Final Fantasy Hacktics

Quote from: Elric on December 01, 2014, 04:37:19 pm
The Lion War moves all the WotL events into the PSX as well as everything else added to WotL in one way or the other (Minus the multiplayer).  Scenes, new characters, other bonuses etc, are all retained (even OK/DK in one form or another) It has MUCH MUCH more to offer than FFT: Complete.
However, it is not out just yet

Ah, this is what I had in mind! I had assumed that this is what FFT: Complete was. I guess it's the name - Complete sounds pretty definitive.

Quote from: Boco on December 01, 2014, 04:52:30 pm
STRICTLY game-breaking glitch fix mods/patches, OR mods that improve graphical quality (High Definition textures) are the only mods I would recommend for a first play. There aren't really any graphics mods for FF Tactics, and you can enjoy the original without running into any major bugs, so yeah, Vanilla is the way to go for the first go-round.

Generally I agree with the first point, but I can think of exceptions. I'd advise anyone playing STALKER, for instance, to install STALKER Complete, and I think many fans of the game would agree. Now, Complete is a graphics and fix mod, but it also changes the gameplay in pretty dramatic ways, and adds a lot of new content - it'd be fair to call it an overhaul. Obviously if you've played the game unpatched before you'll better appreciate the changes, but for a first-time player just wanting to experience the game in the best possible way, I'd still recommend they install it.

Anyway, I'm going to start on PSX FFT tonight. Not sure whether to dig my playstation out or play it on the PSP... I don't think I've ever spent quite this long deliberating over how to play a game, without actually playing it... 

Thanks for all the responses - really helpful. I'll stick with the PS1 original, based on what's been said here (and the helpful fact that I already own a copy).

Quote from: Toshiko on November 30, 2014, 06:03:00 pm
You cannot truly appreciate a patch without first playing the original work.

I do get this point, though I don't entirely agree. I think it depends on the game and the patch. There are more than a few PC RPGs that I can think of where I'd recommend a first-time player apply certain patches, and not just bug-fixing patches. If you assume someone is likely to only play a game once - and realistically, I'll quite likely only play FFT once if it's as long as I've heard - then it makes sense to ask which version of the game is the best.

But I appreciate that some patches are really geared towards players already familiar with the game, and I get the impression that that applies to lots of the stuff produced by the community here. I was mainly considering FFT Complete, because as far as I could tell it's a sort of best of patch, combining the original and WoTL, and not attempting to offer a different experience altogether. But I wasn't too sure, hence the thread.

So I'm going to be playing FF Tactics for the first time, and I'm wondering whether to play one of the patched versions (Complete, Kind of, FFT+ - I'm not sure which!) or vanilla (either War of the Lions or the PS1 original). I'm curious to know what the aficionados on the boards here would recommend - vanilla or patched, and if patched, which one?

Just for context, I originally came across these boards while googling the differences between War of the Lions and FFT original, and learning that there was a patch to fix the slow down issues in the former. Now that I've seen all these threads for complete overhaul patches, I'm wondering if I'd be better off playing through one of them instead.

Sorry if this thread pops up often. I have spent a while on the boards here, and had a look at the readmes for the different patches, but I still can't really get a good idea of what the "best" version is, particularly for someone who hasn't played the game before. As far as I can tell, FFT Complete adds a few fixes and combines the best features of the two original games, but doesn't change the gameplay, whereas Kind of and FFT+ are more or less complete overhauls. Is that about right?