Originally posted by UshgarakI could hook you up with the GBA version... it's not PS, but it's still a great game 😉
So! That’s me done. Everyone tells me to try X. Tempting! But impossible unless I buy a console, which is unlikely. Sadly, especially after the fantastic success of third generation emulation, emulation of the 4th gen consoles (PS2, Gamecube etc.) on the PC is in a pitiful state, and I reckon it will be at least a year before PS2 games are playable on a PC in this manner.But… it’s not quite the end yet. In the course of my FF playing, I discovered the existence of Final Fantasy Tactics- and am playing through it now. Much more my sort of game, it must be said, and the plot is very solid indeed- but it is far from without its problems.
Review for that coming soon!
I've played the GBA one (Ush don't even start, I know it's different than the PS one 😛) and it's good, once you get the hang of it.
Originally posted by BackFire
It did, but it didn't really bother me that much, got used to it pretty quickly.
I have no attention span and am very impatient. I can't stand when stuff takes forever when there's no real reason for it to do so.
Originally posted by BackFireI thought it was great to have on-the-go, especially for two eight-hour flights in a week. It's not the same game as the PS one, though it's still good. I didn't mind the laws much. And FFXII - the movie at the end of the demo (not the ending movie, reference to other thread...) shows a judge saying "It's my job to make sure people obey the laws!" looking exactly like that of FFTA. FFTA and FFXII are both set in the same world and seem to have the same creatures/people.
The GBA version is not bad, but the PS version is superior in every way.
Yes, from the little that I played of FFT on the GBA, the laws system was just inhibiting all over. Not engaging, not forcing startegic thinking, just irritating. I kept expecting some "No one can use weapons in this battle!" law...
Right now I'm still on Mt. Nibel (Took me two days to beat Lost Number and get Vincent, and then I got a DS and Animal Crossing Wild World and that ate my soul) and I think I can say that, story-wise, VII is superior, but as a GAME, I still prefer VI out of the whole series. And what I've seen here seems to support that opinion.
Of course, now that I've started playing IV again and I've actually gotten SOMEWHERE in the story, who knows. I like that Cecil is an anti-hero.
I read one FFTA reviewer writing how the Law system at one point forbade him from making either physical or magical atacks in a fight, which left him with only resetting and reloading as an option.
Clearly an ill-thought out area. Japanese games often suffer from an excess of imagination in this way.