Topic: Idea! FFT board game? (Read 1767 times)

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I would love to see FFT on the next gen consoles with online multiplayer implemented. FFT is my favorite game.
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They have that on FFT for the PSP, don't they? Where you can take your party and face it off against someone else's via wireless?
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There are already such games; they are called tabletop wargames.

There is a handful of fantasy games which simulate small skirmishes similar to FFT battles, e.g. Confrontation 3, Hell Dorado, Alkemy, even GamesWorkshop's Mordheim.

Straight transfer of FFT mechanics would create an utterly unplayable boardgame. The system is too complicated, the game would require such an enormous amount of dice rolling it would get tiresome after the first turn. Not to mention HP's and MP's above one hundred points in a boardgame is a no-no.

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I'd rather play a twinfoxtails board game.
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They have that on FFT for the PSP, don't they? Where you can take your party and face it off against someone else's via wireless?

I think you can do this on FFTA2 (for nintendo DS).
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I like the idea of a board game on it (even thought of something similar after the first FFT came out). But even now, as I currently enjoy FFTA2, I can say with confidence that that would make the game longer, more confusing, and way too damn close to DnD board games, which I swore to myself I would never get into. However, I'm definitely not against a game based on the mechanics for PC. Sure it wouldn't be FF universe, but if it was done well enough, and had great multiplay which EVERY FFT lacks, I would totally play it.
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Sounds kinda pointless.  It would be just like playing the game, except you have to do all those calculations your fucking self.  If you want to go through the trouble of that, you might as well make something new/unique.
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Not only would you have to calculate every attack (Ranging from 1-3 minutes of looking through stats and doing work), you would have to do it for all of your characters. As fun as tactics is, you shouldn't bother, unless like other people mentioned here, you dumb the game down considerably. And that wouldn't be fun at all.

Besides, with my Calculator+Mime combination and jacked up agility after deleveling, you would all be screwed.

(Thank god squeenix did something right when they released FFT for the PSP with MULTIPLAYER)
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I'd rather play a twinfoxtails board game.

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no you have to level as ninja to get two-swords ability. jesus christ your dumb.
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And thus I never bothered to look for them. (Do people attempting to make fangames normally go through theese methods of analysis in order to keep their engine/game design more true to the original?)

I am doing this exact same thing with Crystal Crisis' CBS and Final Fantasy VI's algorithms.
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I just realized, even FFT at 100% speed on emulation seems slow at times, and I uncap the FPS on boring/easy parts just to get by them. If I had to do those calculations in real time, I would feel like shooting myself in the face.
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I was kind of hoping you meant like, a dumbed down FFT "boardgame" that could be played between players through TCP/IP.

Basically a dumbed down, bad gfx version of FFT without the story. Just a couple of different "maps" to choose from with terrain and stuff and you battle parties against each other.

http://www.tacticsarena.com/play/


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I think this would be a neat idea and a tabletop version would be the only tabletop game i would pay intrest too!
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no you have to level as ninja to get two-swords ability. jesus christ your dumb.

Omgwtf. You can't beat casting flare 3-5 times in a row on (most of) the other guys. I would allow a relevelup as a ninja to get the agility, but I certainly wouldn't keep them as a ninja. Wait what, am I ranting?

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