The Old Skool Cult of Kefka, bitches!

[azrafel]

Funny thing about my FFV gaming style. Galuf always starts out as my monk, but somehow manages to make his way to being a ninja by the end, with someone else, usually Faris as my monk. I can never understand why.

Lol, that's sort of how I've evolved my characters.

Faris is now a Monk, and Galuf is now a knight

[Georg Prime]

Oh you people and your FF7 hating. You have to look past the irrational fanboys, it's not the game's fault.

For me, it was the first final fantasy that I played in depth and replayed. I had played FFIV before, but I never thrashed it the way I do games now. Before that, my RPG was sega based, so Shining Force was my main thing. Also, I'm probably one of, if not the youngest member in this cult, so my old school nestalgia isn't quite as strong as your selves. har har. Other than that, I thought it had a really good story. It really captured me and made me keep playing. I love ****ed up characters like that. =)

But that's enough of my FFVII defence for today. <3

Funny thing about my FFV gaming style. Galuf always starts out as my monk, but somehow manages to make his way to being a ninja by the end, with someone else, usually Faris as my monk. I can never understand why.

Haha you're right you're right. I don't entirely hate the game in any sense, some of my friends somewhat fall into the "fanboy" category in terms of liking FF 7, so i've always gotten a kick out teasing them about the game. It's all for shits and giggles really, i could careless if people loved the game.

Bard was certainly an interesting class..requiem was really the sole reason i would ever use it, but that alone made it very useful. Ninja was good too..i liked everything except "throw" i just never seemed to use that much, but i loved everything else about them.

Still haven't played KH2, i liked one, even though the game is somewhat "kiddie" i agree that it was very welldone. How is 2 in comparison with 1?

Anywayz..trying to get into playing DoD:Source and CS: Source. I played the original cs years ago but i am very very rusty and feel like a n00b all over again..and more so with DoD. I just have to start learning the maps better i guess.

CP:
DoD: Source
CS: Source

[LocoColt04]

Oh, you're gonna love what they've done to FFIII DS, then.

The M.Knight is gone and, in his place? DARK KNIGHT, BABY.

Yeah, I figured you might be interested in that.

(I failed to earlier mention that Onion Knights are now Freelancers, though supposedly "Onion Knight" is a hidden, unlockable job. I bet it kicks supreme ass.)



I'm just stopping in real quick to say my posting will become incredibly erratic over the next 3-5 weeks. My grandfather just got here and, since he's staying with us, my online time will be spotty. We'll see how that goes.

Currently Playing:
Final Fantasy III (NDS)

[Victoria]

I've been away for ages. Geez. >>;
I'm usually good about checking up on TFF, but I haven't been for the past few days.

I've been currently playing through the Suikodens. I'm on IV right now.

Completed: Suikoden (40+ hrs), Suikoden II (40+ hrs), Suikoden III (60+ hrs).
CP: Suikoden IV.

[Scorpian]

Top FF Games of all time..this is easy heh.
1. FFI
2. FFVII
3. FFIV
4. FFT
5. FFVI

ya..fave clas off FFV..Ninja..duh

Long tiem no poet, but been spending less time netwise i guess...tho i had a bday 2 days ago, and for it i got KH2...MAN it tok like 4hours jsut to get to the screen that said 'Kingdom Hearts 2' I spent almost that entire time just yelling 'I don't care about Roxas! GET ON WITH IT!'

*backs to lurksville after killing Jin*


CP:
KH2
FFV:AW (more testing)
TO?

[ZRO]

Long tiem no poet

Wait, you ever were one? =P

Hehe, KH2, I like that one, got a good ways through it before my friend took it back. <3 the storyline in that series myself, just seems really well done. Plus some of the mini-game are a ton of fun even if they do seem a bit "kiddy" to some people. "Kid's game" my ass. XD

CP:
CS:Source (BOOM, HEADSHOT!)
FFXI (*swishy swishy*)

[Victoria]

Checking in again after completing another Suikoden.

Completed: Suikoden (40+ hrs), Suikoden II (40+ hrs), Suikoden III (60+ hrs), Suikoden IV (40+ hrs).

Currently Playing: Suikoden Tactics

After much playing, I have realized this is the timeline:

Tactics <7 years> Suikoden IV <3 years> Tactics <137 years> Suikoden V <10 years> Suikoden I <5 years> Suikoden II <15 years> Suikoden III

[Setzertrancer]

My latest gaming habits, Yesterday, today and likely tonight have been Warcraft III. But not normal melee games, mostly all the cool Tower defence games people have made with the world editor. I would Probably play FFXI or something, but my computer has everything it needs, except for a damn better graphics card and it isn't upgradable because it's a Laptop. Unfortinately I wasn't me who bought it, it was bought for me so I didn't get to choose.

Anyway anyone else here play Warcraft III at all?

[Jin]

Oh wow, he's lived to be 24? I did not see that one coming. I swear that you were 21 when I first met you on SU...no way has it been 3 years. Anyways, have a good one mate. A tiara for you.

Gaming...let's just say I'm really pissed at my computer. I have no idea why, but FFVII ****s up at the very beginning of the first chocobo race. It gives one of those "Windows has encountered an error..blah blah blah...send or don't send?" I've tried reparing it - didn't work; I've tried running it in windows 98 mode - didn't work; I then repaired it 2 more times - didn't work. Based on the fact that the part on the motorcycle went so fast that I could barely keep up, my guess is that the computer is just too fast for the game. Shame. I'll have to start up another one; thank god I have my playstation back.

CP:
Nothing =(

Edit: That first paragraph was directed at ZRO btw...forgot to mention that part.

[Victoria]

I have Warcraft III if you want to play it, Setzer. Heh. But I'm currently on a Suikoden binge. So once I finish that, then I'll play WC3. =P

[Setzertrancer]

Do you know of any place where I could like join organised multiplayer games of Warcraft. At the moment I just sit in the custom games screen an hope Tower Maul or something else good comes up. Because I don't like DOTA very much and I can't be bothered learning to play Footmen Frenzy. Or even better I would like to be able to host games, but it's so hard to get that to work.

Isn't that Ironic the guy who calls himself The IT Guy can't get his games to host?

[Jin]

Thus I revive again, as does this thread.

Like I said before, FFVII blew up in my face due to a retarded computer, so I started up the origional again. It was Psiko I think that first said he was taking the whitemage challange? Well, I did the same and it's pretty hard, I must say. I just got to Elfheim recently, so I've still got a long ways to go. Even so, I felt more like playing Tactics, so I put FFI asside for a bit to start yet another Tactics file. I never get tired of that game. So far, I think I'm going to go with Ramza as a Dragoon with Battle Skill, a Geomancer/Monk, a Ninja who's other fate is to be determined, a Bard, for the hell of it and finally Agrias. I don't know why, but of all the characters you get, I like Agrias the best, followed closely by Beowulf. T.G. Cid is just too powerful. I never like people who have every move available, they never have a niech. It's fairly different from my usual setup of using almost every gained character and setting Ramza as a samurai, but it should be interesting.

So, for a topic: we had the FFV favourite job question, let's do the Tactics one. Favourite Tactics job, lay it down.

Mine is close between samurai and Geomancer. The former has a million uses and the latter I just think are neat.

CP:
FFTactics
FFI

[Dawezy]

I got them uploaded just now, that it was mentioned it sparked a (what little) memory I have, so, archived both games up and you can grab them here;

OSFFC - The Thing 1
OSFFC - The Thing 2

Hell, was The Thing the official name? or were you just a lazy fuck? XD I forget.






In other news though, nothing overly spectacular to report over my end of the planet.. tho I must admit, my mother's parnter Lou (and all the stories you have heard from me) just made me snap* and I swear I nearly rammed his head through the wall ~ egotistical antogonizing piece of shit scumbag who thinks nothing more then what he has accomplished, and nothing of those who havent accomplished asmuch as he has. Its sad =\

* was organizing a huge event with a tonne of people in FFXI, almost a one-off thing you can onry do once.

But hey, I resisted, punched a hole right through the wall near where he was standing and got over it.. Irks me, sure, but what can ya do? No other living options atm >_>

CP: Oblivion/FF11

lol Braska
http://www.dawezy.com/TFFAVGIF10-03.gif
http://www.dawezy.com/TFFAVGIF11-03.gif

And this one just for fun
http://www.dawezy.com/TFFAVGIF06-02.gif

*Dawezy grins*

[Setzertrancer]

@GLC, ZTT is an old ASCII game making program, which only uses graphics that look like this. But it allowed you to create anytype of game you wanted, RPG, Action, Shooter, Adventure. Because of a simple programming language it had even noobs could create complex scripts that one could remake a FF game with if they wanted, hmm now I wonder if anyone has.

@Dawezy, Geez this Braska Spira guy sounds like a classic fool. In fact he reminds me of a freind of mine, my best freind actually how has a passionate hate for Final Fantasy and for no reason other then to be different from all his mates who love Final Fantasy, so I wonder what he really thinks he get out of hating it so much. Anyway just thought it was a similar story of 2 people with their head up thier ass, preaching bullcrap. It's not that I'm some snobby person who thinks people who like FF are wierdos, it's just that he's never played them properly and he thinks he can just a game by the first 15 minutes.

OLD SKOOL FOREVA

[Victoria]

My FFT favorite job has to be the Geomancer/Monk combination. It's totally awesome. Well, then there's the Dragoon jumping ability.

[azrafel]

Well, after playing for a bit, I have to say that so far, (havn't mastered anything yet) that the jobs that I prefer the most are knight and monk.

I like the power and the double hit, although x-fight from the hunter, and giltoss are also topnotch. I'm working on mastering hunter on butz and faris right now, because I'm stuck on Ex-Death in Ex-Death's castle in world 2. He just keeps handing me my butt.

I just can't win.


Anywho, cp:
FFV
Carmageddon (PC)

[Georg Prime]

Hmmm...in tactics? Hard to say..though i mite have to say samurai again..or ninja. Once you get the characters with the special classes though the normal characters take a back seat. My final party i had Cloud as a Knight, Orlandu, and Ramza as a samurai/ninja hybrid.

You're right about Orlandu though..he is too powerful. You can literally send him into battles alone and have him win. I loved Agrias as well, i think i liked Beowulf even more though.

[LocoColt04]

Calculator. It's hard, yes, but with the right circumstances, HOLY SHIT.

Okay, it's not really my favorite at all, but I am rather fond of it. My second favorite job in Tactics is Geomancer with a sub of Time Magic. It's great. When you're too far away to attack, buff with Haste on the party. When you're within distance attacking range, use geomancy. When you're close... WHACK!

The Geomancer in FFT was way better than the ones in FFIII or FFV.

And as if you even had to ask, my favorite favorite job combo in FFT is Dragoon+Squire, especially on Ramza since he gets the extra abilities. Fun shit.



In other, completely related news, I preordered Final Fantasy VI for the GBA and Castlevania: Portrain of Ruin for the DS (which comes out tomorrow!) today.

Yeah, I'm totally picking up C:PoR tomorrow.


Currently Playing:
Counter-Strike: Source (PC)
Risk II (PC)
Elite Beat Agents (NDS)
Final Fantasy III (NDS)
Final Fantasy V (GBA)

[Setzertrancer]

I unfortinatly havn't played FFT , But I have played FFT Advance. On that my Favourite job is the Templar because his armor and attack are as strong as any other fighting class except he can attack 2 spaces away instead of 1. Another favourite is the Animist, but only because of Sheep Count, which can put and entire group of enemies to sleep for a few turns, during which you can nuke them with black magic, without waking them up.

I should have had Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin today but it's been postponed from 5 of December to 21 of January, ARRGGG!!!!

Currently Playing
Harvest Moon: Freinds of Mineral Town
Fire Emblem 7
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

In two days (Wii launch)

Zelda: Twilight Princess!!!

[LocoColt04]

Damnit!

Portrait of Ruin won't be in my store until tomorrow. Today's the ship date.

I ALWAYS forget about that, heh. So yeah, anyway, it really goes back to the oldschool side-scrolling action. When the title was first announced, I thought they'd try to go the way of Castlevania 64 with it, especially since the title will be the first to really leave the castle and explore elsewhere. I was so happy when I discovered it would still be a side-scroller though. ^_^



Currently Playing:
Counter-Strike: Source (PC)
various Nintendo Wii titles (since I'm headed over to the dorm; Nick has one)
FFIII (NDS)
FFV (GBA)

[Setzertrancer]

Damnit!

Portrait of Ruin won't be in my store until tomorrow. Today's the ship date.

I ALWAYS forget about that, heh. So yeah, anyway, it really goes back to the oldschool side-scrolling action. When the title was first announced, I thought they'd try to go the way of Castlevania 64 with it, especially since the title will be the first to really leave the castle and explore elsewhere. I was so happy when I discovered it would still be a side-scroller though. ^_^

Well at least you don't need to wait until the end of January, and GLC TWO-PLAYER SUPPORT!! WOW!! if that really is true then Portrait of ruin will have to be the best Castlevania yet. Although sometimes games say they support two players just a commercial stunt to sell more copies, San Adreas anyone, that had the worst 2 player in existance. So GLC tell me more about this 2 player support, mainly will it require two game packs?

It is the Wii Launch here in Western Australia in 5 and a half hours! and I'm sitting here at 2:30am waiting for my mates to pick me at at 8 to go and get our Wii and then to have a release party. I'm up at 2:30 because that just happens to be my morning in my current random sleeping pattern.

The funny thing about our Wii party is that we are all only getting Zelda as our first game to what are we going to play together, oh that't right Wii sports. From what I've seen though it looks like it's just a hardware commercialiser (if that isn't a word I just invented it) and tester and appears to have that graphics of an N64. Oh well, hopefully it will serve us well for a drunken night of gaming.

Currently Playing

FFTA, talked myself into it after my last post
Fire Emblem 7 and 8, stuck on chapter 15 I think in 7.

[Georg Prime]

Portrait of Ruin looks great..WW II setting and 2 player support? Good stuff if you ask me, i love the Castlevania series, i don't own a DS though so no love for me. I think that Castlevania is certainly best as a sidescroller though did actually enjoy castlevania 64 and legacy of darkness as well..though obviously it's not the same! I still love the SNES castlevanias the best..or else Sympathy of the Night. My original was Castlevania 2: Belmont's Revenge on the GB though.

Right now i'm not playing any console game..haven't picked up FF XII in awhile, though i think soon i mite b pickin up Grandia again and finish it. Ever since i got that game design club i've been workin a little more in RPG Maker 2000/2003 again too.

played any new Wii games loco? Wii Play sounds pretty cool, a sort of alternative to Wii sports. Though we arent getting it until sometime 2007

Haha i found this secret of mana character thing..thought it was a nice change from all the final fantasy ones you see around. Those tests are so crazy tho, just change a few answers and you get a different result. The first one i actually got was Dyluck, though i thought this one was a little funnier. I got Dyluck first, Watts, Sprite, then the Boy. I was actually honored to have Dyluck picked, to me he's one of those 16bit minor characters of legend along General Leo.

CP:
DoD: Source

[ZRO]

I still love the SNES castlevanias the best..or else Sympathy of the Night.

It's Symphony of the Night, not sympathy. Ugh, don't make me have to slap you.

Hmm...Castlevania with true 2 player support, that could be interesting, to say the least. Almost enough to make me get a DS...except the only person around me who owns one would be my little brother... <.<;;

CP:
CS:Source on not-so-lazy nights
FFXI every night

[Setzertrancer]

Right now i'm not playing any console game..haven't picked up FF XII in awhile, though i think soon i mite b pickin up Grandia again and finish it. Ever since i got that game design club i've been workin a little more in RPG Maker 2000/2003 again too.

Sorry for looking even further back in the thread for something to post about, but for those of you who have used and played games made by Rpg maker, have you guys tried the awesome game, The Way. It is a game, that's so good I would compare it to the Final Fantasy games, It has an incredibly well executed story line, a 100% custom ability system, a dueling minigame kind of like FFs card games called Plundging and very interesting characters. Other RPG maker games I recommend are A Blured Line and Final Fantasy: Endless Nova, these are all examples of some of the great RPG maker games in existance and are good enough to be released commercially.

@GLC, Tell me about the game you are making.

[Georg Prime]

that's hilarious, i knew something was going wrong every time I was trying to write the name in it would end up being underlined for being spelled wrong. I guess i just went with a completely different word so atleast it wouldn't be underlined. I do deserve some old school lashings for that one i suppose, but i was pretty messed up while writing that if it counts for something.

It almost makes me want to get a DS too though..but probably not enough. I'm too broke as it is and have the Wii on the top of my list right now. Two player side scrollers are the best though, if anyone has played Goemon's Great Adventure on the Nintendo 64, you know what i'm talking about. My question to DS owners though, is it worth buyin the system? There are quite a few games i'd like to play but i'm not sure if there are enough. Has anyone played Contact on the DS? That's on the top of my list.

Well i'm back to playing Grandia again and am finding it a nice change from FF XII..so much different in every respect. Trying to find a good PC game to play when i stumbled across this game, Secret Files: Tunguska, a point and click adventure game like i have been craving!! So i'm definitely gonna have to check that out sometime.

Counting down till I can get a Wii..can't wait.

@Setertrancer, are you getting the extra controller too? Because isn't that how Wii Play is packaged? That game looks interesting. I'm really excited about the new Wario Ware game though.

And is anyone excited about Rogue Galaxy? As much as i liked FF XII, i think i may enjoy this upcoming RPG title even more. The battle system looks RIDICULOUS

[Victoria]

I just started playing FFIIIj, and no, not the one for the DS. I don't have a DS yet. It's interesting to say the least. Well, not really. =P But I want to play it anyway.

CP:
Suikoden Tactics
FFIIIj

[Setzertrancer]

I just started playing FFIIIj, and no, not the one for the DS. I don't have a DS yet. It's interesting to say the least. Well, not really. =P But I want to play it anyway.

I remember playing FFIIIj and there was a bit I got stuck at where I was fighting against a dragon endlessy and then I later found out that you were actually meant to lose the battle. It was funny because I must have been fighting the dragon for a hour.

@GLC, nope I can't afford an extra controller yet, but you are right, one of my mates has got Wii Play, we havn't tried it out yet becaue it's only 2 players unfortinatly not 3.

CP:
Zelda: Twilight Princess

[LocoColt04]

I've played a bit of Rogue Galaxy, and I must say, I'm very excited about it. I'll definitely be purchasing that one when the full game is released.

Back a little bit on the Castlevania topic, I put up some pictures of the preorder package. I haven't played the game yet, but I'll definitely let you know what it's like once I do. As in, I'm about to put it in my DS right now and play it when I'm done catching up on TFF stuff.

As far as Contact goes, unfortunately I have not played it; however, just knowing that it's an RPG from the same team that did Killer7 makes me giddy.


...and I think that's about all I have to add for the moment.


Currently Playing:
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (NDS)
Counter-Strike: Source (PC)
Final Fantasy III (NDS)

[Georg Prime]

I'm not sure if i have tried the Way, it sounds really familiar though. I have tried a lot of rpg maker games though so i probably have at some point. I remember quite a few having really original ideas like that though. I have played a Blurred Line though and was quite impressed. And i think at some point i looked into Final Fantasy: Endless Nova though i have never played it.

Well right now I am not working on anything too serious. I started working on rpg maker 2000 when i was probably about 15, kind of a result of having too much free time in highschool. I had a few projects working on..only two serious ones though. My main project was called Brendan's Magical Adventure. (Brendan is ny name). It wasn't something completely serious for sure but it was actually really well done. Basic premise is that a group of friends and i figured out that a few of our teachers were these evil monsters from another world. Later on you find a way into this world. Basically the evil world they are from is what i would call "videogameland" It basically consisted of a large handful of famous towns and locations from 16 bit games (and a good handful of original towns as well)

. I recreated Guardia Castle exactly how it was from CT though i did some sprite editing and made a king version of Crono to rule Guardia. Then i recreated a few different towns from FF VI, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Lufia, Breath of Fire, etc. Basically the story goes that these evil teacher monsters are destroying all these videogame worlds and the few remaining towns are all thats left. So basically in the game you travel between the modern world and this videogame world. At the end, the videogame world goes away and all the worlds from the different games are restored and the towns go back to their respective worlds so FF VI towns and secret of mana towns are no longer in the same place. Peace is restored, and videogames are back to normal.

Basically it was a very lighthearted, charming game. It would best be described as a raunchier R-Rated Earthbound. I had a lot of fun easter eggs, crazy events and mini games within the towns as well. Plus, Dyluck isn't dead after all!!

In addition i was working on a game called the Journey of Odysseus based of the odyssey by homer. I wasn't as far into it as my main game but i was a good deal into it. If i ever finished it i was hoping to make a game for the Illiad as well though that would have been a lot of work becase a story like that would be better as a strategy rpg or something.

Then just for fun i tried working on a sequel to FF VI. Basically i didn't think of a story that much..i just spent my time recreating the maps and stuff before giving up. Narshe took long enough as it is. There are actually other FF VI sequel wannabes out there as well.

Anyhoo, this was like 3-4 years ago, after about a year of work or more, it was probably near completion, my computer crashed and i lost all my files. Later on i tried to start over with some new maps and ideas but probaly 3-6 months after i had to wipe my HD again. This time though, i did manage to burn a very early version of my second attempt to a disc. But of course i can't actually move or edit those files from the disc but i can play the one map that i have as my start point.

So basically with all this trouble and years of work down the drain, plus leaving highschool and becoming more busy i stopped working on it for years.

It's probably been 3 years since ive seriously worked in rpg maker. Right now i'm just toying around creating maps and trying to get the creative juices flowing. I feel so rusty after not working with it for so long. I'm definitely not doing anything too big or ambitous right now

I'm kinda messing around with a game i call Acid Adventures. Basically it's a bunch of random psychedelic acid incuded experiences that at the end of the game tie into something bigger. Drug induced role playing, I don' think it's been done before!!

Anyhoo, i have a few screenshots up in the Game Designers thread of a map in the tsecond version of Brendan's Magical Adventure as well Acid Adventures. I might be putting more up soon. I wish i had some from the first version, those were extremely impressive.

[Scorpian]

Rpgmaker..that sounds familiar....why?......JIN!
That's right! Our Jinny boy here made 2 demos based on the crew, specifically those of us who at one time Inhabited that festering boil ( though it wasn't always ) SU. Very funny..not as interactive as you'd like but I think he got the ZRO virus ( laziness ) there were 2 parts..funny stuff, maybe someday he'll rehost them for you GLC, you'd be impressed.


urrr....and that's it lol


CP:
KH2 ( oh great..OCD time for Jiminy's journal )