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Final Fantasy XII
Narr:
I am not getting it for some time.
I have Guitar Hero II, Battlefield 2142 (I can't believe I bought the game because I hate EA with a passion, but it's a really goddamn awesome game), and Dawn of War: Dark Crusade to play in my spare time.
And then I have Disgaea 2 to fall back on when I feel like I need to be a completionist bastard and spend all my free time in a video game.
toodles:
Video games have consumed my soul! :evil:
I mean oh um... I'm addicted to the FF series. I am currently trying to find FFVII because my family's copy got eaten by the house somewhere. My brother has moved on to the X-Box 360, leaving me in the dust going, "What?!? Nobody in Fairbanks sells playstation one stuff anymore?!? But those are some great games!"
I'm loving FFXII so far. It's so perty... and the battle system grew on me. Even though I do love the old system, I do also rremember getting frustrated when I had to pause mid-stride to fight a battle. Now it makes game play more exciting. Does anyone else remember playing FFVIII and spending hours of game play drawing spells so that you could get better abilities?
Geek out!
Merkava:
FFXII owns. I'm 27 hours in and am still having a blast. It just keeps getting better and better.
My only problem is my mage (Penelo). I've been using bows with her, but I found out a bit too late that staves boost magic attack. That should solve my problem with running out of MP, but she's already doing 700+ damage, which is almost twice my fighters.
My main party is Ashe, Basch, and Penelo. I thought that controlling Ashe would be too much to deal with, her being my healer and all, but it's fine. Keeps me on my toes.
jeph:
I'm about 55 hours in at this point, my main character (Vaan) is around level 45 and everyone else is in the mid-30s because I keep swapping them out. I just got to the point in the game where 2-handed swords are available and DAMN do they kick a lot of ass. I've got 'em on both my tanks. Two dudes wailing on a mark with claymores == lots and lots of damage very quickly.
My default party setup is Vaan as the heavy hitter with Balthier running support and stealing everything in sight. Character three is interchangeable depending on the situation- usually it's Penelo (my caster) for healing and crowd damage, but against tough marks I'll swap in Basch (my other big physical fighter) or Ashe (balanced all around). Fran is currently just Balthier's replacement if he goes down in a fight and I don't have time to res him.
I do swap people in and out a lot, because having a balanced overall party makes the boss fights a LOT easier. If all three of your "main" party gets wiped out, it's important that the other three aren't complete wusses when they get called in.
Right now Vaan and Basch are using Claymores, I've got Balthier with guns, Fran with bows/katanas, Ashe with sword/shield, and Penelo with poles. Might switch her over to staves once it's time to upgrade again.
It's a really good game.
Rubby:
So aside from the battle system and party optimizations, what do you guys think of the story line so far. I know no one's finished it, but any initial thoughts.
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