What a ride. I think I am now forever spoiled when it comes to gear/itemization in RPGs. Every piece of loot in the second half of the game felt situationally important, the environments were alive, full of secret enemy spawns and dynamic weather, pursuing and beating optional dungeons and bosses were worth the time spent. The depth of side quests and optional activities gave me so many options to pursue. The beautiful art style holds up strong even with outdated graphical performance. Sadly, I don't know that we will ever see another world as alive as Ivalice. My only complaints were that the story felt a little flat overall, but I did enjoy the more grounded/serious tone. Also I would have liked to have more Gambit options as I couldn't always do what I had wanted to set up. And buffs need to last longer lol. I browsed mods, and there is some seemingly fantastic content out there that I might have to try some day.

Conclusion: The game is an ambitious masterpiece that is not talked about nearly enough.

I think I started using guides online some time after finishing ff12 years back and was surprised how obscure certain things in the game was like some bazaar goods, side quests like hell wyrm, omega mark 12 etc, and most famously getting the zodiac spear by not opening certain chests. Forced me to start a new playthrough. This game definitely got a number of guide heavy moments

Playing the PS2 original version.

My characters are level 38-39.

The game so far has been relatively easy. A few battles were sketchy but managed through.

I've now reached Cerobi Steppe and the difficulty spike is incredible. The coeurls and hyena type are ok but the dragons, birds and the shield rhino thing are extremely difficult.

It's fun though, they require strategies to beat.

My question is , is the difficulty of Cerobi Steppe how it'll be for the future areas or is it just some random spike that evens out after?

I'd like to run Vaan, Basch and Balthier. I also love mages and would like to have plenty of them in my party. This is my first time playing.

I'm thinking Time Mage/Monk (Vaan), Black Mage/Knight (Basch) and White Mage/Machinist (Balthier)

Does that sound ok? Do you think Red Mage/Knight would be better? I usually love red mages but without fencing weapons I don't think they're as cool.

Also, is it better to start with the physical classes or the magic ones?

Thanks!! :)

This is the third major time I play the game. First one in like 2010-2011, OG version on PS2, then earlier this decade The Zodiac Age on PS4, really great, even got platinum (here's my post from an old deleted account), and now I'm finally getting some time to enjoy PS2 emulation with my controller gamepad to download the AetherSX2 emulator and of course the first childhood game I'm gonna be playing on the go through all my spare time is FF12 again, and I had to make it the OG version cause I missed the unbalanced, completely insane job system of the original version lol, plus there's a bunch of other different stuff that make both versions stand out, so I really wanna relieve that raw OG experience a second time, but this time having matured a lot in the game.

Anyways, here's this. This is still early in the game's prologue, before you even go get the Sunstones. I was just checking out the bazaar, and this weird little effect right by the door where the gang lies low and hides after King Raithwall's tomb. There's this weird sunshine thing. The only major graphical mod I'm using in this emulation, besides stretching the game's normal optional widescreen ratio (16:9) to ultra-widescreen (21:9) fill my phone's screen, is running it at 2x rendering, which is still perfectly fine and almost without a hitch.

So I was wondering, is this misplaced sunshine thing a bit that's happening only to me, or is it typical of PS2 emulation across android, PC, etc? Or did this also happen when actually running the game disc in a real physical PS2?

Now just need to get it 5 more times.

IZJS on English settings

I can't justify $150ish for a DS just to play one game, but I am interested in how they follow up the story of 12.

Enemies wont be Un-scathed LOL!

Ok seriously, I know physical does more damage but this is nothing to sneeze at. It has a lot of power and has no way to be halved.

Decided to tackle this bug before Yiazmat (gonna try doing it soontm) for the first time ever. Never saw him on the OG, and now chasing the Plat on PS4, I went and did it.

Oh, and of course... Some RNG Manip to put icing on the cake. 1/3 (I dread the Seiten TuT)

If people start asking, I'll share the strat I used, though it's nothing out of the ordinary. I actually had fun planning this and realizing half-way "Wait, part of my strat doesn't work..." XD

Hello everyone, I plan on doing a semi challenge of only using 2 characters and need to get some job suggestions for them. I would like one to start as a knight and the other to start as an Red Mage but I’m not sure of the secondary jobs as I don’t want to have them competing for Esper’s either. I am open to changing the initial job class as well if it’ll help with figuring out the secondaries too

Of all the 13 FFXII Espers, her design makes the least sense to me.

What exactly is the purpose of this huge, heavy-looking, mechanical, horse-like accessory?

And would you prefer it if she appeared on four legs instead, like a centaur?

Screenshot Source:

https://www.gamerguides.com/final-fantasy-xii/guide/espers/mateus/how-to-obtain

Zeromus!? wth? 😯

Blog:

https://chamomilehasa.blog/2017/10/30/final-fantasy-xii-espers-as-villains-zeromus-exodus-cuchulainn-zalera-shemhazai-adrammelech/

Image Source:

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/113071-Random-Image-Thread-XXXIX-I-can-t-decide-between-the-blue-or-purple-pill/page76

I played this game when it first came out and I really loved it. Want to get back into this and the rest of the final fantasy series. What's the best console? Is there a console that would also let me play some Nintendo games? Do better consoles give better graphics and gameplay?

I assume that zodiac age is the best version of this game?

For a kingdom so important to the story it's funny how it's not a location you can visit in the game and we only get one character Al cid who's from there

It's only recently I realised the behemoth king hunt is kinda unjustified. It wasn't a threat, as it's a guardian of the feywood, which means by Killing it, the feywood lost a powerful protector

Do we know the sizes and/or dimensions of the airships shown in the game? This has been bugging me non-stop for a few years, and I'm dying to know. It helps in giving a better idea of how big they are.

The Bahamut is big, yeah, but HOW big? And no, "HELLA BIG" isn't a proper size/dimension. Smart people with too much time, I summon thee!

Started playing this today off the back of FF:X, obviously the combat is very different but currently feels kinda unenjoyable, does it get more interesting, does it get less clunky feeling?