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
then ask a mod to change it! i'd do it myself but my influence is not nearly so leveled up as yours
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
Submarine game was incredible too. Way better than it needed to be
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 December 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link
i'm sort of excluding anything that takes place with the standard set of interaction5s in the game's normal engine. lol that i forgot about chocobo racing though. I GUESS i would rank them worst-to-best
6. chocobo racing (one boring track, having to do it over and over, breeding just not v fun)5. tower defense (fiddly and anti-fun, and one of the places the game's standard look really works against it. and the difficulty level didn't scale very interestingly.)4. motorbike and swords (defending your convoy doesn't actually matter, impossible to lose really, wish you could accelerate. sort of feels nice though, you could start from here and end up with a sort of ok endless runner)3. snowboarding (physics feel janky but man it's so 1997 it's amazing)2. golden saucer light gun without light gun game (it's a nicely put together course, if only you actually had a gun)1. submarine (no challenge but weirdly atmospheric (i just like submarines a lot), i like how it feels kind of like a fighter place sim underwater)
― thwomp (thomp), Sunday, 6 December 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Boxing was trash
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 6 December 2015 05:48 (eight years ago) link
let's be real all the minigames were bad
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 December 2015 05:54 (eight years ago) link
well, yes.
― thwomp (thomp), Sunday, 6 December 2015 06:08 (eight years ago) link
Remember all of those awesome spell cutscenes that lasted for five minutes that were amazing the first time you used them but quickly became so outrageously annoying that you never used the high-end spells more than three times?Also, Cait Sith! WTF?
― Dan (And So On) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:02 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when i was a kid i would go nuts for those summon cutscenes every single time, so screw you 2006 dan perry
― qualx, Sunday, 6 December 2015 06:56 (eight years ago) link
Summon cutscenes were the best. I will be very surprised if they can top them. Bahamas in particular.
So I guess it will now be multiple games, and people are freaking out, playing the outraged consumer, etc personaly I think its fine and cant wait to see what they do. There is a lot of concern the world map will be cut. Thing is for a good half of the original game you could really only go one or two places at a time. People upset they wont be able to walk to Kalm when in reality isn't it just a big field from Midgar?
Then again that sense of scale once you left Midgar was a HUGE moment in the original so hopefully they can still nail that.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 December 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Remake is going to be episodic supposedly so they can release it quicker
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 7 December 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
maybe it's just best to wait for the inevitable Final Fantasy VII HD complete on-disc edition in 2017
― Nhex, Monday, 7 December 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
remake is giving me The Spirits Within flashbacks
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 7 December 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Man fuck this episodic bullshit. If it means that open-world exploration is severely curtailed at best then... I don't know.
Stupid of me to get excited about a video game dammit.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
You know I didn't realize till I saw the remake trailers that Aeris doesn't have (and never had!) pointed ears.
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
just saw a spoiler for the remake that made my interest in it go from 0 to 100
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link