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I guess I'll be waiting for the PS3 version. Because, a crazy awesome generous friend of mine just up and bought me one. 
I had preordered it and wasn't expecting it til Tomorrow, but here I am playing it. Only about 20 minutes in, it's fun, but I really hate not moving my character. The battle set up just makes me feel like I should be walking around and positioning myself for better attacks.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
I've only got about 4 hours in so far beacuse my wife claimed the ps3 but I like it so far. It has been absurdly easy but my wife's logged about 12 hours and said it gets a bit harder later on.
....and I like redhead's austrailian accent and ffxii
....and I like redhead's austrailian accent and ffxii
Check out this article, I think it sums up what I've been reading about it, and what I've discovered so far.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/191060/about_final_fantasy_xiiis_linearity_issue.html
Still love the game
http://www.pcworld.com/article/191060/about_final_fantasy_xiiis_linearity_issue.html
Still love the game
From the article you just link:
That's pretty much how I feel about the game after 6 hours. I love it!
The combat system is fantastic and the action is pretty much non-stop.
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Once I stopped expecting the game to be Final Fantasy XII (that's '12', the last in series) with prettier graphics, I relaxed into the focused-progress approach and found it almost liberating. Instead of killing time poking around lifeless villages with zombie-dumb citizens and generic shops, I was hurtling along at warp speed, grappling with increasingly elaborate battle tactics, no two enemy encounters alike
That's pretty much how I feel about the game after 6 hours. I love it!
The combat system is fantastic and the action is pretty much non-stop.
~4 hours in and the only complaint I have is Vanille's voice. Is she supposed to be British or what?
Everything else gets a
from me. The game is absolutely gorgeous.
Everything else gets a
from me. The game is absolutely gorgeous."I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
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Is she supposed to be British or what?
Aussie
I'm enjoying the game so far, though it does have some serious faults.
1 - WTF is up with making up wait hours before giving us commands other than 'fight' (and sometimes AoE fight)? If you're going to make the intro/tutorial section so long at least make the battles more interesting.
2 - Can we please walk more than 10 feet or fight more than one battle without a 5 minute break for cut scenes?
3 - Stop putting the 'new stuff' icon up in the menu EVERY SINGLE TIME I get an item. Even if it's items I've already seen before I still get the icon EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you're going to do it that way at least give me a 'mark everything read' command.
4 - Could they possibly have picked a worse voice actress for Vanille? I haven't heard voice acting that bad in a really long time.
1 - WTF is up with making up wait hours before giving us commands other than 'fight' (and sometimes AoE fight)? If you're going to make the intro/tutorial section so long at least make the battles more interesting.
2 - Can we please walk more than 10 feet or fight more than one battle without a 5 minute break for cut scenes?
3 - Stop putting the 'new stuff' icon up in the menu EVERY SINGLE TIME I get an item. Even if it's items I've already seen before I still get the icon EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you're going to do it that way at least give me a 'mark everything read' command.
4 - Could they possibly have picked a worse voice actress for Vanille? I haven't heard voice acting that bad in a really long time.
75 Rabbit/75 Sheep/75 Coeurl/75 Eft/75 Raptor/75 Hippogryph/75 Puk
75 Scorpion/75 Wamoura/75 Pixie/75 Peiste/64 Sabotender
51 Bird/41 Mandragora/40 Bee/37 Crawler/37 Bat
Items no one cares about: O
Missions no one cares about: O
Crafts no one cares about: O
75 Scorpion/75 Wamoura/75 Pixie/75 Peiste/64 Sabotender
51 Bird/41 Mandragora/40 Bee/37 Crawler/37 Bat
Items no one cares about: O
Missions no one cares about: O
Crafts no one cares about: O
Karlina wrote:
1 - WTF is up with making up wait hours before giving us commands other than 'fight' (and sometimes AoE fight)? If you're going to make the intro/tutorial section so long at least make the battles more interesting.
Well, it does fit the storyline, and since you made it that far I figure you know why.
And I did think the battles were pretty interesting, there really were not that many battles between beginning and skill tree unlock.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
CaptainTeg wrote:
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Is she supposed to be British or what?
Aussie
She sounds more like an American who forgets that she's supposed to have a bad accent.
"I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
You can skip fights, just use your Deceptisol shroud and skip some fights. They aren't really required since there isn't any Exp early on and you can't grind or anything. Personally I enjoy it, but I can see where it would get monotonous for someone.
I don't mind Vanille, but man Hope is a *****. I want to throw him off into empty space every time he whines about something.
I don't mind Vanille, but man Hope is a *****. I want to throw him off into empty space every time he whines about something.
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except for the little redhead, she's annoying as @#%^.
Iamadam the Prohpet wrote:
CaptainTeg wrote:
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Is she supposed to be British or what?
makes me want stab myself in the ears
Outside of vanille/hope, the constant hand holding/dumbing down of the game play (which I'm sure gets better, but not fast enough for my taste), and lack of exploration, I am liking it so far (got ~4hrs in last night). It has that still has that "you're a tiny piece of something epic" feel to it.
I started having fun after 4 hours or so.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Starts off to me alot like Final Fantasy X did. I figure it will open up a bit more later on. No doubt its alot better then FF12 in any case.
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Wint wrote:
I don't mind Vanille, but man Hope is a @#%^. I want to throw him off into empty space every time he whines about something.
Admittedly, I'm liking Sazh, if only because he reminds me of Roger Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon. Snow and Lightning (keep in mind, I mean this in an "extremely vaguely" sort of way) remind me of Locke and Celes, and as of right now I'm not sure how to feel about that.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
I have a feeling that this is a game that people will end up either loving or hating, and that is highly dependent on whether they could get through the beginning or not. In trying to see what the end of the game is like without getting hit with spoilers, it sounds like it's pretty open at the end, like you can keep going on after the final boss is beat. I could be misinterpreting that because I really tried to stay away from any spoilers, but if that is the case I like that, since you can continue working on your character after the main story is finished.
I don't even have the game yet and I'm hating these names.
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
If no one debated with me, then I wouldn't post here anymore.
gbaji wrote:
I'm not getting my news from anywhere Joph.
bsphil wrote:
I don't even have the game yet and I'm hating these names.
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
As a friend of mine said,
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People in Cocoon have no creativity when it comes to their children's names.. It's like they just opened up a dictionary and pointed *here*
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Australian voice actress trying to sound like Minnie Mouse w/ translated stereotypical Japanese dialogue..
That's the annoying part. It's freaking chaos everywhere and she sounds like a kid at disneyland.
bsphil wrote:
I don't even have the game yet and I'm hating these names.
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
Their names are actually Snow Villiers, Oerba Dia Vanille, Hope Estheim, Sazh Katzroy, and Oerba Yun Fang. Lightning is just Lightning
One thing I do like is they took the time to animate for the English words, rather than just dubbing over the Japanese so it looks like they're actually saying what you hear.
Actually, Lightning is just her codename. Her real first name is anybody`s guess like Snow says.
feelz wrote:
like Snow says.
WHATEVER IT TAKES!!!1
"I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
Wint wrote:
bsphil wrote:
I don't even have the game yet and I'm hating these names.
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
Hope? Vanille? Snow? Lightning?
Their names are actually Snow Villiers, Oerba Dia Vanille, Hope Estheim, Sazh Katzroy, and Oerba Yun Fang. Lightning is just Lightning
One thing I do like is they took the time to animate for the English words, rather than just dubbing over the Japanese so it looks like they're actually saying what you hear.
Or did they just do a loose enough translation so that it would match?
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Karlina wrote:
3 - Stop putting the 'new stuff' icon up in the menu EVERY SINGLE TIME I get an item. Even if it's items I've already seen before I still get the icon EVERY SINGLE TIME! If you're going to do it that way at least give me a 'mark everything read' command.
Somebody's never played Kingdom Hearts II. After the number of hours I logged into that game, I gave up on trying to keep my crap unmarked. You keep your sanity that way.
One thing I find weird is that of all the Final Fantasy games I've played with voice acting, I don't recall any Aussies. And then in this game we have two.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 5:51pm by IDrownFish
lolgaxe wrote:
Admittedly, I'm liking Sazh, if only because he reminds me of Roger Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon.
I like him too for the exact same reason. This first time that he said "I'm getting too old for this" put that image in my mind, and it stuck.
lolgaxe wrote:
Thinking outside the box is fine, but the owner's manual is on the inside.
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