[PS2] Final Fantasy XII

I have to say that this FFXII is by miles the best of ALL the series. The battle system , the graphics and the Story line are really good , the Story line might not be as great as FFVII but is great anyway I can expend ages fighting without getting bored which is what you need for enjoy a RPG game

My top 3 :

FF XII
FF Tactics
FF VII

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sorry if already posted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAiKg...asy%20XII%20E3

its not a trailer but is the battle system in English with some random music in the background lol

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Lmao at Ashe :

"....how DARRRRRRRRRRERRRRRRRRRR YOU......"

I still prefer the Jap voices.

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Originally Posted by Spatula

Thank god we have an "alive-voiced" Ashe rather than the sleepy Yuna. She was always... "oh..let's...laugh...together...let's make this...journey...full of laughter.." or some trite shit like that.

Omg soo true!

Im still not convinced about Fran's voice its sounds too childish if you know what I mean cos the Jap version is more like a mature Woman than being a teen :/

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Originally Posted by Spatula

The more I listen to Fran, the more of the image of the witch from Wizard of Oz comes to mind. She's got that somewhat scratchy voice to it.

"ARH ARH ARH! I WILL EAT UR CHILDREN"

she sounds just like gollum ( TLOTR )

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Spatula

Well I did see Fran's mouth move and "speak" while some voices were present, so either someone else was talking and she was chewing gum, or another character just happened to talk right before/after her that gave the impression, OR it's really her voice. =/

As well, finally got to try out the FFXII demo and I thought it was quite alright actually. It pretty much played out as expected from watching all those in game movies, so that's okay.

sorry when you say DEMO you mean the Jap one of the english one?

and yes Frans voice is to young for her image, the other viera was the one trap in some random mines.. wanst she?

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

He probably means the playable demo that came with Dragon Quest VIII.
The playable sections had no speech and the trailer had japanese dialogue with that awful american trailer narrator.

lol , thanks.

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This game will be better than FFXIII. I'm 70 hours into the game and it's one of the best Final Fantasy games. I'm glad you're going to get the game, you will enjoy it.

FFXIII looks like a devil may cry game, i hope it's different or the change it

Great! I will probably say that to complete the game 100% you will need at least 180 hours no less :/ me thinks... Im still playing it and I will recomend it to anyone! :love:

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Zeta26

Sorry to say, but there will NOT be any japanese voices in the U.S version, so you really need to get over that fact. And besides, it's not as if you can do a more better job scouting VAs than Square Enix (which I don't think you can at all). Also, that's now how she says it <_<. If I heard that coming from you, I'd laugh my *** off (seriously).

she sounded more russian than peruvian let me tell you :lolsign:

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Well, I was just commenting on what Saga said. Because when things like these come. For me at least, you can't help but laugh. Because when people buy the game and the 2nd they do when they've just moved an inch in the game yet they come here to rant. I just find it really funny, that it's really ridiculous

the other thing is I like the other voices and I think they are just fine but THAT ACCENT for Ashe is hilarious! and Frans voice is like watching a character taken straight out from the teletubbies loool

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I forgot to mention that the old mans voice sounds alot like gandalf the great! how cool is that! lol I like it actually.

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Originally Posted by Spatula

Well honestly what else would they make him sound like, Barney? Actually that'd be pretty funny:

::Our city is UNDER ATTACK!::

::My father and mother, where are they?

:: (old man) Duh, let's sing some songs! the more we get together the happier we'll be.

Yeah, so in brief, having that old man (I'm assuming you're talking about this guy: Emperor Gramis) sound like Gandalf makes sense. At least SE could put that much effort in the NA release.

actually I lovvvve it cos the voice fits very well the character.

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Originally Posted by Zeta26

Well, both Play Asia and CDJapan are both great retailers for ordering the FFXII OST. Though, for me. I can't as my mom wouldn't let me. If it was available gamestores. Sure, I'd buy it though.

I will include Link-sang shipping to the uk in 4 days.

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Originally Posted by B4-Hunter

*Phew* I never imagine that FF XII will be sooooo long =) I'm 90h+ in it doing some mob hunts from the bottom of the hunting list. For now there is only one mob that I can't kill... hes just to strong for me and I am like Lv.70 all characters.

Spoiler:

I have 210 something like that hours . at the moment im trying to get the strongest halbert in henne + and Im missing 7 rare monsters! . all my characters are around level 99 and yamaz is a completly joke , now his normal damage is about 700/600 xDDDD AND with protect on is about 400? xDD Im living him til I have nothing else to do. I need need to get toro sword / sagittaria / strongest Hal and Excalibur Omega was quiet a bitch but he is dead for good

it is indeed a Fantastic game! I havent finished it yet!

this is gonna be the 5th game that I will completing it 100% - ( Xenogears - final fantasy 7 , Wild arms 2 , Chrono trigger ) I hope the english version has some extras like dark sumoons or something like that

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I work for an entertaimment store and by law the new releases should be IN store between 3 or 4 days before the release date. In the uk most of the games are release on friday so I get my new releases on monday or tuesday.

I was speaking idiomatically.

to finish it properly with ALL sidequest etc ect around 200 hours.

( finished it in 227 hours )

Fantastic Game and the best bit is thats great Fun!

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I wouldnt mind playing the Jap version with an English menu + subtitles.

so is this torrent for XII Eng a good one? cos ive been reading the thread and some people are having problems bruning it :/ what is the problem with this copy?

Cheers!

FELIPE NO

well Ive had enough with the JAP version of this game I got almost everything I only missed The Strongest Halbert ( or Zodiac Spear ) and the Sagitaria weapon . ( time played 521 hours ) im well pissed off I didnt get a thing in henne mines

before I start playing the english version did anyone managed to get Strongest H?

there is list here where explains what NOT to do if you want to get the strongest halbert

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Atk +150, spear

Location 1 - Necrohol of Nabudis, middle section.
The small round area at the central passage, there are 16 treasure
chests. It's in the second last teasure.

Requirement - Do not open the treasure chest in front of the old man (Daran)
house in Rabanastre Downtown.
- Do not open the Elixir chest in Rabanastre Palace.
- Do not open the treasure chests in Nalbina Dungeons inside the
room where you get back your inventory.
- Do not open the 16 treasure chests in Phon Coast South-East
section.

===== > Do not open the treasure chest in front of the old man (Daran)
house in Rabanastre Downtown

which one? there are 2 of them out of the "house". one on the left and the other in front of the house

===== > Do not open the Elixir chest in Rabanastre Palace

where is it?

===== > Do not open the treasure chests in Nalbina Dungeons inside the
room where you get back your inventory.

ultra easy. no probs with this one

===== > Do not open the 16 treasure chests in Phon Coast South-East
section

the question : is it NONE of them?

Thanks for your time!

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Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Oh, and Saga, don't open any of those chests at all if you want to get the Zodiac Spear the easy way.

Thank you very much for your answer.

I expent more than 140 hours trying to get it from henne mines and I got to the point where I just had enough ( enough is enough )

I just started the US version which is quite exciting! even thou is the same sodding thing. the voices seem to be well louder than the jap vers.

are there any new bits in the game or is it all the same?

Ta!

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Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Saga, AFAIK, the only difference between the U.S. and Japanese versions of FFXII is that Omega Mark XII has far less HP. There may be some more differences, but I haven't seen nor heard of them.

Really? thats quite cool actually cos I got abit stressed ad tired for the amount of time I spent fighting with the last mob monster ( cant remember the name .. is it Yazmat :/ ) + the dragon of doom ( the one by arcadia city I think ) they werent hard at all but squarenix could have done them more exciting cos is just boooooring fighting and fighting with monsters having such a ridiculous amount of HP U.U

Thanks.!


( i just strated the english version! Woopi! im on barheim passage killing "electric" spiders )

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Originally Posted by Metal_Smith490

Just a couple questions-
1) How long did it take you to beat Yiazmat and what level were your characters at?
2) The Dragon of Doom? Is that the Hell Wyrm or a different monster?

Thanks.

1) it took me 3 hours and something ( 3 and a half I would say ) everyone in level 99 in one go . this monster is really easy only If you have equiped all your characters with absorb ( cant spell sorry ) antidark ( yamazit if a fan of dark magic specially when you are behind him he will keep doing this big purple bubble ).

is hell wyrn the same dragoon that we're talking about? I mean the one im talking about is the one which you can only encounter if you open the door in clockwise or some shit like that.

excuse the english but I have spanish- Jap and english in my head and it IS indeed a pain in the ass lol

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That and getting 5 level 3 quickenings is insane. Other than that, the game is as good as done, but I'm not quitting when I'm this close to getting Order of Ambrosia

as far as I know you do not need to complete your bestiary at %100 in order to get a rank of Order of Ambrosia . I got it in the jap version and as far as I remember I was still missing monster in my bestiary when I got tthis Rank.... unless is diferent that the US version which I doubt.

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Originally Posted by Jimmy Choo

You know, to be honest with you i dont really find the gambit system that useful personally. I mean, the only gambits i have is Ally status KO>Arise for every character and for the one whse got the thief's cuffs i got nearest enemy>steal. Thats about it. Got through the game without any problems so far

Gambits are just completly pointless I find them really boring and they take the fun of the game -unless you want your character to do everything for you.... I played it all along without using gambits AT ALL. I enjoy using the commands by myself . IMO I dont see the point of it in the game.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by soulsteelgray

I can understand not using gambits if you're playing the game on Wait Mode, but gambits are pretty much the key to surviving in Active Mode.

I play on active mode and let me tell you Gambit is just another bit in the game thats all. not a very important thingy from how I see it and from my experience and I didnt have a problem at all during the game - is like playing any FF in active mode ....as how I felt it.

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I couldn't agree more here. For some of the bigger fights not having the gambit system would draw them out and it would become very very tedious and annoying.

I didnt have a problem I found it alot easier and cool :/ - is like playing any other FF ....but the diference in this one is that you have this extra "help" which is the gambit. ( when I destroyed Yamaizt I didnt need any gambit I found it alot easier to kill him cos I knew who was he attacking and what he was gonna do in the other hand if you activate gambit you know what are you doing but you dont actually know what is he going to do or how to scape from it cos youve got something already plan that doesnt apply to everthing . I can see people changing their gambit over and over again for soem of this bosses - I didnt need to do that )

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As you said, I haven't heard of anyone fully automating their characters in boss fights, or trickier monsters. There's simply too much for the enemies to throw at you, plus the gambits (while being rather thorough) don't let it get that far. I'll give you an example in a second.

wait mode /active mode whatever is NOT hard at all playing it without gambits - I think is more of a challenge is just like playing any other ff but without this extra help. give it a go is fun!

I dont know to be honest I think is just like playing any FF.... xD

Im in lushu mines killing "calaberas" lol

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Originally Posted by SOLDIER_2825

So I'm about to go do the Hell Wyrm fight. I'm at level 79 right now so I don't know if that is too low or not but we'll see. I think i read somewhere that the only bad things about the fight are the fact that his HP is really high and that he often casts reverse? Is all that true and should I grind a bit before fighting?

you are in well enough level there . I killed him when I was around 63 mind you it took me ages but I got all my equipement in the "secret" store in deadlands. those Shields that the little monster offers you protect you from anything to be honest.

Does anyone in here uses any of those random damage Hammers?

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

The Feywood. Even then, those bastards are hard to coax out. I managed to get them to appear by clearing the map and zoning a few times. If you don't kill them fast enough, they'll start leveling themselves above and beyond the levels of Henne Mine enemies. It's not fun fighting a level 99 enemy, I'll tell you that much.

the problem in henne is not the level of each enemy ... is THE AMOUNT of bats + ghosts that comes after you! is just OBSCENE I still remember going there for the first time in order to get Zodiac and I was SO proud and happy about my 87 level and THOSE bastards kicked my ass badly is not fair having 5 or 6 bats coming towards you or 4 ghosts doing death to you all the time thats when I went bonkers and I went up on level to 99. mind you i was quite exciting lol I like changelles ( cant spell sorry lol )

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Theres something wrong ..... I just went to see "garif" but for some strange reason I do not have enough money to but A THING ..... which in the Jap ver I had money up to my ears ..more than enough- I spent more than 5 hours leveling up ( now im in 39 ) and Im off to this Mt omicase or some shait like that with Larsa.. my problem is HOW do you get more money ... I sold all my loots but for some reason I do not hae enough money to buy a desent Equipment ( mind you my level is great at this point )

I dont want cheats but I am missing something? @_@

ta!

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