Final fantasy X: easily my favorite game, and the infamous tidus laughing horribly scene. It was always SUPPOSED to be bad, it’s all forced laughter that him and yuna do to try and cheer up, which is immediately followed by actual real laughter as it worked. What’s yours?
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The “ride me as much as you ride your bike” line from days gone. It was always supposed to be dumb and no one in the game ever says it with any level of seriousness, yet it gets treated like it’s gigs-cringe and terrible writing. The cringe was the point, as evidenced by people literally cringing in the game when the line is said.
People like to meme the story of KH for being too complicated to understand.
It’s actually pretty simple when you lay out it chronologically, but people like the joke of it being incomprehensible more than the reality that’s it’s not that complicated
As someone who counts Final Fantasy X as his favorite game of all time. My vote is Final Fantasy X for the exact reason you listed haha.
I DO find some of Tidus’ dialogue a little bad at times, but I noticed in my last playthrough that it’s only the dialogue when he’s speaking to someone else or in conversation. The narration parts are tremendously good, 10/10.
BUT ALSO sometimes the dialogue has a slightly sped up sound to it, which I imagine was a deliberate choice during development to match the translations pacing with the original Japanese. It was the first Final Fantasy to be fully voiced after all.
While I always understood it was forced laughter, and therefore meant to be bad, I personally always felt that the VO in FFX was mediocre at the best of times. For me it showed a generational divide, as FFX is where I stopped enjoying Final Fantasy games, and for those that grew up around the time of its release the game is frequently considered to be their magnum opus.
No Russian. Media and concerned parents everywhere were oblivious to the nuance and point of it all.
The subtext in FFX is important. When you learn what is really going on, everything is different on another playthrough.
This has always bugged me especially when people try to say the voice acting was bad in this game. This was the first Final Fantasy to have that and there was a LOT of it in the game and even on recent replays I enjoyed it. Maester Maechen stories are delivered so well I always go to him whenever I see him no matter how many times I play it
i liked the Doom 3 Flashlight *not* tied to the gun as it was on launch. it made things very intense. and at the time the lighting was mind blowing, and i was a bit obsessed with real time lighting. this was the best i had ever seen at the time.
FFXIII Paradigm system is great. it admitted takes a long time to get there as you don’t get to pick your own party until half way through the game. but once you do, it’s really fun crafting synergies (part job make up) with different party combinations and crafting strategies to take out enemies. the game tracks your time and gives you a score *after every battle*. incentivizing you to re-fight battles with different team comps to win as efficiently as possible. if anything i wanted *more.*
I Actually like fighting CPU in fighting games (depending on the game). i played the crap out of the Treasure Battle mode. i’d blast the tunes, smoke a J, and get absolutely hyped over my own shenanigans and fights. i played it more than i did online. same with Street Fighter 6. i think the V-Rival AI is fun to play against. i play SF6 online, about 60% of the time. the rest is split between World Tour and V-Rival. disclaimer tho- i am not a high level player. intermediate at best. probably fit snugly in the fat part of the skill bellcurve.
Tank controls are supposed to suck (usually).