Thoma's Pursuit
Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
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[x]If Vita knew anything else about this "Time Compression" business.
Hyp3rB14d3
Gotta catch 'em all!
[x]If Vita knew anything else about this "Time Compression" business.
Might want to advertise this quest - there is the player recruitment thread, which could be a good place to start....anyone? Anyone here at all?
It's... just so.... lonely in here....
Yeah, most are really set on the sort of character they want as a protagonist in this setting...
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
Damn, I wish I had a bitter rating....
Doesn't help that FF8 also has a rather large hatedom.
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
Which is another thing I've never really understood, though in the case of VIII I confess that I have rather a lot of nostalgia armor about it...
Pretty sure that a large portion of it is due to the sheer unintuitiveness of the stat system. The lower your level is the easier things are is NOT what people expect. Drawing magic from enemies countless times also leaves a bad taste in many peoples' mouths.
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
Eh, it gives me an excuse to dick around and listen to the epic battle music for ten or so minutes at a time.
And really, once you get the hang of it, you can make the game exactly as easy or difficult as you want.
They thing is though, they don't actually tell you that leveling up is bad. Standard practice in an RPG, especially a JRPG, is to level grind if you're stuck, but in FF8 they don't warn you that doing that will only make things worse. That leaves some people pretty salty.
Note, I haven't actually played 8 myself. The first FF game I played was FF6 Advance, emulated on Android 1.5.
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
As annoying as all the mandatory unskippable tutorials are, I confess that they do exist for a reason.
Also, you should play 8. Don't Be Afraid....
...of The Man With The Machine Gun....
...and when all else fails, just Force Your Way!
So far, the FF games I've played (in order played) are: 6, 10, 10-2 (dropped after like 3 hours because I hated it), Tactics Advance (dropped even quicker than 10-2), 12, Record Keeper, and 7 (got bored near the end of what would be disk 1 if I wasn't on Steam).
When I eventually get around to playing another one, it will most likely be either 4 or 15.
Less of a hatedom and more of a meh-dom for me.
But cross that with the Nanoha fans with "Force never happened" and well, you can see.
I'm willing to give it a shot, but am not really surprised at the lack of activity.
Ep 6
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
"...what about that [Time Compression] thing you mentioned? Is there any further information about that?"
Vita sighed in aggravation. "Not really. It's all a bunch of complicated crap, but apparently it's the end goal of some psycho Sorceress named Ultimecia."
Thoma nodded to show that he was paying attention, while Lily asked, "If she's a magic-user, then we might be able to stop her using the Eclipse's antimagic, right?"
"It's a fair suggestion, but there's just one little problem - in our time, Ultimecia apparently hasn't even been born yet!"
That statement brought both Reactor and Driver up short. "Wait, what?"
Were she on the ground, Vita might have stomped her foot in agitation. Being that she was airborne, such wasn't an option. "Like I said before it's all a bunch of too-complicated crap, but from what I could get out of the local eggheads, it sounds like she's got some kind of... mental time travel power, or something, that lets her send her consciousness back to possess Sorceresses in this era of time."
"I... see," Thoma said. "...so, ah, First Lt?"
"Yeah?" came the agitated response.
"...I've been wondering about this for a little while now, but..."
"Dammit, rookie, just spit it out!"
"Um, well... is it normal for the moon here to look like a gigantic demonic eyeball?"
"...oh. That." Vita paused for a moment, before landing on a balcony of Balamb Garden. "Actually, you can ask someone else about that while I get a sit-rep from Xu. Now c'mon, we're going to dash through the Training Center on through to the main hub."
[]Follow Vita.
[]Attempt to follow Vita, but end up getting lost.
Vita sighed in aggravation. "Not really. It's all a bunch of complicated crap, but apparently it's the end goal of some psycho Sorceress named Ultimecia."
Thoma nodded to show that he was paying attention, while Lily asked, "If she's a magic-user, then we might be able to stop her using the Eclipse's antimagic, right?"
"It's a fair suggestion, but there's just one little problem - in our time, Ultimecia apparently hasn't even been born yet!"
That statement brought both Reactor and Driver up short. "Wait, what?"
Were she on the ground, Vita might have stomped her foot in agitation. Being that she was airborne, such wasn't an option. "Like I said before it's all a bunch of too-complicated crap, but from what I could get out of the local eggheads, it sounds like she's got some kind of... mental time travel power, or something, that lets her send her consciousness back to possess Sorceresses in this era of time."
"I... see," Thoma said. "...so, ah, First Lt?"
"Yeah?" came the agitated response.
"...I've been wondering about this for a little while now, but..."
"Dammit, rookie, just spit it out!"
"Um, well... is it normal for the moon here to look like a gigantic demonic eyeball?"
"...oh. That." Vita paused for a moment, before landing on a balcony of Balamb Garden. "Actually, you can ask someone else about that while I get a sit-rep from Xu. Now c'mon, we're going to dash through the Training Center on through to the main hub."
[]Follow Vita.
[]Attempt to follow Vita, but end up getting lost.
EvaUnit01
Kept you waiting, huh?
If you get lost, there's a very high chance of a random monster encounter. Which, while not "training" per se, well.... every little bit of practical experience counts.