You know Square doesn’t know shit about black males since they are constantly putting them as good parents. But I guess it can be put with all the creative use of fictitious characters like Shiva: from Goddess of Destruction to some chick that blows ice. Black Male Parents: from nonexistent to DA BEST.
Walk straight, trigger cutscene. That was the gameplay in XIII, and it was a joke. What environment? You mean The Calm Lands? Yeah I played through there x amount of years ago in FFX.
On top of that, it had terrible combat mechanics and the worst summons out of the entire series. 90% of the game was you watching a lesbian and a black dude argue about irrelevant shit, before you were forced to play as two/three characters for a couple of hours.
XIII is by far the worst in the series, and I’d go so far as to say its one of the worst “RPGs” ever.
Those are not mechanical pencils.
Those are leadholders.
They have rather thick leads, running the entire gamut of hardness.
Sanfords are sexy, but the best are those rare ones by Tacro.
Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.
Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.
I keep hearing this argument and I find it silly two-fold. One, it’s a dumb complaint to have the poor illusion of non-linearity removed. The other is doing so while praising other games of this generation for doing the exact same thing. Fact is that games this gen overall have this problem because the industry is so geared on making shit as high res as possible, that the game depth suffers for it. It’s one of the reasons that actually I will still give props on the Wii for. The games there reigned on graphical capabilities, so they have more effort in their actual design. But I digress.
As for the combat mechanics, I’ll fully disagree. Intelligent AI, dynamic playstyle, shit like status effects actually fucking WORK on both enemies and bosses, and it actually makes you do something other than “Press X until you win, or heal if you are about to die”. Frankly, fuck summons. I’m glad they aren’t godlike, though even they have their uses at times. It’s a mechanic that needed to be put to the wayside and only something for dire needs, rather than a go-to destruction power for bosses to make shit even more braindead.
As for the environments, the Steppe was the only environment that was large, but hardly the most intruiging. Hell, I’d say that goes to Oerba myself. Or the early on forested area (can’t recall the name). They were neat environments, but a shame that they weren’t more explorable. This is one reason I give massive props to Xenoblade. They made some damn impressive environments, and then you could actually go everywhere in them.
Except for the whole, y’know, FACT, that older FF were non-linear.
Cursing is my religion. And Jesus fucking Christ, religion has continuity issues.
Also: I am floating, with my eyes closed, with no sails. I am soaking, I am weathered, by the winter of mixed drinks.
Welp, here we goooooooooooooooo.
This is what SHOULD happen when someone raises their arms to type about Final Fantasy.
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There is a massive difference between the illusion of linearity and walking down a hallway that is twice as wide as your character for 35 hours.
Status effects WORKED in FFX-2, and that is one of the greatest combat systems ever. Its actually almost the same thing as in XIII but its not active septuple jump marvel air juggle kingdom hearts sephiroth vs mickey mouse fights. I’m not sure what AI you’re talking about. Enemy or party? Either way, of course the party AI was good because depending on the class they were at the time, they really only did one thing. Kind of hard to screw that up.
Summons have always been a big part of the FF franchise, and its incredibly stupid for them to be completely useless lesbian motorcycles and drag racers. I’m not saying they should be godlike, but they should at least be viable.
Summons were never that big of a deal until FFVII went full retard with Knights of the Round. Even then that wasn’t the thing that made the game too easy. The thing that made it LOL FFVII was the Monster Magic spell Big Guard. So for 1/3 the price of barrier, shell and haste I can put all 3 at the same time in one character? Even then you didn’t really needed.
If you were using summons in VIII, you were doing it wrong.
If you were using summons in FFT, then you were obviously retarded and nothing can save you.
Maybe I’m confusing summon practicality with how much I like summons.
Found a Tomb Raider 3 psx memory card at my comic shop still in the package. Best 3 dollars ever.
Summons are cool but in VI you needed to keep the summon to teach ultima to everybody; in VII the only summon combination you really needed was Final Attack + Phoenix (but you would’ve had to fuck up royally to get to his point); in VIII you just hulked everybody the fuck up by junctioning shit. In IX I don’t even remember bothering with summons, Vivi was gonna black magic shit harder than Malcom X. Then there’s X which I didn’t finish so I can’t say much; XII I haven’t finished either and XIII there are better ways to deal damage than summons.
Summons have always been ok to moderate depending on the game. They went balls out with them on VII probably because they had the ability to make cool sequences. I love VII though, more FF games need minigames. All FF games need more mini games and card games and less blitzball.
The fist pump had me rollin! :lol:
aww, I liked Blitzball in theory. I think it needed a bit of tweaking, but it was fun for me.
Here here. I liked scouting for players, that was a cool idea.
Like I said, it needed tweaking. The scouting thing is one of those things that needed to go. The actual GAME was neat, but there were a few things I’d still say could have been done differently. I wouldn’t throw the whole thing out, though.
googles leadholders
perfect for industrial design style work, but too expensive for me to afford right now.
Kratos lays women throughout the series, including the goddess of fucking. That’s just one of the multitudes of manly things he does.
Name one thing a FF character does that is even half as manly. If you can do that, I will stop procrastinating and work on your training/work-out regimen this very moment. And I will advertise ClockworkIt on my stream at our next tournament (May 19th), for free.
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The only thing I can think of to compare at all is Sabin suplexing a T Rex, myself.
Eh…FFVII Cid is like the embodiment of SRK manliness. He cursed, drank, smoked cigars and kept his bitch in the kitchen. In all of the GoW that I’ve played, ain’t nobody cooking for Kratos.
Which was ridiculously bad ass.
And yea VII Cid.