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Dauntasa posted:To be honest, I was wondering why the game's final boss was Tifa throwing trains at you.
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Dauntasa posted:Hmm. And the trains that she's ridden have all mysteriously disappeared, and are never ridden by the party again. And the train to sector 5 freaked out and sounded the alarm because it thought it was next. Cleaving them in two with a giant key during a quick-time event really is the best part of FFVII
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Oct 12, 2012 16:04
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Next updates will come when my PC start working. My $120 10/1mbps ISP is being lovely and my video card is dying. Again. Third world problems. Alternatively I can sign on Vivendi's ISP for about that same amount of money and gain a 10% discount on World of Warcraft  .
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Oct 12, 2012 18:14
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Man what is it with the LP Curse? It seems every LP I read has a "Oh poo poo guys my hard drive shivved my GPU" It's like computers know. "dude, I'm trying to do something here! For the internet!"
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Oct 12, 2012 18:21
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My PC has already died 3 times since the LP started. Granted that's a long time at my slow pace (sorry!) but I'm just considering buying something new entirely instead of keeping this five-years old zombie alive.
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Oct 12, 2012 18:26
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Elentor posted:My PC has already died 3 times since the LP started. Granted that's a long time at my slow pace (sorry!) but I'm just considering buying something new entirely instead of keeping this five-years old zombie alive. I nursed a computer along for 9 years with half-assed improvised repairs and a video card upgrade around 7 years in and kept it playing recent games despite the fact that it was a dinosaur that should have been put down long ago. If I'd had the money I would have bought a new one in a heartbeat because having the loving thing die on me every week got old fast. A computer isn't really gonna last more than a few years unless you put it on life support and doing that results in it begging for the sweet release of death.
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Oct 12, 2012 18:32
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BioMe posted:Don't mind the joke posts obviously, but it's really just one of those dumb nerdy debates that tends end up with people saying Aerith's death scene would have been more dramatically appropriate if they'd have stopped it for a minute to have Cloud yell "CURE, CURE, CURE! LIFE! LIFE 2!". And I don't trust the internet enough to buy that everyone was going down that road ironically. People who actually like FFV claim that that scene was pretty dramatic. And TV dramas have "LIVE, DAMNIT! Why isn't CPR working on this knife wound?!" scenes for a reason. AND it would stop "why didn't Cloud just use Phoenix Down lololol" from being a thing.
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Oct 12, 2012 18:34
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actually,, ignore this post
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Oct 12, 2012 18:41
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This thread posted:Tifa and Sabin  I will create a train throwing GOD, at the tax payer's expense! Then, Beach Vacation!
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Oct 12, 2012 18:46
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Ak Gara posted:Man what is it with the LP Curse? It seems every LP I read has a "Oh poo poo guys my hard drive shivved my GPU" Sometimes it's the hard drive instead. It's terrible.
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Oct 12, 2012 19:19
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Xander77 posted:? In virtually every other Final Fantasy game, it'd be terribly out-of-place.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:01
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Final Fantasies should do away with pheonix downs and just have permadeath. It would be more immersive and realistic and have more vissicitude, it would make the story make more sense and be deeper, and would make the game more hardcore and the battles have more tension and strategy and tactics.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:04
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Yonic Symbolism posted:Final Fantasies should do away with pheonix downs and just have permadeath. It would be more immersive and realistic and have more vissicitude, it would make the story make more sense and be deeper, and would make the game more hardcore and the battles have more tension and strategy and tactics. So... if most of your party dies on a boss's last attack of a ten minute battle, oh well, time to load a save or go through the rest of the game without a healer and a summoner, and their associated plotlines? That might work for Might and Magic, but it doesn't really work in a game with a character-driven plot.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:09
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Rockdash posted:
I can't see imgur pictures when reading threads at work, but I knew exactly what this was a picture of, well done.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:12
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Golbez posted:So... if most of your party dies on a boss's last attack of a ten minute battle, oh well, time to load a save or go through the rest of the game without a healer and a summoner, and their associated plotlines? Sounds like casual talk, it would be a great change for hardcore final fantasy players and fans of roguelikes. And they could just add more characters, like Chrono Cross. Cloud dies? It's okay, you can just make Poshul your main character. No problem.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:13
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Pretty sure that's exactly what Fire Emblem does. All the characters are unique and have portraits and personalities and poo poo but if they take a crit lance to the face they are gone forever.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:15
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...I'm not sure how facetiousness wasn't detected even when I mentioned replacing Cloud with Poshul.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:15
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Dauntasa posted:Pretty sure that's exactly what Fire Emblem does. All the characters are unique and have portraits and personalities and poo poo but if they take a crit lance to the face they are gone forever. Even the plot-critical characters? And I detected it after Poshul. 
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Oct 12, 2012 20:17
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I thought that's what they did in FFXII before release.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:18
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Golbez posted:Even the plot-critical characters? If the main character dies, you lose the battle and have to start over. Anyone else just dies forever. Sometimes there's one or two other guys who are also super-plot important so if they die then, in terms of plot, they are still alive but too badly wounded to ever fight again.
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Oct 12, 2012 20:23
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You guys are thinking of Final Fantasy Tactics. That has permadeath for everyone aside from Ramza and NPCs.
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Oct 12, 2012 21:52
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Mogambo posted:You guys are thinking of Final Fantasy Tactics. That has permadeath for everyone aside from Ramza and NPCs. Nah, Fire Emblem does it too. Difference is that in Tactics you've got 3 turns to revive them before they're gone for good, but in Fire Emblem as soon as their HP hits zero they're toast.
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Oct 12, 2012 21:55
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Dauntasa posted:Nah, Fire Emblem does it too. Difference is that in Tactics you've got 3 turns to revive them before they're gone for good, but in Fire Emblem as soon as their HP hits zero they're toast. Yeah, but Fire Emblem isn't a Final Fantasy game. 
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Oct 12, 2012 22:00
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Mogambo posted:You guys are thinking of Final Fantasy Tactics. That has permadeath for everyone aside from Ramza and NPCs.
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Oct 12, 2012 23:10
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Mogambo posted:Yeah, but Fire Emblem isn't a Final Fantasy game. Valkyria Chronicles does this as well. If a unit goes down, you have three turns to reach them and the medic will then extract them from the battlefield (if an enemy unit touches them while they're down, they die). There's a total of three story-key characters (out of 50 usable units) that will just 'withdraw', the rest will actually die. And after reading through this thread, I like to think Hojo has a massive slot machine stashed somewhere in his lab. "What am I going to cross-breed today?..." *pulls lever* "A tonberry aaaand.... A Malboro! GENIUS!"
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Oct 13, 2012 03:06
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Dauntasa posted:I nursed a computer along for 9 years with half-assed improvised repairs and a video card upgrade around 7 years in and kept it playing recent games despite the fact that it was a dinosaur that should have been put down long ago. If I'd had the money I would have bought a new one in a heartbeat because having the loving thing die on me every week got old fast. A computer isn't really gonna last more than a few years unless you put it on life support and doing that results in it begging for the sweet release of death. That's roughly the same thing that happened to mine. At its worst point, right before I ditched it for a laptop, it was taking 20 mins to load, and sounded like a jet engine taking off. And then the fucker would overheat, and I'd have to start all over again. Elentor posted:My PC has already died 3 times since the LP started. Granted that's a long time at my slow pace (sorry!) but I'm just considering buying something new entirely instead of keeping this five-years old zombie alive. Would a phoenix down help
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Oct 13, 2012 03:35
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Zinco posted:The Hypello in Final Fantasy X are this exactly. Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:I think that was just FFX, which only had Poison and Slow not attached to a physical attack anyway and had the Scan tips to tell you things worked. So I finally caught up and I am SO EXCITED to be here in this thread at last and up to date properly, right in the middle of my favourite part of the drat game. Can't wait for our visit to some places both old and new.
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Oct 13, 2012 04:16
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Yonic Symbolism posted:Final Fantasies should do away with pheonix downs and just have permadeath. It would be more immersive and realistic and have more vissicitude, it would make the story make more sense and be deeper, and would make the game more hardcore and the battles have more tension and strategy and tactics. Also, it's "phoenix", not "pheonix".
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Oct 13, 2012 07:52
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gently caress it, let's just call them Fenix Downs and be done with it. 
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Oct 13, 2012 07:55
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Captain Bravo posted:gently caress it, let's just call them Fenix Downs and be done with it. I don't know whether to applaud or weep at this.
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Oct 13, 2012 08:46
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Try 'em both, multitask!
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Oct 13, 2012 08:50
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I'm surprised we had that entire conversation and no one said the plural of Phoenix Down is Phoenix Down.
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Oct 13, 2012 09:20
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Captain Bravo posted:Try 'em both, multicast! Fixed for thematic consistency and Red Mage supremacy.
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Oct 13, 2012 09:34
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counterfeitsaint posted:I'm surprised we had that entire conversation and no one said the plural of Phoenix Down is Phoenix Down.  .
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Oct 13, 2012 10:34
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Captain Bravo posted:Try 'em both, multitask! I would, but that would count as both Fury and Sadness, which would just make them cancel each other out.
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Oct 13, 2012 13:05
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FFXII tells your when your poo poo is immune. It also gives me a BJ every morning to wake me up.
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Oct 13, 2012 13:15
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Well, it has to make up for the gameplay somehow  .
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Oct 13, 2012 14:30
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So if you summon Phoenix when it's molting do you get a large free supply of its down?
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Oct 13, 2012 14:56
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IHatePugs posted:So if you summon Phoenix when it's molting do you get a large free supply of its down? Nah, the feathers have to be prepped in a certain way in order to work. Otherwise everybody would be trying to game the market.
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Brainamp posted:Nah, the feathers have to be prepped in a certain way in order to work. Otherwise everybody would be trying to game the market. So it's basically kosher salt.
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