Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles

Merrith

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shit the loadout feature alone makes this remake worth it. If FF7 Remake Part 3 can finally add something like this for materia/weapon skills/weird board skills loadouts, all will be well. Also laughable how easy to just one shot stuff to Poach at start of battles and how fast it is to restart battle for easy rare carcass farming.
 
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Gavinmad said:
it really doesn't. there are several solid mods/romhacks that are all better than anything Squeenix is capable of these days.
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Nah, it really does. Game plays just fine as is. It'll be even better with mods, too, but the game still holds up great, add in pretty good voice acting and saveable loadouts? Easy W.
 
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Mindbottling that they made this then basically abandoned the genre. Classic japan. Those lovable scamps
 
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Mindbottling that they made this then basically abandoned the genre. Classic japan. Those lovable scamps
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I can understand not wanting to do direct sequels for some bullshit artistic/creative reasons but it would have been a fine time to shit out a sequel for cash. You already did all the work of designing the systems, animations, sprites, tiles, everything. You could have another on the shelves in a fraction of the time.

I know this game does have it's fans

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but I loathed it. Many actions required an extra button press to get through the menus compared to FFT and then judges ran around punishing you for doing shit.
 
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Yea i juat want a mechanical sucessor. Which is why inplayed triangle strat, arbiters mark, and sword of convalaria
 
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"Boy secret of mana was amazing. 3 players. Active combat"

"Fuck you. Never again!"
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Seiken Densetsu 3 was a significantly better game despite the lack of multiplayer but it took them over 20 fucking years to finally port it to English and I'm pretty sure none of the ports were as good as just loading up the original rom with a fan translation patch.
 
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Arbitrary said:
I can understand not wanting to do direct sequels for some bullshit artistic/creative reasons but it would have been a fine time to shit out a sequel for cash. You already did all the work of designing the systems, animations, sprites, tiles, everything. You could have another on the shelves in a fraction of the time.

I know this game does have it's fans

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but I loathed it. Many actions required an extra button press to get through the menus compared to FFT and then judges ran around punishing you for doing shit.
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FFTA is dogshit, the story is dumb as shit with 6 year olds teleporting into a book like some Disney plot and then the gameplay is immediately ruined with the Judge and card system. Fuck square for even making this piece of shit.
 
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Gavinmad said:
Seiken Densetsu 3 was a significantly better game despite the lack of multiplayer but it took them over 20 fucking years to finally port it to English and I'm pretty sure none of the ports were as good as just loading up the original rom with a fan translation patch.
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man i just got hit with a memory. i bought secret of evermore and invited my homie over i played secret of mana with. we were jazzed.

was not 2 player. i ended up liking the game okay, but it wasn't as cool.
 
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Yeah most of those might not work type things test based on Faith. Teleport is no exception, but Autopotion is the most obviously affected.

As for the Teleport hate, early grind up to a teleporter is one of the main ways to bust the game's more difficult early story fights. Galfgarrion at the wall is completely trivialized if you port Razma to outside the fort and focus on the derps while Galfarrion wanders around the fort interior with his dick in his hand, as one main example. Teleporting a thief from complete safetly to steal Wiegraf's weapon in the first fight with him is another. Bear in mind that you typically also have the Brave boosting ability on Razma by the time you would abuse most of these, so Teleport becomes a lot more reliable. But 3k is pants on head retarded, since you can grind up to Fly for less and mostly accomplish the same thing while grabbing other useful shit along the way.
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Teleporting Ramza outside the wall during the one-on-one with Gafgarion was one of my favorite ways to gimp the game back in the day. Not so much in this version now that Teleport is so ridiculous to acquire. That fight can be pretty hard if Ramza has to fight Gafgarion one-on-one and isn't in a good class for getting to the switch quickly (basically anything besides Monk or Thief)

Another thing I like to do is, in Golgorand Execution Site, either steal the Blood Sword from Gafgarion on turn one (very powerful Knight sword that's good for most of the game IIRC) OR break it. A fast character like Monk Ramza with Knight skills as his second can just walk right up to Gafgarion and break the Blood Sword, and then he can't use Nightblade for the rest of the battle (and Nightblade is half of why that fight is so hard). It's easy on this new version, just "retry from start of battle" and keep stealing or breaking until it works.

At this point in the game I have Blade Grasp (Shiradori) and 97 Bravery on Ramza, so he blocks literally every physical attack. If I use Steel once to boost him to 100, enemies that only have physical attacks don't even bother, they just avoid him like Kurgan's minions avoiding Connor on the battlefield. If I go to a place where nobody has projectile/special moves, like Mandalia Plains, Ramza can sit there and spam all day while the enemies do nothing. Makes grinding classes to max pretty easy.
 
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FFTA is dogshit, the story is dumb as shit with 6 year olds teleporting into a book like some Disney plot and then the gameplay is immediately ruined with the Judge and card system. Fuck square for even making this piece of shit.
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Yo it's great to hear somebody besides me point out that FFT Advance is a pile of shit. Lot of people like it for some reason. The Disney plot is shit, the slow battles are shit, the bright happy visuals are shit...

And most of all, the card system is UTTER DOGSHIT. Every fight has some obnoxious fucking rule to follow, like "No using healing magic LOL" or "No using physical attacks LOLOL" that you have to try to remember not to do, and often they totally mess up your party composition and you have to adjust around them, and the whole thing is just shit.

It's no joke that they ruined it with that one idea.
 
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Gavinmad

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man i just got hit with a memory. i bought secret of evermore and invited my homie over i played secret of mana with. we were jazzed.

was not 2 player. i ended up liking the game okay, but it wasn't as cool.
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Developed by Square Soft, not SquareSoft.
 
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I've been told that FFTA gets alright once you're far enough in that you're manipulating the judgement system. I never got that far. I quit after I screwed a few things up, needed to grind some cash to get some people out of jail and got handed a fight where I could take no action that didn't result in another penalty. I was obviously fucking things up but the game itself just seemed design to spite me personally. See also Chrono Cross.

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good lord i stole the full genji set but that was gay as hell lmao
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That shit is a pain in the dick even if you're a super tryhard.
 
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