Need info from you Final Fantasy people

Originally posted by General Kaliero

Plenty of RPGs have it like that, just because all the money comes from battling, and battling's what the game's about. Though DQVIII keeps my money to the bare minimum, so that I have to choose who gets the one new weapon I buy in this town...

Don't you think that makes it alot more interesting and challenging? Otherwise they might as well just award you with a new set of everything every time you get to a new town. You should at least able to buy two or three new weapons/armour though. 🙂 Plus when you die you have to start from the last town you saved in and you keep any experience you got but lose half your money so there's a much larger element of danger than FF where you just restart from where you last saved around the corner. And in the earlier ones, after dying you'd have to then pay through the nose to revive the rest of your party on top of losing all that gold. 😆 Made going in caves an dungeons alot more scary. Not that much a problem ever since chracters had the ability to learn reviving spells so you only have to pay to bring him/her back though.

When you die in DQ your like, "ah shit". When you die in FF your set back maybe two minutes and its more like, "oh well lets try this again."

Originally posted by Lana
I tend to not have a massive amount of money, but I also usually try and carry as much healing stuff as possible - it's not uncommon for me to have 99 Mega-Potions and stuff like that. Plus in FFX I'd be buying as much stuff as I could for Rikku's Overdrive, not to mention buying weapons and armor.

There were only 2 things aside from items in all of FFX that I had the urge to buy. They were two weapons you could buy from Oaka's brother. Unbelievabley weapons and armor don't affect your stats at all, only give you some attribute.

Originally posted by Sai1
There were only 2 things aside from items in all of FFX that I had the urge to buy. They were two weapons you could buy from Oaka's brother. Unbelievabley weapons and armor don't affect your stats at all, only give you some attribute.

I'm well aware of that, but getting weapons that let you customize and put in 4 attributes/skills/whatever are well worth tracking down, especially later in the game after gathering stuff in Omega Ruins.

Originally posted by Lana
I'm well aware of that, but getting weapons that let you customize and put in 4 attributes/skills/whatever are well worth tracking down, especially later in the game after gathering stuff in Omega Ruins.

They weren't that worth it (for me anyway). I hardly did any customizing at all. I did maybe 2 or three times to add 5% magic or scan. Game was simple enough to beat without really customizing at all (woot for Anima! 😆 ).

Originally posted by General Kaliero

XI is online period, there is no other gameplay. That's the single player, you in the online world.

At this point then, would it be pointless for me to get it. Can someone tell me exactly how FFXI works? Is it like Diablo or Phastasy Star Online?

Originally posted by Sai1
They weren't that worth it (for me anyway). I hardly did any customizing at all. I did maybe 2 or three times to add 5% magic or scan. Game was simple enough to beat without really customizing at all (woot for Anima! 😆 ).

Not worth it...

Give Yuna or Lulu a weapon with 1 MP cost, magic booster, and break damage limit and tell me it's not worth it when they're doing 50k-85k damage on each casting of Holy/Ultima 😛

And you can't always use the aeons you know.

Originally posted by Lana
Not worth it...

Give Yuna or Lulu a weapon with 1 MP cost, magic booster, and break damage limit and tell me it's not worth it when they're doing 50k-85k damage on each casting of Holy/Ultima 😛

And you can't always use the aeons you know.

Yeah that's impressive but by not worth it I mean that it wasn't worth trying to accumulate all that stuff when I beat the game easily enough without it.

And you can always use aeons...

Originally posted by Sai1
Yeah that's impressive but by not worth it I mean that it wasn't worth trying to accumulate all that stuff when I beat the game easily enough without it.

And you can always use aeons...

No you can't...there are several fights in which you cannot use the aeons.

i am glad i didn't level my aeons much toward the end anyway

Originally posted by Thunder Fox
i am glad i didn't level my aeons much toward the end anyway

It makes no difference at all.

Originally posted by Sai1
I just finished with FFX and before I dicide whether or not to waste my time with FFX2, read the follwing gripes I have with FFX and tell me what things havn't changed in FFX2.

The battle system is no fun at all. As long as you just attack with the right person, most things die in one hit. There's even less of a challenge because there's a save point around every corner. I like the while random battle schematic but FFX goes way overboard. Battles come up every 5 - 10 seconds. I'm sorry but the story just isn't very compeling either and the story is the one thing I figured I could look forward to. Got a little interesting towrds the very end. And there are cut scenes every freaking 10 minutes! Im sitting there rolling my eye's half paying attention. I've never done that before. I'm not kidding I think half the the 60 hours I put in this game was watching cut scenes. Everyone only uses only two pieces of equipment.... Gil was pretty much pointless excepet for when you very seldomly came across someone selling a weapon with a rare attribute. My god this is the most linear RPG I've ever played. There is only one path and you cant diverge from it. Literally and figuratively! You can go back to old places either until you get to the very end of the game. You can't even change camera angles. This has got to be the first FF where there isnt even a overworld map to travel though! Worst use of the Airship ever. It seems like they are so desperate to invent some new way to level up every time. This Shpere grid is the most annoying yet...

That about sums it up I think. So how close is FFX2 to this. And also since FFXI and the rest are supposed to be on-line, are they any fun just single player?

well now I know not to get either of them 🙁 I was just going to get them tommorow morning and in my opinion 9 was hte best cause that was the only one I ever got ot play 😱

Originally posted by SpadeKing
well now I know not to get either of them 🙁 I was just going to get them tommorow morning and in my opinion 9 was hte best cause that was the only one I ever got ot play 😱

If you want the best ones you need to go back to the super NES era.

But who knows maybe you'll like it more than I did. But when I compare FFX to DQ/DW it just pales too much.

Originally posted by Lana
No you can't...there are several fights in which you cannot use the aeons.

Were there? They must have been so easy I didn't bother to try calling them...

Originally posted by SpadeKing
well now I know not to get either of them 🙁 I was just going to get them tommorow morning and in my opinion 9 was hte best cause that was the only one I ever got ot play 😱

I didn't like 9 because the battles were very slow.

FFX is my favorite and certainly one of the more popular ones.

i like 7 better...its the one i started with....(yes im young, lol)...X and X-2 i thought were both decent games.....lack of overworld was the only real problem i found with them...

people need to stop whining about 8, just because junctioning exploded their insignificant heads x-x
6 through 10 were awesome, X-2 was just a complete mistake x-x

Has anyone seen the preview for 13...............dante style killing, fighting.............which is just OMG.................
To be honest X-2 Sucks, to much dress up.

Originally posted by NINJ4_BL4D3
Has anyone seen the preview for 13...............dante style killing, fighting.............which is just OMG.................
To be honest X-2 Sucks, to much dress up.

yeah, no kidding... also, you can't say X-2's awesome because it's all about girls this time... i dunno about you, but i don't like letting the world be handled by ditzes XD

now, if you wanna see a real world-saving woman, look at what me and Ninj4_BL4D3 have been drooling over, FF13

I was just reading IGN's review of FFX2. The score they gave it, when compared to FFX contradicts what most people seem to be saying. It even contradicts what they say. I've been wondering for a while. Is IGN PS2 biased or just FF biased?

Originally posted by Sai1
I was just reading IGN's review of FFX2. The score they gave it, when compared to FFX contradicts what most people seem to be saying. It even contradicts what they say. I've been wondering for a while. Is IGN PS2 biased or just FF biased?