Kinda surprised to see 5 that low over 3 .Nah, either 9 or 10 would be my favourite.
9>10>7>6>8>12>4>15>3>1>13>5
(Haven't played 2, 11, or 14)
Kinda surprised to see 5 that low over 3 .Nah, either 9 or 10 would be my favourite.
9>10>7>6>8>12>4>15>3>1>13>5
(Haven't played 2, 11, or 14)
I really did not enjoy 5 very much. I understand that it refined some of the systems introduced in 3, but it used them to create a poorer end product IMO.Kinda surprised to see 5 that low over 3 .
BURN THE HERETIC!I really did not enjoy 5 very much. I understand that it refined some of the systems introduced in 3, but it used them to create a poorer end product IMO.
Who's takes? My takes? Bro don't tell me FF8 is your favorite.
I suppose, but FF8's story sucks I sort of checked out of it mid-way through so i probably just didn't make the connection.
Something Something sister became a monster, something something save sister, whoops now we have to save the world for some reason, whoops maybe destroy it instead, whoops nobody gives shit.Fair enough.
I was gonna add Lightning as "just kinda there" too, then I realized then in the glazed over (repressed?) memory of my playthrough of 13 I don't even remember what her deal was.
Snow, sure, I remember his deal, he never shut the hell up about it. Chocobo hair dude, forget his name, but remember his storyline. Even the annoying kid that wanted revenge and all. Not a dang thing about what Lightning's motivation or arc was.
Bad guy told us that killing other bad guy would cause the world to end. Solution? Do what bad guy said to kill other bad guy. Oops, he was right. Except the Australian lesbians pulled a dues ex machina to save us.Something Something sister became a monster, something something save sister, whoops now we have to save the world for some reason, whoops maybe destroy it instead, whoops nobody gives shit.
This is true!!!!It's not spoilers because it makes no sense.
It feels like busy work to pad game length to me, which is probably the main reason I haven’t gone back to finish it yet.Dang 5 below 13! I can sorta see it, its a bit rough of a game, but I appreciate the improvement in job system.
That does explain a lot of why she sounds so brain dead.B) poor voice direction (apparently, Hedy Burress was told to match her speech patterns to the lip movements, which explains SO MUCH of her line delivery).
That'a weird, didn't they sync the lip flaps to the english dub though? The lips don't match teh japanese dialog so how could they animate english dub before the dub was recorded.That does explain a lot of why she sounds so brain dead.
My understanding of modelling is outdated and limited, but from conversations with a dorm mate who was in school for 3d graphics modelling a million years ago (talking about shitty lip flaps in PS2 games ironically enough):That'a weird, didn't they sync the lip flaps to the english dub though? The lips don't match teh japanese dialog so how could they animate english dub before the dub was recorded.
And apparently, that's exactly what was done. They approximated the lip syncing to the translated script, then had Hedy time her performance to the lip syncing.My understanding of modelling is outdated and limited, but from conversations with a dorm mate who was in school for 3d graphics modelling a million years ago (talking about shitty lip flaps in PS2 games ironically enough):
Basically the modellers hack in something that looks basically right way before the translation, dialog tweaking and VA is done. Apparently because the modelling takes way longer than the VA and you gotta know how much English you can fit in a scene designed for Japanese.
Based on that, presumably, although I assume it would be a bad idea, you could fully model all the lip flaps without ever hearing the actual dialog. If you were a shitshow of a team and you didn't want to spend the money tweaking the animations to the actual dialog later when VA is done, I guess you could force the comparatively cheaper voice actors to match what was modelled rather than the more sane reverse.
It feels like this should never happen but if you were on a schedule you could definitely get all the parts moving simultaneously this way.
If the animations were prerendered rather than in-game animations then no, you never ever ever ever ever want to redo the animations. Especially if you don't have your own renderfarm and have to rent out time on one.If you were a shitshow of a team and you didn't want to spend the money tweaking the animations to the actual dialog later when VA is done
How could there be, they have maybe 2 scenes together and she dies almost immediately (one of the stupidest dead in video game). I think she genueinly has around 2 minutes of screen time in the entire game.Of course, I will always prefer Tidus and Yuna's relationship building over that of Noctis and Lunafreya's, because let's be frank here, there's almost no chemistry between the latter two.
Why is 10 the only one you refer to by Roman numeral?Oh if we're doing that...
6 > 9 > X> 4> 5> 8> 7/1 > 12 > 13> 2
Never played 3, 15 or 11.
I'm going to abstain from FF14 because I ducked out early on (before my free trial thing ended) because the interface was a nightmare (LETS TARGET THE THING ACROSS THE MAP RATHER THEN THE ONE ACTIVELY IN COMBAT WITH ME (Playstation))
For reference, in my early-mid teens I basically got 6 and 7 back to back. My first job allowed me to finally buy (secondhand) games for my SNES and FF7 on PC was a birthday gift shortly after. My next batch of played ones was X and a PS1 CD collection which had 1, 2, and 4 (and Crono Trigger (which i already had on SNES) IIRC). 8 was shortly after, then 12. 9 was way way way way later (I think something on here or the old here actually prompted the playthrough, but its the PS4 version lol)
As that rating goes, after 5 (which I enjoyed the job system more then anything) its definitely thinner margins. I'm sure 1 might rate higher if I gave it the benefit of age scaling, but coming to it after a bunch of later ones its just painfully lacking (like comparing Zelda 1 when you've already played Link to the Past). You can go back in the thread for the controversial rating of 7, but tl;dr boring mechanics and a story based on motivations that the story itself retcons out of existence.
An Xtremely good question. Will he Xplain?Why is 10 the only one you refer to by Roman numeral?