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Xavier_On_High
04/30/22 9:25:03 PM
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Fuck those games.

Want to get the ultimate weapon? Well I sure hope you did this completely unrelated thing five minutes into the game or you're SOL, son.

I'm playing Final Fantasy XII and I'm angry.

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Kim_Seong-a
04/30/22 9:28:41 PM
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I've pretty much never bothered with "ultimate" stuff in RPGs because you get ridiculously overpowered with just the regular shit the game throws at you in dungeons and shops.

Chrono Trigger was cool because you could get the best armor/weapons from doing character-based story quests that wrapped up old sub-plots. But that's about it.

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LordFarquad1312
04/30/22 9:30:11 PM
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Why are you playing FF XII in the year 2022 of our Lord? Play The Zodiac Age, pretty sure nothing's missable there.

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Doe
04/30/22 9:30:25 PM
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Basically every FF game ever made blows. Most of them aren't even spreadsheet simulators, you can just press A wherever you want

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Xavier_On_High
04/30/22 9:31:48 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
Why are you playing FF XII in the year 2022 of our Lord? Play The Zodiac Age, pretty sure nothing's missable there.

I am playing the Zodiac Age, but just thinking about the original is making me mad.

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RenescoStCewl
04/30/22 9:32:35 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
Why are you playing FF XII in the year 2022 of our Lord? Play The Zodiac Age, pretty sure nothing's missable there.
Yeah, zodiac age fixes those problems and let's you speed up time so grinding is 4 times faster.

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Questionmarktarius
04/30/22 9:38:18 PM
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...and then the FF9 guide was intentionally useless.
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OmegaShinkai
04/30/22 9:40:13 PM
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I'm amazed that anyone stumbled across Valkyrie Profile's true ending because the requirements are ridiculously obscure.
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pfh1001
04/30/22 9:45:55 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
...and then the FF9 guide was intentionally useless.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/6/AADy-OAACz1A.jpg


Yeah, that was such a fucking rip off.
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Xavier_On_High
04/30/22 9:47:35 PM
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Tbh, although TZA fixed a lot, there's still a hell of a lot of stuff that really needed to be telegraphed. Want to unlock the doors in the Necrohol? Well, go to these locations that you never have any reason to go to and talk to random NPCs, then go to another location and press some buttons in a completely unintuitive order.

And don't get me started on the bazaar.

I don't need my hand to be held, but it would be nice to have some kind of clues in game. It's amazing how much of the game was designed to sell strategy guides.

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