Final Fantasy X-2 and 12

[executioner]

I'm in the middle of 12 right now and I love it. You can spend hours in that game at a time and not even be playing the story line, of course, you don't have to do that though. I feel the game has a lot in it with out being overly complicated. I just wish the main character could find a shirt that fits.

I'm giving 12 a second chance and started to like it a lot. Mostly doing hunts and no main story for the last couple of hours.

[crux]

I'm one of few that did play FFXI (thoroughly), so when FFXII came around there wasn't anything there to impress me. It felt like an amalgamation of many different schools of RPGs but couldn't quite come full circle on any of them. The end result just felt watered down.

[randombullseye]

I want to try 11, but honestly, playing one MMO feels like any other. If I could play through its content with a group of people that was consistent, that would be acceptable. I'm sure everyone else that wants to play it already has and that my usual joke is that I would play the White Mage. Since all I could do is cast heal and holy, basically. That doesn't really sound great, but I don't know. I'd lean more towards the Red Mage, but then I'd focus on fighting too much.

The idea that a warrior doesn't do the damage in MMOs is what really gets me. They're just there to take damage while the wizards cast spells. At least from my experiences in MMOs. So really, I don't know.

[crux]

Red Mage shouldn't be fighting unless they're soloing (something which they're FAR more adept at than most jobs, with a lot of damage mitigation abilities and a near never ending pool of MP). Their primary job is debuffing, curing, and buffing. White Mage is pretty much what you said, minus ever casting Holy. They mostly cure, buff, and remove debuffs. White Mage was my first job and I've grown to resent it a bit, but it's been buffed recently to give it a lot more utility. Despite having the job ability "Provoke," Warrior only tanks during very early levels - they are a DD job through and through.

Plenty of new players join FFXI even today and in addition to the fact that older players can level up new jobs on the same characters, there's typically a steady stream of players to party with all the way to level 75. The game has gotten friendlier and friendlier over the last few years as well. I will say that FFXI doesn't really feel like most the MMOs I've played, which is both a good and a bad thing. Keep in mind it came out before World of Warcraft and didn't adapt to match the success of WoW like so many other games (EQ2, Lineage II) did. The result is that the game can come off as very arduous (extremely arduous at times), especially compared to games like WoW. On the other hand, it has the narrative one would expect of Square-Enix (epic and convoluted, cut-scenes galore), and it has a deep community similar to many of the MMOs that have to compete with the likes of WoW.

[johnnydoyle123]

best thing in x-2 is the skimpy outfits and terrible singing

yuna2.jpg (63.23 KiB) Viewed 1040 times

[Niode]

Bleurgh Yuna looks like a freaking guy to me.

Lulu FTW.

[Mozgus]

Bleurgh Yuna looks like a freaking guy to me.

Lulu FTW.

I still cant tell what gender the lead of FFXIII is.

[MrPopo]

Bleurgh Yuna looks like a freaking guy to me.

Lulu FTW.

I still cant tell what gender the lead of FFXIII is.

That just adds to the excitement.

[Niode]

Yeah I have no idea either. It sure does look purdy though. (the game not the character)

[Ack]

With Square games, I always assume it's a female lead until someone proves otherwise. I thought Ramza was a girl, and I thought Tidus was a girl at first. And I thought whats-his-face from FFXII was a girl.