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A Nice Weekend [Podcast]

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited April 2020
    I've never played a final fantasy game

    Which one should I wishlist and maybe play some day?

    Six/three, or any of the playstation ones though of those I lean 9 and 7 over 8 just because they are more representative of the series.

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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    I've never played a final fantasy game

    Which one should I wishlist and maybe play some day?

    I know I'm biased, but I genuinely think that FFX has the best combination of interesting gameplay mechanics, an incredible aesthetic, and really solid storytelling and character development.

    It, uh, is also a particularly relevant story given our current political climate of corporate death-cults.

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Can someone PM me the FF7 remake spoiler please?

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Would the spoilers be interesting for someone who knows barely anything about original FF7, aside from the one thing with Aerith thats been memed into oblivion?

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    I've never played a final fantasy game

    Which one should I wishlist and maybe play some day?

    10 is probably the best for newbies to the series imo.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Would the spoilers be interesting for someone who knows barely anything about original FF7, aside from the one thing with Aerith thats been memed into oblivion?

    I don't think so.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular


    PS5 breaking the all black Playstation launch aesthetic

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Would the spoilers be interesting for someone who knows barely anything about original FF7, aside from the one thing with Aerith thats been memed into oblivion?

    As someone in this position, they were to me

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    "Create" button gtfoh.

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  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    I've never played a final fantasy game

    Which one should I wishlist and maybe play some day?

    six is like what if star wars but fantasy and there's a death clown instead of an emperor. It's pretty much the pinnacle of the early FF series, which had expanded on how classes worked and vastly expanded the amount of people you had access to. It's easily the best of that generation of FF games.

    Seven is what it is. I love it and I think it stands up, but you have to get over the early 3d art and it being a product of its time. It also just doesn't have a strong magic system. The materia system seems interesting on its face, but basically means that by the mid-game, no character is different from another so the party can feel very bland.

    Eight is a bad game don't @ me.

    Nine is probably actually the best of the PS generation. It goes back to the straight up fantasy routes, it has a great party, and the magic and skill system is actually really fun and well implemented.

    I basically don't have an opinion after than because I fell off of playing them, other than I think X is a bad game and I could never finish it.

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  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Can I turn off the built-in microphone array on a system level?

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    BlankZoe wrote: »


    PS5 breaking the all black Playstation launch aesthetic

    ...huh

    I don't hate it

    Not sure about the microphone, but I sort of like that the lightbar is a thing you can actually see now, as silly as it is as a feature

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    august wrote: »
    "Create" button gtfoh.
    I am like 95% sure it is just the share button

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    BlankZoe wrote: »


    PS5 breaking the all black Playstation launch aesthetic

    If it were all black or all white I would like it, right now it just looks like someone put a cover over a Dual Shock 4

  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    The d-pad and main buttons look bad and not good.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    I've never played a final fantasy game

    Which one should I wishlist and maybe play some day?

    There are elements in FF7 that have not aged well at all (in terms of being PC) that I think would bounce you right out of the game, so maybe avoid it?

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Haptic feedback. Is that a fancy word for a rumble?

  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    I guess the idea of face buttons having different colors is all the way dead.

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Alternatively new FF7 might be a really fun way to hop in from what I’ve heard so far, though I’m spoiler free so i don’t know what buckwild changes they apparently made in the last act of Midgar.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Play Final Fantasy 9

    It is the best one on the playstation by a large margin and ten has really bad voice acting I feel like will hold up very poorly without nostalgia.

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  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    I tried playing the original FF7 last year, but the graphics were just a step too far for me.

  • DiarmuidDiarmuid Amazing Meatball Registered User regular
    Reynolds wrote: »
    The d-pad and main buttons look bad and not good.

    They're pretty much identical to the DS4, so they're probably good.

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  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    Yeah that's basically the same layout of buttons as the ps4 controller. It just has a more xbox shape. Which considering I like holding the xbone controller more than the ps4 i'm fine with that.

  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    I'm replaying FF7 now and after the first reactor there is this exchange by a couple standing next to a train:

    "Is there somewhere we can be alone?"

    "The only place around is the train graveyard, and they say there are ghosts there"

    "...damn"

    And I can't help but read that damn in Austin's voice, the whole exchange has enormous FaTT energy.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    The big thing I'm interested in with the PS5 controller is the adaptive triggers

    I think in that big Wired article they talked about how they would like, adjust resistance based on context? Which I could see being really interesting in games that use it

    Like imagine if webswinging in Sony's Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Spider-Men somehow integrated that, that could feel cool as hell

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2020
    I have a feeling it'll be one of those things that only a handful of games will actually use in any meaningful way. Like how the PS4's touchpad was pretty much only used as a giant menu button.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    xbox controller shape with centered sticks is really bad.

    i'm also mostly done with listening to corporate speak about how this time, the controller rumble technology is going to completely change the game playing experience.

    it never does, it never will, stop it.

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    adaptive triggers worry me cause boy you wanna talk about a feature that will suck absolute shit for people with certain disabilities if it isn't optional.

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  • GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    cursedking wrote: »
    I'm replaying FF7 now and after the first reactor there is this exchange by a couple standing next to a train:

    "Is there somewhere we can be alone?"

    "The only place around is the train graveyard, and they say there are ghosts there"

    "...damn"

    And I can't help but read that damn in Austin's voice, the whole exchange has enormous FaTT energy.

    Man, those two are cowards. There's nothing scary about ghosts, trains or ghost trains in the FF universe:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRw_qW9ecTo

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    Final Fantasy 8 is good

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    adaptive triggers worry me cause boy you wanna talk about a feature that will suck absolute shit for people with certain disabilities if it isn't optional.

    Oh yeah, obviously that's the shit you want to work out

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    what’s the best way to play FFVI nowadays

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    what’s the best way to play FFVI nowadays

    Are there still snes classics in the wild?

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    what’s the best way to play FFVI nowadays

    Snes classic ideally

    PC/Mobile is less ideal but okay

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    The GBA version is pretty great

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I wonder what a GBA SP goes for these days

    I could see myself playing a bunch of old GBA games I never did, including shit like Final Fantasy ports

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    I wonder what a GBA SP goes for these days

    I could see myself playing a bunch of old GBA games I never did, including shit like Final Fantasy ports

    I did this last year and it ruled

    I have now joined the "where's Mother 3" people because hey that game, that I definitely played in the original Japanese, is fantastic

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    GBA is honestly the best version, GBA speakers aside

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    If you want to spring for the classic hardware, it might be worth your while to go a step further and buy one of the ones that's been modified with an adjustable-brightness IPS screen. I hear tell they look real nice

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  • LasbrookLasbrook It takes a lot to make a stew When it comes to me and youRegistered User regular
    Or if you don’t want to go that far there were two different models of the SP, one with like a front light and another with a backlight which is supposed to be way better. I think it’s the AGS-101.

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