lol i remember only getting good at the ↓↙← move via this game; was always hopeless at street fighter
― goole, Thursday, 7 November 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Yeah you can totally do that stuff. Playing on emulator w analog joystick makes these easier to do but still kind of absurd how often they miss anyways.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 November 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
especially once you get to the crazy 10-steppers
― Nhex, Friday, 8 November 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
uh so is there a good snes mac emulator that can do button combos as a macro?
― goole, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
The only good one seems to be snes9x.
Dunno about macros though, maybe on a gamepad?
Keyboard config seems not configable
― 乒乓, Friday, 8 November 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
anyone have a good recommendation for a gamepad (under $40 if possible)? i don't mind playing FFVI using the keyboard, but i recently purchased Rogue Legacy for mac (it is soooooooooooooo good) and it would be a much better experience with a gamepad, kupo
― reckless woo (Z S), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
i should probably take that question to a more appropriate thread, sorry kupo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FlbfPu_TA
I love Zozo
― 乒乓, Saturday, 9 November 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
Lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4QOzi7_FUE
― 乒乓, Saturday, 9 November 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
I'm in Zozo too. I actually made it through, climbed those buildings, got the Espers, went and got about halfway through the Opera thing. Got tired and shut off the game and forgot to save!!! So now I have to go through Zozo again. Blitzing Slam Dancers.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 9 November 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
the music in zozo is my favorite so far i think, except maybe for the beginning of the floating continent theme where it pretends it's gonna be maddening looped fairy fountain twinkle for a few seconds before getting real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdAJBXbyKc
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 November 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link
industrial percussion magitek facility theme also did not drive me crazy at all
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 November 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
all the music in this game is so classic
― Nhex, Saturday, 9 November 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
the zoso theme is so good. also the crazy chromatic melody in the battle vs Atma Weapon
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Saturday, 9 November 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwSfUqnDvA
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Saturday, 9 November 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
This is going to sound really corny but I really love Setzer's line
'My life is a chip in your pile. Ante up!'
PRobably should have used it in my high school yearbook or something
― 乒乓, Saturday, 9 November 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
I like all the old fan pages that come up when you start googling
http://www.icybrian.com/
― 乒乓, Saturday, 9 November 2013 22:10 (ten years ago) link
i remember icybrian
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Saturday, 9 November 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I think I saved right after I got that airship, so right after "Ante up!"
The opera scene was pretty rad. I really liked that sample they use for the voices, and the words on screen and notes not matching exactly works because it's opera so some syllabus are gonna be spanning multiple notes and whatnot. Also LOL at "You are speaking with octopus royalty!"
The female characters in this don't really get much to do story-wise. Celes is used as bait by multiple people at once and Terra is pretty much incapacitated (now she's an MIA Esper). Say what you will about Tifa but the one time she was captured she freed herself and then took command of an airship.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 10 November 2013 15:09 (ten years ago) link
oh man, Ultros! I forgot about Ultros.
Agreed about the female characters; I want to say there are some stories actually driven by their actions later on in the game but it's pretty hazy.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 10 November 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
the Celes plot in the WoR is pretty memorable. she kind of becomes the main character at that point
― Nhex, Sunday, 10 November 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah terra and celes are both almost-main-characters moreso than any of the guys
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KS1wwwQ.gif
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
man, i haven't even had time to play it for the last week. i got access to the airship, i saved the game, and then...nothing
― reckless woo (Z S), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSIkHrjPWTc
I like Shadow's theme. He's the mysterious ninja with an 8-bit Morricone song. Love that mouth harp sample!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:24 (ten years ago) link
duh not 8-bit i dont know why i wrote that. chiptune
8-bit morricone: http://gamecola.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/protoman.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
Playing the demo of Bravely Default, game feels like one huge love letter to classic FF, V and VI in particular
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
― reckless woo (Z S), Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
I got to the WoR and figured out that this is where I stopped playing last time
Dunno why, probably because I didn't want to SPOILER CATCH ANY MORE STUPID FISH FOR CID
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
that took like five minutes
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I'm like one dungeon away from WOR I think. My last battle had Ultros jumping in and then we convinced him to have his portrait drawn by a little girl and he was all "Ok, Uncle Ultty is ready to have this portrait drawn!" LOL this would never happen in a modern RPG.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
So i never learned half of Sabin's blitzes because XYDownUp, I can't hit Y because it will just back out of the blitz and put me back on the fight menu screen. So i just tried XXDownUp for the hell of it and it worked! Why on earth did they put Y on those blitzes when they knew that the SNES button for Y also meant going back into the menu?
Also, I fought some slugs that were called "Slurm". The stuff in Futurama has GOT to be a reference to this game.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
888SPOILERS888
So I love that Zozo is exactly the same in the WoR
They don['t give a fuck about kefka
Also what the hell at the teen pregnancy diversion! Seems racy for a game that changed 'Holy' to 'Pearl' in order not to offend Nintendo censors
― 乒乓, Saturday, 16 November 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
yeah, pretty surprisingly heavy stuff. so was the Celes suicide angle!
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 November 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Just got past the suicide thing. Wow. Way crazy, way more sad than Aeris imo. She actually jumps.
I'm pretty much right after the WoR, and I like how they took away everybody and made me play with Celes cos she's a character I haven't leveled up that much and now instead of running around with my overpowered team the challenge is back again. A friend last night gave me a tip to wait before leaving the Floating Island for Shadow, which was great, cos he's one of my favorite characters in the game.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 November 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
fyi, not wanting to spoil but you should play that part over again if you got the suicide version of events!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 November 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
I just got Setzer, gearing up for the final battle. So basically spending another 10-15 hours (or maybe double that) running around the World of Ruin revisiting everywhere I went to before. At this point I start thanking the huge character list because I'll be able to switch out my currently leveled-up party for members who have been sitting on the sidelines most of the game.
The art in this game is pretty impressive, mostly in the huge enemy sprites. Everyone always talks about an FFVII remake (either super modern or retro) but what if they made a 2D Final Fantasy in the style of VI but using all hi-res hand-drawn art and animation? That would look so sick, wouldn't it? Has anyone tried that?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Playing this with an Xbox controller is wonderful because I'm using ZSNES and even though I mapped directionals to the d-pad the L-analog stick works too so I can just use that for Blitz attacks. It is way easier than I remember it being with a SNES controller, though the modern guys can never do d-pads as good as they used to be.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Cool how the airship owner can make it rain w "GP Rain".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
The smooth jazz intro to Terra's theme is so awesome!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
smooth jazz?
― Nhex, Sunday, 24 November 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
I meant this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEkbb-A27k&list=PL1908FF1F127876AA
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
hahh right. i think of it as the esper flashback theme. as with other FF soundtracks, very cool interpolations of the main themes/character themes
― Nhex, Sunday, 24 November 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
Just made it through the Fanatic's Tower, loaded up everyone with Wall Rings and for the most part let all the baddies cast magic that bounced off me and killed them. At this point I feel a little lost and directionless, as I pretty much just fly around and visit towns and storylines seem to start up and end at random. I'm probably just being too lazy and not remembering that _this_ character is from _this_ town and when I enter Doma castle I need Cyan in the party or whatever for something to trigger. But still, it's all really damn amazing, and the storytelling is wonderful. Even if I have to look at a Walkthrough to be told to bring Gau and Sabin to the small house on the northern continent of the world of ruin, it's still pretty special when it turns into a comedy/makeover sequence that turns very dramatic and then ends with a typically optimistic and sort of Zen affirmation of Life. The whole Phoenix sequence was pretty special, too!!
I've been thinking of what to play next, and I really want to play Final Fantasy IX. It seems to work fine in PCSX but I was wondering, is there any way to change the resolution on these games? I know the backgrounds are all still art but surely there must be a way to go from pixelly polygons to nice and sharp polygons, even if the low-res textures will still be there....
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 November 2013 00:05 (ten years ago) link
I threw up my hands with the Fanatic's Tower and just used whatever relic it is that zeroes out random enemy encounters.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 28 November 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'm still loving this, but I'm getting a bit lazy, and now whenever I run into a bad guy I hold the FF button on ZSNES so all my characters are Level 50+.
The story seems to be the best out of all the FF games I've played, just because of the huge cast and most of the characters seem to have really good reasons to fight the bad guy beyond he's trying to destroy the world. Still, the look of FFVII is just so cool and minimal and colorful and weird, I have to rate it above VI for the battle animations alone.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
FWIW I'm taking Strago and Relm to the newly resurfaced island and then high-tailing it to kick Kefka's clowny butt.
7 has wonderful environments and camera swoops and extravagant particle effects but man, those hands
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
(it was $3 on steam yesterday)
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQmQn7J0fk
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:43 (ten years ago) link