Cleretic posted:

Lightning is indeed deliberately an overserious woman with no sense of humor or concept of having fun, so you're right on that one. Yusnaan is the best part of Lightning Returns, because most of the sidequests are her being hosed around by, and playing the straight man for, a bunch of goofball carnival workers.

As for everyone else, going backwards...
-Whether XII's has a goofball side depends on which character you consider the protagonist. Vaan does, Ashe doesn't, Balthier is too busy being amazing in other ways.
-Tidus is mostly goofball side until pretty late in the game.
-Zidane we do not need to build a case for.
-Squall is mostly an awkward, aloof teenager. He's serious, but that doesn't make him cool.
-Real Cloud, at least until the remake gets to him, is a tool and an idiot who's trying too hard to be cool and absolutely failing.
-I'd say VI depends on the protagonist, but Terra and Celes are both pretty serious and kinda depressing, and the extent of Locke's 'goofball side' is being seasick once, which seemed to be that era of FF's way to make their leading man 'relatable'. VI's party had goofballs, but they were all supporting cast.
-Bartz is an idiot vagrant who inexplicably gets to hang around hot women all day. FFV is not a serious game, and he's still by far the 'goofball side' of the party.
-Cecil has no sense of humor. Neither does Kain. ...Or Rosa, or really Rydia. IV's whole party is pretty boringly straight-faced, actually.
-NES III has no player characters. The IIImake's are all literal children on an adventure though, as is Onion Knight in Dissidia, so they're fine.
-I don't think FFII had even developed the concept of 'jokes' yet, let alone 'comedic character moments'.
-And FFI's got no player characters in any form.

So remarkably, while Lightning is indeed the odd one out there in the later-day Final Fantasy games, the protagonist having a comedic side like that is actually a more recent thing. The story-heavy SNES era games that everyone lauds, in particular, are actually even more serious than Lightning.

El Diablo Bob O posted:

Oh yeah, buddy.

One of my favorite parts of this game was the emblem maker.

a kitten posted:

This isn't helping my growing urge to finally move into this console generation and buy a ps4.

J.A.B.C. posted:

Plus, there's an NPC dedicated to food porn, it's wonderful.

Like this:

El Diablo Bob O posted:

One of my favorite parts of this game was the emblem maker.

Thin Privilege posted:

I actually don't know if this is "little" because I'm not playing FF15 but my friend sent it to me and I thought it was awesome as hell. I pretty much always hate product placement but this really stands out as

thecluckmeme posted:

There's a quest where your stoic party member becomes obsessed with Cup Noodles and wants to make the Ultimate Cup Noodle, so you have to go kill a Behemoth and mix in its meat to a cup to make an Ultimate Cup Noodle dish at camp

Later in the game, your cook can't make you food, so the cooking falls to this character. You can make a depressing can of cold beans... or Ultimate Cup Noodle if you did that quest

Thin Privilege posted:

Haha goddamn. My friend just texted that you pick your favorite ingredient, and his was shrimp, so he had to kill a giant shrimp.

J.A.B.C. posted:

The Rocket Punch.

pulp rag posted:

The absolute best weapon in the entire game. Seriously, once I develop it, I pretty much shitcan the rest of my weapons because of how good it is. The Flying Knuckle Sandwich can take out entire outposts filled with snipers and heavy units in a single go!

The best part is if you fire it during slow motion segments if you get spotted, the look of confused horror on an enemy soldier's face as a rocket-propelled fist hurdles towards his dick is priceless.

Action Tortoise posted:

Locke is pretty goofy early on, with the treasure hunter running joke and the stormtrooper bit.

Cleretic posted:

Rydia...is pretty boring

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Squall is also a massive goon.
Its almost a running joke through the game in how he desperately wants to show affection yet absolutely does not have the first idea how.

When he saves rinoa (the love interest) from certain space doom his first reaction to her trying to fawn over him is to just stand there, she then explicitly asks for a hug, and he continues standing there.

His inner monologue amounts to "JESUS HOLY gently caress I LOVE YOU BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO SAY IT"

Nuebot posted:

He's a pretty believably 17 protagonist. I like the part where they're going on some stupid mission (I think the one to assassinate the witch?) and his internal monologue just has him ignoring all the important mission dialogue then he just shouts something stupid mid-thought and runs away leaving everyone really confused.

Nuebot posted:

He's a pretty believably 17 protagonist. I like the part where they're going on some stupid mission (I think the one to assassinate the witch?) and his internal monologue just has him ignoring all the important mission dialogue then he just shouts something stupid mid-thought and runs away leaving everyone really confused.

Cleretic posted:

I honestly think Squall gets off worse from the 'Kingdom Hearts-ification' of the characters it uses than Cloud does. Cloud was at least kind of a tool at all points, and you are meant to think he's the total tryhard we see him as, it's just lost that the game is in on that joke and that he gets better. Non-FFVIII Squall is just a totally different character that doesn't reflect who he was in his origin game at all.

Thin Privilege posted:

I vividly remember asking the MGSV thread if I could do "BOX BOX BOX". I was SO loving EXCITED when People told me I could. Designing my emblem of 2 "box" words and a cardboard box. Box forever.

3 posted:

From "BOX", two phantoms were born...

Sad lions posted:

I think that's when they heard Seifer was executed. He's horrified about everyone talking past tense about Seifer and then freaks out after wondering how people would talk about him, suddenly exclaiming something like "don't you fuckers talk about me in the like I'm gone!" Before storming out.
It was a pretty funny moment.

pulp rag posted:

The absolute best weapon in the entire game. Seriously, once I develop it, I pretty much shitcan the rest of my weapons because of how good it is. The Flying Knuckle Sandwich can take out entire outposts filled with snipers and heavy units in a single go!

The best part is if you fire it during slow motion segments if you get spotted, the look of confused horror on an enemy soldier's face as a rocket-propelled fist hurdles towards his dick is priceless.

J.A.B.C. posted:

Sadly, this is true. I wish more of the arm weapons had more utility, but the Stun Arm takes a bunch of setup for its ultimate charge and the Hand of Jehuty's range cripples its use. Rocket Punch will coast you through the endgame, though. Especially when getting S rank Soldiers and taking out heavy infantry squads.

Also, I've used it to knock on tanks to turn their turrets long enough to fulton them out.

3 posted:

Thin Privilege posted:

I vividly remember asking the MGSV thread if I could do "BOX BOX BOX". I was SO loving EXCITED when People told me I could. Designing my emblem of 2 "box" words and a cardboard box. Box forever.

3 posted:

From "BOX", two phantoms were born...

Sniper Party posted:

Inzombiac posted:

I don't have the screenshots right now but my last emblems were:
"SPECIAL BOY"
"LAUGHING TORTOISE"
"NAKED MASTER"
"X-RAYRAY"

drat Ray Ray, he was too beautiful for this world.

Samfucius posted:

Strife posted:

Also I love how your custom patch made its way into cutscenes.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Killed By Death posted:

I'm 12 years old