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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
#62Fans 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…
5 and 3 in front of 4 and 6 is an unusual take.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#63Lovely 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 wish more brands interacted with their audience in this human-like, friendly banter, playful sort of way And I’m sure brands wish they could do it without fear of being misinterpreted and causing a litany of issues for what amounted to a well meaning joke. No one wants to be the social media person that causes trouble for the company (and thus themselves) for being a bit too friendly to an unreasonable entitled p…
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Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#64Viz in the UK had a long-running single frame comic called “rude kid” depicting a mother asking her son to do something and his response was some variation of “bollocks” or “fuck off.” https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e8c819a630d1523&hl=en... Went on for years and for all I know still continues today.
FF8 is a WEIRD game. It also was my introduction to the depth of power publishers have over the game review "independent" press.
FF8 was universally lauded by the major sites as the best JRPG since sliced bread. In reality it had an unlikeable lead character, an absolutely bizarre plot with time flashbacks that were totally nonsensical, the main party was composed of thoroughly unlikable teenagers, the plot twists about their shared mother was just dropped out of nowhere, the game mechanics required you to "junction" to a summon spirit to get things out of your backpack, leveling up was actually a bad thing, and ... just so much more. Cards. Draw grinding. Gunblades.
This VERY LONG review perfectly tears it apart, but, uh, warning it has epiteths like "fag" and others that date it to the teenage slang of the late 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTkY0IFL1g
I think he may have rereleased this at some point and cleaned it up of the unfortunate language.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#65Fans 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…
No love for FFI or FFII? Guess it's time I dig out the ol' emulator again and re-read 8-bit theater... https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-goi...
I was one of the few people that bought Final Fantasy on Nintendo when it came out, well before the series was established. At the time it was great—and II was fine—but III really pushed the class system forward in a way that really defined all the games that came after.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#66Fans 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…
5 and 3 in front of 4 and 6 is an unusual take.
Insanely good class systems making for much better gameplay and replayability
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#67Fans 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…
What puts 3 ahead of 4 and 6 for you?
Honestly just the complex class system and replayability. 4 and 6 are good in their own right, especially for story and music.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#68Fans 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…
Yay, love the Chrono Trigger in the top 3. People always bring it up, either to say they love it or that it's overrated. It is not overrated! its correctly rated, it really is that good. FFVII was great but it is an interesting contrast to games like FFVI / Chrono Trigger. The SNES games came out at the end of their console's lives and made the absolute most of what the hardware had to offer. FFVII was early-ish in t…
Yeah, it’s hard to argue with the production value of Chrono Trigger. I debated putting it agead of VII, but the scope of that game is just too big. The story is more interesting, and the materia system is better than the combo system (imo).
Surprisingly no one complains about Tactics or CT being on the list, but they are really amazing even if they’re not “true” FF games.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#69Since 1995, Private Eye magazine has regularly run a picture of Andrew Neil wearing a baseball cap and vest, in the company of a younger woman, which he was supposed to find embarrassing. A long-running letters page joke is finding spurious reasons to reprint it. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/blog/?m=201101
Great Stuff Guys! But I worry the concept of a long-running gag may be lost on today’s youth.
If you had some way to illustrate an aging joke, possibly situated near to something much younger (for comparison) I would be deeply obliged if you could print it on page 94 of your organ.
Re: A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
#70Lovely 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…
Didn't the Wendy's Twitter account do that. Then the copy cat's were a little to try hard. Maybe I'm mis remembering.