Accusations of having good taste, maybe.
Let's Play Every Final Fantasy Game In Order Of Release [Now Finished: Final Fantasy Tactics]
- Thread starter Omicron
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Accusations of having good taste, maybe.
- Location
- Italy
All I'm saying is that the late president Deling made an excellent choice when he decided to ally the sorceress, clearly his plans of world domination would no doubt improve with her #girlboss energy and also he liked it when she called him a lowlife and I would too.
I can't really blame them? At least, if I'm interpreting what you're saying correctly, the original Japanese still uses SeeD in English, so it's very much up for debate if the kids and teens they're marketing to would understand that.
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- USA
Nope. Remember the plan:
Until the carousel rises into the air, all the sniper team can see is a bunch of walls because the thing is resting beneath rooftop level inside the palace. And if I'm tracking the layout of the city correctly, by the time the carousel is fully deployed, if the gates haven't been dropped, Edea's vehicle will have already moved through the Arch to the other side, blocking her from view even from the top of the carousel.
It makes some sense, I think--if the Sorceress is transferring her base of operations, she's not going to get another chance to put the citizens of Deling City under her mind control spell.
I'll admit that this means you have to buy into the supposition that her powers are enough to keep the citizens under her thrall even while she's away.
I thought they were QuickTime MOVs.
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- Te Ika-a-Māui
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- She/Her
I mean, they could have put the sniper team in the Arch, then they wouldn't have to wait for the carousel to rise.
Oh right forgot to throw together some bestiary scans for this update, though granted it's mostly multiple new enemies popping up in the sewers of all places:
Grand Mantis is like six times the size of a person btw.
Grand Mantis is like six times the size of a person btw.
There's an actual in universe explanation, but it won't come up until Disk 3. We'll see if you find out for yourself, but I'm sure someone will just tell you if you miss your window of opportunity.
Ugh. There's an entire subset of players that are so butthurt over the rest of FF8's plot that they will swear to their fucking death that everything that happen after this point in the plot is just Squall hallucinating as he dies. Delusional, the lot of them.
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21stCentury
Let's get down to bismuth
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- Canada
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- They/Them
If I were in Galbadia, if i were a Deling Citizen, I'd probably see Edea's ascension as an improvement.
Like, sure she's buttering it on a bit thick but hey, it's gonna help get us to gender parity.
Plus, it's not like the evil sorceress would kill me! i'm voting for her.
Like, sure she's buttering it on a bit thick but hey, it's gonna help get us to gender parity.
Plus, it's not like the evil sorceress would kill me! i'm voting for her.
Wade Garrett
Just trying to do the right thing
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- He/His/Him
Sons of Galbadia! Brothers in arms!
Our nation stands upon the brink of annihilation! Our democracy has been subverted, and worse than that, the superiority of martial heritage has been corrupted! No longer will Our brave soldiers face their enemies on the battlefield, instead they will cowerwhile effete, subversive magick users seize rulership of rightful Galbadian lands!
RISE UP, MEN OF GALBADIA! Stand tall against this decadence and depravity! Rise up, for our democracy! Rise up, for the glory of our nation and the fighting spirit of our warriors!
THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE FREEDOM FIGHTER GENERAL CARRAWAY AND THE LOYAL SOLDIERS OF THE GALBADIAN WHITE ARMY!
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I would be surprised if either game used mocap to any significant degree, being from the late 90's.
Kadmus
Dragon's teeth are surprisingly hard to sow
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- Devon
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- He/Him
I mean, they probably did use at least some? It's been used in video games since the early 90s at the latest, because it's such a labour saving tool that it's just not economically competitive to do it any other way. It's also a lot harder for hand-animation to give you any sort of comparatively 'real feeling' motion.
And Spirits Within came out in 2001, only 2 years after FFVIII, Phantom Menace was doing full mo-cap in 1999, and Gollum was live mo-capped in 2002's The Two Towers. The tech was clearly there, and Square was very clearly heavily invested in it (as seen with Spirits Within).
Sons of Galbadia! Brothers in arms!
Our nation stands upon the brink of annihilation! Our democracy has been subverted, and worse than that, the superiority of martial heritage has been corrupted! No longer will Our brave soldiers face their enemies on the battlefield, instead they will cowerwhile effete, subversive magick users seize rulership of rightful Galbadian lands!
RISE UP, MEN OF GALBADIA! Stand tall against this decadence and depravity! Rise up, for our democracy! Rise up, for the glory of our nation and the fighting spirit of our warriors!
THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE FREEDOM FIGHTER GENERAL CARRAWAY AND THE LOYAL SOLDIERS OF THE GALBADIAN WHITE ARMY!
I see someone's more into stern (but caring) older men in uniform.
Well, to each their own.
Egleris
Vagrant Dragon
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- Italy
I don't remember right now where I saw it, but there's actual "making of" footage of the FFVIII developers using mocap for the waltz scene, with real dancers going through the motions of the ball, since that was the only way to digitally recreate a sequence so physically complex.
Ah, yeah, for the FMVs makes sense. I was mostly skeptical about the in-engine stuff like Rinoa's dismissive wave to her dad.
Of course, I didn't say that.
...whatever.
somewhatLazy
Serial Procrastinator
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- lurking
It may not be a good decision, but Quistis's loneliness and the implication that other Garden instructors look down on her, I can see why she decided to personally apologize to Rinoa before the insult festered.
Like. This is a woman who turned to Squall for emotional intimacy. She's not exactly picky here about the opinions she counts on! And she might see a bit of herself in how the SeeDs look down on inexperienced Rinoa, too.
Like. This is a woman who turned to Squall for emotional intimacy. She's not exactly picky here about the opinions she counts on! And she might see a bit of herself in how the SeeDs look down on inexperienced Rinoa, too.
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- Lake Wobegon
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- He/Him/His
Critical support to girlboss sorceressism if this is the alternative.
Sons of Galbadia! Brothers in arms!
Our nation stands upon the brink of annihilation! Our democracy has been subverted, and worse than that, the superiority of martial heritage has been corrupted! No longer will Our brave soldiers face their enemies on the battlefield, instead they will cowerwhile effete, subversive magick users seize rulership of rightful Galbadian lands!
RISE UP, MEN OF GALBADIA! Stand tall against this decadence and depravity! Rise up, for our democracy! Rise up, for the glory of our nation and the fighting spirit of our warriors!
THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE FREEDOM FIGHTER GENERAL CARRAWAY AND THE LOYAL SOLDIERS OF THE GALBADIAN WHITE ARMY!
Zap Rowsdower
Ex-cultist vagrant
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- Bright lights, big city
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- He/Him
Before I endorse the #girlboss I'd have to hear her positions on things like taxes and healthcare policy
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- Not your place of residence
I feel like the last update needs to be retitled. The thread and the author clearly stan a girlboss, and there was plenty of gaslighting, but it appears like the Sorceress isn't really into the Gatekeeping part of the slogan.
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
No, that was Squall's team with a literal gate.
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- Not your place of residence
And she did a very poor job at protecting the gate!
Connelly
As useless as a penguin with mittens
- Location
- Salamanca, Spain
Carbuncle is, indeed, the cutest GF. Also I'm iffy on the details of staning for this particular girlboss if what she promises is eternal lotus dream suffering. But I guess for the Galbadians a tyrant is a tyrant is a tyrant.
And put a pin on Irvine freaking out for later. As hands off with their emotional wellbeing as they may be, it seems unlikely the Gardens wouldn't notice their sniper specialist getting the jeevies at the idea of actually carrying out his intended function, and one as particularly demanding and delicate as sniping is.
And put a pin on Irvine freaking out for later. As hands off with their emotional wellbeing as they may be, it seems unlikely the Gardens wouldn't notice their sniper specialist getting the jeevies at the idea of actually carrying out his intended function, and one as particularly demanding and delicate as sniping is.
TBF, it's possible that up until now he was tasked with taking down relative nobodies. Enemy grunts and minor officers and nosy journalists sniffing around that posh hotel and so on.
It's not murder that scares him, it's affecting history in ways he can't control or predict. He's afraid of becoming the guy who shot JFK and became in some way responsible for what came next.
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- She/They
Well, we know that Edea has mind control powers, and that Galbadia Garden has been nominally aligned with Galbadia proper until recently. Who's to say that Edea hasn't visited the Garden at some point, under a pretext of diplomacy, and compromised Martine then? If it's possible for mind her mind control to manifest more subtly, like how Seifer may be under, it's entirely possible Martine was turned long ago and is setting our group up to fail.
It would also offer a reason as to why she was so unsurprised by the events happening tonight, beyond general big bad paranoia; she knew from the start what the plan was, and was fully prepared to counter it.
If she uses this event as a pretext to immediately declare the Gardens enemies of the state, and goes to take them over for herself, I'm going to say that was the plan all along.
Which, honestly, all of this is really selling her villain cred. We have no idea who might be under her control at any given time, and the only way to know would be to be familiar with a given person and being able to tell when something is off with them and how they're acting, which all circles back to the theme of communication and exchange of information. If you're closed off and don't know enough about the people around you, you'd have effectively no defense against her, wouldn't you?
The solution is simple, really: join the sorceress. You don't need to fear mind control if you're on the side of mind controller.