Topic: Final fantasy discussion thread

@belmont Ah cool, thanks for the tip. Whenever I've tried Counterstance, the enemies always seemed to back off, crafty buggers.

@belmont I’ve just finished Chapter 9 and yeah, it did drag a bit. I just kinda felt that the characters barely even resembled FF characters, it felt like I had wandered into a completely different game. Don Corneo is a great modernisation though.

@Thrillho I tried for half hour last night (that was for all three difficulties) before giving up on pull ups. I will give it another couple of goes, but I'm not gonna break my back doing it.

@JohnnyShoulder

Piece of cake.

finally managed to win that pull up game against jules. with just 1 point difference.

urgh never again.

@jdv95 Welcome to the club.

@Thrillho ha thank you.

tbh i did go in underestimating the mini game since squats did not realy give me much problems,so how hard could it be right?

yeah well it did not go down well...

Ha

@Thrillho I'm not really into all this meme stuff but this was cleverly done.

You Know After They Are Done With 7 I Hope They Remake Final Fantasy 8 Next

I love this music whilst waiting in the colosseum tunnel.

@ApostateMage My favourite bit of new music is probably in the Sector with Aerith near her house. It was a bit weird with areas having new music but I think it suits it well, especially considering there’s actually daytime in this game.

Number two of the things I really wish they hadn't bothered with (after the robotic arms part)..

Anytime you have to use the equivalent of monkey bars. Urgh.

@Thrillho I felt like that in God of War too. Every time I saw a slow af traversal coming, my heart sank.

@nessisonett Ducking under things or ladders I haven’t had a problem with but the monkey bars or Uncharted style “squeeze through the gap” sections are awful.

I know they can be masking loading screens but some areas have them every minute or so.

Anyhoo, finally in the Shinra building!

@Thrillho i get that but as you said they are hiding loading and the like and i would rather have to squeeze through a gap or do a slow walk and talk section than have a loading screen pop up every few minutes like in Sonic 06

@FullbringIchigo Yep lesser of two evils. I know some have been raging about it, but it is not really a huge problem, barely an inconvenience.

@JohnnyShoulder it's just a limitation of the tech

Perhaps when next gen hits with the SSD's and all they can do away or limit these kind of things

Not that it really matters because they don't detract from the game at all

The Naughty Dog-esque gap-squeezing, crate-pushing, bar climbing, etc. is absolutely the worst part of the game. HATE HATE HATE it.

Thankfully, I'm enjoying the game in pretty much every other respect.

And boy, while I kind of don't want this game to end, I also kind of want to beat it so that I can read that article on the front page of the website discussing the game's ending. I've been spoiled somewhat, but not totally, I think, so I'm not going anywhere near that article for the moment.

While I think pretty much all of the new music (read: music that's not a rearrangement of tracks from the original) is OK at best, I have a fondness for the music that plays during the dance sequence just because of how insane and fun that part of the game was.

All that gap squeezing, forced slow walking and ladder climbing wouldn't have been as bad if it had been a lot faster and had a smooth transition when exiting. I especially hated the forced slow walking sections, the correspondence with the analogue stick just never felt right. It felt like Cloud was trying to walk after somebody had cast petrify on him.