11th January 2003, 7:40 PM
Some of you may have heard already, but here goes anyway.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/new...86,00.html
This new game coming out, Final Fantasy Origins, is something I'm really looking forward to. I only recently played Final Fantasy 1, which I really enjoyed actually. After that, waiting for FF2 and FF3 was something I was just going to do. Well, now finally I know that FF2 is certainly US bound, at long last. I've heard many things about the lovely experience system in this game, which I think I'll enjoy playing with. It'll also be nice to play an updated version of FF1. I'm not sure if I made my complaints known at this board yet, but I have stated a few times before somewhere that I'm somewhat annoyed at the number of gameplay changes they made to FF1. While 5 of them ARE things you can choose to revert to "classic" style, there are still a lot that are permenantly in place, such as the inventory no longer being limited, and divided across party members. I found that a nice challenge to think through, as I had to think what equipment I wanted to keep, and who to keep it with. Hopefully, among the changes this game gets when it goes stateside, they'll add in a classic mode. If they don't though, at least it justifies me getting FF1 NES several months back.
FF2 also had some changes, but fortunatly you can choose straight from the start to play "classic" mode, where all the stats for everything is just as hard as in the original. That's good to hear, since we never got to play the original in the first place.
One thing about this collection is that unlike in Japan, both games will be on one disk. This means that a game selection menu shall appear. Now, with games like Sonic or Mario, any old game selection menu will do, but with a game like Final Fantasy or Zelda, it has to be totally grand and epic looking and sounding a selection. In LTTP/Four Swords, they managed a grand sweeping camera across Hyrule Field, complete with two massive metal engravings to switch through and an epic remix of the Zelda 1 title screen music. That's the kind of thing I expect from this selection menu :D. Hey, something like that fits this, as opposed to a Black Mage in a tuxedo with a laser pointer, or some gears and a computer system selecting everything. Sorry, I know it doesn't matter, but I likes me a good selection menu sometimes :D.
Now then, all we need to wait for is the GBA release of FF3, and at long last all the FF games will have had been being in the US.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/new...86,00.html
This new game coming out, Final Fantasy Origins, is something I'm really looking forward to. I only recently played Final Fantasy 1, which I really enjoyed actually. After that, waiting for FF2 and FF3 was something I was just going to do. Well, now finally I know that FF2 is certainly US bound, at long last. I've heard many things about the lovely experience system in this game, which I think I'll enjoy playing with. It'll also be nice to play an updated version of FF1. I'm not sure if I made my complaints known at this board yet, but I have stated a few times before somewhere that I'm somewhat annoyed at the number of gameplay changes they made to FF1. While 5 of them ARE things you can choose to revert to "classic" style, there are still a lot that are permenantly in place, such as the inventory no longer being limited, and divided across party members. I found that a nice challenge to think through, as I had to think what equipment I wanted to keep, and who to keep it with. Hopefully, among the changes this game gets when it goes stateside, they'll add in a classic mode. If they don't though, at least it justifies me getting FF1 NES several months back.
FF2 also had some changes, but fortunatly you can choose straight from the start to play "classic" mode, where all the stats for everything is just as hard as in the original. That's good to hear, since we never got to play the original in the first place.
One thing about this collection is that unlike in Japan, both games will be on one disk. This means that a game selection menu shall appear. Now, with games like Sonic or Mario, any old game selection menu will do, but with a game like Final Fantasy or Zelda, it has to be totally grand and epic looking and sounding a selection. In LTTP/Four Swords, they managed a grand sweeping camera across Hyrule Field, complete with two massive metal engravings to switch through and an epic remix of the Zelda 1 title screen music. That's the kind of thing I expect from this selection menu :D. Hey, something like that fits this, as opposed to a Black Mage in a tuxedo with a laser pointer, or some gears and a computer system selecting everything. Sorry, I know it doesn't matter, but I likes me a good selection menu sometimes :D.
Now then, all we need to wait for is the GBA release of FF3, and at long last all the FF games will have had been being in the US.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)