This thread are sick - Let's Play Final Fantasy VII!

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U.T. Raptor: May 11, 2010; Are you a pack of imbeciles!?

Elephantgun posted:

It seems the one defining factor in every bad character design is showing off your nuts.

I don't understand the logic of an outfit where you have a big feather shoulderpad and loose sleeve covering up your right arm but leave your nuts uncovered in a skintight one-piece pajama suit. Like, OK, I understand it's a different world and fashion is different but it just makes no logical sense.

See also: Kuja, who somehow wears more clothing on any one of his limbs than on his entire torso :psyduck:

# ¿ Jun 21, 2011 10:05

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 11:55

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Bocc Kob posted:

That's gotta be some moth.

This is an FF game, those bastards are probably the size of eagles at LEAST.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2011 12:23

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Woozy posted:

Yeah Hojo is a terrible scientist there is no way that was going to work

Hojo is a terrible EVERYTHING (except "gigantic rear end in a top hat").

# ¿ Jun 23, 2011 09:28

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...holy poo poo, why does Heidegger look so badass? I always thought he was a dumpy little guy like Palmer :psyduck:

# ¿ Jun 25, 2011 08:59

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Adus posted:

I always found it odd that there's a reactor in the mountains that must have been built by Shinra, but none of their own guys.. know how to get there? They have to hire a local girl for it?

Also that Zangan dude is wearing a cape. I don't trust men in capes.

Maybe the monsters ate the Shinra guys and that's why they brought in the military arm?

# ¿ Jul 2, 2011 09:45

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...wow, I almost got the text on Jenova's helmet right just from your screenshot.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2011 13:19

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KataraniSword posted:

Am I the only one who sees that Hojo avatar and keeps hearing him in the voice of Mung Daal?

: LLLLLLLADIES. Could I interest any of you in breeding with these random... monsters I found?

God drat it now I can't unhear it!

# ¿ Jul 6, 2011 08:28

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dumb brunette posted:

Definitely team FFX-2. Cloud, Tifa, and Aeris.

Then Cloud, Tifa, and Yuffie when you can't do that anymore.

This.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2011 02:20

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MGlBlaze posted:

To be fair it isn't exactly intuitive from what I remember. If you don't have a guide that outright tells you how to find her, you pretty much just have to get lucky.

Finding her isn't that difficult(you have to go through the area she appears in), but the right dialog options to recruit her could be.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2011 12:26

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magikid posted:

Really, the only things I can think of that would really improve FFIX would be to make its battles snappier, get rid of Trance (because what the gently caress), and make like half the skills actually do something useful. Seriously, look at Zidane or Freya's skillsets and tell me you'll ever use any of that.

They needed to make Trance controllable, like once the meter fills up you decide when it activates so you don't blow it on regular monsters or at the end of a battle or something...

# ¿ Aug 5, 2011 05:32

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sudonim posted:

Why don't more games let characters combine attacks? It's awesome.

Inuyasha: Secret of the Cursed Mask let everyone combine attacks with everyone else.

MAGICAL NUKE BOOMERANG :black101:

# ¿ Aug 5, 2011 06:02

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Pierson posted:

Yeah Cloud really was a great character with a ton of great lines. It's such a shame what they did to him in Advent Children and the rest of the compilation. Who do we blame for that again?

Creepy fangirls?

# ¿ Aug 19, 2011 05:55

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Gimbal lock posted:

What is that thing on the left hand side that acts like a welcome door? Is it poop with eyes or a racist take on the Michelin man?
I've never figured it out and it haunts me.

This is Japan we're talking about, "poop with eyes" is my guess.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2011 07:43

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The White Dragon posted:

New poo poo, was definitely not in the original.

it was supposed to be, iirc, they just couldn't do the effects or something at the time.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2011 10:03

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pandaK posted:

what if it is more like ffx's chocobo racing?

...that was more of a seagull attack than anything.

:v:

Also, Chocobo Racing is easy as gently caress until like A Rank if you breed one with a ton of stamina (unless you end up facing that one guy with super-high stats), even if its other stats aren't that great, because the AI is stupid and will burn itself out early and you'll just keep on truckin'.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2011 02:28

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Of course, they can't just use a Soft on the guy or something, this is a cutscene!

gently caress that boss, though. He was a bitch to fight before I learned about the "healing hurts him" thing.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2011 01:53

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I've lost my lower left and upper right ones, but both my upper wisdom teeth also cost me the tooth in front of them as well.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2011 03:20

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zakharov posted:

The Materia Keeper was the second-hardest boss in the game for me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Not as bad as that out-of-nowhere-in-the-middle-of-a-nondescript-area boss later on, though. gently caress that thing forever :argh:

# ¿ Dec 16, 2011 09:02

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Pesky Splinter posted:

Quale and Quan seem to be male, who knows with Quina.

I'm more surprised that s/he is apparently 89 years old. Eiko is 6 and looks 9, Vivi is apparently only 6 months chronologically and 9 biologically, Freya is 21, Garnet is just 16, Amarant is 26, Stiener is 33 and Zidane is 16.

Final Fantasy ages are weird...

Japanese popular culture doesn't seem to "get" age, for the most part, everyone seems to end up being way younger than it seems they logically should be...

They have this problem with weight and height too, for that matter.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2012 07:05

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caleramaen posted:

The Zodiac spear stuff was stupid, but it's no worse than the fact that FFXII had drop rates. I understand drop rates in an MMO, but no single player game should have drop rates unless it's dropping randomly generated loot like Diablo or something. It was a bad design decision. If the Zodiac Spear had a 100% drop rate in the Henne Mines no one would have given a gently caress if the one in Nubudis spawned. They would have just seen it as an endgame weapon with an additional easter egg spawn.

The stupider thing was the randomly generated chests. Which literally almost never contained anything worthwhile.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 00:31

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Rigged Death Trap posted:

I always remember Water magic always dealing the most damage out of all the elemental spells in every single FF. It's also the rarest element to actually deal damage with.

Water and Aero are put on such a high pedestal.

And then in the game where Water is finally turned into one of the main elements... no Leviathan at all. I don't even know what the gently caress.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 22:45

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The White Dragon posted:

I really do wish that the Sphere Grid was unique for each character. It just doesn't feel right going around the board picking up every skill ever, but at the same time it feels wrong going through the board skipping all but the most choice skills. It's my favorite leveling system, though, because I'm a sucker for shiny colors.

For all intents and purposes, the sphere grid was sort of unique to each character unless you started grinding like crazy and min-maxing everyone, since each character started off in their own section locked off from everyone else.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 10:39

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TL posted:

I somehow spaced out when Kuja referred to it as being a "magic free zone" the first time through and brought Vivi and Dagger with me. That was about the biggest pain in the balls I've ever experienced in a FF game.

Yeah, I did that too. Same people and everything.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

For a while they can wreck bosses in an instant. Not too shabby but by the end of the game bosses have too much HP for it to work.

I beat that Demon Wall boss (the one you're supposed to run from) with a couple giant-rear end Quickening chains.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2012 07:31

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We can't talk about character design without mentioning what a complete trainwreck Kuja is.

He has more clothing on his arms than on his entire torso, who thought this was a good idea? :psyduck:

# ¿ Mar 31, 2012 01:16

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SCHIZO!

gently caress that drat invisible out-of-nowhere 36,000 HP rear end in a top hat. At least Materia Keeper had the decency to be visible.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2012 21:41

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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It will.

Replace it with Skitty and Wailord :v:

# ¿ Sep 10, 2012 01:19

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CmdrKing posted:

My understanding of DQVII is less that it's grindy and more that it's terribly paced. Like you'll probably play 15-20 hours before even discovering the game has a class system.

It's both. It's terribly paced, but you need to do lot of grinding every couple of new lands so as not to get horribly murdered (GRACOS :argh:

) and/or afford decent equipment.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2012 08:21

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Tupperwarez posted:

God, a scene where Jenova's head sprouted spider legs and went skittering down the halls of Shinra HQ would have been amazing. Barrett shouting "You gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me!" optional.

On that note, what did happen to Jenova's head? It had one in Nibelheim, but was headless in Midgar, and I don't remember it ever being explained in the game (before or after where we are).

# ¿ Jan 16, 2013 10:07

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Rushputin posted:

That's what a lot of the Megaten games do. The Persona 2 games are probably the most extreme examples - every NPC in town is basically a defined character of their own, and they change lines pretty much after every single dungeon or event. Your party members are also standing around in all the non-dungeon areas and the same applies to them. There's often some sort of theme that's discussed by everyone or people comment on what a single character in the room is doing/saying.

The same thing applies to the newer Persona games, Digital Devil Saga and other games, but P2 is the most extreme both in how often lines change and how many NPCs there are. You can waste a LOT of time revisiting everything constantly.

Persona 4 is the same way. You can encounter party members you're not using in dungeons, and they have dialog for every rank of their social links (and occasionally react to the dialog from the other characters they appear in the dungeon with).

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 05:43

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 11:55

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BioEnchanted posted:

On the subject of games using mechanics to tell the story, I liked what Blue Dragon did at the beginning of the game. Shu's catchphrase, "I'll never give up" is incorporated into the mechanics. Until he learns that sometimes all you can do is flee, he literally can't. He is the only character that has no FLEE command in combat. Jiro and Kluke can run away, but Shu cannot. After the aforementioned lesson is learned, he gains the flee command. I thought that that was very cute. Also the Villain Nene is using the main characters to strengthen his soul by potting a fragment in each of the mains, then taking them back when they are stronger. Yup, he's using Shu and company to literally level grind so he doesn't have to :P

Has anyone LP'd Blue Dragon? Because someone should really do that.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2013 02:03

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