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Just one word of advice: make sure you buy the Octagon Rod when you get the chance. You can get it at Esto Gaza or Daguerreo toward the end of disc 3. In disc 4 it's gone for good, and Vivi's -ga spells along with it. Learned that the hard way in my last playthrough.
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I loved ff12 on the ps2, the combat was great when i setup gambits for the other party members but the party leader and just did them manually. Loved it so much it was the first ff game i 100%'d @140 hours (still got my og save. gently caress still got my og ff9 release year save too) and got everyone to level 99 before i did the last dungeon and final boss, which was about as hilarious as youd think. Yizamat was the real boss in my eyes. 8 hour nightmare. Kinda curious to see how things have changed innthe remaster, i thought it was the same but reading the past few pages got me dead curious now
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Apr 1, 2022 19:28
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Vikar Jerome posted:I loved ff12 on the ps2, the combat was great when i setup gambits for the other party members but the party leader and just did them manually. Loved it so much it was the first ff game i 100%'d @140 hours (still got my og save. gently caress still got my og ff9 release year save too) and got everyone to level 99 before i did the last dungeon and final boss, which was about as hilarious as youd think. Yizamat was the real boss in my eyes. 8 hour nightmare. The remaster is a remaster of the Zodiac Job System version (which was previously a Japanese-only PS2 re-release), which replaces the huge single license board with twelve job boards, with each character having to pick a job. In the remaster, each character gets two jobs instead. That, plus some rebalances, new weapons and items, etc. It's fairly different. The PC version has a number of mods that bring back the PS2 license board if you prefer it that way, though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjTEMCVIx8 This is a great April Fools video
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Gologle posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjTEMCVIx8 I played with the sound off, what was fake about it
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I played with the sound off, what was fake about it nothing it's just the trailer for the next patch in xiv here's a timestamp for their april fools vids from the liveletter this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCCQPvBgRqk&t=7946s
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Chaos has been killed and somehow a good story fell out.
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Apr 1, 2022 23:12
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I'mma about to start FF12 Zodiac Fabula Nova Crystalis Extreme Switch edition, what were the recommended classes/jobs for each of my stooges?
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Apr 1, 2022 23:14
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Calaveron posted:I'mma about to start FF12 Zodiac Fabula Nova Crystalis Extreme Switch edition, what were the recommended classes/jobs for each of my stooges? https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-explained-4112
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Apr 2, 2022 00:10
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Make everyone a black mage/white mage and put the reins of history back in the hands of man
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As the guy who thinks too much about FFXII, here are my tips:
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Apr 2, 2022 00:43
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FFXII is actually an incredibly difficult game, and I haven't yet found a job combination that can stop me from getting lost in the Great Crystal and eventually giving up and uninstalling
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Apr 2, 2022 00:49
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The Switch Zodiac Age version doesn't have any of the goofy chest shenanigans right?
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More or less correct. You can't be permanently locked out of anything. Some chests might still have low spawn rates though.
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What was the trick to Trial Mode? I could get some good poo poo very early on right? I just beat the inexplicable fire horse in the sewer level and am in jail
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Calaveron posted:What was the trick to Trial Mode? I could get some good poo poo very early on right? I just beat the inexplicable fire horse in the sewer level and am in jail Why wouldn’t a fire horse live in the ancient sewers under a city
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Apr 2, 2022 02:32
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Also I remember there was some sort of limitation with the ninja swords/shikari weapons right? There were several licenses but you would have to forego one?
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Calaveron posted:Also I remember there was some sort of limitation with the ninja swords/shikari weapons right? There were several licenses but you would have to forego one? Due to the quickening nodes, yeah, you can lock yourself out of Yagyu Darkblade. Shikari has licenses behind four quickening nodes, so..just be aware of that.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Due to the quickening nodes, yeah, you can lock yourself out of Yagyu Darkblade. Shikari has licenses behind four quickening nodes, so..just be aware of that. In the switch and xbox versions (and Im pretty sure the PC and PS4 got patched for this) you can redo your license boards so its not a problem anymore
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I tried the SoP demo but quit pretty fast after finding it tedious. However, after reading the all the praise in this thread for the story, I went and spoiled myself, and now my interest is piqued enough that I'll try to give it a shot once it falls in price to $20 or so. I appreciate that this series (and its spinoffs) keep trying new things and changing up how gameplay works, but for my money the series' combat peaked at 10.
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I like FFX's combat when it actually forces you to be dynamic in how you switch around your guys and what sphere grids you have the characters cross over but for a good chunk of the game it really just is Pokemon with using Tidus, Wakka, Lulu or Auron to super effective one shot an enemy weak to their gimmick
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Barudak posted:In the switch and xbox versions (and Im pretty sure the PC and PS4 got patched for this) you can redo your license boards so its not a problem anymore oh, right! Yeah okay no worries anymore then
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X's combat is okay but I really don't like the sphere grid. I also don't like the license board in XII.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:X's combat is okay but I really don't like the sphere grid. I also don't like the license board in XII. As one of the thread's more insistent FFXII defenders, I also don't like the license board.
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The only sphere leveling system I like is FF7R's weapon upgrades
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I didn't mind the sphere grid in all honesty but I also mostly just went in a straight line anyways.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I didn't mind the sphere grid in all honesty but I also mostly just went in a straight line anyways. Tbf most of the sphere grid is a straight line, theres only a few locks where you can jump to a new grid path anyway.
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The Expert sphere grid lets you do that a lot more, as I found out to my cost the first time I played the game and utterly hosed up my characters to the point where Khimari was my biggest damage dealer lol
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Apr 2, 2022 13:56
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I enjoy filling things out so I liked the sphere grid.
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Sakurazuka posted:Khimari was my biggest damage dealer lol My condolences.
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Base Khimari isn't bad by himself, I remember it being really easy to get him onto Lulu's grid, as well as having way higher than expected Magic stat by the time you did that. Of course I also haven't played FF10 in nearly 20 years but I remember being chuffed at finding that worked out
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I think the game tricks you into making Kimahri a Wakka since his path is the closest if I recall correctly. Not a bad deal since having two guys who can hit for status ailments is pretty worthwhile at the beginning of the game
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Base grid Kimahri-Wakka is a good way to get more Kimahri usage into your party as you can have a character who can pierce and hit wolves and eventually birds making him a melee all rounder. Kimahri is never going to be as good as anyone else since the locks delay his entry into any given path for a while so the practical choice is sending him down any instantly stat heavy path to let him do something, anything, in combat to get enough grid travel to unlock ultima and give it to actual useful party members with black magic spheres when you get the keys.
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magic also hits birds!!!! That was one of the subtler things I liked about X at least, flying enemies were evasive and the game let you know that and it was consistent, small four-legged beasts were generally fast, magic weaknesses were presented front and center. It's very transparent for an FF. I mean eventually you fight nothing but huge things but there was a reason to swap people mid-fight, aside from having a compulsion to do so and way too much time on your hands (confession: it me)
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Calaveron posted:but for a good chunk of the game it really just is Pokemon with using Tidus, Wakka, Lulu or Auron to super effective one shot an enemy weak to their gimmick Unless you do what I did and teach Yuna the first four black magic spells by sending her down Lulu's path a bit, then Lulu becomes completely useless and can be benched for the entire rest of the game. Seriously, Yuna was doing twice as much damage with a level 1 black magic spell as Lulu was doing with a level 2. Also, Lulu's overdrive is the worst in the game, and her ultimate weapon requires you to do the worst minigame. Lulu. Not even once.
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She's got a dress made of belts tho
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Eight-Six posted:magic also hits birds!!!! A little trick I learned from an LP forever ago (by HcBailly if anybody here ever watched him) was how Lulu was superior to Wakka for killing birds because she could more reliably Overkill them. This blew my young mind since I just did what the game told me with Wakka > Bird and Lulu > magical enemies. Lulu is pretty great against everything until she isn't.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Unless you do what I did and teach Yuna the first four black magic spells by sending her down Lulu's path a bit, then Lulu becomes completely useless and can be benched for the entire rest of the game. Seriously, Yuna was doing twice as much damage with a level 1 black magic spell as Lulu was doing with a level 2. Also, Lulu's overdrive is the worst in the game, and her ultimate weapon requires you to do the worst minigame. Yeah, at least with the default sphere grid, Yuna gets much higher magic than Lulu does, and much better speed, too. I didn't really take advantage of that until the late game in my most recent playthrough, but as soon as Lulu got the -aga spells and Ultima, I used Black Magic Spheres to teach them to Yuna and then benched Lulu for the rest of the game.
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OK, what's the deal with Red Mage in SoP? Chainspell's supposed to cast multiple times, right? How come I can't even do a decent damage single black magic cast? I don't quite understand what's going on with the job.
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