Clash On The Big Bridge

[Tupsi]

I thought it was really well done in FF12. It was difficult, it was a long quest

Too stressful.

I am sick and bloody tired of MMOs forcing solo battles.

Love it or hate it, FFXI being "forced" large groups for big encounters even in 'instances' is pretty much what MMOs (and FF) were always about. I'm happy Gilgamesh will be here, but sadden that the design direction may make this encounter...what's the word....leave more to be desired? Despite all his arms, I wonder if he'll even have multiple attack rounds, like say Charybdis from XI that can attack 1-8 times in quick succession to the point it looks like he never stops attacking you.

(Basically actually trying to kill you rather than 1 random cheap mechanic.)

[Duelle]

Yes to making it include some epic music and a great battle... And absolutely no to it being 1 vs 1 (or at least forced 1 vs 1).

I am sick and bloody tired of MMOs forcing solo battles.

Being a pansy that needs 7 other people to fight a character that has been introduced as a duelist that challenges people to a 1 on 1 fight to take their weapons, or being "the one" that breaks the duelist's winning streak and puts an end to his weapon-stealing ways while also proving to be the duelist's equal in skill. Hmmmm.......

[Caraway]

Being a pansy that needs 7 other people to fight a character that has been introduced as a duelist that challenges people to a 1 on 1 fight to take their weapons, or being "the one" that breaks the duelist's winning streak and puts an end to his weapon-stealing ways while also proving to be the duelist's equal in skill. Hmmmm.......

Pansy? Really? Wow, that's unnecessary.

That said, looking at a FF historic lore standpoint, Gilgamesh is always fought by a party because he's such a massive challenge (lore wise) even if he's using something as awful as Excalipoor.

Regardless, my point was that forcing you into a solo battle in a MMO is absurd and an example of lazy design decisions. You should have the choice to engage the encounter how you will. Want to fight that easy mob with three people? Sure! You won't get as much XP. Want to fight that huge dragon alone? Sure! You're probably going to die.

It's about choice. And forcing you to solo a fight in an MMO is stupid.

[Duelle]

That said, looking at a FF historic lore standpoint, Gilgamesh is always fought by a party because he's such a massive challenge (lore wise) even if he's using something as awful as Excalipoor.

And my point is that he's been presented as a duelist, and would make no sense to have 8 people gang up on him and only prove that you on your own are no match. Mind you, in this case you're also helping Hildibrand since you're the single player character in that storyline, and it would take away from that by making it a group fight.

If he hadn't been presented as a duelist, I'd be okay with it being a group fight against him.

[Enkidoh]

Pansy? Really? Wow, that's unnecessary.

That said, looking at a FF historic lore standpoint, Gilgamesh is always fought by a party because he's such a massive challenge (lore wise) even if he's using something as awful as Excalipoor.

You actually fight him solo in Dissidia Duodecium (But then that is a fighting game with RPG elements so yeah, different genre).

[lololink]

You actually fight him solo in Dissidia Duodecium (But then that is a fighting game with RPG elements so yeah, different genre).

Actually you can have an assist character so it's a 2v2 battle.

[Tupsi]

Pansy? Really? Wow, that's unnecessary.

That said, looking at a FF historic lore standpoint, Gilgamesh is always fought by a party because he's such a massive challenge (lore wise) even if he's using something as awful as Excalipoor.

Even our last encounter with him was in a party (XIII-2), so yeah. He may "Challenge" someone one on one and considering Yoshi's non-stressful stance I wouldn't be surprised if this is the most pathetic version of gilgamesh ever lol.

You fought him in a party way more than you did one on one unless you did 1 character challenges via hacking or killing everyone off before encounter.

[HakuroDK]

Also, if they don't get John DiMaggio to voice Gilgamesh again, I'll be sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XsQIHGSNhs

[Tiggy]

In that pic he appears to be wielding the gun halbard the final boss of 1.0 had. Interesting.