30 Days of Final Fantasy!! (2018)
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I am that one guy that Final Fantasy XII just did not impress.
I just can't get behind large open worlds, and I especially couldn't get into the ...Nonchalant pacing of battles. You enter you set your characters up, they whack the enemies like it's a slight annoyance, maybe sling a spell that is about as unimpressive as any other MMO game. Rinse...repeat....What was I doing again? Why am I doing this? Who are these people? I don't really know, and I still don't as I usually fall out of the game by the time I reach the sand prison.
I respect XII. It has amazing graphics, and the outline of the story I've read is pretty deep. The gambit system is a gaming marvel. It's well loved, and I would not wish XII out of existence. But it'll probably be the ONE FF I'll never complete. I just cannot get into the zone with that game. It's ultimately a Watch The Grass Grow experience for someone like me.
I just can't get behind large open worlds, and I especially couldn't get into the ...Nonchalant pacing of battles. You enter you set your characters up, they whack the enemies like it's a slight annoyance, maybe sling a spell that is about as unimpressive as any other MMO game. Rinse...repeat....What was I doing again? Why am I doing this? Who are these people? I don't really know, and I still don't as I usually fall out of the game by the time I reach the sand prison.
I respect XII. It has amazing graphics, and the outline of the story I've read is pretty deep. The gambit system is a gaming marvel. It's well loved, and I would not wish XII out of existence. But it'll probably be the ONE FF I'll never complete. I just cannot get into the zone with that game. It's ultimately a Watch The Grass Grow experience for someone like me.
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Mother
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It would have to be FFVIII for me. The main characters didn't appeal to me, the junctioning system was a nightmare, I found that stupid card game tedious and the fact that all the monsters levelled up relative to my party's levels and I couldn't grind for hours and then obliterate everything in my path was the most frustrating of all.
Lestat
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- Ergo, V
Ffxiii and all spin offs thereafter.
I remember being so excited this was coming out and then got about 3/4 through the game and decided that was far too many hours of my life wasted.
Even though I said that I did go back and play all the spin offs in the hope that one of them would be good..... I was wrong.
I remember being so excited this was coming out and then got about 3/4 through the game and decided that was far too many hours of my life wasted.
Even though I said that I did go back and play all the spin offs in the hope that one of them would be good..... I was wrong.
Roger
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- Minato
FFXIII, the linearity, the way you don't understand what the hell people are talking about without reading the datalogs, the hours it takes for them to make the battlesystem available to you, the unlikability of Hope's character, compounded by the fact that he is not selectable for combat for good stretch of the early game.
Interslicery
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FFXV. Mainly because I was really enjoying it at first, but the longer it went on, the more I realized that's all there was. For example, the world felt very small. Late in the game, I'm still doing missions in the opening area, and spending min doing nothing but watching the scenery go by as I travel there (Or watch a loading screen). I felt the story was a mess, and while I enjoy the main group well enough, their designs are too similar, and there's only 4 of them.
Also, it makes me worried about the FFVII remake. They're obviously going to take peoples responses from this and incorporate them into the remake. It's already pretty similar based on the gameplay trailer we've gotten, and some of the later sections of XV may as well BE parts of VII.
Also, it makes me worried about the FFVII remake. They're obviously going to take peoples responses from this and incorporate them into the remake. It's already pretty similar based on the gameplay trailer we've gotten, and some of the later sections of XV may as well BE parts of VII.
Clement Rage
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XIII-2. I loved 13, I think the storytelling and characters are among the best in the series.
I also loved the setting, and wanted to see more of it, and the way 13 ended perfectly set up a new game where the exiled Cocoon people have to rebuild their fallen world...and then they skipped forward in time without addressing any of it.
I also loved the setting, and wanted to see more of it, and the way 13 ended perfectly set up a new game where the exiled Cocoon people have to rebuild their fallen world...and then they skipped forward in time without addressing any of it.
SeaDragon
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- Sjödraken
FFXIII trilogy. The whole trilogy was a nice idea with a great setting, good characters and one of the best "villain" in the series but that has not been exploited properly. The linearity and the narration managed in a non-direct way killed what could be one of the best numbered games of the series. Same thing FFXV.
However, both remain great games.
However, both remain great games.
Clement Rage
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Which villain do you mean? Didn't all the instalments have different ones?
(not nitpicking, just not sure what you mean)
(not nitpicking, just not sure what you mean)
Mage
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I wanted to like FFVIII, I looked forward to it feverishly, I read every bit of every gaming mag that had any relevant news about its release......and it was fuck boring. I got so pissed off I've never made any real progress in the game. Junctioning was shit, the characters are hard to like (always had a soft spot for Quistis and moombas though) and I've never bothered completing it. I'll get round to bashing through it now I've started the series in order of release but it'll be a long while yet.
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leadmyskeptic
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I don't know if people consider it a death (I do, it's actually worse), and it technically happens before we get there, but Seto. I'm not gonna front like I wasn't moved by Aeris, but as a kid playing through it for the first time, that sequence was the one that got me misty-eyed. Especially Red's reaction.
CrashOuch
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- Sara
Hmmm I don't super care about her as a character, but I think Aerith's death had the biggest impact on me cos the first time I saw it was around the time my grandad died and I hadn't really processed what that meant and then I was thinking about the things Cloud and co say directly afterwards, the finality of it all, how she'll never laugh/do anything again, and that really got to me in terms of I realised that meant the same for my grandad, so that feeling's kinda stayed with me a bit.
I'd like to cosplay her at some point.