Current Events > You know, FF7 always had one thing that boggled my mind.

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Sad music is playing and everything is very serious when suddenly an enormous fat man walks out of a train and his wife, absolutely tiny by comparison, lifts him up and spins him around like nothing before happily walking away with him.

FF7 is just full of weird moments like those.
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Or that time Sephiroth phases from the floor on the ship then drops a tentacle that transforms into jenova, then Superman flys up away.

I stand corrected. I guess I should finally play it.

What version of FF2 is best to play?
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Laserion posted...

I stand corrected. I guess I should finally play it.

What version of FF2 is best to play?

none
its an overall terrible game
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shokan_warrior posted...

TheCurseX2 posted...

Here's another thing, Honey Bee Inn allows you to look through keyholes of some rooms. In one of them you have President Shinra apparently dressed like a weirdo and doing some occult bullshit. Like he's full on trying to summon Satan.

FF7 was fucking nuts.

i prefer when my games actually summon satan

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2fbT2xBygk" data-time="

ready crowley's dialogue in the 2nd video "i'm so freaking horny!!"

i love smt 2

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Laserion posted...

I stand corrected. I guess I should finally play it.

What version of FF2 is best to play?

PSP version. GBA version close second.
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Laserion posted...

I stand corrected. I guess I should finally play it.

What version of FF2 is best to play?

The GBA version isn't broken. Like, not completely.
I followed an LP of the NES version once. Nothing works right. Somehow this works out to everything being Toadable.

D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

That occult thing always freaked me out as a kid now that I think about it, and it's like...never touched upon ever again is it?

That is a super weird thing.

All media is influenced by it

Just look at sephiroth's name
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ElatedVenusaur posted...

Laserion posted...

I stand corrected. I guess I should finally play it.

What version of FF2 is best to play?

The GBA version isn't broken. Like, not completely.
I followed an LP of the NES version once. Nothing works right. Somehow this works out to everything being Toadable.

GBA version also has a postgameish story using a separate party
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masterpug53 posted...

sfgiants posted...

masterpug53 posted...

FF 9 didn't have the same magic as other entries in the series for me personally, simply because it played things too safe.

FF9 was an homage to the FF series and referenced all past FFs. FF9 is widely considered the greatest FF game of all time.

Anyway, I debated whether or not to throw in that line in my original post, and even though it was fun getting in a few triggers, I shouldn't have made it because it will clearly derail the topic: this board in particular is hyper sensitive when you criticize 9. Which is kind of why I've built up a little bit of disdain for the subject; 9 is one of those technically-sound games where there's not a lot to rip into, which is why I think so many internet types have gravitated towards it: the fewer the obvious flaws, the less they have to defend their love of the game against others. Try loving 10 and then having to deal with the inevitable dipshit posting the Tidus Laughing clip every time.

What? FF 9 has A TON of flaws. I too would hate to derail the topic but the internet users that always want to feel like special little snowflakes by saying ff 9 is the best always make me roll my eyes.

I wouldn't even consider it technically sound because the battle load times alone are unbearable. They were too long even when it was first played, never mind nowadays.

I don't know if they were playing it safe though with characters like quinoa. If anything they were trying too hard to be weird. The secondary characters are really awful, both design wise and characterwise, and only the main party of Zidane, vivi, garnet and steiner are worth having and following. Though to be fair Zidane and vivi are worth it, one for being at least a nice upbeat positive protagonist and the other for just being adorable.

But otherwise yeah it's a severely flawed game, not just because it can be a bit too boring (those load times are a pretty big deal breaker) and then you've got the typical end of disc 3 text dump, which isn't so bad if it weren't for the weird non sequitur final final boss, a dues ex bossina if you will :p

And for most of these desperately wanting to be special little snowflakes, I say all this as someone who really liked ff 9 when I first played it, I mean I just adored it and the time playing it was one of the best summers in my life.

But let's not build it up to anything more than it is. It's no ff 6, which could be considered its polar opposite in terms of being a truly revolutionary game that changed the series forever, moving away from ff's quickly-turning-trite crystal storyline and cementing the series as (at least before it ended in the 21st century) the greatest jrpg series for its high quality and ability to innovate in some way every installment unlike a certain other popular series that for some reason japanese love despite its encouragement of stagnation cough cough.

As for the topic, I don't think anything ff 7 does is weird compared to other ps1 jrpgs that did very similar things. Almost all the ps1 jrpgs had these kinda similarities, like the annoying cumbersome minigames, weird npcs and sections that make you lol. It's actually rather quaint.

i remember when ff9 was new and all i saw on the internet were people bashing it
then kids who played it grew up and now talk about how much of a masterpiece it was

nostalgia is a powerful thing and now im worried in 10 years or so 13 will get the same treatment
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yep, ff9 was always crap

maybe they were reenacting a scene from loveless

i just pulled that out of my ass btw
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TheCurseX2 posted...

And why the fuck would Cloud need a woman's underwear to begin with? It's not like he'd ever let Corneo get that close physically, and if he did get that close physically... well, what about the obvious bulge? There's no reason for him to wear underwear. He just... the game makes you do it.

What the fuck. Was Square trying to corrupt us?

The game doesn't make you do it.

you only need the wig and the dress. everything else is optional and just
effects whether Don picks Cloud, Tifa or the other one
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...why would you not search for some cute panties if you are going to crossdress to save your girlfriend?
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yusiko posted...

i remember when ff9 was new and all i saw on the internet were people bashing it
then kids who played it grew up and now talk about how much of a masterpiece it was

nostalgia is a powerful thing and now im worried in 10 years or so 13 will get the same treatment

I liked ff13 and never got the hate that it got. It wasnt a masterpiece but it was fun.

And why would you worry about that? Who cares lol
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So that whole thing with Cloud successfully fooling Don as a woman kind of foreshadows Cloud's more effeminate modern look.
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