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DrHolmesPhD posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Ray Hold on a a second. This is her bio from the Wiki. "Scarlet has blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears her hair tied up. In Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII- her earrings are blue, and in Final Fantasy VII they are red. In Final Fantasy VII she has a necklace she does not wear in Before Crisis. Scarlet dresses in a long red satin dress that has a plunging neckline and a slit on the side and matching high heels. Under her dress she wears black thigh-high stay-up stockings. Scarlet is the only female Shinra executive, and is cruel and ambitious. She is blunt and does not care if her remarks hurt others. Scarlet is unbothered by violence and often resorts to violent means as her first choice of how to deal with problems facing herself and Shinra Inc. She is passive towards the atrocities the Shinra Company commits and only looks after her own status within the company. As the head of Weapons Development within Shinra, she appears to have a fascination with machines and weapons of mass destruction." She's the ONLY female in Shinra, but that's not entirely true. Unless Turks don't count. But again, the fact she's the ONLY Female, brings up even MORE questions.
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Silegna posted:She's the ONLY female in Shinra, but that's not entirely true. Unless Turks don't count. But again, the fact she's the ONLY Female, brings up even MORE questions. The only female executive, in a Japanese game from the 90s, portrayed in a fashion that a lot of Westerner-fetish Japanese men would "appreciate". Scarlet loves blowing poo poo up, it's no surprise that she'd have the hots for a giant gun built to blow entire cities off the face of the planet. It's entirely possible that "Sister Ray" is either something the devs thought sounded cool and didn't think about, or a dick joke for Shinra as a whole (in a similar vein as the end of Dr. Strangelove). I'm really not down with the whole "Scarlet is a dude" theory here.
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Jul 1, 2014 19:34
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The Turks are Black Operatives, not Executives. They meant that Scarlet is the only female on the Board of Directors, which was obvious the first time we saw them meet.
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Jul 1, 2014 19:45
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rickiep00h posted:The only female executive, in a Japanese game from the 90s, portrayed in a fashion that a lot of Westerner-fetish Japanese men would "appreciate". Scarlet loves blowing poo poo up, it's no surprise that she'd have the hots for a giant gun built to blow entire cities off the face of the planet. She just wants to gently caress the Earth with her own giant dick and make people beg for more. 
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Jul 1, 2014 20:14
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She's just a chick with penis envy. Uncommon for sure, but it does happen.
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Jul 1, 2014 20:20
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waah posted:She's just a chick with penis envy. Uncommon for sure, but it does happen. No envy here: she already has the biggest dick on the planet, bigger than Cloud's or even Sephiroth's sword. Maybe that's the joke with the name.
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George posted:No envy here: she already has the biggest dick on the planet, bigger than Cloud's or even Sephiroth's sword. Maybe that's the joke with the name. Maybe she knows that Sephiroth likes pegging
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Jul 1, 2014 20:49
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Well then, this got weird in a hurry. Excited to see this this next part. Every time I replay this, I put off the Chocobo breeding until this point in the game. I've still got my original printouts from 1998 of a breeding guide I found on a geocities page. It's a ridiculously circuitous and needlessly complicated method involving purchasing and feeding greens in certain percentages of your total based on which chocobo is being fed? I've grown comfortable with it and I refuse to breed chocobos any other way. Also, the BradyGames guide has a hilariously bad breeding guide in it that left me lost for ages.
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Jul 1, 2014 22:37
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I imagine said guide is basically getting into the nitty gritty of getting maximum racing stats on a chocobo with minimum gil expenditure. Honestly I find it easier to just sell off an All materia and buy all the best greens from the chocobo sage and overkill it with sheer cash flow. ... I guess President Shinra was right. It is better to rule the world through money (and the apocalyptic doom materia you acquire through it.)
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Jul 1, 2014 23:19
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I bought FFVII during the steam sale, but from what I've heard the soundtrack of the PC version is really bad. Is this true, and if so is there a mod to fix this?
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SirPhoebos posted:I bought FFVII during the steam sale, but from what I've heard the soundtrack of the PC version is really bad. Is this true, and if so is there a mod to fix this?
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Cruseydr posted:Have you actually played yet? Apparently that was fixed already Err, no I haven't (  ) so that's good to hear.
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SirPhoebos posted:Err, no I haven't ( The translation is weird though. And by weird I mean better. It just loses charm when you don't see "this guy are sick". And the bizarre "so that's how you fooled them" bit outside Honeybee Inn actually makes sense.
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Jul 2, 2014 18:20
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Did they fix all the typos? Jenova only has one line and even that is messed up in the original.
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Jul 2, 2014 22:42
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Off course! (They fixed that one too.)
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eating only apples posted:The translation is weird though. And by weird I mean better. It just loses charm when you don't see "this guy are sick". And the bizarre "so that's how you fooled them" bit outside Honeybee Inn actually makes sense.  cuz honestly the only reason I've been finally understanding about 30% of it is thanks to Elentor's generous wisdom.
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FinalGamer posted:On the other hand maybe the plot will make more sense now! I've been using this LP as a companion piece/chocobo breeding guide for my first playthrough of the game, and I can honestly say that without it I wouldn't have a clue what was going on past Cloud's little brainfart.
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Squibidyflop posted:I've been using this LP as a companion piece/chocobo breeding guide for my first playthrough of the game, and I can honestly say that without it I wouldn't have a clue what was going on past Cloud's little brainfart. It's because so much of this drat game is understated. There are very few times in the game where it basically says hey dumb rear end this is what's happening.
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waah posted:It's because so much of this drat game is understated. There are very few times in the game where it basically says hey dumb rear end this is what's happening. I can only assume that people bitching about FF7 and FF8's stories is the reason why newer JRPGs seem to enjoy beating you upside the head with the plot points they want you to know about. (IT'S OUR FOCUS, GOTTA FIND OUR FOCUS)
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KataraniSword posted:I can only assume that people bitching about FF7 and FF8's stories is the reason why newer JRPGs seem to enjoy beating you upside the head with the plot points they want you to know about. (IT'S OUR FOCUS, GOTTA FIND OUR FOCUS) Were there subtleties like this in 8? I always remembered the big plot twists there as being kind of non-sequiturs, but I guess when I played it I was 16 and this LP proves I wasn't exactly reading subtexts at the time since I missed all the ones in FF7. Now I hope someone does an in-depth, plot- and character-analytical LP like this one, but for 8.
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Akratic Method posted:Were there subtleties like this in 8? I always remembered the big plot twists there as being kind of non-sequiturs, but I guess when I played it I was 16 and this LP proves I wasn't exactly reading subtexts at the time since I missed all the ones in FF7. It was less "subtleties" and more "the foreshadowing and connecting threads were all hidden in NPC dialogue and in-game help files you'd have no reason to bother with". And there was a halfway in-depth, completed FF8 LP! ...It was Azure Horizon's. 
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Yeah, 8 isn't really subtle, but there is a lot stuck off in NPC/side stuff you never read that really does fill in a lot of the blanks. e: then again 7 is sometimes intentionally obscure as hell, which is fine. What isn't fine is forgetting to tie it all up later. Sometimes it forgets that, and, well... Personally I'm a fan of taking risks in narrative even if they don't pay out (though, obviously, they should) simpley because playing it safe the whole way through isn't exciting to me. allow me to write 47,000 words on why I love KOTOR 2... Psion fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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KataraniSword posted:It was less "subtleties" and more "the foreshadowing and connecting threads were all hidden in NPC dialogue and in-game help files you'd have no reason to bother with". And there was a halfway in-depth, completed FF8 LP! It's probably probation-worthy to respond to a post with just an image macro, but this is one of those nope.gif moments. Anyway, glad to hear what I was missing wasn't quite on par with what Elentor's shown us. I seriously never realized the whole Jenova-is-Sephiroth thing, or the Gathering being behind chasing fake Sephiroth, and although I liked FF7 before, I give it a lot more credit now having seen all this stuff clearly. (So, thanks to Elentor for taking the time to present it for the last three years!)
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KataraniSword posted:...It was Azure Horizon's. Could someone Say/PM me why Azure Horizon is looked back upon with disgust? I missed whatever got him banned/forums radioactive.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Could someone Say/PM me why Azure Horizon is looked back upon with disgust? Just look up his rap sheet?
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Jul 3, 2014 19:41
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Literal rapist, huge loving ego, spergy as gently caress, terrible poster. Take your pick.
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Psion posted:Personally I'm a fan of taking risks in narrative even if they don't pay out (though, obviously, they should) simpley because playing it safe the whole way through isn't exciting to me. allow me to write 47,000 words on why I love KOTOR 2... Will the last 3000 or so words be really rushed, under explored, and have lots of loose ends unexplained?
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waah posted:Will the last 3000 or so words be really rushed, under explored, and have lots of loose ends unexplained? Only if another person comes along a few years down the line, gets hold of Psion's notes, and rewrites it to make it not as unsatisfying.
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I only played through the game once, and Hojo's "reveal" that Cloud was just something he'd cobbled together in the lab stuck with me a lot more than Tifa eventually discovering his real backstory. After I beat the game, I thought of Cloud as some kind of flesh golem who'd absorbed Tifa's stories of this dork kid she kinda knew and Zack's SOLDIER memories to create an amalgam personality. I like it better than the real story.
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KataraniSword posted:It was less "subtleties" and more "the foreshadowing and connecting threads were all hidden in NPC dialogue and in-game help files you'd have no reason to bother with". And there was a halfway in-depth, completed FF8 LP! Was there one? I looked through the lparchives and didn't see it, and I'd like a quality FF8 LP. I was actually considering getting it and playing it myself again with a walkthrough and poo poo so I don't miss stuff but if I can get an LP I'd rather do that.
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Gus Hobbleton posted:Was there one? I looked through the lparchives and didn't see it, and I'd like a quality FF8 LP. I was actually considering getting it and playing it myself again with a walkthrough and poo poo so I don't miss stuff but if I can get an LP I'd rather do that. Only finished LPs go to the LP archive. You gotta dig through the SA archives to find the unfinished FF8 LP
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Jul 3, 2014 21:10
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Also, many Azure Horizon LPs didn't get archived at all, those can be found in the LP master list.
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Jul 3, 2014 21:13
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I'm pretty sure he finished that one, so it probably just didn't get archived.
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The ones that were on the archive aren't any more - mostly because of the whole rape thing, I'd imagine - so it's entirely possible that a lot of his stuff will have been removed from the master list too...
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Could someone Say/PM me why Azure Horizon is looked back upon with disgust? There were a lot of reasons to dislike him as a poster, but his habit of starting an argument in every single JRPG LP about how everyone in the thread have wrong opinions regarding how good the game / other games in the series are is probably among them.
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It was but I think it got taken out of the archives when he was banned, and his Beyond the Beyond one. Do they do that when someone gets banned?
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Jul 3, 2014 21:28
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His LPs are still listed on the Master List, and show up in Archives. I checked earlier, because I wanted to look at his rap sheet.
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Jul 3, 2014 21:33
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The only Azure_Horizon LP's in the archive are ones that he did with other people. I imagine Baldurk left them in so he wasn't punishing not-rapists, but took down all his solo acts.
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Jul 3, 2014 21:35
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Here. His LP Listing.
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Xander77 posted:He got banned for mentioning that when his straight friends get drunk with him, he molests / rapes them. Oh right I remember that, vaguely. I don't pay a lot of attention to forum drama like that so I didn't even recognize the name. Kheldarn posted:Here. His LP Listing. Thanks. I didn't even know there was a master list.
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