10th March 2013, 3:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 10th March 2013, 3:52 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
This thread is awesome. For the record, I love both Final Fantasy Tactics AND Planescape Torment. They are on opposite ends of the spectrum in just about every way one can imagine, but they are both incredible games. I will say this though. FFT's art has aged a lot better than Torment's has. Torment has good art design and the concept art is amazing, but the sprite makers didn't really capture it in game form in a way that ages well. The end result is "too much brown". That said, 2D sprites on a 3D background also hasn't aged all that well.
So yeah, Final Fantasy Tactics has a very interesting story, much more about the costs of war and how muddy the concept of "good" and "evil" can actually be, especially as seen through a warped reading of history written by the winners. It was made by the writer of Tactics Ogre, so that's to be expected. Certainly not the same kind of story as your typical Fire Emblem game.
Planescape is interesting in it's own way, on a much more personal scale. There is room enough in the world to appreciate both. That said, don't play Torment if you are looking for an RPG bruisin'. Tactics is for that.
Oh yes, anyone new to the game, or people who gave it an hour and found they didn't enjoy it, try these:
http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2009...odded.html
It's a myriad of graphics patches as well as bug fixes and content additions.
If you want to play FFTactics, try the PSP-make of the game. There is an iPad version, but I wouldn't recommend it. While a game like this seems like it would be amazing using a touch screen, Square Enix has a terrible track record when it comes to adding touch screen support. Rather than a true point and click interface, they merely mapped controller buttons and pop up commands onto the touch screen. It comes across as very awkward in a game that seems like it should LOVE a touch screen. If you don't have a PSP or PSVita, a used PSP is very cheap now, as is the online version of the game on the store. Otherwise, I guess you're stuck. The game simply isn't available on anything but Sony systems and the most expensive of Apple products at the moment.
So yeah, Final Fantasy Tactics has a very interesting story, much more about the costs of war and how muddy the concept of "good" and "evil" can actually be, especially as seen through a warped reading of history written by the winners. It was made by the writer of Tactics Ogre, so that's to be expected. Certainly not the same kind of story as your typical Fire Emblem game.
Planescape is interesting in it's own way, on a much more personal scale. There is room enough in the world to appreciate both. That said, don't play Torment if you are looking for an RPG bruisin'. Tactics is for that.
Oh yes, anyone new to the game, or people who gave it an hour and found they didn't enjoy it, try these:
http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2009...odded.html
It's a myriad of graphics patches as well as bug fixes and content additions.
If you want to play FFTactics, try the PSP-make of the game. There is an iPad version, but I wouldn't recommend it. While a game like this seems like it would be amazing using a touch screen, Square Enix has a terrible track record when it comes to adding touch screen support. Rather than a true point and click interface, they merely mapped controller buttons and pop up commands onto the touch screen. It comes across as very awkward in a game that seems like it should LOVE a touch screen. If you don't have a PSP or PSVita, a used PSP is very cheap now, as is the online version of the game on the store. Otherwise, I guess you're stuck. The game simply isn't available on anything but Sony systems and the most expensive of Apple products at the moment.
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