Finally caught up. Probably a little late to comment on FF7 in general, but I did want to mention one thing. If Cloud's supposed to have stolen Zack's fighting style... and he wasn't actually directly trained in it... and there wasn't any sort of memory mixing going on...
Wouldn't that mean he's actually some kind of prodigy?
Quetzacotl, for instance, was named Golgotha. Yes, like the mountain where Jesus was crucified.
...
BRB, starting new game of FF8 and naming Quetzacotl "Golgo 13".
Siren will be named To Love Ru.
It's possible to go from no Magic to 100 Fires and 100 Scans in that very first encounter with a Bite Bug I screenshotted above. Is that something you'd naturally do? Well, we'll see.
Well, I certainly did. That and I went right for the 'keep enemies from leveling up' strats, which is probably what eventually killed my first attempt at the game.
Next time around I used a 'draw 100' code to speed things up... still burned out on the other part though.
So next time, I'm going for a no EXP code as well.
What's that? Just don't use crazy strats? I don't think my brain is capable of handling that. Maybe back before I learned about the level scaling, but that ship has sailed.
he presses the trigger while delivering a sword blow, which causes the cylinder and 'firing mechanism' to detonate some kind of cartridge, which either causes the sword to 'vibrate' in the style of a Star Wars vibro-sword, or just propels the blade with greater strength like a rocket hammer.
I have questions about where the exhaust gasses go. Urgent, safety related questions.
Of course, eventually someone figured out that you can dispense with every other part of the system, including the trigger,
as long as you still have the cartridges.
Yeah here it is in an official contemporary render, and a little clearer in a cutscene in Dissidia, Revolver has a keychain that matches his necklace, you just can't see it in-engine.
So that makes me wonder. Was that case custom made for Squall, or is it the manufacturer's logo?
That Squall wears on a necklace.
Is Squall doing
sponsorships?
All this search puts a thing I have totally forgot in light though : the PocketStation. It could be used with FF8 for bonus if I am remembering right. But I have no idea if it has been emulated or used in some way with another emulator.
The PC version, I am told, has the Chocobo World game built in, but there's apparently also a specific combination of emulators with an obnoxious setup process that allows you to play it from the PSX version.
I'm also told that Chocobo World is one of the less fun ways of breaking the game though, so it's a question of if you really want to...
I don't know if any of this makes real strategic sense as events to happen in a war,
I don't even have an armchair, but it sounds reasonable to me. Hit the weaker part of the enemy's force, then catch the rest between your own (behind whatever fortifications Dollet might have) and the hopefully rallying Dollet soldiers? I could see that working out really well.
The part I don't get is why the Galbadians were running off into the mountains in the first place. Unless that really is supposed to refer to the communication tower (which doesn't feel quite right to me), I don't see how it helps them in their apparent goals... and sounds like a good way to get bled to death by guerilla actions.
Selphie's weapon looks like giant nunchaks, but it could also be a three section staff with a small middle section, it's a little hard to tell from the graphic.
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a chain in the middle, but it does seem unusually long relative to the length of the sticks. The way she attacks actually looks similar to a video I found of someone using a three section staff though. But I don't know if that part was actually supposed to be a normal attack with one or if they were demonstrating something else.
A Brief Aside on the French Translation
No threadmark for this?
A magazine titled 'Weapons Monthly, March Issue.'
Younger Morgan, upon finding this item, did not realize the name contained abbreviations, and thus spent an excessive amount of time wondering what a "Mon Mar" was.
Parasite Eve is actually really fucking cool, damn, not like everyone who ever played that game had promised me that it would be
It is! PE was the first PSX game I ever played (on someone else's system), and the first PSX game I ever bought. (I wouldn't actually buy a playstation until... some time later, but I had the game.)
And now someone's working on a randomizer for it. o.@
Squall, as someone who has been the kid standing in the corner watching people dance and thinking I'm above these trivialities, nobody thinks you're cool. C'mon. Relax a little.
I find myself torn. On the one hand, the music *is* too loud, the lights are too dim (okay, not this time, but usually), and there are definitely too many people.
On the other hand, I'm an introvert with sensitive ears, and I'm pretty sure Squall isn't either of those things. (Especially the latter, Mr. "I hit robots with a giant hunk of metal for a living".)
And Quistis? She obviously doesn't have much support from staff,
If that's the intent, I'm not sure the game's really sold it. Xu seems friendly. We've got one relatively mild negative comment during the exam. And... I don't know what else?
I feel like what's been shown would actually fit better with staff being neutral-to-positive in a sort of 'not perfect but you'll get there' way, but Quistis deciding to resign anyway because she's taking her difficulties with the hardcases excessively personally. Though even that feels a little half-baked with the character ages as they are. (It's kind of funny, people were talking about Cloud's age earlier in the thread, and I was thinking "He's not that much older than Yuffie, is he? *googles* Oh, I guess he is." It feels really damn weird that the younger party members in FF7 (minus Yuffie) are university age and the FF8 party members so far are not.)
Incidentally, while skimming the previous posts to see if there was something I'd missed in this regard, my attention was drawn to the initial briefing as the group approached Dollet.
Now, the general read about the withdrawal in the thread seems to be 'Dollet cheaped out, so we left' or some such. But it struck me, isn't that kind of weird? This isn't like putting quarters in a dryer. Whether it was time or objective based, the terms and the payment should already have been laid out beforehand, so if they were going to withdraw at a certain time, they should have known that at the start. And if they weren't going to do all the objectives that were listed in the briefing... well, then the objectives they weren't doing shouldn't have been listed in the briefing. If Dollet had decided not to pay what they'd agreed to (or at all), then that should have lead to a much angrier response than what was shown...
My take on it when I originally played was that we were withdrawing *because* Dollet had made the deal with Galbadia (which sort of fits with one of Xu's comments), but now I see that doesn't track either, since Selphie was dispatched with the withdrawal order before that happened. So I find myself without an explanation for that part of thngs that I find entirely plausible.
-Morgan.
