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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Y'all are mean.

    Also go buy Dragon Quest V if you don't own it already. It's been reprinted: http://www.gamestop.com/ds/games/dragon-quest-v-hand-of-the-heavenly-bride/73018

  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    Kana wrote: »
    But no, seriously

    "Other people already resolved this discussion, you're not allowed to participate"

    is a dumb thing to say on a discussion thread, and also rude.

    (Especially when it's not even true)

    There's no need to be like that.

    :s

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  • PeasPeas Registered User regular
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    aka The Greatest Love Scene of All Time

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    Sorry guys but the greatest love scene of all times in jurps is the one between Elle and Fei in Xenogears

  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Peas wrote: »
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    aka The Greatest Love Scene of All Time

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    Sorry guys but the greatest love scene of all times in jurps is the one between Elle and Fei in Xenogears

    That was going to be the one I would have named, but I thought we were sticking to FF games.

    Tidus/Yuna certainly gets second place in my book, but I posted before why I found Cloud/Tifa more meaningful.

    I really could use another FFVII game just to close the book and show that they finally end up happy in the end. Granted you could have gotten that from the end of AC, but something more visually representative would still be appreciated.

  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2014
    By the way, if you've watched Advent Children but never saw Advent Children Complete, you really should do so. The changes they made to the movie were really smart, not just extended fight sequences. They also touched up existing scenes and dialog that add up to a much better movie.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBFhmShELs0

    Professor Snugglesworth on
  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    By the way, if you've watched Advent Children but never saw Advent Children Complete, you really should do so. The changes they made to the movie were really smart, not just extended fight sequences. They also touched up existing scenes and dialog that add up to a much better movie.

    wow i'm glad you made this post

    i was just today thinking i should see if they have a blu-ray for advent children and decided they probably did but hadn't checked yet

    now i know what i'm doing this weekend

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    the best love scene was cloud and yuffie in the gondola

  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    edited September 2014
    By the way, if you've watched Advent Children but never saw Advent Children Complete, you really should do so. The changes they made to the movie were really smart, not just extended fight sequences. They also touched up existing scenes and dialog that add up to a much better movie.

    wow i'm glad you made this post

    i was just today thinking i should see if they have a blu-ray for advent children and decided they probably did but hadn't checked yet

    now i know what i'm doing this weekend

    It even tells you where Denzel fucking came from!

    The new tracks are also great, especially this one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvZ6cwBYyz8&list=PL080E88616606073D&index=3

    Professor Snugglesworth on
  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Y'all are mean.

    Also go buy Dragon Quest V if you don't own it already. It's been reprinted: http://www.gamestop.com/ds/games/dragon-quest-v-hand-of-the-heavenly-bride/73018

    Well I am going to Game stop later this week

  • Bluedude152Bluedude152 Registered User regular
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    For one briefly sweet moment I had forgotten, so thanks.

    I really do wonder what they're doing to do with that story, since they went and referenced it in the FFX HD collection. Are they going to quietly pretend it never happened?

    Part of me morbidly wants to see them attempt to salvage that godawful story.

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    I would prefer if that X-2.5 shit was lost forever to the Mists of Time.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

    No.

    Because he ran up and kicked it.

    Because it looked like a blitzball.

  • I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    I'm liking the snap button I gotta say

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2014
    Peas wrote: »
    stickers_dcffb1567e1fc6c2bab5d0858deffbb6.jpg

    aka The Greatest Love Scene of All Time

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    Sorry guys but the greatest love scene of all times in jurps is the one between Elle and Fei in Xenogears
    None of this is the love triangle between Locke and Celes and Rachel.

    sarukun on
  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    I can't marry forte because it would ruin my fortexleon ship

    I was going to marry forte, in spite of the kind of annoying romantic awkwardness

    because turns out margaret had some pretty valid reservations

    but I ended up letting someone else make that choice and that's who they went with, since illuminata wasn't an option


    and now I wish the rest of them were like, hooking up with each other

    because I might possibly be feeling guilty about how I was dating five of them at once because I'm going to do like two characters max in this game and I want to see all there is to see, but now I have effectively used and discarded these people like they were so much trash

    these fake animé video game people


    that I have heartlessly mistreated

    and it's like oh god please talk about dylas or something look at him isn't he so pretty

  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    By the way, if you've watched Advent Children but never saw Advent Children Complete, you really should do so. The changes they made to the movie were really smart, not just extended fight sequences. They also touched up existing scenes and dialog that add up to a much better movie.

    they did make it a better movie

    but they did not make it a good movie

  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    let's talk about how bitterly disappointed I was when I saw spirits within was on tv but when I actually started watching it there were no sephiroves in evidence

  • gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    the best love scene was cloud and barret in the gondola

  • Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    women-women relationships are definitely portrayed more explicitly than man-man relationships because lesbians are fetishized

    "Stop eroticizing lesbians" - ancient Klingon proverb

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    Taking what information we currently have as well as speculation from the patents, here's FFXV's theoretical combat in gif form: http://giant.gfycat.com/SelfassuredShinyIlsamochadegu.gif

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    The best love scene in a JRPG is set to two tunes:

    A Letter to You, Honey

    and

    A Letter from You, My Sweet

    But there's a lot of context to it.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

    no, tell me more

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

    No.

    Because he ran up and kicked it.

    Because it looked like a blitzball.

    what the fuck are you talking about

  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    ffx only gets crazier the more I hear about it


    I'm going to have to fucking play it one day

    that's the one with the evil sky whale right

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    yes, although it's not a sky whale specifically, more of a wherever whale. Sky, ocean, dreams, you name it.

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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

    No.

    Because he ran up and kicked it.

    Because it looked like a blitzball.

    what the fuck are you talking about

    You seriously do not want to know.

    Turn back now, your life will be happier that way.

  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited September 2014
    EDIT: oh look I made a reference

    Seriously on
  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    ffx made even less sense than these games usually make, and that's saying something

    I'm looking at you, mister we all grew up in the same orphanage but forgot for some reason

  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

    No.

    Because he ran up and kicked it.

    Because it looked like a blitzball.

    what the fuck are you talking about

    Okay, so, not too long ago, Square released this novels. Final Fantasy X-2.5. And, for days, people assumed that it was a joke or something, because it was SO BAD.

    It had crap you'd assume was straight out of a fanfic. Like Sin comes back, and Yuna and Tidus break up and they're all angsty and crap, and there's now Sex Magic. But the kicker is the reveal that the whole mess went down because Tidus died, and Yuna brought him back but there's a Cost and Angst.

    How he died?

    That's where that story comes in. And I think his head landed right in front of Yuna.

    And the writer meant for that to be taken seriously.

    You can imagine the amazement when it was confirmed to be a Real Official Product. Interesting times.

  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    Hey guys remeber when tidus stepped on a landmine

    No.

    Because he ran up and kicked it.

    Because it looked like a blitzball.

    what the fuck are you talking about

    Okay, so, not too long ago, Square released this novels. Final Fantasy X-2.5. And, for days, people assumed that it was a joke or something, because it was SO BAD.

    It had crap you'd assume was straight out of a fanfic. Like Sin comes back, and Yuna and Tidus break up and they're all angsty and crap, and there's now Sex Magic. But the kicker is the reveal that the whole mess went down because Tidus died, and Yuna brought him back but there's a Cost and Angst.

    How he died?

    That's where that story comes in. And I think his head landed right in front of Yuna.

    And the writer meant for that to be taken seriously.

    You can imagine the amazement when it was confirmed to be a Real Official Product. Interesting times.

    Okay so this is going on the list of things I'm not allowed to talk about or whippy gets blackout angry

    The list is now basically

    1) Spider-Man
    2) whatever the fuck you just said

  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
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    seriously though, this is the best love scene in all of final fantasy

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited September 2014
    we can't smooch here, we have space suits on
    let's jetpack over to that conveniently abandoned FUCKIN' RADICAL red space shuttle with the dragon figurehead and then make out

    BahamutZERO on
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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    HERE IS SOMETHING REALLY EMBARRASSING THAT I'VE NEVER TOLD ANYONE EVER I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M ABOUT TO ADMIT TO IT NOW
    I had my first gay sex dream with Squall. I DON'T KNOW WHY. I was playing a lot of VIII at the time! I was in sixth grade! That was quite confusing to wake up to. A lot of, uh, internal discussions and soul searching were had that day.

    He had a really nice dick, though.

  • ASimPersonASimPerson And they will tremble again at the sound of our silence.Registered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    None of this is the love triangle between Locke and Celes and Rachel.

    Nothing quite makes me go "DAYUM" like when I get to "So am I just a replacement for 'her'?" in FF6.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular

    I am

    CERTAIN

    the 2.5 thing was proven to be a hoax/fanfiction

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  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    HERE IS SOMETHING REALLY EMBARRASSING THAT I'VE NEVER TOLD ANYONE EVER I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M ABOUT TO ADMIT TO IT NOW
    I had my first gay sex dream with Squall. I DON'T KNOW WHY. I was playing a lot of VIII at the time! I was in sixth grade! That was quite confusing to wake up to. A lot of, uh, internal discussions and soul searching were had that day.

    He had a really nice dick, though.
    How big was it

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular

    I am

    CERTAIN

    the 2.5 thing was proven to be a hoax/fanfiction

    it is extremely real

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  • turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    HERE IS SOMETHING REALLY EMBARRASSING THAT I'VE NEVER TOLD ANYONE EVER I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M ABOUT TO ADMIT TO IT NOW
    I had my first gay sex dream with Squall. I DON'T KNOW WHY. I was playing a lot of VIII at the time! I was in sixth grade! That was quite confusing to wake up to. A lot of, uh, internal discussions and soul searching were had that day.

    He had a really nice dick, though.

    Attractive, competent character that you've been spending a ton of time watching, and his "..." schtick probably seemed really cool to a 12 year old.

    Seems normal to me.

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  • gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular

    I am

    CERTAIN

    the 2.5 thing was proven to be a hoax/fanfiction

    ha ha ha ha


    for those of you who can read Japanese: this is apparently a photo of the pages from the novella in question where Tidus dies because he kicked a bomb that looked like a blitzball

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    Tidus looked around in surprise. Before his eyes, there was a ball, rolling slowly. It was the colour of tanned leather, about the same size they use in blitzball matches.

    T: "A Blitzball!?"

    Tidus started walking toward the ball, looking for it's owner.
    After one step...

    As Yuna watched the situation, she was surprised by the tears that suddenly started welling up. Her feelings were greatly shaken, and she couldn't stand. As she crouched on the ground, holding herself with both arms, she was overcome with unbearable sadness.
    Just then, there was a huge sound. Yuna was blown back by a violent explosion, thrown, spinning through the air. Something flew in front of her eyes. It was Tidus' head, fixed in an expression of surprise.

    Yuna lost consciousness.

    and the Amazon page for said novella is here; note that more than half of the reader reviews give it one star

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