I'm not sure how many characters are left, but someone has to be named "No" just so it seems like characters are randomly disagreeing with things.
I'm leaning that way for Quina...
I don't have any funny names for Freya, I like her too much to give her something that isn't truly awesome. I don't really like Splintr or Splinta, but seeing as I can't come up with anything better I guess I'll just not vote on the name this round.
Loki, maybe. Or, if we really want it to be incongruous, 'THOR!'. The capitalization and punctuation are important, because you have to try and yell in a deep, manly voice when you say it.
Or, if you want everyone to look like they're swearing, I believe 'Frig' is another Norse goddess.
No, Splinta would sound like she's a damn gangsta rapper.
Better off naming her Tupac if it's going that way.
Considering how often she died when I was playing the game, why not? Consider this a vote for Freya=Tupac
Also, as an FYI, all Emulator talk is off limits. Doesn't matter if you own a copy of the game, or if someone has declared the game abandonware, or if the president of the game company beat you up at recess and stole your lunch money. It's one of the few things that isn't allowed here.
"If I say 'yes', my chances of scoring go down drastically, so I'm going to go with 'that gate was busted when we got here'."
"Stimpy, you eeeeeeeediot!!"
I don't know what Awesome is complaining about. This can't be his first debacle. No way.
"You know, we should give you a different name. Every time she says 'awesome' I think she's talking to me."
"Silence, thief!"
Vivi: "...Bowie. Those...black mages and I... Are we...the same...?"
Bowie: "......"
Shiny: "......"
Awesome: "I don't understand, Master Vivi. Just what seemed to be the
problem...?"
Vivi: "...I don't know."
Awesome: "Master Vivi, why would those mages be the same as you? And
why would it matter if they were...?"
Bowie: "Rusty's right!"
Awesome: "?"
Bowie: "You're an individual, no matter what happens, Vivi!"
Vivi: "R-Right!"
Bowie: "Let's go check out the deck, Vivi! You've gotta see Lindblum
from above! It's the best! Look, the Falcon's Gate is right
in front of us!
Vivi: "Why?"
Yeah, why? It's probably not that big. They're totally overplaying the size of this pl-
Okay fine, I'm a little impressed.
Silly Bowie, that's not what they call i-
Oh fuck you, location subtitles!
I wish we could meet her father. Given Queen Brahne's appearance, her blind father with no sense of smell and CIPA.
And here we see the Elite Guard of the KKK talking to Shiny.
"The black mage, for instance."
Shiny shows the guards a pendant that looks like the Falcon Claw, and they run off to get the Minister.
"Those KKK guys were totally mean to us why did you hire them? "
One short elevator ride up...
O___________________________O!!!
Yup, you read that right. Every Final Fantasy game must have a Cid, and this is 9's.
What? He's better than the last Cid!
Wow, what a kick in the dick. "Hey, thanks for the wife! Enjoy being punched by loud guys in shabby armor!"
"This is really urgent, Uncle, my mother may be in danger and there's lots of weird things going on-"
"GO TO SLEEEEEEEEEP!!!!"
"Only one man wears powder blue and a ruffled collar.
"There's even a special club you can join for being a mile above ground. It's spectacular, I assure you."
"AND a rat face!"
"You already said that."
"Oh. So I did."
"And why'd you yell at me when I called you Ratchel the first time? Sheesh, some people."
Tee hee. Ratchel.
Ratchel: "The Festival of the Hunt. What else? It's a good opportunity
to test my skills."
Bowie: "Oh... Well, I'm sure you'll find him someday."
Ratchel: "Aren't you participating?"
Bowie: "...Nah. I think I'll pass."
Ratchel: "Lazy bum."
Bowie: "...Are you ever gonna go back?"
Ratchel: "I have no reason to return to Burmecia. There is nothing
there for me anymore."
Meanwhile, back at the castle...
Did 'vibrant' get changed to mean 'grotesquely obese and oh also green-skinned' when I wasn't paying attention?
"She hardly eats anymore. She's wasting away!"
I find it amazing they wouldn't listen to someone who thought a good name to blend in with normal folks would be 'Shiny'.
Oh, right. I forgot that plot thread was still un...spooled? I don't know.
I dunno, a bunch of those flying guys wouldn't do too bad, provided the battle was in a cutscene.
Heed Cid's plight, men reading this! Never cheat on a woman who can cast polymorph spells.
Or at least make sure she doesn't find out.
Actually if she's high enough level to cast polymorph she can probably cast scrying magic too. Just don't cheat, I guess.
Vivi: "Lindblum is a really busy place. I've never seen this many
people before. I wonder where people go when the wanna be
alone..."
Bowie: "Lindblum has always been like this. People come here from all
over the world. Some of them come here to become airship
engineers, sculptors, actors..."
Vivi: "Wow..."
Bowie: "I don't even remember why I came here my first time. Before
I knew it, I was living here with my Tantalus brothers."
Vivi: "Do they still live here?"
Bowie: "Yeah. Our hideout is in the Theater District. I'm gonna go
there right now. Do you wanna come along?"
Vivi: "Um, that's okay. I'm gonna go look around town."
Bowie: "Okay. Then I'll give you a little tour."
Vivi: "...No, that's okay. I can go by myself."
Bowie: "Ohhh...okay... Go find yourself a cute girl, alright?"
I wonder what Awesome's up to...
"Well, at least this one didn't mace me..."
"I should probably go after him so a child doesn't get killed. But he is kind of far by now..."
"He had a terrible heroin addiction, and traveled with a dog on fire and a big guy named Loaf."
There's a Synthesis shop here. As you can imagine from the name, the shop takes items and mashes them together and makes new items for a small fee. I remembered too late that you could make a killing by buying up Wrists back in Dali, buying Steepled Hats here, and synthing them into Cotton Robes and selling them for a profit. Oh well. Who needs money anyway?
...Let's move on.
"Stupid people, looking after me and my well-being."
And now for something completely different.
Oh hey, these guys. They say how they're going to free Blank from petrification but it'll be tough without also freeing the Evil Forest. We can't the danger of these level 3 monsters getting loose!
Bowie does the sensible thing and beats up a guard and takes his uniform so he can find out where the music is coming from. She must be singing into the intercom or something because I go up an elevator and stairs and shit.
Bowie: "We were gonna put you to sleep with sleeping weed, then
kidnap you. It's mostly used for kids, but a big dose can
knock out an adult just as easily."
Shiny: "I guess you didn't need it, since I came along on my own.
Hey... Would you mind giving me some? I've had a hard time
sleeping lately."
"Really it's not so much 'think' as 'hope'..."
Melodies of Life makes for some weird montage music...
That's what happens when you hit on everything with a vagina, Bowie.
Funnily enough, that last part is how I ask out women too.
Goddammit Japan, stop doing that. Just tell me who him is! It could be anyone!
Even him!
Bowie is the bestest friend a friend could have.
So the contest is a go. The three entrants say what they'd want as a prize. Bowie wants money, Ratchel wants an Add-On (really should say accessory but whatever), and Vivi wants...a Card. Come on Vivi, aim higher. Well, I guess you'll also get a date, but still. It's not even for a good card game.
Triple Triad for life, yo.
Time flies when you're forgetting to take screenshots. And killing small animals. Seriously, they released birds and squirrels. And wolves, I guess. Wolf things. But squirrels!
Boss fight! His name is Zaghnol and he wasn't too hard (Bowie Trancing helped, of course).
Can't really tell from the screenshot, but Ratchel has a really cool animation when she uses Jump. The lance comes down first on the enemy, and then she grabs the lance as she falls and flips back to her spot. 8-)
Alright, well Bowie didn't win but still, that was fun! What a neat way to end the day. What a nice
YOU JUST RUINED THE MOOD.
Cid agrees to help out Burmecia, and the messenger, like all messengers that arrive to deliver a message but get injured on the way, dies.
Big ol' discussion ahead!
Ratchel: "Steple-crowned hats... They might be black mages, like Vivi."
Vivi: "It can't be..."
Shiny: "Could it be Mother...!?"
Ratchel: "I must go now. I cannot sit and wait for the reinforcements."
Bowie: "I'm coming with you."
Freya: "No. This doesn't concern you."
Bowie: "What's this, I'm a stranger all of a sudden!? I'm not gonna
sit back and watch your home get destroyed, alright?"
Ratchel: "...Thank you, Bowie."
Vivi: "Um, c-can I come, too? I wanna find out who they really are."
Bowie: "Sure."
Shiny: "Alright then. Let's go to Burmecia."
Awesome: "Princess! This is a foreign matter! It has nothing to do
with us!"
Regent Cid: "Steiner is right. We don't know if Alexandria is involved."
Shiny: "But if black mages are involved... Zidane, you know what I'm
talking about."
Bowie: "......"
Shiny: "If Mother is behind this, I'll make her stop! I promise!"
Bowie: "...I think you should stay here."
Shiny: "What!?"
Bowie: "We don't know what to expect there."
Shiny: "I've already faced great danger coming here! What's the
difference!?"
Bowie: "Shiny, this is war. A lot of people are gonna die."
Shiny: "I know that!"
Bowie: "...How did you feel when you saw that Burmecian soldier die,
just now?"
Shiny: "...I felt sad, of course."
Bowie: "Just sad? Weren't you scared, too? Obviously, you haven't
realized how dangerous this is gonna be... You could get
killed. This is no time to be convincing your mother of
anything."
Shiny: "But..."
Regent Cid: "Now's not the time to argue."
Ratchel: "He's right. We must head to Burmecia at once. Will you open
the Dragon's Gate?"
Regent Cid: "Of course. If you're going by foot, leaving from that
gate is the best way. Let us eat while we <gwok> wait for
the gate to open."
tl;dr? Ratchel's going to help, so is Zidane and Vivi, Shiny wants to come but Bowie says no, we're going to eat while the Dragon Gate opens so we can walk on foot there.
I desperately want a FF9 for DS, I would be happy with just a pure port. No need for fancy new graphics or anything. Just give me FF9 for DS. Oh but alas these are only dreams for now.
Great LP so far. I am thinking of getting my game out and playing again since I haven't played it in over 8 years!
I desperately want a FF9 for DS, I would be happy with just a pure port. No need for fancy new graphics or anything. Just give me FF9 for DS. Oh but alas these are only dreams for now.
Great LP so far. I am thinking of getting my game out and playing again since I haven't played it in over 8 years!
Noooooooooooo.
3-6 on DS
7-9 on PSP!
Please.
Or, and this will never happen but is surprisingly fitting:
FF7 Remake - PS3
FF8 Remake - 360
FF9 Remake - Wii
I could never hate Final Fantasy 8. The plot is awful, but at least it's so heinously awful that yeah, it is funny. They just kept finding something more and more ridiculous to tack onto things. I mean, the moon?
also this LP made me start playing through the game again
soooo good (thank you MoC )
I'm staying behind where you are in the LP though, because I like your commentary and I don't want to get ahead of it. ^^
I like Pat, but Adus is right in that we do need to fit a No in there somewhere. Amarant's name doesn't come up enough in dialogue to fit the role of No so its gonna have to be either Quina or Eiko.
Quina...oh me and she/he had lots of fun....lots of fun....
I never used it AT ALL. I probably used Armarant more than that thing. And I think I only used him like twice in the game my team usually consisted of Freya,Zida,Vivi and Eiko.
Posts
...Even Better?
Better off naming her Tupac if it's going that way.
it's MoC's call
I'm leaning that way for Quina...
I don't have any funny names for Freya, I like her too much to give her something that isn't truly awesome. I don't really like Splintr or Splinta, but seeing as I can't come up with anything better I guess I'll just not vote on the name this round.
I think we may have a winner.
Rat-chel. Tee hee.
Or, if you want everyone to look like they're swearing, I believe 'Frig' is another Norse goddess.
Also, as an FYI, all Emulator talk is off limits. Doesn't matter if you own a copy of the game, or if someone has declared the game abandonware, or if the president of the game company beat you up at recess and stole your lunch money. It's one of the few things that isn't allowed here.
"If I say 'yes', my chances of scoring go down drastically, so I'm going to go with 'that gate was busted when we got here'."
"Stimpy, you eeeeeeeediot!!"
I don't know what Awesome is complaining about. This can't be his first debacle. No way.
"You know, we should give you a different name. Every time she says 'awesome' I think she's talking to me."
"Silence, thief!"
Vivi: "...Bowie. Those...black mages and I... Are we...the same...?"
Bowie: "......"
Shiny: "......"
Awesome: "I don't understand, Master Vivi. Just what seemed to be the
problem...?"
Vivi: "...I don't know."
Awesome: "Master Vivi, why would those mages be the same as you? And
why would it matter if they were...?"
Bowie: "Rusty's right!"
Awesome: "?"
Bowie: "You're an individual, no matter what happens, Vivi!"
Vivi: "R-Right!"
Bowie: "Let's go check out the deck, Vivi! You've gotta see Lindblum
from above! It's the best! Look, the Falcon's Gate is right
in front of us!
Vivi: "Why?"
Yeah, why? It's probably not that big. They're totally overplaying the size of this pl-
Okay fine, I'm a little impressed.
Silly Bowie, that's not what they call i-
Oh fuck you, location subtitles!
I wish we could meet her father. Given Queen Brahne's appearance, her blind father with no sense of smell and CIPA.
And here we see the Elite Guard of the KKK talking to Shiny.
"The black mage, for instance."
Shiny shows the guards a pendant that looks like the Falcon Claw, and they run off to get the Minister.
"Those KKK guys were totally mean to us why did you hire them?
One short elevator ride up...
O___________________________O!!!
Yup, you read that right. Every Final Fantasy game must have a Cid, and this is 9's.
What? He's better than the last Cid!
Wow, what a kick in the dick. "Hey, thanks for the wife! Enjoy being punched by loud guys in shabby armor!"
"This is really urgent, Uncle, my mother may be in danger and there's lots of weird things going on-"
"GO TO SLEEEEEEEEEP!!!!"
"Only one man wears powder blue and a ruffled collar.
"There's even a special club you can join for being a mile above ground. It's spectacular, I assure you."
"AND a rat face!"
"You already said that."
"Oh. So I did."
"And why'd you yell at me when I called you Ratchel the first time? Sheesh, some people."
Tee hee. Ratchel.
Ratchel: "The Festival of the Hunt. What else? It's a good opportunity
to test my skills."
Bowie: "Oh... Well, I'm sure you'll find him someday."
Ratchel: "Aren't you participating?"
Bowie: "...Nah. I think I'll pass."
Ratchel: "Lazy bum."
Bowie: "...Are you ever gonna go back?"
Ratchel: "I have no reason to return to Burmecia. There is nothing
there for me anymore."
Meanwhile, back at the castle...
Did 'vibrant' get changed to mean 'grotesquely obese and oh also green-skinned' when I wasn't paying attention?
"She hardly eats anymore. She's wasting away!"
I find it amazing they wouldn't listen to someone who thought a good name to blend in with normal folks would be 'Shiny'.
Oh, right. I forgot that plot thread was still un...spooled? I don't know.
I dunno, a bunch of those flying guys wouldn't do too bad, provided the battle was in a cutscene.
Heed Cid's plight, men reading this! Never cheat on a woman who can cast polymorph spells.
Or at least make sure she doesn't find out.
Actually if she's high enough level to cast polymorph she can probably cast scrying magic too. Just don't cheat, I guess.
The next morning!
Lindblum's music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGuaKcXCEw
Bowie: "You're up early."
Vivi: "Lindblum is a really busy place. I've never seen this many
people before. I wonder where people go when the wanna be
alone..."
Bowie: "Lindblum has always been like this. People come here from all
over the world. Some of them come here to become airship
engineers, sculptors, actors..."
Vivi: "Wow..."
Bowie: "I don't even remember why I came here my first time. Before
I knew it, I was living here with my Tantalus brothers."
Vivi: "Do they still live here?"
Bowie: "Yeah. Our hideout is in the Theater District. I'm gonna go
there right now. Do you wanna come along?"
Vivi: "Um, that's okay. I'm gonna go look around town."
Bowie: "Okay. Then I'll give you a little tour."
Vivi: "...No, that's okay. I can go by myself."
Bowie: "Ohhh...okay... Go find yourself a cute girl, alright?"
I wonder what Awesome's up to...
"Well, at least this one didn't mace me..."
"I should probably go after him so a child doesn't get killed. But he is kind of far by now..."
"He had a terrible heroin addiction, and traveled with a dog on fire and a big guy named Loaf."
There's a Synthesis shop here. As you can imagine from the name, the shop takes items and mashes them together and makes new items for a small fee. I remembered too late that you could make a killing by buying up Wrists back in Dali, buying Steepled Hats here, and synthing them into Cotton Robes and selling them for a profit. Oh well. Who needs money anyway?
...Let's move on.
"Stupid people, looking after me and my well-being."
And now for something completely different.
Oh hey, these guys. They say how they're going to free Blank from petrification but it'll be tough without also freeing the Evil Forest. We can't the danger of these level 3 monsters getting loose!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lpBAfGufC0&feature=related
Bowie does the sensible thing and beats up a guard and takes his uniform so he can find out where the music is coming from. She must be singing into the intercom or something because I go up an elevator and stairs and shit.
Bowie: "We were gonna put you to sleep with sleeping weed, then
kidnap you. It's mostly used for kids, but a big dose can
knock out an adult just as easily."
Shiny: "I guess you didn't need it, since I came along on my own.
Hey... Would you mind giving me some? I've had a hard time
sleeping lately."
"Really it's not so much 'think' as 'hope'..."
Melodies of Life makes for some weird montage music...
That's what happens when you hit on everything with a vagina, Bowie.
Funnily enough, that last part is how I ask out women too.
Goddammit Japan, stop doing that. Just tell me who him is! It could be anyone!
Even him!
Bowie is the bestest friend a friend could have.
So the contest is a go. The three entrants say what they'd want as a prize. Bowie wants money, Ratchel wants an Add-On (really should say accessory but whatever), and Vivi wants...a Card. Come on Vivi, aim higher. Well, I guess you'll also get a date, but still. It's not even for a good card game.
Triple Triad for life, yo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgS0fSFGqmI&feature=channel_page
"RAPE THEM, VIVI. LOOK THOSE ANIMALS IN THE EYES AND SAY 'TONIGHT. YOU.' AND THEN RAPE THEM WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!!!!"
Time flies when you're forgetting to take screenshots. And killing small animals. Seriously, they released birds and squirrels. And wolves, I guess. Wolf things. But squirrels!
Boss fight! His name is Zaghnol and he wasn't too hard (Bowie Trancing helped, of course).
Can't really tell from the screenshot, but Ratchel has a really cool animation when she uses Jump. The lance comes down first on the enemy, and then she grabs the lance as she falls and flips back to her spot. 8-)
Alright, well Bowie didn't win but still, that was fun! What a neat way to end the day. What a nice
YOU JUST RUINED THE MOOD.
Cid agrees to help out Burmecia, and the messenger, like all messengers that arrive to deliver a message but get injured on the way, dies.
Big ol' discussion ahead!
Vivi: "It can't be..."
Shiny: "Could it be Mother...!?"
Ratchel: "I must go now. I cannot sit and wait for the reinforcements."
Bowie: "I'm coming with you."
Freya: "No. This doesn't concern you."
Bowie: "What's this, I'm a stranger all of a sudden!? I'm not gonna
sit back and watch your home get destroyed, alright?"
Ratchel: "...Thank you, Bowie."
Vivi: "Um, c-can I come, too? I wanna find out who they really are."
Bowie: "Sure."
Shiny: "Alright then. Let's go to Burmecia."
Awesome: "Princess! This is a foreign matter! It has nothing to do
with us!"
Regent Cid: "Steiner is right. We don't know if Alexandria is involved."
Shiny: "But if black mages are involved... Zidane, you know what I'm
talking about."
Bowie: "......"
Shiny: "If Mother is behind this, I'll make her stop! I promise!"
Bowie: "...I think you should stay here."
Shiny: "What!?"
Bowie: "We don't know what to expect there."
Shiny: "I've already faced great danger coming here! What's the
difference!?"
Bowie: "Shiny, this is war. A lot of people are gonna die."
Shiny: "I know that!"
Bowie: "...How did you feel when you saw that Burmecian soldier die,
just now?"
Shiny: "...I felt sad, of course."
Bowie: "Just sad? Weren't you scared, too? Obviously, you haven't
realized how dangerous this is gonna be... You could get
killed. This is no time to be convincing your mother of
anything."
Shiny: "But..."
Regent Cid: "Now's not the time to argue."
Ratchel: "He's right. We must head to Burmecia at once. Will you open
the Dragon's Gate?"
Regent Cid: "Of course. If you're going by foot, leaving from that
gate is the best way. Let us eat while we <gwok> wait for
the gate to open."
Oh no you di'int!
Clever girl...
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They never really state the gender of the character do they...
Pat.
EDIT: Unless you're getting Quina later, but its really useful to have him/her for the upcoming areas.
Actually there's a whole bunch of optional stuff you can do at this point.
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Great LP so far. I am thinking of getting my game out and playing again since I haven't played it in over 8 years!
Noooooooooooo.
3-6 on DS
7-9 on PSP!
Please.
Or, and this will never happen but is surprisingly fitting:
FF7 Remake - PS3
FF8 Remake - 360
FF9 Remake - Wii
XBL/PSN/Steam: APZonerunner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukzGTVj4WQ
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
This made me laugh.
"Here's the game you deserve." And there's the fanboy bait, the self-important prick game, the cute old-fashioned one...
And the draw system.
And the summon cinimatics that took 5 minutes.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
The card game was cool though!
And...
It had good music.
Music, you say?
also this LP made me start playing through the game again
soooo good (thank you MoC
I'm staying behind where you are in the LP though, because I like your commentary and I don't want to get ahead of it. ^^
In 8 or 4? I'm assuming 8.
To be fair to 4 though, That's no Moon!!!
Isn't this the wrong thread to be complaining about Eight in though?
Also, the story is completely redeemed in my eyes by Laguna, the most awesome fucker FF has ever seen.
Yea he's a cool guy-AAAARGH MY BAAACK
I'm leaning Pat at the moment.
I never used it AT ALL. I probably used Armarant more than that thing. And I think I only used him like twice in the game my team usually consisted of Freya,Zida,Vivi and Eiko.