Killing generic Soldiers (Cloud was one at one point remember) is fine, even if it causes their families to starve or end up making the making the necessary amount of angst in their children to create the next generation of heroes.
I can change the main character's name to anything, including PrettyPrincess or RavingGay, and still win the their love interest's heart, save the world, and AND not be laughed at for my name. Though I suggest naming characters what you need to remember about them, e.g. Yuffie: JailbaitNinja, Aeris: Corpse (I got her limit break though HA!), Cait sith: Useless, Vincent: 100%Awesome, Barret: 1/2Man1/2Minigun, and... Tifa: *not going to do Obvious Boob joke*
Humanity will still use Fuels that will kill earth even if there is magic to power everything. Materia + Mages = Powerplant = Intelligent Answer
Mother Nature is a cruel, elitist and slightly retarded: She hates you a lot, (even though you are trying to save her). She is always throwing monsters, landslides, snow, rain, thunder and crappy terrain at you.
Her creatures are all have the survival instincts of the last lemming to run after its kin, after watching them run off a cliff and go splat. What does the mack off Blade of DOOM (+4 in "Overcompenstation" with "Ego stroking" abilities) and other pointy (or plushie in some cases) weaponry say to them?
They swallow rings, gil and clothing, these are understandable, if I was eating random travellers I may forget about taking the little bits off before a nibble but... Swords (MACK OFF SWORD MRK II +? in "WTF" with "How in god's name did it eat this" Abilities)? Staffs and spears (but it was a rabbit)? Shuriken?! Yuffie, I know you are not a goodie-goodie, thieving and all but feeding animals shuriken thats "I'm going to the special hell!" evil. BOMBS?!! COME ON, YUFFIE I'M LOOKING AT YOU!
And her Ecosystem doesn't work (eat each other, NOT ME)!
A long and melodramatic ending cut scene will make an ex-boyfriend tear up, and make said ex think he can sing the ending's song at karaoke. He couldn't.
FFIII if you wander you WILL make it half way through a high level cave (etc) then when you get attacked and almost killed there will be enemys on every other step on teh way out
-a sword+gun = badass weapon even thoug there is no barrel (wtf maybe im confused)- -its perfectly okay for the best sniper ever to crack under the pressure of his job when you do ur best move ever in a fight the world goes all glowly and you suddenly develop a bad case of static electrictiy -Fists do as much damage as a sword (zell)
Final Fantasy 10
-its normal to survive a huge fall after hanging off a collapsing beam (opening sequence) - Having one arm always help up excpet when fighting, wearing dark glasses, swinging a badass sword and NOT looking like a girly emo kid makes you the coolest dude in existence (and lets u not die as well) - you can come back from the dead (though perfectly tangible) - Stuffed animals have minds of their own - Big breasts + too many belts+ emo = 3 guys who like you instantly
-All adventures require a metrosexual, a slut, an awkwardly funny guy, a "badass", and a modest but still annoying female. -Carrying around whole cabins is not only feasible, but pretty much expected. -Villains, despite being able to achieve their goal of destruction in a single attack, will always do things the hard way.
And of course...
-Squaresoft/Square Enix was founded by a bunch of Star Wars fanboys.
-that you must always wait your turn when fighting random ppl on the street
-that throwing your medication in the air will cause it to instantly take effect
-that u should always have a group of ppl with you just in case you need to beat the crap out of some random person that pops up in front of u
-that if u suddenly see some1 appear in front of u, kill them, since they are odviously planning to kill you(why ELSE would they suddenly walk in front of u?!)
-dont worry if your friends die, you always got your handy phenix downs!
-that carrying a doll around with you will give u magic powers
When I was playing Final Fantasy 2 and 3 (The american ones? w/e, the ones with Cecil and Kefka in them ( Someone clear all that up for me, I don't know which FF is which)) I was 4 years old, they taught me how to read man, spending hours walking around and reading everything someone has to say...
j-e-f-f-e-r-s: You can actually stick the kettle on, make a cup of tea and drink it in the time it takes Sephiroth to cast Supernova.
And do it again when Cloud uses Omnislash.
THINGS I LEARNED FROM FF7. (includes the compilation games) - You can totally get out of jail by winning a race on a giant yellow bird. - A mad scientist is behind EVERYTHING. - A fat scientist in a banora white apple juice shirt can totally outrun a first-class mako-infused SOLDIER. - There 'ARE' thirty somethings! Cid's 32, Barret's .. close to that and Sephiroth, when he went nuts was in his thirties! Plus there's all the crazy execs and ... oh, you meant there's no one over thirty who's a good guy? Hmm. - It's possible to have long silver hair that goes past your waist and wield a 7ft katana and yet not slice your hair off. - You CAN survive a stab through the gut by said 7ft katana if you're SO ANGRY enough.
FROM FINAL FANTASY 8: - In a time compressed future, the only people to survive the trip aside from your party is the card queen, and those who stole away on the Ragnarok to play cards. - You too can be a rebel faction by plopping on the ground and discussing strategy! - Firing your dog from your arm is totally acceptable, and in fact, can hit for major damage! - To win an anti-social, scared-of-abandonment main character's heart, you need to badger him to high heaven for 2 discs, fall unconscious and be used in a twisted time sorceress' plot.
FROM FFXII: - Standing next to a crystal and a moogle will transport you across the city! - EVERYONE looks stupid riding a chocobo. - The manliest character to ever man something (Basch) can look like a total pansy just by the clothes he wore .. which, creepily enough, he yanked off of some dead prisoner guy. What the hell was THAT guy wearing those clothes for
FROM ANY FF: - EVERYONE has a stupid run except for the main character. - There's only 1 city/town in the new continents, except for your starting continent, where there's usually 3. (exception: FF8. You were on a tiny island.)
-You can change your profession as many times as you want despite the jarring contrast between them and get all th perks and abilities in a blink of an eye. -Apparently the entire world is one big sports game when you have Cid, who seems to be able to tell monsters to fuck off anytime he wants. -There are no measurements other than Squares. -You can learn to cast powerful death spells, raise people from the dead, and cleave monsters in to pieces..but you can't do all three at once. -If you port super powerful main characters from another game into your world, their not allowed to have their weapon which is a key factor to their core of existance. (WTF! No Buster Sword o.O) -Chocobos Pwn All.
FF7: -Permanent mithril infused hair gel exists. -Cloud's hair has a bigger erection than he does, no wonder Tifa loves him. -Just holding a shiny colorful orb lets you command god like creatures to do your every bidding. -You aren't allowed to just be nice to one person and get into their pants, you have to know how every single word out of your mouth will change the relationships of every being on the planet. -Your friends don't seem to care that you can turn into the avatar of Chaos which is scarier than the closet monster Sephiroth. -Even though you weapon changes appearance, you'll always end up wearing the same clothes every day. -Punching something the size of a 50 story building will hurt it somehow.
FF8: -Everyone went to the same daycare; and it means something so significant that the world is saved by that fact. -Using magic to enhance your stats eats memories and makes you go crazy. -The world is controlled by giant yellow slugs. -There are special spots which lets you draw magic that could destroy the world, yet no one has tried to monopolize it and take over the planet. -A girl weighing around 120lbs with no muscle mass can hold her arm straight forward with a 90+ pound dog on it...and fire a boomerang disc with it riding it! -Compensating for small twigs n' berries is fun! It means more damage! -You can't simply pay someone for a stupid gold chocobo since no one is allowed to breed chocobos but you. -Getting hit by a gun, missiles, magical death, giant swords, and stomped by a 90ton robot isn't a instant death sentence.
FF9: -Frogs are the most powerful things on the planet; Collect Them! -It's A.O.K to release deadly and powerful monsters roam free in your city so contestants can hunt them down, cause y'know the monsters will never think to damage the city itself. -The guy who back stabbed you for the 9th time can be considered trustworthy if he gives you some items and promises not to do it again. -Don't buy stuff for your friends, cause their gonna end up dead anyways.
FF10: -Your dad is famous, so the fact he's an abusive asshole doesn't change anything. -Throwing inflatable balls at monsters can hurt them, even if their covered in acid or spikes. -If you take the time, you can make everyone cast the most powerful spell in the world. -By combining two orbs, that don't really exist physically, you can make a bomb. -Despite the fact weapons sometimes look identical you can tell their different somehow despite having no knowledge of the item. -Everyone shop keeper in the world seems to have infinite amounts of the items they sell and an infinite amount of cash to buy shit off you.
FFX-2: -It is possible to make Christina Aguilera into a video game. -Making a game for nothing but pure fan-service and lowering the standards of the world is an excellent idea. -Targeting young girls with images of pixelated sluts is a great plan. -Big Breasts + Mini Skirts + Guns = Holy Grail of Video Games. -Wearing someone's clothes makes you identical and impossible to be found as a fake. -Auron CAN be a wuss. -Monsters don't mind waiting as your characters strip off all their clothing to put on something skimpy for your enjoyment. -Polka-Dotted skimpy two-piece swimsuits are the most protective piece of clothing in the universe. -Gravity doesn't exist.
FF In General: -Less clothing = More armor -Breasts are built in armor points -Everyone can hold 100lb swords and swing them perfectly with one arm...while drunk. -Monsters have a use for cash, and can be bribed somehow. -Giving people nuts will make them trust you and give you free stuff. -Selling powerful magical relics to random people never comes back to bite you in the butt. -Cross dressing is the perfect way of getting into someone's room. -Every storyline has to deal with then end of the world, universe, dimension, mirror world, multi-verse. -People of the same profession look identical. -You can carry several hundred different items in your pockets and not run out of space or carry capacity. -Having the protagonist talk might not be such a bad idea. -Never try to attack a person with a ribbon on their head; Their Immune!
Well FFVII was / is (if not the greatest) one of worlds best video game ever. FFVIII was fairly good but I missed mana points. FFX was nice and almost as good as VII. After FFX I've not played new FF's because their composer Nobuo umatsu left. To put it other way Ueamtsu is as important to FF series as Bernard Herrmann was to Hitchcock.
What I learned, when you plan on releasing an ungodly number of sequels, don't call the game Final Fantasy unless one of them is actually going to be the "final" fantasty!
In the same way that a child will nearly always play with gift-wrap and boxes at Christmas; I always spend more time playing the minigames (Blitzball, Tetra Master...) that I will the rest of the game.
PLEASE SOMEONE READ THIS!!!! i only have FFX and FFX-2, love both, well, love ffx, tolerate ffx-2, but i liked FFX-2 tll i realised something........
INCEST IN FINAL FANTASY!
rikku is yuna's cousin rite? then so is brother...and brother wants to be the meat in Yuna's sandwich. this is why this game creeps me out. that and brother acts like a complete tit/noob in the entire game, i wud much like to shove him infront of vegnagun and tell shuyin to have at.
other than this creepy piece of incest,its a good game :)
FFX i love it, love it loveit love it! i actually at one point killed my own characters off whenfacing seymour and anima because they are too kick ass to kill, i wud much prefer auron slicing a new one into rikku, which khimari then tearing auron a new one, finally self destructing (thank you bomb). but the thing whcih annoyed me with this game is why the f' are they laughin? there is no joke yet they laugh.
im sure the makers were high at the time... still, produced a great game, loved the mumified chicken (anima) still my favourite aeon, and yojimbo can go screw himself, what aeon gets paid to fight? pfft nuts to that, if i wanted someone dressed in a curtain with a dog n a sword, i wudda rented kill bill and uploaded beatix kiddo onto it with wishbone (u no, that annoying dog that could talk)
well i have more thought but meh later, u guys will prob be bored by now lol then agen,we are FF players, we are made to endure cut scenes with japanese animation which looks nothing like the characters themselves
Sampsa: Well FFVII was / is (if not the greatest) one of worlds best video game ever. FFVIII was fairly good but I missed mana points. FFX was nice and almost as good as VII. After FFX I've not played new FF's because their composer Nobuo umatsu left. To put it other way Ueamtsu is as important to FF series as Bernard Herrmann was to Hitchcock.
amazing. The two FF games advertised as "look at the new pretty graphics" are this person's favorite. Coincidence?
Sampsa: Well FFVII was / is (if not the greatest) one of worlds best video game ever. FFVIII was fairly good but I missed mana points. FFX was nice and almost as good as VII. After FFX I've not played new FF's because their composer Nobuo umatsu left. To put it other way Ueamtsu is as important to FF series as Bernard Herrmann was to Hitchcock.
amazing. The two FF games advertised as "look at the new pretty graphics" are this person's favorite. Coincidence?
I think not.
As any TRUE FF fanboy knows (yeah, I threw up a bit reading that too) FFVI was the zenith of the genre and has been in decline ever since. These youngin's today with their fancy shmancy polygons and effeminate protagonists. Bah I say! In MY day, we made due with SPRITES and we were DAMN well happy to have em! And we didn't need none of them silly minigames neither! The MAIN game was good enough for us, yessireebob! If we wanted to play a different game, we'd walk FIVE steps to the console and change the cartage! BAREFOOT! Both ways!
LOL. Very funny. Though I am serious, FF7 and X were both marketted with just showcasing the new power of the system for cutscenes. FF7 was essentially FF6's plot but to a less extreme extent content wise and FFX is possibly the most linear RPG ever.
And before someone says it, yes OoT is essentiallty LttP in 3D plot wise. Same with Starfox 64 with the original. Almost everything on N64 was a reimagining more than a sequal.
VRaptorX: LOL. Very funny. Though I am serious, FF7 and X were both marketted with just showcasing the new power of the system for cutscenes. FF7 was essentially FF6's plot but to a less extreme extent content wise and FFX is possibly the most linear RPG ever.
And before someone says it, yes OoT is essentiallty LttP in 3D plot wise. Same with Starfox 64 with the original. Almost everything on N64 was a reimagining more than a sequal.
If you're saying FFVI and VII have the same plot, because both are about an evil organization that's outdone in evilness by a less-than-sane member of said organization, then almost all FF's essentially are the same plot xD
Same basic plot yes every RPG has them basically. BuT FF6 and 7 were nerely identical in the events, not just backround. That and the whole materia espers thing was pretty similar as well. It was essentially the same thing just in a different setting.
Facts learnt from FFVII but apply to all:
Killing generic Soldiers (Cloud was one at one point remember) is fine, even if it causes their families to starve or end up making the making the necessary amount of angst in their children to create the next generation of heroes.
I can change the main character's name to anything, including PrettyPrincess or RavingGay, and still win the their love interest's heart, save the world, and AND not be laughed at for my name. Though I suggest naming characters what you need to remember about them, e.g. Yuffie: JailbaitNinja, Aeris: Corpse (I got her limit break though HA!), Cait sith: Useless, Vincent: 100%Awesome, Barret: 1/2Man1/2Minigun, and... Tifa: *not going to do Obvious Boob joke*
Humanity will still use Fuels that will kill earth even if there is magic to power everything.
Materia + Mages = Powerplant = Intelligent Answer
Mother Nature is a cruel, elitist and slightly retarded:
She hates you a lot, (even though you are trying to save her). She is always throwing monsters, landslides, snow, rain, thunder and crappy terrain at you.
Her creatures are all have the survival instincts of the last lemming to run after its kin, after watching them run off a cliff and go splat. What does the mack off Blade of DOOM (+4 in "Overcompenstation" with "Ego stroking" abilities) and other pointy (or plushie in some cases) weaponry say to them?
They swallow rings, gil and clothing, these are understandable, if I was eating random travellers I may forget about taking the little bits off before a nibble but...
Swords (MACK OFF SWORD MRK II +? in "WTF" with "How in god's name did it eat this" Abilities)? Staffs and spears (but it was a rabbit)? Shuriken?! Yuffie, I know you are not a goodie-goodie, thieving and all but feeding animals shuriken thats "I'm going to the special hell!" evil. BOMBS?!! COME ON, YUFFIE I'M LOOKING AT YOU!
And her Ecosystem doesn't work (eat each other, NOT ME)!
and Horses don't exist!