My opinion was that, sure Advance was a "watere'd down" version of Tactics (see in the ps version there were many more job classes, but there weren't charactor races. they were human, but you could get like chocobo, goblins, minatour, and even dragons in your party. your human, both male and female charactors could be any of a number of jobs, the starting being squire with only 3 advancments, archer, knight, and cleric. those in tune gave way to things like summoners, mages, dragoons, ninja... and I know what you're thinking, those are in advance, but the difference is that there were more spells, and abilities, and more overall jobs. and the charactors weren't limited to what jobs they could take. The map had random encounters in it, much better ones, with many more options of fighting to work up your job levels. and with mastering certain skills changing how your charactor played, all in better ways, made tactics, with it's much more involved, devolped, and mature story line, not to mention secret items that I'm sure people are still trying to figure out how to get legitly, and secret charactors that were far improvments over things like the judge from tactics (shall i tell you... Cloud was the final secret charactor)

But if you look at the picture above, the game could be a FFT from ps sequal, instead of a gba sequal. then agian, it might take all the great elements from tactics, and apply them to advance, and come up with something even better. only time will tell.

luckilly, i have both a DS and a PSP, so I'll get the best of both worlds.

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FFT is without doubt one of the best crafted games ever made, its so much bigger. more customisable and ultimatly more rewarding than FFTA it looks better and it plays better... But thats not to say that FFTA is not a very good game its probably one of the best games out for the GBA and a sequel (preferrably for the DS) is great news, lets just hope they make it bigger and better and not wait so long for the next one!

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I own both DS and PSP, so it doesn't matter which platform gets the better FF Tactics game, cause I win either way... Now to focus on the important topic... Finally... Tactics on a portable... Life couldn't be more perfect!!!

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FFT top 5 best games ever(!) Unfortunately Tactics Ogre and FFTA didn't have the same depth and dimensions that the original FFT had. (even thought they were great games) The Disgaea series make a good job too but it went too "cartoon" in my opinion and was cursed with overblown effects and attacks. One of the nicest details were the actual changing of weapons equipped. Even though the appearance of the characters did not change depending on armors, the weapon-prites did. ( http://www.squareapex.com/fft/weapons.php ) I could actually see the Rune Blade i saved up to. The magic effects were really polished in terms of pixelated artwork and even the smallest effects were carefully designed without compromise. The environmental/map artwork was another amazing work of art of Hiroshi Minagawa. At that time Vandal Hearts II (also directed by Hiroshi Minagawa) also did a good job delivering the same kind of gaming experience as FFT did although it didn't give the same gameplay depth play hours. You can see and feel the hard work and quality from all the games art directed by Hiroshi Minagawa where every detail is thoroughly polished to the end in games as Vagrant story, the Ogre series and the latest FFXII (which is made by the same SE team as FFT and Vagrant Story [same fonts used almost as trademark item]). This version will surely deliver excellent quality in gameplay as in visual experience as the old game/s. Maybe I have to pick up a PSP too at my nearest Yodobashi because of this game and Jeanne D' Arc (really worth a look for amazing environmental artwork and apparently good gameplay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGqjZp_7vMU ... wallet gets thinner and thinner... I get older and older.

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There isn't a single person I know, including myself, who has played both FFT and FFTA, and enjoyed FFTA more. In fact, I'd be hard pressed to find someone who, after playing both games, enjoyed FFTA at all, much less anywhere near the level of the original.

I honestly don't know why I find FFTA so irritating. Maybe it's because I've become somewhat jaded over the years. Maybe it's because it failed to live up to the original? Possibly a mix of both, but I'd most likely contribute it to a combination of FFTA's (1) dumbed-down strategy, (2) barely challenging battles, (3) infusion of annoying hindrances called the 'Law System', (4) bland characters, and (5) a weak plot. I'd go into it in more detail, but I'm gonna save myself the headache of recalling memories of the game.

Overall, someone said it the best when they referred to FFTA as a stripped down version of the original. To newcomers, it may be a nice game, but to those who were lucky enough to play the original, it feels like a world of disappointment.

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I have to agree with what 10.Vaye 14.Rob 16.BatDan
have said on the # comments they made.

I have played both FFT (not all the way to the end)and FFTA and i hate when ppl say that FFT is better than FFTA without a good reason(and i don't think vise versa i just hate when ppl flame other games mindlessy without good reasoning).

I didn't care for the skill learning sysem in FFT although the skill learning system in FFTA (which i cared for a bit less)was a bit...cheap (wow a weapon gives good insight...@_@... but i did like how it forced you to use a lot of diffent weapons tho)

plus one point for FFT

And, I did like how FFT had a second sub class skill system (the one in FFTA however was better)

plus one point for FFTA

And Beowulf was pretty AWSOME! + 1 but putting clould in it was just cheezy -1 (*shock* *Gasp* i am not a cloud fan, cause ppl always over hype him.
I'll admit that i didn't care much for the story of FFT cause it leave a lot of questions unanswered( , but hey what FF game doesn't huh?

FFT+0 FFTA+0

and FF games have rarey had anything to do with each other so don't keep whining about how FFTA was so different from FFT cause that a sorry excuse (this happen in a lot of games not just this one ppl)
as for PSP getting the better deal ppl please you don't know that for sure and you can't get technical yet cause its not out and theres not enough proof.
plus you got to think about what the difference (if these is a difference)is in the japan verson and the import(translated import) versons. cause DS can play Import games(that will not be reseased outside japan) without any extra attachments or chips (just incase any of you are willing to import games yourself.)
Any who, I did love the way that FFTA was so different from FFT and in no way do they shadow one another. And I eagerly await for both to get here.

ps. I don't trust what Gameinformer, gamepro and those other game mags/ official game sites say about games anymore cause after that Cima: the enemy
(horrable boss battles, bad battle system, puzzles were nice, and a fun item use/setup system and movement system was horrid, storyline was so-so)
it was getting a good rating and that was the last time i let them tell me a trash game was good. (It was total trash yet it was getting a good rating like 4 out of 5 and 8 out of 10, buy it if you want to feel a little internal suffering and waste some money!)
and see i manage to compare what i liked and dislike about the game.

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FFTA is brilliant. I'm really looking forward to this. =)

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I haven't played FFTA, (although I want to, even though total revamps make me cringe). So I can't rag on it.

as far as the remake to PSP, I'd certainly buy it! If you've played the PS1 version, you know how addicting the gameplay was then (High replay factor). I could just imagine how it'll be now with the updated look.

One thing's for sure, I felt shafted when I heard there wasn't a TRUE sequel to the first. I hope this time around, they make it happen for the PSP!

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