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How formal can you be carrying a trunk everywhere you go?
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Be nice, elephants don't have a good grasp of style because they can't use computers.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:16
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hard counter posted:what are droids in this analogy I mean Lucas specifically based them off the two peasants in The Hidden Fortress. (In at least one early draft they were human functionaries but he decided robots made a better analogy.)
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Sep 10, 2019 01:26
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BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID OF THE MOUSE!
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Sep 10, 2019 01:31
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In any sci-fi/fantasy property it always feels a waste if the exotic races aren't relevant to the cast. Final Fantasy XII had a world of pig-men, cat-plushies, and lizard-dudes. However your party consisted of six humans, one of whom is dressed up as a Playboy Bunny. That Star Wars flop was completely out of ideas. After numerous reshoots the best villain they could up with was Paul Bettany with a knife. He has two scenes and absolutely nothing to remember him by.
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Sep 10, 2019 01:34
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I mean Star Wars itself has a whole cantina of weird creatures and the climax is a bunch of humans shooting at each other in spaceships, but also a Wookie roars
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Sep 10, 2019 01:37
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Inspector Gesicht posted:In any sci-fi/fantasy property it always feels a waste if the exotic races aren't relevant to the cast. Final Fantasy XII had a world of pig-men, cat-plushies, and lizard-dudes. However your party consisted of six humans, one of whom is dressed up as a Playboy Bunny. That Star Wars flop was completely out of ideas. After numerous reshoots the best villain they could up with was Paul Bettany with a knife. He has two scenes and absolutely nothing to remember him by. Dragon Quest consistently having humans as player characters when the best thing Toriyama draws are humanoid aliens/beasts is always a low point
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Sep 10, 2019 02:17
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Samuringa posted:Dragon Quest consistently having humans as player characters when the best thing Toriyama draws are humanoid aliens/beasts is always a low point Hell in Blue Dragon there is an entire massive sidequest that never gets mentioned by players involving the Beastfolk and their problems that's completely missable.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:50
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Frog was the best Chrono Trigger character.
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Sep 10, 2019 05:55
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Captain Monkey posted:Frog was the best Chrono Trigger character. Robo, yo.
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Sep 10, 2019 06:08
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Arivia posted:Robo, yo. Robo has better music, he is not a better character. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ20N6syuwc I did not notice that.
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Sep 10, 2019 06:16
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Weird way to spell Ayla but w/e.
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Sep 10, 2019 06:18
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lotta disgruntled Shining Force fans in here
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Alaois posted:lotta disgruntled Shining Force fans in here SF2 was the best RPG for the Genesis. FITE ME (on a grid in a turn-based way)
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Sep 10, 2019 14:10
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https://youtu.be/DqFHJvk2vYY
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Sep 10, 2019 14:15
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Pick posted:If it has dragons, it's fantasy. If it has aliens, it's science fiction. This is the correct, and indeed, the only way to categorize media. Uhhh...   
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Sep 10, 2019 14:27
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GoutPatrol posted:Robo has better music, he is not a better character. This has always been my favorite rickroll.
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Sep 10, 2019 14:42
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Science-Fantasy has sadly fallen out of favor, but games like Wizardry and Might & Magic remain in my heart, and on my hard drive.
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There was a killer robot in the very first final fantasy game
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Sep 10, 2019 14:58
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Was it Bender? 
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Science-Fantasy has sadly fallen out of favor, but games like Wizardry and Might & Magic remain in my heart, and on my hard drive. Final Fantasy still dips into this all the time, but if you want a less typical example I'd suggest Endless Legend. It's basically a corner of a sci-fi universe breaking into insane fantasy and it's great.
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The first Final Fantasy Legend was really good for that. Start off in a medieval world with swords and magic, sure why not. Next "tier", of the tower, ocean world with pirates and cannons? Cool. Third tier, sky world with airships and rebels fighting against an evil empire? Huh, kinda cliche but okay. Fourth tier? POST-APOCALYPTIC JAPAN WITH HOVERBIKES AND DEATH ROBOTS? Wait, what? And then you fight God. With a chainsaw if you want.
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The Final Fantasy Legend (SaGa) games are some bizarre bizarre stuff. Eating meat to turn yourself and party members into zombies, monsters, aliens, and robots. They remade SaGa 2 and 3 on DS in Japan. I wish we would have got them.
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Sep 11, 2019 04:17
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Final Fantasy always* double dips, usually with it's magic counterpart fueling their machines. Magitek, going to the Moon in 4, Cid's inventions in 7, the Space station in 8, and so on. Usually some big rear end ship or tank being powered by whatever is their current magic thingy. *Probably not in all of them but frequently enough that is might as well be a recurring theme.
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GoutPatrol posted:Robo has better music, he is not a better character. Frog didn't grow an entire forest or have half the heartbreaking pathos.
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Sep 11, 2019 05:23
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Arivia posted:Frog didn't grow an entire forest or have half the heartbreaking pathos. Robo had half the pathos of Frog, and wasn’t heroic enough to wield the Masamune, you cretin.
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Sep 11, 2019 05:30
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If you didn't think the scene where Frog wields the fully-awakened Masamune was the coolest poo poo, then you're wrong.
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Sep 11, 2019 06:01
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the_steve posted:If you didn't think the scene where Frog wields the fully-awakened Masamune was the coolest poo poo, then you're wrong. I thought it was cool but Robo getting beaten up by the other robots for the sin of having made friends with humans was more impactful.
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Sep 11, 2019 06:07
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You’re wrong I guess it was literally more impactful. Like there were more actual physical impacts. Is that what you meant by impactful? Physical impacts?
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Sep 11, 2019 06:32
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Sep 11, 2019 06:55
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Robo got deleted in Chrono Cross like a chump, Frog had the good sense to not appear at all outside another character that shares his name and nothing else.
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Sep 11, 2019 08:39
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Samuringa posted:Final Fantasy always* double dips, usually with it's magic counterpart fueling their machines. Magitek, going to the Moon in 4, Cid's inventions in 7, the Space station in 8, and so on. Usually some big rear end ship or tank being powered by whatever is their current magic thingy. Whether FFII or III goes for a combo sci-fi/fantasy depends on how you consider airships with nothing super special powering them, because that's basically the only big tech-y part of those. Otherwise, yeah, even in the ones that don't make that mix a big part of their setting and are mostly just straight fantasy (so, 1-5, 9, a surprising amount of 14) will usually have a dungeon or two that just decides to go hard on the sci-fi out of nowhere.
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Early computer RPGs like Wizardry and Ultima had completely random sci-fi elements thrown in for no reason too. Hell I think dungeons and dragons was doing that back in the 70s. Nerds love to cram parts of their nerdiness together wherever possible
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the_steve posted:If you didn't think the scene where Frog wields the fully-awakened Masamune was the coolest poo poo, then you're wrong. Hell yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvTCUHRdpZo
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Sep 11, 2019 13:05
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Aesop Poprock posted:Early computer RPGs like Wizardry and Ultima had completely random sci-fi elements thrown in for no reason too. Hell I think dungeons and dragons was doing that back in the 70s. Nerds love to cram parts of their nerdiness together wherever possible The second session of DnD ever ran had somebody show up wanting to be a cowboy and Gary Gygax just went with it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murlynd
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Aesop Poprock posted:Early computer RPGs like Wizardry and Ultima had completely random sci-fi elements thrown in for no reason too. Hell I think dungeons and dragons was doing that back in the 70s. Nerds love to cram parts of their nerdiness together wherever possible There was a 1st ed D&D module that took place in a crashed UFO, but with the caveat of describing it like a typically D&D character, with no concept of UFOs, would understand it.
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Sep 11, 2019 14:50
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Aesop Poprock posted:Early computer RPGs like Wizardry and Ultima had completely random sci-fi elements thrown in for no reason too. Hell I think dungeons and dragons was doing that back in the 70s. Nerds love to cram parts of their nerdiness together wherever possible https://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/barrier-peaks-wtf/1/
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OutOfPrint posted:There was a 1st ed D&D module that took place in a crashed UFO, but with the caveat of describing it like a typically D&D character, with no concept of UFOs, would understand it. Probably Expedition to Barrier Peak?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Fascism is by definition totalitarian. The fact Nazi Germany had a couple of elections under Hitler is because they were transitioning from a democratic state to a fascist one, not because fascists have elections. It's tough to tell how a fascist state would evolve because they generally got stomped out as quickly as possible, but Spain kept one for 36 years and it was pretty totalitarian. The United Citizen Federation was a junta. Whether it was a democratic junta or a representative democracy is unclear. I'm an idiot that has watched the other starship troopers films and those make it more explicit that the politicians are chosen by a singular party apparatus and have to be citizens and win by giant North Korea style margins.
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Captain Monkey posted:Frog was the best Chrono Trigger character. gently caress i missed this but 100% yes dude was always part of my team unless i wanted to gently caress around with triple techs also aways spared magus. hes too useful.
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