Say Something

[Hyperguy]

Seriously...

There's six people on, but no one's saying a single thing...

[Doctor_Raven]

I'm trying to craft personas for a presentation =/

[Hyperguy]

Craft personas?  How do you do that?

[Ellendesu]

I'm getting my logo details hammered out with this graphic artist I'm working with, I just now got on the forums to see if there were any posts I missed, and umm I'm gonna go play Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past in a few.

Hmmm say something huh?

SOMETHING

[Hyperguy]

Link to the Past.  I loved that game.  I remember it got the number 2 spot in EGM's 100 best video games of all time.

[Doctor_Raven]

Craft personas?  How do you do that?

Well you create a person who will go through a system or program you are modifying/designing. They usually have goals to accomplish, hindrances and experience(but no big ass sword or magic), and follow certain tasks.

[JG]

Link to the Past.  I loved that game.  I remember it got the number 2 spot in EGM's 100 best video games of all time.

Out of curiousity, what was #1? Super Mario Bros 3? Ms. Pac-Man? I have a feeling they chose that rotten abomination, FFVII.

[Ellendesu]

Out of curiousity, what was #1? Super Mario Bros 3? Ms. Pac-Man? I have a feeling they chose that rotten abomination, FFVII.

FFVII was good in my opinion, but it was NO Number 1 game. By any means.

If you're going to make a Final Fantasy Number One, it should be Final Fantasy VI. To put VII above VI is blasphemy.

[Echelon]

FFVII was good in my opinion, but it was NO Number 1 game. By any means.

If you're going to make a Final Fantasy Number One, it should be Final Fantasy VI. To put VII above VI is blasphemy.

Somebody, put this in the bible!

 

[Mediocrity]

FF4 was my favorite FF. I suck.

[ROMate]

The best thing about FF7 was Materia. Glorious, comboable, abusable Materia. I had it set up so all I had to do to win was stand there and heal every so often; my characters would counter attack for ten times the damage I took.

[Echelon]

Espers got a little abusable too though, I'd say.

I mean, 4 characters being able to cast Life 3, Cure 3, Haste 2, Flare, X-Zone, Ultima, etc?

Mediocrity: Hey, IV was good.  =D
Too underated.

[Ellendesu]

Final Fantasy IV was frickin great.

I mean c'mon, that game had GREAT characters, I mean let's review.

Cecil: You start. the game. as a DARK KNIGHT how cool is that? And even when he becomes a Paladin he still is major badass, the man had a personality, emotions, things that quite frankly wern't around in video games at the time as much as they should be.

Kain: Nuff said.

Theres more, but seriously, even with the shoddy American translation the story was GREAT. Same with VI, VII was good, but it just seems like it was made to be a test of what Square could do with the new hardware...I hate to say this and I will probably lose respect for this, but I liked VIII more than VII, mostly because VIII felt more complete than VII.

Eh, whatever.

[Kiinan Yamasu]

I love the little burritos I love em good...

You said to say something.

[Mediocrity]

Well, it's just that my favorite FF is basically fifteen years old, and with how good the other FF games are, I don't know...the game itself seems timeless. And I have all these memories of playing it while I was younger. I mean, it was basically the first story-heavy RPG I ever played. The characters evolved, some died, and Cecil underwent a class change. When you're, y'know, twelve years old, that shit is the bee's knees.

I also loved FF9. I think that 7 is a better game, but I don't like it as much as I like 9.

[DualSoul]

My grandma, God rest her soul, bought me my first Final Fantasy... (no II or IV in Japan).  My most fond memory is not power levelling and getting crushed by the dolls in the dwarf castle before Golbez ( ~1600 HP )... and fighting those collapsing doors that always took out one of your party members... ("Stop targetting Cecil!")

Now look at what a marvelous person I've bec... hmmm...

[Ellendesu]

9 WAS good, because it was essentially the last "traditional" Final Fantasy.

When I was younger I got stuck on those stupid Calcobrena too man, but let me tell you, Ashura in the land of summoned monsters was the worst, I had a rougher time with her at first than I did Zeromus

[JG]

I put seven at the bottom of the pile with one. Eight and two are better, and in turn six better than them. But four is far and away the best.

[daitanuki]

Squall still irritates me to this day.  Why make your main character an unlikable, slient, brooding pain in the ass?  Jesus!  I found it easier to relate to Tidus, ferchrissakes, and I would have hated that guy in real life.

[Ellendesu]

I put seven at the bottom of the pile with one. Eight and two are better, and in turn six better than them. But four is far and away the best.

WORDS

Final Fantasy 1 was terrible lol. But hey, it spawned the rest of the games.

I just liked the Super NES Final Fantasys the best. Damnit.

Oh, and VIII...Squall was the way he was because he was supposed to be the ideal soldier, think about it, he follows orders, and doesn't really care what he himself thinks until he meets up with certain people that change him...he has no desire in his life for the things that essentially make people human...Rinoa changes all of that of course.

A lot of people hate VIII because of the junction system and because of the characters, but you know, let's look at this way, VIII had characters with a lot of unique personality traits that made them stand out and bring the best or worst out of eachother, you had human characters with human problems and human emotions, VII's characters tended to have the personality of a wet brick.

Hell, I give VI the most kudos because quite frankly, to have that many characters and actually take the time to put in storylines and important little side quests for each one? That's frickin' awesome, they really let you know your characters.

IV dealt with a lot of adult issues for an SNES game, and I dig that, I played through the game later in life and wondered "Wow, I was into this stuff when I was a kid? Was it just because Fire 3 looked so fuckin' cool?", it was a very good game, like JG said it wasn't the best, but I give it mad props for being what it is.

Also, we've forgotten about V, which took the most excellent Job system Final Fantasy 3 introduced on the Famicom and dealt it a wicked upgrade. I mean the story was pretty lame and all, but it was full of cool features and some nifty characters. (When a main character dies it should frickin' matter people. Gawd)

X? I liked X, I liked the Sphere Grid leveling system, I got into the characters and thier stories, and the plot was pretty well done. X-2 was pretty much fanservice and blah. But I still liked it and enjoyed it.

I try playing through Final Fantasy VII now and I can't do it, it just sits on my shelf next to things like Vandal Hearts and my dad's copy of Saltwater Sport Fishing as one of those games I will probably never play again. And that's a sad thing. I can go back and play games like Final Fantasy NOT VII, and enjoy them greatly, finding out something new eachtime, but VII was just so fucking cut and dry.

Also on a note, do you know why Kefka from FFVI is the best FF Villian? And why I dig that game so much and probably the same as JG and some other people? Simple. KEFKA MET HIS GOAL AND CONQUERED IT. He didn't waste time and try to beat around the bush, he's like "FUCK YOU ASSHOLES HURR HURR" and he destroys the world. period. even after you defeat him the world is still ruined...and his legacy will live on. THATS A villian, no remorse, no emotional baggage, just a kill-crazed psychopath. (Also see the Joker in Persona 2 for villians that I think kick ass hard)

Anywho, I'm out, done with post.