The Supposedly Final Game! (Final Fantasy Thread)

[TetsuoS2]

Why don't we have this yet!!!!
Discuss anything remotely related to Final Fantasy here.

Golbez's Awesomely Low Voice

A Manly Stomping

BUY MY SWORD!

Discuss the probability of even getting Final Fantasy Type-0 in English, imo, one installment capable of restoring Final Fantasy's name!
Or the "release" date of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, with the Sasuke-Lookalike protagonist!

Don't like this thread, you will have this visitor in your dreams!

Closed and remade, with even more choices.

[Lycodrake]

Dissidia has awesome music, especially Duodecim/012 - God in Fire.

[TetsuoS2]

Ah yes, that:


FAR, FAR better than The Messenger crap.

[Lycodrake]

Yep yep.~ One of my favorite pieces from any Final Fantasy game. Alonside this:

[nununu]

FFT: WotL. You get to kill Argath twice. Talk about fanservice.

[Tobias]

8 will always have a special place in my heart.

[EXiku]

Yay~ A choice I can get behind! Thank ya!

Just to clarify - I like most of them (just not FFVII sequels/prequels, FFX-2, FFXIII and FFXIII-2. The online games don't make it on my list and I haven't gotten around to playing Revenant Wings; FFTA; FFT: A2; Echoes of Time; Ring of Fates and My Life as a Darklord)

Just a thought...isn't FF Tactics the same as War of the Lions?

[TetsuoS2]

Um, there was this guy in GameFaqs named, Fireinthewronghole, who made stuff like this, I was lucky enough to drag it back from the recesses of the closed yet undeleted topics :

A story out of Dissidia quotes :

(I gotta sober up. Oooh. A new play thing. What a cute little girl. I'm not very good with children. I won't be able to hold back.)"Do you think I don't notice your presence? Why not just show yourself?"
"I can score even in the dark."
"Who... who are you? Why are you here?"
"Today's victim... is you! Time to come home to papa. Can't run! Gotcha! Go take a nap!"


The boy has spoken little since she woke from her slumber.
"I am in absolute darkness. Where is the light? Huh? Why am I not moving?"
"Heh-heh. Gotcha, didn't I?"
"Huh? When did that happen?"
"You've only yourself to blame. You let your guard down. You should've seen that one coming."
"I can't even save myself? How could this be?"
"There there. Don't cry now. You're getting what you deserve. So, should we get started now?"
"I hate guys like you the most. Think you scare me? Think again. You don't scare me one bit."
"Show bravado while you still can. I won't hold back. This will be painful."
"Just back off, buddy. Just get out of here."
"Fool. Expect no chivalry here, woman. You've no escape. I'm not letting you go!"
"Please. Just go away! Go away, leave me alone!"
"I'm ready. Are you? This won't take long. Being small has its advantages. Come, let us embrace."
"What are you doing? Please don't! Get away!"
"Ah, the smell of inexperience."
"How humiliating!"
"I'm just getting started."
"No way."
"Oh yeah. The best is yet to come."
"This... this can't be real."
"I'll show you that size doesn't matter. Here it comes. This is gonna hurt."
"Oh, poor poor me."
"Alright. Time to play hard. Take it! Does it hurt? Does it?"
"I want to end this!"
"Get a load of this. Here I come!"
"This is... the end?"
"I'm still in. One more!"
"I... I need to rest for a bit."
"No holding back. I will not stop. I'm going all out."
"Wait!"
"Come on, come on, come on, come on."
"[Terra: Dialogue 18, 20, 21]"
"Here comes the finale. This is iiiitt!"
"No... It's filling me up!"
*hums FF victory theme*
"I won't sleep well tonight."
"Gonna cry? Are you gonna cry? Stop pretending you're sad. It looked like you were enjoying it!"
"I'm just glad it's over."
"No hard feelings."
*SMACK!*

The real meaning of The Messenger song :

The Messenger is standing at, standing at the gateThe "Messenger" represents a guy's rod and it's about to penetrate.


Ready to let go, ready for the crush, the Messenger
The girl is a virgin and the messenger will be breaking through.


Too late for whispers, too late for the blush
No more foreplay.


The past is mercy when the future's glow (wont you let it go)
It'll hurt at first, but she'll forget that later once she lets go and enjoy it.


Kneeling journey dressed in the cloak of shadows
Considering the position, you can guess what's going on now. The cloak of shadows is probably pubic hair.


The hunting's grim for the innocent eyes
Innocent eyes will find the person "preying" to be a savage act .


Communion spray (communion's prey?) is a cup of sorrows
But faith is colours for the humbling cries
"Communion spray" should be obvious. If it actually is "communion's prey," one old meaning of prey is "booty," so it's sharing booty, which is an odd euphemism for sex. "Cup of sorrows" refers to how the act can be seen as depreciating (or "humbling", but her allowing the act shows her trust.


The Spirit is over town, waiting for me to hit the floor
Blooming white sky for the voice of one calling tonight
Now she's nearing climax, everything's going white and she's close to passing out.


Tonight's fate is the red crown, the red crown around your door
Red crown around door=a bloody opening. Tonight was the fated night that he would take her virginity.

Time is scattering the seeds of the morning daylight
Morning daylight is bright. So it's bright-colored "seed" being scattered over time.


The avenger is roaming through, roaming through the land
Ready for the clash, for the lasting gash, the avenger
Same allusion as the first two lines.


Mothers kissing sons with a staff in hands
They're actually not mother and son (the girl is a virgin), but the line implies incest. The parent is the one with a staff in his hands, so now we know that the gender is actually reversed.


The bride is shining when the groom is gold (wont you let it go)
Climax again.


Shouting worship choked in a wave of silver
Apparently she's praising him during the act, maybe for encouragement or just to feed his ego. To reciprocate, she's being fed (choked) with the "communion spray," which is the wave of silver.


The offering's grief for Deceiver's pride,
I guess they're saying the guy's feeling guilty about keeping this from the rest of the family.


Salvation man is a cup of fire
But he finds solace in the sinful act.


But hope is the star on a morning tide
But there may be hope yet (read on)

The Pilgrims are gathering and the marching band, the marching band's howling
The two are "pilgrims" in that they're in unusual territory. They gather their family and the family howls in protest.


Compassion is the flag a righteous man, a righteous man will hold
But they feel righteous in their actions and make an appeal for them to show compassion.


The Pilgrims are gathering and the marching band, the marching band's howling
Compassion is the flag a righteous man, a righteous man will hold
The family finally accepts. Massive orgy with loud howling then follows.

Yay~ A choice I can get behind! Thank ya!

You're welcome!

Just a thought...isn't FF Tactics the same as War of the Lions?

IIRC, yes, it's different.

[EXiku]

IIRC, yes, it's different.

Different as in a completely different game, or different because WotL has Balthier? I thought WotL was a port of the original FF Tactics that was released on PSX (I was really gutted about this because I really wanted to play FF Tactics, but it never came out in the EU and my PC at the time was too weak to emulate PSX games, so when WotL was announced I was beyond ecstatic)...this is worth looking into *makes mental note*

[TetsuoS2]

Different as in a completely different game, or different because WotL has Balthier? I thought WotL was a port of the original FF Tactics that was released on PSX (I was really gutted about this because I really wanted to play FF Tactics, but it never came out in the EU and my PC at the time was too weak to emulate PSX games, so when WotL was announced I was beyond ecstatic)...this is worth looking into *makes mental note*

Well, I'll be damned, you're right!

List of Changes :

A new translation, which includes a few additions to help it link to other games in the Ivalice Alliance, such as using the term Auracite to refer to the Zodiac Stones.
The spelling and pronunciation of many names have been changed and, while they sound more correct in English, the pronunciation no longer matches the names' katakana.
Several job classes and many skills were renamed, and some skills had their JP costs tweaked; for instance, while the original "Hamedo" cost 1,200 JP, "First Strike" costs 1,300, and Cloud's Limit Cherry Blossom cost 1,200 JP in the original version, they now each cost 2,500 JP.
Another note is that the JP glitch in the original PS1 version no longer works.
A notable change in the translation quality is the changing of the spelling of six Lucavi's names and titles to match their counterparts in the Ivalice Alliance games and to match the actual spelling of the real world mythological references.
"Altima, the Bloody Angel" is now "Ultima, the High Seraph" but still called "Angel of Blood" at times.
"Hashmalum the Regulator" is now "Hashmal, Bringer of Order".
"Queklain the Impure King" is now "Cúchulainn the Impure".
"Velius the Warlock" is now "Belias the Gigas".
"Adramelk the Ghost of Fury" is now "Adrammelech the Wroth".
While his name does not change, Zalera's original title of "Angel of Death" is now "the Death Seraph".
Two new generic jobs: Onion Knight and Dark Knight.
Cel-shaded cutscenes instead of using the in-game engine. These cut-scenes did not contain voice acting in the Japanese version, but voice acting was added to the English translation.
Remastered soundtrack.
16:9 display.
Final Fantasy XII's Balthier and Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift's Luso as playable characters.
Wireless Multiplayer.
Additional battles and events.
More space for characters in the party roster. Whilst the player could only have 16 characters at one time in the original, it is now expanded to 24.
Not a major change, but the spelling of "Magic" is now "Magick" to match the more recent Ivalice games (even "Gariland Magic City" is now "Magick City of Gariland").
One noticeable change is when skills and monster attacks are performed the game slows down to to 15 frames per second (at full speed the game runs at 30 frames per second) and the lack of the software that optimizes the sound effects giving some of the sound effects different from the PS1 version.

That came from the FF Wikia.
Oh, well, I should have researched, since my knowledge of FF still limited to the main installments. And I just recently played WotL.

[KENTA]

I voted X because, I'll be honest here, I'm not really fond of most of the FF games.

[TetsuoS2]

Well, it's okay too. FFX is quite good and bittersweet. Dat ENDING!

B-but your sig!!

[KENTA]

Yes, it's a fantastic webcomic. And FF1 was OK, but I feel it lacked the charm of its contemporaries.

[TetsuoS2]

Yeah, it's quite difficult to replay for me.

[Mattias]

Love FFX, but Tatics A2 I've logged hundreds of hours on so it gets my vote

[Guy]

FFVII was the first I played, it has a special place on my heart.

[Strife ❤️]

VII, Tactics, VII, IX are my favorites. XII is pretty good as well although you can see it was going to be better, it had a pretty troubled development.

[The Sylentnight]

FFT: WoftL, Crisis Core, VII, X, and XII (DON'T JUDGE ME!) are my favorites. IV... eh, kind of sort of am in the neutral part of it. Hasn't really WOW! me yet.

XIII... was a bit different. It wasn't bad or good for me, just different.

And Dissidia is almost always inside of my PSP... or was until the case broke and it won't play anymore. ;_;

[Blackdeath6031]

what?! No love for Final Fantasy Type-0?!

I DEMAND A REASON FOR THIS!! D:

[Laith]

^ Probably the lack of localization/English version.

Dissidia Duodecim represent!

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