Harry Potter was pretty good, lots of stuff was different/changed/left out but what can you expect out of the longest of the 6 books? Go see it if you were not there tonight, although most people that I know and love were there tonight, thanks for coming guys! Hope everyone enjoyed it.
Now to what I really want to talk about. Final Fantasy XII. I checked Dragon Quest VIII out from work today and as soon as I got home from the movie (3am) I put in the Final Fantasy XII demo that comes with Dragon Quest. First off, it's way different. But safe to say, it's fucking fun. The battle system is different, completely. Let me try to explain.
Imagine KOTOR, you're running around with three guys, and each of you has your own unique skills, etc. You see an enemy and you make choices in real time, like FFXI. You can attack the enemy by pulling it, from a range. So my first choice is to use Balthier to shoot him with his gun, and proceed to the ass kicking. Each character can either be controlled one at a time, as the battle goes on by switching to them and making their choices for them. OR you can keep your characters on "gambit" mode where they make their own choices. Now while they are on gambit mode you still have the choice to switch to them and pick what ever attack/spell/summon you wish for them to do. I understand that it's impossible for me to explain the battle system in to much detail without playing it but I’ll continue to give more details.
It's very fast paced; you move your character like XI and control your camera like XI. You pick a spell/attack and the good ol' ATB system is active. You wait a good 10 seconds for your turn to reset, and each "move" has a casting time. In this respect it's the same Final Fantasy that we all know and love. The main difference is how fast paced it is. I've found myself constantly switching between each character, leaving gambit off, to pick their moves. But this isn’t always the way to go. I find it easy to pick a character I'd like to play for the battle, and leave the others on Gambit. If I choose that Ashe needs to cure everyone, then I'll take over. I really like how you run around though, all the enemies are out there, and you just run to them. Sometimes you have to fight lots of baddies at once, 2 or 3 might wander into the battle, kind of like drawing aggro.
I know that’s a lot to swallow for a game you haven’t played (minus you jayjay right?)
Here is my list of Pros and Cons that I've seen thus far.
Cons:
No victory music, because you just keep going when you kill a baddie. They drop their items and you get XP when you defeat them. (CORRECTION there is victory music, when you complete a mission! See below)
Mission based levels. It' seems that you get an objective from someone and you go to the place and "complete the quest". While you're in the dungeon or where ever, it feels just like your exploring any level in any final fantasy, but you do have a goal. I guess this is kind of taking from Tactics, and adding the mission driven fighting into this game. I won’t say this is a negative, but it is different. It's hard to tell how this will affect the game, and what I think of it. So far it's alright.
I'm sure there are more, but thats all I've got for now. I'm pretty happy with what I've played.
Pros:
New battle system keeps the series fresh and takes the game to a new level.
Battles are fast and fun, while keeping all the spells and character classes you're used to.
They have added the "chain" system into fights, XP is worth more if you can kill enemies fast.
You can move freely in battle, I'm going to assume that there are advantages by doing so, but it's hard to tell.
Green magic!!!! Shell, protect, etc. Mostly buffs it seems.
Espers, yes they are back as summons!!!! This made me very happy from the get go! You summon them and they fight along side you like FFXI.
Game looks great, square follows through by pushing an old system to it's limits.
Overall, very happy. The game is fun from the start, at least the mission I've played so far. The game looks good, and the music sounds great. Battles are fast paced and actually feels like your choices matter more than they do in the past.
Time to sleep.
Wait... ok.. I think you are talking about FFXII, but that first sentence... "Final Fantasy XII, I checked out Dragon Quest" ... so is FFXII DQVIII? or did you check out both games, which game were you talking about???
Sounds interesting, definatly will be checking out the movie when I get a chance!
Posted by: JP at November 18, 2005 10:15 AMi was sad that i had to skip over this whole post except the first paragraph.
Posted by: ashley at November 18, 2005 10:53 AMSorry JP, I was assuming that everyone knew that Dragon Quest 8 came with a demo of FFXII, my bad!
I fixed it though, sorry it was very late when I wrote this.
Oh and Ashley, I'm sorry. My next post will only be about things you like. :)
aaaah,
Yeah, thought you brought a demo disk from work, I see now. Cool, What's Dragon Quest like? =P
i got JP to go to the bar, i am better than you, in that certain aspect
Posted by: matty h at November 19, 2005 04:42 AMWe dont know. Nick fell asleep after the first 5 minutes of DQ8.
Posted by: Token at November 19, 2005 02:46 PMDQ8 = Great, dad picked it up for me for my bday. I was really not impressed with the 12 demo, mostly because the 10 demo was totally awesome and this thing is no where near as cool. Also it seemed like your characters were really really buff as usual and could kick anythings ass. The battle system is different and will take some getting used to but it doesn't seem that bad.
Posted by: Jayjay at November 21, 2005 01:31 AMI think it's awesome. I'd rather keep the same formula but if they are gonna change it I'm gonna start to prepare myself now so that I can enjoy the next in the series.
Posted by: Nick at November 21, 2005 10:27 AMi dunno i am still a little sckeptical about FFXII i saw it an it looked cool, but if the storyline sux so will the game and we didn't really get enough tom to judge if the new battle system wasw awsome or would get old, but that isn't stuff we can find out right now so we will just have to wait for release
Posted by: Maxdady2001 at November 21, 2005 08:59 PMI have no doubt that the story will be great, now the battle system might get old, or i might end up not liking it, but i always trust the storylines of square.
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