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Excuse you. Time Kompression.
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No joke FF8 has the best music FFI thru X, which are all the ones I know. Plot is dumb as poo poo, gameplay is ambitious and cool but not great and a failed experiment like II, but that music! 
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Jul 17, 2022 03:19
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I also remember a cowboy with a trenchcoat and gun, but not in a Vincent way I think? I have the game on Switch I really should play it again since I was in middle school but ehhhh
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Jul 17, 2022 03:19
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FF8 owns and its OST loving slaps hard. But FF6 is Uematsu's masterpiece.
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Jul 17, 2022 03:26
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The plot for 8 is absolutely nonsensical and deranged but tbh it still makes more sense than 7
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Jul 17, 2022 03:26
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A big reveal of FFVIII is literally every one of your playable characters grew up at the super crazy no-way orphanage and had super crazy no-way selective amnesia. It’s so stupid and it rules
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Jul 17, 2022 03:28
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I like the witch imprisoned in a space coffin whos constant angry yelling disrupts all radio frequencies
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Jul 17, 2022 03:30
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esperterra posted:Excuse you.
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Jul 17, 2022 03:30
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I've been labouring under the impression I owned ff8 on steam and haven't bothered to pick it up on switch but apparently I only own 9 on steam? Hrm.
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Jul 17, 2022 03:32
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esperterra posted:FF8 owns and its OST loving slaps hard. It is in many ways, though it is limited by its medium. Apart from 8, 6's songs are incredibly appropriate for their stages, which is saying something when a lot of songs are reused for different areas. 7 has some great tracks but it's not as well scored. 8 is both incredible and well-scored and the sound variety is such that you really get it. I think it lacks a single killer track, except for the Man with the Machine Gun, unlike 6 which has some incredible themes per character and for other areas, but the actual synthetic orchestration puts it above 6. It's an opinion I don't make lightly, it took me a long time to come to that conclusion, because 6 is absolutely my favorite FF, thanks to nostalgia, because unfortunately there are much better systems in later games. I stand by 10 being the best that I've played overall, but I do love 6 to pieces.
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Jul 17, 2022 03:55
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Probably unnecessary to figure this out this way, but the 4 on the far right column can only go in the top half. If it were in bottom half, then the 5/2/1 row would put an X in the second-last column, with a filled square above and below that X, which wouldn't work for the 2/4 column.
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Jul 17, 2022 04:06
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Is Kirby 64 the most charming 3D Kirby game? This gamer thinks so. We take you now to a local man who distinctly remembers beating it during a single rental period with plenty of time to spare, but is now dying over and over to this baby game. Have his gamer skills declined? Maybe newer Kirby games have just become that much easier over the years, and going back to moments of minimal challenge feel more difficult in comparison. I don’t think that’s it. Merely he just appreciates the vibes more.
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Jul 17, 2022 04:08
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It is genuinely much easier to die in older Kirby games compared to newer ones, so no shame if you go back to an older Kirby game and find yourself being punished more often. Older ones pretty much went "you die in 6 hits" and that's it (Aside from the ones with a health bar). They don't give out health items super often either. The later Kirby games actually really don't want you dying. Kirby gains more damage resistance the lower his HP is, so it effectively takes way more mistakes to die compared to an older game. Not only that, enemies and scenery drop food more often if you're at low health, further decreasing your chances of dying. (This is actually disabled in Wild Mode in Forgotten Land, but he still has his armor mechanic there.)
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Jul 17, 2022 05:37
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Commander Keene posted:Gimme a break, it's been like 25 years, I'm lucky I remember half the music in the game. I sure as gently caress don't remember most of the plot. I was, being facetious... 
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Jul 17, 2022 05:55
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Mister Facetious posted:I was, being facetious...
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Jul 17, 2022 06:01
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If one had to choose; Pillars of Eternity or Divinity: Original Sin 2?
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Jul 17, 2022 06:04
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Mister Facetious posted:If one had to choose; Pillars of Eternity or Divinity: Original Sin 2? Pillars of Eternity never got fixed and is a buggy unplayable mess full of game-breaking issues. The devs even issued a statement saying "welp, this is too much effort sorry. No more updates!"
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Jul 17, 2022 06:11
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:The plot for 8 is absolutely nonsensical and deranged but tbh it still makes more sense than 7 FF7's plot makes perfect sense.
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Jul 17, 2022 06:36
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:The plot for 8 is absolutely nonsensical and deranged but tbh it still makes more sense than 7 That’s, uh, an interesting take
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Jul 17, 2022 06:40
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final fantasy 7's plot owns final fantasy 8's plot is bad but also owns
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Jul 17, 2022 06:44
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Takoluka posted:FF7's plot makes perfect sense. Oh, ok.
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Jul 17, 2022 06:59
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Oh, ok. it does. the translation is poo poo terrible but the story fits together well enough and definitely leagues better than 8
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Jul 17, 2022 08:49
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Maybe they’ve only seen FF7R.
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Jul 17, 2022 08:56
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Even the remake is pretty straightforward. Honestly outside 8 and the 13 sequelI would say FF actually has pretty straightforward plotting.
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Jul 17, 2022 09:20
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100YrsofAttitude posted:It is in many ways, though it is limited by its medium. I think somewhere in this "oral history of FF7" composer Uematsu mentions how he was conservative to keep the loading times lower, but that Suikoden convinced him take a different approach for FF8.
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Jul 17, 2022 09:38
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100YrsofAttitude posted:No joke FF8 has the best music FFI thru X, which are all the ones I know. Plot is dumb as poo poo, gameplay is ambitious and cool but not great and a failed experiment like II, but that music! Yeah definitely. Also was a HUGE step up from FF7 quality wise when it first came out, the FF7 > 8 transition almost felt like a new generation with the much better graphics, at the time ridiculously high detail summon animations, higher music quality. I think everyone I knew was incredibly impressed by the FF8 opening cinematic and then never finished the game lol But even modern versions of the FF8 music regardless of that are great, I think it still has some of the best music in the series. Location based stuff like the World Map (Blue Fields), Balamb Garden are still some of my favorite FF8 tracks, I loooved when the Shadowbringers FF14 expansion went deep into FF8 stuff and remixed a lot of the music.
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Jul 17, 2022 10:13
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The story of FF7 does have an unreliable narration for quite a large portion, and characters that outright lie or are wrong. It all fits together and isn't supercomplicated, but if you played it as a kid it could throw you if that was your first exposure to those things.
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Jul 17, 2022 12:14
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the ff7 translation is mondo bad bordering on unintelligible at times, but apparently the actual underlying story is cool and coherent which i only found out after a video series diving into the translation (let's mosey, worth looking at)
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Jul 17, 2022 12:21
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FF7 is fine except for noted terrible character Cait Sith, I wish someone would mod him out and replace him with a cool brooding badass with a Biblical name.
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Jul 17, 2022 12:23
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Yeah but they've made Cait Sith a lot more compelling in the remake. Or Reeves, at least. I assume given Reeves is a lot more compelling then Cait Sith would be
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Jul 17, 2022 13:28
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I played FF7 back in the day and have no idea who Reeves is. From memory (this will be fun only to me), party members include: Cloud Barret Aeris/Aerith Tina Yuffie Cait Sith Vincent Cid Red XIII ... who am I missing?
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Jul 17, 2022 14:56
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Reeve is the Shinra guy controlling Cait Sith
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Jul 17, 2022 14:58
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the only part i was kind of totally lost in the ff7 plot was the bit where nobody had any idea what to do so they were like "uh let's go stop whatever the Shinra guys are doing" and you collect Huge Materia for like a disc
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Jul 17, 2022 15:11
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Your Computer posted:the ff7 translation is mondo bad bordering on unintelligible at times, but apparently the actual underlying story is cool and coherent which i only found out after a video series diving into the translation (let's mosey, worth looking at) "This guy are sick"
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Jul 17, 2022 15:32
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Mister Facetious posted:If one had to choose; Pillars of Eternity or Divinity: Original Sin 2? Divinity, by a lot
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Jul 17, 2022 16:53
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Silegna posted:"This guy are sick" Tbh the typos are just typos, it's more areas where the translation totally breaks down like Fort Condor, probably because it was an optional area and low on the priority list given how fast the translation was done
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Jul 17, 2022 16:57
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“Off course!” in the Gold Saucer always confused me as a kid. I thought I was missing something. Translation/typo never occurred to me.
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Jul 17, 2022 17:42
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:The plot for 8 is absolutely nonsensical and deranged but tbh it still makes more sense than 7 7's non-extended-universe plot makes absolute perfect sense. All the bullshit they retconned into it so they could print more money is what makes it all incomprehensible.
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Jul 17, 2022 18:12
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:7's non-extended-universe plot makes absolute perfect sense. All the bullshit they retconned into it so they could print more money is what makes it all incomprehensible. It still makes sense, imo, but the writing for that stuff is really bad. I'm down with a story about all the stuff Zack did prior to the Nibelheim events, but we didn't need to introduce an origin story to the Buster Sword. Crisis Core should have given some further context to what Shinra was up to, had you fight some Jenova monsters (let one of these be, like, a corrupted summon like Bahamut as the final boss), have a Sephiroth duel that you canonically lose, and then end off with the Shinra Zerg rush that breaks Cloud's mind. Make Angeal just some dude that Zack works with and Genesis a rival character. It would've been fine! I can't even begin to gather my thoughts on Advent Children, though.
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Jul 17, 2022 21:08
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FF8 was thumb destroying for me because my tactic was to summon over and over again, and FF8 summons had a Boost feature where you tap a button as fast as you can to make the summon stronger. Just an excuse to have something to "do" during the unskippable cutscene, but are compelled to because of course you want it stronger. This was how I played because I was having a hard time because I was dumb and didn't get the junction system. Had no idea you could break the games difficulty with it.
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