Final Fantasy/SE Sets

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• notmyprimespeaker

  January 2019

  Never played FF, but doesn't your Orphan, Cradle of Cocoon have an infinite mana and energy loop if he untaps himself?
• pjbear2005

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  @snow601
  
  Yeah, it should say "Untap 4 other Cocoon permanents" to be non-infinite.
• snow601

  January 2019

  Right, thanks!
• Lastjustice

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  I made cards homaging the cast of FF 5, since I figured they'd fly under most people's radar for names. I borrow names from classic rpgs and games for cards since gaming is my first love of nerddom, magic/boards is always going be second.
  
  Faris
  
  
  Lenna
  
  
  Galf
  
  
  Krile
  
  
  Bartz
  
  
  Exdeath
  
  
  If you aren't familar with these characters http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_V
  
  My favorite FF game is FF 6, but I haven't made any cards for that as of yet. I was replaying the GBA version of 5 around time I started making cards for this site, so I opted make those guys.
  
  
  
• snow601

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  @lastjustice cool cards! I might do some reading on FFV/VI then.
  
  I've added it to the board, if you don't mind.
• Lastjustice

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  Yeah that's cool, I don't mind people using my cards for whatever purposes they have. This all about sharing ideas between people.
  
  As for Final fantasy games, I'd you can get the Gameboy advance versions for the classic games(Whether you use the cart or a rom, that's your deal.), I find I prefer them to most versions. They tend to have alot of fun extras and bonus weapons and dungeons to go thru.
  
  FF 1- the basic game that started it off. You make your team of 4 from 6 classes so there's no set main characters. I replay it every so often, as last time I did a challenge where I only used a redmage for most of the game while rest of my party lied dead at lvl 1till I promoted everyone for maxium stats. (Red wizards/mages get the same stats before and after.) Honestly my team wasn't that much better than my original file where I played normally, but I felt like doing the challenge. My goddaughter played thru it with me, and she like this game like Pokemon... I was like no, Pokemon is like this game hehe. We also had a fun moment when she fought Hellhounds...I was like you can call him "Bad" dogs since she doesn't swear. The original game had D&D style spells where you only so many spells per a spell slot. Remakes have MP which makes the game much easier to play.
  
  FF 2 and 3, games I have and been meaning play thru. I picked up the remake of FF 3 on DS. FF 1 and 2 come on the same cart for GBA.
  
  FF 4, (originally known as FF 2 in the west)there's several versions of this. I am fan of the GBA version, but the PSP version has the after years, which is a more or less rehash of the original game. FF 4 I feel like was when the series really started to get more character driven. 4 in particular has a pretty strong story ...atleast till the end of it where the game kinda goes sideways. (The last 10% of the game kinda comes out of No where.) Your cast regularly changes between like ten characters, so be prepared have alot of people come and go. In the GBA version you can swap your party at the end of the game, otherwise the game had a set final group in the original version.
  
  FF 5, is a simple story but the gameplay is a load of fun as you unlock dozens of jobs and mix and match abilities. I feel like get it's overlooked because it's sandwiched between two of the best over all entries. (and didn't get ported to the west till much later.)
  
  FF 6 , I feel like this the best over all game in terms of story and characters. The gameplay has alot of customization which basically leads to breaking the game if you want to heh. Similar to 4 you have a large cast of people coming and going, but ultimately everyone has far more purpose as this game makes use of the large cast in several team battles and scenarios where you need multiple teams to get thru an area. At the end of the game you need 3 teams of 4 to get thru the final dungeon. (You can beat the game with only 3 characters, but I've never tried.) The villains and heroes are both great, and the graphics despite being super deformed, hold up far better than any of the 32 bit games do.
  
  FF 7, This was game square made mainstream penetration with. FF 7 was probably the most popular entry of the series for it's time...but I felt like Square took all wrong lessons from it. The story starts off cool, but then just felt like 3 stories tossed into a meat grinder and made into a single story sausage. Sephiroth is easily the laziest villain in gaming history. He sits around and basically uses Cloud and friends the whole game. Cloud beats him by staying in bed and doing nothing. There's nothing particularly interesting or compelling about sephiroth as he's basically a worse rehash of Kefka, as they're both failed super soldier experiments go awry. It's not a bad game, but it's by far most overrated of the series.
  
  FF 8, I never played it, but I watched enough of it to know the deal.(Spoony does a series fo videos deconstructing it's BS.) Both my roommates played thru it at the time when it came out. Take all weird ideas from FF 7 and ratchet them to 11. (Such as extra stupidly long summon spells.) Square clearly has no understanding of time travel as their rules for it are absolute nonsense here. The story is just random and weird for sake of weird. (Everyone grew up in the orphanage but no one remembers and the witch is their nanny.) The gameplay goes in several odd directions, which alot of them are boring. You stock spells like items...and don't want to cast them as they are junctioned to stats. You don't actually want to lvl up, as just makes the game harder. This game was the full on shark jump for the series for me.
  
  FF 9, had alot of amusing throw back stuff. It was cross of old and new. I liked characters being set class as characters were all basically interchangeable parts for last 2 games. No one had a defined role. It's an over all middling effort, as the cast on more forgettable side. The story has a fair share of WTH moments. This was the last FF main series game I played from start to finish.
  
  FF 10, I played it....for 20 mins. I got to the first save and just stopped. My youngest brother played thru most of it, but I never saw anything that made me want to pick back up and keep going. This was moment I was done with the series. I felt like the games were heading in a direction I had no interest in following. (X-2 made sure I really wanted to be done.)
  
  FF Tactics, the tactical games are a load of fun. As someone who's a huge fan of the shining force series, I felt right at home with them. The gameplay has TONS of options to mix and match which you can unlock several unstoppable combos to walk all over this game. What flavor of god mode do you want to win with?
  
  FF Advance 1 and 2, both are still fun, but have a quirkiness to them. There's alot of different sub classes and races to the game. Also the first game has laws which you need avoid breaking during duels. (Like if the Azorious ruled the world.) The second game just gives you bonusess for not breaking the laws, but doesn't punish or arrest you like the first game. The games cross over with FF 12, as several characters appear in both 12 and the spin offs.
  
  Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings- I was playing alot of handheld games when this came out. Was a cool RTS game using characters and creatures from the series.
  
  
• Bowler218

  January 2019

  Isn't there like a FF Tactics or something?
• Bowler218

  January 2019

  Wait, I see it
• snow601

  January 2019

  @lastjustice I loved the story aspects of the FF games. It opened up to a whole nother world of storytelling and adventure, that was just too good to pass up. Our interests occupy completely different ends of these games, hah. Though I’ve only played VII, X, XII, XIII~3, XV, and started with FFX.
  
  What do you think of Kingdom Hearts?
• Lastjustice

  January 2019

  I'd imagine I am bit older than you, @Snow601. Why I played thru the earlier entries to the Final Fantasy series instead of the later ones. I like most kinds of games besides Sports games and racing sims. I was mostly into action/adventure games in my younger years. (Hence my avatar on the forums from the Megaman series, Protoman.) I didn't get into RPGS really until the 16 bit era, as I briefly played a couple of the Dragon warrior/quest games on NES. Wasn't till the first Shining force I started playing them passionately. Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Dark Wizard, Shining force 1 and 2, Warsong, The Suikoden series, Vandal Hearts are among my favorites I've played.
  
  When I got into my 20s I began a dark era of gaming for me. I started off playing Phantasy Star Online, and then Diablo 2 as I went away from playing single player games and I started playing MMOs/online gaming, and to be honest, my gaming habits probably weren't too far off from how a drug addict operates as I played Dark Age of Camelot far too much. I was a guild leader, and was like a second job.(When they asked if I had management experienced I'd said yeah, I got people work for me I didn't pay haha. That's much harder.) I'd roll into work always tired, I'd guess my managers at the time probably thought I was partying or something. I made some really good friends in that time, and had a girl I was into and met in real life. She was a major factor into I was in so deep. I'd stay up talking to her for hours when I should probably been sleeping.
  
  I eventually decided I wanted people in my real life to be people I was spending time with, not the people I gamed with. When I watched the movie Ready Player One....Like that was my life in a nutshell I basically was Parzival / Wade. It was a trip down memory lane watching it. Both the good and bad for my time back then. Only I didn't win anything or get the girl, but I was wiser for my experiences. I wasn't happy with some things at the time, but I feel mostly turned out for the best.
  
  I played few other MMOs after Dark Age, but I eventually had come to terms I just didn't have it in me anymore to play them. In my younger years games only had so much going on so you could be completely obessive and beat them 100% getting all best stuff. I'd love making the "Perfect Save File" on a RPG. MMOs, the content will outlast your ability to complete it as it never ends. It's was just too much to bite off to chew for my obessive nature as a gamer. I can say enough is enough as some games just aren't going be 100% or a platinum.
  
  Last game I played with any really intensity was City of Heroes as I had my own super group, but I wasn't on 24/7 like before to keep the numbers up. My team basically became like 2-3 regulars. I casually played Star Wars the Old Republic with a friend I gamed online in CoH/V with as we slowly went thru the game but my desire play just wasn't there. I got to lvl 50 and completed main story as my Bounty Hunter and was done with it. These days I stay heck away from MMOs, not because I can't resist playing them I choose not to have such a massive time sink in my life. I prefer play games I can play and drop as I see fit. Things I can gain ground in shorter bursts or on my own terms. I don't need any more commitments heh.
  
  Not say I can't play a longer game, as I played heck out of Skyrim and Fall out 4. Just gaming takes the back seat to whatever other things I got going in my life, not the other way around. if someone asks to go out do something, that gets priority over gaming. I am not scheduling raids or having my life revolve around that stuff. I also play magic again, as I picked that back up several years ago. I'd rather play Magic or board games with people face to face these days. I miss that in previous generations of playing games with people in the same room as you.
  
  I never played the kingdom hearts games, it's something I considered as I heard good things never got around to. I probably own one of them in my back log of games I need eventually play. I have games going all way back to the PS 1 era I bought and never got thru. Such as Wild Arms, I picked up the first two games cheaply. I know I didn't beat those. I do eventually circle back around to stuff though.
  
  
• sorinjace

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  Damn, that was intense @Lastjustice. (Steps back out of the room backwards looking to the left and to the right...)
  
  I played games i didnt get addicted to games like that. Whats MMO? I played games i could handle with my motion sickness and sporatically. So no call of duty or stuff like that. But i did play street fighter, mario, etc. and i still suck at smash brothers. But ill kick anyones behind in killer instinct or street fighter.
• Bowler218

  January 2019

  I've attempted to play RPGs, but I always screw up in them. Some examples:
  Mass Effect Andromeda: used all my special equipment too early in the game.
  Skyrim: started really following the actual campaign at too low a level
  Fallout 4: going into an area without ammo
  Undertale: no food items/inflating the price of temmie flakes (please don't ask)
  Oblivion (precourser to skyrim): not doing side quests.
  Destiny/D2:getting bored
• TenebrisNemo

  January 2019 edited January 2019

  The only Final Fantasy games which I've played are FFVII, Crisis Core, and FFX (still unfinished). I've also played Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMix and 2.5 ReMix completely. Then I've watched as people have played many other FF/KH games which I've never tried out. I've created two legendary creatures in the past, which are based on the FF universe's summons.
  
  
  
  The left one is much older than the right one. The idea in both cards is that you summon them for a moment to help you out until they get shuffled back into your library. The way I've tried to capture the summon idea in the first one was too complicated (has a time limit, leaves on your second turn), but I think the way I've put it in the right one is simpler and still acceptable for a card based on a FF summon (leaves after it has attacked and unleashed its ultimate ability).
  
  Edit: Also, Shiva has red in it because her signature move (Diamond Dust) deals damage to your enemies.
• Corwinnn

  January 2019

  Phantasy Star Online - Dang! I remember playing that!
• snow601

  February 2019 edited February 2019

  I'm going to follow along on StarkProctor's theme, and name all summons under the Eidolon type for all sets in this thread. With FFX especially, since there are quite a few Summoners in that which cards have been made for, who--much like Pilots for Vehicles--Summoners usually have at least one ability revolving around Eidolons, plus other cards may be made which specifically call upon Eidolons from the library.
• Lastjustice

  February 2019 edited February 2019

  Here's another card for FF 6
  
  
  
  A new mechanic was born, so seemed like a fitting creature to wield it.
• sanjaya666

  February 2019 edited February 2019

  Delet.