Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System - Revisiting

[Ratatapa]

Well I linked this thread on GW, so those might be the guests

[Auspice]

I was JUST talking about how the Zodiac edition needed to come out in the US to my best friend. He still contends that XII is weak because it's all about political intrigue and the entire cast of playable characters have nothing to do with the plot of the game.

[Boyiee]

Please oh please ps4/vita remaster remake I don't care I'll even take the original ported to both.

[Charismatic]

I was JUST talking about how the Zodiac edition needed to come out in the US to my best friend. He still contends that XII is weak because it's all about political intrigue and the entire cast of playable characters have nothing to do with the plot of the game.

I doubt your friend even understands the game then. Most of that doesn't even really matter.
The most important characters in FFXII's main are: Ashe, Vaan (believe it or not), Cid, Vayne and Venat
Oh and also

Spoiler: show

Reddas

Vaan doesn't actually do much other than help to convince Ashe not to be the "next Dynast-King" that the Occuria wanted her to be (That talk they had in Jahara is one of the most important scenes in the game if you ask me).
Sure, the rest of the cast is just the supporting cast and they have loose ties to the plot like Baltheir being related to Cid and tagging along after a certain point due to daddy issues and so on but still... the actual cast was very much related to the actual plot of the game which was Venat using Cid and Vayne to wrest control of the world from the hands of the other Occuria.

[Niiro]

Fuck Vaan, Reddas says all the heavy important shit about that decision.

[Ratatapa]

My issue was the battle system and the VA, sorry guys but Balthier and fran irritates me to no end but I'll give this another chance

[Niiro]

.......what

XII had some of the best voice acting in any video game period.

(whoever did the compression on the audio should be shot tho, but the voice work itself was awesome)

[Viq]

Who could forget this VA gem:

[Charismatic]

Hating Balthier's voice in particular is a real WUT to me but to each his own... I guess.

Who could forget this VA gem:

[Kirin]

We have video. Sakimoto was indeed in attendence, so this announcement could very well have been sanctioned by SE themselves as a teaser.

I'm guessing at worst we get a HD remaster of IZJS, at best we get a weak "remake" using IZJS as a base and adding in some of the stuff they cut when Matsuno had to leave. Either way, this is a big win in my book. Ivalice has possibly one of the deepest lores in all of RPG's, and its continued exposure can only help with another true Tactics game.

[Omniyoji]

I doubt your friend even understands the game then. Most of that doesn't even really matter.
The most important characters in FFXII's main are: Ashe, Vaan (believe it or not), Cid, Vayne and Venat
Oh and also

Spoiler: show

Reddas

Vaan doesn't actually do much other than help to convince Ashe not to be the "next Dynast-King" that the Occuria wanted her to be (That talk they had in Jahara is one of the most important scenes in the game if you ask me).
Sure, the rest of the cast is just the supporting cast and they have loose ties to the plot like Baltheir being related to Cid and tagging along after a certain point due to daddy issues and so on but still... the actual cast was very much related to the actual plot of the game which was Venat using Cid and Vayne to wrest control of the world from the hands of the other Occuria.

What about Larsa? I actually liked him. To be honest this is better news than FFVII remake.

Thanks for vid confirmation. ~Hype

[IceSylph]

Please do it. I need my HD Ashe ass.

This.

[Charismatic]

We have video. Sakimoto was indeed in attendence, so this announcement could very well have been sanctioned by SE themselves as a teaser.

Well damn.
I'll take that as confirmation.

[Niiro]

I'm sad because it's no doubt gonna be on PS4 and I don't have a PS4.

[Charismatic]

I'm sad because it's no doubt gonna be on PS4 and I don't have a PS4.

Well, you know the solution to this problem. Plus side, when it comes out you can also play this bad boy.
My gaming experience tells me that there's no such thing as a game with a track this awesome that is also a bad game.

[Kaisha]

I'm sad because it's no doubt gonna be on PS4 and I don't have a PS4.

I would hope Vita/PS3/PS4 like FFX HD was, since I want some portable XII IZJS.

Seven months until the game's tenth anniversary if you go by the Japanese release date.

[Koul]

I'm sad because it's no doubt gonna be on PS4 and I don't have a PS4.

and PC, I betcha

[Insanecyclone]

Well, you know the solution to this problem. Plus side, when it comes out you can also play this bad boy.
My gaming experience tells me that there's no such thing as a game with a track this awesome that is also a bad game.

Still waiting on that Victory-II NA announcement

Also please don't fuck this ost up like X HD

[Charismatic]

Still waiting on that Victory-II NA announcement

Also please don't fuck this ost up like X HD

Just imagine... a very slightly touched up version of this.

[Alkar]

I'm guessing we may see something more than a simple remaster here if the original director is on board. He wanted to make more changes to the game but couldn't at the time so all we got was the IZJS version. Maybe this time they could add/change more.
A simple model for the new weapons would be a good start <_<