[PS2] Final Fantasy XII

what the hell are you serious. A copy is already on the net o-o *downloads and prays for a miracle*
But 30 days earlier than the release date, how is that possible. I've gotten dvd rips earlier than the dvd release date, but a game? Well whatever gets the game from my mind to my ps2 ;_;

Jam it back in, in the dark.

gah how did you get it so quickly, i'm at 17 % ><
200kb/s isn't enough o-o

There's nowhere I can't reach.

There are 3 reasons why people download the game.
1. Impatient - you don't want to wait another month for this long awaited game ><

2.Cheap - you got the money but don't want to spend it on the game

3.Poor - gots no money when the game actually launches so this is a quick fix.. This is me o-o

not sure about everyone else but I'm getting it through here
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/872451...h_Demonoid_com

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

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

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.

you summed it all up right there.

I was surprised to hear that all the voices didn't annoy me one bit. Especially Vaan's, despite his looks his voice isn't anything what I've expected.
I never really researched the game or knew anything about the story so seeing the opening scenes really surprised me.

I only played for an hour but it was so damn addicting traveling through the large town. I can't wait to get deeper into the game. The new leveling system looks alot deeper than that of the sphere grid in FFX.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

thats the same brand I use and everything looks perfect. Make sure you burn it at the slowest speed.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by seanne

They've actually added a widescreen option for this release?

once you start a new game it gives you the option for wide or full screen.
It also gives you other options like shake and flicker, although I have no Idea what those really do o_0

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

so far I have around 10 hours. Its all mostly traveling around and killing monsters and since the enviroments are huge it take a while to get through it.
I'm loving the game I'm not a big fan of the battle system to tell you the truth. It feels like none of the characters have any real individuality becuase of the leveling and learning system. And the fact that you can leave them to fight by themselves most of the time feels like your not really needed.
When I first saw the battle system I thought it was going to dissapoint since I like the old school "break in" battles and then since the game was getting so much hype I thought the battle system wasn't going to be so bad after all. Then I found that I was right the first time ~_~
Its fun at first and very fast paced but it gets to the point where you can just leave your party member to do all the work for you. And the magic doesn't have that bang that the previous games had, the first spells atleast, not sure about the higher ones.

I'm still enjoying the game though, theres alot to keep you busy and the first town is bigger than any other final fantasy's so theres alot of exploration to go around. I still miss Nobuos'smusic :/

FELIPE NO

yeah I know that what I'm trying to do so that all of them feel different in a way but the fact is that there are no real unique skills for a character in that board. Atleast the sphere grid in FFX had an area for each character so that you could learn skills that actually belonged to them and later on learn some of the other characters skills but FFXII doesn't have that.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I always steal manually since I dont really trust the other characters to do it. Plus they get rid of the monsters pretty quickly anyways so I can just blast thru each battle.
I also had around 500+ lp so I just spent it mostly on the magic part of the baord. Gots lots of magic slots, attack power, hp+, and so on. And I got one quickening for three characters all at once, they aren't as unique as I thought since your forced to make it they're indivudual skill instead of actually being their own. Still, they are very powerfull.
I also had a bunch of money from my loot but no armor or accesories that I wanted so what I did was just learn specific weapons for each character and hope I can get them later. Like swords for Vaan, spears/swords for basch etc. I couldn't find any guns on the board though.
Its a gamble but a good way to make them stick to a primary weapon and make them feel different.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

yeah battle wise, I think FFX had more flashy battles. I just don't feel the intensity on FFXII, although the story is awsome.

after 18 hours,

Spoiler:

I finally got all the characters together, it felt like a special moment when they all got into the ship and decided to go to help Ashe

Althought it doesn't really feel like Vaan is the true main character yet since there is not much focus on him. I hope theres some nice twist with him later.

Oh and also about one of basch's moves.

Spoiler:

Basch did this quickening move in the beggining of the game in a cutscene. I was able to get this move for him by learning spear and axe weapons. But I'm wondering if I got this move becuase I lucked out or becuase its a default move he would get no matter where I get it on the board

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Originally Posted by jb1234

Reply to Shenlon:

Spoiler:

Althought it doesn't really feel like Vaan is the true main character yet since there is not much focus on him. I hope theres some nice twist with him later.

- He's not really the main character. Much like FF6, FFXII has more of an ensemble cast. However, unlike FF6, FFXII is a plot-driven game and the characters take a back seat. They're never uninteresting but they aren't developed much either.

And it took you 18 hours to rescue Ashe? Assume you're referring to the airship raid, I was at that point within 8 hours. What *were* you doing?

I was mostly traveling and trying to beat the monsters in the clan thingy ~_~

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

I was able to get quickenings for all my characters, three of them have two quickenings but I have a question about those. Do you get any experience if you beat a monster with a quickening. They are incredible powerful and I was able to beat a few bosses with just one combo quickening so I'm just wondering if the downside to it is no exp o-0.

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the characters start at the same spot but with a different ability already learned to give you a clue on which route you should be taking I guess.
Only the three characters that you in battle are the ones gaining exp so only those can level up but all the characters still gain lp wether in the battle or not.

I may be going at a slow pace but I switch around my characters often to keep them at an equal level. so far all my characters are at level 18-20. Although keeping only three characters may be a good idea since all of them feel the same :/

I was speaking idiomatically.

no they start of with a few. Like ashe starts with cure vaan with steal and so one.
There are actually two seperate areas to the board though. One for magic, accesories and building up ur characters. the other half are for learning weapons, hats, and shields

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I've never actually noticed
Only time I ever notice it is when I get 1lp and i'm like wtf o_0
You can get quite a few though I notice my lp goes up randomly. I honestly don't worry about it too much becuase I usually wait till I have around 200-400lp so I can start wasting it and that would have me set for a long while. You can earn it pretty easly basicly, I already have my board filled up more than halfway on the magic side.
Weapons aren't all that in the beggining since you can learn all the good ones but you can't find them anywhere that sells them ><

FELIPE NO

quickenings only do major damage but its more effective when ur able to pull it off in a combo with another character that has a quickening. Then they will pull their off and so on.
Its really simple, your given a time limit to pick one of the other characters to pull off their quickening and then it repeats itself and the time limit keeps getting shorter until ur completely done.
It's not like FFX where you have to do certain things for each character, it would have been better that way :/

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I just get all the bills as they come up although alot of them are too strong at first but they don't seem to disapear on you. Looks like you have all the time in the world to finish them off.
And yes, fran is a hotty bunny. I didn't play the japanese version so I don't know about her voice there but her english voice is not what I expected. I thought she would have sounded more like lulu.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think you can go to the west side of rabenastre to get some high potions depending on your rank from the bills.
I think bhoojerba (thats not how its spelled ~_~) also has a merchant with hi potions. Those can cure up to 400hp.
or you can increase your potion recovery from the board

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Memnoch

I'm 50 hours in the game and i'm NOT liking the Story,..it kinda sucks. The Battlesystem is a joke,i just throw my controller on the floor and let the puppets do their job..sigh* i miss the turn based system. I hope there is a twist in the story or i'm DEF NOT PAYING for this GAME.

wow 50 hours into the game and not getting into it and still hoping for a story twist. I'd say your just forcing yourself to play now just for the sake of beating another FF game o_0
I can see why you don't like it and I think that this was little too hyped up for its own good imo, but I still enjoy it.
And I never played vagrant story but I noticed the similarities in character design when I first saw it which is probably why it looked so awsome

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

Originally Posted by Memnoch

Meh, the characters look good but there's nothing special about them. Atleast in the other FFs some of the characters had a interesting past,but with these guys it's BORING. And yes i am a FF fan but i expected something more then..well can't say,but jeez it sucks. I'll be glad when this FF is over so i can play Godhand or Shin Megami, cuz the bosses in FFXII are WAAAAAAY TOOOOO EASYYY and UNORIGINAL (boss dragon, green boss dragon, something cheap again and etc etc), Bah i won't do the extra quests, and i'll def be saving my money.

its funny you should say that becuase I'm in the process of getting (dling ~_~) godhand and I cant wait till its finished ^^
And yes I see what you mean, I've had my complaints about the learning system but come on, its final fantasy. The name alone makes you want to play it

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Originally Posted by Kairi Li

I think the name alone is the reason why this game will sell at all. Square should be making solid games to make money, this one, aside from production values, they didn't seem to have tried. There are problems in both story and gameplay. It seems that they are really just milking the label, while Enix is making more solid games, and people who don't know better give credit to Square.

I know that's 50 bucks I won't be spending either. And is God Hand English version out already?

If you mean the torrent for god hand, then yes. You have to look for the one thats labeled as Eminent

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by soulsteelgray

Then it's simple: don't use gambits on your lead character.

I actually didn't have gambit on at all for vaan during the first few hours since I didn't fully understand it, it's time consuming to keep pressing the X button since there are so many enemies on the field.
Gambits make life easier even if it does take away from the depth of the battle I just wish the magic had a little more bang into it.

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Originally Posted by Punishment

Couldn't you just simplt battle alone as a certain character in the game? Or just turn off the gambits and manually control each character.

you could do that but I think that you'd be setting yourself up to be on the field for countless hours.

FELIPE NO

I think the panelo scene with the orcs is on youtube but I didn't know that any scenes were being cut, the dancing scene does look awsome but I dont mind it being cut.

Spoiler:

Panelo isn't all that pretty, in fact, I think she's ugly in my opinion and could be left out of the story and it would really make no difference :/

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

well i'm not sure if the quickening are a unique moves for each character but I was able to get her dancing a little on the evanescence move :/

Jam it back in, in the dark.