Disc 2 starts off inauspiciously as our heroes have been imprisoned by the nefarious Sorceress! What horrors await them at the not-so-tender mercies of Seifer and his electric bed? Is there any hope of rescue from this mobile, subterranean prison, or will its anti-magic field spell doom?
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Oddly enough, the most amusing thing in this video to me is that Dr. Insano apparently thinks we’ll be fooled into thinking one of those $5 BookLight things is a “neuralizer”.
Kiros also has an Adam's apple in the head concept image, but I got confused too
Oh! FREE DONGLY THING!
Poor lonely Dr. Insano. :(
I wonder if I'm just being stupid, which I usually get jarred for my speculation based on the info I get from Spoony's review of FF8, but doesn't the bartender from the town Laguna and Kiros meet up at look like the girl Laguna hug at the end? I'm not sure what to call her, since Spoony said he got her name from in the commentary, but she's got the same sweater and yellow headband. If you don't know who I'm talking about, she's on screen at 4:24 minutes in in Part 9.
If someone else knows this already, or I'm a retard and that's her clone or something, don't yell at me too bad. o~o
Awesome T-shirt! did you make that on your own?
So fun to hear the Spoon rip on FF8. I so wanted to like it after playing FF6 and 7 that i fooled myself thinking it was probably getting better ALL THE WAY until the last boss tower. Then, when i understood that it was the last boss, and FUBAR i quit, and am proud to say, i have never finished the game.
I managed to get fooled again by FFX(that managed to suck even harder than 8), and FF9. And now, probably FF12 since teh spoon said it was good…1 hour in it and it look like a MMO
The FF series started off making me like games, and now have made me hate games….i dont like RPG games anymore…
I keep dusting off my psx when i feel for some nostalgia and quality with Xenogears, chrono trigger, FF6 & 7. Since im so tired of the medicore half assed stuff their dishing out
what was Squall thinking, hmm should i put Rhona in charge she lead a rebel group and could plan fairly well? or Quistis who has a lot of academic knowledge and intelligence? or Selphie who…… um….. is Selphie…….. yup i'll put selphie in charge
They really were making this up as they went along.
I can't remember any of this, and I nearly completed the game. THAT is how bored I was. How some people can love this game above all else is far out of my understanding…
I'd rather play FF12 over this, as well, it's a GOOD Final Fantasy game! This just relied on a Gun Blade wielding-Emo to carry players through the game. Oh, scratch that, I'd rather go spend $8 on a game at Freecraigslistads, at least that's going to a good cause and is worth my time.
I especially loved the part of the game when Squall was getting shocked by Seifer, sure he can get weak from that, but dragons biting his head don't hurt at all…
Spoony's gasming porn noises over the unintentional blowjob should NOT be hot…
Thats Raine, the woman who is married to Laguna at the end (and whose name is at the tombstone in the ending video).
My theory for the phoenix down/revive/Aeris-is-dead thing is that the restorative magic and items in the games work because the characters are only knocked out. As they are still alive, only unconscious, such items “revive” them. Kind of like how defibrillators are used in some FPS games. Since Aeris is quite definitely dead, fuck phoenix downs, just bury the bitch.
HOLY SHIT CATAPILLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cmon final fantasy 8 is a good game it was the 90's lots of games didnt make sense. you could scrutumise every game about these stupid details, you just ignoren them. for what ive seen uptill now there are still no good arguments to hate this game onjly little things like for excample the drill prison, the complexity of the junctioning system which you get used at pretty soon, the magic drawing which you can get by drawin from monsters or the thing you did not mention the draw points wich are all over the game ! I had never had aany problems with collecting magic the rarest ofc. were the hardest to collect what is normal …
so if you hate the game then I think your one of the few people …..
I borrowed a copy of FFVIII from a friend to try it for myself, and I wasted hours drawing so many spells. Any system that means you have to bend over and get wailed on by monsters while cooing “Thank you sir, may I please have another?” just so you can get a few poxy spells is not a good system. Yes, the card refinement system makes it easier, not that the game ever tells you that; I had to look that up, and even then it was Draw and Draw and Draw and apply directly to the forehead and Draw and Draw
Also, using the “it was the 90's lots of games didnt make sense” argument is weak, considering you had games like the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentacle and even FFVI that had great plotlines that were also released around this time. VIII was released in the late 90's, so if anything, it should have started making MORE sense as we prepared to enter the new millennium. Game stories started improving before VIII came out, so there's no excuse for its plot to be riddled with errors.
I dislike the game not just because it's bad, but because it could have been really good.
you shouldv mentioned in a review you could get magiv from the blue draw points on the floor though, there are many and for me it was the only way I got so many magic before I also descovered I could draw magic from cards and stuff :D .
but you do said many things that were true. in fact most things you said were true but that doesnt mean you are right. It just annoyed me that you went in every little detail (cause really if you wouldv sum up all the errors and faults in the game you would spend a week on it) like the building form of the prison, the blade with a gun on it, the weapon of Rinoa , …. and when I watched the review about final fantasy x (which I have not played yet) you started to rage about the fact that water came from no where and you could live in it and play with a voleyball in it. its fantasy you jsut accept it. what if I started scrutumizing every detail of games like tekken where some characters do abnormal attacks and start asking “how did they do that? what planet are they from ?” or in prince of persia “how can he make structures out of memories ? how can he become stronger from onloy a medailion” it doesnt make sense but you just accept it.
Ah, Wargames and Blues Brothers in the same review. Priceless.
Ah, Wargames and Blues Brothers in the same review. Priceless.
Suspension of disbelief. The more one can properly explain something, the better one can suspend their disbelief.
Both Final Fantasy 8 and 10 suffered from a lack of appropriate explanation in any form, including discussions with every unimportant NPCs, looking at all unimportant items and checking everything one could.
Star Ocean 3 curiously explains everything, in an optional manner through the Dictionary and in such a way, became one of the more developed game universe I’ve come to know on a console and left me generally without any question… Save of course for the plot twist, but that falls back unto the three key characters whose powers attained within their world would theoretically function within any other world as the other worlds would still follow the rules of said magical powers which in other words could be considered similarily to an alchemical equation that works whether simulated or realized in reality, which in turn… You know what, this isn’t something I need to think about at 2AM.
But needless to say, FF8 had quite a lot of flaws, and he doesn’t always just nitpick, many things are indeed rather senseless.
Something I enjoy from old school RPGs… At least things made more sense and the characters seemed less dunce.
Always love a good war games reference
At least someone found a good use for the Phantom Menace. I forgot how hilarious that part was in this video. Right in the middle of the vicious epic fight it switches to music of complete serenity.
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