Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[ZJ Penn]

it's weird that you say it was the start of the "shit slope" of FFXIII and then praise its gameplay. Changing the gameplay was what made FF worse for me, the rest was just window dressing.

I don't think it's weird at all. I enjoyed the battle system and think overall X-2 is well worth playing. However there are other aspects of the game which I didn't like and would become more prevalent as the series went on. I'd say it was more weird to dismiss the presentation and storytelling flaws as "just window dressing".

I also really liked 12. It's the only one since X that I'd consider a day one purchase looking back with hindsight. Great atmosphere and characters and I thought the battle system was decent, if a little uninvolving at times. The gambit system was okay and easy to get to grips with, but I couldn't be bothered with setting anything up overly complicated.

[Benji]

Which is fair enough, but I don't think it's an indicator of the series as a whole declining because what you disliked is not related to what made the later games so disliked, which is what it seemed like you were saying.

[TKz]

Fuck all that, X-2 was great and XII was a shitty single player MMO.

FUCK YOU OLLIE, EAT ALL THE DICKS!

[probablyoliver]

Fuck all that, X-2 was great and XII was a shitty single player MMO.

FUCK YOU OLLIE, EAT ALL THE DICKS!

You have made a very powerful enemy, my former friend.

Final Fantasy Spira's Got Talent is shit, Final Fantasy Star Wars is fucking amazing.

[Benji]

Final Fantasy Star Wars? So... literally all of them?

[badotori]

FFXII was beautiful to look at but not fun to play. Boring battle system, crappy stilted dialogue and the only two characters I gave a fuck about were Penelo and Balthier.

The moogles were cool-looking though.

[probablyoliver]

Final Fantasy Star Wars? So... literally all of them?

XII wasn't even coy about that fact it was actually Star Wars.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Fuck all that, X-2 was great and XII was a shitty single player MMO.

FUCK YOU OLLIE, EAT ALL THE DICKS!

Agreed, X-2 was awesome.

[Benji]

Fucking typical, I wait ages for FF Tactics to come out on Android and get so bored I decide to emulate. Over half way through and they finally release it. Bastards.

[apsham]

...I really want to play that but I feel like it would insanely suck the battery from my phone.

[ZJ Penn]

If anyone was put off Type O by the motion blur apparently it was patched today to tone it down.

[Ruki]

I think I might get Type O when it goes cheap.

[probablyoliver]

The motion blur didn't make me as physically sick as the voice acting.

[Your Mom]

I just turned on this Type 0 game. What the shit is this? I just watched a 10 minute nonsense video before even getting to the menu. Did Final Fantasy ever make sense? Am I just spoiled by the Bioware type games?

[apsham]

Kind of boils down to being a cultural thing.

[Your Mom]

I liked 7,8,9,10,12. I just started the actual game and it's another long video! I want to fight something!

[Ruki]

I liked 7,8,9,10,12. I just started the actual game and it's another long video! I want to fight something!

Really? You didn't strike me as a Final Fantasy type person.

[Your Mom]

Apparently I'm not anymore because this is fucking dreadful. To be fair I never finished any of them

Is this actually a game? Did we accidentally get a Final Fantasy movie?

[Your Mom]

Oh god it's still going!

Nope I'm done. Maybe I never liked them at all?

[apsham]

My first impression of all the "war, war is a terrible thing" cutscenes at the start leaned mostly towards me thinking that the game was an attempt to hit a Western market actually.