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  • Well i pre-orderd Final Fantasy 10 the other day, DON is it worth the purchase?  How is the new battle system (good or bad?)?  BTW might get my copy December 26th early realease ;)

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #26674  by Anarky
 Tue Nov 27, 2001 9:01 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Well i pre-orderd Final Fantasy 10 the other day, DON is it worth the purchase? How is the new battle system (good or bad?)? BTW might get my copy December 26th early realease ;)</div>
 #26675  by WooJin
 Tue Nov 27, 2001 10:49 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Very very linear, but I really liked the story and the characters.</div>
 #26676  by Don
 Tue Nov 27, 2001 10:51 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's pretty consistent in quality with respect to the other Final Fantasies.

The battle system is similar to the old Final Fantasies. You've choices but it doesn't make a lot of sense to make Yuna go all out on HP and attack power at the beginning, for example. Summons are basically free life bars to burn and they're extremely abusive. Like FF8, characters ultimately become better than summons (Tidus is godly with Quick Trick + Haste), but you're most likely going to stick with summons the first time. Fortunately the summons do animate pretty fast so you don't have to waste time watching it, and besides, summons aren't really good for regular enemy battles since they're slow, have comparable HP to a player, and takes damage the same way, but are much harder to heal than players. Standard boss tactics seem to boil down to charge the Overdrive bar on your main summons in regular fights, and then just use summon overdrive nonstop. If that doesn't work you can always fall back to your regular team.</div>

 #26685  by Manshoon
 Wed Nov 28, 2001 1:33 pm
<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>It's FF, it goes without saying that it's worth the purchase.</div>

 #26689  by Zhuge Liang
 Thu Nov 29, 2001 12:39 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>someone once said that to me about the movie... I was forced to stab him... repeatedly...</div>

 #26690  by Manshoon
 Thu Nov 29, 2001 1:27 am
<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Heh, well game-to-movie conversions never turn out well, as a rule.</div>

 #26691  by Blotus
 Thu Nov 29, 2001 7:06 am
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Die!</div>