Final Fantasy XII - Page 6

Khalan · 11-07-2006, 05:03 PM

ff7 for ps3 would be godly.

Illuminator · 11-07-2006, 05:26 PM

The character graphics for FF7 were horrid, and I was pissed that the gaming industry moved straight to shitty-looking 3-D rather than hand-drawn/high-res 2-D, all for the sake of the fucking gimmick. People say Super Mario 64 was a great game? No, Super Mario 64 was a stinking piece of shit. They should have called it Mario Fucking Around In Mushroom Land.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was the last hurrah for a genre that died before its time.

Iryssinia · 11-07-2006, 05:33 PM

Mmm..I remember being pretty amazed by FF7's graphics at the time, and even more amazed that they kept an extremely strong and compelling story instead of falling back on the "look at all the pretty FMVs!" strategy.

The lack of interest in cel shaded games outside of Zelda (which sold on it's name alone) should give an idea of where the demand for high res 2D platformers/RPGs/Adventures went. The only 2D games that stayed strong in the PS1/N64/Dreamcast generation were the 2D fighting games, because it was still a popular genre, and still is, as most 3D fighting games still use basic 2D mechanics and just have the camera spinning around making it seem 3D.

Rinion · 11-10-2006, 11:20 AM

FF7 was amazing and the graphcis at the time were cutting edge. so al lthe charcter looked boxing out of battle? so what, you would rather play a flat game?

on a VERY sadg Note. The Ending of Final Fantasy XII is VERY lame, ussualy im the kind of guy that will go back max everything finish every mini quest ect ect ect.

After watching the SUPER lame Ending I mea i hope there is some hidden ending i missed but it is just lame. There were so many routes they could of gone, with the zodiacs, the gods, anything! but well it was lame and Vaan's lines just got lamer and lamer and the story didn't even see to be about him at all he was like a 3rd party charcter.

Spoiler inc writing in black Highlight if you wish to see it

The Ending consists of Penelo Writing a Letter to Larsa a year After they defeated the transcended Vayne. She tells him about how Ashe is becoming queen next week and she cant wait to see Larsa and Boash at the corination (Boash became the new Judge Magister because he made a promise to his reformed Twin to protect Larsa before he died.) She tells Larsa how the airship her and vaan had been watching (the Strahl) had been stolen and a ring was left with a note (telling us Balthier and Fran didnt die in the crash) and Vaan had his own airship now and was going after balthier to visit andshe was going with him because after all "every good sky pirate needs a partner"
I mean it was just so LAME.
there were so many more routes they could of gone. For example these beings claiming to be gods were very very false and the way the lore on each of the Espers sounded was that these gods created them and the espers Rebeled against them. To me it sounds like they were all nethicite holders at one point and were transformed in the way that Vayne became transformed by manufactured nethicite. Leading me to beleive the Dynast King was going to be one of the espers, but that was not the case. As I was saying about vaan..it was like the story wasn't even about him, so why was he the main charcter again??? and his lines just got lamer and lamer. i mean there they are in the middle of a battle near the end of the game Fran says "the resistance fights a good battle, we dar not let them down" and vaan is like ya then ashe will be queen! and penelo chimes in, its hard to believe blah blah blah.. enemies everywhere and they stop to have a discusion about Ashe being a queen. how retarded. The story line was great up untill the last 25% of the game. when stuff just started to not make sense and go off track in completly different and retarded directions.

I mean they didnt even go into detail, why is it Vaan could see the ghost when the valkirian or w/e "false gods" only wanted Ashe to see him. Was Vaan there 2nd choice ecause of the vengence he wanted for his brother? then why did he stop seeing the ghost? because he wanted to destory the neticite? It left it all lacking and i hope to god there is some secret ending or a sequal...something....

When my brother and I watched it (he hadn't even been following the full story) the only thign both of us could say was...that was it? it was just dumbfounding

what made it really feel likea MMO was I had to camp an hour and a half to get Excaliber. it had a 'chance' to spawn. you had to keep leaving crystal grande re-enter go back to where it has a 'chance' to be over and over until it 'spanwed' you have to do that for many Rare items such as the Fabled Ribbon as well. its a retarded concept for a single Player game.

Taelana · 11-10-2006, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Rinion

I did that for PS2 a night in advance. I wasnt getting one my brother and I were just keeping someone company..I feel asleep and sdidnt get a ticket bt my brother did and procceded to Scalp it for $100. hehe Easy Cash for doing nother more then playing gameboy on a sidewalk and hanging out for 10hours.

Sigh...I could never do that. I'm always working lol.

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

The character graphics for FF7 were horrid, and I was pissed that the gaming industry moved straight to shitty-looking 3-D rather than hand-drawn/high-res 2-D, all for the sake of the fucking gimmick. People say Super Mario 64 was a great game? No, Super Mario 64 was a stinking piece of shit. They should have called it Mario Fucking Around In Mushroom Land.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was the last hurrah for a genre that died before its time.

NOW the graphics would suck but back then? There really wasnt much to compare the graphics to, that wasnt the same or what now would be considered worse. Not for consoles at least.

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Originally Posted by Rinion

The Ending of Final Fantasy XII is VERY lame, usually im the kind of guy that will go back max everything finish every mini quest etc etc etc.

After watching the SUPER lame Ending I mea i hope there is some hidden ending i missed but it is just lame. There were so many routes they could of gone, with the zodiacs, the gods, anything! but well it was lame and Vaan's lines just got lamer and lamer and the story didn't even see to be about him at all he was like a 3rd party charcter.

Spoiler inc writing in black Highlight if you wish to see it

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That wont deter me from enjoying the game, but thanx for the heads up...lol

Illuziun · 11-12-2006, 11:53 AM

I've had alot of fun with the game, and the story line is not all that great but the battle system is what I like.

I left the final main quest fight until I finished everything I wanted too, just beat Yiazmat this morning after 5 or so hours of fighting with little breaks now and then, hes got 50million HP's so it's a reeeeaaal long fight, and deals one shot blows alot.

The game ending boss only has like 225k to measure them up for those who have beat the final guy. I'd sugest people to fight him tho, it was pretty intense.

Taelana · 11-12-2006, 12:56 PM

Dont you just love bosses that have like 225k hp and each of your chars is hitting him for like 400pts a piece. And he keeps blasting the little guy that really just there to heal. You have to keep bringin people to life with rez items and heals and wards. And just when you think youre actually getting somewhere...it heals itself...Gotta love a fight that keeps you on your toes...lol

Illuminator · 11-12-2006, 01:09 PM

The only time FF7's graphics were "cutting edge" was when it was still in the trade magazines. By the time it actually released, it was already lagging behind as far as the technology went.

FF7's graphics were fucking junk. Blocky, clunky fucking pixellated shit. Fuck textures, it looks like they just did color fills. Even claymation would have looked better.

Pinski · 11-12-2006, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Illuminator

The only time FF7's graphics were "cutting edge" was when it was still in the trade magazines. By the time it actually released, it was already lagging behind as far as the technology went.

FF7's graphics were fucking junk. Blocky, clunky fucking pixellated shit. Fuck textures, it looks like they just did color fills. Even claymation would have looked better.

The actual game graphics were pretty crappy. However, the FMVs were awesome.