Because Kinkajou told me to.
So yeah, anything about Final Fantasy! I guess this would make a good starting point: Which are your favorite games in the series and why?
My two all-time favorites are tied between Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy IX. They're both very fun games that don't take themselves too seriously while still being legitimately emotional. On top of that, Zidane is my favorite Final Fantasy lead in the entire series. He's light-hearted, fun, and a generally nice guy to be around. FFV also has the advantage of having one of, if not the best, Job System in an FF game. Both FFV and FFIX make characters customizable while keeping them all unique in their own way. I'm also very fond of Final Fantasy I; it hasn't aged well, but it's classic, and like FFV, I played it tons as a kid.
I assume we'll drift around to various other FF-related discussions as the topic grows, right?
edited 3rd Nov '09 4:22:18 AM by Stark Maximum
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One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander@Hob: Might wanna spoiler that stuff in your post, but basically:
After Bart falls into Orphan's pool and dies, orphan wears him as a second skin in order to gain more power. Why he'd want to gain power when he explicitly wants the party to kill him is anybody's guess.
There's some stuff about Orphan forcing Fang to turn into Ragnarok, and then your party is all "hey we all have brands with no time limits like Fang does for no reason now". It's implied that they were able to do it just because or that Etro did it for them.
So then they beat up Orphan and, despite the fact that the world hasn't ended yet the Door of Souls opens anyway, and then Cocoon starts falling out of the sky. So Fang and Vanille become Ragnarok together and instantly know how to save everyone despite the fact that the only times Fang has used Ragnarok was to wreck people's shit.
So then the entire party turns to crystal, but then they de-crystalize because.... *shrug* Also they are now outside of cocoon and miles away from the crash site because.... *shrug*
Then Serah and Dahj are back too for no reason and the Cocoon military somehow managed to evacuate at least 2/3's of Cocoon(a planetoid the size of North America) in a few hours despite the fact that the only portals that lead out of Cocoon are controlled by the Cocoon fal'Cie(which are both dead, and evil besides).
Umbran Climax◊Etro is the goddess of death. She's been helping your party the entire time, making it a literal Deus ex Machina that they survive the entire ordeal. She's also the one who stopped Fang from destroying Cocoon 500 years ago. And according to some documents that weren't in the actual game she created humanity.
I don't remember Fang attacking Vanille.
Umbran Climax◊No, slightly before that.
Fang raised her...staff thingie to smack Vanille and then the others stopped her. Then she jumped into the air and did some ninja shnizzle and blasted everyone. Then they were all Cie'th and beating her up. THEN she turned into Ragnarok.
edited 30th Apr '11 11:46:03 AM by Hobgoblin
Oh, I guess that Fang thought It would be better to kill her than see her become Raganarok. But thats just my opinion.
So the other day when my roommate was playing FFXIII, she made the following comment about Lightning changing her name, not knowing what her real name is at this point (spoilered just in case): "Couldn't she just change her name to something that means 'Lighting'? Like she could've been 'Eclair,' that's French for lightning." If she only knew that that was Lightning's real name in the Japanese version...
We're up to Chapter 7 on our playthrough (well, it's not really "ours" because she's the one playing it, I just sit back and watch and put on vaguely porno-ish music whenever Fang comes onscreen). Hopefully we'll be able to finish it before exams/the end of the semester.
someday we will foresee obstaclesPoor Xande. He's officially the Butt-Monkey of Noah's Disciples. I bet he had it bad before he even got cursed with mortality. D:
Making my way through the Via Infinito in FFX-2 again. Demon Dragons Elder Drakes successfully avoided so far: 4. Elder Drakes unsuccessfully avoided so far: 1.
Also, this thread needs moar Hypellos.
◊ Playing through FFX-2 has made me realize that Hypellos are awesome becaushe they are sho much fun to imitate.
edited 30th Apr '11 7:22:59 PM by Serenitas
someday we will foresee obstacles

Also Exdeath.
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