Beyond Alpha Centauri::::::Discussion Thread 6

[History Guy]

Anyway, I am leaving now, and I shall return hopefully by the end of the month. Then we shall see the opening of the Peacekeeper plot. So, I'll READ you all later!

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Mr. President
Guess who sat around all day today, not writing anything and learning that he has no idea how to play Final Fantasy? Come on, I'll give you three guesses.

You're beginning to learn, young one. Worry not - the oldest one I've played for over an hour is FF IV. Killing oneself with an axe is quite an accomplishment... then again, so is slashing your party to pieces with an Ultima Weapon, or mincing them to mash by casting Meteo on them.

Hacking my way through FFVIII for the second time... the Junction system is both fooking boring and can give you a very unfair advantage (thus adding to the general level of boredom). But, ah, the Gardens battling... and of course the ladies.

I feel filthy. I finished the fanfic. I've always had and still have deep resentment against using other people's characters (that's why I prefer not using Zak & Co in my SMACfics - they don't thus count us fullblood fanfics).

Nothing personal against such writers, I just don't like the art (and some can do it with style, like we can witness here at AC-Fiction).

But I did have relatively fun time, sliding in inside jokes and whatnot.

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-- Douglas Adams

[Kassiopeia]

http://daloop.sjr.fi/squareinfo/forums/

[Kassiopeia]

Hmmm. I'd use a moderator or two to run things there. Anyone of you willing for the job? It'll be slow now and the work would be minimal. Since we're going English, we'd use someone who talks the language as his/her mother tongue.

[Sprayber]

I agree with you Kass about using other people's characters. It's difficult to pull of because each of us has a different idea about how they should think and act. That's why it's best to be vague about main characters like that or use lesser characters and build from there. But, it can be fun to see different spins on a character.


Just to list some PK planets for those of you out there.

Chiron(Location of The PK's capital)
Coventry(Planet near the Spartan border that was attacked and breifly occupied by Sparta)
Haven(large population of PKs)
Sabine(Planet inside PK space that was settled and then abandoned because of extreme native lifeforms)

Of course if anyone comes in and takes them over they can develope all of this further. You can use these locations for your stories if you like. If you get specific, please let me know so I can keep up with it for whoever takes them over in the future.

[Mr. President]

I'd use a moderator or two to run things there. Anyone of you willing for the job?

I'd like to give it a shot, if you'll have me. I'm registering over there even as I speak. I'm very new to the Final Fantasy series, though (I'm about halfway through number II / IV). I hope that wouldn't be a problem?

Just to list some PK planets for those of you out there.

Hmmm . . . that gives me an evil idea.

/me activates Evil Accessories

[Mr. President]

You're beginning to learn, young one. Worry not - the oldest one I've played for over an hour is FF IV. Killing oneself with an axe is quite an accomplishment... then again, so is slashing your party to pieces with an Ultima Weapon, or mincing them to mash by casting Meteo on them.

That was before I learned how to target my attacks properly. It really annoys me when you encounter a couple of different types of monster in one party (which happens surprisingly often in FF II / IV). I came across a party of two Skeletons and an Ogre. You can use Cure, a healing spell, as an attack against Skeletons, so, silly me, I ordered the mage to cast the spell on all the enemies. Forgetting, of course, that while Cure is deadly to Skeletons, it acts as a healing spell on Ogres. I got pounded pretty good in that battle.

[Kassiopeia]

I wonder if you're playing FFIV or the easy version of FFIV (since there is one), if the latter, then... Be very, very afraid.
Have you ever heard of 'levelling up'? It's a pain but at least in FFIV once you get the airship it's essential.

Edit: Mr. President, read your PMs on SSI.

Can you use IRC?

[Sovereign]

easy and hard version of FF4? I'm not aware of that.

Are you referring to the original FF4 for the SNES, and the FF4 / Chrono Trigger disc for the PSX?

[Kassiopeia]

As far as I know, for the American markets the FFIV was made more easy (and renamed FFII) because Square was sure that it was too difficult for the American players, the bosses HP was cut down etc.

[Sovereign]

I played FF4 for a while last fall, mainly out of nostalgia. I think I'll have another go at it maybe later this week.

One thing that really drives me up the wall is the pink tails. I used like over 60 "alert's" (I stole like 130 from the Babil Giant) in that pink puff room, and I tried for days with tons of reloads... not even one pink tail.

One thing puzzles me. You know the Babil Giant Robot? I don't get it, how does it just poof? I mean, its so big, there should be some kind of "ruins" or something to mark its passing. In the game, its as if it poofed into thin air.

Then again, I'm getting all analyztical and logical... Hmph! Maybe I've become Prokhor Zakharov after all!

[Kassiopeia]

Yeah... I mean in FFVII when Ulty crashes, it crashes...

Final Fantasy IV, originally known as Final Fantasy II for its US SNES outing, has been brought out in CD form with extra introduction and ending CG sequences in Japan both separately and as part of the Final Fantasy Collection, which contained episodes IV-VI of the saga. When the US version of the Collection, Anthology, was released without FF IV, gamers were outraged, but now all may be forgiven as it transpires that the version of FF IV to be included in Chronicles will be a re-translated edition of the original Japanese FF IV, which has never been seen outside Japan, rather than the watered-down "easy type" FF IV which was released as FF II for the US SNES.

http://www.ffwa.org/news/25-04-2001.html

[Sovereign]

Ahhhh!

So it turns out I had the hard version the whole time! I have that Chronicles CD, with FF4 and Chrono Trigger.

Ulty, eh? That bastard should be in his own comedy stand up act, with all his funny antics I love when he goes nuts after failing to accomplish his stuff (namely killing my dudes off) That rascally Octopus!

But Chupon... ! His sneeze attack is funny and ridiclious. Many times I had my good chars, usually Cyan or Terra "sneezed" out of the battle by Mr. Chupon, or other crits that have that attack. Come on, a 3 - 4 meter ball of boogers and mucus.... eww!

And Kefka. Man, oh man... the Japanese are a twisted bunch, transforming an evil dictator into an angel creature at the endgame battle.


I can't help taking a few pokes at the FF series... I really like it, but some things are too funny, weird, or outrageous to be left alone

[Mr. President]

I don't know if I have the easy one; It's the Super NES version (I found a decent emulator, ie. one that doesn't erase anything when it runs ) that's called Final Fantasy II. It's the one with Cecil, Kain, Rosa, and Cid, if that's any help.

I'm in the underworld right now, and I have to sneak into the Tower of Bab-Il to steal some crystals. I've already lost three main characters (don't worry, it was part of the story): two turned themselves into stone to save the rest of us, and another was killed while casting Meteo on the bad dude Golbez.

P. S. I know what you mean about the ladies, Kass. For a Japanese cartoon character, Rosa's pretty hot!

[Silence]

Things will start to turn upside down plotwise very soon for Final Fantasy 2.

(I loved that game, I got like 400 hours of playing time on one of my games)