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Ozymandias:

--- Quote from: BrilliantEraser on 08 Nov 2009, 15:26 ---FFVI is, in contrast to FFVII, still one of my favorite video games. Started replaying it recently, and I still love it. The characters are believable and well rounded out. I liked them well enough to name my fish after them, even (Locke and Edgar). The villain was easy to hate, which made the game that much more fun-- I wanted to complete the game because I wanted that bastard Kefka dead! I honestly don't know how, but I think the series mainly went downhill after that. In short,

Many other games > FFVII

--- End quote ---

Goshdang you are like my favorite person who is not in Meebo enough.

BrilliantEraser:
Aw shucks. Guess I'll try to be on Meebo more often, then.

I Am Not Amused:
I don't know what it is, but I cannot get emotionally involved in any Final Fantasy pre VII and I think it is simply because of timing.

I am a fast reader and I have a tendency, when words come on a screen, to read them quickly and then move on to the next set of words. The problem with that is that drama, a key element in any of the Final Fantasy games (okay, fine, melodrama) is very sensitive to timing. By simply reading the words, it disrupts the timing, the drama and ultimately the impact of any of the events in the game. Now, FFVII through IX didn't have voice acting, which is probably the best way to get the intended timing of a line across, but they did force some phrases to stay longer on the screen, some phrases to take longer to appear and for there to be large gaps of silence to heighten tension, something previous FFs didn't (couldn't? maybe) do.

I'm not saying that this makes them inferior games, but it's impossible for me to care about their stories because I can't get a sense of the drama of any particular moment. X, X-2 and XII didn't have spectacular stories, but I was able to be more engaged with those games because the voice acting allowed there to be some sense of timing to the lines that increased the moment.

So, yeah. I understand that it is pretty much my own damn fault but there you go.

On topic: I am replaying the Xenosaga series for PS2 because I got through 1 and 2 and almost finished 3 but then didn't and completely forgot what the fuck was going on in those games.

Scandanavian War Machine:
^ seconding all that stuff you said!


Until now, I have been unable to articulate why I feel the way I do (see: pretty much the same way as you) about the FF series in it's entirety.

ADDENDUM:
Now, don't get me wrong, I loved the SNES FF games (however you want to label them, numerically, which can be quite confusing) but that's because I like killing stuff and getting XP and loot and all that stuff. I didn't give a shit about the characters because they were all tiny little pixelated messes that looked like something I vomited up during a fever. They weren't people.

FF7 made them into people, for me; it made me care a little bit more (but not much). Yeah, I didn't really care about Aeris either, though I was a little shocked when she died.

FFIX, on the other hand, had me weeping with joy when Zidane and Dagger were reunited at the end. FFX was similar except they were sad tears, not happy tears.*


*NOTE: Not actual tears. I do not cry. Ever. Because I am an emotionless lumberjack. Any semblence of emotion is simply a device to make me seem more real to you.

Alex C:
Cloud's li'l pixelated Popeye arms are hardly any better.

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