On Dec 22, 1:40�pm, "E. Liddell"
wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:54:27 -0800, sephigirl wrote:
>> On Nov 25, 6:17pm, "E. Liddell"
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:34:00 -0800, spam wrote:
>>>> On Nov 20, 12:06 pm, sephigirl
yahoo.com> wrote:>>>>> On Nov 19, 4:31 pm, s...@
deathquaker.org wrote:> On Nov 19, 1:09 pm, sephigirl
yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>>>>>> On Nov 18, 10:02 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>>>>> wrote:
>
>>> [snipping to address a few odd individual points]
>
>>>>> I don't have to befriend Hades; any character can use him;
>>>>> I don't have to level up all his many, many skills. There he is, he
>>>>> does normal step leveling and that's it.
>
>>>> I am assuming this refers to some other FF game where you have to
>>>> level up your summons? That *is* ridiculous.
>
>>> I think that was FFVIII (also X, to some extent, although you could
>>> safely ignore it there). XII I'm not sure about--I beat the game
>>> without using the summons more times than I could count on my hands.
>
>> Yes, FF VIII - you have to choose which attribute for your summons yu
>> want to strengthen and once that's done, you move to another
>> attribute. �Also, with FFVIII, I hated the idea that some summons were
>> more for one character than another. �
>
> They were? �I never noticed. �Honestly. �It's true that some *combinations*
> of summons worked better, but it never seemed to matter what character I
> placed them on. �(Of course, my "Universal Tank" playing style may have
> had something to do with that . . .)
Yeah - in the game guide, they mentioned something to the fact that
certain summons would grow/do better when attached to certain
characters. Granted, that's not true in VII, but I love to give Hades
to Tifa. Destructo-girl.
>
>>I also felt the summons battles
>> were tough, esp. for early in the game. �But that's me.
>
>
But if you wanted to get any of the summons . . . you had to battle
them. And that damned Cerberus - I could never win, never! To win
the final battle, I think you need his special skills, plus other
summons' skills.
>
>> >
>>> BTW, Katherine, I think I finally figured out what Koyasu Takehito's
>>> doing this season: voicing the title character in "Majin Tantei
>>> Nougami Neuro", a demon who eats mysteries (and uses a high school
>>> girl as a blind to deflect people's attention from him). I'm 90%% sure
>>> it's got to be Koyasu--no other seiyuu I can think of can switch
>>> between silly and serious that way.
>
>> Looked it up - yes Koyasu is the voice. �And, wow, the character is so
>> not attractive.
>
> What, you don't like the bright blue suit and the weird things dangling
> from his hair?
I miss his pretty period - Touga, Aya, Zechs, Hotohori . . . I don't
like his wierd period - Betterman, Faust . . .
>
> ...
>
> Neither do I, really. �He only manages to look halfway attractive when
> he's striking a certain kind of smug pose. �Still better than a certain
> villainous starfish from Final Fantasy: �Unlimited. �;P
Oh God! Poor Koyasu! You know he signed the dotted line, thinking,
"oh yes, I'm going to be a part of the Final Fantasy legacy." Then he
saw his character . . . And started drinking.
>
> (The currently-running anime season is a little disappointing overall.
> Only three really good shows--a comedy, a drama about shougi (Japanese
> chess), and a holdover from last season. �The rest of what I've sampled is
> little more than brain candy, alas. �No decent dark-supernatural or high
> fantasy that I've found yet. �Certainly nothing on the level of Utena,
> Escaflowne, or Noein, but then you only get one of those every few years . . .)
>
I'm so behind in current anime . . . InuYasha is so freaking' long!
It takes up my time when I do watch anime!
>
>> Even so, my purpose in ths world is make Koyasu's monthly house
>> payments by all the stuff I purchase that is related to anything he
>> does . � . . �^_^
>
> Heh. �Personally, I think that Hayami Sho is a better seiyuu, although
> Koyasu ranks a close second. �And Koyasu-dono is certainly more prolific.
Jiras' mom loves Sho's voice. To me, Koyasu speaks so clearly that I
understand what little Japanese I still remember. His voice is so
clear -- as a fellow actor, I really admire him.
>
>
>> >
>
>> E., Are you mocking my beloved Seymour? �I'll never play X most
>> likely, but I have his doll (normal, sexy Seymour, not morphed
>> Seymour) and I have this wonderful HK sub of just the movie bits from
>> FFX - and I love his seiyuu's voice. �And I *love* the way he's so
>> into Yuna (the clueless wonder). �Villain/scmillian - he just needs
>> love. �^__^ �I started a fanfic based on his youth and what caused him
>> to be the way he is now. �My poor sexy boy with the nerd name.
>
> I think my problem with Seymour stems mostly from the fact that his
> English-language VA makes him sound like he's perpetually stoned (and
> has *way* too high-pitched a voice to begin with.) �I really wish they'd
> offered the option of playing through FFX with the original voice track
> and subtitles (heck, they had the subtitles already, so it would just
> have been a matter of adding a second voice track and a menu option . . .),
> since *all* of the voices struck me as substandard in places.
I don't get it myself. I mean Disgaea does that - with JP voices and
subtitles (Koyasu *and* Hikaru). I'm terrifed to actually play thru
Kingdom Hearts because I'll hear LANCE BASS as Sephiroth! Good gawd
almighty - an N'Sync boy voicing such a cool character!
>
>>
>> No, no if FF VIII - your first mission - you'll get demerits for chit
>> chatting - it's either stated by my oh-so-sexy Seifer in the game, or
>> it was in the guide. �Can't remember after all these years . . .
>
> Mmph. �That would explain why I didn't remember it--I never worried much
> about the SeeD ranking I got out of that stupid mission, since the
> multiple-choice tests to advance were set up in such a way that you
> couldn't really fail them.
Heh - I cheated anyway and took them out of the book.
>
> After all, it isn't necessary to play these games perfectly to win them.
>
>>>> As for complex leveling, it depends on how well the leveling system is
>>>> designed, and how well explained it is. I like to customize my
>>>> characters as I level up, but it shouldn't be a chore.
I prefer the old-fashioned FF VII method - I have Tifa do a lot of
fighting, I have Red use a lotta' magic . . . that sort of thing. I
want my characters interchangeable actually.
>
>
>> Anj is almost done with XII - she had no problem leveling up and
>> filling up her nodes. �I was so incredibly frustrated, I just put the
>> game away to collect dust. �I love Vayne so much, but �. . .
>
> I'm not sure I would class it as *difficult*, exactly, but that game
> did have a lot of frustrating aspects, IMHO, mostly having to do with
> either the weapons/armour half of the advancement grid, or the gambit
> system, which was neither very well thought out nor very well-documented.
> I found that the easiest way out was to first, pick a main party (in my
> case, Bathier, Basch, and Ashe) and not bother trying to level any
> other characters, and second, collect enough experience to fill out
> someone's grid (specifically, in my case, Balthier's) completely. �I don't
> know how many hours I spent running around that stupid mine with Larsa
> tagging along after me, picking up EXP because there was a @#$%%^ hunt
> mark sitting across the path to the next boss and I wasn't strong enough
> to kill it . . . The other two tricks are to fill as many of your gambit
> slots as possible with healing spells/items, and have your main character
> use a distance weapon so that you can have him circle around the edges of
> boss fights and regain MP. �It worked well enough--I finished the game and
> most (I don't think quite all) of the optional Clan Hunt sidequests, and
> collected more than half of the bloody useless espers.
Too hard . . . too hard! ^__^ Another game I own and will never
play. Btw - off topic - I found a disturbing fan-art of Larsa over
Vayne, 1/2 naked with knives. Of course I kept the image, even if it
was disturbing. ^_^
>
>> Now - in March - CRISIS CORE! �*fangirl swooning possible* �Zackie,
>> Sephi (before he went bye bye) . . . � Will buy PSP when the game's
>> released -- cannot wait!
>
> Heh. �Did you ever get Dirge of Cerberus?
Yes. Laughing over Vincent's hoarse, wine-soaked voice. I can barely
survive the tutorial, so will see if I try the game. Shoot 'em up
games aren't my thing. But if there's a chance I can shoot
Yuffie . . . I'm there!
>
> E. Liddell, and her endless game of Dwarf Fortress. �Oh, well, at least
> I'm almost finished the Lunar fic.
Yeh!
I need to write *some*thing - real, fanfic, anything! The
imagination's churning out ideas, but . . . Send your Muse over
would you? Wait, when he's here, I really don't get any writing
done . . . Never mind.
~Katherine
