V01 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 On 12/13/2015 at 22:23, Chindie said: I rather stupidly decided I'd like to have a crack at a Final Fantasy game for the first time in nearly a decade. So I bought Bravely Default, which is basically a Final Fantasy game on everything but name (and originally in name as well). It's bloody good. It throws in some slightly different mechanics which add an additional tactical layer, whereby each character can take up to 4 turns in a turn in advance, but then sits out of the next 3 turns while they build up their turns again, or you can bank a turn to take 2 later in the fight for free. If you have a 3ds and fancy some JRPG action, track down a copy. Great game until chapter 5, then you get the twist. Ruined it for me. Yuffie's dialogue is easy, It alternates top/bottom so it's just a 50/50 on remembering the first option. Sid and Vincent are better companions anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 FFIX as expected is coming to Steam - next month, alledgedly. Just left Midgar on my FFVII playthrough, got to steal the Atomic Scissors outside Kalm then do the Sephiroth back story before starting my limit break level grinding. And anyone who has already played it, did you notice this? I'll put it in spoilers for anyone who doesn't want the surprise ruined, occurs early on in Midgar, before taking Aerith home from the Church... Spoiler They actually **** patched it, the crazy bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Question - on my PS1 version the character' name is Aeris. Where has "Aerith" come from?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) I named her that. Aeris is a mistranslation, and to be more specific a 'transliteration', her actual name is Aerith, and every FFVII product since the main game (ie. Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts, Crisis Core, Dissidia, even Little Big Planet 2 and FFRK.) has had her name as Aerith. Ergo, her canon name is Aerith, not Aeris, and will be so in the FFVII Remake. Curiously, they did not correct the text in the Guard Scorpian battle, where Cloud tells Barrett to attack when the tail is up, when of course, it should read don't attack when the tail is up. Edited January 8, 2016 by hogso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 Completed my grinding for Aerith's limit breaks All done in the Mythril Mines, didn't actually take all that long. Also got Cloud and Barrett's 2/2 limits as well. Then I managed to encounter and recruit Yuffie on my first random encounter in the woods near Junon, which is some acheivement as I can remember having to try over and over again there in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 I got Yuffie on my third encounter in the forests just West of Fort Condor, which is apparently one of the places with the lowest chance of her appearing. I guess I lucked out. I never use her though, Cloud, Vincent and Barret are my typical line-up. Worked well so far. Reunited with Cloud and did some of the sidequests last night including Ancient Forest which was incredibly annoying with the iPad controls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 I just got to Gold Saucer. The tension leading up to the date scene is palpable...to restart or not restart if it isn't Barret...? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 FFIX on iPhone? EXCELLENT! My fav of the series 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 15, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 15, 2016 9 is easily the best. Fantastic game. Must have played through it 5 times, used to be a bit of a summer tradition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Yes Chindie! Same here. The setting, the story, the levelling.. perfect FF game IMO. Even loved the card game (although it could be very frustrating sometimes!) Can't wait to play it again. Been too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Going to spend a large chunk of this year bashing through FF 7, 8 and 9 as I've not played these since I was 16/17 quite a few years ago. Looking forward to it a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 20, 2016 Author Share Posted January 20, 2016 1 hour ago, jacketspuds said: Going to spend a large chunk of this year bashing through FF 7, 8 and 9 as I've not played these since I was 16/17 quite a few years ago. Looking forward to it a lot. Which was your favourite before? I replayed VIII a few years ago and it went down in my estimation based upon what I remember thinking about when it first came out and I played the heck out of it. It's probably the easiest of all the games, spend some time early on drawing magic and not much can stand up to you. How much of the FFVII compilation stuff did you read/watch/play? Crisis Core is terrific, Zack is a wonderfully realised character in it, and it also deals with some other stuff that might seem odd in FFVII, Sephiroth's one wing, for example. Plus, if you're interested in them, The Turks have some great back story in Before Crisis - the game itself is now over ten years old and was mobile only in Japan. So you probably won't be able to play it, but a plot synopsis might be worth a read. Dirge of Cerburus never really grabbed me, but I actually did enjoy some of the retconning - FYI Yuffie and Vincent were evacuating Midgar before Meteor struck whilst Cloud and Co were at the North Crater battling Sephiroth, for example, therefore they weren't in the final sequence of FFVII Advent Children is well known as being pure fan service and pretty pointless otherwise, and I wouldn't be surprised if SE non-canonised (is that a thing?) it, so Cait Sith isn't **** Scottish and so we may actually be able to do the Aerith revival quest in Remake. On the subject, if Mandy Moore doesn't voice Aerith, I riot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, hogso said: Which was your favourite before? I replayed VIII a few years ago and it went down in my estimation based upon what I remember thinking about when it first came out and I played the heck out of it. It's probably the easiest of all the games, spend some time early on drawing magic and not much can stand up to you. How much of the FFVII compilation stuff did you read/watch/play? Crisis Core is terrific, Zack is a wonderfully realised character in it, and it also deals with some other stuff that might seem odd in FFVII, Sephiroth's one wing, for example. Plus, if you're interested in them, The Turks have some great back story in Before Crisis - the game itself is now over ten years old and was mobile only in Japan. So you probably won't be able to play it, but a plot synopsis might be worth a read. Dirge of Cerburus never really grabbed me, but I actually did enjoy some of the retconning - FYI Yuffie and Vincent were evacuating Midgar before Meteor struck whilst Cloud and Co were at the North Crater battling Sephiroth, for example, therefore they weren't in the final sequence of FFVII Advent Children is well known as being pure fan service and pretty pointless otherwise, and I wouldn't be surprised if SE non-canonised (is that a thing?) it, so Cait Sith isn't **** Scottish and so we may actually be able to do the Aerith revival quest in Remake. On the subject, if Mandy Moore doesn't voice Aerith, I riot. It's a tough one but I will always have a soft spot for 9, probably because Vivi is a cool character, but I also think some of that is because it was the last one I played and can remember it getting me through my A-Levels. I hope 8 hasn't aged for me as much as you say as I think that is the most mature of the 3 games. I watched videos of Crisis Core ages ago but do sometimes go back to Advent Children as I actually own that. Will certainly check out the other games you mention, maybe on youtube. Oh, and Aerith revival has to be a priority on the remake. Edited January 20, 2016 by jacketspuds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 Nailed it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) FF8 becomes mildly more interesting when viewed through the lens of the fan theory that half the game is played out in the moments before death of one of the characters. Edited January 22, 2016 by Chindie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 8 was awesome IMO, along with RE2 it was the first game that I can remember being hyped for, followed it for ages before the release, got it day 1, smashed it, 4/5 hours a day on it, I for one liked the draw system and the characters, the card game is the best sub game I think I've ever played 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Reached 'part 2' on my FFVII save yesterday. I had a party of Cloud, Tifa and Cait Sith, with Tifa and Cait Sith severely under-leveled compared to Cloud, and took Jenova Life down with just 3 attacks - Bahamut, Kjata, and Meteorain from Cloud to finish it off. That alone did about 7000 damage, though. Yeeowch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 FF9 iOS wants to hurry it's ass up. It's like an itch I can't scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 FFIX iOS release calendar. 1st February. Still no sighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Gunning for an all achievement playthrough? Keep us updated man. I've decided I definitely want 3 full enemy skill materias in my ff7 save. **** the 4th, too much hassle. I've just lost Cloud, so having 3 other characters making up my party is quite beneficial when learning limit breaks for the rest I'm finding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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