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pretty much. No matter what kind of powers you have, no one is going to respect you if you look like Typical White Nerd. Well, I look like that, no idea about any of you. So phenomenal cosmic powers + cool hair is what I'd wish for. Wait, what are these wishes? She wished for two things so do you get two wishes maximum? Because as much as I'd like the pink hair I'd maybe swap it out for magic and some sort of indestructible Vader-like suit. (Without the being trapped in it though)
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NikkolasKing posted:Wait, what are these wishes? She wished for two things so do you get two wishes maximum? Isn't it just the one wish considering everyone can use magic by default? And I'm sure not-Ramza's was to have a less drunk dad, not being stuck in the game forever.
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May 29, 2012 02:41
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Mewt had the drunk dad and the dead mom. Marche didn't really have anything he wanted in the fantasy world, thus his mission to murder his friend's mom and recripple his brother.
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May 29, 2012 02:48
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I forget; did the game explain why she wanted PINK hair (or dyed it pink) instead of something normal like, I dunno, black or brown, or since we're talking Ivalice, blonde? If you're trying to cover the shame of your weird hair color, I don't think dying it hot pink is the way to avoid attention.
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May 29, 2012 03:00
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Schwartzcough posted:I forget; did the game explain why she wanted PINK hair (or dyed it pink) instead of something normal like, I dunno, black or brown, or since we're talking Ivalice, blonde? If you're trying to cover the shame of your weird hair color, I don't think dying it hot pink is the way to avoid attention. I think it was meant to be red, and it just ended up looking pink in the game due to the color palette used. Alternately it's pink because her hair is naturally white, and she dyes it red, so white + red = pink.
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May 29, 2012 03:14
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Mega64 posted:Mewt had the drunk dad and the dead mom. Marche didn't really have anything he wanted in the fantasy world, thus his mission to murder his friend's mom and recripple his brother. I thought the game showed not-Ramza's dad as a bum or someone who didn't have a real job or something like that during the ending. Marche really didn't have any good arguments for returning to the real world other than being a total jerk to everyone, did he?
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May 29, 2012 03:15
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Krad posted:I thought the game showed not-Ramza's dad as a bum or someone who didn't have a real job or something like that during the ending. The sad part is that it wouldn't have taken much time to find some actual good arguments, but he just went 'No, SHUT UP! We're going home!'
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May 29, 2012 03:26
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It would have been pretty rad if they had shown fake-ivalice to be extremely dangerous for the other kids there, have a few get seriously injured or even die(they get better), so Marche decides to end the fantasy because the other kids aren't having totally awesome adventures like he is.
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May 29, 2012 04:40
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Pesky Splinter posted:If you don't mind spoilers, here's a handy and simple guide to what the gently caress is happening with Kingdom Heart's plot. They made the silver haired characters easy to follow, didn't they?!
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May 29, 2012 05:27
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Endorph posted:Wait, so I'm the only one who would totally wish for pink hair and magic? In that order? I'd take long flowing blue hair + cape.
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May 29, 2012 06:07
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Zonko_T.M. posted:It would have been pretty rad if they had shown fake-ivalice to be extremely dangerous for the other kids there, have a few get seriously injured or even die(they get better), so Marche decides to end the fantasy because the other kids aren't having totally awesome adventures like he is. But it did! Those bullies were totally zombies  but of course since they were bullies, they didn't count.I honestly love FFTA because of how... arbitrary the plot is.
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May 29, 2012 06:35
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Speaking of the FFTA bullies, you know what would've made that game playable? If the laws were much more specific (like Forbidden: snowballs with rocks in). Forbidden: Dragoon? No. Forbidden: Bolt Breath. Forbidden: Ascetic Magic? No. Forbidden: Cura.
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Or y'know, if there just weren't any laws.
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May 29, 2012 08:21
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Well, at least there were anti-law cards... I still prefer FFTA over FFTA2 just because it didn't have the bullshit laws that FFTA2 had like Forbidden:Dmg to human or Forbidden: Dmg > 100 Dmg.
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May 29, 2012 09:46
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VagueRant posted:My brain hurts. It'll hurt even more when they add the bullshit from the current game: It involves the Old evil guy being able to time travel as his younger self, and turning the members of the organisation (the bad guys in the black robes) into copies of himself. And that's not even touching on the main character, who the bad guy also wants to turn into a copy or something.. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 12:45 on May 29, 2012 |
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May 29, 2012 10:13
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Krad posted:I thought the game showed not-Ramza's dad as a bum or someone who didn't have a real job or something like that during the ending. We never see Marche's dad during the game. We do see Mewt's dad being a bum in the beginning, who gets a job during the ending thanks to his Judge experience boosting his resume or whatever. Marche didn't really have any reason to stay there, though he did learn a valuable lesson in beating the poo poo out of bullies.
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May 29, 2012 10:53
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Mega64 posted:We never see Marche's dad during the game. We do see Mewt's dad being a bum in the beginning, who gets a job during the ending thanks to his Judge experience boosting his resume or whatever. Oh yeah! For some reason, I was absolutely convinced Cid was Marche's dad. It's been a while since I played I guess. 
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May 29, 2012 11:35
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Allarion posted:Well, at least there were anti-law cards... I still prefer FFTA over FFTA2 just because it didn't have the bullshit laws that FFTA2 had like Forbidden:Dmg to human or Forbidden: Dmg > 100 Dmg. Granted, but FFTA2's laws were at least optional (to an extent). You didn't have ridiculous penalties like stat loss for breaking the law, you just lost the ability to revive, your clan bonus (usually AP Up), and forfeited your post-battle baubles. What I would've done for anti-laws for some of them in FFTA2, though, like the "uphold the law AND" clan trials.
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May 29, 2012 12:14
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Pesky Splinter posted:It'll hurt even more when they add the bullshit from the current game: Personally I think it all went to Hell with the brilliant move of "remember Ansem? The main villain from the first game? Well hes's not actually Ansem at all." This reminds me of a little article I just read. Kingdom Hearts has become such a colossal clusterfuck that bad anime porn is probably the only thing it's good for. Although I think the guy who wrote this is a bit rude in how he separates the FFVII fanbase from the rest of us.
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May 29, 2012 15:21
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I've seen some bad journalism in my day, but it astounds me just how terrible internet article can be at times. What was up with that Mario Party section? That wasn't even an evaluation of the fanbase. It was just the author bitching about Mario Party.
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CharismaticHorsey posted:journalism edit: seriously, guys. It's basically just a random blog. VagueRant fucked around with this message at 18:16 on May 29, 2012 |
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May 29, 2012 16:27
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CharismaticHorsey posted:What was up with that Mario Party section? That wasn't even an evaluation of the fanbase. It was just the author bitching about Mario Party. It's people like him who tarnish the good name of the competitive Mario Party scene.
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It'd be easier to read if it weren't just walls of text for his assessment of each fanbase. Geez.
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CharismaticHorsey posted:I've seen some bad journalism in my day, but it astounds me just how terrible internet article can be at times. quote:Yes, the Mass Effect fanbase is overall not very good. In fact it’s bad. How can you argue with writing like that?
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On FFTA's morality, I'll argue that Marche was justified in wanting to destroy Ivalice. Who knows what happened to all those St. Ivalice citizens when the town was put under an enchantment that transformed Marche's world. I haven't played the game in awhile but I'm guessing many people were transformed and brainwashed to create the new Ivalice world. It's not fair that a number of people have to have their existences rewritten just so some young boy can get his mother back. Although flawed, I found the plot of FFTA a lot more interesting than most other Final Fantasy games. Edit: I recently finished the original Final Fantasy Tactics. It still blows me away how great the game is while suffering from crazy balance issues. It's a miracle how tight the battle formulas are compared to how sporadic the difficulty is. Eggie fucked around with this message at 18:19 on May 29, 2012 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:It'd be easier to read if it weren't just walls of text for his assessment of each fanbase. Geez. I checked out as soon as I realized the first part of his "article" was a glossary of bullshit terms.
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Epi Lepi posted:I checked out as soon as I realized the first part of his "article" was a glossary of bullshit terms. "a said fanbase" did it for me. Edit: Just opened it again, scrolled randomly and noticed he'd censored porn to 'p*rn'. Really?
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If I'm not mistaken wasn't the Queen sucking the life energy out of the population eventually leaving them as lifeless husks?
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Not to mention he thinks every Brawl tourney uses mods by law or something. poo poo, it's not like they're holding guns to people's heads and telling them to run a Brawl tourney with the mods. They just run a tourney with the modifications because they want to.
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Italax posted:Just opened it again, scrolled randomly and noticed he'd censored porn to 'p*rn'. Really? He can't use dirty words on the internet, or else his mom will find out.  Because there's no way in hell an adult wrote this. I don't want to believe that a grown man or woman would write such poo poo. Well, I can believe it, I just don't want to.
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Eggie posted:On FFTA's morality, I'll argue that Marche was justified in wanting to destroy Ivalice. Who knows what happened to all those St. Ivalice citizens when the town was put under an enchantment that transformed Marche's world. I haven't played the game in awhile but I'm guessing many people were transformed and brainwashed to create the new Ivalice world. It's not fair that a number of people have to have their existences rewritten just so some young boy can get his mother back. The main problem with the story is that it's not very well-written. They don't really reinforce a strong incentive not to stay in this world, and it feels more like Marche is trying to get people out because it's what he's supposed to do, rather than because it's dangerous escapism and that they're abandoning everyone they know and love and all that stuff. Granted, the story itself is a bit low-effort, but it could've worked if better written. At least then it wouldn't lead to a lot of people claiming Marche as the villain of the story in an attempt to salvage something interesting out of FFTA's story.
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Allarion posted:Well, at least there were anti-law cards... I still prefer FFTA over FFTA2 just because it didn't have the bullshit laws that FFTA2 had like Forbidden:Dmg to human or Forbidden: Dmg > 100 Dmg. Well let's be fair now, Dmg to Human and Dmg > 100 was in FFTA1 as well.
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May 29, 2012 19:38
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The White Dragon posted:Well let's be fair now, Dmg to Human and Dmg > 100 was in FFTA1 as well. I distinctly remember have No Damage to Beasts happen to me in a fight with only animals and not being able to complete it because I didn't have the right anti-law card on me at the time.
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Mega64 posted:At least then it wouldn't lead to a lot of people claiming Marche as the villain of the story in an attempt to salvage something interesting out of FFTA's story. Well, people are right that he's the "villain" of the story, in that it's an inversion where the protagonist's trying to destroy 4 crystals to wreck the world, but the biggest problem with that (and there's a whole slew of other problems with FFTA's story and presentation) is that the last game where there were 4 crystals and a bad dude trying to destroy them came out in like 1992. So instead of it being "oh, I'm inhabiting the villain role in this we've-been-dragged-into-the-game scenario, that's really clever," it ends up being "oh. That might have been relevant a decade ago when Final Fantasy games were still had crystals and poo poo." The concept is flawed from the get-go.
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The White Dragon posted:Well let's be fair now, Dmg to Human and Dmg > 100 was in FFTA1 as well. Technically the first one is in there, but it will never come up in rotations and is only available as a law card, with the exception of Dmg to animals, but anti-law cards or just moving around the map to change the law can mitigate that. DMG > 100 doesn't exist in FFTA1 though, as well as the other luck based laws that FFTA2 added, like knockbacks or missing an attack, and you can't move around the map to have the laws shift in your favor.
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Mega64 posted:The main problem with the story is that it's not very well-written. They don't really reinforce a strong incentive not to stay in this world, and it feels more like Marche is trying to get people out because it's what he's supposed to do, rather than because it's dangerous escapism and that they're abandoning everyone they know and love and all that stuff. Granted, the story itself is a bit low-effort, but it could've worked if better written. It would've been so easy to give any kind of motivation to Marche: - He misses his real parents and he knows everyone else will as well (sorry bout your dead mother Mewt, man up already) - A world mostly without grownups is not the right place to be - Laws suck, screw them
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Allarion posted:Technically the first one is in there, but it will never come up in rotations and is only available as a law card, with the exception of Dmg to animals, but anti-law cards or just moving around the map to change the law can mitigate that. DMG > 100 doesn't exist in FFTA1 though, as well as the other luck based laws that FFTA2 added, like knockbacks or missing an attack, and you can't move around the map to have the laws shift in your favor. I thought the DMG > x laws were in the Japanese version, while for the U.S. version they were cut because they figured out those were actually pretty lovely laws even for this game. So it makes even less sense that they brought them back for FFTA2.
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Krad posted:It would've been so easy to give any kind of motivation to Marche: Considering there's a mission where the kids who bullied Mewt show up as horrible zombies, it's pretty easy to point out that this world isn't awesome for everyone.
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How did they manage to ruin FFT's gameplay systems so much in FFTA, anyway? It wasn't just laws.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Even if it's just a dumb theory, the fact is that FF8's story is such poo poo that "Squall is dead" actually makes it better. Since they started that Cloud is a mirror of Sephiroth metaphor crap in Kingdom Hearts (but never outright said if it was a real-person/nobody thing), I really wouldn't mind a whole spinoff game just of the FF crew battling their evil counterparts, like Rinoa's heartless would be Ultimecia just to throw a fan-bone. It's still depressing that of all the love interests, fans seem to like the one in the game mostly ABOUT the love interest the least. (Actually I mostly fear at this point Square considers the Dissidia stuff to be the offical Our Guys crossover game and KH mostly lately seems to be about its increasingly dumb original characters) keet fucked around with this message at 05:32 on May 30, 2012 |
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