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FFVII Advent Children Dated
Square Enix's CG movie based on Final Fantasy VII, Advent Children, has a U.S. release date. This comes after a long delay and the promise that the title would be out 'sometime in 2006. From the 1up.com article: "1UP is glad to inform you that the DVD and UMD will ship in the U.S. on April 25, 2006. So in case you haven't already downloaded the movie from the Internet (bad, pirates, bad!) and are looking forward to seeing this hour-and-a-half slice of CG Final Fantasy fan-service for yourself, you've roughly two months to go."
Hasn't this happened before? Someone wake me when they actually see it in a store...
I always have troubles with "Dated". Did it get a date with some girl or boy program? Is it archaic, sort of in the way Mary Poppins is "dated"? I realize it means that the thing has had a date set, but I always get the "has time period specific references" dated before I get "has had a date set" dated.
Does anybody else get this confusion?
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So in case you haven't already downloaded the movie from the Internet (bad, pirates, bad!)
Yeah, but had I not downloaded the movie I probably wouldn't have even cared to own it on DVD. A decent amount of the hype surrounding the American release is from all those who've already seen this incredible movie and are clueing their friends in on it.
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Advent Children is so last year.
"So in case you haven't already downloaded the movie from the Internet (bad, pirates, bad!).."
Oh please. I downloaded it, and watched it the day it was available online. Guess what? I'll be first in line to buy a copy when it comes out. Really, what do you think the % of people who will buy this haven't seen it already? I'd think it would at least be in the high 90s.
Anyhow this attitude pisses me off. Yes I download music, games, movies, and TV shows. Know what else? I also buy a crap load of music, games, movies, and TV seasons. Some of my downloading is to try before I buy, other times it's because I don't feel like ripping 10 gigs worth of CDs, and crap if you watch '24' or 'Lost' missing an episode is like having one of your fingers cut off.
I'm a FF fan. Thus I care.
Can all fish swim?
I've downloaded FFVII:AC and watched it multiple times. However, you can be damn sure I'll be first in line when this gets released in the US. Hell, it might even be my first UMD movie (only if packaged with the DVD).
As someone who contributes to the weekly subtitling of bleach, I care. Advent Children is high quality and a very good movie. Bleach is a good series, but this isn't about bleach. Just becuase YOU don't like FFVII dosen't mean it dosen't have value. As well, bleach is expected to soon suffer from a minor case of the 'Naruto Effect', that of which being a long period of filler away from the main plot, althogh in bleaches case creating a new subplot, but becuase everyone wants to know what happens with the Aizen saga, and the leader of the Gotei 13 simply saying 'We don't have to worry about it for a year' Is the same thing thats going on with naruto, and has cuased its ratings to drop so much and it's following to dry up.
I guess I'm alone in actually already buying it versus downloading it?
As a weekly watcher of the subs, I thank you.
The filler episodes, so far, have been alright. It will be more interesting after this week's 1 hour episode, when the rest of the people come back.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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Note to submitter: In English, saying something is "dated" usually means that it is out of date, i.e. obsolete.
Please don't take this the wrong way[1], but - why?
No, seriously, why? I mean, I liked them up until they hit the PlayStation, and then from there on out they stopped concentrating on gameplay and started concentrating on graphics. When they released the Final Fantasy movie and Final Fantasy Online, it became clear that they no longer cared about the series, only about making money off the fans.
I just don't get why people are still fans of the series.
[1] Sorry, I just had to link to that, it was too relevant to pass up.
I want an RPG where you don't have to wait during the fights. I want the action to be snappy. A spell doesn't need to last 10 seconds to be impressive.
For example a "blizzard" type spell doesn't need to have a "snow concentrates around the enemy" -effect before the giant glacier impales the wictim. Also, summon spell could be short like "in the old days" when Ramuh came to the battlefield, some lighting shot around the screen, Ramuh left. This took maybe 2 seconds.
Yes, "slow" powerful spells might look really cool, but they start to lose their charm when you've seen them 20 during this one boss fight. Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call has a pretty good battle system from what I've seen. Attacks last maybe a second, and it's all like "wham, bam, splat" and your party is done and it's time for the next round. I really don't need to see the hero running to the enemy, take a swing and run back. I'm willing to tolerate something like Cloud's Omnislash or Squall's Lionheart, as long as the attack does damage from beginning to end.
At least have "fast battles" as an option. And get rid of random encounters (and that's apparently what has happened with FFXII).
Yup, seen a "used" copy from Amazon... and because it was so good, I plan on getting it in UMD/DVD (and maybe even buy copies for other people) because I want to support their production.
I clicked on that real fast when my brain interpreted the headline as Advnet Children Dead!
But seeing as that's not the case, I say "Woo-Hoo!"
I really enjoyed that game. Probably as much as FF9. (Which I haven't finished)
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
Lol, that was extremely relevent :p
I've liked them since the beginning. I started with FF on my crappy nintendo. Then came 2, 3, etc. Yeah, the games have some weak points, but it doesn't bother me. FF9 was the last one I completed. X just hasn't held my interest very much. I haven't played X2 yet, XII I have absolutely no interest in.
Why do I like them? I don't know. Its probably because FF was the first game I fell in love with. Kinda like that first car that sucked ass, but you'll always love it.
Can all fish swim?
At least both Bleach and Naruto are still on the air, with the return to actual manga storyline in sight. Take Rurouni Kenshin, which went to fillers after about episode 60 (for 30+ more episodes). Those were so bad they ended up CANCELLING the anime entirely, ensuring that the last manga arc never got animated properly, and forcing the animators to do really weird OVA alternate endings.
I agree they didnt need all the characters to return, just to be able to launch Cloud up higher against Weapon.
Silly fanbois!
FFVII Advent Children > All other movies, fo sho and Fansubs ftw, fuck watching dubbed licensed shit, they ruin EVERY anime that gets dubbed in america.
I saw a fan-sub, and it was GREAT!!! Now for it in ENGLISH!!!! 10/10 for the Japanese version, and hopefully the English dub will reflect.
Cheers, DH.
I'm an FF fan. Thus I DON'T care.
This latest wash of sequals, re-releases (some of which were, admittedly, a good thing), and spinnoffs has me really pissed at Square. I love the Final Fantasy series. Call me a purist, but I'm not touching their cheesy spinnoff market. No balls, I tell you, they don't have the guts to make a game that will be judged by it's merrits alone, they have to have it be connected in someway to a previous game (not even designed to have a sequal). It's bad enough the whole series, of which there's very little connection, falls under the same umbrella title.
But seriously, I thought FFVI -> FFIX were all 5-star games, FFX was a bit of a dissapointment, and I'll have to get my hands on FFXII, but considering the crap that they've put out under the FF name in between X and XII, I think Square may have lost me.
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I don't want them to remove the wait in fights system, I hate the new fast ones where you have to button mash your way through the menus to get that powerfull spell 5 menus in, and I like long shiney attacks under summons and the like. If they ever were to remove that from the games I would stop playing them. I think they should make both options available and afaik they did so in FFX (might be my mind messing with me tho). And nooooo i love random encounters, why would you remove those? :,(
Well I'm all for having fast battles as an option, and maybe "show previously unseen moves the first n times, otherwise do not wait." Hell, throw in an option to show longer, more flashy moves for all I care.
As for random encounters: I hate it when I'm trying to explore some place, trying to find hidden bonuses and stuff and I have to fight some annoying little critter every 5 seconds.
And since fights are such a big part of RPGs, I want them to be snappy.
While I understand what you mean and I too have gotten rather annoyed at times when I ran around exloring a big places and I run into monsters all the time, I think the Random Encounters are vital to FF games and the way you play them and I would never wish them away.
In the newer games the have made No-Encounter abillities you can activate if you so desire anyways, so there is a way to get around it. For example the GF diablos in FFVIII has Half-Encounter and later No-Encounter and you can get weapons with these abillities in FX awswell (don't remember FFIX well enough to comment here though).
Heh, it sounds like you're just like me, loved the original Nintendo/Super Nintendo games, but got fed up with the PlayStation ones. Except that I just kinda got turned off on Final Fantasy all together, but you're still willing to give it a chance, which is fair enough. I do have to admit I've been getting all the rereleases for the GBA.