Return to Ivalice and A Missed Opportunity

[Exodyce]

I'm not sure how other people felt about the original Final Fantasy Tactics, but I personally loved it. I loved the story, the battle system, the characters, everything. With the upcoming release of the "The Return to Ivalice," am I the only one that is kinda sad we don't have an FFT-style battle minigame?

I feel like this would have been a great addition to squadrons. With the newly liberated Ala Mhigo, I'm sure there will be plenty of new action for Lyse and her people as they stabilize the region. These seem like great missions where you could send 4 or 5 squad members to help out and do an FFT style battle with Lyse as a hero-guest unit. Any faction that needs help could use this system to get assistance from our squadron, and this would make me care more about those units themselves. Personally, I've been hoping for a Tactics-style minigame in FFXIV for a long time, and now seems like a logical time to add it in.

What do you guys think?

[Theodric]

Keep Lyse far away from Ivalice, please.

[Exodyce]

Keep Lyse far away from Ivalice, please.

Oh I intend to, haha. I just wanna be able to send our squadron out to help her on missions back home so that we don't have to go talk to her personally :V

I jest, of course, but yeah. I do want this to be a side-game type thing where it's by choice and you send your squad to help out your allies. Maybe Aymeric needs help once in a while, or your beast tribe allies need assistance. It would be a nice way to help out old friends without making you physically go revisit them all the time, and give a meaningful use for the squadron.

[KalinOrthos]

Keep Lyse far away from Ivalice, please.

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...IvaLyse.

I'll show myself out.

[Linadae]

I believe that's what Verminion is, and not everyone likes/is good at rts style games so adding that as part of the msq would be a really bad idea I think.

[Exodyce]

I believe that's what Verminion is, and not everyone likes/is good at rts style games so adding that as part of the msq would be a really bad idea I think.

I dont think it's fair to compare LoV to FFT style battle games. Also, I don't want it as part of the MSQ, more as a squadron thing that you do, kind of like how you send them on hit-it-and-forget-it missions now. The Squadron thus far has been a glorified group of retainers, and while we get to take them into dungeons in the next patch, I think using them in a side-game to do FFT-type missions would be a lot of fun and a good way to make us care more about these units who are under our direct command.

[Linadae]

I dont think it's fair to compare LoV to FFT style battle games. Also, I don't want it as part of the MSQ, more as a squadron thing that you do, kind of like how you send them on hit-it-and-forget-it missions now. The Squadron thus far has been a glorified group of retainers, and while we get to take them into dungeons in the next patch, I think using them in a side-game to do FFT-type missions would be a lot of fun and a good way to make us care more about these units who are under our direct command.

Oh, well that's fine then. As long as it's not needed to progress through the msq or rank up in the Grand Companies then it's fine. Because frankly, I'm not only terrible at FFT and Ogre Tactics type games I also don't like them very much.

[Exodyce]

Oh, well that's fine then. As long as it's not needed to progress through the msq or rank up in the Grand Companies then it's fine. Because frankly, I'm not only terrible at FFT and Ogre Tactics type games I also don't like them very much.

Haha, fair enough! I always loved them (FFT and Disgaea especially). I've been itching for another Final Fantasy one, and while FFT:A and FFT:A2 were fun, I feel like it's overdue. FFXIV seems like a great way to have a soft-successor to FFT itself since we are doing Ivalice anyway =]

[Felis]

I believe that's what Verminion is, and not everyone likes/is good at rts style games so adding that as part of the msq would be a really bad idea I think.

Verminion is real time strategy, FF Tactics is turn based strategy.
Verminion can be great, if they change it to turn based and the arena not flat.

[Vahlnir]

Verminion is real time strategy, FF Tactics is turn based strategy.
Verminion can be great, if they change it to turn based and the arena not flat.

Or they could have just made it FF Tactics based instead of an RTS like no one asked for to begin with. Think a lot of people were expecting it to be Pokémon-ish like WoW's pet battles or something along those lines, though. But admittedly, a FF Tactics version is a better idea.

But on topic...yeah, I think a mini game similar to FF Tactics would be an excellent idea, considering the raid we're getting. Squadron-based activities based on Tactics would have been interesting though.