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Ack bad memories. Yeah I went into the desert and had to fight some sand lions. Now I'm thinking "Hrm Sand Lions? Those are usually a boss in Final Fantasy, they must have scaled them down....oh a miss...another miss...2 damage ok.......4578 damage! Shit....miss..ok I can do this...3567 damn....run awat run away....aaannnnd i'm done...."

DavCube, on 18 February 2011 - 01:00 AM, said:

Hey, I like that buggy, slowing down, loading game! Seriously, I loved the story ^_^
Except for that creepy pedo-zoo-necrophilia princess Elise and her lust for hedgehog speed >_<
(Playing Silver is awesome)

But-uh, Final Fantasy, yes.
Don't read one of my posts in the thread 'VIDEO GAMES'. I expressed much of my dislike for 13 there (including the ending)

Final Fantasy II is notorious for its progression system. The only way to be good requires more patience than trying to get all magics on FFVI characters AND turn the Cursed Shield into the Paladin Shield.

To throw my two Gil in...


1. Favorite: Final Fantasy IX

2. Emotional Impact: Don't remember (I'm cold and soul-less like that)

3. First: Final Fantasy III (the one that came out in the U.S. on the Nintendo DS)

4. Currently Playing: None, as I'm sorting my way through BioWare RPGs at the moment, but I hope to soon get Final Fantasy VII

IX, fuck yeah!

Spoiler for VII: All the characters are bosnian adolescents. Even Red XIII. Don't let his appearance of awesomeness fool you, he's secretly just as young and stupid as the rest of them. It's revealed further in.

Regarding FFXIII: VGCats says it all.

EDIT: I'm also starting to play FFIX. My emulator sucks though, and I don't have a controller for it, so this could make it interesting.

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 24 February 2011 - 10:03 PM

First - FFIII on DS when it came out. I haven't finished it.
Favorite - X, because...
Emotional Impact - X. It has to do with the circumstances under which I played it. I'm too lazy and too tired to explain, though.
Playing Now - None. Eagerly awaiting Versus and XV.

So, I gave up on 9 for now. Choppy music kills me on emulators.

Instead I'm playing 6 now, on GBA. It's already winning my heart, because a guy FUCKING SUPLEXES A TRAIN.

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 24 February 2011 - 07:46 PM

CaptainBaconMan, on 17 February 2011 - 10:14 AM, said:

That was the most horrid of any of them I have played.

Final Fantasy X was my favorite hands down. For starters, it was a massive leap forward for the series what with it's fancy for the time cut-scenes and voice acting, the story was great with legitimate plot twists, the characters were some of the best in the series and the character development was REALLY well done. And, I'm a sucker for romance...

Also, two words: Sphere Grid. Hands down one of the best leveling systems I've ever seen in an RPG.

CaptainBaconMan, on 17 February 2011 - 05:01 PM, said:

Wait what? I played the game but just what?
Throught the whole game sin keeps using gravity powers in the cutsceans so the time travle thing just makes sence to me.
Ok, if auron and tidus were from a dream land then they should not have been called back there. Even if they still somehow had to go back, like they clearly did, the dream world couldn't have been destroyed becasue tidus wakes up in the water at the very end and swims up to the surface.
Why where the towns of zanarkand and bravil at war?
I guess it makes sence that a messed up summoning happened while they were making more powerful spells for war.
So I have two questions. Why do you think tidus was from a dream world and where the hell did he wake up at at the very end of the game?

Well I finally relented and bought FFIX on PSN for PSP.

Figured I'd go ahead since it sucks majorly on an emulator, and I'll be headed up to the mountains soon, and barely any of my family have wireless internet.

The real final fantasy is two girls at the same time.

Also I've only played 12 and I hated it.

This is now a Dissidia 012 thread.

So far, my main party is Squall (100), Cloud (100), Sephiroth (100), Tidus (96), and Lightning (91)

I've pretty much got Ragnarok Blade, I just gotta fight Squall some to battlegen the last parts for Apocalypse (Lion's Dream, easy, right?) and I've got the other 2 materials for it, and I've got both the swords required for Excalibur, I just need the material now (Eureka Metal, probably find that in Cycle 000). I've also got 3 pieces of Lufenian gear, and the Lufenian Dagger which seems to be the new 100+ sets. As for my armor, that's a work in progress, after my weapons, but so far I've got Lufenian Shield, Lufenian Cap, and Mirage Vest. Also, I'm nearly at the final, final boss .

TL;DR I'm kicking ass at DDFF.

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 29 March 2011 - 06:01 PM

Does anyone have some tips for the second mark mission in XIII? I'm playing through it a second time, and I didn't do any missions the first time around. Tips?

Mikaro, on 24 February 2011 - 08:02 PM, said:

Dude. It's like we're the same person.

Smash: What's the issue, finding it? Or killing it?

Killing it. They go WAAAY to fast for me. If it's of any interest, I'm using the team they made you use on Alexander, with the same Paradigms, only I have Lightning in the lead.

Yeah the usual Paradigms they throw at you are utter crap, usually.

As for the mission, I never had any real problem until around 20 or so. Make sure your crystarium is as complete as you can get it (There's a good place to farm CP, where the Behemoth and Lobo are fighting, in the Archelyte Steppe)



IMO, although it took me a while to wrap my head around it, Lightning/Sazh/Vanille or Fang/Sazh/Vanille are very good parties, with the following Paradigms set up:

If Lightning is in the party:
Commando/Synergist/Medic [This one should be default]
Com/Ravager/Rav
Rav/Rav/Rav
Com/Syn/Saboteur
Sentinel/Syn/Med [If Fang is in party]

Let Sazh get Haste and and Protect/Shell etc up first, then keep swapping between Com/Rav/Rav and any Paradigm with a Medic. Tip: You can go Com/Rav/Rav and then hit the Paradigm shift button after you hit autobattle, and it'll still show your HP to the right, good if you need to swap to a healing Paradigm quickly. You can also do Med/Syn/Sab if you're good at healing, that way Fang/Vanille can Slow them too.

Also, you can always beat the game, then go back to Gran Pulse and do the missions after you get Stage 10 Crystarium unlocked (For missions 30+ this is almost required)

Final tip: You can change the battle speed itself if you feel overwhelmed, in the options.

EDIT: twobrothersandasister.com is down That was a very awesome site for some FFXIII mission guides. Anyways: http://www.gamesrada...031011391394090

Also, I just remembered I have the Strategy Guide for XIII... so, yeah, I'll check that in a bit if you still have trouble.

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 29 March 2011 - 11:16 PM

DDFF update: Cloud, Sephiroth, Squall, Tidus, and Lighting are all 100 now. Got Lionheart for Squall, working on Fenrir for Cloud, oh and I beat Feral Chaos and unlocked him. He's level 16 atm.

Funny thing is, I usually main Cloud, but I think I'm going to start using Cloud on all the manikins, but Squall for bosses/players now. I could only get Feral Chaos down to 85K with Cloud, but after I got Squall set up for EX mode, I one-shot the remaining 85K HP. He wasn't really that hard, I think regular Chaos on the original Dissidia was harder to learn the patterns. That could be just me having played it for a while though.

So yeah I've pretty much beat all of DDFF... which is weird cause I never even finished Inward Chaos on the first one.

Also, it's stupid easy to level characters up now, just kill a bunch of lv 120-130 manikins for about 100K XP each time. And with the new party system, that's about 70K to everybody else in your party.

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 31 March 2011 - 11:04 PM

Blazenarm, didn't you say you agreed with the VGCats take on FFXIII? I mean, not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but if you hate Final Fantasy XIII, why do you know so much about playing it?

No I said that strip said a lot about it.

I still like the game, but it was awfully linear and dumbed down a bit, I felt like.

I don't agree with EVERYTHING the strip said, but the part about 'take a long walk down a hallway for 40 hours' is certainly true, until you get to Gran Pulse.

I actually hated the hell out of the game until I got to Gran Pulse.

Waitwaitwait... You don't get to Gran Pulse until nearly 25 hours in. How the HECK did you manage to put up with it that long?

Heh. A lot of faith in Final Fantasy, also I Google'd it and they said it got better, so I just kept plugging away.

EDIT: Finally got my Feral Chaos vid uploaded

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 01 April 2011 - 06:13 AM

....well damn. I sorta kept myself in the dark about Duodecim besides the new characters. I didn't know Feral Chaos was actually... well, feral. And that battle music, holy CRAP.

OMINOUS.
LATIN.
CHOIR.

It is required.

(I rhymed)

Smash Genesis, on 29 March 2011 - 10:37 PM, said:

Actually, given the evidence I've seen, this hypothesis may actually hold water!

MikaroXSmash_Genesis OTP.

Or OSP = One single person.

My first and fav was FF9.
it also had the biggest emotional impact. Why? the Music! They all have great music but FF9 was the best in my opinion!
Every now and then Jesters Of The Nightless Moon gets stuck in my head!
Nobuo Uematsu is the best in his line of work!
I have played the first two Final Fantasy games, FF8, FF10 and FF10 part2.
But the last FF game i've played was FF9, recently this year.

There, i've answered all the questions, though to tell the truth, I just wanted to rant on about the awesome music.
I don't plan on posting here again though.

Fanboyin' all over FFXIII-2.

Just putting that out there.

Blazenarm, on 27 July 2011 - 11:24 PM, said:

This guy I can agree with.

Up to FFX I pretty much love all Final Fantasies. FFX-2 was... Well... Y'know, kinda retarded, XI was a MMO. XII was kinda nice even with that weird-ass combat system (12-chains of Quickenings :3) and XIII on I have never played.

The best music seems to be concentrated in VII-X (One Winged Angel, Liberi Fatali, Dark Messenger, To Zanarkand – just to name one from each)

My Favorite is X and The War of the Lions for the PSP

Whoa-ho-ho thread necro. (haha nearly a year, god)

However, judging by Lackluster's post:

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It seems that he'd prefer me to bump this rather specific thread than clutter the other one, as this post will pertain exclusively to Final Fantasy.

IF I AM MISTAKEN, THEN I APOLOGIZE.

So, I recently got a PS2, since I missed out on the entire PS2 generation. I haven't gotten terribly far in it, but so far my main gripe with it is: Wow. They sure are pushing Luna and Tidus together QUICK aren't they? I mean, I'm at the point where they're planning to attack Sin using the trapped Sin fragments or w/e, and I feel that they've really rushed the YunaXTidus. I'm not against the idea, just thought they'd flesh it out more (gonna compare it to FF8, which imo did the romance bit fairly well)

Also, I fuckin' hate Blitzball. Whoever said it was great needs to be beaten with a stick.

I've also picked up XII but I think it'll be a while till I get to it. I've also picked up XIII-2 but, again, haven't had much time to play it. At the very least, the first few hours of XIII-2 are an improvement over the first few hours of XIII.

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 25 April 2012 - 07:18 AM

When it came to Final Fantasy I'd say number 9 is my favorite. I had a lot of fun in 10 but I HATED the characters and story. To me Tidus was just a whiny pissant with daddy issues. constantly going "I'm from Zanarkand guys! I'm da star player of the Zanarkand Abes! By the way I hate my mean daddy!" Plus with Yuna, I felt that she should have been the main character. Hell the story focuses more on her journy more than Tidus who is..just...there? And how they explained why he was there...makes perfect sense...you know if you don't think about it at all. Plus the voice acting...meh, had some REALLY bad scenes that had me cringing at the god awful performances. (That laughing scene? Good god, most akward I've felt while playing a game)

Along with in the game the whole "Fayth and Pyreflies" made no sense to me, if they are supposed to be the souls of the dead leaving monsters you kill...why do they fly out of machines? Speaking of dieing, has anyone noticed that pretty much all major plot point characters that have died just seem to walk it off? I guess in the world of Spira death is just a small obstacle you go through and come out normal the next day. Seriously, theres Auron. The only character that I enjoy cause being dead only seemed to piss him right the fuck off. Then Seymour, the character with a costume and hair style that results in weeping hilarity. And like...half of the council thing of all of Spira? This plot wasen't predictable...just predictably written terribly.

Theres a lot of shit I hated with 10. Haha, but when it came to the combat that was fun. But Blitzball was...just retarded. In so many ways. Speaking of Blitzball, what makes a good weapon guys? A sword? A Buster Blade? A magical staff? Fuck no! A Blitzball!...A...Blitzball.....*facepalm*

This post has been edited by Leo-Inu: 25 April 2012 - 04:14 PM

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