Is there some way we could get this page on our main site updated? http://ffhacktics.com/projects.php I mean, its nice that the links go to the newer forum properly but we do have more than just four things going on around here nowadays. >_>
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I saw a trailer for Final Fantasy Agito XIII this week, now renamed Final Fantasy Type-0, and I was almost pained by how little of a shit I give anymore. It was just another dreary, dark, pompously "epic" trailer with more boring orchestral score, more quasi-cyberpunk aesthetics, and more ludicrous costumes drenched with brooding depression.
I used to be all for that. I'm one of those vile creatures who came to the series through Final Fantasy VII -- a game that's now very cool to hate -- and so I have no problem with the less fantastical, more futuristic Final Fantasy games. However, Square Enix has just done so much of it in such a short space of time, and has completely saturated its market to the point where I just can't take anymore.
Square Enix is, essentially, the George Lucas of videogames. It can't leave well enough alone. Final Fantasy VII, which I still proudly believe is a fantastic game, has been systematically torn apart by Square Enix with unwarranted sequels, prequels, spin-offs and narrative rewrites, and now the entire game is just a waffling, overwrought mess. We had Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis,Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus, all of them adding more and more convoluted twists and turns to the series, with less and less respect for the audience.
Am I alone in thinking that it's just too much? A painter who cannot leave his work alone typically ends up with a canvas full of muddy brown shit, and that's Final Fantasy VII now. After retroactively introducing increasingly silly characters into the series, and bogging it down with grandiose, meaningless tripe, Square Enix has ruined the whole thing. Just like what Lucas did with Star Wars.
Then there are the names. Fabula Nova Crystalis, Versus XIII, Agito, Type 0 ... what does it mean!? What does any of this pretentious fucking shit mean!? The names alone turn me off, as they give a clear indication as to just how up-their-own-arse the games are going to be. Anybody who hides behind bastardized Latin, made-up words, or the pointless rearrangement of sentences in order to appear clever and "deep" is a complete and utter dick.
Remember when Final Fantasy was an event? A real treat? Each game was a self-contained story lasting hours and hours, and they only came along once every few years. They were special, and they meant something. Their stories began and ended in one epic sitting, and each one was distinct and always brought something new. Contrast that to now, where the main entries in the series can't be separated from the huge amount of spin-offs and remakes and fucking sub-sequels. Now the franchise is just a grey sludge, everything looking and sounding alike, and constantly in development with at least five games in production at any given time.
Final Fantasy is just a machine now. A lurching, thunderous behemoth, methodically plodding forward in perpetual drudgery, churning out the same foggy irrelevance over and over again.
So when I see a trailer for Agito, or Type 0, or whatever inflated, grandiloquent name it's given itself this week, I can't even muster the strength to roll my eyes anymore. I already know what it's going to be like, because Square Enix seems incapable of pushing itself in any area other than graphics anymore. The game dialog is going to be a repeated stream of made-up words and brooding characters who have to learn to share their hearts, the graphics are going to be the same pseudo-futuristic stuff that we've seen already, and the gameplay will be another old idea re-purposed to look new, but will likely just be less interesting.
Maybe it was always like that? Maybe I've just gotten used to it due to the overexposure? All I know is I've had enough. It's too much now. And it's not just a case of too much. It's too much, too soon, too clumped together, and too histrionic. Square Enix has officially lost the plot, and I've lost all interest.
Quote from: Website"This is an early build of the original FDS version of Zelda, complete with different room layouts, sprite changes, new music, and odd glitches. As a lot of you guys know, it's very unusual for first party prototypes like this to make their way out to the public, so this is quite a find."
Quote from: CeldiaWith this patch I have consolidated and reorganized all of the slots under the Inflict Statuses tab in FFTPatcher, freeing up a total of 51 status slots from the original 13 I think it was. This is intended to be applied to a clean ISO before doing any editing so its great for anyone looking to start a new project (and less so for anything already in the works, sadly.) In addition to freeing up the extra slots, everything is reorganized so they're not all spread out around the list. 00-4C are being used for the pre-existing inflict statuses while 4D-7F are empty for use. Please feel free to make use of this patch however you like. A complete list of the reorganized statuses is in the spoiler below.
00 - Nothing
01 - Can: Poison
02 - Can: Darkness
03 - Can: Silence
04 - Can: Frog
05 - Can: Petrify
06 - Can: Undead, Blood Suck
07 - Can: Petr, Dark, Conf, Sil, Oil, Frog, Poi, Sleep
08 - Can: Dead
09 - AoN: Darkness
0A - AoN: Silence
0B - AoN: Death Sentence
0C - AoN: Sleep
0D - AoN: Don't Act
0E - AoN: Don't Move
0F - AoN: Frog
10 - AoN: Slow
11 - AoN: Poison
12 - AoN: Faith
13 - AoN: Confusion
14 - AoN: Charm
15 - AoN: Innocent
16 - Can: Darkness, Silence, Oil, Frog, Poison, Slow, Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act
17 - Can: Death Sentence
18 - AoN: Reraise
19 - AoN: Regen
1A - AoN: Protect
1B - AoN: Shell
1C - AoN: Protect, Shell
1D - Can: Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Berserk, Frog, Poison, Sleep, Don't Move, Don't Act
1E - AoN: Frog
1F - AoN: Dead
20 - AoN: Haste
21 - AoN: Stop
22 - AoN: Float
23 - AoN: Reflect
24 - AoN: Undead
25 - AoN: Berserk
26 - Can: Float, Reraise, Transparent, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste, Faith, Reflect
27 - AoN: Petrify
28 - Ran: Reraise, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste
29 - Ran: Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Frog, Poison, Slow, Stop, Sleep
2A - AoN: Invite
2B - Can: Petrify, Oil, Poison, Stop
2C - Ran: Confusion, Death Sentence
2D - AoN: Regen, Haste
2E - Can: Darkness, Silence, Poison
2F - Can: Petrify, Confusion, Silence, Blood Suck, Frog, Poison, Stop, Sleep, Don't Move, Don't Act
30 - AoN: Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act
31 - Ran: Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Frog, Poison, Slow, Sleep
32 - Ran: Sleep, Death Sentence
33 - AoN: Blood Suck
34 - Sep: Darkness
35 - Sep: Poison
36 - Sep: Oil
37 - Sep: Undead
38 - Sep: Dead
39 - Sep: Petrify
3A - AoN: Reriase, Regen, Protect, Shell, Haste
3B - Can: Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Oil, Berserk, Frog, Poison, Stop, Sleep, Don't Move, Don't Act
3C - Ran: Dead, Petrify, Stop
3D - AoN: Crystal
3E - Can: Petrify, Darkness, Silence, Poison, Stop, Don't Move, Don't Act
3F - AoN: Oil
40 - Ran: Petrify, Stop
41 - Ran: Confusion, Berserk
42 - Ran: Confusion, Sleep
43 - Sep: Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Oil, Frog, Poison, Sleep
44 - Sep: Petrify, Darkness, Confusion, Silence, Berserk, Frog, Poison, Slow, Sleep
45 - Sep: Blood Suck
46 - Ran: Petrify, Darkness, Silence, Don't Move, Don't Act
47 - AoN: Frog, Poison
48 - Sep: Stop
49 - Sep: Death Sentence
4A - Sep: Silence
4B - Sep: Confusion
4C - Sep: Dead, Sleep
4D-7F: Empty For Use
QuoteAlso attached this time is a version of CCP with the No Music ASM applied for people that want to make videos of the patch or stream it and would rather have their own music playing.
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