FF12 is definitely one of my favorite RPGs of all time. The battle system was fun and active yet strategic, the cinematics and presentation were beautiful, and it had a ton of content and customization options for a PS2 game. It felt so complete.
My favourites. Heaven's Wrath: It just fits Ashe perfectly. Flame Purge: Ouch? That looks like it hurts. Whip Kick: Each kick sounds so awsome and they look good. Pyroclasm: Mozilla Firefox. Nuff said. Looks friging cool.
Balthier is pure awesomeness, for sure. I mean, his clothes, accent, hair, attitude - a perfect character. The main thing I like is that he's badass, I always have him as a gunner. He comes and shoots enemy's brains out with Fomalhaut!!! :D
damn straight man. this game kicked ass. i played it all the way through and i loved every second. the guys who think FF12 is bad because it is too hard should spend more time leveling and shut up.
I haven't played this game in forever i found it in "Abandoned PS2" box played it again finished the game again and its was still as awesome as the first time I battled with Reks!
Fulminating Darkness was a fancy hadouken. Whip Kick was a fancy tatsumaki senpukyaku combined with Guile's flip kick. White Whorl was a fancy shoryuken. Ruin Impendent was a fancy 3-hit combo +1 Feral Strike was a smexy fancy 10-hit combo o.o I remember always doing quickenings on those Garudas
My favorites are definitely Ashe's Northswain's Glow, Balthier's Tides of War, and Penelo's Resplendence. Tides of War gets me excited every time. ^_^ (Plus I'm a total geek -- I always do Ashe's snatching motion with her when she does her first quickening. ^^;;;)
I love just watching the Quickenings. There's a lot of storyline hate in these comments. The storyline was great, it just doesn't go into detail as much as it should in some areas. Like the whole "taking destiny away from the gods and putting it back in men's hands" theme could have been elaborated upon more in the cutscenes than "omfg let's get this other awesome relic/stone/etc."
Basch moves are "fulminating darkness", "ruin impendent" and "flame purge" while in dissidia Gabranth moves are "fulminating oblivion" , "ruin unflinching" and "frost purge" but I think they messed up with frost purge it looks like flame purge he burns them with fire he doesn't use any ice during his frost purge.
Yeah Malestrom's Bolt is my personal favorite of all 18 of em. Despite not liking Vaan he has the 2nd best set imo. White Whorl and Pyroclasm are great.
i love when people post comments that are nearly the exact same as the top rated ones... just for a few thumbs ups... :/ sad times we live in, indeed p.s. I love fran :} she's awesome D:
I started off playing FF7 for my first final fantasy game around 12 years ago, but even though I grew up with that game, I favored FF5, partially because I appreciated the writing and the character development. Also FF9 was enjoyable as well. But I really don't have one favorite. I'm sure Mass Effect isn't that bad. A lot of people play it cause they like it, so it has its redeeming qualities as well. I suck at shooter games so i'll never get to enjoy it as much as others.
@Moremooremore That's odd. I loved the battle system in 13 much more than in this game, but what really appeals to me about this game is the openness of the liscense board. And both stories are amazing. I really liked how 12's story was mostly political. In the end, though, both games came down to the characters defying the will of the gods and defeating them.
I would've put Basch in my team, but I figured that Vaan was suppose to be the main character in the game (there really were none) so I put him in instead. But those three you listed are my favorite playable characters in the game! :) The other three... weeeeeell not so much.
Baltheir is one of my favorite characters in the entire series. Love his Quickenings. For some reason I always thought Element of Treachery was quite comical.
If the quickening names are dark, it means you can't use them. R2 is meant to shuffle the commands and give you some options before time runs out. If you want to use a quickening, you need to be aiming at an enemy.
Basch has the best quickenings: fulimating darkness is alot loke final flash, ruin impendent is him breaking through all time and space and flame purge is a move in which basch pierces you with multiple broad swords and then detonates them when they are within you.......2 epic
Totally agree, personally I think 9 and 10 are the best. Mainly because the two revolve around the summonings story wise. I love summons :) This one sucks when it comes to espers :/ I was dissapointed, but it's a good game, just not as good as other FF titles, by far.
I agree. 'overdrives' and 'limit breaks' were somewhat more understandable, but these.... a l-i-t-t-l-e storyline relevence would have been nice... I got my first vaan quickening at the start of the game. I just killed a load of enemies close by for the lisence points and bam, there ya go. >_>
These fancy attacks get cooler each game, but some cool attacks in the Final Fantasy series (like Sephrioth's Supernova, this attack Ultimicia where she slams planets into your characters, Ark's attack sequence) are more show then power.
wow, that's pretty awesome... the best i've had is either 15, 16, 17, or 18 hits, i'm really, really lucky, it was with vann, i think baltheir, and either ashe, penelo, or basch, against the gil snapper i think, their levels now are; 62-vann, somewhere in the 30's or fourties are ashe and penelo, and in their mid twenties are balthier, bash, and fran... i went a little crazy when i got belius.....
I lke Basch,Baltheir and Vaan's Quickening the most each one is cool. But Basch sounds coolest "fulminating darkness" "ruin impendent" and "flame purge"
That's a funny statement, because that's what everyone is saying about all games in the FF series. It's also one of the most recent FF games, so that's funny, too.
Some of them look a lot like summons' final attacks-Balthier's third reminds me of the Magus sisters delta attack and Fran's third looks like shiva's diamond dust-all really cool!
@SirZidane Actually she does have combat experience xD Maybe not real life, but if you read the booklet and/or guide, it states that her brothers taught her how to fight before they went off to war. So theoretically they could've taught her how to mess with the very balance of nature
I'ts hard to pick favorites, but mine are: Penelo's 1st and 2nd Vaans' 1st and Basch's 1st The spells and such on this game often look better than those of Final Fantasy 13
lol yeah I'm wondering that too, like I said his Quickenings are destructive. So are Basch's, Frans, and Balthiers. When I first saw all of Vaans I said damn dude where da fuck did that come from?!?! Lmao XD
@Koyuki14 I'm not a big fan of XII and I found XIII boring all the way through but the quickening have always amazed me a lot more than any of the attacks in FFXIII
I liked all the main characters expect for Penelo she was useless to the plot. Vaan at least wanted to be a sky pirate and avenge his brother Reks. I always thought Balthier as the leading role.
But keep in mind they do allow very powerful attacks. I keep one person set aside for magicks, but I use the other two to unleash powerful quickenings. On the esper Mateus battle I was able to unleash a 20 chain quickening, killing her instantly. So, they are a little more useful then magicks.
Good job on the editing of them,
straight to the point vids,
(made it easy to watch)
Pyroclasm .. damn I get goosebumps whenever I saw that masterpiece
FF12 is definitely one of my favorite RPGs of all time. The battle system was fun and active yet strategic, the cinematics and presentation were beautiful, and it had a ton of content and customization options for a PS2 game. It felt so complete.
1:03 - my fave Balthier - love the whistle and then "heads up!"
Fran quickening shatter heart is like shiva's diamond dust
I remember using some of these attacks on the monsters and thinking "Maaan isnt this over kill guys"
This game changed my life. It opened me to the unbelievable world of gaming. This is one of the greatest games of all time!
*whistles*
Balthier: Heads up ;)
12 years ago huh. . Time sure went away so fast. .
True.. watching and hearing both in a higher quality makes the video much more enjoyable..Nice video anywayz ^^
Vaan's Pyroclasm reminds me of Mozilla Firefox.
Flame Purge reminds me of Shiva's overdrive, the ice builds up and she snaps her fingers and blah. Thanks for posting these.
White Whorl is so amazing. I can never get enough of that one.
I just got a copy of FFXII for my b-day, and it is my new favorite ps2 game. EVER!
thanx 4 quickenings...I never used all these except certain bosses
This is one of the best Final Fantasy game ever, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
Flame Purge and Pyroclasm are my favourites. Those fiery blades are awesome!
This game had some of the best light-shows I've seen in a Japanese RPG.
Finally, someone else who likes Penelo's quickenings!
And LOL @ all the arguments in the comments.
Balthier's my favorite character, and his quickenings are the coolest too.
My favourites.
Heaven's Wrath: It just fits Ashe perfectly.
Flame Purge: Ouch? That looks like it hurts.
Whip Kick: Each kick sounds so awsome and they look good.
Pyroclasm: Mozilla Firefox. Nuff said. Looks friging cool.
@TheMessanjah Same here, 150+ hours and I haven't quite finished all the hunts yet.
Ohh, I love these things. I just discovered them in the game myself. XD I love all of Balthier's, his rock so much. I love his Tides of Fate.
Balthier is pure awesomeness, for sure. I mean, his clothes, accent, hair, attitude - a perfect character.
The main thing I like is that he's badass, I always have him as a gunner. He comes and shoots enemy's brains out with Fomalhaut!!! :D
damn straight man. this game kicked ass. i played it all the way through and i loved every second. the guys who think FF12 is bad because it is too hard should spend more time leveling and shut up.
I haven't played this game in forever i found it in "Abandoned PS2" box played it again finished the game again and its was still as awesome as the first time I battled with Reks!
I like all three of the ladies' Quickenings the most. I'm also partial to Balthier's.
Fulminating Darkness was a fancy hadouken.
Whip Kick was a fancy tatsumaki senpukyaku combined with Guile's flip kick.
White Whorl was a fancy shoryuken.
Ruin Impendent was a fancy 3-hit combo +1
Feral Strike was a smexy fancy 10-hit combo o.o
I remember always doing quickenings on those Garudas
My favorites are definitely Ashe's Northswain's Glow, Balthier's Tides of War, and Penelo's Resplendence. Tides of War gets me excited every time. ^_^ (Plus I'm a total geek -- I always do Ashe's snatching motion with her when she does her first quickening. ^^;;;)
@Dendarang
i agree but a big difference is that however elemental quickenings may look, they are still non-elemental attacks
Amazing! They're just like super combos from a fighting game, don't get me wrong!
Ashe's Heaven's Wrath (2), Vaan's Pyroclasm (3), Fran's Whip Kick (3), and Basch's Ruin Impendent (2) are my favorites. They're awesome.
Final Fantasy XII sure is a unique game...especially the gameplay...amazing..!
dude this game brings back great memorys
I love just watching the Quickenings. There's a lot of storyline hate in these comments. The storyline was great, it just doesn't go into detail as much as it should in some areas. Like the whole "taking destiny away from the gods and putting it back in men's hands" theme could have been elaborated upon more in the cutscenes than "omfg let's get this other awesome relic/stone/etc."
Its like an ep of TTGL. OVER THE TOP AWESOMENESS
Basch moves are "fulminating darkness", "ruin impendent" and "flame purge" while in dissidia Gabranth moves are "fulminating oblivion" , "ruin unflinching" and "frost purge" but I think they messed up with frost purge it looks like flame purge he burns them with fire he doesn't use any ice during his frost purge.
Yea that's weird but in all fairness they are twins. 😝
Glitch Lokison the twins part I get but using flames during frost purge makes no sense.
They should've at least made it blue/white
OtomostheCrazy what if it means "purging the frost"?
SLIghtier Then Basch's Quickening would make no sense color-wise. His is the exact same color, and it's called "Flame Purge."
Yeah Malestrom's Bolt is my personal favorite of all 18 of em. Despite not liking Vaan he has the 2nd best set imo. White Whorl and Pyroclasm are great.
Even Vaan approves of Firefox.
Excellent choice.
Half the magic in this game involves large explosions of crazy colors which makes FF13 AWESOME
OMFG Basch's Ruin Impendant is the best looking one! shatters reality! XD
lol kirby move at 2:50...
nice compilation!
i love when people post comments that are nearly the exact same as the top rated ones... just for a few thumbs ups... :/ sad times we live in, indeed
p.s. I love fran :} she's awesome D:
By FAR the best of these are White Whirl, Tides of Fate, but most importantly ALL of Basch's abilities. Resplendence is pretty good too.
i dont know why the people hate this game is sooo great ^^ actually I am playing it and is exciting :D
i love that Balthier is making quips during his quickenings.
I started off playing FF7 for my first final fantasy game around 12 years ago, but even though I grew up with that game, I favored FF5, partially because I appreciated the writing and the character development. Also FF9 was enjoyable as well. But I really don't have one favorite. I'm sure Mass Effect isn't that bad. A lot of people play it cause they like it, so it has its redeeming qualities as well. I suck at shooter games so i'll never get to enjoy it as much as others.
@Moremooremore That's odd. I loved the battle system in 13 much more than in this game, but what really appeals to me about this game is the openness of the liscense board.
And both stories are amazing. I really liked how 12's story was mostly political. In the end, though, both games came down to the characters defying the will of the gods and defeating them.
Ashe's third quickening, with lightning, is my favorite.
I would've put Basch in my team, but I figured that Vaan was suppose to be the main character in the game (there really were none) so I put him in instead. But those three you listed are my favorite playable characters in the game! :) The other three... weeeeeell not so much.
Man I love some of Vaan's lines, so bad ass
"Gotta surprise for you."
Baltheir is one of my favorite characters in the entire series. Love his Quickenings. For some reason I always thought Element of Treachery was quite comical.
I like Ahse's there so fun to watch "LOOK AT THE PRETTY LIGHTS!" ^_^
If the quickening names are dark, it means you can't use them. R2 is meant to shuffle the commands and give you some options before time runs out.
If you want to use a quickening, you need to be aiming at an enemy.
Basch has the best quickenings: fulimating darkness is alot loke final flash, ruin impendent is him breaking through all time and space and flame purge is a move in which basch pierces you with multiple broad swords and then detonates them when they are within you.......2 epic
Totally agree, personally I think 9 and 10 are the best. Mainly because the two revolve around the summonings story wise. I love summons :)
This one sucks when it comes to espers :/
I was dissapointed, but it's a good game, just not as good as other FF titles, by far.
I agree. 'overdrives' and 'limit breaks' were somewhat more understandable, but these.... a l-i-t-t-l-e storyline relevence would have been nice... I got my first vaan quickening at the start of the game. I just killed a load of enemies close by for the lisence points and bam, there ya go. >_>
i love tides of fate, shatterheart, and whipkick :)
I love all quickenings
Dude that was the most awesome video I've ever seen I feel like pulling my hair out but what's up with the music dawg?
this has to be my favorite FF besides FF8
@SmiddyyHD gotta agree. Pyroclasm is AWESOME
These fancy attacks get cooler each game, but some cool attacks in the Final Fantasy series (like Sephrioth's Supernova, this attack Ultimicia where she slams planets into your characters, Ark's attack sequence) are more show then power.
wow, that's pretty awesome... the best i've had is either 15, 16, 17, or 18 hits, i'm really, really lucky, it was with vann, i think baltheir, and either ashe, penelo, or basch, against the gil snapper i think, their levels now are; 62-vann, somewhere in the 30's or fourties are ashe and penelo, and in their mid twenties are balthier, bash, and fran... i went a little crazy when i got belius.....
Basch's and Fran's quickenings look pretty cool.
I lke Basch,Baltheir and Vaan's Quickening the most each one is cool. But Basch sounds coolest "fulminating darkness" "ruin impendent" and "flame purge"
I really liked this part of the battle system. The damage was far less than acceptable, but it made for some epic battle scene play.
That's a funny statement, because that's what everyone is saying about all games in the FF series. It's also one of the most recent FF games, so that's funny, too.
Penelo's last quickening is my fav.
I make it snow, stop time, and then poke you for the win
funniest sh*t I've seen today
Some of them look a lot like summons' final attacks-Balthier's third reminds me of the Magus sisters delta attack and Fran's third looks like shiva's diamond dust-all really cool!
@SirZidane Actually she does have combat experience xD Maybe not real life, but if you read the booklet and/or guide, it states that her brothers taught her how to fight before they went off to war.
So theoretically they could've taught her how to mess with the very balance of nature
@strangeysexer no, just only one firefox, the other one is firebird
Balthiers quickenings are so ridiculously cool :'D
Penelo's last one looks so cool!!!
white tempest, fires of war and northswains glow are my favorites.
This is my second favorite FF with IX being the first.
Everytime I see Fulminating Darkness I just HAVE to scream:
"KAMEHAMEHA!"
But nice video, I was wondering what all the Quickenings look like... ^^
I think they did a good job recreating Element of Treachery and Pyroclasm in Revenant Wings.
I love them all
tides of fate is the coolest one!
also... those balls Vaan creates on Pyroclasm look like Mozilla Firefox logo... hahaha
@ojon12389 its no side quest, if you look on the licence board its labelled as a quickening
I like how Vaan throws Firefox icons during Pyroclasm
i love all batch and balthier quickening
the most i love is ruin independent
Yeah, I'm very enjoyed when I'm playing this game.
I'ts hard to pick favorites, but mine are:
Penelo's 1st and 2nd
Vaans' 1st
and Basch's 1st
The spells and such on this game often look better than those of Final Fantasy 13
@demonfoxnaruto95 yes it is a great game and yes they have scion/esper summonings they are incredible.
lol yeah I'm wondering that too, like I said his Quickenings are destructive. So are Basch's, Frans, and Balthiers. When I first saw all of Vaans I said damn dude where da fuck did that come from?!?! Lmao XD
@Koyuki14 I'm not a big fan of XII and I found XIII boring all the way through but the quickening have always amazed me a lot more than any of the attacks in FFXIII
I love Basch's third one. I mean he stabs the enemy with giant swords of flame (or something like it), then blows up a star on them!
Very Nice. Good vid
Yeah, they are cool too!!! But I liked all of them. :)
All of you may agree to disagree but,even though Vaan having massive flaws as a character he has wonderful attack moves.
I liked all the main characters expect for Penelo she was useless to the plot. Vaan at least wanted to be a sky pirate and avenge his brother Reks. I always thought Balthier as the leading role.
True.
Basch is so hot
Well, at least I can tell whose quickening is which. He deserved a credit. Not to mention I've forgotten their names... thanks, onarollof4
Basch's Flame Purge is undoubtedly the coolest of 'em all (2:07)
i luv basch final quickening
xDDD OMFG DUDE I ALWAYS THINK OF THAT FIREFOX ICON EVERTIME VAAN USES HIS LAST QUICKENING!!
agreed. i know ff12 is controversial bcos of the radical change in the gameplay,but i like it. at least,its a whole lot more likable than ff13.
But keep in mind they do allow very powerful attacks. I keep one person set aside for magicks, but I use the other two to unleash powerful quickenings. On the esper Mateus battle I was able to unleash a 20 chain quickening, killing her instantly. So, they are a little more useful then magicks.
Visually spectacular, yet without the mist charges, kind of underwhelming.