Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age

Worth it?

>Reddit Fantasy XII
Nah

Its a great game with 100+ hours of content and is also Square's best currently released PC port, but it also has Denuvo.

If you get it, buy it on GMG using the code JUSTFORYOU. It'll lower the price to $30

what the fuck does new game minus do? do I want this as someone who's never played before?

how does one website consistently live in your mind for free?

your party is stuck at level 1 for the whole game

It makes it impossible to level up, forcing you to play the game at level 1 the whole way through.
No, that's not something you want for your first playthrough.

Graphics settings for the curious
I highly recommend turning Depth of Field off

so its not some weird as fuckin ff8 shit?

>He didn't play it on PCSX2 7 years ago

Tactics when?

XII works much better as a PC game because you can easily alt tab and look up how to fucking spawn rare game

Fuck, I swear XII was made explicitly to sell guides

I did, but with the limitations of classes it wasn't a good experience.
>dude everyone's only viable skill is Attack lmao
Oh, and sometimes white and black magic. I'll never understand why people whine about the original making everyone the same - at least you have options there.

Just pirate it.

That's based off IZJS though, which isn't TZA.

Yeah I'm enjoying it a lot! Looks great, sounds great and there's a shitload to do.

>exclusive wallpaper

>THREE EXCLUSIVE AUDIO TRACKS

Not even guides were in-depth enough. Some equipment requires really specific farming to even have a chance of acquiring.

You have to force 60fps cap or it will run too fast.

Worth 40 bucks definitely. Just by the sheer scope of it it's worth it.

why. does having it on give the player headaches?

very exclusive

>gaming in 2006 vs gaming in 2017

lol

Is that Nabudis in the BG? Just curious, don't really recognize it.

Yeah. The class changes were a welcome change, you can't do everything anymore but you also aren't locked into just doing one class like in the original Zodiac update on PS2.

I wanted to make a perfect save where every character is jobless at the point where you unlock dual classing. The game gives you enough tools to make it an eventful and rewarding journey up to that point.

nalbina fortress pretty sure.

Tactics really needs a port for two reasons. The mobile port of it was actually decent with some nicely updated sprites and the game has a solid mod scene that might get some recognition if there were an actual PC version to work off of instead of romhacks.

I think this is the best wallpaper for ffxii

Does anyone have a problem launching the game on steam? It wont launch for some people.

I got my copy on PS4 for 30 britshekels, so yeah, that seems about right.

Can you turn the post processing off on PC? This is make-or-break for me.

I always meant to play XII when I had my ps2, but I never got around to it. Is it any good? I never heard anyone talk about it except my old roommate who said it was shit, but he's always been video game retarded.

What's the difference between The Zodiac Age and the original ps2 version? Should I just emulate?

See

no crack yet.
isn't it new denuvo? so it might be a while.

...

It just makes backgrounds in cutscenes unnecessarily blurry

Denuvo v5, it's going to take months until it's cracked, I ain't waiting that long. Especially since there's many Denuvo v4.8 games still not cracked so it will further take a long while until they get to Denuvo 5 games.

It was good growing up. Ahead of its time even. You can feel the age now though. And if you've played good western rpgs, then it becomes a lot less impressive in its scope. I still like it, but I can't tell how much of it is nostalgia or not. I don't find it a particularly great pc type game because I feel like it was built to play while laying down on your couch and reading through a guidebook. It's just doesn't require your attention a lot of the time. I think its strengths still lay in it's areas, and how it honestly makes grinding for stuff somehow fun. The world feels vast, vaster than most open world games despite it being a bunch of zones.

>Vaan looks like a little fuckboi bitch
>already know I'm going to want to bench him as often as I can

Is this possible or does he have special main character plot armor?

You can bench him as long as you want. Only problem is you have to be him in towns. The only mods I need for this game are different party members in towns and increased difficulty mod and I will be happy.

way to expensive for a ps2 game

He's not even that important to the story, he stops feeling like the main character half-way in

I actually don't mind Vaan

Who do I make what class? The fact that it's permanent is killing me.

>Denuvo
Into the trash it goes.

Best part is that three or four of the classes are objectively worse than others. Have fun finding out which ones :^)

How is the kb+m support? Do I still have to fiddle with the controls or use a controller like most ports?

It's a JRPG just use a controller bro

Oh god did I fuck up? pls spoonfeed

>My favorite FF gamer finally on PC

ABOUT
FUCKING
TIME

Monk/Knight
Hunter/Breaker
Black/Time mage
Lancer/Samurai
White mage/Machinist
Red mage/Archer

Is a solid party, the stat differences between characters are negligible but don't give Fran daggers or Ashe poles (monk) beacause their attack animations are noticiable longer than the rest of the party

Thanks senpai. Are you able to completely fill out both job boards? And the first class you pick is just the first class, it doesn't have any other bearing on the char right?

> BUY THE GUIDE BUY THE GUIDE BUY THE GUIDE
It was a good game but this triggered me.

yes and yes

Uhlan and Machinist are the two worst but even if you give them both to one character you can still do everything

it has denuvo, it isn't worth the toilet paper you wipe your ass with.

calm down bro

why are you eager to give your money to someone that treats you like a criminal?

Never beaten the post game in the original (got bored fighting through the mines before getting rekt by Zodiark)
Maybe I should get this after all

How the fuck do I buy this on GMG in USD? It only gives me pounds which is literally over 20$ more expensive than buying it on Steam, what the fuck is this horseshit? Why can't I buy it in $?
A

And when I try to use VPN it just gives me LOL PAYMENT DECLINED error message, and when I try PayPal it gives me "You've cancelled your payment" even though I literally pressed fucking CHECKOUT BUTTON in my fucking paypal.
What the fuck happened to GMG? It wasn't this cancerous few years ago when I bought from them.

>There are people here trying to purchase this on something other than Steam

Well no fucking wonder you are having problems

It's 30$ on GMG vs 60$ on Steam.
I'm not paying 60$ for an emulated PS2 game, fuck you.
Also GMG is literally a verified seller and has been for years, I just don't know what the fuck happened that I can't use my old methods on their site anymore to break region pricing.

It's 40 bucks on steam, retard

It's 50 US on steam and 20% off for the next week

I'm waiting for the crack, or I could play it on PCSX2.
Have never used Steam or any other "service" like it and never will.

That's still 10-20$ more, eat shit Steamcucks.

> Denuvo
It's not fucking fair
I thought we had already defeated that
ITS NOT FUCKING FAIR I WANT TO PLAY THIS FOR FREE

>See this
>Excited as fuck
>Denuvo
>Mfw
Oh wow, the one thing that could ruin it and they go and use it.
The game is old as fuck too, why would they even bother?

...

>best poster
>Ashe x Vaan pairing

You damn right it is.

Are they actually ransoming the original game soundtrack to an early purchase?

Its final fantasy dude. Guarantee money from normies

>The game is old as fuck too, why would they even bother?
Because it's Final Fantasy, literally.
Lost Sphear has no Denuvo despite coming out last week and also being a Squeenix title.

They can't to a decent port but they can add Denuvo, huh?

You must really love Reddit

Pretty sure even cracked Denuvo blocks pretty much any mod that isn't just texture replacement but could be wrong.

>played through it on ps2 like 5 times since it released
>emulated the zodiac job system once on ps2 for a playthrough
>did a ps4 zodiac age playthrough
>now its on steam
please no i cant take any more

It's the best Squeenix port to date, even better than the FF10 HD port which was already literally perfect.
Problem is they had to POZZ it with Denuvo.

Meaning if their projections about sales are right, there might be big enough of an interest in cracking it?
No way am I going to pay to only be able to play a game for god know's how long, and to literally install a piece of fucking malware that affects performance and might even contain spy on me for all I know.

Welcome to the New Age, goy, (((we))) own you.

thx bby, just used this

it's a 15 year old game released at full price with denuvo

>full price

um sweetie

So did they tweak anything to differentiate the characters or they are all the same?

You have a Job system now, you can't opt out of it.
There's 12 jobs in total and you can have 2 Jobs per character (dual classing), but initially you only get 1 Job per each character and need to unlock the upgrade for second Job slot.

Can you fuck yourself by not taking a healing class as one of the your characters first jobs?

I always put the classes as what would make sense for the character. Even if MCH is shit, I cant see Balthier being anything else

Literally what is the problem with Denuvo?

I do the same

it's hard to crack therefore its bad
>nigger logic

Is a rootkit that spies on you and sells your data, including being a literal keylogger that logs your inputs and making screenshots of your desktop without your permission

Negatively affects performance especially now after the Spectre and Meltdown patches which greatly decreased virtualization performance and Denuvo is based on virtualization, games that had Denuvo removed such as Syberia 3 increase in framerate substantially.

Is literally made by the same people that made SecuROM which was such blatant malware that it was banned by European courts and declared illegal and has ever since been literally hard-disabled by Windows updates to the point you can't even install any old SecuROM games anymore, Windows straight up won't let you.

Just unlocked Bhujerba

Gonna clean up the hunts around the sands then head off to grab penelo

I have dreamed since I was a little boy of playing this game at 60fps, and it's everything I dreamed it would be

For those still starting it for the first time - one tip that I would have appreciated myself:

You have multiple Quickening (Limit Break) icons on your job board but you can only purchase 3 per character. Once you purchase 3, the others disappear.

Some abilities are placed so that you need to activate a Quickening to reach them. If you pick the wrong Quickening, you will not be able to obtain these abilities with that character.

I lose my ability to use the kinds of high end daggers I wanted this way.

>Mfw I'm going to do a solo Ashe - Summoner playthrough.
Probably going to make her a TIME MAGE too
Dis gun' be good niggas.

Only thing to note is you only get three quickening things to choose from, and only one character can get an esper. This is important for special licenses that you can only reach this way (Example: Shikari has access to Ninja swords but all 4 licenses are locked behind quickening nodes. As you can only unlock 3 quickenings you have to abandon one (Which should either be either Ninja swords 2 or 3 since they only provide one weapon license each. Ninja Blades 1 offers most and the early ones, while Yagyu Darkblade and Mesa are end-game)

I havan't played in a while but I think it spreads between both boards, so if you give Hashmal to Vaan it would bridge to those special nodes on both boards, if applicable.

As for quickenings I think each node is 'numbered', so if you unlock the first quickening on one board it will also unlock on the second board.

hey guy who laughed at me when i said ffxii would eventually come out for pc, if youre reading this - whos laughing now, bitch

You took him on an 11 year ruse cruise.