Phantasy Star 4 is indeed for the Genesis.
I think this scene was voted #1 because for so many people it’s just so memorable. Hell, go to any FFVII board and they’re STILL talking about it. I agree there are some better scenes out there, but this one seems to be the highest up controversial one.
Now I can’t wait for Sat to visit this thread to give us his Toriyama impression.
it’s a vibraphone, and I have the actual mp3 somewhere as well if you’d prefer to listen to that.
Phantasy Star IV was probably one of the best Genesis games out there… A bit on the easy side, but very fun.
Originally posted by Megaman984
Now I can’t wait for Sat to visit this thread to give us his Toriyama impression.
I have no idea what the hell you’re talking about, but so do I.
So what would YOU have had as the no1 gaming momemt ever?
Right off the top of my head, and probably very inaccurate.
1: The Beach Scene in MOH:AA
2: The Introduction of Safer Sephiroth (Coolest. Orchestral. EVER.)
3: Half the plot revelations from Soul Reaver 2
Originally posted by Evangelion
FF 7 was the first upgraded FF
That doesn’t even make a lick of sense, honestly. All the FF games “upgraded” from one to the next. If you think that going from 8 bits to 16 bits isn’t an “upgrade,” then you’re just silly.
And I don’t know the best gaming moment of all time, but Aeris’ death wasn’t it. It didn’t move me at all. It wasn’t surprising (and it wasn’t spoiled for me, either), it wasn’t a character that I particularly cared for, it was just… a death. You know?
I found it pretty hard to care about the FFVII characters. ALl were just a little too stereotypical to RG norms to make me give a damn whether they lived or died.
That said, I believe some RPG’s could be improved by character death that they didn’t include.
<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> Mario’s long and painful struggle to save Daisy, only to find out that she was in a different castle. Totally.
Originally posted by Megaman984
[b]Phantasy Star 4 is indeed for the Genesis.I think this scene was voted #1 because for so many people it’s just so memorable. Hell, go to any FFXII board and they’re STILL talking about it. I agree there are some better scenes out there, but this one seems to be the highest up controversial one.
Now I can’t wait for Sat to visit this thread to give us his Toriyama impression. [/b]
HOLY SHIT, they’re still talking about stuff in FF12? That game is like… non-existant! :mwahaha:
Kinda-related, FFXII has been announced. I can’t wait. But then, I never can.
Did you mean FFVII?
Another great scene; the Tentacle in half-Life, sounding you out, so that you had to crawl, an the slightest noise reulting in sharp death. Not a scene, but one hell of a set-piece.
I remember one scene I found pretty funny (since we’re talking about scenes) was during Lunar: Eternal Blue when Lemina and Jean were trying to get Lucia into a new outfit to hide herself. Some of the stuff they made her try on were just hillarious, not to mention the fact that Hiro and Ronfar were caught peeping on them… so they both got royally beat up by Jean and Lemina.
On the same game, I’m reminded of the scene where the party is about to enter Zophar’s Domain and in order to get in, they had to call the 4 dragons. Nothing spectacular about the scene itself, but the animation for a game at the time was spectacular.
(just so you all know, I’m talking about the Sega CD version of the game)
Ahhhh. The Sega CD. What a system. The forerunner of the Dreamcast, it shared the same fate. poor Sega.
Some game scenes can go far beyond what even some films can do. The first time you see Metal Gear Ray in a cutscene, jumping from between the two halfs of the crumbling tanker and just standing there on the sinking ship before flipping backwards, with the rain and the music and the glowing red eyes, that’s a scene that can grab you.
While I agree that FFVII’s scenes may be the best when the game was made, I personally don’t like the game as much as I do others in the series (particularly X, VI).
I have digital cable and on the Tech TV channel, there’s a show called X Play. It’s not that bad considering they actually show a lot of game footage and actually shoot the show in different places like E3.
We’re never gonna see the rest of the list, are we?
Not unless someone posts a list. Post, whoever has it!:moogle:
Still one of my favorite scenes.
FFIX had no scene that stood up. FFVIII had the coup in Garden scene, from getting back, to when it took off and flew away, missiles explding behind it. FFX had nothing except the bee-ootiful Lake FMV.
Originally posted by Cybercompost
That doesn’t even make a lick of sense, honestly. All the FF games “upgraded” from one to the next. If you think that going from 8 bits to 16 bits isn’t an “upgrade,” then you’re just silly.
Oh I’m so sorry, but yes it does make sense, at least to me I meant storyline wise, I guess you didn’t understand. FF7 with the whole Sephiroth theme from FF6’s blowing up the world by some psycho is indeed an upgrade. It’s more deep, the game play is more surreal. FF6 still had that cartoonish look, and FF7 became more 3D. The graphics and storyline seems to improve with each FF, no? (By improve I meant taken in a different direction). And I don’t even understand your last sentence because you’re basically agreeing with me anyways, I don’t know I don’t understand this bit shit.
Originally posted by Evangelion
Oh I’m so sorry, but yes it does make sense, at least to me I meant storyline wise, I guess you didn’t understand. FF7 with the whole Sephiroth theme from FF6’s blowing up the world by some psycho is indeed an upgrade. It’s more deep, the game play is more surreal. FF6 still had that cartoonish look, and FF7 became more 3D. The graphics and storyline seems to improve with each FF, no? (By improve I meant taken in a different direction). And I don’t even understand your last sentence because you’re basically agreeing with me anyways, I don’t know I don’t understand this bit shit.
The storyline in any FF game is always far from deep, and if you call FFVII surreal, you have no idea what surreal is. Final Fantasy games are meant to be fun, not Earth-shatteringly important or anything. And you know, the FFVI plot might have been overdone and cheesy, but at least the plot was COHERENT unlike FFVII. And FFVII was still pretty damned cartoonish, especially dealing with both weapon and body proportion.
You did not understand what I was saying, either. The prior games were upgraded as well. Final Fantasy one had next to NO plot. If you fast forward to Final Fantasy FFVI, you see a definate improvement in both aspects.
Note: I don’t hate FFVII- its one of my favorite Final Fantasy games. I just don’t see what is so… well… WORSHIPFUL… about it, that people seem to see.
The world is in a sorry state/One nations tries to conquer others.
Boy is thrown out/nearly killed/a rebel without a cause.
Boy meets girl
Boy + Girl slowly amass gang.
Gang discover ancient evil
[at some point here either character death or shady past revealed]
Gang beat ancient evil
Boy + Girl go home and life happily ever after.
The credits roll.
It is only deep in the amount of permutations on this theme there are that can fit in a swimming pool.*
Indeed, FFVII was an upgraded FF game… mainly only for it’s graphics though… I mean, look at the grapical difference between FF3 and FF4. Not a whole lot, but if you look at the grapical difference between FF6 and FF7, then you can notice it.
Still though, I’ve always found FFVII to be over-rated. Sure, it was a fun game, and yes, even worthy of the Legendary status, but I still think it is over-rated, mainly because a lot of what has been done in an RPG had already been done in previous ones.
Now Phantasy Star… there is a game that deserves legendary status… why I remember back in 1987 rambles on for an hour and that is what is wrong with our generation…
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Originally posted by Orakio
Indeed, FFVII was an upgraded FF game… mainly only for it’s graphics though… I mean, look at the grapical difference between FF3 and FF4. Not a whole lot, but if you look at the grapical difference between FF6 and FF7, then you can notice it.
Then why is it so hard to believe that FFIV was an upgrade of the Nintendo FFs?
And FFV and FFVI- there is a big difference between the two as well (mainly because FFV copied FFIV’s graphics almost completely).
