Final Fantasy XII

[AlexJ]

Hence the reason DC and myself both use chipped PS2's so we can play the games when they are actually released.

The guilt of helping kill the Amiga off means I'll never pirate another video game. Either that or I want to wait for the proper version with the case,manual and everything when it comes to FF games. (Looks at shelf full of 'non-original' games) Yeah, it's the latter.

Although I suppose with a chipped PS2 I could just import the NTSC American version.

[Harrison]

Piracy wasn't the reason for the Amiga's death. The bad management of Commodore was the only true cause. Even with the piracy, the games sales on the Amiga were strong. And it is evident with most platforms throughout history that the most popular systems have had the biggest piracy levels. Look at the original Playstation for example.

I do also like to own the originals of games such as Final Fantasy and most other RPGs. I have originals of all the UK releases by Squaresoft on both PSX and PS2 so will probably buy FFXII once it is released in the UK. I have also imported many original games from the US and Hong Kong in the past. Especially titles that never get released in the UK.

But I do still download most of the latest releases so I can experience them prior to a European release. If it is any good you can guarantee I will purchase the original eventually.

BTW, I look forward to seeing what you think of FFXII once you get your hands on it.

[Demon Cleaner]

Either that or I want to wait for the proper version with the case,manual and everything

That's the reason I buy the strategy guides, much better than the manual.

BTW, I look forward to seeing what you think of FFXII once you get your hands on it.

Me too. But stay topic related here, otherwise it will get too big. Pirating and modchipping should not be discussed in here

[Demon Cleaner]

Yesterday I fought 2 hidden espers, Adrammelech the Wroth and Cúchulainn the Impure where the latter was very tough. You fight him on a field that has a HP sap buff, meaning HP draining constantly, and very fast. I had to use 2 characters with almost only healing/reviving gambits, and one character for fighting (if you managed to get him fighting).

The fight immediately starts off with you losing HP instantly and constantly, so after 10 seconds your characters already begin to heal themselves. Then suddenly they begin to fall/die, and you should revive them immediately or you lose the battle (with the right gambits, this was no problem). I constantly had at least one character down.

Then the guy is helped by some other creatures which get you in an even worse situation. And he begins to cast Bio, and other status effects, so that you have to remove negative status with remedies and other stuff too.

I used level 3 quickenings from the very beginning, which dealt some damage to him, but not that lot, so I wandered around him, only healing and reviving characters, waiting for a chance to attack, which seemed impossible. And after a level 3 quickening of a character, your MP drop to 0, so when chaining with 3 characters, they are all at 0 MP, so no more magicks possible, only technicks and items.

But then I stroke back, noticing a weakness. The guy uses the Invert spell, meaning that your HP and MP get inverted, which of course means almost sudden death, as some characters only had 5 MP (you gain MP by running around), so being at 5 HP, but getting full MP back due to the inversion, I could unchain quickenings again and so on.

So I mainly waited for him to use the Invert spell, then unleashed quickenings on him over and over again, and trying to keep my characters alive, which was a very tough task. But I finally defeated him.

In the whole battle I used about 30-40 Phoenix Downs and Hi-Potions and it took me 35-45 minutes to defeat this guy. Adrammelech was also tough the first time I fought him and I lost, but the second time, with levelled up characters, he only lasted for 5-10 minutes.



Yesterday I did some hunts again, the main hunts, and also the hunts from the Hunt Club in Phon Coast. But I don't know if I'm going to do all the hunts, as it is very time consuming. I'm almost finished with the main story (I think), that's why I concentrated on the hunts. But doing all the hunts, can also get very tedious, as you have to redo the whole deserts, dungeons and plains again and again (sometimes you can use chocobos though). Will also try to do some fishing. And of course, I have still some hidden Espers (and story based Espers) to get, which can get a very tough task.

[Harrison]

So what is your opinion on FF12 compared to the rest of the FF series?

[Demon Cleaner]

My opinion is still the same than it was on the previous page. And that's why I don't know if I shall play through the story, or also do all/some of the sidequests. Usually I do all the sidequests, but here they mainly consist in hunting rare monsters, which gets tedious with the time. But now I'm off for some hunting...

[Harrison]

I know what you mean, but the monster hunting is strangely addictive, much like collecting video games... you're not quite sure why you are really collecting them all or if you are really enjoying it, but you just need to collect them all.