squallumz
knows petras secret: she farted.
heh yeah. after all these years i finally got a set. worth every penny.
Best Final Fantasy
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heh yeah. after all these years i finally got a set. worth every penny.
Oh yea. So D&D started it all. And it was a low scaled version of Chainmail.
BTW. Dragon Quest> Final Fantasy
BTW. Dragon Quest> Final Fantasy
Oh yea. So D&D started it all. And it was a low scaled version of Chainmail.
BTW. Dragon Quest> Final Fantasy
BTW. Dragon Quest> Final Fantasy
See my problem with that was each character lost all sense of identity.
Selphie is quick, and Zell is a great martial artist. Quistis is Experienced. Oh wait no, their whole skill set is based on what monster I have tied to their ankle. Never mind.
It's a bad case of things we are told and not shown.
Debatable. VIII is my second favorite, but it's biggest flaw was that the creatures you fight are as strong as your party's average character level. FUCK. THAT.
After all the time I spent getting everybody to 99, just to shoot myself in the face and have the last boss (and numerous difficult random encounters...) kick my ass like a noob?! I'll pass. I don't want to have to play the whole game at level 26... Apparently I wasn't the only one, either, because Square never made that mistake again... 
:2 cents::dunno:
I personally just didn't like VIII. I found it tedious and boring. I had no connection to any of the characters. I really wish FF games would stop giving us whiny sad sacks as main characters.
One good thing about VIII. Triple Triad was a blast.
One good thing about VIII. Triple Triad was a blast.
:eek: Quistis was hot as hell! :bowdown: Squall was a bad ass (with a sweet outfit...), Seifer was a pimp with a cool jacket, the lionheart emblem was cool, Zell was hilarious/badass, Edea's hot as fuck, and the gunblade is just straight awesome. :2 cents::dunno:
Even Irving was cool!
The Gunblade. My god don't get the started. What a useless pile of shit that is. We can debate about anything in the game being good or bad. But that. My god "I want a weapon that is useless as a sword, useless as a gun, and looks like it was created by a 4 year old". It is unusable. God give me a blitzball. At least you can throw balls. The Gunblade is just going to get your ass kicked in any real fight.
Qustis was hot, no argument there. Hot blonde teacher with glasses AND a whip. Thumbs up there. And i did not get Badass from Squall. I got whiny man-child from him.
Zell was fucking sweet though. He did make me laugh.
Qustis was hot, no argument there. Hot blonde teacher with glasses AND a whip. Thumbs up there. And i did not get Badass from Squall. I got whiny man-child from him.
Zell was fucking sweet though. He did make me laugh.
Hmm! I don't know why you didn't like the gunblade, but I won't push it! :bowdown:
Lol Blitzball...
Squall's not nearly as bad as Zidane (FFIX) or Tidus (FFX). Squall was quiet, yes, but I didn't see him as whiny. He was a quiet badass like Cloud (FVII, obv.)... :2 cents::dunno:
Here is the non rage-filled version. As a weapon it takes the worst of a blade and a gun. The handle is made so that slashing with it would give no power. If you shot it like a gun it'd break your wrist. I get guns are cool and swords are cool, but you don't always get Recies peanut butter cups. It is just an awkward weapon.
Yea, I hated blitzball as well. There are so many cool REAL weapons to use. the Aara, the Chakram, the Halberd. The fucking Morning Star (The War Flail Version). I don't see why people try and reinvent the wheel.
By the way. There is a weapon that fills me with more rage than the Gunblade. Pathfinder RPG's Star Knife.
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God I hate that thing more than I can put into words.
I liked Zindane. To me he was the only proactive hero we've had since 7 (BTW. I hated cloud and rewrote FFVIII in 1 minute and removed Cloud and Sep from the story and changed no key points in the plot).
I think at the end of the day I like more traditional proactive heroes and you seem to like the darker out for themselves, having heroism thrust on them heroes.
Basically Golden Age vs. Dark Age. And while I personally do not like it, I can see where you are going.
Yea, I hated blitzball as well. There are so many cool REAL weapons to use. the Aara, the Chakram, the Halberd. The fucking Morning Star (The War Flail Version). I don't see why people try and reinvent the wheel.
By the way. There is a weapon that fills me with more rage than the Gunblade. Pathfinder RPG's Star Knife.
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God I hate that thing more than I can put into words.
I liked Zindane. To me he was the only proactive hero we've had since 7 (BTW. I hated cloud and rewrote FFVIII in 1 minute and removed Cloud and Sep from the story and changed no key points in the plot).
I think at the end of the day I like more traditional proactive heroes and you seem to like the darker out for themselves, having heroism thrust on them heroes.
Basically Golden Age vs. Dark Age. And while I personally do not like it, I can see where you are going.
Here is the non rage-filled version. As a weapon it takes the worst of a blade and a gun. The handle is made so that slashing with it would give no power. If you shot it like a gun it'd break your wrist. I get guns are cool and swords are cool, but you don't always get Recies peanut butter cups. It is just an awkward weapon.
Huh. I've never heard anyone say that before! Idk, I just think it's cool. II'm not trying to attack you or anything... I was just interested in why you didn't like it! Now I know, so thanks for sharing!
I think at the end of the day I like more traditional proactive heroes and you seem to like the darker out for themselves, having heroism thrust on them heroes.
You're very perceptive! :glugglug: I do indeed! Even outside of video games I'm drawn to those character types (John McClane from Die Hard, for example...)
Basically Golden Age vs. Dark Age. And while I personally do not like it, I can see where you are going.
I like how you and I can respectively discuss differing opinions! :glugglug:
As much as I hate FF VIII. And I do hate it. Just because you like it does not mean you are "Wrong". It means you have different tastes. Frankly. I like the discussion. It helps me to understand the other side. I just have a tendency to voice my opinion in a very vocal and aggressive manner. I don't claim it is right. I just do.
But when other people way what they do and do not like,It helps me understand things like why they like Cloud and Squall though they annoy the piss outta me. They like them because they see them as dark and badass.
So. We agree to disagree I guess, but still respect each other's opinion.
Though I still hate the gunblade and starknife
But when other people way what they do and do not like,It helps me understand things like why they like Cloud and Squall though they annoy the piss outta me. They like them because they see them as dark and badass.
So. We agree to disagree I guess, but still respect each other's opinion.
Though I still hate the gunblade and starknife
:dito: Complete agreement/understanding here; I do the same thing. :glugglug:
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
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It's Final Fantasy. A game where you can summon dragons and wield swords that are as tall as a man, and yet you single out the gunblade as an unrealistic weapon?
I have a metal gunblade model that I bought in Edmonton a few years ago hanging on my wall. It's badass, even if it can't shoot anyone.
Yes I am. The game is shown to use some semblance of real world physics. Weapons that have no real function just look bad.
The weapon itself is not magic thus you cannot scream magic on it. It'd be like if in Lord of the Rings Frodo could fire lightning from his sword.
Legolas: Is that thing magic?
Fordo: This is a world with elves and you are going to call bullshit on lightning out of nowhere.
Also I don't like the Buster Sword or the Masamune either. At least Sep was an inhuman monster.
The weapon itself is not magic thus you cannot scream magic on it. It'd be like if in Lord of the Rings Frodo could fire lightning from his sword.
Legolas: Is that thing magic?
Fordo: This is a world with elves and you are going to call bullshit on lightning out of nowhere.
Also I don't like the Buster Sword or the Masamune either. At least Sep was an inhuman monster.
squallumz
knows petras secret: she farted.
the buster sword was cool because it was just so big and thick and it seemed only cloud could wield it. i think (though as ridiculous i guess it is) it had to be something different and unusual because cloud was equally different and unusual.
as far as sephiroths masamune, we all know the legend of this sword and have seen its appearance on many a rpg game. (i think its even in ff1!) its also very large and ridiculous and just a trademark that no one else could wield it too. basically, you gotta be a real badass to be able to use it and thats exactly what seph was. i believe an in-game comment to that effect was made too.
as far as sephiroths masamune, we all know the legend of this sword and have seen its appearance on many a rpg game. (i think its even in ff1!) its also very large and ridiculous and just a trademark that no one else could wield it too. basically, you gotta be a real badass to be able to use it and thats exactly what seph was. i believe an in-game comment to that effect was made too.
There is no legend of the sword. Masamune was a man who was a sword maker who made a blade that did not cut leaves.
The legend goes like this.
Masamune and his rival, Muramasa, were trying to impress their teacher. The rival made a blade so sharp when placed into the river every leaf that passed by it was sliced clean in two. The blade was named 10,000 winter nights.
Masamune's blade when placed in the river cut not a single leaf. And it was named Tender Hands.
The teacher claimed Masamune the winner and when Muramasa asked why when his blade cut everything and Masamune's cut nothing the teacher said. "Your sword was a fine sword, but an evil blood thirsty blade that did not care what it cut. Masamun Frankly Masamune did not even make Katana, he was around before the Katana, he made blades called Tachi, which would be more like Egyptian Kopis.
So there was NEVER a sword called the Masamune. If you want a blade from Japanese legend use the Kusanagi (The Grass Cutter). Though it was not a Katana, it was a Tsurugi which would be like a Chinese Jian. One of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. It was used by the God of the Gather Storms, and he stole it from the tail of an 8-headed dragon he killed by getting it too drunk to fight back. How cool is that!
The legend goes like this.
Masamune and his rival, Muramasa, were trying to impress their teacher. The rival made a blade so sharp when placed into the river every leaf that passed by it was sliced clean in two. The blade was named 10,000 winter nights.
Masamune's blade when placed in the river cut not a single leaf. And it was named Tender Hands.
The teacher claimed Masamune the winner and when Muramasa asked why when his blade cut everything and Masamune's cut nothing the teacher said. "Your sword was a fine sword, but an evil blood thirsty blade that did not care what it cut. Masamun Frankly Masamune did not even make Katana, he was around before the Katana, he made blades called Tachi, which would be more like Egyptian Kopis.
So there was NEVER a sword called the Masamune. If you want a blade from Japanese legend use the Kusanagi (The Grass Cutter). Though it was not a Katana, it was a Tsurugi which would be like a Chinese Jian. One of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. It was used by the God of the Gather Storms, and he stole it from the tail of an 8-headed dragon he killed by getting it too drunk to fight back. How cool is that!
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