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DapperDuck posted:Shut up. Bosses that have the word 'Weapon' in them are not a spoiler. More things that are not spoilers: Are they really that common? I don't remember any such bosses outside of ff6 and ff7, but maybe I just haven't played enough final fantasy. It's just that they serve a specific plot purpose in this game.
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Lance Streetman posted:Are they really that common? I don't remember any such bosses outside of ff6 and ff7, but maybe I just haven't played enough final fantasy. It's just that they serve a specific plot purpose in this game. And if someone was spoiling the specific plot purpose, that would be worth getting mad over! The name isn't.
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Jun 20, 2011 21:43
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Amidiri posted:And if someone was spoiling the specific plot purpose, that would be worth getting mad over! My apologies. I'm currently reading through the DP thread for the first time and It's put me a little on edge about spoilers.
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Jun 20, 2011 21:46
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There's optional "Weapon" bosses in VIII, X, and X-2 as well. There's no Aero spell in VII though! 
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Jun 20, 2011 21:49
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Enemies use it.
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Jun 20, 2011 21:50
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Adus posted:Enemies use it. drat. Now you've spoiled the entire game. 
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Jun 20, 2011 21:53
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DarkHamsterlord posted:I don't know about you, but my enjoyment of a game would not be altered in the slightest if I found out there were bosses that were referred to as "weapons". Doesn't matter, read the OP. The spoiler rules are quite clear. Yes, that means even trivial poo poo (like the name in question) shouldn't be spoiled, even if it's small, because otherwise it's "no spoilers except things that meet an arbitrary standard of not being big enough to worry about" and that's a whole big mess.
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Jun 20, 2011 21:53
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Bocc Kob posted:There's no Aero spell in VII though! Heh heh heh...
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Jun 20, 2011 21:55
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What I never understood about FF7's graphics is that the backgrounds and world itself is rendered very well, but the character models just make my eyes bleed 0_0. If you're going to make beautiful areas in a game, don't splotch it up with ugly polygon models :/
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Jun 20, 2011 22:41
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cyrus106 posted:What I never understood about FF7's graphics is that the backgrounds and world itself is rendered very well, but the character models just make my eyes bleed 0_0. If you're going to make beautiful areas in a game, don't splotch it up with ugly polygon models :/ The backgrounds are pre-rendered. The character models are not.
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Jun 20, 2011 22:52
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Lance Streetman posted:The backgrounds are pre-rendered. The character models are not. Basically this. The characters are real-time PS1-rendered models running around on paintings that were rendered by a computer much more powerful than a PS1.
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cyrus106 posted:What I never understood about FF7's graphics is that the backgrounds and world itself is rendered very well, but the character models just make my eyes bleed 0_0. If you're going to make beautiful areas in a game, don't splotch it up with ugly polygon models :/ He's got a point. Why don't all PS1 games have PS3-quality graphics, dammit!
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Jun 20, 2011 23:02
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Elentor posted:Elentor doesn't mean anything. It was a fantasy name I used for a pen&paper RPG long before I even knew about SA, trying to think of something that wasn't too obviously tolkienian. I hate to disappoint but it's not a Brazilian name.  (it is still Tolkienian though, sorry to say)
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Jun 20, 2011 23:10
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elentar posted:
He is Elentor son of Elentar, and if by life or death he can save us, he will.
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Jun 20, 2011 23:26
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Jazzimus Prime posted:He is Elentor son of Elentar, and if by life or death he can save us, he will. Not all that glitters is Goldmined. Not all who LP are lost.
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Jun 20, 2011 23:28
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Bocc Kob posted:There's optional "Weapon" bosses in VIII Oh y'don't say
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Is it really that hard for people to just not post about things that haven't happened in the LP yet? No matter how inconsequential it actually is?
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cyrus106 posted:What I never understood about FF7's graphics is that the backgrounds and world itself is rendered very well, but the character models just make my eyes bleed 0_0. If you're going to make beautiful areas in a game, don't splotch it up with ugly polygon models :/ I like to like think that the low-poly models are a direct throwback to the SNES days. They look like literal 3D translations of the FFIV sprites. 
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Woozy posted:I like to like think that the low-poly models are a direct throwback to the SNES days. They look like literal 3D translations of the FFIV sprites. That's what I thought as well! I actually wish they'd just made the battle models the same as the overworld models, and then make both more detailed. The transition from the SD overworld model to super-realistic (for those days) battle one was a bit jarring to say the least.
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Jun 21, 2011 03:40
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Red Red Blue posted:Is it really that hard for people to just not post about things that haven't happened in the LP yet? No matter how inconsequential it actually is? I dunno, I think there's a pretty huge difference between saying "Darth Vader is Luke's father" and "Luke and company go to Bespin and meet a dude named Lando."
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Jun 21, 2011 04:33
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If you really wanna see low poly translations of the SNES sprites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGiLY_VHpA Back in the days when FFVII was gonna be on N64..
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Zas posted:If you really wanna see low poly translations of the SNES sprites: Oh hell, that looks pretty awesome. Why didn't they make that game instead? 
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Jun 21, 2011 05:03
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Zas posted:If you really wanna see low poly translations of the SNES sprites: My God, I remember being really young finding that video on my dialup internet, only to have my computer crash and never to see the full video, and never to find it again. I was so excited too, that I told my parents we had to get an N64 but I was only allowed a PS1 or an N64, not both. Well that is my story. I miss the OP. 
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Zas posted:If you really wanna see low poly translations of the SNES sprites: Isn't that just a tech demo of the N64 using FFVI? It's clearly Locke, Terra, and Shadow. And SI nothing is awesome about Terra's red buttfloss. Jesus Christ.
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DocFrance posted:I dunno, I think there's a pretty huge difference between saying "Darth Vader is Luke's father" and "Luke and company go to Bespin and meet a dude named Lando." Agreed, that wasn't the point though, why does everyone have a burning desire to post about content from later in the game? Why not just post about stuff that already happened? Or if you have nothing to say about that then don't post, it's a simple concept that many people seem to struggle with.
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YJT posted:Agreed, that wasn't the point though, why does everyone have a burning desire to post about content from later in the game? Why not just post about stuff that already happened? Or if you have nothing to say about that then don't post, it's a simple concept that many people seem to struggle with. Besides the plot stuff, a lot of game mechanics can only really be discussed in terms of later on stuff. There's a reason why, say, Fire Emblem LPs of any variety will say things like, "This person is worth keeping in your party, even if he seems worthless now," or any RPG LP will say things like "You don't want to bother leveling Character X because he doesn't stay in your party for long, and don't forget to strip him nude because you don't want him taking your good poo poo with him."
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Landwhale posted:Isn't that just a tech demo of the N64 using FFVI? It's clearly Locke, Terra, and Shadow. That's exactly what it is, but the idea was it was demonstrating what a future FF might look like on the new crazy Project Reality. And apparently it would've involved weird low poly thongs
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But why do you even need to discuss that? Elentor clearly knows this stuff already and nobody else in the thread needs to be told. I'm not trying to say it is a spoiler or even that I'm concerned about spoilers, like most of you I know this game inside out, it's more a general question about why people have to immediately begin discussing the whole game at the start of every thread in the forum. e: just realised how dull all this posting about posting is so I'll not try and make it a debate, it's just something I'm always puzzled by.
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Landwhale posted:And SI nothing is awesome about Terra's red buttfloss. Jesus Christ. Yeah, but I decided to drop it because I didn't feel like starting another "<artist> is TERRIBLE" derail. We barely survived the Nomura incident with moderate belt-related injuries and a few zipper-burns.
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I was more distracted by Terra going clippity cloppity like a pony.
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Landwhale posted:Isn't that just a tech demo of the N64 using FFVI? It's clearly Locke, Terra, and Shadow. Actually, that video has nothing to do with an N64. It was a demo they made for the Silicon Graphics workstations of the day, and it had crazy interface ideas like "draw a pentagram with the mouse to summon Bahamut". When video of it got out people said "this is what FFVII might have looked like on an N64" and the idea stuck.
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Zas posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGiLY_VHpA Every time I see that video, I can't help but see Locke as Richter Belmont. Then again, any character with a bandana, blue clothes, and a whip makes me think of Richter. And way to focus on Terra's rear end for far too long there.
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regarding spoilers, and using the Lando example, I think it's far less of a spoiler than explaining who Lando is and what happens when they meet him, etc, but yes it is spoilerific on some small scale. Some people like small scale spoilers because it gets them excited for what may come (if they don't already know about it), some people hate small scale spoilers because they think it'd genuinly ruin things. It's really down to the OP for final say. The OP may have been looking forward to revealing the Weapons and be pissed that someone mentioned them, or they may not give a poo poo. This is Final Fantasy 7 though, and even the major spoilers of the game are on the same level as The Sixth Sense. Yeah there are people who don't know it, but even people who haven't seen the film knows the twist.
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Phoenix Taichou posted:but even people who haven't seen the film knows the twist. I don't.
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Elephantgun posted:It seems the one defining factor in every bad character design is showing off your nuts. 
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Lance Streetman posted:I don't. Bruce Willis was /dead the whole time/.
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Bocc Kob posted:I was more distracted by Terra going clippity cloppity like a pony. Friendship is M-M-M-M-M-M-MAGIC?!
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Lance Streetman posted:I don't. And there's a disclaimer right there in the OP mentioning expressly that yes, there are people who don't even know the biggest, most known twist about this game, and for cryin' out loud don't spoil it.
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I know exactly one spoiler and we're pretty much past as far as I've played in the game myself, so anything past this point, is completely new to me, besides that one thing, but I'd really not want to hear about that one thing in this thread until we get there, since I don't know when that happens, it'll be a complete surprise to me.
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Mordaedil posted:I know exactly one spoiler and we're pretty much past as far as I've played in the game myself, so anything past this point, is completely new to me, besides that one thing, but I'd really not want to hear about that one thing in this thread until we get there, since I don't know when that happens, it'll be a complete surprise to me. The buildup is fairly obvious. If you already know that it will happen, then you'll know it's coming.
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