I assume most of us grew up with FF games, or at least has prior history with the series besides FFXIV...and I assume as well that most of us know how to trigger FF nostalgia.
So, for that purpose, and hopefully to help maybe entertain and/or inspire SE who seems to have lost their way with Final Fantasy, link a single youtube clip to illustrate what gives you FF nostalgia...not just for your favorite FF but the series as a whole...
I'll go first of course!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyCi-xdjNo
What IS Final Fantasy? (youtube addition)
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06-23-2011, 03:25 AMEinSofWhat IS Final Fantasy? (youtube addition)
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06-23-2011, 03:41 AMArchadius
SE has lost their way with FF because the man who created it is gone and started his own company called Mistwalker Studios.
Ever wonder why it all went downhill after the merger?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironobu_Sakaguchi
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06-23-2011, 03:44 AMEinSofQuote:
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06-23-2011, 03:49 AMWolfieAnd then he went on to make a bunch of mediocre, unmemorable games.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 03:51 AMArchadiusThe good ones were sadly kept "JP ONRY"... Like The Last Story.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 04:08 AMEvenstarLast Story will come to EU/NA later I thought, might be wrong.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 04:14 AMMaya_Fey
I really enjoyed the romance part of the older final fantasy's. Shame there's none now :/
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06-23-2011, 04:16 AMArchadiusIt was only rumour.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 04:16 AMJynxGod bless Sakaguchi but Lost Odysee failed hard because they didn't make the memories the main story. The main story of that game blew...and it blew hard.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 04:25 AMEinSofdisagree 100%...when the twins mom / kaim's daughter died i seriously shed a tear. no game has ever done that to me...so no, disagreed.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 04:34 AMReinheart
A lot has to do with the FF Spirits Within movie costing too much with tons of loss and Square-Soft merger with Enix becoming Square-Enix.
Once they became Square-Enix it started going downhill fast and hard because of key members leaving the company to start their own, or join other guys who left other companies to start new ones. -
06-23-2011, 04:38 AMEinSof
Hmmm...Rein I knew a guy on FFXI who had a char named reinheart back on the server fairy. ring a bell?
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06-23-2011, 04:50 AMSpeeralI know who you mean, wasn't me but I was on fairy server since NA release :PQuote:
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06-23-2011, 04:50 AMAlfortis
Sakaguchi, Numura, and Uematsu. They are like the dynamic trio of Final Fantasy. Though, i'm pretty sure some will debate saying that they like Akihiko Yoshida's art more than Numura.
Anyways, i'm sure if those three would have worked together and made this game it would have that Final Fantasy feeling to it. Unfortunately only Umeatsu did, which isn't bad since hes a great music composer. But only one of them cannot give it the final fantasy feeling (sakaguchi and uematsu almost had it in lost odyssey); its a strange connection those 3 have for this series and we will never see it again.
My personal theory is the dev team is having trouble giving it a final fantasy feeling because they are not using the ingredients and creative ideas that Sakaguchi and Numura use in their games. I'm pretty sure Tanaka and Yoshi-p don't sit around thinking "what would sakaguchi do..".
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06-23-2011, 04:54 AMReinheartThat's probably me... Hentai Ranger Redman (Subligarman)Quote:
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Started on Garuda, moved to Fairy and ended up in Hades.
Trance and I'm on FFXIV on Melmond server. -
06-23-2011, 04:59 AMEinSofhahaha. WAY back in the day...I remember Fairy's Reinhart was bilingual and I was part of first NA LS to do dynamis because we allied with a Japanese LS who basically used Rein to translate as we did it etc. the only downside was it was japanese prime time when it started so that was like 2am my time and would often fall asleep in the middle of it lol.Quote:
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edit: Rein does the phrase "mobius soft" have any meaning to you? -
06-23-2011, 05:05 AMReinheartlol mobiussoft is my own personal site, i used to run linkshell website on it with JP and NA pages on there.Quote:
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Knights of Vanadiel (Garuda) > Knights of Legion (Fairy) > then Lords of the Legions (Hades)
Which character names were you guys on Fairy server??
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06-23-2011, 05:08 AMEinSofI was Rodrik...a paladinI quit shortly after promathia came out because of the frustration of buying low level gear and having no space.. you made me a ftp hosting site way back in the day. :) "Knights of Legion" does sound very familiar...fond memories. You gotta remember me I always fell asleep in dynamis lol.Quote:
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I was a really good tank but also an asshole, couldn't put up with dumb people so my reputation suffered a bit...I remember being very impatient and such...I'm almost 24 now and wish I could go back and not quit... -
06-23-2011, 05:17 AMReinheartYep I remember your character name haha, good memories from back then. I think it was Shingo's LS we used to go together, dunno if you remember him.Quote:
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06-23-2011, 05:18 AMEinSofThat does sound familiar. I'm on lindblum here but have barely played since launch...highest i got is a 30 pug. :/ but thats cool...if u can dig up old pics that would be amazing id love to see them for nostalgia purposes :DQuote:
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06-23-2011, 05:36 AMEmdub
Greetings!
Unfortunately, this post is a bit off topic and will need to be closed. Please remember that this forum is intended for Final Fantasy XIV discussion!
Thank you for your understanding and apologies for any inconvenience.
-=Game Master Emdub=-