Any Final Fantasy Tactics Addicts??

just wonderin if anyone is as addicted as I am, and if anyone has played FFT Advance yet, I am contemplating ordering it, any comments?? /versus/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

im still going through ogre tactics, that game is just sooo deep.

 

Hmm, never could get into any FF games. Although, I would probably love a Dragon Warrior Tactics game. /versus/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

Damn strait Ogre tactics is the bomb, actually pulled me away from FFT for a long while, but I just can't get enough,
Replicant Dragon Warrior Tactics would be the shit, but I wonder if it would take a hour before you get to fight, DWVII!, but I just love tactics style RPG, only thing that holds me besides VF, though not as completely

 

Is FFtactics advance a port of Tactics for ps2 or a brand new tactics? Cause i LOVE Tactics on PS2 and would consider getting a GBA if it was a new game.

 

Is there a FF Tactics for PS2? Or you meant for PSOne /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif ?
Sorry, I dont have a PS2 ( instead I got the evil xbox just a couple of weeks ago).

Anyway, I have been a FF fan for years now and although I have played Tactics before, I remembered that I did not complete the game due to a memory card problem that completely erased my 20+ hours of gameplay save. Damn those 3rd party m-cards. And, for some reasons which I forgot, I did not pick up that game to play again.

You can check this out at gamespy for some info on the advance version.

 

Oh hell yeah. I've put like 300 hours into that puppy.
I'm not heavily into RPG's and tactical RPG's or RTS do very little for me, but FFT really sucked me in, certainly more than any of the other FF games.

Why I like it:

-The job system and the way you can mix two jobs and a variety of abilities is top class. Give knight the ninja's two swords ability and you can trade the slight defensive boost from a shield for twice as much offensive capability. Give a dancer the ninja's sunken state ability so that she can do her thing in a state of invisibility and simply kill opponents without ever having to reveal herself with a direct attack. You can give a gun to a knight and use the knight's break skills to smash the opponent's weapons and armor from long range, you can give close range fighters like monks the archer's charge ability to do powerful charged short range attacks that do much more damage than ought to be legal. You can give math skill to a wizard so that you get all the bonuses of strong magic attacks without any of the speed and m-attack handicaps given to the calculator job. The mix and match possibilities are endless.

- Cool equipment. Get a cloak that makes you invisible all the time, get a gun that petrifies enemies, but the tradeoff is you start every round petrified yourself. Wear shoes that allow you to jump high and get to sections of the map that the enemies cannot access. Use a holy staff to whack your teammates over the head and restore their hit points. Whack the opponent with a mediocre strength sword that has a 20 percent chance of turning them into a frog. You can put on otherwise-useless rubber boots in a battle where the opponent uses lots of lightning spells to become immune to lightning magic. Combine a defense boosting shield with a weapon that has a high defensive rating and a mantle/cloak accessory to make your character damned hard to hit. Use a magic gauntlet and magic strengthening clothes and magic strengthening weaponry to make a character who is easy to kill and has crappy physical attacks but insanely strong magic attacks. You get the idea.

-Cool battle system. All the standard turnbased stuff of final fantasy, but you control a squad of up to five people and have to decide where to position yourself on the field and which direciton to attack the enemy from. Also, while item usage is possible, you must sacrifice a secondary ability in order to be able to use items. There's no get-out-of-jail-free megalixers all over the place either, you really value a turn where you have the chance to use an item, and at the same time you really miss having that secondary ability at times where items are not needed or impossible to use. A lot goes into positioning and planning in this game, you'll make it only so far with brute force attacking and then you'll realize "Shit I need long range attackers"... and at some point you're bound to accidentally fry yourself with a spell that targets a large area.
There's a lot of value to using status stuff correctly too. A powerful enemy wizard is suddenly neutralized because your knight had two swords and did a double magic break on them. A really nasty monster is suddenly rendered useless because one guy put him to sleep and another did speed breaks on him so that his next turn never comes around. A mediator does a couple of speeches that wipes out an enemy knight's brave level so that all of his hits are halfassed and weak (and after enough of those speeches the knight literally turns into a chicken)..

-Subquests and minigames... holy crap is there a lot to do. You can devote a ton of time and effort to finding high powered hidden characters. You can do the entire deep dungeon subquest, which basically is a half dozen (or so) very challenging maps loaded with rare and powerful monsters and a miniboss. You can go through a ton of hoops needed to get a certain summon spell cast on you so that your summoner can learn it. You can use mediators to convince any non-boss monster to join your party, and you can breed those monsters to make new and improved versions which you can bring with you into battles. You can even breed new monsters specifically for the goal of poaching them to produce a rare item. That's the only way to get some items in the game. Item hunting is an art itself - some stuff you need to use the theif job to steal from enemies (even bosses). There's a whole subset of strategies needed to steal rare items from someone, I've managed to steal items that have only a 2% chance of being grabbed... you can find a ton of tricks to help you out like putting them to sleep, dropping their speed, boosting your own speed, reducing their bravery level, etc. Some stuff you'll win by poaching monsters in-battle. Some stuff you can find by using the chemist's move-find item ability. Some stuff you can get by using the ninja's catch skill... if another ninja throws a big honkin' knight sword at you, something that normally would kill you in one hit, you can risk trying to catch it and keep it.
Beyond all that there are propositions in every town where you can voluntarily allow your party to split up, and then try to survive while moving around for several days with only half a party. If you picked the right characters for the job, you'll win money or historical treasures after they return from their temporary assignment. You can also devote a lot of time to learning and mastering every job and ability in the game. There's just a ton of things to give the game replay value, you can't do it all in your first play through, and actually progressing in the game stops being important after a while... you're having too much fun just trying one of the minigames. Some insane players have tried to go through the entire game using only one job/class for their entire party, and that's hella fun if you don't mind screaming and swearing in frustration after seeing an attack with an 80% chance of hitting whiff for the third time, or after taking one spell a member of your party drops dead.


anyway, I know it sounds lame to be this enthusiastic about a game, but I want you to GET THIS GAME!@!@!@ It's a wise investment.

 

I got FFT Advance with my GBA SP. It's a completely new game from the PSX version. This time around it is all in 2D gfx and you can't rotate the map like before. This is compensated by really clean and pretty hand drawn back grounds. I would definitely recommend getting the GBA SP for this game, cause the lit screen makes this game look better than most of the 2D games on next gen systems. This game will last you a very, very, very ,very long time. The amount of quests to do will overwhelm you, and of course, the return of the job system. This is a must have if you like FFT or strategy games in general.

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Creed, are you talking about the Gameboy advance Tactics? I hope so, because sounds like everything that I loved about the first one.
There is nothing like the customization of your characters, I can't get enough of it, I have played through FFT about 4 times(currently on the 4th Chapter and exploring Deep Dungeon for my 5th time) and I am just crackin it I think. I decided this time that Cloud would be in my main party and building him up to match my others is a bitch, but he is pretty good, oh the nostalgia!
Well time to go importin thats all I can say!
Anyone else have some cool things you've done with the job classes? /versus/images/graemlins/laugh.gif