Queen's Blood (Final Fantasy Thread)

[Benji]

I'm gonna end up playing IX for about 15 hours in the next two days waiting for the internet to be installed at my house. Let's see if I can finally beat it.

The game is a lot better if you never get to see the ending.

How do you figure? That ending is damned appropriate as far as I judge.

[Ruki]

Clever use of the word 'Spring', by which everybody will start dreaming of a March release, when actually somewhere far closer to May 31st is probably what they mean.

Hey, if I get it sometime in mid-2010 I will be happy.

I'm gonna end up playing IX for about 15 hours in the next two days waiting for the internet to be installed at my house. Let's see if I can finally beat it.

The game is a lot better if you never get to see the ending.

How do you figure? That ending is damned appropriate as far as I judge.

The ending was great.

[stokeriño]

I got beaten by the final FFIX boss a bajillion times (due to having never spent time levelling up, ever) and decided that I was close enough to the end that I'd virtually completed it anyway. So I'm with those who would like to believe that the game is better without seeing it!

[TKz]

Little silly, but I'll always miss the fact that FF's wont have like 4 CD's anymore.

It always felt like you accomplished so much more from beating an FF than it did a regular game. I mean sure, in a regular game you beat the game, but in FF you beat FOUR DISKS worth of game.

EDIT: I also agree that FFIX's ending was a let down. Maybe because I was so young when I beat it the one and only time, but man, I still don't get it to this day.

[tenaciousg]

What, exactly, isn't to get? I haven't beaten it in a few years, but I remember the basics of it. The only part of the endgame I saw as a downside was that where was almost no explanation about where Necron came from.

[stokeriño]

To be honest, when I see XBox 360 games now with 2 or more discs I think they must be absolutely ridiculous and am put off from playing them.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Started playing Final Fantasy IV on DS again recently and I'm up to the Underworld where Rydia returns etc. but Golbez is a bit of a bastard. Rydia only has 600HP and doesn't survive enough time for Cecil to use Libra, then check his weakness and use the appropriate summon. Would it be best to level Cecil up and just try and strike him with attacks, or can he be Slowed? If so, when does Cecil learn Slow?

[Benji]

FFVIII was released on the Japanese PSN the other day, for those wondering - the likely time for a euro/american release is early 2010, with FFIX likely to follow not a whole lot later according to Caves of Narshe, though the release dates are conjecture.

[tenaciousg]

Judging by how long it took them to release VII over here on the PSN (April 2009 for Japan, June 2009 for US), hopefully that prediction's a little off. It's always the same thing - you might have the games on the PS1 (in fact, I have my copies of FFVII, VIII, and IX on my desk right now), but there's always that added factor of awesomeness in the idea that 'I can play this anywhere now...'

On the subject of Square-Enix rereleasing games, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Parasite Eve series get PSN releases as we get closer to The 3rd Birthday getting released. It's pretty much needed, too, since a new copy of PE2 goes for $125 on Amazon.

[probablyoliver]

I can not even begin to comprehend Blitzball. Nothing about it makes any kind of sense. Whatsoever.

[Downward Spiral]

I think I'm the only person in the world who loves Blitzball, aren't I

[probablyoliver]

Oh I quite like it, but seriously, it defies pretty much everything I ever knew abour logic.

[Sousa]

I think I'm the only person in the world who loves Blitzball, aren't I

Wrong. Blitzball was tremendous. I loved pressing square in front of every person in the world in the vague hope that they would play my wacky underwater soccer game.

[Skummy]

The best part was Khimari's race being entirely wiped out, and that being a major plot point. But they still have a Blitzball team.

[probablyoliver]

Or in Luca, where members of the Al Bhed Psyches kidnap Yuna mid-game. I imagine that was a piss easy game for the Aurochs, because all the players were busy kidnapping summoners.

[Benji]

The best part was Khimari's race being entirely wiped out, and that being a major plot point. But they still have a Blitzball team.

Kimhari's tribe was destroyed, not his entire race.

[Ruki]

Man, I loved Blitzball. Then X-2 made me hate it, but then they brought in that Sphear Break or whatever mini-game, and was a decent replacement.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Final Fantasy X-2's Blitzball can go away and die. Love X's, and wish it would be released in some kind of Final Fantasy minigame compilation for the PSP along with VII's Chocobo racing, Tetra Master etc.

[Skummy]

And the submarine game from FFVII! So I could avoid playing it all over again!

[PkmnTrainerJ]

The crazy motorcycle chase would be great to compete against others, and then maybe we could finally get the Boko raising game for VIII so that it's useful. Seeing as I've wanted this mini-game compilation since getting a PSP I know it won't happen, but I can hope right?