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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    My definitive order for FF

    VI
    IV
    VII
    V
    X
    IX
    XII
    I
    XIII
    XV

    Keep in mind, I like XV

    which ocarina of time timeline does it stem from though

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    This conversation's all academic anyway because we all know the actual best Final Fantasy is Theatrhythm: Curtain Call

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    This conversation's all academic anyway because we all know the actual best Final Fantasy is Theatrhythm: Curtain Call

    Up until the highest difficulty.

    Goddamn my twitchy fingers

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

    only decent????

    let's see your list, sir

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    XV is great, and would be fantastic if they flying car you get at the end controlled better

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

    only decent????

    let's see your list, sir

    dude you didn't include Judith, the book about a badass widow who stone cold murders a general, then takes his head and shows it to everyone, all like "pfft this wasn't even hard, y'all whine too much"

    and then she lived as an asskicking single woman for the rest of her life because she was too much for all those chumps

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    SilverWind wrote: »
    Mr. G wrote: »

    Is Balthier standing on a box, or is Fran standing in a hole


    Where is Basch

    Is he

    Under the dress


    (I like the art)

    I really love that artist, I can't remember their name though. I wish the actual game had looked more like his art style. Fake edit: Akihiko Yoshida

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

    only decent????

    let's see your list, sir

    dude you didn't include Judith, the book about a badass widow who stone cold murders a general, then takes his head and shows it to everyone, all like "pfft this wasn't even hard, y'all whine too much"

    and then she lived as an asskicking single woman for the rest of her life because she was too much for all those chumps

    where's.
    your.
    list???

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    What's the cold open of Final Fantasy XV? I don't remember hearing about this at all

    you embark on a grand adventure, theres swelling chords, and then smashcut to you pushing your car cause it ran put of gas

    i think you literally have to push the stick?

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Ffxv pwns

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

    only decent????

    let's see your list, sir

    dude you didn't include Judith, the book about a badass widow who stone cold murders a general, then takes his head and shows it to everyone, all like "pfft this wasn't even hard, y'all whine too much"

    and then she lived as an asskicking single woman for the rest of her life because she was too much for all those chumps

    where's.
    your.
    list???

    ugh, fine

    in no particular order:

    Exodus - the original liberation story. too good and too cool not to be in the top five.
    Enoch - it's full of demons and fallen angels, one of the most metal books of the bible.
    Judith - aforementioned reasons
    Joshua - A bunch of Jews yell at a city so hard it falls down.
    Ezekiel - Zeke eats a book. Later he rides a flaming chariot into heaven.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Enoch is fanfic

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  • Blackhawk1313Blackhawk1313 Demon Hunter for Hire Time RiftRegistered User regular
    VI
    IX
    XII
    V
    IV
    I
    XV
    XIV
    XI
    VII
    X
    III
    XIII
    VIII
    II

    I really like everything from X on up and count them among some of my favorite games (with VI being my number one all time favorite). Everything below... meh.

  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    edited January 2019
    I want to give one of these FFs a try but considering my Bravely Default experience and how hard FFVII's opening turned me off of the PC port I'm afraid I don't actually like that style of RPG.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    What's the cold open of Final Fantasy XV? I don't remember hearing about this at all

    you embark on a grand adventure, theres swelling chords, and then smashcut to you pushing your car cause it ran put of gas

    i think you literally have to push the stick?

    That's really great, knowing only the bare essentials about the rest of the game

    Frem
  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    if FFXV was just a deconstruction of the classic Final Fantasy epic it would be pretty great.

    Like yeah your mission is important but the world doesn't care.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    i honestly think ff viii might be my favorite? like i dunno, maybe it's because i haven't been able to play it in a while but i just really dug everything about it

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Enoch is fanfic

    Listen if it's good enough for eritrean orthodoxy, it's good enough for me

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    i honestly think ff viii might be my favorite? like i dunno, maybe it's because i haven't been able to play it in a while but i just really dug everything about it

    Final Fantasy 8 is one of my favorite games in the series at least partially because it is so earnest about going in on its bullshit

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    "Catch your girlfriend as you both drift in zero gravity or she'll be lost in space forever!"

    Fuck yes, give me this weird time travel sci-fi teen drama bullshit right now

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    plus it would be impossible for me to justify not listing the game with doomtrain as number one

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I just hated the Draw system in FFVIII.

    It's a good game otherwise.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    What's the cold open of Final Fantasy XV? I don't remember hearing about this at all

    you embark on a grand adventure, theres swelling chords, and then smashcut to you pushing your car cause it ran put of gas

    i think you literally have to push the stick?

    That's really great, knowing only the bare essentials about the rest of the game
    The pushing the car with your buds segment is also set to a cover of Stand By Me by Florence + The Machine

    It is INCREDIBLY charming

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    What's the cold open of Final Fantasy XV? I don't remember hearing about this at all

    you embark on a grand adventure, theres swelling chords, and then smashcut to you pushing your car cause it ran put of gas

    i think you literally have to push the stick?

    That's really great, knowing only the bare essentials about the rest of the game
    The pushing the car with your buds segment is also set to a cover of Stand By Me by Florence + The Machine

    It is INCREDIBLY charming

    Its why the fact that you learn nothing about those people and theres almost no story is even more of a letdown

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Zell had combo enders to his limit breaks

    He could punch the ground so hard it would open a rift in the earth and spew fire up at the enemy

    He could jump into the air, focus his power, and then literally punch through the enemy, leaving behind a ball of energy that would explode after like five solid seconds of nothing happening

    He could backflip kick the enemy over and over and over, just rising higher every time, until he and the enemy were in the upper atmosphere, at which point he would punch them down to the ground

    He could charge up energy for a punch, run past the enemy, go all the way around the planet, and then punch them

    Zell rules

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Final Fantasy Tactics is a game for people who think Numbers is the best book in the old testament
    Hey, sorry, I'm just catching up on the thread and wanted to formally recognize how amazing this burn is.

    I don't even know how accurate it is, I never played FFT, but a sick enough burn supersedes the truth.

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    OK, I'm caught up and I'm very impressed with the fact that this thread turned into a Torah study group - but also I kind of feel like if the developers of the Final Fantasy franchise heard about this, they would just lie back in their beds with a beatific smile and fade from this world, their great work finally complete.

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Zell had combo enders to his limit breaks

    He could punch the ground so hard it would open a rift in the earth and spew fire up at the enemy

    He could jump into the air, focus his power, and then literally punch through the enemy, leaving behind a ball of energy that would explode after like five solid seconds of nothing happening

    He could backflip kick the enemy over and over and over, just rising higher every time, until he and the enemy were in the upper atmosphere, at which point he would punch them down to the ground

    He could charge up energy for a punch, run past the enemy, go all the way around the planet, and then punch them

    Zell rules

    His only weakness was hot dogs.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    I’m about midway through a replay of 8 (slightly interrupted by kh2) and I am loving it overall, though the amount of extremely easily missable stuff is a little irritating.

    I wasn’t a huge fan of it when I played it as a teen, but revisiting it today the characters and plot are a ton of fun. It’s moved up from very low to probably middle of the pack in my series rankings (which change based on my mood so I’m not posting em), mostly held back because I’m still not a fan of the junction system.

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  • WACriminalWACriminal Dying Is Easy, Young Man Living Is HarderRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

    only decent????

    let's see your list, sir

    dude you didn't include Judith, the book about a badass widow who stone cold murders a general, then takes his head and shows it to everyone, all like "pfft this wasn't even hard, y'all whine too much"

    and then she lived as an asskicking single woman for the rest of her life because she was too much for all those chumps

    where's.
    your.
    list???

    ugh, fine

    in no particular order:

    Exodus - the original liberation story. too good and too cool not to be in the top five.
    Enoch - it's full of demons and fallen angels, one of the most metal books of the bible.
    Judith - aforementioned reasons
    Joshua - A bunch of Jews yell at a city so hard it falls down.
    Ezekiel - Zeke eats a book. Later he rides a flaming chariot into heaven.

    No love for Song of Solomon in here? I mean...
    Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.

    Hawt.

  • ElaroElaro Apologetic Registered User regular
    WACriminal wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    top five old testament books

    5. lamentations - it's just poems about how fucked everything is.
    4. genesis - it would be improper not to list the o.g. book, y'know? you don't get a jason takes manhattan without a mama voorhees, after all!!
    3. 1 kings - all about that saul
    2. job - i just realate to it, y'know??
    1. judges - this is basically the plot of every sword and sandals movie, only with god oopin' them alleys

    Of all the stupid things on this earth

    I never thought I’d be sitting at work nodding along to people listing Old Testament books thinking “mm, yeah, yeah, that’s a decent list”

    only decent????

    let's see your list, sir

    dude you didn't include Judith, the book about a badass widow who stone cold murders a general, then takes his head and shows it to everyone, all like "pfft this wasn't even hard, y'all whine too much"

    and then she lived as an asskicking single woman for the rest of her life because she was too much for all those chumps

    where's.
    your.
    list???

    ugh, fine

    in no particular order:

    Exodus - the original liberation story. too good and too cool not to be in the top five.
    Enoch - it's full of demons and fallen angels, one of the most metal books of the bible.
    Judith - aforementioned reasons
    Joshua - A bunch of Jews yell at a city so hard it falls down.
    Ezekiel - Zeke eats a book. Later he rides a flaming chariot into heaven.

    No love for Song of Solomon in here? I mean...
    Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.

    Hawt.

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    Children's rights are human rights.
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  • mageormikemageormike Registered User regular
    I replayed FF9 awhile ago and finally understood the hubbub about the poor pacing. I love to death everything up through the end of the first arc, but once you leave the main continent the story begins to drag and loses all focus.
    I'd really like it if more rpgs focused on the smaller scale stories and didn't have to end up as world-saving mega-quests.

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Final Fantasy 8 isn't comign to Switch this is bullshit

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    mageormike wrote: »
    I replayed FF9 awhile ago and finally understood the hubbub about the poor pacing. I love to death everything up through the end of the first arc, but once you leave the main continent the story begins to drag and loses all focus.
    I'd really like it if more rpgs focused on the smaller scale stories and didn't have to end up as world-saving mega-quests.

    It’s not even so much the pacing of the plot, which also has issues but is basically standard for a JRPG. Mechanically, the game takes forever. Load times, combat animations (even basic attacks), everything. It all drags.

    I love the game to death because of the characters and art style but goddamn.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Final Fantasy 8 isn't comign to Switch this is bullshit

    It’s like 5-10 bucks on ps3 or vita

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    pacing is a problem in almost every JRPG I've played

    even Chrono Trigger has a couple spots that drag

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Final Fantasy 8 isn't comign to Switch this is bullshit

    It's weird. Kinda funny in its conspicuous absence but not funny enough to make up for the disappointment for FF8 fans

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I've started FF8 at least seven times and have never managed to get more than like two thirds of the way through

    I like the game but goddamn if it isn't a slog

    Javen
  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Final Fantasy 8 isn't comign to Switch this is bullshit

    It's weird. Kinda funny in its conspicuous absence but not funny enough to make up for the disappointment for FF8 fans

    It’s rumored they lost the source code and/or they lost the rights to Eyes On Me, both of which are kinda necessary for the game.

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