I probably spent at least 5 hours playing that damn b-ball game.
No regrets!
― reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Adam, you should replay VI! Maybe not as batshit as VII but there's tons to love.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
VI is the consensus pick for best FF, I thought
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:09 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that's what I heard. Any reasons why that is? I know the opera scene is amazing and all but that's like one scene out of a long game.
I'll probably replay it, but my new roommate has FFVIII and I haven't played many post-16-bit RPGs so that might be fun. Not sure I'll replay VII for a bit, I now have a Gold Chocobo but still have to kill the Weapons and Sephiroth, and by the time that is done, I'll probably have spent as much time on this game as I did playing through Skyrim 2.5 times.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 November 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
man I hate that I wrote this thread title
― the doleful cant of a bigot blinded by fear and hate (DJP), Friday, 1 November 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
lol
ugh I hate that I titled this thread this― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Monday, March 9, 2009 8:53 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― the doleful cant of a bigot blinded by fear and hate (DJP), Friday, 1 November 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Ha, opera scene probably my least favorite part of FF6!
It's just big, so much world, so many side quests, so many characters. Actually, probably too many on the last, but there's a strong core of 6-10 leads who are totally interesting IMO. Within the 16-bit palette you also get a real sense of a variety of environments and so on. I mean, I haven't seriously played it all the way through since I got it on emulator in the late 90s, so I don't know how completely this holds up. But I remember finding it broad and chewy. More to find and do than Chrono Trigger, though muddier-looking, and with some seriously flawed sections and certainly a less unique story.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 November 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that's what I heard. Any reasons why that is? I know the opera scene is amazing and all but that's like one scene out of a long game.― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, November 1, 2013 8:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
best villain, arguably the best music, arguably the best easter eggs/hidden items.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 1 November 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
then ask a mod to change it! i'd do it myself but my influence is not nearly so leveled up as yours
― reckless woo (Z S), Friday, 1 November 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link
i've been playing ff6 lately actually. my first final fantasy. (i did almost beat super mario rpg: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN STARS as a kid tho.) some of the sprite art is really great; the characters are really emotive for how tiny and cramped they are. peanuts-esque use of space. i partic loved the part where you pick up the guy who just saw his entire city poisoned, and you flee through the forest and wind up on the train full of ghosts going to the underworld, and it feels cartoony and random and dumb until finally after you disembark the refugee sees all the people from his town, including his wife and kids, climbing numbly aboard the train, and chases after it as it pulls away, and ends up standing on the edge of the empty platform staring offscreen with his lil sprite head hung. i thought that was terrific. the opera scene i knew was coming so some of its impact was diluted but the wordless synthesized 16-bit singing kind of blew my mind.
idk if i can finish it tho. it just goes on and on.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 2 November 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
yeah i was not a kid when i played that scene and got pretty emo about it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 2 November 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
Didn't they re-release it recently?
Mario RPG. Man, I've NEVER played that. Always heard it was real good too!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 2 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
SMRPG is fantastic & fun
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Saturday, 2 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
But too easy. Still enjoyable.
My terrible shame is that I have NEVER beat FFVI!
― reckless woo (Z S), Saturday, 2 November 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
^ i share in your shame! i was playing on an emu but w/o a controller and i couldn't do sabin's blitzes on the keyboard and i didnt want to kick him out of my party because i felt terrible abt it so i just quit altogether
― 乒乓, Saturday, 2 November 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
pro-tip: you can do the blitzes very very slowly
press & hold left keypress & hold down keyrelease left keypress & hold right keyrelease down keyetc. etc.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Saturday, 2 November 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
fools, get a gamepad for your PC
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
on the emulated PSX version on VITA you can substitute either adjacent direction for diagonals and it still works, not sure if this was ever true of the other versions
Like, with the one where you have to do a hadouken d,df,f motion you can actually just press d, f, f OR d, d, f and it still comes out
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 2 November 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
I have also not finished FF6 despite starting it twice
the deathtrain bit is definitely weirdly powerful, poor little guy all jumping up and down with an exclamation mark over his head because his family got sent to the underworld
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 2 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Any particular version of VI I should look for? I played the SNES III back in the day, but if there is a recent re-release with a better translation that would be ideal.
Yeah, I got an Afterglow Xbox 360 controller and it is USB and plugs right in and works with pretty much any game except some of the early GTA's where it WILL NOT map the analog sticks to the camera so it is pretty much impossible to play. Plus there is a button that turns your room into a gamma radiation isolation chamber (via lighting up insanely strong green LEDs).
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 2 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
the original VI translation is great! loaded for bear, even! (because the translator took strange liberties)
sad 4 all of you who never got to the heavy melodramas of the second half
― Nhex, Saturday, 2 November 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Any particular version of VI I should look for?
GBA version has a better translation (although less quirky) but slightly worse music than the SNES. PS1 version crippled by load times iirc. There's iOS and Android versions coming "this winter".
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 2 November 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
It's a stronger ask if someone else does it IMO
― the doleful cant of a bigot blinded by fear and hate (DJP), Saturday, 2 November 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
xp GBA will be slightly downgraded visually too because of the resolution. the music is so great, just go with emulated SNES. the speed up function will help you grind through battles too
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 November 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Ok I'm going with the original SNES. Cos I bought it already anyways.
I beat VII. Kind of amazed at the ending. I guess the high-end CGI was pretty rad but really it was mostly end credits. I tried watching Advent Children and it was kinda cool (really amazing battle scenes animation) but too colorless and serious, really. I know VII was set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (or, hell, I guess it was actually pre-apocalyptic?) but it still had lots of interesting places, colorful characters, etc. I guess magic levitating jesters and battle dolphins are just too goofy for SERIOUS CGI MOVIE.
I tried beating Emerald Weapon a few times. Had Knights of the Round, and two copies of Mime, and went and did that for a bit. Died multiple times. At this point yeah is this even fun anymore? Maybe this game's steely grip on my brain is over. 70 hours of play!
Gonna play VI now. I tried playing it yesterday but reorienting myself to 16-bit graphics is going to take some getting used to. The battle scenes are somewhat brutal without the spinning camera and character animations but whatevs.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
i feel like someone must have a written a doctorate thesis on the themes of death, shintoism/environmentalism, identity, etc. in FFVII by this point. it really blew my mind back then, how trippy and dark it got by the end
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
ok, i'm playing FFVI right now. i am going to beat it. this time - IT'S PERSONAL
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
I will too! Maybe we should do a club
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:31 (ten years ago) link
reopen ILGPC
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
"LOCKE: Thank you moogles! We're in your debt!"
truer words have never been spoken. forgot how much i loved this world
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
hahaha, we should!
Final Fantasy VII: Kind of Playable in Retrospect
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
whoa i didn't know that there was a ILGPC
can a mod move my new thread to ILGPC
― 乒乓, Sunday, 3 November 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
nooo the replay was for FF VI (unless i'm being stupid)
― Nhex, Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
Anybody try this? Not sure if I want to go through the bother of getting it to run.
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1657/
― zanana rebozo (abanana), Saturday, 16 November 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/the-steam-achievement-that-nobody-unlocked-1610073943
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Wow - fascinating window into a subculture I'm glad I don't hang around. The comments section on this article alone reveals all kinds of really distorted priorities and concerns.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
I'll read that.. when I eventually play through Hate Plus in 2017
― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyKnc7PlcQc
― Number None, Saturday, 5 December 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
blowing my mind rn. kinda looks like CC HD
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 5 December 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
I don't care what anyone says I'm going to buy this and play the shit out of it at the expense of everything else in my life
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 5 December 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3nZ1-D4_4
can't wait to see this in HD
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 5 December 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
man this looks actively bad and dumb
― thwomp (thomp), Sunday, 6 December 2015 01:47 (eight years ago) link
"actively bad and dumb" is the new ATB system
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 6 December 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
rank the ffvii minigames best to worst:
--golden saucer shooting--snowboarding--motorbike with no control over speed but you have a sword--tower defense egg thing
hm, i feel like there's a couple i've missed
xp oh have they released details about how thats gonna work?
― thwomp (thomp), Sunday, 6 December 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
submarines. i kinda like the feel of the submarines.
snowboardinggold saucerfort condor tower defenseexcavationchocobo racing -- without the L+R cheat it's ridiculoussubmarine -- interesting system but there's no challenge
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 6 December 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
excavation??
― thwomp (thomp), Sunday, 6 December 2015 04:28 (eight years ago) link
oh, wait, the where-to-dig thing in that one town. that ain't even a game.
― thwomp (thomp), Sunday, 6 December 2015 04:32 (eight years ago) link
Mog game ftw
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 December 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link