Final Fantasy not for intelligent/mature people
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Hello all.
As someone who has played through and beaten multiples times (for different endings, and to get items and secrets I missed the first time around, or to play with different characters) all of the Final Fantasy games starting with the original NES one up to FFVII on the PS (at which point I stopped), I have a few words. My comments will probably be unpopular and modded down, but be that as it may, what I have to say needs to be said.
In short, these games are not intellectually stimulating or satisfying, and most-certainly not for intelligent people. Regular enemies are too easy to defeat and when you do unfortunately sometimes suffer heavy damages, it is all too easy to heal. Beating any boss usually only involves casting your most powerful attack and heal spells over and over again, and using a magic-replenishing item when you've run out. Every now and then you get a boss or enemy that maybe only a certain kind of magic works well on, or you can only attack a certain part of the enemy, but you can discover this information very quickly and easily and then go back to the usual spell-casting and healing routine until it dies.
The stories are also pretty weak, compared to something like Lord of the Rings! I feel I need not even defend my position on this issue!
After buying and beating tons of these games, I finally came to the realization that they are a complete waste of time and money. Well, unless you actual are dumb enough to find these games challenging. (Well, Final Fantasy 1 on the NES was pretty challenging if you didn't spend lots of time with mindless level-upping but instead only fought enemies you met naturally in achieving your objectives. But newer Final Fantasy's balance things much better so that your levels progress at a decent rate in the natural course of play.]
Read real fantasy fiction if you want a great story, like Lord of the Rings! If you want combat with real tactics, I can at least say that StarCraft against an intelligent human involves a great deal of intelligence and tactical thinking to win, not just mindless level-building, spell-casting, and healing. (The regular campaigns are pretty weak and easy, however, and the story is also really lame. So again, read books if you want a real story.
Do the Berlin people need to make all new graphics card drivers, or can they use the existing XFree86 ones somehow?
---rob
PS: This is somewhat offtopic. Years ago slashdot had a thing about this web page that had a Mac OS simulator written in DHTML. There also is a WindowMaker one. I can still find the WindowMaker one (not by google.com, but from a WindowMaker.org link. I can not, however, still find the Mac OS one, by google or by any other means. Does it still exist?
I'd like to use the pretty blue background and the window chrome from the simulator to make a theme for my WindowMaker (since I couldn't find any more classical Mac windowmaker themes).
Thank you.
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Hello all.
As someone who has played through and beaten multiples times (for different endings, and to get items and secrets I missed the first time around, or to play with different characters) all of the Final Fantasy games starting with the original NES one up to FFVII on the PS (at which point I stopped), I have a few words. My comments will probably be unpopular and modded down, but be that as it may, what I have to say needs to be said.
In short, these games are not intellectually stimulating or satisfying, and most-certainly not for intelligent people. Regular enemies are too easy to defeat and when you do unfortunately sometimes suffer heavy damages, it is all too easy to heal. Beating any boss usually only involves casting your most powerful attack and heal spells over and over again, and using a magic-replenishing item when you've run out. Every now and then you get a boss or enemy that maybe only a certain kind of magic works well on, or you can only attack a certain part of the enemy, but you can discover this information very quickly and easily and then go back to the usual spell-casting and healing routine until it dies.
The stories are also pretty weak, compared to something like Lord of the Rings! I feel I need not even defend my position on this issue!
After buying and beating tons of these games, I finally came to the realization that they are a complete waste of time and money. Well, unless you actual are dumb enough to find these games challenging. (Well, Final Fantasy 1 on the NES was pretty challenging if you didn't spend lots of time with mindless level-upping but instead only fought enemies you met naturally in achieving your objectives. But newer Final Fantasy's balance things much better so that your levels progress at a decent rate in the natural course of play.]
Read real fantasy fiction if you want a great story, like Lord of the Rings! If you want combat with real tactics, I can at least say that StarCraft against an intelligent human involves a great deal of intelligence and tactical thinking to win, not just mindless level-building, spell-casting, and healing. (The regular campaigns are pretty weak and easy, however, and the story is also really lame. So again, read books if you want a real story.
Do the Berlin people need to make all new graphics card drivers, or can they use the existing XFree86 ones somehow? ---rob PS: This is somewhat offtopic. Years ago slashdot had a thing about this web page that had a Mac OS simulator written in DHTML. There also is a WindowMaker one. I can still find the WindowMaker one (not by google.com, but from a WindowMaker.org link. I can not, however, still find the Mac OS one, by google or by any other means. Does it still exist? I'd like to use the pretty blue background and the window chrome from the simulator to make a theme for my WindowMaker (since I couldn't find any more classical Mac windowmaker themes). Thank you.