Final Fantasy Type-0Follow

I suspect that it will have fantastic graphics, a terrible story, and boring game play.

Edited, Jan 4th 2011 8:00am by Turin

It's obviously a prequel to the original Final Fantasy game.

Just curious, does this mean you liked FFXIII?

(I only played about 24 hours into it, so I don't have an accurate view of it. But a lot of folks seemed to feel "It looks good but isn't fun").

I suspect it will be another of their handheld titles. Like the 4 Heroes of Light, Blood of Bahamut, etc. I'm sure the next console release will be titled simply "Final Fantasy XV".

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9 is also way too low on that list. That was the last real classic RPG of the main FF games. It actually had a world map! And the battle/skill system was great.

6 - 5 - 9 - 4 - 7 - 10 - 12 - 13 - 3 - 8 - 2 - 10/2 - 1

13's linearity was its downfall. Its battle system made up for it, a bit, but I like an open world and being able to pause the storyline and go do something else and still play. Sure, it may not be very "realistic" if you are supposed to be rushing to save a princess and instead go explore that cave you found in the opposite direction of the Evil-Man's castle... but it's still a lot more fun than not being allowed to do anything.

(And no, I never cared for 1. Maybe I was spoiled by the others by the time I got around to it, but the game was just too... meh)

Edited, Jan 4th 2011 7:40pm by TirithRR

Edited, Jan 4th 2011 10:13pm by TirithRR

First of all, sscearcev... I <3 that list for the most part. 8 is right where it belongs.

Personally, I'd go

6 - 7 - 5 - 9 - 10 - 2 - 4 - 1 - 2 - X2 - 12 - 8

Second: Vataro, X2 wasn't bad in terms of mechanics... it just... the story... oh god...

Yeah that X2 ranking always gets some comments. Yes it had a horrid storyline, probably the 3rd/4th worst of any final fantasy. 1 was clearly the worst it didn't really HAVE a story, 8 gets my vote for worst where they actually tried. But imo X2 had the BEST battle system of any FF and the 2nd best battle system of any RPG(seiken densetsu 3)

I'm a big fan of the job system games, you see that 5, 4, X2, and 13 all get high marks. and my #2 all time favorite game is tactics. X2 and 13 were the only FFs where, if your battle strategy wasn't effective, you could completely re-work it on the fly. 4 and 5 required you to go back to before the battle to switch out jobs. They also in X2 did the best job diversifying the jobs. even when you had examples of healing class A vs healing class B(white mage v alchemist) there's still a good distinction(white mages handle status up/down better, alchemists handle pure hp recovery better)

also, when it came out I had the hots for rikku.

anyway...

6 was my first, and the whole "world has been destroyed but the game keeps going" thing was kinda cool. far and away the most memorable characters.

7 loses points simply because cid's death in 6(the first time i played) got to me, aeris' death in 7 didn't, also I was pissed about the drop to 3 party members. using a third of your potential members on a healer(generally characters I disliked) always bugs me.

9 has no real lasting memories for me, besides zidane being my favorite of FF's leading men/women- locke would win but I consider 6 to be terra's story not locke's

12 just wasn't fun, and really at the bottom line that's what matters.

and then there's 8. the only FF I have never finished and will never finish. 8 had the worst characters of any FF where they tried(skipping 1~2), a completely boring story, and the halfwit that came up with the draw/junction magic/stat system needs to have his brain carved out with a rusty spoon. while being forced to listen to justin beiber doing a death metal cover album. that was recorded on a cd made from his firstborn's skin.

Just a horrid decision all around: casting drain for instance means
A) whatever stat it was junctioned to is lowered
and B) that stat remains lowered until I traipse halfway around the game world to find the one random enemy I can draw a new drain out of.

since character specific command were all limit breaks, this effectively turned battles into melee attack spam, or at best you only cast the spells that you can draw out of your current opponent.

8 was also the game where they started ******** around with summons instead of leaving them alone as one time attacks/buffs/cures. 8/10/12/13 all lost points for doing this as its something that I despise.

anyway that's my dissertation on the high points of my Final Fantasy rating system, for the few of you who actually read the whole thing, you're free to move on with life now.

No, it's linear the whole time. It's just that one path gets to be about 20 miles wide instead of 20 feet wide.

Wow, I had to look it up. I had no idea you could save Cid. Reading online though everyone says it's better off just letting him die. I remember being able to relate very well to that part of the game when I was young and played for the first time. There was no one left, and Celes had lost all hope and committed suicide, only to fail and find Locke's bandanna, gaining hope once more, and finding the strength to carry on through it.



Edited, Jan 5th 2011 8:21pm by Kuwoobie

In terms of gameplay has no effect whether he lives or dies, but it seems to fit the storyline better for him to die. I have saved him before, but now on any replay I let him pass.

I LIKE that character improvement system. granted it needed a few touchups back when ff2 was new. It's too easy to circumvent the designers for outlandish stats(beating on your teammates) and growth rate was too slow(hp wouldn't grow fast enough unless you beat on your teammates). But I've played the games that refined that system (romancing sa-ga 1-3, saga frontier 1-2, unlimited saga) and its great for a storyline like ff6's where anyone "can" be a mage and anyone "can" be a fighter.

It prevents what happens in ff9 where if you want black magic you HAVE to use vivi whether you like the character or not, and if you want white magic you HAVE to use the girls whether you like them or not.

It also prevents what actually happens in ff6, relm is the best mage ungeared, followed by strago, terra/celes, then everyone else. umaro is the best melee with weapons only, followed by sabin, cyan, then everyone else. In romancing sa-ga who's the best mage? whoever I decide is going to be the best mage. In saga frontier who's the best melee? whoever I decide is going to be the best melee.

now the final fantasy series made a conscious effort to differentiate characters/classes with unique abilities(cyan's sword techs, dragoon jumping, rosa's white magic) and Squaresoft gave the guy who designed the ff2 system his own games to play with, the sa-ga series. And for those who might be too young(these are primarily snes era games), they were WILDLY popular in japan, and actually might be somewhat popular in the US today. they are the product made by square that most resemble what we consider a western rpg.

Plus the system makes sense in a real world comparison. If you run flatout as far and as fast as you can every day, your ability to run will increase, but your ability to walk on your hands won't. the skill you use is the skill that improves. if you want to be good with a sword, dammit, you need to practice with a sword, not be throwing magic at someone. even the hp growth thing has a real world correlation, martial artists who specialize in breaking(boards bricks etc) have harder stronger bones than other people who train in the same martial art. whatever doesn't kill you does in fact make you stronger... to a point.

How absurd. For the record I enjoyed FFXIII, I'm don't often have time to delve into all the side missions and that on games, and 13 really played nicely as a sort of sporadic thing. The story wasnt nearly the worst of FF's, the characters were decently developed (though a couple of them were ******* annoying), and it looked absolutely amazing.

My personal preferences aside, if you're going to argue that the 'hallway' people seemed to bandwagon like crazy simply got wider, how is that different from other final fantasies? In terms of story they are all relatively structured, and no matter how wide that hallway gets, it'll diverge in the end with the same ending anyone else gets.

That's not to say that the Pulse section of the game was particularly spectacular or fleshed out, it really wasn't. But I think people really need to stop taking their opinions from their almighty interwebs overlords, who dictated long before the game was out that you could afk and tape the joystick pressing forwards and win the game.

I for one am looking forward to what seems to be the likely FFXIII-2. I personally enjoyed X-2 battle system, but couldn't finish it because I didn't want to see X's story trashed (which it pretty much did from the get go D:), but I would say 13-2 is far more likely to be the better game, now that they have an established engine, at least a few established characters they might keep on and a very interesting and vibrant world to expand upon.

Vent over.

As for type-0, it's obviously not going to be a prequel, because it has 'type' in the name. I imagine it'll be some kind of spinoff personally, maybe for the 3DS or something?