What's your favorite OMG moment of the series?

[Locke4God]

Good Moments Dan,

You know I'm glad that you brought up the Opera Scene,,,, because I read about it being sorta iconic, and then I played the game, but I think I just don't quite get it. It's sort of a whole, Optional isn't the right word, but kind of an incidental, doesn't really effect the plotline moment, so I've always wondered why it is held in such a high regard. Can you help explain? I think I'm missing something.

[Dan558]

Good Moments Dan,

You know I'm glad that you brought up the Opera Scene,,,, because I read about it being sorta iconic, and then I played the game, but I think I just don't quite get it. It's sort of a whole, Optional isn't the right word, but kind of an incidental, doesn't really effect the plotline moment, so I've always wondered why it is held in such a high regard. Can you help explain? I think I'm missing something.

It's probably more of just a preference thing. You're right, its not really crucial to the plot but I feel it was a nice "mini-game" (if you can call remembering 3-4 lines a game).

I like the music and how it was before full voice acting for games was even an option (being an old SNES game) they were able to pull it off so well. I actually like it better with the "muffled tones" for voices then some renditions I've seen of it fully voice acted. I'm not sure of that kinda thing was done in FF games before or any RPGs at that time. The improvising that Locke does is kinda funny and the first time I was able to screw with the lights/switches was funny too.
Lastly it introduces one of my all-time favorite characters; Setzer.

Overall, its not like a godly moment that changed gaming forever or anything but for me its one of the several great milestones or rather a fun juxtaposition within FFVI. So sometimes it may be overhyped but I still like it.

[Merlin]

**Spoilers**

Well clearly the first time I played FFVII, the death scene was a shell-shocker, so I won't even dwell on that one. Playing through FFIV had an OMG moment towards the end. One by one your party members sacrifice themselves for the cause, giving their lives to save the world. I'm OK with that and think it is epic. What I'm not OK with is at the end they all magically appear and go "PSYCH! We aren't really dead!!!" That wasn't an OMG moment, it was an OMGWTF?!?!?!? moment. The storyline was deep and engrossing, and the ending totally ruined the entire plot. Each death had meaning, ruined by them coming back from the dead(or fake death).

The Sazh suicide moment in FFXIII was a WTF moment for me. His death would have been an excellent climax for that part of the game and made for an interesting plot line. Having him show up right afterward unscathed ruined the mood and any possible angles that could have come from it. I could see if he DID shoot himself in the head but their medics kept him alive just to torture him... but this? No. It was such a wasted opportunity.

[Xanatos]

Other members have already mentioned several big ones, no need to repeat the same thing over, and over again.

Moment where you find out Zidane's true origin, fact that he's supposed to be a dark messenger, true angel of death. Destruction of Terra, Clerya...

Final Fantasy XII had it's fair share of OMG moments, Reddas's sacrifice for instance, though the biggest one in my opinion is the moment you find out Vayne's true motives, time I came to realize how different he really is from other villains in franchise.

The ones from Final Fantasy IV can be described with one sentence - "OMG" you're alive, how the hell did you survive that".

[Locke4God]

@ Xanatos - Good choices,

I wanted to ask you, I'm a little confused, having just finished 12, what Vayne's intentino really was. It seemed he did want to rid the world of the God's control, just like Cid, which would almost make him on the same side of the Heroes. But then he's attempting his own world domination along with that? I didnt' quite get it. Help me out.

[Xanatos]

As seen in game nethicite holds fearsome might, what Vayne had was artificially made nethicite from either Dusk, or Midlight Shard, which are only a fraction of Sun Cryst, power which even Gods themselves feared. Now imagine if Sun Cryst was in Vayne's possession. Dalmasca, and Nalbadia were crushed two years before the main events of Final Fantasy XII, time where Vayne got his hands on Midlight Shard, which resulted in creation of artificial nethicite, and Nabudis's doom.

Although Arcadia relied heavily on army, his father thought Larsa would be ideal choice as Archadia's new leader, as Larsa would solve conflicts in peaceful manner. Vayne south to protect Larsa, after all Larsa was the only brother Vayne spared when he decided to trim the competition. Instead he killed his own father which made him a new leader by default. With his new power he marched for the Sun Cryst, which was why Ocurians rushed Ashe to use the Sun Cryst to destroy Archadia. Ashe refused to use the Sun Cryst, Cid on the other hand didn't. Destruction of Sun Cryst ment freedom for people of Ivalice from clutches of Immortal Ocurians, as Bahamut was considered to be absolute power in world of Final Fantasy XII.

Unlike other villains in Final Fantasy franchise, Vayne didn't have a selfish goal. To acomplish his goal Vayne had to sacrifice far more than any other villain, but then again Vayne is not your standard, cliched villain.