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Cleretic posted:Such a bad villain we can't even remember his name. your unique mania against the characters of final fantasy xv is noted
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Mar 21, 2019 22:40
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the years have not softened my feelings towards FF13, even with the release of its much better sequels all it ever did was waste its potential and waste my time
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Mar 22, 2019 13:29
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Elephant Ambush posted:Noctis would sit in a corner and brood so okay. noctis is a napper, not a brooder he's pretty stoked about life in general considering his circumstances
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Mar 25, 2019 17:01
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yeah i'm just going to pretend that entire episode never happened
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Mar 26, 2019 01:16
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Gologle posted:What I saw of Episode Ardyn's ending was very hosed up and left me with an uneasy feeling in my gut, so I went ahead and watched someone's playthrough of it (it's about 2 hours long, no big deal). Something I never felt like I had to do with any of the other Episodes, even Gladio's. There's a lot of thoughts in my head right now that I'll have to order properly later in one big blah blah blah post, but suffice it to say, I think it's a bad Episode, and I don't think it is worth buying. It's a sad end to a game. it's the worst attempt at story expansion i've seen since burial at sea ardyn's fate was already plenty tragic as first explained in the game and had a nice undertone of old-testament ineffability to it - his good intentions in curing the plague didn't matter, because the gods were judging events by other standards. making the whole thing a deliberate gambit by bahamut for the sake of "maintaining balance" is not only miserably cliche and leaves a huge collection of hanging threads, it also contradicts everything else revealed about the gods - even ifrit came across as righteously aggrieved in his expanded backstory, but if the chief god of the pantheon is the one pulling the strings behind all the misery then they're either collaborators or feckless chumps it turns a story about maintaining your humanity in the face of cosmic indifference (noctis and ardyn both condemned by their destiny, but noctis finding comfort in the time he has and the people he knows while ardyn is left alone and tries to tear everything down with him) into yet another boilerplate rage-against-the-heavens plot what a total, pointless mistake
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Mar 26, 2019 14:29
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if anything the characters in FFXIII go through anti-development, losing everything interesting or conflicted about themselves to become blank-eyed exposition machines by chapter 10 or so snow in particular had a neat thing going where his heroic bravado was just a thin excuse for him to indulge his borderline-suicidal self-loathing (leading to his eidolon fight, where the shiva sisters force him to decide whether he really wants to live by tanking as many of their blows as possible), and then the game just forgets about it until Lightning Returns
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Apr 2, 2019 16:31
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oath2order posted:I beat FFXV a few days ago and I'm still thinking about it. I really went into it almost grudgingly. "Final Fantasy hasn't been good in years but I might as well go on this beautiful boy adventure" but once the new content started kicking in it was incredible. Honestly the hardest I've been hit by a game in a long time. even at release people were mixed-at-best on most of the content but near-universally agreed that the ending was superb as for the new content, most of it was decent but the "season 2" dlc's looked to be on track to ruin everything interesting about the game's story so thank god they got canned
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Apr 10, 2019 18:07
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one of the game's better plot points imo is when WEAPON wakes up the planet's last line of defense looks at the world-eating sentient virus merged with the deranged super-soldier, then it looks at the human race, and immediately decides the latter's gotta go
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Apr 19, 2019 22:43
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Onmi posted:Here is the cut DLC descriptions with the concept art. this is complete trash thank god SE's ineptitude smothered this in the crib
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Apr 27, 2019 04:51
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SE's tight-lipped about the details but tabata left to form his own studio before the second round of DLC could enter development, so only the ardyn episode got made it was later revealed that the new dlc's would have totally changed the game's original story (and for the worse, to a degree i haven't seen since Burial at Sea), so tabata's resignation could have been due to personal ambition, frustration with management, creative differences or any combination of the three either way he was one of the few competent project managers SE had left, and now all that remains is the FFXIV team and the shambling revenant of tetsuya nomura Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 14:53 on May 1, 2019 |
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May 1, 2019 14:51
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S.J. posted:This is the most backwards rear end, tone-deaf poo poo I can imagine. Holy gently caress. At no point does any of that follow from the actual story of the loving game. FFXV from Tabata: the world is capricious and often unkind but it's better to enjoy the time you have with the people you know, rather than retreating into isolation and nursing your bitterness over the hand you were dealt FFXV without Tabata: so god is evil and you kill him, yeah
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May 1, 2019 17:59
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it doesn't even jibe with the lore they added in the re-release, where Shiva puts the brakes on the game to deliver lengthy exposition on how the gods were so fond of humanity that the entire pantheon banded together to smack down the one who actually chose to go scorched-earth on them
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May 1, 2019 18:05
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ImpAtom posted:If you believe the spoilers that turned out to have been bahamut. It is still dumb but I also don't necessarily believe it is all SE. Almost all of the Directors games have a secret happier outcome or hint at one. it was explicitly ifrit! it was what kicked off the starscourge in the first place!
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May 1, 2019 18:54
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DrNutt posted:Man Crestholm Channels can suck my loving dick, pardon my French. the location of the headlights in that place is downright mean
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May 2, 2019 21:25
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romanowski posted:I'm playing FF8 for the first time and I'm not quite sure what to make of the junction system but I've always heard negative things so I'm wondering if there's anything I should keep in mind going into it? It seems kind of overwhelming but that might just be because the tutorials dump a lot of info on you at once. you can equip spells to jack up your stats. since spells are exceedingly easy (if initially tedious) to acquire, this means you can go trotting around with endgame-quality stats before you hit the end of the first disc that's about it
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May 5, 2019 23:47
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i almost forgot cloud spends the first half of the game hosting an entire dinner party's worth of voices in his head
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May 10, 2019 01:51
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nojima is senile and nomura is nomura
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May 10, 2019 05:17
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an environmentalist message from yoko taro would probably be excellent if he felt like sinking his teeth into it
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May 10, 2019 13:02
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HD DAD posted:I will be legit annoyed if they forget that Tifa was actually the demure princess type and Aerith was the tomboy maniac. demure princess with possibly clinical codepedency disorder to boot
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May 10, 2019 17:14
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I do not relish the resurgence of FF7 Discourse
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May 10, 2019 17:58
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no one remembers anything about FF7, its power is fearsome that way cloud is a well-meaning but severely mentally ill young man who spends the first leg of his adventure vacillating between obnoxious swagger and barely-controlled migraine-accompanying freakouts because there are two different personalities and like five different voices jostling for control inside of his chemical-soaked brain. the only person who knows how broken he really is at the start is his aforementioned co-dependent childhood friend who enables his illness due to her own guilt and attachment issues, and then he meets another girl who decides to start shamelessly flirting with him because he has a passing resemblance to her old boyfriend, very quickly realizes how bad a decision that was, and spends the rest of their adventure trying to find a way to apologize for it only to get killed before she can spit it out he has his memetic lines but people tend not to remember stuff like his patient efforts to talk yuffie through her motion sickness or how he just rolls his eyes and goes along with all the insanity at the junon parade. in other circumstances he'd be the generically nice small-town everykid from less memorable JRPG's, but shinra pumping him full of mako and jenova cells derailed that
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May 10, 2019 18:18
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Saint Freak posted:I think there's a much more interesting story to tell with Tifa where the reason she doesn't contradict Cloud's story is because she's not sure if she's the one who is all hosed up. After all she went through a lot of trauma too, and if anything Cloud's version of events make more sense since he claims to be a Soldier who went to Nibelheim and he actually is a strong as gently caress dude with mako eyes who has first-hand knowledge of the events there. iirc she's pretty sure that the problem is in cloud, since when she first reunited him he was slumped against a lightpost and drooling down his chin until he recognized her, at which point he instantly snapped into a totally unfamiliar personality she just gets more nervous when he recounts the Nibelheim incident and all the inconsistencies start to pile up
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May 10, 2019 19:14
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i'm a tonberry man, m'self
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May 14, 2019 00:43
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what's the best ff7 port anyway there's like ten of them at this point and all i know about any of them is that the initial pc port had terrible squiggly MIDI soundtracks because square lost the original files
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May 18, 2019 04:43
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that FF7 uprezzing mod looks very nice shame that making FF7 moddable is a pain in the rear end
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May 23, 2019 13:10
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Max Coveri posted:Hey folks, I'm gonna play Final Fantasy VII for the first time (not my first FF though) on Steam. Are there any graphical/performance enhancing mods for it or should I play it as is? the remako mod looks excellent but actually installing it is a bit of a task
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May 24, 2019 04:23
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it is very annoying that if you want to get the FF7 remako mod to work you have to move your entire steam directory, since the non-steam pc version of the game doesn't seem to be available in US territories anymore
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May 26, 2019 01:51
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attempting to install the remako mod taught me a couple things - modding ff7 is a madman's labor - the music sounds like rear end even after the graphical upgrade works, which rather defeats the whole point
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May 26, 2019 21:18
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replaced the .ogg files already, it doesn’t help (even though they sound fine when played directly via VLC) my best guess is that the moddable version of FF7 you need to create for the Remako mod filters all the .ogg files through a low quality MIDI player, which is more of a headache to fix than I’m going to bother with
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May 26, 2019 21:58
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ItBreathes posted:You can just make a secondary steam directory and only install FF7 in it. The music should be fine without any fiddling, I think. i migrated over the directory with little trouble, but the music's borked no matter what i do i'm probably just going to walk away from the whole experiment, if i can't get the chimes of Anxious Heart juuuust right then what is even the point
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May 26, 2019 22:25
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okay fine, lower-quality the music files themselves are fine when played directly so something must be happening with the game executable itself to make them sound like they're being played on a block of wood
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May 27, 2019 03:52
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following up on the ff7 remako mod - i confirmed that the base Steam version plays the proper version of the soundtrack, but the moddable version you need to create for Remako to work reverts to the crappy 1998 PC version of the songs it's the darndest thing
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May 28, 2019 01:56
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ItBreathes posted:I'm not sure what's going wrong for you buddy, I did the conversion and installed remako and it 100% has the original music. Did you mess about with the music files at all? nope, and i redid the whole process just to make sure the 1998 files literally don't exist anywhere in the FF7 directory so my only guess is that the modded version is playing the original music files with a different codec or something
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May 28, 2019 02:24
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ap farming isn't necessary anyway unless you want to beat emerald/ruby, since the best way to rack up enough gil to get knights of the round is to sell off mastered All materia also i finally got the music on the remako mod working, yippee
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Jun 1, 2019 05:55
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Sephiroth is probably the one at the steering wheel in their partnership, but his will and his power have been augmented by Jenova’s appetite the real point of their relationship is that the Planet’s greatest threat (other than humanity itself) has been made even more dangerous thanks to a product of mankind’s hubris. Sephiroth is the crown jewel of Shinra’s tinkering and he turns on them, and even that’s not enough for Hojo, who’s probably the biggest actual villain the story has
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Jun 2, 2019 01:22
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Mega64 posted:This is the best part of the FF7 EU. iscar matthias your time has come
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Jun 2, 2019 02:15
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I never knew that the updated script for the FF7 rereleases still doesn’t fix the warning for Guard Scorpion guess it’s become too much of a classic to lose
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Jun 2, 2019 19:36
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the ambiguity of FF7's ending was intentional and another reason the compilation shouldn't exist. it's a persistent question throughout the game whether the Planet will just decide it's better off without the human race when all is said and done, and at the last moment it looks like that might be the case until aeris petitions in their favor and banishes meteor. even then, what humanity does with their second chance is left up in the air, with only the abandoned and overgrown remains of midgar providing evidence one way or another imo the only part of the story that gets murky is the huge materia hunt, because you're never really given a clear reason why you're sabotaging shinra's operation without any sort of counter-plan
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Jun 3, 2019 02:20
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zenguitarman posted:Why does Seifer hold his gunblade like a moron, the intro makes it seem like those are super heavy he's imitating a lovely movie he saw as a kid that starred an idiot named laguna loire
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