Temporary Insanity

2005-06-18 03:55:57 am

Rock on, Earthbound. Rock on.

In a moment of wild and unprecedented madness, I began to consider the ridiculous. A Final Fantasy Tactics speedplay.

To those of you familiar with this game, I'd like to hear your opinions of a speedrun of this game. I think it could be done, and might even be a good candidate for a run, thanks to the enemy AI being very very precise about its movements, and the way damage is dealt in the game is strictly formulaic, with random factors only existing on specific attacks and weapons. On the other hand, there is some randomness in random battles, where monsters and levels can vary widely, and in enemy secondary sets, which becomes more of a problem later in the game. Obviously, things like Zodiac and Ultima will have to be skipped, along with everything in the Dark Dungeon.

The main difficulty will be in devising precise strategies for the multiple stages for beating them at low levels. In particular, The Wiegraf and Gafgarion solo battles, which I predict will be the run-killers for this game. @_@ In any case, if anyone knows any particular strategies, I'm wide open to suggestions.

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In a moment of wild and unprecedented madness, I began to consider the ridiculous.  A Final Fantasy Tactics speedplay.

To those of you familiar with this game, I'd like to hear your opinions of a speedrun of this game.  I think it could be done, and might even be a good candidate for a run, thanks to the enemy AI being very very precise about its movements, and the way damage is dealt in the game is strictly formulaic, with random factors only existing on specific attacks and weapons.  On the other hand, there is some randomness in random battles, where monsters and levels can vary widely, and in enemy secondary sets, which becomes more of a problem later in the game.  Obviously, things like Zodiac and Ultima will have to be skipped, along with everything in the Dark Dungeon.

The main difficulty will be in devising precise strategies for the multiple stages for beating them at low levels.  In particular, The Wiegraf and Gafgarion solo battles, which I predict will be the run-killers for this game.  @_@  In any case, if anyone knows any particular strategies, I'm wide open to suggestions.

Cyberwrath

2005-06-18 04:17:41 am

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Played it along time ago; I don't really have any tips but I'd watch it if you did it! GL

Crispx

2005-06-18 04:33:48 am

Your ad here.

The only thing I can say is that Auto-Potion and X-Potion abilities would be needed to survive those battles so that you automatically heal after an attack. That way you work on eliminating them.

Ikanaki

2005-06-18 04:46:31 am

Glub glub.

The Speed Guide on GameFAQs says the fastest known time is somewhere around nine hours, and I really doubt there is any place you can lose two hours in there.

toltas

2005-06-23 12:33:27 am

I would definately watch this run no matter how long it is. GTA:SA was 8:30, so you can shoot for somewhere along those lines.

This game owned my soul when it came out, it would be awesome to see someone run it fast.

any

2005-06-23 03:48:59 am

burn and die

MURDER THOSE DAMN ASSASSINS! THEM AND THEIR DAMN APANDAS!!

i broke a controller on them once because of how many status changes they could do to me and then because of how the Assassins can so easily kill you... boy was it fun to put in a GS code and control them into killing each other. MWAHAHAHAHAH - ?

ahem... sorry...

but by all means, do the game if you feel up to it. im really curious to see something i spent over a hundred hours on reduced to just a fraction of that.

Mkt2015

2005-06-23 09:21:55 am

MGS for PS1 forever.

I don't know a lot abou FFT since I hardly got past the 10th mission or so. I just couldn't get into the story.

But, I was wondering, sometimes when I didn't feel like fighting a 30min battle I'd just set the battle to auto fight. I'd make all of my guess heal whenever was necessary and normally I'd have won the battle by the time it was done. I don't know if this would work at all in a speedrun, but I do know that the "auto" knows exactly how to aim and time things just right which makes up for human thinking.

Gorash

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Gorash: 2005-06-23 11:57:50 am

2005-06-23 11:56:54 am

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This would be a record in terms of efficient input.

Lets see, a few button presses to start the game, mashing away any dialogue, and then setting the AI to auto in every battle... around 1000 inputs required. For a 9 hour movie? All time low if you ask me.

(I know it won't work. But it would be cool. The game that completes itself)

Ikanaki

2005-07-08 02:08:26 am

Glub glub.

As I was browsing through GF, I noticed this topic, which has a bit of stuff about speed running in it... guy claims to have gotten just a few minutes under 7 hours (!). Thought someone might care.