FF Tactics New or Old

[TheSilentDemon]

which do u like better. contrary to sixswitches review i would have to say teh original beats the living crap out of the new one. for many reasons. i am only gonna list a few because i can't remember them all.

1. first one had the best story line out of any game next to shenmue that i have ever played. second ones story line was horendous. i think getting shot would be less painfull than sitting through that story line again.

2. The first one was much longer.

3. first one was a lot more challenging, which in turn made it more fun. the hardest part of the second one was getting around the stupid ass laws they sent at you.

4. more interesting and more fun secret characters in the first one like the machina and cloud, which was mighty cool. i admit being able to get the judgemaster would be cool with all his special attacks but when compared with cloud he didn't hold a candle.


this is not to say that the second was bad there were a few good points:

1. the new was less technical than the first one, with less stuff to learn and easy access. (i am talking about the monster of a tutorial in the first ones main menu)

2. the game was directed towards a younger audience which isn't bad because it opened the door for them to better games in the FF series and other strategy games and the like.

3. the most oustanding thing for this newer version of the game was the easy way of switching job classes and the taking away of job points, where you would spend points to buy new abilities. i like it better with weapons teaching abilities.

4. no faith meters which decide how potent your spells are to hit and the damage they deal which was a huge pain in the first game

as i said before i love the second game. it was spectacular in a lot of aspects but i just love the first game better. i mean really try and find a better story line than that game

[Brian]

i like the second one. the first one just didn't have that appeal to me.

[scott]

A poll would be a good idea for this,but I guess we will have to do it ourselves.


I will go with Advance.

Add as it goes on...

FFT1-1 vote
FFTA-2 votes

[Liek]

I should play the original. I think that the GBA Tactics did suffer in the storyline, and that having such a deep game "kid oriented" makes no sense. The missions became a blur after awhile. I don't even remember most of them...

But all that's annoying about FFTA, there's at least 2 things good in their place. Long story short, I can't vote, having not played the first one.

Sort-of-related note: FFTA has sold 1.5 million copies. Pretty good for a GBA game.

[TheSilentDemon]

hey paul u know what when my cousin gets through playing through my version of the game for his 50,000th time i will let u borrow it.

[scott]

Mine is collecting dust,I'll let you borrow it now if you please.

[Liek]

Thanks for the offers, but one of these days I will buy it. It's on my "list." Hopefully sooner than later I will put some serious time into it.

edit: I thought about it, and I'm really not all that busy right now. I think I will buy it, pretty soon too. Probably over break. Thanks for the recomendation.

[The Wanderer]

Yes, FFT is absolutely splendiferous. BUY BUY BUY! It is an absolute MUST for turn-based squad RPG game deal fans!

[BELETH the Mighty]

I say original. FFT was a classic in every sense of the word. Much more depth, a more complicated and adult story, and better characters. I mean, FFT’s story was completely filled with deceptions and treacheries, to the point where someone would get betrayed and assassinated almost every cutscene. Very cool stuff. FFTA was about a kid who wanted to go home. Yawn. And you couldn’t be a holy knight like Agrias or Cid in FFTA, and holy knights kick the balls out of every other class. Gameplayeise, they were both equally awesome.

So it’s basically this on the scale of awesomeness:

FFTA = 9.9

FFT = 10

[TheSilentDemon]

spoken like a true advocate of FFT. my biggest qualm with advanced was the story line when its compared to the first its like comparing teletubies to the godfather.

[StigmaShadow]

I recently purchased this game along with an SP. I like it... But nothing compares to the original... You can't even change the camera angle... Then theres that annoying way of selecting a space. You have to press up to go diagonal... It's alright I guess but for its handheld size the game really does seem nicely put together. The storyline is decent. It has nothing to do with the original though... I was hoping Velius would be coming back... My vote goes for the original... Orlandu pwns.