never played any final fantasy outside of the main non-mmo ones

was always more of a fire emblem fan. easily one of my favorite games/series i've played on emulator

dar0za

Canada74 Posts

April 15 2011 08:01 GMT

#62

I got this game when i was 11. it took me a long time to beat it, i had to take breaks at the difficult parts (velius) but the game does get way too easy when you get orlandu, and there's other annoyances like having to level up cloud from lv.1 and the classes needed tweaks in general. I'll have to try that version 1.3 some time soon.

FFT does stand on its own compared to the dozens and dozens of JRPGs i played as a kid. it's a real shame that squaresoft started sucking hard into the 2000s.

KinosJourney2

Sweden1811 Posts

April 15 2011 09:31 GMT

#63

I haven't played Final Fantasy Tactics for the PS1, but i have played the ones for both GBAdvance and DS and they are both damn awesome. I got a PS1 emulator so i might try out it out sometime

Though i wish they'd make another Final Fantasy Tactics game that isnt as restricted and one dimensional as the other ones, i don't want all characters to look the same and have wierd ass randomized names t_t

fishbowl

United States1575 Posts

April 15 2011 17:14 GMT

#64

Everyone that's played the GBA/DS games, I cannot emphasize how much better the original is. If you liked those, you'll love this. Definitely check out FFT 1.3 if you want a challenge, although be warned they're not kidding when they say they ramped up the difficulty. If you're not too familiar with the game itself, it's gonna kick your ass over and over again. Power leveling will not save you (it will actually make your life harder); you actually have to think about your strategy and tactics. There's also a FFT1.3 Easytype (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=3952.0) to kind of get your feet wet to the 1.3 experience, it's more or less classified as a medium difficulty compared to the regular Ninja Gaiden-esque difficulty of normal 1.3.

scbwnewb1

95 Posts

April 15 2011 18:20 GMT

#65

i'm a huge fft fan, and i saw it mentioned once in this thread,

but i wanted to give a quick shoutout to the new tactics ogre game for psp (remake). if you do some research it turns out that this game is actually made by the creators of fft (where ffta was not)

its basically an awesome version of FFT that plays and feels so much like the original FFT but fixes alot of the issues.

if you have access to a psp, you should definitely play this. i almost have no time for these games anymore, but definitely foudn time to dust off the old psp.

fishbowl

United States1575 Posts

April 15 2011 19:26 GMT

#66

Yes to Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together. Another excellent SRPG.

jimmyjingle

United States472 Posts

April 15 2011 20:50 GMT

#67

it's kinda funny in retrospect, i can draw so many similarities between the warcraft franchise and square games. concept art styles being a big one.

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

April 15 2011 21:07 GMT

#68

On April 16 2011 05:50 jimmyjingle wrote:
it's kinda funny in retrospect, i can draw so many similarities between the warcraft franchise and square games. concept art styles being a big one.

i dont recall warcraft concept art missing noses

jimmyjingle

United States472 Posts

April 15 2011 21:32 GMT

#69

On April 16 2011 06:07 rabidch wrote:

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i dont recall warcraft concept art missing noses

:D as far as pastels and simliar cartoony lines and anatomy

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TwoMagTrav

United States195 Posts

April 21 2011 22:05 GMT

#70

For those wondering you can play 1.3 on the PSP on both the FFT PSX iso and the war of the lions iso/cso. Unfortunately its like ridiculously hard LOL. I thought I was good at FFT but I am getting my ass kicked by v1.3. Like getting game over screens during random encounters and shit. I think I will patch my PSX version though because the war of the lions has his annoying slow down everytime you cast a spell and its a port problem there is nothing you can do to fix it. I tried changing from cso(compressed) to iso and there is no difference. Even loading from the UMD it still lags when you cast a spell. I do love the widescreen and the cool cut scenes but they changed some stuff between the games and it feels weird. LOL Like some job classes and such.

fishbowl

United States1575 Posts

April 21 2011 22:37 GMT

#71

On April 22 2011 07:05 TRod wrote:
For those wondering you can play 1.3 on the PSP on both the FFT PSX iso and the war of the lions iso/cso. Unfortunately its like ridiculously hard LOL. I thought I was good at FFT but I am getting my ass kicked by v1.3. Like getting game over screens during random encounters and shit. I think I will patch my PSX version though because the war of the lions has his annoying slow down everytime you cast a spell and its a port problem there is nothing you can do to fix it. I tried changing from cso(compressed) to iso and there is no difference. Even loading from the UMD it still lags when you cast a spell. I do love the widescreen and the cool cut scenes but they changed some stuff between the games and it feels weird. LOL Like some job classes and such.

Yeah, that's exactly what happened with me. Patched WotL and just couldn't stand the slowdown so I just ended up using the original.

TwoMagTrav

United States195 Posts

April 22 2011 03:47 GMT

#72

On April 22 2011 07:37 fishbowl wrote:

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Yeah, that's exactly what happened with me. Patched WotL and just couldn't stand the slowdown so I just ended up using the original.

Yep just wanted to make it clear that War of the lions is the problem not 1.3. WotL does this no matter if its patched or not. Very lazy port its like they didn't even bother playing it and just went "well that's good enough to make us money". Unfortunate to not give such an epic game a decent port.