FFT vs. FFT Advanced ..

[vampirepiggyhunter7]

I personally cant stand when RPG chars permanantly die. I like FFTA more.

[Skyblade]

I personally cant stand when RPG chars permanantly die. I like FFTA more.

Then stay out of the Jagds...

[Llednar Twem]

Then stay out of the Jagds...

There only are 2-3 Jagds!
The only time you HAVE to go there to engage is on Nono's missions!

[Skyblade]

There only are 2-3 Jagds!
The only time you HAVE to go there to engage is on Nono's missions!

And a couple more times if you want to complete all the missions, since several more of them take place in the Jagds. Also, once you free all areas, the Jagds will be the places which almost always get attacked after that, so in order to keep them all free you will have to do quite a few Jagd battles.

[Marche]

I dont like the jagds but most of the missions where you have to go there are easier since theres the provided risk

[Llednar Twem]

Jadgs are dumbe!

[Marche]

yea they are but sicne you cant run from clan battles there (I think)

[Llednar Twem]

You think, but do you know?

[Roto13]

FFT was way too unbalanced. I mean, you'd go into one of those areas with multiple battles, then you'd fight two normal fights, and one that you can't possibly win. And god forbid you only have one save file for those places. You're screwed because you can't leave. FFT was kind of buggy, too. The translation was passable at best and the story was convoluted. What kind of a good story needs pages and pages of notes to go along with it? I know it was to give the whole thing a history book feel, but history is boring

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is just a better game.

[Ramza Beoulve]

FFT. No more.

[Monster Hunt]

FFT was way too unbalanced. I mean, you'd go into one of those areas with multiple battles, then you'd fight two normal fights, and one that you can't possibly win. And god forbid you only have one save file for those places. You're screwed because you can't leave. FFT was kind of buggy, too. The translation was passable at best and the story was convoluted. What kind of a good story needs pages and pages of notes to go along with it? I know it was to give the whole thing a history book feel, but history is boring

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is just a better game.

*hero*. True true true. but FFT doesn't sound bad but I still like FFTA better!

[Shotgunnova]

FFT was way too unbalanced. I mean, you'd go into one of those areas with multiple battles, then you'd fight two normal fights, and one that you can't possibly win. And god forbid you only have one save file for those places. You're screwed because you can't leave. FFT was kind of buggy, too. The translation was passable at best and the story was convoluted. What kind of a good story needs pages and pages of notes to go along with it? I know it was to give the whole thing a history book feel, but history is boring

The fights you can't possibly win are the rare battles (which are possible to win, incidentally) and can only be accessed by entering a battlefield form a certain direction (i.e. Mandalia Plains from Thieves' Fort).

And those "pages and pages" of notes are supplementary material which gives in-depth information without devoting a crapload of gametime to presentation. I rather like it, as only people willing to read will understand the situations more and people who don't will feel the story has more holes than it really does. The no-run option kicks both ways, but I think if you ask any FFT diehard, they'll say that not being able to flee isn't so bad once its accepted as the norm.

Personally, in regard to FFTA, I felt it was a childized version of its predecessor and rather unfit to carry the same title. It devoted twenty-four episodes out of three hundred to the plot, its characters were actually middle-school kids (which nixes adult/serious situations which were used to high effect in the PSX game), and was way more broken than Orlandu. At least there was only one of him; I trotted around with Steal:Ability and five Assassins and creamed everyone. It's moot that one doesn't have to use them, but from what's offered, FFTA definitely goes for a port that's accessible and aimed at a certain demographic which is why I find it rather inferior as a strategy game, too.

[Monster Hunt]

I think I still like FFTA. I mean i'm getting sick of people saying some games are "childish". FFTA isn't totally childish. I mean does all games have to be for adults and be so hard and serious? Also FFTA is just as good of a strategy game as FFT, probably. I mean, some people haven't done everything in both games and judge them.

FFT- i'm sure it's a good game, after all it's by the same makers... but FFTA is just something different! It totally rocks! If it's a you say it's a dissapointment- I hope you've done heaps (as in finished the game) as in- Spoiler-(SPOILER)got your characters to level fifty, battled all clans, got all the turf, got Cid, Got all the special characters, finished all missions, mastered at least one job per every character . I mean, personally, after everything I still like tactics advance!

The most high lighted thing about FFTA is the fact that it's portable!!! You can play it any where! If you want the big screen on TV to play it on, go get yourself a game cube and a gameboy player! Play it on the bus, school/uni/collage/work/blah blah blah, it saves you from boredom. One great thing you can't deny!

Anyway sorry for blabbering on- I'm bored,
Hunt

[Shotgunnova]

I just don't see how it's feasible to say that FFTA isn't childish (not that it's completely stupid, however). It's game is acted out by children, the art is almost stylistically kiddie, the plot is watered down at best, and the game is just kind of cartoony (not whimsical, really). Not saying it's complete trash, but I don't think it's very different -- Tactics Ogre Gaiden did it better, and even a game I hate like Golden Sun I'd have to elevate above it. As a portable standalone game, it's mediocre; comparing it in-series really gives it a beating. I spent 200 hours on it and I think my opinion is at least well-formed in that degree; not because I'm a diehard FFT fan, but because I'm a die hard strategy RPG'r.

Have you played FFT?

[Roto13]

I've beaten both. Twice. Each. I prefer FFTA, as I stated above. Now, as for the art style, you can't possibly tell me you prefer FFT's art. They look like Mr. Potato Heads! Just a basic mold with some random features from a box thrown on there.