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Cloche posted:I feel like Nomura's worst Final Fantasy design is often overlooked because of the long shadow cast by Dirge of Cerberus. Not sure if it's just me but seeing that design for the first time, it makes me think that's what Kefka would look like if he didn't have his clown aesthetic going on.
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I always liked Selphie, she combined a perky cheerfulness with a love of trains, and sometimes she was way too excited at the prospect of violence. Also she could send enemies to the Cornfield.
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Cid was the best because he knew poo poo was wack all along and kept up the "nope I'm just your principal, I never ran the orphanage you all grew up in and I'm not married to the evil sorceress running the world no sirree" act until near the end of the game.
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Jun 19, 2015 15:15
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nehezir posted:here's the thing: FF7's story has not aged well. a great deal of why it's stayed under the radar for being a product of the 90s is that it's retro. I can't believe it took 1238 pages, but this is the worst post about ff I've ever seen
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Jun 19, 2015 15:21
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My anus is braced at all times anyway.
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Jun 19, 2015 15:33
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DaveWoo posted:Speaking of music, I have a Very Important Question for you all: Mambo de Chocobo from V
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Jun 19, 2015 15:39
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DaveWoo posted:Speaking of music, I have a Very Important Question for you all: ukelele de chocobo from 9 with mambo a close second
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Jun 19, 2015 16:39
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nehezir posted:a story that reads like someone took a bunch of horny eels in ink and just let them run loose for an orgy Actually that's just how kanji looks.
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Jun 19, 2015 16:40
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DaveWoo posted:Speaking of music, I have a Very Important Question for you all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlKZuqFf40 And my real answer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlyV0IPjwq0 FFXII did a great job with all the old themes. It has by far the best version of the FF Main Theme.
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Clarste posted:The problem is less the memory-eating magic itself and more that they didn't really do anything interesting with it. "Hey, we all knew each other as kids, isn't that crazy?" It's not really part of a plot in a meaningful way, it's just a thing that happens. And the fact that everyone has the same backstory also ends up making them less unique.
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DaveWoo posted:Speaking of music, I have a Very Important Question for you all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUOOgNzOv4 or, if you can't ride this chocobo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjwmOlLPvCE
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Jun 19, 2015 16:48
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Crazy Chocobo is the best and if you don't think you can ride this chocobo I don't even want to know you
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Jun 19, 2015 16:54
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Many men dream that they can ride this chocobo. Few men have ever succeeded though, for to ride this chocobo you need an mythical element inside you that elevates you beyond the common mortal stock. This is rumoured to be "be a JRPG protagonist".
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Jun 19, 2015 17:18
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My favourite lyric in crazy chocobo is when he asks if the chocobo is from hell
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Jun 19, 2015 17:23
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What are the general class recommendations for FFXII International? If I make a bad choice is it likely to gently caress up my game in any way? Are there any classes I should avoid at all costs?
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fruitpunch posted:What are the general class recommendations for FFXII International? If I make a bad choice is it likely to gently caress up my game in any way? Are there any classes I should avoid at all costs? You might want to make sure one person has access to white or green magic but I didn't really have to much of an issue going with whatever I felt like.
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Is Red Mage enough for my magic needs or would I be better off specialising?
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Jun 19, 2015 17:57
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fruitpunch posted:Is Red Mage enough for my magic needs or would I be better off specialising? Yeah I ran with Ashe being a RM and no WM or BM and everything was fine.
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Help Im Alive posted:My favourite lyric in crazy chocobo is when he asks if the chocobo is from hell It really is a very good song
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Vanderdeath posted:I've posted it before but there's no Nomura design worse than Musashi from Samurai Legend Musashi. Even with how dire Dirge and FFX-2's designs got, none of them were as bad as this: mfw my hair gets caught in the level geometry
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fruitpunch posted:Is Red Mage enough for my magic needs or would I be better off specialising? Red mage is awesome, but I probably wouldn't have that be your only class with access to magic on your team of 6. I'd say having two characters with access to white magic and two with access to offensive magic is usually enough (even if it's just Drain from Time Mage or something). But a bunch of characters get "Shades of Black" in a pinch.
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Did some of the Chrono Trigger guys work on FFX because I'm starting that back up again and Sin really reminds me of Lavos.
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Skeezy posted:Did some of the Chrono Trigger guys work on FFX because I'm starting that back up again and Sin really reminds me of Lavos. Yep. The game was conceived by Sakaguchi and Kitase was one of the directors. Plus I'm sure a bunch more of the staff was shared.
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Jun 19, 2015 21:39
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The narration bits that Tidus does sound like the Bateman narration from American Psycho. It's really really weird.
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Jun 19, 2015 22:22
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The narration bits stood out as pretty blah to me on my last playthrough. Almost every line is a "thanks Captain Obvious" moment, and once or twice non-ironically repeating what someone just said.
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The best Tidus moment is when someone tells him that you don't always get what you want and he just shouts BUT I WANT EVERYTHING
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fruitpunch posted:What are the general class recommendations for FFXII International? If I make a bad choice is it likely to gently caress up my game in any way? Are there any classes I should avoid at all costs? Something to keep in mind is that any class that uses a two handed weapon not only gets evasion bonuses depending on the weapon, but two handers can hit any flying enemy with basic attacks. This is why a class like Monk is great because on top of that nice perk you get native access to high level white magic later in the game and some really nice buffs if you build your license board just so. The big two ranged classes (machinist and archer) don't get much in comparison, and have really dumb negative modifiers to their weapons in poor weather conditions. Time mages are better just by virtue of getting heavy armor access and full green magic but lack versatility and have the same penalties to their weapons.
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The best Tidus moment is that loving bizarre Macarena reference out of nowhere
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Skeezy posted:Did some of the Chrono Trigger guys work on FFX because I'm starting that back up again and Sin really reminds me of Lavos. so does Jenova
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fruitpunch posted:The best Tidus moment is that loving bizarre Macarena reference out of nowhere That was added by the localization team. Just another reason that Japan is the worst
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Sweetgrass posted:Something to keep in mind is that any class that uses a two handed weapon not only gets evasion bonuses depending on the weapon, but two handers can hit any flying enemy with basic attacks. Not all two-handed weapons; greatswords, staffs, and I think rods can't hit fliers. Just poles and spears, I believe. Also, everybody gets evasion bonuses from their weapons; some weapons just give more or less than others. Every job contributes pretty well. Machinists and archers get more item lores than most other classes, for example. Time magic, which is really only available through Time Mage and Machinist if you give them the right espers, is really powerful and is enough of a perk on its own. Time mages also can equip heavy armor (which boosts strength), improving their damage output with crossbows. Really, don't discount any job. They've been balanced pretty well.
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TommyGun85 posted:so does Jenova Really, just about every FF villain can be boiled down to "evil alien/otherworldly menace". (Except maybe VI)
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Jun 20, 2015 00:43
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All clowns are otherworldly menaces.
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DaveWoo posted:Really, just about every FF villain can be boiled down to "evil alien/otherworldly menace". The Empire in FFXII?
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NikkolasKing posted:The Empire in FFXII? Pretty sure Star Wars characters count as otherworldly.
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NikkolasKing posted:The Empire in FFXII? It turned out to have been controlled by an otherworldly menace. Remember? The terrible final boss that comes out of nowhere?
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DaveWoo posted:Really, just about every FF villain can be boiled down to "evil alien/otherworldly menace". VI: Evil Clown siphons power from Goddess Statues. Thus turning him into an evil otherworldly clown menace.
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corn in the bible posted:It turned out to have been controlled by an otherworldly menace. Remember? The terrible final boss that comes out of nowhere? All in the grand FF tradition of introducing the REAL bad guy in the last fifth of the game!
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Well Venat is foreshadowed quite a lot. It's just that the focus of the game never shifts from the Empire to her/it. Your goal, from start to finish, is to fight the Empire. The only thing that changes is that the party switches their plan from "destroying it completely" to "fighting the rear end in a top hat in charge of it." But I dunno, Vayne was always the target and maybe Dr. Cid. The party never tried to hurt Venat at all. Probably because you kinda can't.
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