The deed is done. Once I've got the other main Aeons, I may make a post.
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FINAL FANTASY Community Thread: XV Mainline Entries and Counting
- Thread starter Kagari
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Crucify me all you want, bonus audio disc concept Yuna was best looking Yuna.
edit:
So, my crunch (we have a recording session today in 3 hours, was a mad rush prepping in the past few weeks) actually turned out to be much like warfare in that it was periods of sheer terror and having too much to handle punctuated by periods of waiting and boredom.
Hence despite what I said previously, I managed to sneak in the time to finish off Last Mission. So that's plat for X-2 as well. Woopwoop
edit:
So, my crunch (we have a recording session today in 3 hours, was a mad rush prepping in the past few weeks) actually turned out to be much like warfare in that it was periods of sheer terror and having too much to handle punctuated by periods of waiting and boredom.
Hence despite what I said previously, I managed to sneak in the time to finish off Last Mission. So that's plat for X-2 as well. Woopwoop
Yoshitaka Amano is such a great artist. Amano's artwork of Princess Sarah from Final Fantasy is my favourite amongst his work. It's wonderful.
Yeah, the music that plays at Terra is amazing!
So beautiful... FFIX is magical.
Need Expert Sphere grid suggestions for Kimahri:
so far i've had him following Rikku's path, and i just got to the lvl 3 lock near pilfer gil, the crossroads where my options are:
since he has the steal stuff, he should be fine, no? or is it best to have him follow through to the end of that line?
also...how rare is a weapon drop with SOS Overdrive? got an Auron sword from a Xiphos
so far i've had him following Rikku's path, and i just got to the lvl 3 lock near pilfer gil, the crossroads where my options are:
- continue on Rikku's Path,
- move forward on Yuna's path, or
- go backwards on Yuna's then cross into Lulu's Path
since he has the steal stuff, he should be fine, no? or is it best to have him follow through to the end of that line?
also...how rare is a weapon drop with SOS Overdrive? got an Auron sword from a Xiphos
Professor Beef
Banned
Prof. Beef
I'm sorry, that name is too long. 8 char limit
Professor Beef
Banned
Hmmm, you've already named one...it wouldnt feel right taking another from you. But I I don't get another suggestion, this is it
Professor Beef
Banned
Beefva
If only Square could make a good video game about robots.
indeed. cant wait to see which lucky user get to name my Bahamut.The more the merrier
anyway, i could still use some assistance deciding which way to send kimahri. again its all the way down rikkus path, forward down yunas path, or backwards crossing into lulu
That had a localization not done by a weeaboo fansubber in the 90s.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Ugh, Xenogears had too much of a convoluted plot. If only they could have dialed it back a bit.
See, I actually don't think Xenogears' plot is convoluted at all so far. It's just that the dialogue is rendered nearly incomprehensible by the fact that it was localized by one drunk man in a single night, and so it's really hard to understand what's going on because ninety percent of what is said makes no fucking sense.
The plot itself is just painful Square cliches. Oh no, Fei's hometown got exploded! I never saw that before in an RPG. And you mean to tell me Fei has amnesia and headaches? And that those are related to his super powers? So is he supposed to be Cloud or Terra?
Probably Terra, since he's also an ace mech pilot for plot reasons!
Boy Citan sure seems to know more than he's letting on.
Hey look a desert city that's under attack by EVIL! So deep. Almost as deep as this SEWER DUNGEON NUMBER 77!
But if we just compete in the OBLIGATORY ARENA SEQUENCE we'll get this plot moving!
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Am I a terrible person because I actually like FF XIII-2 and it's story
Meccanical
Member
Yeah, a little.
But it's not really a surprise, I mean you love 358/2 days.
...
Is that even the right number of days?
But it's not really a surprise, I mean you love 358/2 days.
...
Is that even the right number of days?
Yeah, but that game has the best plot of all Kingdom Hearts games so that is understandable.
tiggerkiddo
Member
My standards for convoluted stories is probably much more stricter than most.
Even with it's bullshit retcon that "Light can be bad!" Birth By Sleep is still the best game.
Aqua > all.
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Going to experience it for the first time this december.
God, every time I remember how amazing Xenogears in, I start it up, get to the sewer then lose all interest and I've wasted another few hours of my life.
Someone needs to make a hacked ROM that turns sewers into disc 2.
Meccanical
Member
I tried to replay Xenogears but I just completely lost all interests when you got to that desert town whatever the hell it was called.
The appeal of giant robots was stronger when I was eleven I guess.
The appeal of giant robots was stronger when I was eleven I guess.
You know, people keep saying that large, sprawling towns full of shit to do are the bomb.
I've never been able to enjoy them. I can see the appeal, but it's rare that games ever seem to get the balance right. The ideal situation would be a large sprawling town, where the main plot takes you in, you settle your business, you get out, with the sense of scale being all the optional shit you can do if you so incline which just adds to the sense of the town having a lot more depth than it has any right to.
Instead you usually get a dozen sequential fetch quests to all corners of the town to show it off. LOOK! LOOK HOW MUCH EFFORT WE PUT IN shoved down your throat.
I've never been able to enjoy them. I can see the appeal, but it's rare that games ever seem to get the balance right. The ideal situation would be a large sprawling town, where the main plot takes you in, you settle your business, you get out, with the sense of scale being all the optional shit you can do if you so incline which just adds to the sense of the town having a lot more depth than it has any right to.
Instead you usually get a dozen sequential fetch quests to all corners of the town to show it off. LOOK! LOOK HOW MUCH EFFORT WE PUT IN shoved down your throat.
Lindblum dear Jesus
Yoshitaka Amano is such a great artist. Amano's artwork of Princess Sarah from Final Fantasy is my favourite amongst his work. It's wonderful.
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Stunning.
Nah. I had a lot of fun with the game too.....
Nevermind. You're a terrible person.
#TRUTH
See, the problem with Xenogears' towns isn't their size. It's that there's no fucking maps and the game's camera is a gigantic piece of shit. You can swing it around, but it's always stuck at this weird angle so you can frequently not see where you are or where you're headed because you can't pull the fucking thing down to get a better look.
Xenogears is a very, very flawed game is what I'm getting at.
I think you meant to say "isn't just their size", not "isn't their size".
But actually my mini-rant was triggered by a different thread and was marginally related to the Xenogears discussion.
Also Xenogears = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxnKbNC5yQ
But actually my mini-rant was triggered by a different thread and was marginally related to the Xenogears discussion.
Also Xenogears = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxnKbNC5yQ
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
Will be interested in trying out KH when I get a PS3.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Amano only does good art when he draws girls. Or GILGAMESH. He mostly draws girls though. Even most of the men look like girls.
GILGAMESH has the best art though.
GILGAMESH has the best art though.
This is literally the worst criticism of a game that I've ever read.
To me, it's just that the game has aged so much that it's very tough to replay it. I played it a couple of years ago for the first time, and I'm literally an hour from beating the game, but I can't bring myself to it because of how slow it is and how difficult it is to return to. For what I've played so far, though, it's definitely one of the best games that I've ever played and it's the most flawed game that I've ever played.
Shevat and Solaris were both sublime. Shevat and Zeal from Chrono Trigger remain are my two favourite towns in an RPG.
Yeah, it is flawed for sure. (Disc 2 aside.)
Good game, but made utterly confusing due to lots of jumping around and inconsistencies in localization and the story in general.
(Can gears fly? Yes they can, but only when PLOT demands it.)
Towns weren't really all that bad from what I remember.
I mean, did you really need a map for those?
Hell yeah
It's time for the final of the main 5 Aeons! Because it's a special occasion of getting Bahamut, I will choose the best of the first 3 to rename him. Remember: 8 character limit
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Panzer
Sure it is. You're not salty at all.
Allow me to reiterate it, though.
Xenogears is a horribly localized mess in which character's dialogue is frequently incomprehensible, spelling and grammatical errors abound, and text scrolls at an agonizing rate. The plot thus far is every last one of Square's cliches rolled out into a single package. And no, Xenogears isn't inventing those cliches, because Square's used them all before this game. Fei is a horrible protagonist whose every word serves only to further drag out, pad, inflate, and otherwise turn into a slog the game's plot. The only thing, in 20 hours, this game has of any note, is that its combat is a slightly interesting variation of the standard Square combat system of the era. Otherwise it's a fun little wander through terribly dull environs with a camera so annoyingly antagonistic it might as well be the game's final villain.
Except the final villain is Darth Vader.
Only Bahamut makes sense as Fartburn.
Don't you ever get the urge to see Bahamut light his fart on fire while simultaneously breathing fire out of his mouth for 2x fire plumes in opposite directions? It would be the best summon of all time.
edit: I just got a phone call reminding me that Bahamut is non-elemental not fire.
GOD DAMN
Don't you ever get the urge to see Bahamut light his fart on fire while simultaneously breathing fire out of his mouth for 2x fire plumes in opposite directions? It would be the best summon of all time.
edit: I just got a phone call reminding me that Bahamut is non-elemental not fire.
GOD DAMN
Whoops
If only you were around to name Ifrit