Hilarious! Trolling is definitely a art.
A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
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Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#42The gag with the spine art reminds me of this (video boxed sets of the series Monk): https://trout.me.uk/monk.jpg
Whats the problem? Just turn the last one round.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#43Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…
Tactics Advance is a good time as well, if you enjoyed Tactics. Different in some ways, but similar mechanically
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#44Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…
Tactics Advance is a good time as well, if you enjoyed Tactics. Different in some ways, but similar mechanically
My favorite! A2 after it, maybe. But Advance is highly underrated.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#45The fact that the website this comes from is "ff8isthe.best" makes this so much better. I love hyper-specific websites. Also, I love documentation on these obscure things from times passed. I'm not sure where else I would have ran into this, but I appreciate the author for writing this kind of thing down.
This was what the Internet made beautiful for a time, international access to hyper-specific deep sites on highly specific topics. Instead we get 9000 identical sites regurgitating the same identical garbage; I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction…
This is part of why I miss BBSes.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#46Laughed out loud. And FWIW loved Final Fantasy VIII. More then VII. The soundtrack was fantastic, I used to have an imported full orchestral arrangement that was in heavy rotation in my tweens.
Yeah I think FFVIII hit this really artistic note in a way that very few other games were able to at the time. I get that might not be everyone's cup of tea but it remains one of my favourite FF games.
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#47Love the ending. I’ll not spoil it.
I enjoyed the article as is, but that ending really sealed it. Brilliant.
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#48Lovely story. Wouldn't call this taunting a hater at all, if I had to guess I would say that the person was happy that the magazine acknowledged him and created an inside joke together with him. This is how you make super fans for your brand. I wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way, instead of the sterile corporate happy-speak as if the reply is a way…
I think this sort of thing is much harder to do in the modern digital world. It’s one thing when it’s one-way, magazine -> audience, and the current edition is off of newsstands in a month or two. Once you throw in forums and social media then the public gets to shape the narrative.
The fun police have much more of a platform these days. Back when they were just writing letters to the editor their screaming was lost to the void. These days it gets amplified by the algorithm and may be latched onto by the most insufferable people who have an axe to grind or just crave attention.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#49Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists. Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Her…
Tactics Advance is a good time as well, if you enjoyed Tactics. Different in some ways, but similar mechanically
Advance was simplified a bit and slightly less janky, but the AI in the original FFT is superb. I find the original FFT more interesting on a revisit, at least until you unlock Calculators/Arithmeticians and break the game. It does have one of the more egregious fist mission bumps[1] though.
[1] Tactics games often have a very easy tutorial mission, then drop you off in a first or second mission with an enormous difficulty bump. Sometimes even having a reverse difficulty curve, where the challenge spikes hard in the first mission, then slowly declines over the rest of the game.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was what the Internet made beautiful for a time, international access to hyper-specific deep sites on highly specific topics. Instead we get 9000 identical sites regurgitating the same identical garbage; I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction…
> I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it). You can find plenty of that as content, it just exists on platforms rather than individual si…
Not the same, it's much harder to watch video content than content you can read.
I don't have time to spend 30 minutes watching some in-depth video essay on a game, but I can read someone's blog for 5 minutes that hits all the relevant points.