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Wasn't 7 M rated?
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Sep 2, 2014 18:20
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VII was rated T, and the only reason I remember that is because it was the first game I got my mom to bend on the rating thing (I was 12 when it came out).
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Sep 2, 2014 18:23
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AngryRobotsInc posted:VII was rated T, and the only reason I remember that is because it was the first game I got my mom to bend on the rating thing (I was 12 when it came out). A T rated game in which the main character crossdresses in order to sneak into the house of a pimp.
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Sep 2, 2014 18:45
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Dr Pepper posted:A T rated game in which the main character crossdresses in order to sneak into the house of a pimp. It was a magical time, a game like FFVII would face quite a bit of controversy nowadays, especially in such a famous series.
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Sep 2, 2014 19:14
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There's a great interview with Sakaguchi. It's mostly about his new mobile game (Terra Battle) but there are a lot of great anecdotes about working at Square and the Final Fantasy games:quote:I sat down with Sakaguchi on Sunday for an extensive interview with the iconic developer, who was jovial and pleasant, frequently laughing and often chiming in with short English responses to my questions. "[Final Fantasy XV] is taking too long," he joked when I asked his thoughts on the state of the series he's left behind. Sakaguchi was also candid about his thoughts on mobile gaming, ports, and Final Fantasy VI. ("When I hear you and other fans saying, 'Yeah, VI was my favorite!' I'm like, 'Hey, so why didn't you buy it back then?'") http://kotaku.com/things-are-much-different-for-the-creator-of-final-fant-1629514442
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Sep 2, 2014 19:16
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TARDISman posted:I'm wondering if they'll pull off an M for the first time in the franchise. Just going off the intro, Type-0's pretty bloody, you've got high school age kids getting mowed the gently caress down on screen. I always wondered if the lack of ridiculously young characters in more recent FF games is because, with the better graphics, they couldn't get away with showing a lot of violence done to them. FFIV had the Twins (who were 4) and IX had Eiko (who was 6) and with modern graphics we would see them stabbed, shot, crushed, etc..
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Sep 2, 2014 21:53
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FF hasn't really had young characters ever anyway. Recent JRPG Tales of Xillia 2 has a villain kick a like 6 year old girl around for a bit and the game isn't rated M or anything. FF4 had the twins and rydia, 6 had Relm and Gau, 5 had Krile, but once you get to the PS1 era the only super little kid party members are in 9. Which is an intentional throwback anyway. Not to mention the violence, even in FF13, is never really hyper realistic and gruesome.
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Sep 2, 2014 22:07
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Yeah, the most explicit thing that ever happened to any of those kids is Krile got thrown into the magic fire ring and tossed around a bit and the twins turned each other to stone. Final Fantasy just isn't that violent a franchise, which is what makes me wonder about the rating for Type-0 HD.
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Sep 2, 2014 22:13
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Isn't Krile supposed to be something like 14?
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Sep 2, 2014 23:32
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Well, it's violent in that the gameplay resolution at a very basic level involves defeating opponents in combat and killing monsters. The twins were beating people up and getting attacked on the way up to the first elemental. It was just up to your imagination how that actually plays out, if you bothered to imagine it at all. Who imagines 4 year olds getting beaten up except sociopaths? There is a lot of violence in FF but it is just not visceral. There's very little blood. There aren't many death scenes that don't involve a monster dissolving or slumping. This makes those few moments where things get a bit more descriptive or visually visceral far more intense, like Edward describing how he was shielded from arrows in FF4 or the trail of blood following Sephiroth's slaughter in FF7 or even Kefka poisoning the water supply in FF6 and the resulting castle full of corpses.
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Sep 2, 2014 23:33
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Dr Pepper posted:A T rated game in which the main character crossdresses in order to sneak into the house of a pimp. Eight year old me had no idea what was going on in any of that section. That game really is the gift that keeps on giving 
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Sep 2, 2014 23:39
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Sunning posted:There's a great interview with Sakaguchi. It's mostly about his new mobile game (Terra Battle) but there are a lot of great anecdotes about working at Square and the Final Fantasy games: #rekt #burnheal #SAForumsinanutshell #wantfrieswiththatburn #somebodygivemeaburnnotice
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Sep 3, 2014 01:32
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bloodychill posted:Well, it's violent in that the gameplay resolution at a very basic level involves defeating opponents in combat and killing monsters. The twins were beating people up and getting attacked on the way up to the first elemental. It was just up to your imagination how that actually plays out, if you bothered to imagine it at all. Who imagines 4 year olds getting beaten up except sociopaths? Offhand I can only really think of three instances of blood: -As mentioned, Sephiroth's slaughter. -Squall getting his scar in the opening cutscene. -Kuja after getting hit by Mega Flare at the end of Disc 2. Aside from that the series is pretty tame when it comes to showing bodily fluids.
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Sep 3, 2014 02:24
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ApplesandOranges posted:Offhand I can only really think of three instances of blood: Except for Final Fantasy Tactics, where people were coughing up blood left and right.
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Sep 3, 2014 02:29
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Ivalice had some TB issues, it was a bad time.
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Sep 3, 2014 02:36
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Don't forget the part in the opening of FFXII where... everyone died and the crows ate their bodies.
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Sep 3, 2014 03:01
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ApplesandOranges posted:Offhand I can only really think of three instances of blood: What about the part in VII where Sephiroth rips off Jenova's plate and red liquid pours out? I always thought that was blood. Jupiter Jazz fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 04:47
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Himuro posted:What about the part in VII where Sephiroth rips off Jenova's plate and red liquid pours out? I always thought that was blood. I think that was just weird rear end cooling fluid. At least that's probably how they explained it to ESRB, who the hell knows what was going on in that tank.
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Sep 3, 2014 05:05
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TARDISman posted:Yeah, the most explicit thing that ever happened to any of those kids is Krile got thrown into the magic fire ring and tossed around a bit and the twins turned each other to stone. Final Fantasy just isn't that violent a franchise, which is what makes me wonder about the rating for Type-0 HD. Didn't the director of Type-0 say that it was inspired by a real war? Or am I muddling that up with Tactics Ogre and Yugoslav warring?
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Sep 3, 2014 12:50
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I love how this apparent dark, gritty, and mature Final Fantasy game -- that may be based on a real-rear end war -- is still about high schoolers.
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Sep 3, 2014 15:44
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Butt Ghost posted:I love how this apparent dark, gritty, and mature Final Fantasy game -- that may be based on a real-rear end war -- is still about high schoolers. Characters over the age of 20 do not exist. What exactly are you suggesting?
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Sep 3, 2014 15:50
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Himuro posted:Characters over the age of 20 do not exist. What exactly are you suggesting? Well, duh. They don't exist because they all died and nobody remembers them
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Sep 3, 2014 15:58
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Himuro posted:Characters over the age of 20 do not exist. What exactly are you suggesting? Of course they exist! They are all villains.
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Sep 3, 2014 15:59
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Gologle posted:#rekt #burnheal #SAForumsinanutshell #wantfrieswiththatburn #somebodygivemeaburnnotice I wonder how he feels about the work environment back at Square-Enix. It seems as though former SE employees, such as Hiromichi Tanaka and Yasumi Matsuno, are following in his footsteps. They didn't stick around at the company after their big budget projects had major development issues and have instead gravitated toward smaller game projects on mobile platforms. More recently, Kentaro Yasui, a lead programmer for the KH games and FFXV, left the company in the middle of FFXV's development to work on a mobile game by an upstart developer. It's probably a mix of burn out from large, troubled projects and the fact that very few publishers are funding big budget JRPGs. At least Sakaguchi managed to get Microsoft and Nintendo to fund some games for Mistwalker. CottonWolf posted:Didn't the director of Type-0 say that it was inspired by a real war? Or am I muddling that up with Tactics Ogre and Yugoslav warring? The story-telling and presentation style was based on a historical documentary series on Japanese television.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:00
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Levantine posted:Of course they exist! They are all villains.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:02
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Yes, what we need is FF Kids.* *This is not sarcasm.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:03
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Laguna and his pals were in their late 20a when we played as them if that is any consolation.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:12
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I wonder how they got away with having Edgar, Sabin, and Setzer be 27. And Cyan be 50. This is why FF6 had the best cast.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:23
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Sprites were a different time. Galuf was 60, Tellah was 60. ... and Palom and Porom were 5 
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Sep 3, 2014 16:27
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I'll take game about high schoolers that actually deal with ptsd and the consequences of death (and loopholes around it). That's one of the things I loved about FFX is the consequence of death and building a society around it.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:31
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I'm not sure why people are acting like recent Final Fantasy games don't have older guys. Auron was like 35 (give or take being a zombie), Steiner was 33, FFVII had Cid and Barret... FFVIII was about Teenagers With Attitude and FFXIII's cast were all mid-20s-but-500 except Hope and Sazh but for the most part Final Fantasy hasn't exactly avoided having people over 25.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:33
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Over ten years ago is not "recent".
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Sep 3, 2014 16:33
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I know you like to act like 13 doesn't exist, but it has a father in it.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:34
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Over ten years ago is not "recent". EDIT: Whoops, thought this was the RPG thread, ignore me.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:34
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Over ten years ago is not "recent". Sazh?
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Sep 3, 2014 16:34
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Sazh is 40 when XIII starts, so yes.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:35
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ImpAtom posted:FFVIII was about Teenagers With Attitude and FFXIII's cast were all mid-20s-but-500 except Hope but for the most part Final Fantasy hasn't exactly avoided having people over 25. Lightning and Snow are 21, Vanille is (6)19, Fang is (6)21, Hope is 14, and Sazh is 40. 21 isn't exactly shooting far above the teenager mark.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:38
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Artix posted:Lightning and Snow are 21, Vanille is (5)19, Fang is (6)21 (...Wait, what? I thought she and Vanille were a thing, how is she 100 years older? So? People are talking about how 'surprising' it is that they had characters over 25 when every Final Fantasy game since the SNES era besides FFVIII has had a cast which contains at least one character of that age and it isn't something that has changed since. Even FFXV has Cor Leonis who is in his 40s.
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Sep 3, 2014 16:40
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), Hope is 14, and Sazh is 40. 21 isn't exactly shooting far above the teenager mark.
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Beef Waifu posted:I know you like to act like 13 doesn't exist, but it has a father in it. The one likable character in the game. He's an outlier. FF6 is the only one where most of the cast is 25+. (At least I believe most, I didn't count) So it feels like the most adult cast, even despite Relm and Gau. It's the only RPG I can think of where I can have my top five favorite characters be 25+. I wonder why they chose to do that in one game and then never again. some bust on that guy fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Sep 3, 2014 16:46
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Despite the characters not all being of age, I still really liked XII's cast. Even though she's a teenager, Ashe doesn't ACT like a teenager.
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