Final Fantasy 12

I usually glance over the intruction booklet without really reading it. I find introductions to stories (like prologues that lead up to the beginning of the game) and characters (those little two paragraph biographies telling why someone acts the way they do) a nice way to get into the feeling of the game. That way, I'm already in the mindset from the get-go.

But menus? Nah. Reading about them without actually playing with them only complicates things. First thing I do in a game is click all the buttons to see what they do. It's more fun that way, especially when you do something you didn't know you could and then work to find out how to do it again. That's just the way most games should be played: learn as you go.

Originally posted by Lana
I've played MANY games. I've grown up playing video games, remember, and I've probably played games on every system that exists and has been released in the US. I'd say that my assessment that many games do not have a very long instruction booklet is fairly accurate.

And why can't you find things out like that for yourself? I didn't read my instruction book when I got FFX and I figured out the sphere grid immediately. Why? Because I messed around pressing all the buttons and figuring out what everything did. It's not that hard to do and usually takes LESS time than reading the book.

And oftentimes, the instruction books have a small walkthrough for part of the game, and THAT, in my opinion, DOES take away from the game.

Guess what Lana. You've played MANY games. Not ALL.
So if I said I've come across long intruction books, it shouldn't even be an issue, because I'm me and you're you. What's the big deal anyway.
No matter what you say, it won't change the fact that I have in fact come across lenghty instruction books. It's not even the issue anyway.

Guess what, I read instruction books, because I like to read them. Whether I find out how to do certain things or not, the point is I like it and will continue to do so and it takes nothing whatsoever away from the game. And the instructions books that I've read rarely contain walkthroughs, and on that special occassion, every blue moon, when I do come across a walkthrough, I simply skip over it if i don't want to read it, like I did in the FFVII instruction booklet, which I read.
Yes, it's not hard to figure out the things in the game, that doesn't mean I don't want to read the intruction book. It can't hurt. It's not like I depend on it, it's that I LIKE TO READ them.
There's nothing wrong with it, so stop trying to draw a picture of reading an instruction book as being a crime. I will continue to read instruction booklets until the end of time.

Is it comprehensible.....

No one is saying that reading the booklet is a crime. It's just that people start talking about the demo included with Dragon Quest VIII and the first thing you do is knock it because it will "ruin the experience of seeing everything for the first time in the game." We're saying, if that's your ultimate goal, then why look at the instruction booklet first (for as much as a week before, as you're saying) when that will show you characters, plot, and how to play the game? It's simply counter-active to what you're claiming to want.

Also, if you don't want the game ruined for you before you get the chance to play it, why are you even engaging in a forum thread where numerous pictures and plot tidbits have been continuously showcased?

As for your "week-long instruction booklets," I'd like to know exactly what games you're claiming to have so large a booklet.

It's not necessarily a week long instruction booklet. It's that it can take that long sometimes with particularly longer instruction booklets, because it's not like i'm reading right through in one sitting, i have other things to do, and so i may read some of it one day and not pick it up until next week and read it a second time and finish it.

And I was "knocking" it. I was saying how I felt about myself playing the demo, not everybody else.
And I don't see this thread as equivalent to a demo. And most of the games I've played anyway, so you can't say that b/c you don't know what i've played or not or which ones I participate in.

And I like I said, that's how i feel about some demo disc. it's not like i've never played a demo but that's just how i feel about this particular one for me. Not that it will necessarily spoil things even though yall do say it has movies in the demo so i don't know, but i want the gameplay to be new when i get the game instead of something i've experienced months ago before it came out, Like i keep repeatedly saying here.
So i rather play the gameplay for the first time when the actual game comes out.

is it comprehensible.....

http://the-magicbox.com/0601/game060106a.shtml >_<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhl9dRVqcsY

English voiceovers, 4 minutes preview 🙂

sweet dude, thanks.

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The game looks pretty sweet and I'm buying it no matter what. I've been dying to get my hands on another good Final Fantasy game.

Originally posted by Dusty
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The game looks pretty sweet and I'm buying it no matter what. I've been dying to get my hands on another good Final Fantasy game.

I completely agree.

Does anyone know the UK release date? I believe it is still TBA.

The feeling in Japan are overwhelmingly positive so far. An infamously tough video game reviews magazine over there gave it a perfect score, one only like 8 games to ever get a perfect score in said magazine.

Can't wait.

Yes, that was Famitsu. It got a perfect 40/40 score and only roughly 7 games have had it.

Originally posted by Mushi
I completely agree.

Does anyone know the UK release date? I believe it is still TBA.

According to wiki, it's TBA 2006.

On a side note, the game looks like a perfect mixture of the Tactics games and Starwars. *drool*

Originally posted by Dusty
According to wiki, it's TBA 2006.

Yeah, but it has now apparently changed to Late 2006. ^^;

And yes, it does seem like this. *joins you in drooling*