The Gamer's Quarter

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, for what ever reason I thought that Squarenix would just do a port job using the I&II engine for the GBA while locating all the menus on the bottom screen. That would have been ok and all, but it apears that I was way off. While now it looks like they are using the FF: Crystal Chronicles engine which is pretty damn impressive. It looks like they really are taking this seriously. III is one of the few older FF games I have yet to play (II is the other, but from what I understand of it I am not missing much). It seems like the DS may finally put a fresh face onto the cliched standard jRPG format, but all that is out to test this is that Lunar game, which I have no intention of playing. I look forward to a RPG that I kinda want to play for this system.

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:42 am Post subject:

Did you see the comparison shots?

What's impressive is that they seem to be keeping the same dungeon and town layout right down to the rock, flower, and tree locations despite the new graphics. I'm kind of hoping that they allow you to play an emulated verison of the original as well just for comparison's sake.

Isn't FF3 the game that introduced the Final Fantasy Tactics inspiring concept of mid-game Class changing and assigning sub-classes? I like that system.

-Wes
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:52 am Post subject:

Well, I know V has it, but I think that III introduced it and V refined it. Could be wrong though!

-Wes
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

No, Wes, you're right. And V didn't even refine it very much. III was the first with a changeable job system, and it's... Well, it's certainly better than I and II, which are both now unplayable. III has something there, at least. I never beat it, but when I tried it several years ago I was kind of impressed with the way they incorporated the gameplay with the game world. For instance, there's a section where you must know the spell "mini" to shrink yourself down and go into a dungeon. IV had something like that ("Float" to walk over damaging tiles), but most of the games afterwards just floated along, pretending that what happened in battles had nothing to do with what happened in the game.

Same for most RPGs, of course. It's something that really needs to change.

Other thoughts on III: It's jumpy. I remember fairly quickly into the game getting an airship, losing the airship, bouncing from caves to mountain ranges to ancient temples, and so on. Fast-paced. It would be more fast-paced if you didn't have to level so much to work the class system; maybe they'll fix that. Also, I remember liking the dungeons.

So. We'll see. Is this game using the wi-fi at all? I know this is just a remake, but Crystal Chronicles could really work on the DS.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject:

let's just have the first five dragon quest games released on a single ds compilation.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject:

The fools! They already used "Dawn of Souls"!
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where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?

Ryan - SuperWes' Bane · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:59 am Post subject:

Ahhhh shit. I need to by a DS (cause I sold away my GBA a while ago). Too cool ...

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Yeah, FFIII is the only really good one amongst the NES trilogy. And yes, it's got the same job system from V, only a little less advanced. I believe it also introduced Chocobos.

The game's strongest selling point, however, is the Onionkids.
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