[PSP] Final Fantasy Tactics - The War of the Lions

Originally Posted by Elixir

it's FFT itself which has problems, not the PSP Slim.

Which it's been discovered is indeed the case.

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Originally Posted by Gechmir

Plus they remove Cloud for Balthier. lolwtf.

Um, no? How did I have both Cloud and Balthier in my party, then?

Originally Posted by Gechmir

There are also two or so new jobs, but I supposedly suck far too badly to be able to use them.

Fixed.
There's nothing wrong with the new jobs. They're bonuses--not exactly meant to rewrite the entire way a player would approach the game. The Onion Knight proves a worthwhile payoff to those who drive themselves nuts doing everything there is to do in a game, for sure.

Originally Posted by Gechmir

I'd rather not see if the new game tries to get kinky with the story somewhere along the lines.

It doesn't. It just has a better script. The only thing actually holding the PSP version back from being the definitive version is the lag and slowdown in battles--and some people will even disagree on that point and call the PSP version the better of the two, regardless of that.
Pros of Lions War:
+New bonus jobs
+Bigger army capacity (24 instead of 16)
+A couple of new cameos (both optional, and they don't play big parts in the story).
+New, amazing-looking cinemas.
+Rewritten script makes the story read way better.

Cons:
-Lag/slowdown in battle.
-Sounds effects, particularly with magic spells, is dumbed-down quite a bit.
-Certain cinemas take a small stutter-step in their first few seconds.

Could go either way, depending on who ya are:
+/- Voice acting.

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Originally Posted by Gechmir

What do you mean by "read" better on the story?

It sounds like words people would actually say. It flows better, sounds more natural, goes down easier like a smooth...um...like something smooth. Better than this post I am making, at least. ^^;

Originally Posted by Gechmir

It's not like the old PSX version was suffering from bad localization/translation.

Well, an awful lot of people saw the dialogue/translation as the PSX version's biggest flaw, which is why S-E saw it fit to retranslate the thing in the first place. And having played the Japanese version, I'll toss in that in a lot of places, FFT's English translation was a bit too literal at times (making things just sound choppy or not like they should in an English-language version of a game), and sometimes there was some poor choice for the order of words/phrases in a given dialogue.

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Originally Posted by Slayer X

And you're sure that some of the slowdown and what have you is not improved or at least less present when played on the 2000 SKU compared to the original model?

Yep. The problem within FFT:WotL is not a problem with teh PSP, but a deep-seated problem in the coding of the game. Lots of people on lots of message boards keep asking this question, but it's never turned out fixing things with FFT.

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Originally Posted by BlueBomber

(and an onion knight, but i don't know wtf that is yet).

It's a class which, for most of the game, would completely suck ass to have in one's party. The thing is, it gets stronger as the character in question masters more classes. Mastered Chemist and Squire? Well that's nice, but it won't have much of an effect on your Onion Knight. Mastered Archer, Thief, Monk, and Ninja? Getting closer. You need to master as much stuff as possible to really get an Onion Knight worthwhile. And when you doooo...it's a force to be reckoned with. Most people won't log the time though. That's why I mentioned earlier that it's a great thing for uber-completionists.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Lacerta

I just grabbed this (which was on sale locally for like 15 bucks, not that it mattered though just shocked me)

Holy flurkingschnidt where did you buy it for that price?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?