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Hunter Noventa posted:One of the funniest things about characters seeming interchangeable in FF12 is the tiny differences they do have are ridiculous. Fran is supposed to be an archer. Her animation for using a bow is the slowest of any party member and she's better off with another weapon, because animations peed affects how fast they can attack.
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wondering if i should play operation darkness this year, the srpg where everyone can use a variety of weapons but it's better to not have them use any of them cause it lets them move faster and run further so you just want to have them punch everything
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Jun 19, 2023 04:48
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it's not good that operation darkness' dev studio put out rereleases of their ps2 yuri vns this year that have translations rough enough they constantly stop to explain the meanings of kanji. but it extremely funny
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Jun 19, 2023 04:50
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I've been playing some Epic Battle Fantasy 4 lately because I've been feeling kind of nostalgic for flash games and the actual gameplay of the game has been holding up pretty well. The writing can be extremely 2000's but sometimes, they get off a good joke or two.  I just figured out that there's been a beta on steam for 2 years now which has a fix for the weird memory leak that was causing a flash game of all things to chug like hell.
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Jun 19, 2023 04:50
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Oh, I played the fifth game a year or two back and I thought it was darn solid, too.
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The Colonel posted:a while back i saw someone refer to the tidus laugh as yuna convincing tidus to laugh. i have spent all this time confounded at how hard someone could misread that sequence of events It’s been a while, but isn’t this what happens? I mean, it’s a simple summary that doesn’t mention the context of “Tidus found out his dad is a death whale” but I thought the scene was “Yuna tells Tidus he should try putting on a happy facade, herself being someone who is very intimate with the idea of bottling up negative emotions to present a positive face as a martyr, Tidus let’s out his frustrations by doing the scream laugh” which isn’t that far off imho.
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Jun 19, 2023 05:30
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The Colonel posted:a while back i saw someone refer to the tidus laugh as yuna convincing tidus to laugh. i have spent all this time confounded at how hard someone could misread that sequence of events Please don't make fun of people without object permanence, they are very lost and scared every time their environment changes whenever they walk through a door
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Jun 19, 2023 05:31
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yuna tells him to laugh but i always took it as tidus doing a goofy laugh on purpose. the scene ends with them laughing genuinely
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Jun 19, 2023 05:37
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I think 7's translation got in the way for me enjoying it fully. The characters shine through regardless but it only took me coming back to it so many years later with a different mindset to appreciate it.
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Jun 19, 2023 06:15
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Neeksy posted:I think 7's translation got in the way for me enjoying it fully. The characters shine through regardless but it only took me coming back to it so many years later with a different mindset to appreciate it. This opinion are sick
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Jun 19, 2023 06:23
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Endorph posted:yuna tells him to laugh but i always took it as tidus doing a goofy laugh on purpose. the scene ends with them laughing genuinely Yeah I always thought the laugh was like that because Tidus was trying to ham it up and not because that's his actual normal laugh. It was a cute scene.
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Jun 19, 2023 07:06
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Endorph posted:ff7 has like, Two overarching story beats. its largely just vibes and character stuff and its great at that. Even the scene where Aerith dies is only as powerful as it is because of the way it shows all your characters reacting to it afterward. It is not a story that relies on surprising the audience, in fact I'd say it only gets better the more familiar you are with it.
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Jun 19, 2023 07:45
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For a Square Enix game that doesn't go to space, it's surprising how good FF7 is.
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Jun 19, 2023 07:46
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You totally go to space in FF7.
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Jun 19, 2023 07:58
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Pretty deep into a discussion about bad Final Fantasy and XV somehow hasn't come up yet. It is the worst one though
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Jun 19, 2023 08:05
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Ace Transmuter posted:Pretty deep into a discussion about bad Final Fantasy and XV somehow hasn't come up yet. Look, I finished XV but Ive still never finished VI. I did finish Awful Fantasy 3 for reasons that elude me, holy moly is that a cursed thing.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:07
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RareAcumen posted:For a Square Enix game that doesn't go to space, it's surprising how good FF7 is. You blanked out the Huge Materia subplot and the conclusion to Cid's story?
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Jun 19, 2023 08:34
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Clarste posted:You totally go to space in FF7. How? Do you mean Shinra shooting a rocket at Meteor or Supernova? I remember the Tiny Bronco, the Highwind, a car of some kind, the submarine and chocobo. Mr. Fortitude posted:You blanked out the Huge Materia subplot and the conclusion to Cid's story? Are you serious? Man, when I say 'go to space' I mean like 4 has you going to the moon. Why would anyone call shooting a missile the same thing as going somewhere yourself?
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Jun 19, 2023 08:40
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You should replay FF7 all over again you silly person! You goto space! It was awesome!
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Jun 19, 2023 08:44
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No you fly a rocket into space
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Jun 19, 2023 08:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6vl2ejqTw here is the cutscene. so no you dont like goto the moon or anything, that would have been way cooler yes.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:49
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Wait, I remember now. I got it mixed up with the initial launch and thought they had to abandon the rocket on the second attempt when the main characters show up. You get the Huge materia from that after putting in the code or else it just sinks into the floor. Right, right, right.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:50
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space amnesia
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Jun 19, 2023 08:51
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I wish the moon part of FF4 was bigger but its whatever, still an awesome part of the game in what is already one of the best JRPGs of all time. It also paved the way as obvious inspiration for FF14 and what would introduce one of the best NPC races in the history of the franchise. The Loporrits.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:54
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There's something cooler about a rocket launch and becoming the first people in space, rather than just hopping over to the moon because magic whales. I mean, I guess magic whales are cool too, but it's a very different vibe and not directly comparable, imo.
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Jun 19, 2023 09:04
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Clarste posted:There's something cooler about a rocket launch and becoming the first people in space, rather than just hopping over to the moon because magic whales. I mean, I guess magic whales are cool too, but it's a very different vibe and not directly comparable, imo. It's more a magic spaceship and in Japanese it's literally just called 魔導船 or "Magic Ship". Lunar Whale is an entirely English localization invention because it kinda looks like a whale I guess?
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Jun 19, 2023 09:07
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DQVI gives you a dead kids bed as your airship so, like, everything else seems better.
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The Colonel posted:wondering if i should play operation darkness this year, the srpg where everyone can use a variety of weapons but it's better to not have them use any of them cause it lets them move faster and run further so you just want to have them punch everything Is that the game where your healer is The Reanimator and you mostly fight Nazi Vampires with werewolves and somehow it completely fails to live up to how cool that sounds?
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Jun 19, 2023 09:37
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FF12 really needed more than anything else, at least writing wise, more party interactions and characterisation. Camp scenes, field or combat barks, skits, party members getting involved in dialogue with npcs. Stuff to make it feel like a group actually doing a transcontinental adventure.
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Infinity Gaia posted:Is that the game where your healer is The Reanimator and you mostly fight Nazi Vampires with werewolves and somehow it completely fails to live up to how cool that sounds? Yes. Honestly its biggest problem is it has a camera Im comfortable calling actually bad.
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Infinity Gaia posted:Is that the game where your healer is The Reanimator and you mostly fight Nazi Vampires with werewolves and somehow it completely fails to live up to how cool that sounds? In this regard it the most disappointing game in the history of videogames.
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Man, the battle themes in the handheld SMT games are just generally So Good.
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Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyf8fHloow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxTm9pVep7w Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Man, I remember really disliking FF7 when it first came out but that's because it wasn't on a Nintendo system that I owned, wasn't medieval fantasy, and the spell names were all weird. What the gently caress's an esuna? Fira? No thanks, man. Anyway in high school I played the PC version on a whim and quite enjoyed it. At some point later I played DDS and man that really challenged my preconceptions on what a turn-based RPG could be.
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Jun 19, 2023 13:51
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ff7's overworld graphics are abstract and really evocative of 2D sprites in their cute expressive animations and I appreciate them a lot for that
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Pretty sure Fira didn't come in until ff8 and it was still fire2 or whatever in ff7
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Morpheus posted:Man, I remember really disliking FF7 when it first came out but that's because it wasn't on a Nintendo system that I owned, wasn't medieval fantasy, and the spell names were all weird. What the gently caress's an esuna? Fira? No thanks, man. Ff7 still had the old names with numbers.
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i played ff7 for the first time just a few years ago and loved its art style and story also it's cool that ff9 doesn't let you choose when to trance
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Ff7 still had the old names with numbers. My memory is failing me in my old age. But it still had Esuna, right?
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