people who like RPG's & FINAL FANTASY

[Icey]

Icy. I know you can do it (you did it in your first post). PLEASE edit your last post if you want to add something instead of triple posting. In the space of four minutes. If you don't do this your account will be automatically terminated by the forum computer.

Tha-that's possible?

[Calin Leafshade]

yes, multiple posting is considered spam.

[Crimson Wizard]

Icy. I know you can do it (you did it in your first post). PLEASE edit your last post if you want to add something instead of triple posting. In the space of four minutes. If you don't do this your account will be automatically terminated by the forum computer.

Tha-that's possible?

I dunno if termination is possible but editing your old posts is 100% possible

[Chicky]

Piss off1? Do you mean piss on Final Fantasy 1?

were in the hell did off1 come from?

i'm not asking for help here. I'm just want to see who like's FF or RPG'S. i just want to talk with people who do. although i do need help, i asked people if they do want to help me to just pm me.

Icey GAY more like!

oh, why don't you piss off1

Also, don't double post. Dick

FYI, i think your artwork is alright.

[Icey]

Piss off1? Do you mean piss on Final Fantasy 1?

were in the hell did off1 come from?

i'm not asking for help here. I'm just want to see who like's FF or RPG'S. i just want to talk with people who do. although i do need help, i asked people if they do want to help me to just pm me.

Icey GAY more like!

oh, why don't you piss off1

Also, don't double post. Dick 

FYI, i think your artwork is alright.

Uh-thanks.I think?

[Dualnames]

My favorite RPG is definitely Icewind Dale, if anyone's never played it I suggest it terribly.
As for FF, I suggest 4, the game was voted number 3 in an IGN retro list, only beaten by Mario and Zelda.

[xenogia]

My favourite is the Square classic Xenogears which was released on the PS1 in 1998 if I remember correctly. And without a doubt Xenosaga Ep 3 and Grandia 2 in for the close second.

[R4L]

I liked Final Fantasy II. Does I win? 

[Charity]

Tha-that's possible?

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible, from a coding standpoint.  Deleting and/or banning accounts is something pretty much any message board software can do, and it is already keeping track of the times of people's posts.  That said, I've never heard of any one rigging a forum to auto-ban/erase for double posting.  He's probably lying to you.  Probably.

Still, on this forum (and many others), there are rules against posting multiple times in a row (that is, posting once, and then posting again in the same thread without anyone else posting in between).  I think it is generally perceived as visual clutter.  There may also be a bandwidth issue involved, though I couldn't say how significant it is.  The accepted thing to do if you have more to add to a thread which you already have the last post in, is to modify the post that is already there, and just add what you wanted to say to the bottom.  It helps to say something like "EDIT:" before the added text, so that people looking over the thread who have already read your post will see that something has been added to it.

If what you are adding is really important, you can also copy the text of the first post, delete it, and then post a new post with the old text pasted in and the new text added.  This will look just like an edited post, but it has the additional feature of alerting people that new information has been added to the thread.  I wouldn't do this too often though, because you'll start to look like you are trying to artificially boost your post's priority.  Save it for adding game changing information to threads that are already a few days to weeks old.

By "game changing," I mean information that sheds new light on the discussion or takes it in a different (though still on-topic) direction.  As opposed to saying something like "Oh and by the way, I agree with Lyaer," which is always appreciated, but doesn't bring anything new to the table.

EDIT: You know what?  This forum might not let you delete posts.  I can't find a button that does it, anyway.  So last bit might be moot.

EDIT 2, for on-topicness: I love this genre.  Or I did.  My early teenage years benefitted greatly from the likes of Final Fantasy and Wild Arms, Chrono Trigger, Earth Bound, and a number of obscure fan translations of Japanese only SNES games like Treasure Hunter G and Live A Live.

Nowadays the only ones I feel really comfortable admitting that I like are Earthbound and its sequel, Mother 3.  Maybe Xenogears.  Maybe.  But the fact is, most of these games have absolutely atrocious writing, and as someone who has mostly been interested in stories in his games, I feel like the main draw has been kind of yanked out from under me by my education.  Earthbound and Mother 3 get a free pass, because while their writing isn't exactly "good," per se, they have managed to embrace the sort of clunky, heavy handed style that is endemic in the genre, up the quirkiness by a few orders of magnitude, and then plow on with such unnerving sincerity that it becomes almost a commentary on the genre as a whole, if not a profound experience in its own right.

The more serious games, though.  They need more traditionally "good" plots and dialogue.  Some of them might have.  I don't know.  But I'm afraid to go back and play most of my old favorites, because I'm afraid I will find out that actually, they were really bad.

If I do, Xenogears and the Chrono games will be first on my list.

That said, I would love to make my own contribution to the genre, someday.  I have ideas for both serious and more surreal, Earthbound-esque RPGs that I think could be rather fun, if implemented correctly.

Western RPGs never really hooked me.  They failed to involve me with the characters enough, and on the whole, they seem to have a little less variety in their worlds and plots, since 90% of them want to be Dungeons and Dragons.  But to be fair, I haven't explored that subgenre as thoroughly.  And the adventure game hybrid series Quest for Glory, which does fit somewhere in the western fantasy RPG tradition, is an old favorite of mine.

[Gilbert]

stuff

Or, to make it simple for tl;dr people (that the target of this post is obviously one of them):
Don't double or triple post. Edit your posts, or else c.leksutin is after you (this is called auto-banning from life).

P.S. I'm getting the 'log-in' pop-up in this thread also, so one of us who post here must've an image or whatever hosted in 2dadventure, either in his signature or the avatar. Better hunt it down (all right, it's R4L's avatar).

[Charity]

Gilbet:  Wait.  I assumed it was a joke.  Is there actually an auto-banning mechanism, here?

EDIT:  Ah.  I guess I do get a little long winded, sometimes.  (Often!)  It seems a little rude to just assume he isn't going to read it, though.

[Gilbert]

Not actually I think (either the forum software we are using does not have it or it's not activated), but we have c.leks the killer bot (yeah) and global mods such as Andail and AGA who surely would take whatever suitable actions depending on their moods.

[Charity]

Fascinating.  I don't think I've ever seen a bot on a forum be--no wait.  The spam bots.  I don't think I've ever seen a bot mod a forum before.

And yes, obviously too many repeat offenses should be expected to be dealt with, one way or another.

[Atelier]

Excellent! I've even fooled people who I was intending to fool!

No, there is no auto-delete.

[Snake]

Tha-that's possible?

I can see writing how you talk (with punctuation and all that, you know) but writing out an actual stutter is going annoyingly too far (much like your other thread).

I'm actually surprised no one else has commented on that.

[Haddas]

I know the somethingawful have auto-banning for doing certain thing.

[Vince Twelve]

i liked a lot of high school Final Fantasy.FFXII really brought me back to the series I have the Common,they can drive the ball like an analog stick close to destroying my team to customize my ass kicked all tried to annihilate everything in their path I was at a friend's house for a few minutes playing FFXIII was super boring I hope they continue towards FFXIIs The story was bland,I was game

[Ryan Timothy B]

same as vince i play ff3 for snes super cooland fun beautiful graphics entertaining characters story i also liked earthbound different level of weirdness due kiddy theme.i also accidentally lots of slime.

[xenogia]

I found a lot of non-square japanese rpgs to be fantastic also.  Some personal favourites also was Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube, Baiten Kaitos and the Star Ocean series come to mind.

[Charity]

Tha-that's possible?

I can see writing how you talk (with punctuation and all that, you know) but writing out an actual stutter is going annoyingly too far (much like your other thread).

I'm actually surprised no one else has commented on that.

To be fair, mate, that was hardly excessive as textual stutters go, and I'm pretty sure I've seen professional writers use it in dialogues.  And if not professionals, definitely amateur writers of reasonable quality.

You're probably not the only person who finds it annoying, but it's a bit of a subjective thing.  Some people will find it a little cutesy; some people won't bat an eye.  I suspect (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that if one of the regulars said the same line, you might have been less inclined to comment.

At any rate, I don't know how someone should be expected to know to avoid that or similar mannerisms ahead of time, so it seems a little more understanding would be in order, whether or not you feel that airing this particular preference is necessary.  I mean, I know that your post wasn't anywhere near as harshly worded as some of the stuff in the other thread, but it does have a sort of condescending (is that the word? Passive-Aggressive?) vibe to it.

(Serious question: Would it be stepping on toes to start a civil, reasoned discussion on newbie policy in a thread where such is actually on topic?  I know some forum administrations get a little [understandably] touchy about people debating that sort of stuff publicly.)

ON TOPIC:  Yeah, there are some pretty good non-Squares.  Suikoden has a good reputation.  I played the first one, and it was alright, bur not my favorite.  There's an RPG maker game called Exit Fate that is sort of a tribute to Suikoden, and it is a pretty enjoyable game in its own right.  Lots of characters to recruit, political intrigue, big battles thrown into the mix.

The Wild Arms series is sort of Final Fantasy with a Wild West motif and some sort of Zelda-esque puzzles thrown in for good measure.  I played number 5 recently and the writing and voice acting were pretty bad.  It had a colonial/class conflict thing goin' on, which was interesting, but mostly handled pretty clumsily.  I liked the first 2 games a lot when I played them. 

The thing with Square, is that they tended to avoid overly generic anime and/or medieval "Europe" sorts of settings.  Even when they did use those settings, they were usually well realized enough that they felt fresh.  There were a lot of games like Breath of Fire, Beyond the Beyond, Dragon Warrior, Golden Sun that were all decent enough (even well-loved) games in their own right, but that I was never able to get into as much because they just felt so generic.

I did play Tales of Phantasia, and the first two Star Oceans, but didn't manage to finish any of them.