Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age - July 11th 2017

[robvandam111]

The best spot at the time for me was at the Henne Mines from the trail that leads you to the RNG Zodiac Spear treasure.

 

[Chaser]

[video=youtube;x_L15cLOkM0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_L15cLOkM0&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[Recon]

[video=youtube;ba3SJ2E0pDE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba3SJ2E0pDE[/video]

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age trailer introduces the Gambit System - Nova Crystallis

 

[Magnus]

Been playing the remaster for two weeks now. It's so good!

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

Man I gotta wait till next week. I have been staying away from a good chunk of the trailers so I will go into the game mostly blind. I am pretty excited!

 

[Chaser]

I'm so excited! One and a half days before I go and pick up my copy.

[video=youtube;5AyAAkNoOZo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AyAAkNoOZo[/video]

[video=youtube;1EmUvuf20Ao]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmUvuf20Ao[/video]

 

[Rydgea]

Collector's Editions came in today for me and the bf. READY. *A*

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

I've got the game. I already fucked up so I'm restarting from Reks.

 

[Magnus]

In what way?

Are you going for all the "missables"? Or did you pick jobs that you regretted later?

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

Wait, can you "mess up" in this game somehow? Now I am bit worried since I tend to mess up stuff all the time.

 

[Magnus]

There's missable items like with every other JRPG, although they're mostly useless and will only sit there in your inventory for the sake of having them. You can lock yourself out of additional licenses based on which Quickening licenses you use to get your 3 Quickenings and of course, where you allocate your Espers.

But no missable trophies, and no superboss will become impossible just because you don't pick the optimal job combinations if that's what you are worried about.

 

[hemmoheikkinen]

There's missable items like with every other JRPG, although they're mostly useless and will only sit there in your inventory for the sake of having them. You can lock yourself out of additional licenses based on which Quickening licenses you use to get your 3 Quickenings and of course, where you allocate your Espers.

But no missable trophies, and no superboss will become impossible just because you don't pick the optimal job combinations if that's what you are worried about.

Oh, right. That does not sound too bad.

 

[Max]

I've got the game. I already fucked up so I'm restarting from Reks.

I kinda wish we could have just stuck with Reks the whole game and never switched to Vaan haha.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

I kinda wish we could have just stuck with Reks the whole game and never switched to Vaan haha.

I think Basch was the original, and intended main playable character for the game.

 

[Max]

I think Basch was the original, and intended main playable character for the game.

That's what I read as well. I don't hate Vaan, but it honestly isn't hard to look at any other character and see why they're more interesting than him or Penelo, those two just feel so tacked on to the adventure sometimes (Penelo even more than Vaan if that's possible, when she joined the party I was like "What?")

 

[Magnus]

I actually like Vaan. We get many of the best character interactions thanks to him. His scenes with Ashe are all great.

But yeah, originally Basch was supposed to be the lead but the higher ups wanted a younger poster boy for the game. That being said, this happened fairly early on during the development. Vaan wasn't a last minute addition like some people seem to think. At the end of the day it's an ensemble cast, but if anyone of them fills the role of a protagonist it's Ashe.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

I actually like Vaan. We get many of the best character interactions thanks to him. His scenes with Ashe are all great.

But yeah, originally Basch was supposed to be the lead but the higher ups wanted a younger poster boy for the game. That being said, this happened fairly early on during the development. Vaan wasn't a last minute addition like some people seem to think. At the end of the day it's an ensemble cast, but if anyone of them fills the role of a protagonist it's Ashe.

I think Vaan and Penelo are the "we got dragged into this" type of character. Not all characters need to have a deep and convulated reason to be part of the cast. They can also sort of give a sort of "civilian", or "simple" point of view into what's happening with the regional politics, seeing as how the ones that mostly discuss this are diplomats themselves (Ashe and Basch).

 

[Max]

I get that, I get the being dragged into it or along for the ride type of deal. But I think it's a little more strange when said characters, or at least Vaan, is technically our protagonist. Our kind of lead dude is just along for the ride. Although, I guess it's got a kind of poetic Gatsby feel to it in that sense.

Again, I don't hate Vaan, I don't want it to seem like I hate Vaan. And I do agree that he has some great character interactions, like he fits in with the cast well, just the way he meshes into the larger story... Not so much. It seemed to me like he pushed through without much actual reason other than... I don't know, adventure(?) for a large portion of the game before any reason actually came up for him to need to be there.

 

[Chaser]

I played it on release day up to entering Rabanastre after escaping the jail. Decided to put it on hold until after I finish up Re:Chain of Memories.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

I get that, I get the being dragged into it or along for the ride type of deal. But I think it's a little more strange when said characters, or at least Vaan, is technically our protagonist. Our kind of lead dude is just along for the ride. Although, I guess it's got a kind of poetic Gatsby feel to it in that sense.

Again, I don't hate Vaan, I don't want it to seem like I hate Vaan. And I do agree that he has some great character interactions, like he fits in with the cast well, just the way he meshes into the larger story... Not so much. It seemed to me like he pushed through without much actual reason other than... I don't know, adventure(?) for a large portion of the game before any reason actually came up for him to need to be there.

Well, there's also how part of the war "stole" his brother away from him, but that isn't a plot point that is ever brought up back again, even though it's pretty traumatic.