I thought that is how you'd feel. I havent played the Advance versions enough to judge them but do love the ps1 version.
Id love a FFT for PS3 , oooh boy! Got me all excited you did.
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Mind you, as stand alone tittles, they are not bad, not by a mile, they are actually pretty good games, now on the story and gameplay is where they diverge drastically, for one the story of the follow up tittles are more "Kiddie" and mild, tho they do still retain some semblance of the original in a degree.
And yes FFT on the PS3 would be epic, just to see those sword skills from the first battle in up to date graphics would be awesome, i always wanted them to do a FFT- The 50 year war. like a prequel of sorts.
To my knowledge it's less about SE giving up on Ivalice and more on the fact that the guy that largely created that whole world is no longer working for SE.
Anyway, Red Mage and Dark Knight. I could live with DRK being more drain-based through their weapon skills or job abilities rather than being reliant on spells (scroll down to the DRK part of the OP in the link for examples).
RDM would definitely need a system where melee and magic work together to make the job tick, IMO.
Yazmat was working for SE until FFXII, FFT came out in 1997, FFXII came out 2006..... In 9 years, there was no FFT-2, no Vagrant Story 2, no OBT-2, No insert any game made by yazmat that was a classic. Yup they dint give up on the series.... just like every other series outside of main Final Fantasy, they just put it to sleep forever lol
Considering that after his leaving SE somehow caused them to forget about the whole Ivalice Alliance thing they had set up, it is something to think about. I was also trying to draw the paralel to what Capcom is doing to Rockman/Megaman, as the guy who created that left and the franchise was suddenly put out to pasture for the most part. We might have a similar scenario, except you don't have a trillion people going berserk over tactics like they did over Megaman.