Space?!

[Fantasia]

There's a character in FFX-2 named Shinra, who's descendants go on to develop space travel, and then find the planet of FFVII. The 'humans' in FFVII are really descendants of this Al-Bhed child. The Cetra were the original inhabitants on the planet before the Al-Bhed came. Jenova arrives on the planet only a while before the Al-Bhed, so the Jenova crisis was avoided. That's why the Cetra died out, but the Al-Bhed still lived. Also, the Al-Bhed then go on to found Midgar and the Shinra corp. That's why it's named "Shinra".

I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Some people really do grasp at straws...
I'm pretty sure Shinra is just a name they used to reference FFVII, since it's the highest selling FF game to date. It's tantamount to saying that every Cid in every FF game is actually the same person, who has somehow manipulated time and space, along with his physical appearance, so that he can be in every game.


Edit: Not to mention that the reason the company was called "SHINRA" was due to the president's name... Rufus Shinra

[Cedri]

I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Some people really do grasp at straws...
I'm pretty sure Shinra is just a name they used to reference FFVII, since it's the highest selling FF game to date. It's tantamount to saying that every Cid in every FF game is actually the same person, who has somehow manipulated time and space, along with his physical appearance, so that he can be in every game.

It just sounded like fan fiction to me. Calm your chocobos bro XD

[Lady]

I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Some people really do grasp at straws...

Haven't been around the forums long I take it...

[Fantasia]

It just sounded like fan fiction to me. Calm your chocobos bro XD

Haha, I know! Sorry, I'm easily wound up about stuff like this xD They're separate games, leave it be!

[Seirra_Lanzce]

I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Some people really do grasp at straws...
I'm pretty sure Shinra is just a name they used to reference FFVII, since it's the highest selling FF game to date. It's tantamount to saying that every Cid in every FF game is actually the same person, who has somehow manipulated time and space, along with his physical appearance, so that he can be in every game.


Edit: Not to mention that the reason the company was called "SHINRA" was due to the president's name... Rufus Shinra

Actually in the FF Ultimania, it's already been confirm that FFX-2 Shinra is indeed the Shinra of FFVII

[Fantasia]

Actually in the FF Ultimania, it's already been confirm that FFX-2 Shinra is indeed the Shinra of FFVII

Ignorance is bliss, I do and forever will deny any link between any FF worlds which aren't definite! Stubborn? Maybe... But in my head it ruins a lot of stuff.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Ignorance is bliss, I do and forever will deny any link between any FF worlds which aren't definite! Stubborn? Maybe... But in my head it ruins a lot of stuff.

Suite your self when Dev them self confirms it in old article interviews.

[Pwnagraphic]

I like fantasy aspect of sword and sorcery. THe airships and Majitek don't bother me, but if they allowed you to fly into space somehow, I'd probably stop playing. I mean, some sort of magic ports us to some planet or asteroid then I could do that, but flying into space via majitek or airships would kill it for me.

[Fantasia]

Suite your self when Dev them self confirms it in old article interviews.

Bleh, I looked it up... I apologise for my outburst but I still thoroughly HATE this! It seems like they just desperately tried to make some link for a reason that I cannot tell... fricking pain!

From Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega:

"Shinra is a boy who supports the Gullwings, the group which the main protagonist, Yuna, belongs to. He carries a name that gives him an association to the Shin-Ra Company, and he is researching a method that could utilize the energy of "the life force that flows through our planet." The results of this cannot be seen in FFX-2, but maybe one day his descendants will establish a "company that supplies the energy of the planet"?"

In the Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania Kazushige Nojima said the following:

"After quitting the Gullwings, Shinra received enormous financial support from Rin, and began trying to use Vegnagun to siphon Mako Energy from the Farplane. But, he is unable to complete the system for utilizing this energy in his generation, and in the future, when traveling to distant planets becomes possible, the Shin-Ra Company is founded on another world, or something like that....... That would happen about 1000 years after this story, I think."

I was wrong - blah blah blah
I'm sorry - blah blah blah
I still hate this with a passion - blah blah blah

And I'm sorry for taking this thread off topic... If it's any help, I don't wanna go to space in XIV! =D

[Hulan]

I'm sorry, but this has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Some people really do grasp at straws...
I'm pretty sure Shinra is just a name they used to reference FFVII, since it's the highest selling FF game to date. It's tantamount to saying that every Cid in every FF game is actually the same person, who has somehow manipulated time and space, along with his physical appearance, so that he can be in every game.


Edit: Not to mention that the reason the company was called "SHINRA" was due to the president's name... Rufus Shinra

There are, apparently, some pretty convoluted and long winded explanations about how FFX-2 and FFVII are actually in the same universe. Personally I don't ascribe to any of them, but you would be surprised how hard some people have looked for the "missing link".

As for space.... It doesn't really fit the tone of the game. It could be done, with care, but I'm skeptical. It would have to be something like FFXI, where you can teleport to a ancient Allag space station without using actual space travel (it would be too hard to shoe-horn it into the world as things stand).