or SUPER FAST FORWAAAARD which is always ten times the normal speed
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Here's a recent fanart of Cloud I found.
SuperChoco
Member
If your haircut was a final fantasy character, what would it be
SpaceBridge
Member
Anyone know why I can't find Dissidia 012 on psn via Vita?
It should be there. Check the the PSN website and search for it.
Maybe. I've never tried buying something for the vita off the website before.
SpaceBridge
Member
Strange. On the PSN website it's there, but not on PS store on Vita. Does this mean I'll need to download to PS3 and then copy it to Vita?
SuperChoco
Member
So I'm replaying 6 and now I feel like I wanna use Gau. Then I look at his ability set.
why.jpg
why.jpg
Gau is like the secret best character. While FFVI is not difficult to begin with, Gau can almost break the game.
SuperChoco
Member
Yeah that's what I've heard, but I don't understand why the devs made a character with 250 different choices of monsters, not alphabetized, nor descriptive of what each monster does. I'm thinking about using a guide, but the couple I looked at use the PS1/SNES translation for monsters which is different than the Steam version.
Valkerionseven
Member
Local finally got dissidia gonna try it tomorrow morning when I'm not completely drunk complaining about street fighter hahs
Finally got around to starting XIII since I picked up XIII and XIII-2 for cheap a few months back.
My impressions so far (up to Chapter 7?):
-So. Many. Corridors. They may as well have called it Corridor Fantasy XIII. (I know it's supposed to get better later on, but damn.)
-Battle System isn't bad. Still trying to get the nuances down of what all you can do with Paradigms and the ATB. (Like how I sorta stumbled into learning about ATB recharge with Paradigm switching)
-Music is stuck in my head; they love repeating a lot of the same tracks, but it's catchy for whatever reason. Battle Theme is pretty good though.
-Game looks pretty good; love a lot of the scenery.
My impressions so far (up to Chapter 7?):
-So. Many. Corridors. They may as well have called it Corridor Fantasy XIII. (I know it's supposed to get better later on, but damn.)
-Battle System isn't bad. Still trying to get the nuances down of what all you can do with Paradigms and the ATB. (Like how I sorta stumbled into learning about ATB recharge with Paradigm switching)
-Music is stuck in my head; they love repeating a lot of the same tracks, but it's catchy for whatever reason. Battle Theme is pretty good though.
-Game looks pretty good; love a lot of the scenery.
Just beat FFX for the first time day. I enjoyed the game overall even though initially i didn't like how the game was so linear (coming off of playing 7&6), and that ATB wasn't an option. The cast was good too even though, in battle, Kimari seemed pretty useless to me throughout the game. The summons in the game are really cool like X's version of Bahamut and Yojimbo as well.
Not sure if I'll continue straight into X-2 right now though. I did play the intro sequence and the battle/creature system seems kind of interesting, but I'll probably start playing 13 or 8 instead and come back to it later.
Not sure if I'll continue straight into X-2 right now though. I did play the intro sequence and the battle/creature system seems kind of interesting, but I'll probably start playing 13 or 8 instead and come back to it later.
Professor Beef
Banned
GBA if you can find it. Mobile if you can't.
Alright, so I finally started playing it. I was just able to visit the World Map for the first time after leaving the Evil Forest, so I'm not very far yet. But I'm liking it so far.
A few questions, just to make sure I got everything right:
- Equipping gear unlocks abilities. After fully leveling up an ability with AP, the character learns it permanently, so I can equip other gear.
- Some characters are unable to use/learn certain abilities. I assume that's because they don't fit their class/archetype/role, right? For instance, Garnet, who's a White Mage, is unable to learn Fire.
- Speaking of Garnet, for some reason she already has Summon Abilities, though I cannot use them as the MP cost is too high. So these abilities are meant to be unlocked by increasing Garnet's level instead of equipping some item?
- In FF8, leveling up your characters would also increase the level of all enemies. Is this still the case in FF9?