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Captain Foo posted:Yeah, that was a design decision I never really understood. IIRC, this was added specifically for the US version and then included in the "International" edition.
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VVVVVVV Because I got a good laugh out of it? Never mind, then. Mr. Stay-Puft fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jul 5, 2012 |
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Jul 5, 2012 14:34
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Gaea's Cliff is where I finally got stuck and fed-up on my first playthrough of the game (my very first RPG, at age 13). When I came back to the game about a month later, my save was corrupted.  (Although I eventually got a copy of a friend's save.)
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Aug 27, 2012 16:07
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Speaking of which, I wonder to what degree the ambiguity/confusion in FFVII is, rather than being intentional on the part of the writers, actually a consequence of the famously spotty translation.
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Thousands of years ago a race of proto-humans called the Cetra lived in harmony with the planet. Then a meteor fell from the sky carrying an alien shape-shifter named Jenova. Jenova was initally embraced by the Cetra but eventually turned out to be an evil, planet-destroying parasite who drove them to near-extinction. Several decades ago the Shin-Ra Corporation conducted extensive research into the Cetra (now called the Ancients), making two key discoveries. One was the body of Jenova, whom they mistakenly assumed was an Ancient. Not long after this discovery they created the first Mako Reactor, a power source so revolutionary that Shin-Ra quickly became the most powerful group on the planet, a de facto one-world government. The reactors work by harvesting life-energy from the planet (similar to Jenova herself). Shin-Ra's rise to dominance was aided by SOLDIER, an elite group within their private army augmented with Jenova's cells. The other discovery was the actual last living Ancient, Ilfalna. Professor Gast, Shin-Ra's lead researcher, fell in love with Ilfalna and fled with her to a remote village in the North. There, she gave birth to a child, Aerith. Shortly afterwards, Shin-Ra found them, killed Gast, and captured the women for experimentation by Hojo, Shin-Ra's new chief scientist. Shin-Ra's conquest was hardly unopposed. Besides a war with the nation of Wutai, various rebel groups sprang up. AVALANCHE, in Shin-Ra's capital city of Midgar, is one of these. The group is lead by Barrett Wallace and Tifa Lockheart, both of whom had their hometowns (Corel and Nibelheim respectively) destroyed by Shin-Ra. Their newest recruit is a mercenary named Cloud Strife. Supposedly he is a childhood friend of Tifa's, a former member of SOLDIER, and a fellow witness to Nibelheim's destruction. However, there are some suspicious inconsistencies in his story. Cloud, Tifa, and Barrett begin a terrorist campaign against Shin-Ra. Along the way, they meet the now-grown Aerith Gainsborough, who is no longer an active research subject (following the death of her mother) but remains under the watchful eye of the Turks, Shin-Ra's secret police. The group's escalating clashes with Shin-Ra result in their capture, the deaths of the other AVALANCHE members, and the destruction of large swaths of Midgar. While in captivity at Shin-Ra HQ they see the still-possibly-alive body of Jenova, meet Hojo, and recruit another test subject: a highly intelligent lion-like creature named Red XIII. Like Aerith, he is the last of his kind. Abruptly, the protagonists are freed from their cells, only to discover a gruesome massacre which includes the President of Shin-Ra. Cloud is convinced that this is the work of Sephiroth, the former head of SOLDIER and the one responsible for the destruction of Nibelheim. Jenova's body is missing. Cloud claims that Sephiroth is an even-more-imminent danger to the world than even Shin-Ra, and the gang sets off across the land (with Shin-Ra's Turks never far behind) to find him. Party members met:
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Sep 27, 2012 18:34
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DeathChicken posted:Rufus seems like a competent guy surrounded by utter nincompoops. You try running an evil organization when your right hand henchmen are Scarlett, Heidegger and Palmer. Yeah, by "leadership" I was referring more to his "cabinet" as a whole rather than just poor Rufus.
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Sep 27, 2012 19:04
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RoeCocoa posted:Policenauts did this. THANK YOU! I knew I'd seen this in an LP recently and was going nuts trying to recall which one.
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Sep 27, 2012 21:05
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darealkooky posted:So this has probably already been covered, does "Shin-Ra" actually mean anything in japanese? Why does it seem like they only spell it like that in this original game? http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Shinra_Electric_Power_Company#Etymology Final Fantasy Wiki posted:Shinra comes from the first two characters of Shinra Banshou (神羅万象, Everything Covered by God), a Japanese four-character idiom and homophone variant of Shinra Banshou (森羅万象, All-Covering Forests and Ten Thousand Things), a Buddhist idiom which has come to mean "All of Nature" or "All of Creation". This refers to the Shinra Company's status as global superpower, monopolizing industry and governing most of the Planet.
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Nov 6, 2012 17:17
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Nihilarian posted:(granted, we'd probably have some other spin-off that's just as bad, like a stealth game with Yuffie or something). My brain just started writing Yuffie Gear Solid: Tactical Materia Action. "Do you think greed can bloom even on a battlefield?"
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May 3, 2014 23:02
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The Skies Above is my go-to karaoke song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJn5Lrqb2c
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Feb 14, 2015 20:44
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Ak Gara posted:[edit] Why no Nobuo's name in trailer? Probably because he's been an independent contractor for the last decade rather than a Square Enix employee, and the contract side of things isn't settled yet (if he's indeed going to be directly involved, other than someone else re-arranging his compositions).
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Just to clarify, what the various consoles use is not "MIDI" per se -- that refers to a very specific PC file format. They each do their own proprietary MIDI-like equivalent.
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