Final Fantasy Megathread - People here, it sounds like sickness

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ApplesandOranges: Jun 22, 2012; Thankee kindly.

Suaimhneas posted:

I got to Academia 500AF in FF13-2, and it is pissing me the hell off. I got about halfway through the level before deciding that there was no way I was getting through it without being significantly stronger, and decided to head back to Chocolina at the start of the level to buy more monster materials.

I've now spent half an hour running around this loving place flipping switches back and forth, and I cannot figure out a route back to the start of the level. Is it even possible to get back there? They wouldn't cut me off from the only source of level 3+ monster mats like this, would they?

There should be, but there's not much point, just power through and finish the level. Academia 500AF is a thankless journey and the faster you get it over with the better.

Off the top of my head I believe Chocolina appears again near the end of the level as well.

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# ? May 26, 2024 06:58

Kalenn Istarion: Nov 2, 2012; Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

Dubious posted:

why portrait mode for this? What's the draw, do people actually like that?

Edit - it's the only thing that keeps me from buying DQ8 on my ipad. It's just so jarring.

It's a much more natural way to hold a phone - you can even one hand it for the most part. It's weird on iPad but that's why. I've played it a bunch and it actually works really well.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 00:45

maou shoujo: Apr 12, 2014; ニンゲンの表裏一体

Harrow posted:

poo poo, really? I had no idea about that. So she has the same problem for Samurai that Balthier does for, like, every ranged weapon.

She does have good Magic for Shades of Black, but I'm not sure how useful that actually is. I didn't have it on my last IZJS run and never saw a use for it in vanilla because everyone could just straight-up cast what they needed to, so I'm not sure how often Shades of Black actually gives you something useful and how often it's just kind of a waste of time.

Shades of Black is amazing in IZJS. You get it much earlier than vanilla (in a chest during the Belias fight instead of around Draklor Laboratories), and the weighting against high level spells was removed. Vanilla SoB would usually cast only basic-tier or -ra spells, because the best spells only appeared very rarely. IZJS SoB can frequently cast -ga spells, Bio, Shock, Scathe, etc long before they are normally available, and without MP cost.

Even better, Larsa/Lamont knows SoB. He'll never use it unless you change his gambits, but his magic stat is significantly higher than his physical stat. He'll single-handedly annihilate everything in the Lhusu Mines. Too bad he runs away as soon as Bagamnan shows up, because he'd trivialize that fight too.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 00:54

Twelve by Pies: May 4, 2012; Again a very likpatous story

Everyone is forgetting the best change IZJS made compared to vanilla XII.

They added an "Enemy: Has Item" Gambit.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 02:47

Schwartzcough: Aug 12, 2009; Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Twelve by Pies posted:

Everyone is forgetting the best change IZJS made compared to vanilla XII.

They added an "Enemy: Has Item" Gambit.

I know you're being sarcastic, but manually stealing probably kept me more involved in the random battles. Oh, who am I kidding, I always set the steal gambit to "Enemy HP=100%", and had everyone else attack the stealer's target as a weak substitute.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 03:30

DACK FAYDEN: Feb 25, 2013; Bear Witness

Twelve by Pies posted:

Everyone is forgetting the best change IZJS made compared to vanilla XII.

They added an "Enemy: Has Item" Gambit.

You misspelled "They put all the Gambits in the shop right away" :eng101:

# ? Mar 4, 2015 05:05

Instant Grat: Jul 31, 2009; Just add
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Suaimhneas posted:

I got to Academia 500AF in FF13-2, and it is pissing me the hell off. I got about halfway through the level before deciding that there was no way I was getting through it without being significantly stronger, and decided to head back to Chocolina at the start of the level to buy more monster materials.

I've now spent half an hour running around this loving place flipping switches back and forth, and I cannot figure out a route back to the start of the level. Is it even possible to get back there? They wouldn't cut me off from the only source of level 3+ monster mats like this, would they?

Just go visit her in another place, like Archylte Steppe or such?

# ? Mar 4, 2015 07:41

Squallege: Jan 7, 2006; No greater good, no just cause; Grimey Drawer

I think the whole FFXHD on PS4 is Square buying time to find the shoebox that has FFXII's data in it

# ? Mar 4, 2015 07:59

Leal: Oct 2, 2009

Squallege posted:

I think the whole FFXHD on PS4 is Square buying time to find the shoebox that has FFXII's data in it

Maybe it'll have the uncompressed voice audio.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:11

THE AWESOME GHOST: Oct 21, 2005

Sunning posted:

Mevius is a FF game aimed at mobile platforms, hence the portrait orientation and touch controls. However, it's intended to be a fully featured console style JRPG rather than a typical F2P mobile game. The FFXIII staff seems to be behind it and it has a job system.

I'll probably complain heavily and then buy this

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:11

Twelve by Pies: May 4, 2012; Again a very likpatous story

Schwartzcough posted:

I know you're being sarcastic, but manually stealing probably kept me more involved in the random battles. Oh, who am I kidding, I always set the steal gambit to "Enemy HP=100%", and had everyone else attack the stealer's target as a weak substitute.

I'm not being sarcastic, I am serious that that is the best change. What you just said is pretty much what I did, I set it at Enemy HP = 100%. For stuff like bosses where stealing would take longer, I just set up a Gambit for "Nearest enemy" and once the steal succeeded go into the menu and turn it off.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:12

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Leal posted:

Maybe it'll have the uncompressed voice audio.

and maybe they'll find biggie and tupac

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:12

THE AWESOME GHOST: Oct 21, 2005

Dubious posted:

why portrait mode for this? What's the draw, do people actually like that?

Edit - it's the only thing that keeps me from buying DQ8 on my ipad. It's just so jarring.

It's not meant for iPads, it's meant for quick phone play. I thought it was dumb at first as well but it makes it so much easier to pop open the game with one hand on it and play for a bit then switching to landscape. It only works if the game properly suspends when you close it instead of forcing you back to title screen too.

It sounds dumb but it is a usability thing for sure.

Also makes it less obvious you're playing a game at work

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:19

Schwartzcough: Aug 12, 2009; Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Twelve by Pies posted:

I'm not being sarcastic, I am serious that that is the best change. What you just said is pretty much what I did, I set it at Enemy HP = 100%. For stuff like bosses where stealing would take longer, I just set up a Gambit for "Nearest enemy" and once the steal succeeded go into the menu and turn it off.

But... it didn't add an "Enemy: Has Item" gambit. They SHOULD have, but they didn't.

Squallege posted:

I think the whole FFXHD on PS4 is Square buying time to find the shoebox that has FFXII's data in it

Knowing SE file retention policies, they probably just have a box full of poor Xerox copies of hundreds of faxed pages of game code, stuffed under the toaster in the break room. Someone spilled a pitcher of iced tea on it years ago so all the pages are stuck together and bled everywhere.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:21

Twelve by Pies: May 4, 2012; Again a very likpatous story

Schwartzcough posted:

But... it didn't add an "Enemy: Has Item" gambit. They SHOULD have, but they didn't.

Huh, a friend of mine told me that it did. Checking around, it seems like this was a rumor that the game had added the Gambit (mostly because it's such an obvious idea) but it isn't actually true. Never mind, then!

# ? Mar 4, 2015 08:34

Mischitary: Oct 9, 2007

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

It's not meant for iPads, it's meant for quick phone play. I thought it was dumb at first as well but it makes it so much easier to pop open the game with one hand on it and play for a bit then switching to landscape. It only works if the game properly suspends when you close it instead of forcing you back to title screen too.

It sounds dumb but it is a usability thing for sure.

Also makes it less obvious you're playing a game at work

I also think that because they're actually building it from the ground up as a mobile game, they can build it for portrait mode.

Mevius is interesting to me. There's a lot I want to find out about with that game.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 13:30

Suaimhneas: Nov 19, 2005; That's how you get tinnitus

Instant Grat posted:

Just go visit her in another place, like Archylte Steppe or such?

She doesn't sell monster mats above level 2 anywhere else that I've found.

But I figured it out anyway, just had to use a specific cactuar checkpoint statue, go flip a switch to move the platforms, then jump into the void to get back to the statue

# ? Mar 4, 2015 15:03

Ghosts n Gopniks: Nov 2, 2004; Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.

13 days, where's the Type-0 digital pre-order at?

# ? Mar 4, 2015 15:50

Sunning: Sep 14, 2011; Nintendo Guru

Schwartzcough posted:

But... it didn't add an "Enemy: Has Item" gambit. They SHOULD have, but they didn't.

Knowing SE file retention policies, they probably just have a box full of poor Xerox copies of hundreds of faxed pages of game code, stuffed under the toaster in the break room. Someone spilled a pitcher of iced tea on it years ago so all the pages are stuck together and bled everywhere.

They were starting to lose track of assets and tools as early as a decade ago. Nomura admitted they lost the assets for Kingdom Hearts 1 when making the HD remaster. Fan-made tools were used to develop the FFX/FFX-2 HD Remaster. However, FFIX has some of its master assets available because some American artists worked on it and performed proper archival procedures. It's still not a great track record.

On the bright side, FFXII's focus on texturing would make it more at home with how most modern 3D games are made. I think the biggest issue with a HD port would be that most of original development staff left the company, works on FFXIV: ARR, or has disappeared into the unknown. Then again, that didn't stop the FFX/FFX-2 HD Remaster from being outsourced to China.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 16:02

bloodychill: May 8, 2004; And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life; Exciting Lemon

MrLonghair posted:

13 days, where's the Type-0 digital pre-order at?

I'm guessing they need to nail down their store pages on PSN and XBL so they're probably still all-hands, including interns, on making FF15 demo actually playable.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 20:15

bloodychill: May 8, 2004; And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life; Exciting Lemon

Unrelated but I'm 30 games into blitzball and hit the point where I couldn't lose even if I wanted to. It'd be a draw if I never took a shot because the AI terrible at taking their own shots. It's such a mindless slog.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:20

Instant Grat: Jul 31, 2009; Just add
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bloodychill posted:

Unrelated but I'm 30 games into blitzball and hit the point where I couldn't lose even if I wanted to. It'd be a draw if I never took a shot because the AI terrible at taking their own shots. It's such a mindless slog.

The way to the Jupiter Sigil that involves the lowest amount of Blitzball games requires you to use the reset-function pretty often, which means everyone is constantly at or near starting levels, and the game isn't completely impossible to lose.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:26

bloodychill: May 8, 2004; And if the world
should end tonight,
I had a crazy, classic life; Exciting Lemon

Instant Grat posted:

The way to the Jupiter Sigil that involves the lowest amount of Blitzball games requires you to use the reset-function pretty often, which means everyone is constantly at or near starting levels, and the game isn't completely impossible to lose.

If I reset after getting the auroch reels, will the first league have the Jupiter Sigil? Because I'm just about to hit Auroch reels and would gladly reset if it means the first league is for the sigil.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:39

Instant Grat: Jul 31, 2009; Just add
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bloodychill posted:

If I reset after getting the auroch reels, will the first league have the Jupiter Sigil? Because I'm just about to hit Auroch reels and would gladly reset if it means the first league is for the sigil.

Don't quote me on this, but I think you can just keep resetting until the prize is what you want it to be? Either that or you save, reset the blitzball, and then if the league prize isn't the sigil, you reload your save and try again.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 21:47

That Fucking Sned: Oct 28, 2010

bloodychill posted:

I'm guessing they need to nail down their store pages on PSN and XBL so they're probably still all-hands, including interns, on making FF15 demo actually playable.

I'm glad they'll actually hit a deadline for once and get this demo out in time for the release of Type-0 HD, rather than pull a God of War Ascension, where the demo for The Last of Us came out a few months later.

Not only am I excited to finally play FFXV, but I'm a huge nerd when it comes to beta versions of games, and it will be great to have an early version of the game to compare to the final one. I can't wait for the Ultimatim, post-mortem, or developer interviews once this game comes out about its decade in development, like how far the PS3/360 version got before it was scrapped. Yes, they have said that a 360 version was being considered before it was made next-gen only.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:12

Meowywitch: Jan 14, 2010; Fight for all that is beautiful in the world

bloodychill posted:

If I reset after getting the auroch reels, will the first league have the Jupiter Sigil? Because I'm just about to hit Auroch reels and would gladly reset if it means the first league is for the sigil.

Stop before it's too late. I have the World Champion and I am a significantly worse human being as a result.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:50

Ghosts n Gopniks: Nov 2, 2004; Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.

Type-0 videos, everything from last years TGS to the last weeks bits were just added to European PSN, keyword "Type 0". Empty on US PSN.

# ? Mar 4, 2015 23:07

CottonWolf: Jul 20, 2012; Good ideas generator

MrLonghair posted:

Type-0 videos, everything from last years TGS to the last weeks bits were just added to European PSN, keyword "Type 0". Empty on US PSN.

Weird. I can't find them at all.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 09:55

Ghosts n Gopniks: Nov 2, 2004; Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.

CottonWolf posted:

Weird. I can't find them at all.

store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/**-**/search/q=type%200

I've found it's there for en-uk, en-se, en-fi, fr-fr. Nothing at all on nl-nl and de-de has only four videos.

Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Mar 5, 2015

# ? Mar 5, 2015 10:18

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Trailer preview for this week's curtain call dlc round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDA43XF_qOA

Also a new trailer for Theatrythm Dragon Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnCDMkIois

# ? Mar 5, 2015 11:24

The Machine: Dec 15, 2004; Rage Against / Welcome to

Y'all getting some loving Curtain Call DLC today!?

I can't believe how much I look forward to DLC for this thing... Every time a pack releases, I'm out at least a few bucks.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 11:31

ApplesandOranges: Jun 22, 2012; Thankee kindly.

When's the batch containing Real Emotion coming out? I need some more J-pop.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 13:55

Szurumbur: Feb 17, 2011

There's a Final Fantasy sale on EU PSN, all the games but VII, Tactics (both version), X-X2 HD, the first Dissidia and XIII are discounted- I've bought XIII-2 again, I hope my disc save converts, beacause I'd hate to do the quiz sidequests again.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:58

Instant Grat: Jul 31, 2009; Just add
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Szurumbur posted:

There's a Final Fantasy sale on EU PSN, all the games but VII, Tactics (both version), X-X2 HD, the first Dissidia and XIII are discounted- I've bought XIII-2 again, I hope my disc save converts, beacause I'd hate to do the quiz sidequests again.

drat, Lightning Returns is still expensive as hell digitally. That "50% off"-price as about what a new copy costs at my local GameStop.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 15:41

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Yeah, I picked up the disc version for like �10, not quite as cheap as what I grabbed XIII-2 for though. :v:

# ? Mar 5, 2015 18:02

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

my used copy of LR is the weird metal case with lightning dressed as cloud on it

except it was used so it didnt come with the cloud DLC

# ? Mar 5, 2015 19:42

Evil Fluffy: Jul 13, 2009; Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Sunning posted:

There was footage of Final Fantasy Mevius in a highlight reel for Unity 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxg_m3Qsnik (Footage at 2:40)

http://gematsu.com/2015/03/13-seconds-mevius-final-fantasy-footage

With the game running on Unity, console/PC ports wouldn't be out of the question. SE has moved a lot of its Japanese game development to middleware engines. It looks like the FFXIII creative team is working on Mevius. The game even reuses assets from the FFXIII trilogy. They haven't announced the game's director but I wouldn't be surprised if it's either Toriyama or a protege of his.

I misread this as Exvius and got excited only to have my hopes dashed.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 20:24

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Saw this very interesting article about a fan made sequel for Final Fantasy VII. It is (or was, its canceled now) being developed by a small team that is based in Japan. They were making the game for the PSOne, using the FFVII game engine, and all of the restrictions that go along with that. There were some really neat things the team was able to create for their game that I would never have thought would be possible with the PSOne hardware.

http://gematsu.com/2015/03/look-cancelled-fan-made-final-fantasy-vii-open-world-sequel-psone

# ? Mar 5, 2015 22:09

DMorbid: Jan 6, 2011; With our special guest star, RUSH! YAYYYYYYYYY

Theatrhythm is cool and good. Can't wait to spend all my money on DLC, the world of real emotion is going to surround the gently caress out of me once that pack comes out. :getin:

Also got the Famicom cart containing FF1 and FF2, the 1994 re-release with some minor graphics changes. Not that I'll ever play the Famicom version of FF2, but FF1 is always FF1 and it's nice to have this cart in my collection of retro crap. Too bad the box art is some crappy 1994 CGI instead of the Amano art from the original releases and FF3, but eh. At least it's consistent with the Super Famicom versions of IV and V.

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# ? May 26, 2024 06:58

Sunning: Sep 14, 2011; Nintendo Guru

Actual development footage of the Final Fantasy series under Hironobu Sakaguchi

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