is this awesome y/n

Oct 29, 2008 17:03

So this? Technically awesome. I mean, it's FFVI characters in 3D, controllable, and specifically it's Esper!Terra in 3D, and the part of my childhood brainstem that's hooked on the etherealness and alien wonder that is Esper!Terra - the transformation into this lightlike being of magic, the liminality of being half-human, half otherworldly entity ( Read more... )

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luinied October 29 2008, 17:37:28 UTC
Yeah... 3D Terra is neat (even if I, too, believe that they picked the wrong hair color), but Dissidia is just so very much thoughtless exploitation of the Final Fantasy brand. I'm having a lot of sympathy for long-time Marvel/DC comics fans right now.

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sethrenn October 29 2008, 20:02:52 UTC
3D Terra is neat (even if I, too, believe that they picked the wrong hair color), but Dissidia is just so very much thoughtless exploitation of the Final Fantasy brand.

...we've kind of been having that feeling for the past few years, honestly-- that Sakaguchi or whoever's supervising this stuff now has become the George Lucas of RPGs. ._. We were actually kind of looking forward to watching Advent Children just for the nostalgia factor, but ended up enjoying it more for the cheese and the funneh (Shinra cellphones! They even ring underwater), because the plot was, well, fail. If you can call it a plot.

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luinied October 29 2008, 20:11:19 UTC
Wikipedia says that Sakaguchi left in 2004, so I doubt he had any input into Dissidia, but he was still around in at least some capacity for Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy X-2. So who knows how complicit he really was in the... Star-Wars-I-through-III-ification.

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sethrenn October 29 2008, 20:20:31 UTC
Ahhh, okay. I actually didn't even know he was gone-- that's how little we'd been keeping up with Squenix lately. I think I thought of him because he'd apparently had a huge influence on the themes and plot of FF9, and we were annoyed at him over what we perceived as a cop-out resolution in that one.

FFX-2 definitely seemed to us like Square exploiting its own brand name, although I would tend to say that at this point, Kingdom Hearts is going off in its own direction and one that I like so far, and that transcends some of its source material. I don't know how long that'll last, though.

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seirai October 29 2008, 17:51:30 UTC
My brain asplode.

I...want to see them and play as them (Terra! Cecil!), but I want to explore a world and fly around as Esper-Terra, not just fight... ;_;

Aa...Kefka's giant purple mouth is really scary. I can't help but feel like they're trying to recall The Joker... (On the other hand, whenever I hear people refer to The Dark Knight, I first think of a certain someone else... XD)

(... ...a certain someone else who happens to be in this picture, omg, apparently now with random floaty baubles?)

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luinied October 29 2008, 18:24:17 UTC
apparently now with random floaty baubles?

When you want some quick magic item bonuses but have run out of slots, you obviously turn to Ioun stones.

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seika October 29 2008, 18:52:01 UTC
I want those to really exist and to walk around with them. It would be partly the coolness factor, partly the pretty, and partly the fashion statement that I am a geek about magical fantasy worlds.

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eclective October 29 2008, 19:02:42 UTC
It would be really nice if there was a kind of fashion item that let you make that statement specifically. I suppose there's adding touches of fantasy to your ensemble, in general. But those would be wonderful.

Maybe you could find a way to string little glass baubles/beads through your hair, like the kind you find at craft stores. That would actually look really neat if you could find a way to twine them all through....

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bossgoji October 29 2008, 18:42:25 UTC
Whereas me?

I'm just in it for the Zidane Tribal fanservice. Mrowr.

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bossgoji October 29 2008, 19:09:34 UTC
On a more serious note... I dunno, maybe it's because I'm just not as attached to the characters? But the concept doesn't bug me in the slightest. I love Final Fantasy characters; I love fighting games(hell, I love fighting, period); if they manage to put those two things together in a way that sucks less than Ehrgeiz did(because seriously, that was a HORRIBLE fighting game), I'm all for it.

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seika October 29 2008, 23:24:35 UTC
Doesn't it bother you that it's out of character? I know it would me, even if I were into fighting games.

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bossgoji October 30 2008, 23:08:13 UTC
It does, but it's balanced by 1) fighting game and 2) preeeeeeeeetty. Besides, it's easy enough to justify as "friendly sparring" in my head.

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seika October 29 2008, 18:50:40 UTC
Ouch! My childhood! These people wouldn't behave like that. We know they wouldn't. We take seriously the idea that they wouldn't. It's horrible to think of watching them do that.

I do really like the random floaty baubles a lot, though... Not worth it!

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eclective October 29 2008, 19:04:07 UTC
We take seriously the idea that they wouldn't. It's horrible to think of watching them do that.

That's how I feel about it, too. "We take seriously the idea that they wouldn't." And for me as well, there's a feeling that... not so much that their characters are being warped from what they should be, which is probably more how it is for you, but "if they were to do this it must mean that they were in some dire horrible situation, like gladiatorial combat". And that's not something I want to think about either.

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seika October 29 2008, 19:16:29 UTC
Yeah... I don't want to imagine them being caged up like tigers and forced to do that. I think that's the image in my mind, too. Insert Egbert Aethelbald-esque ranting here.

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GODWIN DEVILS!!! luinied October 29 2008, 19:44:01 UTC
For what it's worth, it appears (from preview videos) that the game's "plot" (a world-spanning thing that I can only assume makes even less sense than Kingdom Hearts) involves the hero team fighting semi-cooperatively against the villain team, not heroes being forced to fight each other in some contrived tournament. Although there's assuredly a plot-free mode that does allow for this.

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sethrenn October 29 2008, 20:11:35 UTC
...I'm, um, guessing you shouldn't google for videos of the fighting game engine Mugen, then. I watch them on Youtube sometimes because the whole appeal of Mugen is the concept that you can theoretically put in almost any character you want, which, at its best, can lead to stuff like fights between Morrigan from Darkstalkers and Ronald McDonald (I Am Not Making This Up), but there are quite a few videos of people's various re-creations of FF characters.

On the other hand, Mugen doesn't ever pretend to be anything but crack, I don't think, and "because it was possible" as a pretext for a match between anyone. So, no disturbing implications about anyone being forced to cage-match each other, really.

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