Simply Simon posted:

Zell is one of only two good characters in your party because he's a moron like everybody else on the entire planet but not a total loving rear end in a top hat about it. Also, as we're going to see during the course of the LP, he and the other good character are the only persons who actually get things done competently at all.

Mazed posted:

It is creepy. And one of the better bits of foreshadowing that this game does.

Mega64 posted:

How has no one else pointed this out yet? Talking about the feasibility of broadcasting in a town that has a place called Propaganda Tower.

Psychotic Weasel posted:

This is my favourite shot in the game so far - it implies that even through they're expecting the 3 visitors they still contemplate letting them sail off into space for whatever reason instead of doing what they're supposed to do. Like, they're still complete strangers at this point but the controller is such a sociopath that he still considers murdering them just because.

I wonder what their excuse would be if they just let that happen and someone followed up on it...

LEGO Genetics posted:

We're getting to that part of the game where my disc 3 failed to read anymore.

just after getting the Ragnarok

WampaLord posted:

This is what I mean by Final Fantasy having an 11 year old's idea of sex.

Rinoa and Squall are hormone-addled teenagers who love each other. He bursts her out of sorceress prison, they run towards each other, embrace and...just embrace.

Why isn't that a big drat kiss moment?

Cool Ghost posted:

Also, please post any votes for two party members to take on some adventures around the place. Get the posts in by Monday at noon (UTC-7) and, as always, please bold your votes!

ApplesandOranges posted:

I doubt that Martine would have actually sent a sharpshooter known for failing under pressure.

Zinco posted:

........oh.

Well, don't worry yourself that it was because you weren't a native English speaker...

Two Finger posted:

the thing is the broad strokes of the plan aren't actually bad.

'two teams, one to make the distraction, the other to take the shot while the distraction is in play.'

it's a pretty classic sort of assassination plan.

now if selphie was in charge, it would be two teams, one to watch for the exact moment edea goes underneath the gates, the second to trigger the gate so she gets brutally spiked to death by the gate.

Kheldarn posted:

Cactaur shall be Conductor, named for the Cactuar Conductor from World of Final Fantasy, who runs the trains.

Cool Ghost posted:

Patter Song posted:

Oh God, I'd blanked on that at first and thought you meant Seifer and was wondering how you could you get stuck there.

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

I liked the various Cloister of Trial.

Senior Woodchuck posted:

"And Chocobos." Of course.

Nidoking posted:

I can't say I know much about games specifically, but I know how programming tends to work and the shortcuts programmers take, so I've figured out some things from playing multi-disc games like Final Fantasies and Phantasmagorias. Obviously, when you're looking at a game taking up more than one disc, there's a lot of commonality that has to take up space on every disc. The less of that there is, the more room for unique per-disc stuff, but then you have to reduce the ability to go to those common areas during the discs that don't contain it. (Contrast this with multi-disc games in the floppy era, where disc-swapping was a simple operation, so the common portions were on disc 1 and usually installed to the computer or loaded into memory for the duration of the game, and you'd have to swap to whatever disc had the resources for a given area as you moved around the game.) Tricks like blocking off the towns are the most obvious example of that. But including portions of the game that aren't generally used on that disc can make sense, depending on the compression (kompression?) technology they're using. Certain resources might be packaged into a library very efficiently, and there might be little or no reduction in size from removing one or two portions of that, at the cost of now having multiple copies of very similar libraries that then need to be modified and tested separately. Common libraries between discs might also happen to refer to resources that wouldn't normally be on that disc, so in order to run smoothly, there has to be some resource with the required ID, whether it's the intended one or not. That would account for different FMVs playing when the wrong disc is in. In other cases, it's entirely possible to exclude portions of the program that shouldn't be required for a given disc, so the common world map just has broken links to resources for areas that don't exist, trusting the game's inherent structure to prevent players from reaching them. There's a big risk/reward structure in any kind of development like this, and not many companies put forth the people and time required to do the job well, so whatever works first gets shipped.

It could also be scenario changes late in the schedule that remove the need to execute certain scenes on certain discs, after everything's been laid out, and it's easier just to disable those portions than to try to rearrange the data to fit anything else on the discs. That fits pretty well with the way I understand Square's development schedule (i.e. create fancy FMV cutscenes for ads first, then construct a game that mashes them all together somehow). Having used the original RPG Maker a bit and understanding the distinction between System Data (locations, character models, maps, etc.) and Scenario Data (events) helps a bit. The System Data tends to be more common between discs, while Scenario Data can usually be restricted to one disc.

Cool Ghost posted:

Caraway's in prime position to take over Galbadia. In this world, the Leonhart-Heartilly extended family is the only political power worth mentioning.

Cool Ghost posted:

How Rude posted:

Great job showing off the game. The ending for FFVIII always warms my heart. I just wish the game showed more development for the supporting cast. Like Quistis stops being relevant very soon after the assassination attempt. Would have been neat to learn more (but definitely not more about Irvine, the creep).