[PS2] Final Fantasy XII

MAN, I want this leaked SO bad.

It had better not be a DVD9, or I'll cry (I can only burn single-layer).

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Originally Posted by Spatula

Just to clarify what you mean by "it".

Eg...FMV of the opening sequence or in-game playthrough...?

Um.

The torrent's for the actual JP game.

I'm burning a copy I downloaded right about now, I'll have to get back to you guys about the game.

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Originally Posted by Hello_Kitty

Okay, major beginning spoilers here :

Spoiler:

Ashe is married that dude she appears to be in love with.

The war begins, the same dude and other important people are talking about it in front of a really fancy digital table > Basch arrives and the dude learns his dad (the king) is probably dead

The dude becomes King of Damalsca

War continues

King Dude of Damalsca dies

Ashe cries, i liked that because i though it was a forced marriage

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Tutorial, i didn't really get what's going on there, we see Vayne for the first time and he seems to control Basch with a magic spell

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Now controlling Vaan, killing some rats in the sewers for money i suppose, the little brat with Vaan is really impressed by Vaan skills... for killing rats great :juggler:

and that's only what i understood

Spoiler (highlight to read):

You didn't mention that in the tutorial, you play as Lex/Rex/whatever, who was Vaan's brother. Then you get killed by Basch. The death scene when it's in first person mode, and weaving in and out of consciousness is incredible. Especially the voice actor still breathing when it's fully black, then dying. Great emotional stuff there.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Simo

Troidal at GAF was kind enough to rip and upload 5 of the 11 tracks from 'The Best of Final Fantasy XII Original Soundtrack'. A great sampler for the real deal out on April 19th and instead of YSI it I've thrown it up on Tappy's FTP for now.

Could you please do it as a YSI in addition?

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Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

Hoooooly shiiiiit. East Dalmasca Desert is the most awesome thing I've ever heard. If the rest of the soundtrack is anything like this, I certainly won't regret having bought the limited edition OST!

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the part from 1:20-1:37.

I want more tracks like this.

How ya doing, buddy?

I have a slimline + Flip-Top replacement lid + Swap Magic.

It's what I use for all my burned games (including most recently FFXII), and it works great.

The Flip-Top takes about 20-30 minutes to get installed, it's kinda tricky setting up the proper springs and metal bits, but it's very useful. It essentially puts a circular hatch on the top of the lid so you can swap discs without triggering the "open lid" alert.

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Originally Posted by SOLDIER

{widescreen FFXII}

Holy shit fuck yessss!!!!

This is great, GREAT news. I still would have loved it stretched on my HDTV, but having true 16:9 is excellent.

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Originally Posted by Zeta26

You guys whine too much. I mean, just listen to yourselves. "Whaaa, Square Enix did this, Square Enix does that". Really, it just sounds laughable. But, if you don't like this. You can get the collector's edition.

...and a lot of your posts in this thread have been merely "lol stop whining guys geez".

Stop repeating yourself.

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Originally Posted by Weeklan

I detect spelling error.

If you're talking about "Armor," then you're wrong. That's the American spelling.
If you're talking about "Optimize," then you're wrong. That's also the American spelling.
If you're talking about "Defense," then you're wrong. That's also the American spelling.
If you're talking about "Magick," then you're also wrong. That's the way that FFXII spells it.

Although, I could see how this screen would make a European go crazy with all the slight spelling changes.

More like spelling "errour," am I right?

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Originally Posted by Simo

Full English OP FMV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRX3IXDjgQs

Little out of the sync but again you get to sample some of the English VA.

Oh man, I saw it months ago in Japanese, but seeing it in English gets me really excited. So epic, and gotta love that music.

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This is freaking incredible, I can't describe how excited I am to have it leaked this early!

AND I'm not ripping off Square-Enix, because I'm still buying the collector's edition at launch.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Wow, thanks Shenlon. Apparently this one is good because some guy on the page said he's up to some plains. Do I need some sort of PS2 mod to play this?

Yes, yes you do.

You either need a mod chip or a disc-swapping system like Swap Magic (which is what I use) with a flip-top case mod.

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Originally Posted by SOLDIER

Casaubon just PM'd me the link right now, and it's definetely within my power to download it and run if off HD Loader.

But I'm not going to do it. Even if I'm still planning to buy the game legit and just call this download "an early start", I'm not in the right mindset to start the game now. For one thing, I just started a new job, and for another I'm still halfway done with XSII and just started with VP2.

As silly as it sounds, I'm just not "ready" for FFXII yet. I'd rather use the last remaining weeks to hype myself up to the fullest, which will make the release all the more sweeter.

Now if some of you want to play it now, go right ahead. But I think maybe we should create a seperate thread for the ones who are playing the leaked version, while the rest of us who will wait it out can use this thread up until the release. Then you can just merge the two together.

How did I know you were going to say that?

Geez, Soldier, you pulled the same crap with AC and Dirge of Cerberus (the "I'm not going to do this early, I need to have my first virgin playthrough be the best it possibly can in tip-top audio/visual, etc...").

No, we can't merge the two threads together later because the posts would go between one another and make no sense.

If anyone wants to spoil stuff, put it in spoiler tags, I don't see why it'd have to be a new thread.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've played for about 3:30 hours and it's living up to all of my expectations.

The voice acting is still incredible, and it looks great in widescreen. I'm addicted to the license system, and I try to steal from every enemy to harvest sellable items.

The main story is excellent, very mature and emotional.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

Hey, don't diss FFX.

The execution may have been lacking, but at its core, the story of Spira is truly wonderful.

That being said...

FFX feels like an anime.
FFXII feels like Shakespeare (mixed with Star Wars).

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Originally Posted by Hello_Kitty

hehe i'm n°3 right now and european so game is not gonna be out soon...

still i'm 10hours in the game, i love the battle system, i was really getting tired of the turn based battle, especially the loading times between explore and battle, (you loosed about 5h i guess if you played 100h on older FFs just loading battles)

but i'm having problems with the license board, i have about 400~ LP on each character and no money so i can't really enhance my characters... so hard to get Gils in this game :/

What I do is steal from every monster I come across. Remember, the only major way you get money is by selling loot.

Plus, why not spend some of those LP on augment squares (HP+50/more potent magic/+1 gambit slot/-10% magic cost/etc...)?

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Originally Posted by Hello_Kitty

thanks jazzflight, thats what i was thinking of but are you using a gambit for stealing or do you steal manually ?

i havent found the ultimate gambit for stealing yet

i use a gambit "target leader foe > Attack ; foe(any) > steal"

if i put steal before attack, the character will keep stealing on and on, and if put if after attack, he will only steal if i don't order Attack as the leader...

so it's a bit tricky

there should be a gambit like "steal once, then follow leaders target" ^^ but there isn't (yet?)

I know, I wish they had a gambit target that said, "Foe: Has item." so I could put "--> steal" and the character would stop after it's successful.

First, be sure to enable "recall" or whatever in the options instead of "reset" so that you can easily select the same skill over and over in combat without having to move up and down in the menu.

What I do is set everyone up with:

Ally: <60% health -- cure
Foe: Party leader's target -- attack
Foe: closest enemy -- attack

I run around, then when I see an enemy's lifebar from far away, I go into the menu and select steal, Vaan automatically runs toward the enemy. If it fails, I just mash on the X button to go through the same menus. In the meantime, my other party members make quick work of the enemy, and I'm guaranteed not to die since everyone knows cure.

This set-up works at least at the lower levels (1-20).

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Originally Posted by Gechmir

Feh. Wish they'd include a JP track. English dubs never live up to the original voice job =( Guess the game would be too big for one DVD...

Um, but the difference is that this English dub is freaking amazing.

I heard that the Japanese dub was rather dull, actually.

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Originally Posted by Ashton

2: nitpicky, but having to attack first to get my party to attack is a pain. As is having to do so after i use a spell or a skill.

Set your gambits to "Foe: nearest enemy --> attack" and put it under "Foe: party leader's target --> attack"

That way, they will automatically attack the enemy you're heading towards, and just in case they start attacking randomly in a group of enemies, they'll make sure to attack YOUR target in the end.

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Originally Posted by Casaubon

Theres a lot of sidequests. The bounty-hunting monsters are hard as hell, and the reward is barely anything, but it's still pretty fun when you try to take them down at a way lower level.

Also, for making gil, you can also set "Enemy HP = Critical -> Poach" as #1 and it's basically the same thing as steal. I use both personally, and I usually have more cash than I can spend, and am only troubled by licenses.

However, when you poach, you don't get exp or LP, right?

That sounds like a big trade-off for money.

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You get 1 LP for every monster. If there's a particularly big monster like a T-Rex or something, you'll get 2 LP. Bosses give 5+ LP.

If you're trying to gain LP quickly, you're probably better off fighting a whole bunch of weak enemies rather than strong ones, because they'll all worth the same. Remember, everyone earns LP, even if they're not in your party at the moment (however if they're KO'ed they don't earn exp or LP).

Later on you'll be able to buy something called a Golden amulet at stores (4500 gil each) which doubles your LP earning. I've equipped it on everyone and licenses are going a lot faster. Everyone has their 3 quickenings and I'm trying to get all the augmentations (HP+ and speed bonuses).

I was speaking idiomatically.

There are 18 quickening spots on the license board (and some are easier to get to than others). To find them without looking at an FAQ, you can just run the cursor over each spot on the board. Even though it won't say the name of the skill you can unlock, it will say the license point requirement and the type (sword, augment, technick, quickening, etc...). That way you'll always know where to take your path to get to a quickening.

2 are usually positioned at the end of a particular path (at the far end of the magic path, the technick path, etc...). I sent each character down a path and had them learn all the closest ones they could.

You don't have to worry about permanently messing the board up by having one character take a quickening, because you can get all 18 anyway if you spend the necessary LP.

Now Esper Summons, that's a different story, but it's not that important either since I heard they're not that powerful in the end-game anyway. I'm just going to give 1 esper to each person down the line and repeat as necessary until I have all 13.

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Originally Posted by Craze

Like the idea of all characters being able to use the same weapons/accessories etc, but I must say gils and LP are really hard to come by. Clocking in 2 hours+ I only have 300Gil...and when did a simple potion cost 70G?

You are selling loot, right?

Sell all loot except for:

-Teleport Stones
-Gysahl Greens
-Snake skin (that you get from the Nidhogg quest, but it's not too important if you sell it, it's just used in a quest to get a normal item you could buy later)

FELIPE NO

From all my research at the gamefaqs boards, you should be able to sell essentially everything (loot) because over time it will unlock bazaar items for you to buy. Some people are worried about not trading in rare items until they have all the items to unlock the bazaar item, but I doubt you need to do that.

I'm 99% sure that the game tracks which items you sell throughout the whole game.

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Originally Posted by Ashton

Goddamnit if Curaga is AE i'll be so pissed. And if it costs more MP than cura i'll be REALLY pissed.

Spoiler:

It's single-person and it costs less than Cura.

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