Fleeting Fantasies Comments by Rob Fahey
FFXII's godfathers greet their adoring public.
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kissthestick
27/02/07 @ 11:49
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Eurogamer: What games do you actually play yourself, aside from Final Fantasy?
Akitoshi Kawazu: Right now? [smiles] Gears of War. ahaha, no way, funny if true. anyways good read. |
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dirigiblebill
27/02/07 @ 11:59
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I'd love them to do another Vagrant Story. Ivalice has got plenty of mileage, it seems.
EDIT- Now I think about it, there are quite a few parallels between the settings of GoW and Vagrant Story. Huge gorgeous crumbling metropolis, anyone?
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dirigiblebill
27/02/07 @ 13:53
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@ NewYork
+1 Just down in Nalbina dungeons at the moment. It's got Riskbreaker written all over it. |
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this is not a flame. I have sixty hours on my game clock for this game and I can't bring myself to look at it any more. I switch it on and within a few short but agonising seconds I am compelled to turn it off- right before the final level. I am not alone amongst my friends. It works so well until the end and you realise that you just don't care about any of the characters. I must qualify the 60 hours. Much of this is total non-interactive time running around looking for wilfully obscure monsters. Ok, sixty hours is excellent value for money, but this is the first ff game since the rubbish number 8 that I have not been compelled towards the conclusion, and I certainely have never been left with the feelings of complete revulsion which I now feel. Sorry if this irritates anyone.
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CitizenGeek
27/02/07 @ 16:58
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Yeah, Europeans shouldn't be allowed do cosplay. Ever. But, I like this article and I like Final Fantasy even more and it's great to see so many fellow fans.
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CitizenGeek
27/02/07 @ 19:16
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Nooo, Vagrant Story is overrated. It really is. I mean, it's effortlessly stylish and cinematic, but the RISK system is just horrible. More Final Fantasy Tatics please!
It's weird that one of the developers is playing Gears of War, for some reason. |
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Then maybe they should've put a bin outside for us. I didn't litter but hose who did didn't want to leave the queue.
I know it's a crazy idea, but if you put litter in your pockets or your bag and keep it with you until you get to a bin, you'll generally find that it DOESN'T bring about the end of the world. There's no excuse for it - I know I left it as a flippant remark in the article, but it WAS pretty shameful, to be honest. As for the cosplayers, I pictured those who were near the front and, obviously, the competition winners. I can't say I actually saw anything particularly great elsewhere in the crowd, but I may have missed a few gems. I'm a bit oblivious to most cosplay these days, after running masquerades at anime cons for so long :) |
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CitizenGeek
27/02/07 @ 19:49
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It's weird because, well, he's Japanese and it's the Xbox360 o_O You know what I mean.
Anyway, was there anything like this when FFX launched? |
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CitizenGeek
27/02/07 @ 20:04
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No, it isn't. It was, for one week, ages ago. But not anymore. I don't think anyway. Regardless FFXII is soo much better than GeOW.
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I love Final Fantasy XII.
I do not understand Vagrant Story at all. Not that I don't understand why people like it, I don't understand anything about it. I don't understand the combat system, I don't understand the weapon system, I don't understand how to play the game, period. Didn't know it was set in Ivalice, though. This makes it a Final Fantasy spin-off, doesn't it? |
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CitizenGeek
27/02/07 @ 22:18
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Yes, Vagrant Story is overly laborious IMO. Not that I didn't enjoy it. The story, however sparse, was very good as was the characters and the battling was fun when it worked. Not sure it's an FF spin-off, though.
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NegativeZero
27/02/07 @ 23:51
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Hiroshi Minagawa: Well, up until now all of our battle systems have been based on inputting commands from menus, and we simply felt that at this point in time it made sense to change that, and to move to a system which felt more natural to play.
Shame that you guys fucked up, then. While the gambit system could have felt 'natural', a few small things (like changing stuff around so that an idle character has to charge up a move before they execute it and go back to being idle, where all the previous games had idle characters act instantly then have a recovery time) and the fact that you literally can't go back to the traditional style ended up ruining it for me. I liked inputting commands from menus. :( |
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pheonix_blood
28/02/07 @ 15:52
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@shinji,
what conventions to do go to? if your going to minami or may expo come over and say hi ^_^ @dizzy and kato, id like to see you in cosplay please before you start judging others. it aint so easy. |
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CitizenGeek
28/02/07 @ 19:22
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@Kato - Erm, explain to me how finding it weird that a Japanese developer is spending his free time playing GeOW and how correcting you about the Japanese sales charts means that I don't like GeOW? I do like it, but it IS overrated. I've played it quite significantly, actually, despite the fact I'm 16. Imagine that?
Anyway, I loved the trun-based battles of yore, but FFXII's system is fantastic. |
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