You know it would be nice if there was a system that didn't break it up into turns but wasn't bar-based either. Like just somebody has their turn come up, it might be an enemy or it might be one of your guys, the bar mechanic works behind the scenes but it just, you know, skips the stupid building-up part and just does mad algorithms to figure out whose bar is going to fill up first. Or did a Final Fantasy game try that way of doing it already.

I realize you can press X or triangle to switch guys who all have enough bar to do a command but does anybody actually use this feature

Edit: I might have even used X/triangle I just forget if it was actually useful or not

Edit: By the way regardless of whether any Final Fantasy was actually good I think we can agree that in the words of Peter Griffin the newer Final Fantasys INSIST UPON THEMSELVES much more than the old ones. Like on the NES/SNES the characters and buildings aren't that detailed and you can imagine a much cooler group of heroes than Squaresoft intended in an epic-looking castle/dungeon but in the later Final Fantasys there's this horrible anime hero and it's just burned into your retinas

also what was there in enough detail (the much larger monster sprites and the character portraits) and the Amano concept art we saw in the Nintendo Power articles is quite good imo I wish they would make like a cel-shaded Final Fantasy game but like Amano-shaded

I do lucidly remember playing Final Fantasy VII for the first time and going into the menu and the character portraits had changed from this really artsy Final Fantasy III style to gay anime shit and I was pretty pissed - this is not years later after thinking about it and having changed tastes over the years this was immediate disgust and repulsion upon opening the menu

Edit: Regardless of whether either of them looks capable of killing huge monsters and being sliced with giant swords without dying and just losing a little HP, which group of people could you see growing attached to by the end of the game/caring about more as if they were real people

http://www.squareapex.com/ff6/status-portraits.php

http://qirien.icecavern.net/final_fantasy/ffvii/FF7-portrait.jpg

Edit: Shadow's a damn ninja damnit and he's not even as anime as the least anime character in FF7

Edit: Setzer kind of sucks but I still stand by my opinion

Edit: Also General Leo

Edit: Setzer still has more personality like JOHNNY DEPP AS SEPHIROTH

Come on guys, there's no need to be so harsh on FF. I mean I admit it, the latest games by Square fucking suck and should be burned and damned in eternity, but I do have great memories from FF's, specially 8.

Of course we could just sit and bash every single aspect of FF, but I don't think that's the point, unless it something in particular that made the game really unplayable and/or unenjoyable.

For me, for example, I HATED FFX-2, because FF wasn't meant to have any sort of sequels and I felt it was a friggin chick flick. I hated FFXI because it was ONLINE... that was bullshit. And FF12 I just played a few moments and I just ditched the controller because it was extremly bland, specialy the character design, and my main character looked like a girl. Oh and the intro... I hated it, so cheesy. I can't comment on FFX because I never played it.

In the FF4 remake its pretty handy, so yo ucan keep healers ready to act upon damage and that sorta stuff.

haha I forgot all about how in turn-based games you have to hope you get lucky and your healer is fast enough to heal in time meanwhile in Final Fantasy you can just wait 4 it... wait 4 it

sorry I was a dumbass there

I wonder if they'll bring the Gambit system back from XII cause I thought that was a genius system.

Yeah, I agree.

It's fun to have a game that plays itself.

Yeah, I agree.

It's fun to have a game that plays itself.

Which is why i never got into FFXII, I felt I had 1/3 of the control I had over my party compared to the previous games where every move was your own. Fuck the gambit system.
I felt the sphere grid would have been amazing if you had a limited amount of spheres you could activate... you'd think twice about what you're doing on there and you wouldn't end up with EVERY stat being obscenely powerful.


Looks turn based (which I like, shock-gasp-horror), the theme looks like some shitty version of sci-fi in my books... but then again pretty much every FF setting, theme and story has been terrible so far.

Somehow I am still looking very forward to this. I LIKE the terrible storylines, turn based battles and shallow characters for some reason. Don't know why.