Minion Battles!!

[chococo]

+1 for OP^

SE: P L E A S E Turn Based gameplay mode for old FF Fans, can be minions...

(do not forget about large group of people still playing Turn Based Games (this one here)).

This would be cool. So like each minion is a unit with specific stats/abilities, some minions being stronger and some being weaker. Then you deploy a set number of minions in a turn-based battle in a square grid, like in FFT/FFTA or super robot wars/taisen (SLG games). Would give minions more use and ppl more reasons to get the stronger/rare minions.

[Duelle]

perhaps like Pokemon or whatever they have in WoW (never really seen more than 2 mins of footage of that game, don't have any interest in it).

This should give you an idea without exposing you too much to WoW.

[Jamie28334]

This should give you an idea without exposing you too much to WoW.

Thanks duelle, so yeah it seems as if it's almost a complete rip off from Pokemon given it's 'WoWkemon' names and abilities in-game? So clearly if they managed to do this without any kind of problems from the makers of Pokemon than SE shouldn't have too much difficulty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K6qZxWytbQ

FFXI's Pankration as mentioned earlier on in the post is effectively the same sort of system, just takes a lot of time setting the fights up, but at least they have a system they could use and modify on if they chose to.

[Nikita]

GE: Are there any future plans for minions? In WoW, for example, there was a battle-type system. Any plans for anything like that?

Yoshida: We have so many minions planned. For us, we don’t want this to have too big of a footprint in the game, because some will be from events and different things and if they were really useful in the game and some people that don’t have them will be at a disadvantage. We don’t want to create that unfairness, we want it to be more of a fun thing. We saw how they did the fighting pets in WoW, and I thought it was really just Pokemon. But, we are looking at having the companions, like the Chocobo or Magitek armor, battle. Would you rather have two airships or two fingers fighting? We think that’s what the players want – to see Chocobos and Magitek fighting – so we will put our efforts there.

http://gamerescape.com/2013/06/17/e3...naoki-yoshida/

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Yoshi quote"We think that’s what the players want – to see Chocobos and Magitek fighting – so we will put our efforts there."

I won't say I particularly WANT it, but I'd likely have tons of amusement watching Maggie fight.

I'd rather they work on a system so that more than just our Chocobo can fight with us, though. I'd rather my Maggie fight at my side with her magitek guns (because at this point, I only use my Chocobo for healing.. which isn't often).

[Tupsi]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Monstrosity
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Pankration

All they gotta recreate, so SE already has two systems in FFXI they could adapt for something like this in this game. I know the mantra is "FFXI = bad!" with the XIV community, but it really does show they at least tried unique systems in their MMOs at one point.

[Kazamoto]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Monstrosity
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Pankration

All they gotta recreate, so SE already has two systems in FFXI they could adapt for something like this in this game. I know the mantra is "FFXI = bad!" with the XIV community, but it really does show they at least tried unique systems in their MMOs at one point.

This is facts

[FritoBandito]

I use it when i want to its the internet not a classroom or a paper i have to turn in.

So what you're saying is that what they are trying to teach you in classrooms is only to be used in those classrooms? Please go watch the film "Idiocracy" if you haven't seen it already, and know that it's people like you who are taking the world in that direction.

[Gesser]

I liked the idea of making it a miniaturized turn-based classic FF combat system (ATB!) to PvP with our minions.

Party of four-five minions with a limited skillset, they can use potions from your inventory as their own.

They have an LB gauge that charges up the same as ours, and depending on their role it acts very much the same as ours does too.

[Synapse]

PANKRATION!! bring it back? :P