Favorites & Worsts Discussion - Page 2

May 26, 2007, 11:22 PM

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Maybe it was because there was a limit to how much materia you put into your equipment, maybe?

Yeah that could be it...I did get annoyed at the weapons that only had like, 2 materia slots...That's just dirty pool xD

May 27, 2007, 12:07 AM

Or the ones that didn't even have any. xD

And they're usually really powerful too. D'=

June 22, 2007, 11:27 PM

Ill start with my favorite and least favorite characters. mainly because i have a lot to say about them

and it contains a VERY long ANTI-TIFA RANT, so beware

Favorite male Character Cloud.

Why?

Simply put, Cloud is the ultimate FF hero, he has the huge sword, the gravity defying hair and the purple jumpsuit. Everyone loves him. he has 3 girls in that game fawning all over him. he survives his identity Crises and hospitilsation and goes on to save the world. and he has a huge sword, whats not to love?

Favorite Female character - Aerith

Why?

I adore mages, and Aerith is THE Ultimate Mage, defensive-wise her limit breaks can't be topped, Invincibility anyone? and offensive-wise, well, Load this girl with Black magic materia and she can do more damage than Cloud. and people call her weak.

People bitch that you can only use her for part of the game, well thats another reason why i love her, her impact on the storyline and FF in general is so profound. her death is one of the "spoilers too famous to be considered Spoilers" list, and everyone who's heard of FFVII has heard of Aerith.

Her personality is lovely, shes a kind caring person who doesn't mind being shishkababed if it means saving the world. she plays the innocent act well too which just makes her Uber cute!

and her dress and the boots are just perfect.

Plus she saves the world...twice...despite being dead

nothing stops this girl.

Least favorite male character - Cait sith.

why?

Lets sum it up nicely. Did i like him? did i find a use for him? do i enjoy his impact upon the storyline?

the short answer to all this is a simple. no. i do not.

Cait sith is a Terrible battler, and a dirty rotten spy. i dislike him immensly. and his voice in AC makes my ears bleed.

Least favorite Female Character - Tifa

Why? (beware LONG rant)

With Tifa theres simply so much i dislike about her ill disect each aspect

Fighting style - Tifa gets a lot of praise for her use in battle yet i found her worthless. she did random damage, she went from 2000 to 300 in a single battle. her limit breaks, yes although you can chain them all together, theres the fact that it misses quite alot and the fact that you can't actually choose who to attack with them, making Tifas limits a game of luck. i prefer a stable fighter, not someone with whom i have to rely on luck for.

Personality - Whoever decided to invent this is both, Very sexist, and lacking in imagination. This proves to me that Characters added in at the last moment do NOT work. It seems to me that her whole point in the game was to "think about Cloud" and everything about her Revolved around Cloud - she was CLOUDS childhood friend (but not reallly - more on that soon) she was in love with CLOUD, she was the one who had to stay with CLOUD. She needed to get a grip, get a life, and find something to do. i found her to be a pitiful wrench of a woman. Her only redeeming factor in the game was when she escaped in Junon and slapped scarlet. but she ruined that by whining about Cloud ten minutes later. The fact is, that Tifa is not the Strong confident sassy martial artist chick that many MANY people make her out to be, shes a scared, unconfident, self-doubting woman who needs her securtiy blanket (cloud) to do anything.

Actions - I was immensly annoyed with Tifa when we found out she lied to him the entire game. the fact that she didn't tell Cloud they WEREN'T childhood friends just so he wouldn't get angry with her really pissed me off, she needed to grow a spine and stop lying to everyone. The way how in her childhood she didn't take any interest in cloud until he said he was going to join SOLDIER and then forced the "promise" onto him just emphasised that Tifa was the real Female in the damsel in distress role.

Appearance - Again, whoever invented Tifas costume was a very sexist person who wanted to turn Tifa into a sex symbol. it worked. By giving her a tiny tank top, short skirt and Huge breasts. But, this is all rather out of character for Tifa. For one, shes a martial artist, and how many martial artists have huge breats like her? that would hurt. A lot. and Tifas not a woman who would go around flaunting her...assests on display. shes a shy woman so the tank top and the miniskirt are just so wrong with her. Also the fact that when she wins a battle she Sticks her chest out is just wrong. and something that Tifa would never do (unless she's got back problems XP)

In short, i found that Tifa was a wasted character. she could have been so much more but she was reduced to being "the childhood friend" (though not really) and the sex symbol of the series. Which makes her popular with some, who call her the strongest FFVII character. but to others (like me) it makes her seem weak and pathetic. [/rant]

July 6, 2007, 3:58 PM

The Tifa rant made me sad ;-; xDD

But to each his or her own ^^

I guess I always thought of her as uber powerful because........she was xD I mean on my save file she is anyway. And I hardly ever missed with her limit breaks O_O

I guess that's why I don't understand that part of the rant. Maybe it just depends on how you handle her, what materia you give her, etc....With her final weapon, the higher her limit break gauge is, the stronger she'll hit. By the end of the game, she was taking off massive amounts of damage on everything with her limit breaks, but then her attack power once the limit break gauge goes down, does become weak. But, you don't really need to go around and use her limit breaks when you're just fighting all those piddly little monsters.

So all I did was equip her with the Deathblow materia. That completely solved the problem. I was running around leveling up, and I never had to waste her limit break, because while using the deathblow materia instead of the regular attack, she didn't use her limit break, and every single time she hit, she hit for 9999 without fail.

The rest of the rant? Well, to be honest I like flawed characters who screw up or make bad decsions xD I just do ^^ Which completely explains why I love Lucrecia as well.

As far as appearance.................I have an obsession with her boobies. *guilty face*

July 11, 2007, 6:57 AM

I had the same deal with Tifa, she was uber powerful on my first and second playthroughs, and I never missed with her limit breaks, because....I was just so darn good at timing. XD

Other than that, and to save face in front of AG, I did level up Aeris quite a bit. Never got Great Gospel though (first time I ever heard it existed was on this forum a month ago.

), and she was really useful in a pinch because she could heal quite easily when her limit break reaches.

Cait Sith, I did not think he was a weak character at all, in fact, I thought he was pretty powerful. It's just that his limits were all about chance, I think that people tend to dislike him, and not only that but because of his un-aesthetically pleasing appearance. Game Over is pretty sweet.

So is dice, especially when you raise the dice to a bit more slots.

Can't say I liked Yuffie much, only used her the 2 hours after I got her and no more. I hated her sidequest too, a bit...random, if you ask me, and a bit weird. o.O

July 13, 2007, 8:35 PM

theres a difference Between "Flawed" and "royally messed up"

but each to their own

I agree that Yuffies sidequest was a tad random, but i actualkly enjoyed it, i liked the randomness, it went with Yuffie completely, and we got to see Don Corneo again...the little Pervert.

i always made sure that i wrote down my Materia order first though XD

July 18, 2007, 5:33 PM

Yo Aeris Gainsborough you are getting it all wrong. Tifa wears a tank top and skirt so she can fight, you think she's going to be able to fight in a dress i dont think so! Also i cant belive you're being so childish over a bunch of pixels jeez grow up! Plus if you having such a fit on how she's designed dont blame her blame Tetsuya Nomura. Tifa also has large breasts because Tetsuya Nomura found it easier to draw her polygon. Nuff Said!

July 21, 2007, 8:37 PM

FFVII, like any other game, had high and low points. It had a fairly good storyline, and perhaps one of the most simple battle systems in the series (much opposed to that FFVIII rubbish). It also had its flaws. Characters lacked depth, the primary villain was predictable, very few secrets to uncovers, and sub-par bosses. Here's my favorite/least favorite list.

Favorites:

Character: Cait Sith. Yes, Cait Sith catches a lot of hell for being a somewhat lame character. However, I thought the actual thought that was put into him was quite interesting. An fascinating robotic creature, being controlled by a man working for an evil corporation, who seems to be caught between remaining loyal and exercising his moral convictions. Plus, despite a lot of contrary belief, was actually quite handy in battle. A highly under-rated character in my book.

Honorable Mention: Cid. A smoking, hell-raising, airship captain. Any questions?

Villain: Hojo. Quite an unpredictable character. A scientist driven mad by his inferiority to his predecessor...who happens to chill at Costa del Sol and get the ladies. His cold personality and twisted sense of humor makes Hojo a character that we may never fully understand. Plus, the spin that he put on the Vincent side-story was great.

Honorable Mention: Reno. A slick, all business mercenary...that while employed, seems quite neutral of the situation at hand. It's a shame that he never came over to the good side, he would have made a great playable character.

General: The Materia System. Amazingly simply, but with enough depth to do interesting things with. In my mind, it falls only second to the FFIX system. Genius.

Honorable Mention: The areas. Given that this game was produced in the mid-90s, the beauty of the areas are amazing.

Least Favorites:

Character: Aeris. A character that generally lacked in depth. She perhaps would have been a better character had her past been more clearly explained and had her story been more substantive. The vagaries surrounding Aeris did not make her any more of a mysterious character, as she just does not have that sort of personality. As far as battle goes, she really wasn't that useful unless you dug into her later limit breaks, and let's face it, how many of us actually got that far by the Temple of the Ancients? Considering her crucial she was to the storyline, she could have been better developed.

Dishonorable mention: Barret. A loudmouthed idiot who was often more of a headache than a comedic relief. His role, in both character and battle, was much better filled by Cid.

Villain: Sephiroth. Yeah, yeah...Sephiroth is god, whatever. Let's be realistic, he was a predictable crybaby with a mother obsession. They tried to make him into the traditionally intelligent, cold villain...but they wound up with something different, something sub-standard. Not to mention that Sephiroth was perhaps the most disappointingly easy boss in the series. Both Safer and Bizzaro Sephiroth's (an even Jenova Synthesis) were complete jokes.

Dishonorable mention: Tseng. You'd think the leader of the Turks would be at least a somewhat substantive character. However, no. He is never featured in a battle, he gets perhaps 15 lines in the entire game, and is killed at the Temple of the Ancients. Disappointing.

General: I actually did find anything generally bad about this game, I thought the summons were somewhat poor...but then again it's an early FF game, and I've played both IX and X. Overall it was an all right game.

July 21, 2007, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Warbourne

Other than that, and to save face in front of AG, I did level up Aeris quite a bit. Never got Great Gospel though

lol............I still haven't gotten it myself and I've lost count how many times I've played >_> <_<

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Originally Posted by AG

I agree that Yuffies sidequest was a tad random, but i actualkly enjoyed it, i liked the randomness, it went with Yuffie completely, and we got to see Don Corneo again...the little Pervert.

I found it irritating the first time I did it, but for some reason on my 2nd play through, I liked it xD I kinda liked the total randomness about it, and I agree about how it went with Yuffie ^^

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Originally Posted by Warbourne

Cait Sith, I did not think he was a w