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How do you get the blast shard that's offshore along that broken pier? I spotted it while getting another shard just north of there, but I can't figure out how to get there. My jump from shore looks like I'm landing where the first pole is, but I always land in the water.
FFTactics is definitely an RPG, you have a chessboardlike battleground.cmpepper23
RPGs don't have that type of chessboardlike battleground. That whole structure and the way the movement and actions are handled is a feature of strategy (or more specifically, battle strategy or tactics) games. It's a different genre. (The game was even named so as to point out the fact that it's a tactics game rather than an RPG. The change in genres was the reason it was an offshoot rather than part of the main series.)
The differnet jobs and character development give it a deep level of play.cmpepper23
Certianly they do, but lots of strategy games have you develop your units' skills, and it's not unheard of to be able to change their jobs as well. Nor is it universal that RPGs would let you change jobs like that (though I'll admit it may be somewhat more common in RPGs than in strategy games).
About the only thing that Final Fantasy Tactics has which is typical of RPGs and not typical for other battle strategy games is a good storyline. Perhaps if plot were a uniquely RPG feature, then that could qualify this as a cross-genre Tactics/RPG game, but plot is too common to too many genres for that to be the case. Which leaves us with the only thing that links this to RPGs is the fact that a lot of Final Fantasy fans play it.
Well, I'm just concerned that NOT knowing the specifics of those flashbacks is part of the dramatic tension of FFVII. So if I play Crisis Core, will the dramatic tension of FFVII be ruined (or impaired)?Example: Watching Star Wars Episode 3 before the Original Trilogy, and knowing that Darth Vader is Luke's father before that moment in Empire Strikes Back.mjarantilla
There is some of the dramatic tension of VII that Crisis Core can spoil. There's also a certain tension in Crisis Core that can be influenced by whether you've played VII or not. The same goes with your Star Wars comparison. If you watch the movies in the order they were released, then there's a certain sense of inevitability the whole time you're watching the prequel trilogy, since you already know how episode 3 has to end. They would make sense and be good movies without that sense of inevitability, but it does change their mood. FFVII and Crisis Core are like that too. If you play VII first, then while playing Crisis Core you'll know how it ends. In as sense, that could be like a spoiler, but the game was designed for people who know how it ends, so in place of suspense, the story plays with that sense of inevitability to create its own sort of tension.
Crisis Core is a mixed-genre Action/RPG which, despite some RPG elements, has gameplay that's really structured more as an Action game. (Your character levels up like in an RPG, but the fighting is more Action game style and the organization of the game is split up into a series of missions, which I've never seen any RPG do. It's a common pattern in Action games, though.) It's a good game with a good story, but might not be a way to see what RPGs are like.
Final Fantasy 1 & 2 are straight RPGs, and from what I've heard, so is Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. (I'm not familiar with Silverfall.) Final Fantasy 1 and 2 are both good games, but keep in mind that the originals came out twenty years ago and I don't think the recent ports did a whole lot of updating. (This last part is hearsay. I haven't played the PSP ports, just the NES version of FF and the PS1 version of FF2.) I happen to prefer Final Fantasy 1 over FF 2. I'm guessing so did Square, given that they took more than a decade to bother releasing FF 2 in North America, whereas 4 and 6 got released here much earlier (causing some confusion in the numbering scheme). Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth is a much more recent game (although it's again a port, and the original did come out several years ago). That may give it a technical advantage over the earlier Final Fantasy games, but I haven't played that one, so am not certain if it is in fact technically better or not.
As for whether Final Fantasy 1 and 2 are similar to Final Fantasy 3, in most ways yes they are. There are some significant differences in how jobs and leveling are handled, though. (And the plotlines are unrelated to each other, though there are some thematic elements in common.)
Is it free to play ps3 online?CP_22What I heard is that Sony doesn't plan to charge online fees for its own games, but that third-party developers have the option of whether they want to charge online fees or not. So the answer would depend on what games you have and who developed them.
I heard from and EB employee that the games are going to one time user registered. So that when you buy the games its yours. No trade-ins.OracouI read about that in Game Informer several months back. Apparently once a game has been played on one console it can never be played on another. This not only means that you can't trade it in, but also that if you ever replace your console, then your entire library of games becomes unusable. I've replaced my original NES system when my first one was lost during a move, replaced my PS1 with a PS2, and replaced my first PS2 with a new one when my first one broke. I'd hate to have had to replace all my games at the same time as each of those. (Especially the NES games, since by the time I had to replace the system most of my games for it had been long out of print. It would have probably been impossible to find new replacements for them - especially if no used game market were possible.)
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