Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - October 2025
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Final Fantasy XII. It runs and looks great at 720p, 60Hz. It’s the last Final Fantasy I really enjoyed. I finished all three XIII games out of some misguided loyalty to the franchise, but I hated almost everything about them, and I haven’t played an FF game since.
XII is about as good as I remember so far. The plot isn’t the utter nonsense of the XIII games, and the combat is really deep. I’ve never played the Zodiac Age version, either, so at least part of the game is new to me. Not that I remember much since the last time I played it was a month before its initial release in 2006 when it leaked and got torrented. Wild times.
tonig@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The story of XII didn’t click for me the way VII, VIII and IX did, but I loved the game mechanics and combat. Zodiac Age made it even better.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I don’t remember the story of XII very well. It’s been almost twenty years since I played it, and I’m only ~15 hours in, now. The best thing I can say about it is that it’s not the pandering nonsense of the XIII games. Which is a huge relief. Really though, the plots of FF have always been a bit nonsense, but at least adhered to some kind of internal logic. FFXIII and its sequels just didn’t even try to be coherent.
The combat in all of them is fantastic, though. Particularly Lightning Returns. Such a unique, challenging, and fun combat system in the most incomprehensibly insane story of any FF.