Playing Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time in years.

Uncle MeatUncle Meat
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No clue why but I just had a sudden urge to put this one in, needed to change it up since I have been playing straight NES for a while now.



I have not played this game in probably close to 15 years so I am pretty pumped up.
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  • empireempire
    That game....that game really sucks.
  • TeknoskanTeknoskan
    I love the game, but the dialog is garbage. It was horribly translated and half of the time the names are wrong or mispelled. If you just want to play it for the whole battle-chess style combat then it's fun, but don't expect to get really deep into the story.
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Originally posted by: empire



    That game....that game really sucks.





  • Ozzy_98Ozzy_98
    It's one of the best SSI GoldBox wannabe games. Too easy though. Try a knight with teleport (to get behind foes), two swords, and speed break. I normally run three of these (with charge and auto potion), and never bother with NPCs. Breaks are very UNDERrated, and when your party can drop any bosses speed down by 12 points a turn, it's like the computer doesn't even get a turn.



    Edit: wrote overrated not underrated 
  • NickTLGNickTLG
    Great music and great story, put it on a system with surround sound and enjoy man!
  • Brock LandersBrock Landers
    Try to acquire every item in the game
  • SoleGooseProductionsSoleGooseProductions
    I loaded it up just the other day and tried to give it a play. Too linear, I like to explore. My old save said 33 hours, though, so at one time I gave it a real play through. I'll stick with FFTA, for some reason it feels freer.
  • VGS_HammerfestusVGS_Hammerfestus
    Enjoy. Don't listen to some of the nonsense you hear on here. Easily one of my top 5 ps1 titles. Sure you can pretty much plow through as a knight the whole time if you want but I think that it's a completely enjoyable experience to the point that even just grinding is fun.
  • Pablo2099Pablo2099
    I would rather play Front Mission or Vandal hearts any day, never liked FF tactics that much.
  • vladictivovladictivo
    Very, very slow. I prefer FFT Advance.
  • BawesomeBurfBawesomeBurf
    Originally posted by: SoleGooseProductions



    I loaded it up just the other day and tried to give it a play. Too linear, I like to explore. My old save said 33 hours, though, so at one time I gave it a real play through. I'll stick with FFTA, for some reason it feels freer.

    Yes, it feels much freer not being able to use items in a battle, or being unable to cast fire. You also have much more freedom with recruiting characters, and customizing jobs.  



    The original FFT and the PSP port are my favorite SRPG of all-time. It's so much fun customizing your party. Story was pretty amazing too, even though the translation wasn't perfect.



     
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Oh I've played it and beat it before, just been a very long time!
  • gutsman004gutsman004
    I love this game. A little surprised I'm seeing quite a bit of hate for it. I loved the job class aspect of the game as well as the art style. Got it back when it came out and completed it 100%.



    It's pretty cheap though when you can purposely keep an enemy alive to farm for job points.
  • GreatGadonGreatGadon
    FFT is great and I thought it had a great story though I can agree with the questionable dialogue in some spots. It was a fun series until Judges and rule cards got thrown in the advance games. That being said I beat the game in my teenage years and other then a couple short game sessions of it I haven't seriously picked it up again.
  • StiltzkinStiltzkin
    I beat it on an iPhone several years ago(maybe 5?) and yeah, the dialogue is an acquired taste  

    from what I remember, the original version had more modern talking  
  • NostalgicMachineNostalgicMachine
    I always enjoyed the GBA version. I can't say much about the PS1 version because I've never played it!
  • winterionwinterion
    Love FFT - and if the translation hurts your enjoyment of the game, War of the Lions for PSP cleans up the dialog very nicely. The only downside to that version is the system struggles to render spell casts, especially summons, which shudder with real low frame rate.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    Definitely one of the better games to leverage the Final Fantasy name.



    I don't recall the translation being problematic back when I played it.

    I guess I just accepted it as a quirk of the genre.
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel



    Definitely one of the better games to leverage the Final Fantasy name.



    I don't recall the translation being problematic back when I played it.

    I guess I just accepted it as a quirk of the genre.



    Yeah same, I am pretty use to playing RPGs with bad and or terribly translated dialogue at this point.....

     
  • Ozzy_98Ozzy_98
    Originally posted by: ToxieRules

     
    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel



    Definitely one of the better games to leverage the Final Fantasy name.



    I don't recall the translation being problematic back when I played it.

    I guess I just accepted it as a quirk of the genre.



    Yeah same, I am pretty use to playing RPGs with bad and or terribly translated dialogue at this point.....

     



    It was just another "Let's kill god" game in a time when they were all over the place it seemed, with some strange secondary plot that reminded me of some sort of over-done Shakespearean play, so story wasn't too important for me.  I wanted to kill lots of foes, in many different ways. 

     
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Originally posted by: Ozzy_98

     
    Originally posted by: ToxieRules

     
    Originally posted by: arch_8ngel



    Definitely one of the better games to leverage the Final Fantasy name.



    I don't recall the translation being problematic back when I played it.

    I guess I just accepted it as a quirk of the genre.



    Yeah same, I am pretty use to playing RPGs with bad and or terribly translated dialogue at this point.....

     



    It was just another "Let's kill god" game in a time when they were all over the place it seemed, with some strange secondary plot that reminded me of some sort of over-done Shakespearean play, so story wasn't too important for me.  I wanted to kill lots of foes, in many different ways. 

     



    I would also like to add that 15 years ago I was also "still" pretty much use to it.......Ozz, yes it does have that Shakespearean play thing going for it for sure.

     
  • EpitomalistEpitomalist
    Not a ton of love here for Tactics.  I am on the other side, this game (for PS1) is in my top ten games of all time.  I've played countless hours on this one.  I may just give it another run through.
  • m308gunnerm308gunner
    Just the mention of the name is like a fresh breeze of nostalgia man. I think I put over 300 hours into that game through multiple playthroughs. The first time I saw a friend of mine play it I was like, "What the hell is this trash?!", and then I spent some quality 1 on 1 time with it and the rest is a sweet history.



    Absolutely hated the ones that came after it though.
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Originally posted by: m308gunner



    Just the mention of the name is like a fresh breeze of nostalgia man. I think I put over 300 hours into that game through multiple playthroughs. The first time I saw a friend of mine play it I was like, "What the hell is this trash?!", and then I spent some quality 1 on 1 time with it and the rest is a sweet history.



    Absolutely hated the ones that came after it though.



    I played the GBA one a bit but never really got far in it as I was just borrowing it from a friend at the time but it was pretty friggen good from what I remember.



     
  • Bort License PlateBort License Plate
    Another game that I haven't played and probably should. Maybe I'll grab the GBA one
  • FalleninglassFalleninglass
    Probably in top 3 for me. I accidentally cane across it too as I went to rent FF7 but rented tacticts instead. Best mistake I ever made.
  • FalleninglassFalleninglass
    The art style and the music alone are great
  • yukfouyukfou
    Anyone know which of these 3 is the best? GBA, PSP, or the DS version, and also your reasoning why?
  • the tall guythe tall guy
    Love the game!



    Somewhere I have a memory card with 15 saves on it, all from Final Fantasy Tactics.



    That game showed me that I had some capacity to be a bit OCD though... when you have a full party at level 99 and you've only gone to the Mandalia Plains... it's not the most healthy thing in the world.
  • winterionwinterion
    Originally posted by: yukfou



    Anyone know which of these 3 is the best? GBA, PSP, or the DS version, and also your reasoning why?



    I'd vote for the PSP one on the grounds that the plot of the original was a more mature, if not prototypical court-subterfuge war over providence. Also, the battle system is more organic, where the later version artificially modifies it with rules and conditions that kind of "take you out" of the narrative sphere a bit.



    Just be warned, the PSP one could have used some serious attention on the spell renderings.

     
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