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FF7 and 8 both presumably have many towns that don't appear on the map. Crisis Core had a Mideel-sister city for example, Banora iirc?
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Yeah, I always assumed it’s something like if the USA were part of an FF world map, there would only be NYC, Miami, Denver, and LA. With maybe something like Gary, Indiana being the token hilariously dilapidated hellhole town.
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Dec 8, 2021 19:01
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Asterite34 posted:You know, for as much as their whole society runs off it to the point where the power company is a scifi megacorp, Mako seems like a kinda lovely inefficient power source where it takes 8 giant-as-gently caress reactor complexes to run a single city the size of Toronto. Who knew souls had such poor energy density? It's a wonder all the giant robots and stuff can run for more than five minutes at a time. you can maybe chalk it up to the fact that the tech is not actually very old and hasn't developed to a particularly efficient state yet. It's another one of those weird time things in FF, the sprawling scifi metropolis and its tech are like 40 years old and everywhere else on the planet is bumpkin land
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Dec 8, 2021 19:05
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Electromax posted:FF7 and 8 both presumably have many towns that don't appear on the map. Crisis Core had a Mideel-sister city for example, Banora iirc? VIII's world is pretty laid out from what I remember. Trabia/Shumi is the only real isolated but populated region where you think there must be more out there.
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Dec 8, 2021 19:15
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FF8 has a transoceanic rail line and a continent that was destroyed by the moon in the ancient prehistoric times of 50 years ago.
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Dec 8, 2021 19:29
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Mustached Demon posted:I turn 35 next year. I'll stay away from the library. Good advice for everyone.
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Dec 8, 2021 19:42
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Old-school world maps are not supposed to represent the entirety of the world but major locations. There are presumably a lot of small villages or towns which are entirely irrelevant so they don't show up, much like how they don't feel the need to animate every time Cloud goes to the toilet.
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Dec 8, 2021 19:45
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zedprime posted:FF8 has a transoceanic rail line and a continent that was destroyed by the moon in the ancient prehistoric times of 50 years ago. Yeah it owns
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Dec 8, 2021 20:01
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is esthar completely invisible to the world/is climbing into the void after getting the train to antarctica the standard entrance
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Dec 8, 2021 20:41
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Esthar only put up their invisible wall 20 years ago, they are supposed to be isolationist and not generally allow visitors but prior to that it was just a country, not Wakanda or whatever. People know about them generally.
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Dec 8, 2021 20:59
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I want an FFVIII thread
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Dec 8, 2021 21:12
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I mean this in a positive way.
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Help Im Alive posted:is esthar completely invisible to the world/is climbing into the void after getting the train to antarctica the standard entrance This is a very cool image and also staggering to imagine how this was ever supposed to work
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Dec 8, 2021 21:22
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Rooney McNibnug posted:I want an FFVIII thread Then make one, ain't no rule against it.
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Dec 8, 2021 21:45
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It's pretty clear that Shinra has all the transportation they need, considering that the Turks are in Wutai after you leave Rocket Town, as well as Tseng beating you to the Temple of the Ancients, so the Tiny Bronco wasn't really necessary. My personal theory is Rufus is just wanted to add the Tiny Bronco to his Rich rear end in a top hat Collection and made up an excuse to trick Cid into thinking he was taking company property back for legitimate reasons.
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Dec 8, 2021 23:09
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I also like how the Tiny Bronco is, like, maybe a 4-seater? Meanwhile Rufus rolls up with his entire contingent of advisors and military and wants to borrow this tiny-rear end plane.
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Dec 8, 2021 23:48
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Why does Cid even own the Tiny Bronco rather than Shinra, did they give it to him for 10 years of dedicated service or something.
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Dec 8, 2021 23:55
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ApplesandOranges posted:Why does Cid even own the Tiny Bronco rather than Shinra, did they give it to him for 10 years of dedicated service or something. Cid literally built it himself.
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Let’s also not forget Rufus is a huge rear end in a top hat. What with “Fear will keep the masses in line no need to waste money on them.”
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What did Rufus even need the Tiny Bronco for? He owns a helicopter.
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Electric Phantasm posted:What did Rufus even need the Tiny Bronco for? He owns a helicopter. He didn't need it, hence why he made up some bullshit excuse about needing it to chase Sephiroth, so he could take it back to Midgar and put it in his display garage so he could bring his rich rear end in a top hat friends over and say "Yep, one of a kind plane, you wouldn't believe how much it cost to have this baby built for me personally."
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Dec 9, 2021 00:27
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MonsterEnvy posted:Let’s also not forget Rufus is a huge rear end in a top hat. What with “Fear will keep the masses in line no need to waste money on them.” ...but next time we see him he's having a giant parade. A jolly parade meant to win over heart s and minds, not some Mordor/Imperial March poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reyjypnxgdU
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Dec 9, 2021 00:32
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It's a military parade with armed soldiers and such. Even though it's got jaunty music, the point is that everybody sees how big and obedient the army is.
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NikkolasKing posted:...but next time we see him he's having a giant parade. A jolly parade meant to win over heart s and minds, not some Mordor/Imperial March poo poo.
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Dec 9, 2021 01:07
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Scalding Coffee posted:And it worked out really well since Cloud managed to get high ratings on tv and was rewarded 5000 gil. Not my Cloud.
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not mine either
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I have played FFVII countless times and have only ever managed to get the reward above a Grenade. More often than not I just get the Grenade. I don't know anybody who has actually perfected that dumb thing.
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FFVIII has a closed time loop and conscious transitioning through time and space and villainesses plan to delete the parts of time she doesn't care for that has been ongoing before you find out she exists and the god of their setting got their rear end kicked by human beings and ran away. FFVIII is exactly as wild as it should be.
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Bongo Bill posted:It's a military parade with armed soldiers and such. Even though it's got jaunty music, the point is that everybody sees how big and obedient the army is. Taking place at the fortress with the huge gun.
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the whole shinra wanting the tiny bronco is the same goofiness that explains how some houses are about 50 times largers inside than outside in ff7 - it was 1997 and they were freewheeling ideas, a bunch of them stuck, some went all wonky, but you give up one you need to give them all up they'll change that in the remake using the same kind of smart brains that generated constant scenes of women's eyes sparkling at cloud and then going to The Edge of Creation in ff7 remake roomtone fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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Dec 9, 2021 02:12
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So I got to a point in Endwalker where I physically got up from my chair, laid on my bed, and just stared at the ceiling for a while. This game is so drat good. I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about the story not going anywhere anybody expected, but I think I'll worry about that when I actually finish the MSQ.
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I feel like FFVII Remake will like, just completely blow up the Tiny Bronco and have a different reason Shinra is there. I dunno, I have no charity for the writing.
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Dec 9, 2021 02:19
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I think they'll keep the Tiny Bronco and Palmer will still get hit by a truck.
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Dec 9, 2021 02:26
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They might, and I'll never know, to be fair.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I think they'll keep the Tiny Bronco and Palmer will still get hit by a truck. Yes, the only thing they'll change will be Palmer will have a mech suit or something instead of just a fancy gun.
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Palmer and the truck are gonna be like a three-stage boss fight, but the Tiny Bronco is absolutely getting cut. Not because it's too goofy or whatever, but because there's no chance there'll be a world map in the first place.
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Lotus Aura posted:Palmer and the truck are gonna be like a three-stage boss fight, but the Tiny Bronco is absolutely getting cut. Not because it's too goofy or whatever, but because there's no chance there'll be a world map in the first place. No chance it gets cut. At bare minimum it's going to get the same "takes off, crashes" thing but the crash is used to justify moving to the next area.
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I dunno I still think the entire sequence of events from here on out will be so unrecognisable that none of these considerations will really matter. The familiar iconography will all reappear, sometimes in different forms. Can't really expect the precise logistics of the original to have any bearing on what they do after you fight fate in a proto-universe in the first one. They've got their alternate Zack-verse to handle, too. It's not gonna be remotely the same a - b - c journey.
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I'm not as confident about the bronco but Palmer def gonna get hit by that truck.
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NikkolasKing posted:I have played FFVII countless times and have only ever managed to get the reward above a Grenade. More often than not I just get the Grenade.
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