Just got my hands on Final Fantasy Tactics

[BG-57]

No, but you will eventually get Jobs that include abilities that can raise Faith and Brave. These effects seem temporary but in effect for every 4 points you raise either stat during the battle, it will be permenantly raised by 1 point after the battle is over.

Brave generally affects physical damage dealt so high Brave means more damage. Faith affects magic attack and defense, so high Faith makes offensive spells hurt more and restorative spell heal for more, but enemy magic affects you more as well.

Avoid raising Faith to 96 more or lowering Brave to 4 or less, since the characters may leave the party (except Ramza). It may seem silly to want a low Bravery, but it improves the odds of getting rare items with Move-Find.

I forgot to mention that one additional advantage of hand-picking your Generics is you get to name them.

Hope I didn't get into too much depth and ruin the mystique of the game for you. You will notice FFT fans generally like to delve fairly deeply into the nuances and mechanics of the game.

You were saying?

[Raistlin]

I'm one of those freak fans that don't memorize all of the equations. And there are a lot.

[BG-57]

I don't either. I just look up the excellent Game Mechanics Guide on gamefaqs.com.

[VeloZer0]

Is it bad if I have a copy of the BMG on my hard drive?

[BG-57]

Considering how useful it is, no.

[Wolf Kanno]

Hell, pick up the guide for the PSP version if you can find it cause it actually does break down all the nuances of the games battle system even having a section for building "perfect stats" and tells you what stats get raised by using certain jobs (course you can ignore the PSP exclusive content) but it was so thorough and good, I'm actually kicking myself for not buying it.

[BG-57]

I bought one even though I never even got the PSP version. I even have two copies of the original guide, one that the binding broke and I have in a three ring binder and a replacement 'greatest hits' version.

[VeloZer0]

Does said guide offer anything to someone who has read the BMG from front to back? $60 for the PSP one is REALLY steep.

[Bolivar]

The only thing one NEEDS to know about this game is to have multiple saves from at least a few battles back wherever you are.

There are 2 or 3 parts in the game where you can get stuck and will have to start a new save if your character's can't handle the battle, 1 of which many people have found themselves ensnared in.

Other than that, this game is a great outlet, a blank slate to express your Strategy RPG wishes.

[-N-]

Spend some time leveling and getting the cool jobs. Keep at least 2 saves.

And have fun.

Of all the games I own this has the most replay value hands down
(even Deus Ex is a distant second).

[Dignified Pauper]

I am repurchasing this and will be starting a new play though. I have missed this game tremendously, and the fact that there are leaderboards just sounds amazing.

GoBo - add me to PSN

"DignifiedPauper" is my PSN

[VeloZer0]

There are leader boards?!? What do they track?

[Roogle]

Yeah, you have a certain percentage chance of encountering a random battle on the green non-city map points. I've heard a bunch of rumors about how to lessen/increase your chance of a random encounter (such as clicking on the map point when it's flashing the brightest to avoid a battle), but I don't know of any with a real affect.

I believe that the chance to encounter a battle on a given map is a fixed percentage. I have never heard of clicking on the map point at a certain time to avoid a random encounter, but it sounds like an urban legend. If you want to be sure about whether it's true or not, I recommend checking Final Fantasy Tactics at GameFAQs and looking for the Battle Mechanics guide as it lists all of the inner workings of the game.

[BG-57]

Eventually you can unlock adjacent noncombat points on parts of the map. Makes fufilling Propositions in those locations a snap.

[Goldenboko]

I am repurchasing this and will be starting a new play though. I have missed this game tremendously, and the fact that there are leaderboards just sounds amazing.

GoBo - add me to PSN

"DignifiedPauper" is my PSN

Two things:

A. Never set up my PSN xD

B. Doing it on PSP

C. LEADERBOARDS WTF?

I'll add you once I get around to making a PSN account that has online (we don't really have online games for the PS3 other than Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2)