No, Necron came out of the blue. Garland just gets pwned by Kuja, and Kuja tried to destroy this world crystal that makes up existence and pissed off that mortals are trying to end existence Necron came out to say “Okay stop bringing my doorbell you punks” then decided “oh you want to end existence, let me show you how it’s done”.
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Ending existance was Kuja’s goal at the end of the game. Garlands was to move the Terra population to Gaia. Both Zidane and Kuja where supposes to genocide Gaia to make room for the Terrans but Zidane got Goku’d and bonked his head and forgot his mission, and Kuja was too obsessed with himself to do the job.
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Sephiroth always reminds me of those base model sports cars with appearance options. All show and no go. He looked like a cool villain but he wasn’t. We’ll see how thing plays out in the Remake over the next 30 years but Hojo is the one that set everything in motion. The worse thing is that Sephiroth has mommy issues and they don’t even focus on his real mother who is still alive.
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Necron was out of no where wtf that Square has to later elaborate on his origin and how he fit in IX’s world through other mediums like art books and FFDissidia. lol
Outside of necron FFIX is pretty much the perfect final fantasy to me. Which is why it’s my favorite.
X, IV, V and, XII are runner ups. X-2 is my favorite FF from a gameplay perspective. It has the best battle system out of any ff. I’ll fucking die on that hill too. lol
Un-FF related the Dr. Mario mobile game just released Doctor Baby Wario as a new character. He has to be one of the most ridiculously cute things I’ve ever seen Nintendo create. He’s too fucking precious
I don’t count external sources as canon. Unless they are sequels to the game. Art books are nice for Final Fantasy, but they don’t do anything really for the Lore.
Dissidia is largely non-canon to the rest of FF as its a cross over and wibbily-wobbly, timey-wimey type shenanigans.
Yeah, he came out of the blue in the game without rhyme or reason.
The Ultimanias are full of lore.
I also don’t think Necron is that out of the blue, what he is and represents is rather clear, and there is even some lead up to him burried within the game.
Least he isn’t a tree.
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Just finished TLOU2. Total play through was 27h4m on default difficulty. For a super linear game I’d say that is a pretty damn long game.
Perfect 10/10 in my book. It’s the best game this gen with God of War being a close second in my eyes.
I’ll post my thoughts below and then venture into TLOU2 thread for more discussion. I’ll probably post the same stuff below in there too.
TLOU2 thoughts with spoilers
I really hope that ND makes part 3 on PS5. I can’t even imagine how good it would look graphically.
Initially when you “start over” as Abby I was a bit apprehensive and like ‘ugh gotta upgrade all this crap again?’ but that quickly fell off. I liked her character from the get go when you played as her in the beginning parts so it was cool to play through her and see her side of the story. I thought that concept in story telling in general was really awesome. It reminded me a bit of that ZeroZeroZero show in how it story told. And I was anticipating parts that I knew were going to come in story wise. When she saw her dog dead at the aquarium, that part I was like ‘oh know this gonna be bad’ and then it was, but like in a good way.
I can see how some people didn’t like the second half though. It was a gamble they took IMO making half the game playing as someone else, but I liked it as mentioned above. It also makes you feel for the villain and how her story tied into the first one I thought was awesome. You could see Abby fighting her demons in those dream sequences which I thought was pretty cool. I do think that her “change of heart” to go saving the scars was kind of abrupt and felt a bit forced, and when she told the boy after the sister died “you are now my people” as they are fighting the wolf’s, I thought that was also a bit too quick. But I just took it as she saw Owen stating a family and she was just having very mixed feelings about where she is in her life and wanting to have more purpose, and the woman/motherly instincts just called her to do that. And then we saw it at the end when all she wanted to do was save the little boy and put him on the boat.
I also felt very conflicted when you get to the part with Abby where she fights Ellie. It just felt wrong lol. Like this girl you are playing as in part 1 and first half of part 2 is all of a sudden now the villain and you are trying to kill her. I thought she was going to kill Ellie there too. And then she doesn’t. I thought that was going to be the climactic ending there and then there is like 3-4 more hours after that lol. Again, I wasn’t mad at that at all.
Overall the pacing and everything about the game is phenomenal. My only gripe with the game would just be the controls when I was low on ammo and trying to switch weapons in the heat of battle, and it just felt clunky and I felt like I died multiple times because of that. But, that was also probably just me trying to do stuff quickly because I’m in the heat of battle and messing stuff up. It makes me feel like that is what the character would be going through though which was cool.
As for a sequel, they mentioned that Abby was infected. I am wondering if they could play into how she bit off Ellie’s fingers and ingested her blood, and since she is immune, it somehow cures Abby and/or makes her immune too. I know that it would kind of completely go against the whole “she has to die to make a vaccine” thing, but then again it’s not just a vaccine, it would have literally been her ingesting her blood.
Glad I finished it though as I’m driving to the beach in NC tomorrow and won’t have it with me lol.
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LOL the TLOU2 thread is a joke. It’s just 4-5 people who never intended to play the game bitching about it.
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Perfect 10/10??
Yes. Glad you can read lol.
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There’s only like 2 mentions of him in the entire game, iirc. Once in the Alexandria library during Garland’s attack and then that town where synthesis was founded, the one on top of the water fall. Both of which you have to find and Even then they don’t even mention necron by name.
This is factually untrue since Most the time art books explain the lore of the characters weapons, locations and armor. It doesn’t matter if “you don’t see it that way” when that’s art books secondary or often times primary objective. Especially RPG Centric art books like Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, WOW etc.
Yup. Definitive example of echo chamber stupidity
Would you do another playthrough of the game anytime soon?
Thnks for proving my point? I didn’t say he was everywhere I said his existence is mentioned so he’s not left field. That’s all.
No.
But I wouldn’t do another play through of any single player story games any time soon if ever. I’ve never done that and don’t plan on it. Never played through any Uncharted, God of War, TLOU, or anything again.
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It’s mentioned but you have to find the mentions. That’s what I mean. He isn’t really part of the narrative or the world building of the game. I’m not disagreeing. They could have just done a shit ton better foreshadowing him.
I mean shit, they did more with Ozma than they did with Necron
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I know what you mean, my point was that he is mentioned in game, his existence is known before he shows up physically. Yes you have to dig for it but that’s doesn’t mean it isn’t there. You have to dig for Garnets real name to, but its still there and knowable.
Worst reveal ever. Fucking Sarah
Sarah.
I knew it was fucking Sarah but I doubted myself for some reason I googled it Just to be sure and internet told me otherwise.
Fucking sarah
Internet lied!!!
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I just haven’t played the game in so long I couldn’t 100% remember. Now I feel bad lol
Brb Gotta commit sudoku again
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