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Best/worst ending in history of games

  • GrayFox
  • June 21, 2004 at 8:22 PM
  • Mazy
    • July 28, 2004 at 7:22 AM
    • #61
    Quote from Urban

    am i the only one here that hasent played those damn FF games?i have no urge to play them... and will probably never play them.. i feel like the minority here or something

    same, I tried a demo of some ff game once and didnt like what I saw so I havent bothered trying it again

  • GrayFox
    • July 28, 2004 at 7:44 AM
    • #62
    Quote from Mazy

    same, I tried a demo of some ff game once and didnt like what I saw so I havent bothered trying it again

    OMG, lol. Never play a Final Fantasy demo!

    If you do want to see what the fuss is all about I suggest you start with FF7, even though its graphics are a bit outdated. Doesn't bother me one bit, though.

    I think it's a shame that some won't even try it. It's like you've never seen the legendary movies like Star Wars or Indiana Jones or played HL...

  • Mazy
    • July 28, 2004 at 8:44 AM
    • #63

    I just wasnt very excited about the combat stuff. I mean I love turnbased stuff for the most part, but I just found it kinda boring in FF. I donno, its been ages since I tried it so I might go back and check some of it again.

  • RD
    • July 28, 2004 at 9:30 AM
    • #64

    u gotza play ff7

  • Yggdrasil
    • July 28, 2004 at 11:31 AM
    • #65

    I have never played any of the FF games.

    Thay have never realy interested me .

  • GrayFox
    • July 28, 2004 at 11:56 AM
    • #66

    Your loss.

  • CrazyMAC
    • July 28, 2004 at 12:47 PM
    • #67
    Quote from Urban

    am i the only one here that hasent played those damn FF games?i have no urge to play them... and will probably never play them.. i feel like the minority here or something

    i played ff7 for like afew hours then the random attacks drove me insane so i quit and flung the disks in a draw D=

  • Taylor
    • July 28, 2004 at 5:07 PM
    • #68

    All the demos of FF I've played sucked great big donkey dick. One had the intro for FF7, that is an intro that was nothing like the actual game because it got changed for sucking; the other was just the Battle Arena mini-game that crippled your character after each fight to increase the difficulty. The Battle Arena required a lot of preplanning and knowledge about the game so throwing someone new to the game with random equipment into the fray was most certainly not a good idea.

    Although after FF7 they certainly did become more lenient and you didn't have to flinch to get into one, if you hate random battles then you're not going to like FF because it is, after all, either battles, talking to people or watching amazing FMV. With a proper plot and everything! I would recommend Chrono Trigger via emulator if you find Final Fantasys random battle system tedious, might ease you into things. Just don't, whatever you do, start with FF9 or FFX-2.

    Edit: The upcoming FF12 has a different battle system, enemies to randomly appear but there is no change to the 'battle engine' fights are also a lot more strategic and operate more like FFT. Of course there's also a woman with Bunny Ears, which was cute on the gamebody but looks really fucking strange on a 3d model and a cool looking guy with a rifle who spoils everything by wearing tacky plastic coloured rings and thousands of braclets. Ho-hum.

  • NotDuffy
    • July 28, 2004 at 8:05 PM
    • #69

    i gotta say i had the EXACT same experience with ff7

    i got a free cd that included the first part just like what you're talking about, i think it was a demo cd or something from ps underground....in fact im pretty sure i still have it around here somewhere

    but yea i hated the demo and i was like "wow how could people call this game good". i have to admit though, it gets very, VERY good....im about 2/3 of the way done at this point and i can say its pretty much one of the best games ive ever played....maybe besides shenmue, but only because shenmue was also pretty

    just go play it, after the reactor part it gets good

    *edit: also i started with FF9....it was ok....but....bleh...stopped playing after a while, i got to a point where i couldnt level and couldnt beat the current boss

  • GrayFox
    • July 28, 2004 at 8:59 PM
    • #70

    Great to hear that duffy. Exactly where in the game are you at the moment?

    The difficulty in the FF games is becoming much easier as the serie progresses. FF9 was too easy for me and X and X-2 were child's play.

    No challenge after the WEAPONS in FF7...

  • Taylor
    • July 28, 2004 at 9:27 PM
    • #71

    The Dark Aeons in FFX > Weapons. And I am prepared to hold down shift and . to stress that point.

    FF9 isn't a bad game really, but it's very... flamboyant (gay) and starts off very tediously. I hated it the first time through, gave up without defeating the final boss on account that I just couldn't be arsed anymore. However, going back to FF9 I found it a lot more enjoyable. I guess it was mainly because I had put up with 40+ hours of stupid characters already and was immune on the second play.

    Uber FF9 Spoilers: You'd think they couldn've at least hinted at the final bosses existence once in the entire game, no? I would say they panicked and didn't know what to put in the 3rd slot of the obligatory 3-stage final battle sequence, but then the 1st stage was pulled out of there arse too!


    So I’ve chased after this protagonist for half the motherfucking game and when I catch up I suddenly find two omniscient beings with the exact same nihilistic goal. Well that certainly was lucky, folks, because if we hadn’t chased that fruitily dressed Sephiroth clone all the way up here we never would’ve known of their existence, let alone their devious plot to wipe out the entire motherfucking universe.


    And you know the characters are fucked up when the central characters tail is a plot element signifying he’s from another goddamn planet but you don’t take the blind bit of notice because every single person who joins up is a deranged misfit.

  • GrayFox
    • July 28, 2004 at 9:46 PM
    • #72

    The Dark Aeons are a piece of cake if you have the right equipment. The WEAPONS are hard even though you had Knights of the Round and Omnislash.

    ***SPOILER WARNING (FF8-FF10)***

    I don't like the way Square has presented the final boss in FF8-FFX. In FF8 you met Ultimecia for the first time about 1 minute before you fought her. In FF9 you never even heard of the thing that they just pulled out of somewhere. In FFX the case was pretty much the same as in FF8.

  • Taylor
    • July 28, 2004 at 10:49 PM
    • #73

    I get the feeling you haven't fought the Dark Aeons. Even with 255 accuracy I have trouble hitting Anima without Aim, Luck and Jinx all about the place (even then I cross my fingers).

    And even if it was just a matter of getting the best equipment (and it most certainly is not, redoing the entire sphere grid is nearer the mark), getting the best equipment in FFX is a colossal task; 3 lots of 99 Dark Matter for Ribbon? Tar, but no Tar. You easily could've constructed a kill-all materia setup in the time it takes.

  • NotDuffy
    • July 29, 2004 at 12:53 AM
    • #74

    im on disc 2 in ff7 right before you fight hojo....i finally decided to go to wutai and do the yuffie side story....which i just finished.

    i gotta go back and get magic hammer from the little weed things in wutai though before i go on

    that reminds me, where do i get ribbons?

  • John Kerry
    Guest
    • July 29, 2004 at 1:28 AM
    • #75
    Quote from GrayFox

    same, I tried a demo of some ff game once and didnt like what I saw so I havent bothered trying it again

    OMG, lol. Never play a Final Fantasy demo!

    If you do want to see what the fuss is all about I suggest you start with FF7, even though its graphics are a bit outdated. Doesn't bother me one bit, though.

    I think it's a shame that some won't even try it. It's like you've never seen the legendary movies like Star Wars or Indiana Jones or played HL...

    ive never seen indiana jones... have no real intention on seeing it either... then again.. i dont really like action movies.. they generally have bad acting and even a worse plot.. and all they focus on are some stupid chase or how the hero gets the girl or something... they are just dull in my eyes.. but thats besides the point

  • NotDuffy
    • July 29, 2004 at 2:24 AM
    • #76

    did you just....bash...indiana jones....i dont understand, has the world just exploded?

  • Mazy
    • July 29, 2004 at 7:17 AM
    • #77

    wow urby, you're sad

    even if you had seen indy n didnt like it then it would be bad, but not wanting to see it at all is just pathedic

    i pity u

  • GrayFox
    • July 29, 2004 at 8:13 AM
    • #78
    Quote from Taylor

    I get the feeling you haven't fought the Dark Aeons.

    Believe me, I have. I did use Yojimbo's one hit kills on a few, though. But there are no such things in FF7.

    Quote from Taylor

    ive never seen indiana jones... have no real intention on seeing it either...

    OMG! I'm speechless...!

  • Taylor
    • July 29, 2004 at 10:38 AM
    • #79

    So you're looking for difficulty and so you use the one-hit kill Aeon and cross your fingers to win your battles? Makes sense. And by the way: Odin.

    And Yojimbo doesn't work on Penace (not that you'd want to instantly kill Penace, you have to spend the battle plundering his assistants items).

    There's a degree of skill need to beat the games ultimate bosses (who are there only to test your mettle so why you cheated past them is beyond me). Your arguement that do beat them you just need to wear decent stuff is extremely flawed, decent stuff is needed to stand toe-to-toe and the best stuff (+ribbon) nobody is going to get without beating them.

  • GrayFox
    • July 29, 2004 at 7:02 PM
    • #80

    Well, I meant I used Yojimbo on like on one of the three magus sisters and maybe Dark Bahamut... that's it. Can't really remember on what Aeons I used him, but it's not every day you have 1 million gil in your pocket.

    And Odin didn't work on bosses...

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