The Final Fantasy Thread

Mike Stoklasa said:
At least there's still Dragon Quest. 🐉⚔️
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I hope you like Game of Thrones and Witcher.

Then again with Warcraft in decline, a western take on Dragon Quest would fill that very nitche of halfway between cartoony and serious. They did it for the movie already.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
No and mostly yes. The Witcher show was pretty weird.

I like Dragon Quest more though. Hoping they don't betray me with XII. The years of waiting between Dragon Quest games have only gotten harder as video games have gotten shittier.
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The fact that the title opens with a volcano of fire with the Roman Numerals being written with cracks in the ground filled with lava is setting the tone of what you should expect.

I mean I am not expecting the gameplay to be that much different, they already said it's turn based. But they are seemingly wanting to target markets outside Japan with a more appealing style.

Imagine Dragon Quest going full Berserk or something like Attack on titan for a stylistic choice.
 
Marissa Moira said:
The fact that the title opens with a volcano of fire with the Roman Numerals being written with cracks in the ground filled with lava is setting the tone of what you should expect.

I mean I am not expecting the gameplay to be that much different, they already said it's turn based. But they are seemingly wanting to target markets outside Japan with a more appealing style.

I mean imagine Dragon Quest going full Berserk.
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How would they make Mini Medals and Ra's Mirror work with Berserk?
 
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Mike Stoklasa said:
How would they make Mini Medals and Ra's Mirror work with Berserk?
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Medals are just collectables and Lar's Mirror is just a magic mirror. They're both broad enough in function and in looks that they could take on a different style easily.

There's been more elaborate lore applied to shit like Sonic's rings.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
You were made in a pod and implanted with false memories like the rest of us.
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From the pod we came and so to the pod shall we return, all must serve the cycle.
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eternal dog mongler said:
Nomura took a game about going on adventures with Goofy and Donald Duck and turned it into the most inscrutable plotline ever.

I wouldn't really call him good but it will be interesting to see how the hell this shapes out.
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It really isn't that anymore complex then a standard FF game, if you play/watch the plot in release order. Otherwise, yeah if you try to follow it's timeline chronologically.... it's not great.


I just love how Nomura stretches the envelope as far as he can without going ALL the way dark. Part of the reason KH is so popular, is because there is a real weight to it that most kiddie stuff lacks.



But I really get the feeling he's ready to cut loose and go nuts in the next one after what happened to Sora.
Getting the crap kicked out of him and captured by a Noctis looking fella.

The man is past due for a game to truly call his own.

Mike Stoklasa said:
At least there's still Dragon Quest. 🐉⚔️
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Never tried it. The Dragon ball style art just doesn't do it for me. Crono Trigger and Cross were cool though.
 
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UnKillShredDur said:
I'm getting ready to replay FF6, and because I enjoyed my last playthrough of FF5 with a rom hack so much (it allowed more job customization. I forget what it was called, but I think I mentioned it earlier in this thread.) I decided to see if there were any interesting FF6 hacks, and I noticed that "Final Fantasy 6: Divergent Paths" was recently completed: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5997/
I'm having a hard time finding anybody talking about it, but it looks promising.

Has anybody else played it yet? It's a rom hack for the snes version, but the premise seems to be that a few small changes in the story mean that General Leo doesn't die, and he joins your party. And there are apparently other things that also happen.
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How did Divergent Paths go? They have some people at FF6Hacking forums, and there are reviews on RHDN IIRC.

What FF5 hack did you play through?
 
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Mike Stoklasa said:
"And then Sephiroth throws the ShinRa building at you."

"AGAIN!!"
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Actually, they'll no doubt have an escalating Sephiroth fight at the end of every installment. Recall that in the original, Sephiroth blew up the sun and half the solar system at you, in an attack whose animation took like a full minute (Supernova), and if the fight went on long enough he could do it more than once too. Throwing a building at you is tame by comparison. He'll probably hit you with Meteor in the next game, then the game after that drop the whole moon on you, and in the last game do Supernova again.
 
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Mike Stoklasa said:
This does seem to be the major dividing line between the two largest groups in the fandom. AC and KH definitely brought in a different type of person. And Square chose them. (:_(

At least there's still Dragon Quest. 🐉⚔️
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Man, I just never understood what the hell the deal was with Advent Children. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was like a Neil Breen movie, except completely devoid of charm and a plot. It's one of the only movies where I was just left annoyed that it wasted two hours of my life by the end, and I can barely remember a thing about it.

But I heard about it for years, and apparently it was well received? What the fuck? Like what the actual fuck? How?
 
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Pissmaster said:
But I heard about it for years, and apparently it was well received? What the fuck? Like what the actual fuck? How?
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You have to remember when it was released, it came well after the awful and weird Final Fantasy: Spirits Within that everyone hated and nobody liked Aki Ross. There was also still no good movies based on games and at the time, Advent Children was the high mark. Not only did it properly call back to the source material, it wasn't some big huge disconnected fuckup like all other previous Game Movies were.
 
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Mike Stoklasa said:
You're missing the best JRPG series.
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What would be the best "modern" ps3-ps4 one to get into?
Pissmaster said:
Man, I just never understood what the hell the deal was with Advent Children. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was like a Neil Breen movie, except completely devoid of charm and a plot. It's one of the only movies where I was just left annoyed that it wasted two hours of my life by the end, and I can barely remember a thing about it.

But I heard about it for years, and apparently it was well received? What the fuck? Like what the actual fuck? How?
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Well. I admit when I first saw it I didn't entirely know what was going on, But the fights were really fun and I enjoyed the energy of it. You have to remember this movie looked absolutely STUNNING way back in 2005 and that was enough of a draw. The fact that this provided an interesting glimpse of Cloud's backstory so soon after KH dropped really helped get people interested in his game.

The expanded " AC Complete" version did a better job filling in the blanks and making some scenes less stupid, so if your curious give it a go. They made the final Sephiroth fight a lot more kickass too.


Marissa Moira said:
You have to remember when it was released, it came well after the awful and weird Final Fantasy: Spirits Within that everyone hated and nobody liked Aki Ross. There was also still no good movies based on games and at the time, Advent Children was the high mark. Not only did it properly call back to the source material, it wasn't some big huge disconnected fuckup like all other previous Game Movies were.
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Yeah this was back in an era when all videogame movies were considered UTTER TRASH. I mean a lot still are, but back then it was practically a miracle to have something that actually had heart.

I would say it was disorienting to anyone who never played 7, but it had enough there for someone like me to have fun trying to fill in the blanks.
 
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Pissmaster said:
Man, I just never understood what the hell the deal was with Advent Children. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was like a Neil Breen movie, except completely devoid of charm and a plot. It's one of the only movies where I was just left annoyed that it wasted two hours of my life by the end, and I can barely remember a thing about it.

But I heard about it for years, and apparently it was well received? What the fuck? Like what the actual fuck? How?
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People were apparently longing for a preposterously over-the-top action movie but Dead Fantasy II hadn't been made yet. Remember that FF7 is a game where the last boss blows up the sun at you, which says something about the sort of people who were FF7 fans back then. I remember back in the day on rpg.net when people were approvingly using Advent Children as an example of what an Exalted campaign should be like. Nerds like shit like an anime with a giant mecha piloting a bigger giant mecha that is piloting an even bigger giant mecha that is so huge it can throw galaxies as shuriken. (Yes it exists, I can't remember the exact weird name it had but it was another example of what weebs liked at the time.)
 
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