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For real though how is the answer not immediately costa del sol, imagine swimming all day every day in that place.
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Elentor posted:For real though how is the answer not immediately costa del sol, imagine swimming all day every day in that place. Too hot
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 19:57 |
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Nah the heat is always good even when hot. It's the humidity that gets to you.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:06 |
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Love that the entrance to the golden saucer is located in a hellhole shanty town. Game is great.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:06 |
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No Wave posted:Love that the entrance to the golden saucer is located in a hellhole shanty town. Game is great. Peasants who can barely afford the entrance fee take the shanty town entrance. The wealthy fly in on helicopters. Macaluso posted:Too hot If we're talking post-FFVII, then I'd consider Nibelheim. Free real estate now that all the creepy reunion dudes are gone, plus you've got the Gold Saucer just over the mountain for your earthly desires and Cosmo Canyon to the south for your spiritual needs. That mansion will probably still need an exorcist, but hey, nowhere is perfect. Bean posted:The rest of the party staring wide eyed while coital screams come out of a robot moogle/cat. This game defined a generation. Or staring in confusion as all they hear is "Finishing Touch!" and "Final Heaven!"
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:29 |
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Icicle Inn seems like the most pleasant place. I like the long quiet winters. Nice views too.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:45 |
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So like, does Dio work for Shrinra or is he an independently wealthy prick to decided the best place to build his casino park was over a recently annihilated mining town controlled by a murderous loon? It's loving suspended a couple hundred feet in the air so it seems like he could have built it anywhere he drat well pleased. And was your initial stop seriously the first time Dyne ever climbed up the pipes and got his murder on? Was he somehow an unknown quality? I really want to see how the remake approaches that whole scenario.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:50 |
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Elentor posted:For real though how is the answer not immediately costa del sol, imagine swimming all day every day in that place. mideel, so that I can be swallowed up by the earth and destroyed
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:52 |
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Caidin posted:So like, does Dio work for Shrinra or is he an independently wealthy prick to decided the best place to build his casino park was over a recently annihilated mining town controlled by a murderous loon? It's loving suspended a couple hundred feet in the air so it seems like he could have built it anywhere he drat well pleased.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:55 |
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Wait, Dio is a music reference too How many drat music references does this game have? Loveless Sister Ray Dio Gainsborough Lucretia
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 21:02 |
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precision posted:Gainsborough oh for gently caress SAKE
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 21:21 |
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precision posted:Wait, Dio is a music reference too My favorite part is how as soon as Purple Haze starts, you see a Purple Haze.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 21:42 |
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I realise it's the theme of the game but is every other town in FF7 a big platform that the rich live on while everyone else is in a literal hole full of poo poo underneath? Midgar, Junon, Gold Saucer / Corel and I'm sure I've missed at least one other.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 00:09 |
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Crazy all these JoJo references in FF7
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 00:13 |
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Party Boat posted:I realise it's the theme of the game but is every other town in FF7 a big platform that the rich live on while everyone else is in a literal hole full of poo poo underneath? Midgar, Junon, Gold Saucer / Corel and I'm sure I've missed at least one other.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 02:29 |
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Elentor posted:For real though how is the answer not immediately costa del sol, imagine swimming all day every day in that place. I never learned how to swim.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 02:33 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:Gold Saucer is an amusement park. It's the same kind of idea though The wealthy and well to do go up and party and spend their Professor Land Fun Bucks (which only they can afford to by), while everyone below suffers. Hell, Dio without thinking declares Cloud and Co guilty and throws them into the prison. No fair trial, no due process, just "You did this didn't you, you filthy riff-raff. Off to jail you go!"
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 02:39 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Crazy all these JoJo references in FF7 A dev was quoted as saying Loveless was a reference. Sister Ray is such a weird name and such an iconic song I dunno how it isn't. The musician Dio is literally the only person I've ever heard of with that name. Gainsborough would be a stretch if not for all the other ones. And "Lucretia My Reflection" is an extremely well known goth song
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 02:49 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:Gold Saucer is an amusement park. It's an amusement park literally built on top of the old Corel, the one burned down and massacred by Shinra. It certainly fits with the theme. A lot of people used to be weird Midgar Onlyists who insisted the game lost a lot of its quality and thematic power once you leave Midgar. But we never stop seeing the atrocities of Shinra even as we are ostensibly going after Sephiroth and forgetting all about Shinra.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 03:01 |
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NikkolasKing posted:It's an amusement park literally built on top of the old Corel, the one burned down and massacred by Shinra. it's not so much that it loses quality after midgar so much that Midgar is wall to wall Interesting poo poo Happening but then after Kalm a big chunk of disc 1 ends up just being bumbling around in the theoretical direction of sephiroth Like Midgar is: Blow up a reactor, go back to your terrorist hideout and hear some establishing backstory, blow up another reactor, meet the president, fall off a cliff, meet aeris, run from the turks, dress up like a girl, infiltrate the don's mansion, fight through the train graveyard, fight your way up the plate tower, fight Reno, escape from the destruction of sector 7, climb up the burning plate wreckage, bust into Shinra HQ, climb up and learn all about Shinra, see the weird poo poo in Hojo's lab, meet a talking dog, get thrown in jail, escape jail, follow the trail of blood, holy poo poo the president's dead, fight Rufus, motorcycle out of town, escape to Kalm and learn all about the setup for the game's actual plot. poo poo is continuously happening. then you get to the rest of disc 1, which starts off with you spending half an hour trying to figure out how to catch a giant chicken that you will ride for exactly 30 seconds before you go into a generic mine dungeon that ends with a conversation instead of a boss fight, and the conversation ultimately doesn't tell you anything other than "the turks also want to follow sephiroth". There's cool parts, and there's also boring parts where nothing really happens. Like Red and Barret both have their own big focus segments which you will enjoy if you like those characters, but if they were benchwarmers then you won't really care because they're self-contained segments that have no greater plot impact.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 03:28 |
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precision posted:A dev was quoted as saying Loveless was a reference. Sister Ray is such a weird name and such an iconic song I dunno how it isn't. The musician Dio is literally the only person I've ever heard of with that name. Gainsborough would be a stretch if not for all the other ones. And "Lucretia My Reflection" is an extremely well known goth song Dio is the only one I know.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 03:38 |
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Kheldarn posted:Dio is the only one I know. Loveless is a very well known album from the early 90s, considered to be the father of shoegaze. Serge Gainsborough was a very famous and good singer and his daughter is an actress in lots of great movies. Sister Ray is a Velvet Underground song.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 03:59 |
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Tu vas et tu viens Entre mes reins
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 04:01 |
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precision posted:Loveless is a very well known album from the early 90s, considered to be the father of shoegaze. Nope. Don't know any of those. Sorry.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 04:49 |
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Loveless is from a band called My Bloody Valentine which is why you see both texts together in the posters in Midgar
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 04:53 |
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It's also very hard not to think of Juno Reactor while you're in... Junon Reactor.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 04:58 |
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Elentor posted:It's also very hard not to think of Juno Reactor while you're in... Junon Reactor. oh my god how did I never notice that
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 05:02 |
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Elentor posted:It's also very hard not to think of Juno Reactor while you're in... Junon Reactor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg34Nxb_Vjs
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 05:17 |
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precision posted:A dev was quoted as saying Loveless was a reference. Sister Ray is such a weird name and such an iconic song I dunno how it isn't. The musician Dio is literally the only person I've ever heard of with that name. Gainsborough would be a stretch if not for all the other ones. And "Lucretia My Reflection" is an extremely well known goth song They're joking, Jojo characters are frequently named after real-life musicians/bands (and of those, only Dio is a Jojo character, named after the musician). Hell, there's a guy early on named Robert E. O. Speedwagon
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 08:09 |
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Xad posted:Hell, there's a guy early on named Robert E. O. Speedwagon Clearly I need to watch Jojo
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 08:40 |
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precision posted:Clearly I need to watch Jojo there is an entirely serious and important villain with several highly impactful and emotional scenes focused on them who is named "Vanilla Ice"
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 08:44 |
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Don't forget the terrifying ancient vampire gods; Santana, Wham and Cars. Edit: one of the low key interesting things about Jojo is tracking the author's growing and changing musical taste over time. Like you can tell he really only got into rap around the time he was writing part five.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 12:20 |
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precision posted:Serge Gainsborough was a very famous and good singer and his daughter is an actress in lots of great movies.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 13:59 |
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cock hero flux posted:it's not so much that it loses quality after midgar so much that Midgar is wall to wall Interesting poo poo Happening but then after Kalm a big chunk of disc 1 ends up just being bumbling around in the theoretical direction of sephiroth Everything between Kalm and Junon is so meaningless that I'm actually surprised it's in the game at all.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 14:38 |
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A Sometimes Food posted:Don't forget the terrifying ancient vampire gods; Santana, Wham and Cars. Also, AC/DC.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 14:48 |
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Elentor posted:Tu vas et tu viens Je te tue...moi non plus
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 15:07 |
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Welp gotta watch Jojo on principle now
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 15:25 |
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HD DAD posted:Je te tue...moi non plus I think we just uncovered the plot to resurrect Aeris.
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# ? Feb 8, 2020 18:50 |
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Xad posted:They're joking, Jojo characters are frequently named after real-life musicians/bands (and of those, only Dio is a Jojo character, named after the musician). Hell, there's a guy early on named Robert E. O. Speedwagon
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Vichan posted:Everything between Kalm and Junon is so meaningless that I'm actually surprised it's in the game at all. I think Kalm is somewhat important because it shows that while Kalm itself isn't immediately falling apart, it's starting to decline because of Shinra's influence (as evidenced by the majority of the town's able-bodied population occupying the bar and drowning their sorrows). It's also a decent breather after the wall-to-wall Constant Happenings from Midgar, and it's good for expositioning about Cloud's history with Sephiroth. There's also Fort Condor, which has decent significance to the overall narrative of Shinra Bad (even though a lot of players bounced off of it because Optional Minigame With Timed Events). The Chocobo Ranch sequence is pretty much entirely a waste of time, though.
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