Can anybody tell me what this computer game Final Fantasy is all about? I have to interview a boy tomorrow who named his music project after the game, and writes songs about it and stuff, and even though I like computer games as you all know these are limited to precisely three games on the Nintendo Gaycube. Can anyone explain what FF is about? I mean I could Google it obviously but it's more fun if you tell me, right?
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Numer 12 just came out in Japan to get a perfect 10 score in Famitsu. Number 7 is generally regarded as the best of the series, and one of the greatest games of all time. This may have changed now after XII.
They rely on a quiet, moody young man protagnoist leading a constantly growing team to save the planet (not earth), employing magic and weaponary. They're epic scale RPG games, requiring a fair amount playing time, and are well known for their artwork and sweeping scores, some of which are reguarly performed by classical orchestras. The plots usually test loyalty, love, and strength, and evolve the main character from a selfish and introverted to selfless and sensitive. Lots of melodrama, usually a tragic death of a loved character, maybe some re-birth, mystical/religious references.
Second only to Dragon Quest in Japan in terms of sales and popularity. Also: Cosplay people dig it.
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: It's about the most boring turned based RPG series ever conceived and one of them (I think it may be VII) was the most returned game ever.
I can't tell you much more because it was so boring I returned it.
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the thing is, I was a student and was stoned the whole time, and wracking up 70 hours on one game wasn't too much of a chore. Although, I still play RPG games. Recently went through chrono trigger again, and got right to the end of Paper Mario (37 hours). Anyway, Anne-Marie, how can you diss RPGs, when your top two games are Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing?
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I use to watch over Ubers shoulder occasionally and actually get bored just looking at Harvest Moon when Uber was playing it. I'm sorry. I was bottling that up and I'm afraid ....that it just LOOKED DULL. There. I said it and it's a weight off my mind.
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I'm probably going to pick up a ps2 and some final fantasy games. If I could get the slimline console for £50, I'd go for it. I haven't played any since FF 9, which was the last one on the ps1.
I finally got my DS and animal crossing. It's addictive.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: Anyway, Anne-Marie, how can you diss RPGs, when your top two games are Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing?
Whoops, sorry "Steve" - didn't know we were still trying to keep our online and 'RL' personae separate here in 2006! I won't make that mistake again, Dr.
I will make the mistake of confusing an RPG with a 'first-person shoot-em-up' though. Haha I'm a retard. Incredible that I've just been paid £££££100s of genuine cash-flavoured money for that essay on computer games really.
Harvest Moon WAS boring boring boring boring fucking boring dull as shit. It lacked whatever it was - ability to design clothes with cocks on, ability to teach animals words like 'pisslicker', ability to get crushes on wierd animals (i totally fancied Static!) - that Animal Crossing had. But I kept playing and playing and playing and playing right up until I had loads of cows and a cheesemaker and everything because I HAD TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED. And what happened was this:
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But still.
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good game for the gamecube: Metal Arms - Glitch in the System. Bit laggy when the action gets hot, but original and funny. If you ain't got it BR, I would recommend.
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Can I thread hijack? Benway are you ok for work at the moment? I've been offered a receptionist role for £9.50 an hour. I don't do any typing. I don't have to put in any data. I just have to look nice. I just have to drink tea and regret lending a patient the scissors. Would you like me to ask if they have similar work at the moment? So far I have worked in Victoria and next week Paddington. Hello.
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I'm working, fella. I'm currently being awesome at - wait for it - PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Just like I was when I first started posting on Seethru. Life's funny, ain't it?
quote:Originally posted by ralph: [QUOTE]It's a lovely name. I just pictured you having a more exotic name is all.
It is exotic! My sisters are called Lisa and Michelle, the most rubbish names alive! I have a hyphen and everything! Honestly, what did you expect - Drusilla? Candida?
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I hope some small part of someone chuckles at me considering nearly ten pounds an hour as quite nice - I spit in your gravy. I am a failure ok.
hey man, I'm feeling that. That's what I'm on, and it's more than I've earned per hour for the last two years. I too have the keys to the non-executive washroom.
quote:Originally posted by London: It is exotic! My sisters are called Lisa and Michelle, the most rubbish names alive! I have a hyphen and everything! Honestly, what did you expect - Drusilla? Candida?
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but Anne-Marie, at least in the US, is so 1957.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: I have a shameful secret. I don't know what RPG stands for.
Really pretty game? Rad yet pointless guff?
total immersion, where you use a helmet with magnet things to generate the images in the your head rather than on a screen. It's good, but addictive. It stands for REAL-PLAY GAMES
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Pah, what is this? The self pity olympics? that's not much less than when I left the magazine I was working on, and it's quite a bit more than what I earnt when I started on it. Is that what passes for hardship these days? You fucking lightweights.
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: I too have the keys to the non-executive washroom.
Man, I've since stopped worrying about it. I'm being more creative right now than I ever have in my life. Writing and painting. daydreaming even. It's just the way I'm built so I am trying to stop just fucking worrying about life and stop clicheocliches started to live it.
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It is exotic! My sisters are called Lisa and Michelle, the most rubbish names alive! I have a hyphen and everything! Honestly, what did you expect - Drusilla? Candida?
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