You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
everyone knows that the correct answer is a MATTER of TRUST
So, in the latest FFXIV patch, we finally got the showdown FFV fans have been waiting for for years: Omega vs. Shinryu. It was really cool. (Spoilers in that video, obviously.)
When Final Fantasy II was originally released on the Famicom, the Ultima spell, which was difficult to acquire, was practically useless. It was initially meant to increase its power relative to the level of other spells the caster had, but due to a bug, the spell did just around 500 damage at the most on a single target. Director Hironobu Sakaguchi has later told a humorous story relating to the bug: When Square tested the game and saw the bug, Sakaguchi asked for it to be fixed, but the person who programmed it replied that legendary stuff that dates back to an age before "proper techniques" would look inferior from present's point-of-view, explaining Ultima's weakness. He reasoned that the struggle to acquire it only to discover it's useless mirrors real life, and thus he was not going to fix the bug. Sakaguchi was irritated by the reply and tried to fix it himself, but the programmer had ciphered the source and Ultima was left the way it was.
I don't know who this programmer is, but man do I hate him
Yeah there's like no fucking way that's true. Dude would've been blackballed so hard. Also version control has been a thing for, like, a while (open source since the 70s, and I work for the people that made one of the first proprietary ones in the 80s).
I can see it being true, but I imagine it would be more "dude we have no time and we've gotta release this game, sorry" as opposed to "hahaha no I'm not gonna fix my own shoddy work"
I can see them legitimately failing to implement the scaling back to your current spellbook due to time crunch, but they could've just copy-pasted the numbers for Fire or something and just given a bigger one.
This is literally a number in a resource file. Worst case, it's a hardcoded number in a .h file.
I mean, ideally it's something like that, but never underestimate a programmer's ability to make something really complicated out of something really simple.
Especially when we're talking about a game that was programmed in he late 80s for a game console.
I can see them legitimately failing to implement the scaling back to your current spellbook due to time crunch, but they could've just copy-pasted the numbers for Fire or something and just given a bigger one.
This is literally a number in a resource file. Worst case, it's a hardcoded number in a .h file.
i would be a little surprised if a commercial famicom game was programmed in C
(which is to say, i can imagine the code being too obfuscated or just twisted to fix in time)
I can see it being a glitch, in FFI half the spells that don't have a 100% chance to do something immediately obvious don't work, it's possible that Ultima was also supposed to have some non-functional special effect.
unrelated but do you know any examples of commercial NES games programmed in C? i looked around a bit before i posted that to make sure my impression of assembly being almost the only game in town before like, PSX maybe, was correct, and only saw mention of SNES C (still rare)
I can see it being a glitch, in FFI half the spells that don't have a 100% chance to do something immediately obvious don't work, it's possible that Ultima was also supposed to have some non-functional special effect.
But that story is still fake as fuck.
...I'm curious why everyone has come to this conclusion?
I can see it being a glitch, in FFI half the spells that don't have a 100% chance to do something immediately obvious don't work, it's possible that Ultima was also supposed to have some non-functional special effect.
But that story is still fake as fuck.
...I'm curious why everyone has come to this conclusion?
because it's somebody making up a bullshit story to avoid doing work, which is pretty fire-worthy even by small 80s game dev studio standards, for not much of a reason. and that's before the "ciphering", which isn't really how you'd describe obfuscation anyway.
it's much more plausible that somebody fucked up and they didn't test it enough, and then the director made up a funny story (or someone else made up a story and attributed it to him)
Shrugs? I don't really see any adequate reason to just not believe the story.
Same here.
I won't file it in the "definitely true and I'd bet my life on it" pile but I also won't file it in the "this can't possibly be true at all" file pile either. This isn't exactly an uncommon place for things to be.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper is surprisingly tolerable and even occasionally fun for a freemium mobile game. It does a good job of making sure you always have a clear and relatively reasonable path of advancement even without buying anything, and some of the late-game fights can get deeper than most of the mainline FF games.
I was a pretty big player of FFRK not too long ago. Really a fantastic gatcha game, gives free players all the resources they need to succeed as long as they spend them right.
Ended up quitting because as fun as the high level boss fights were, there was still too much grinding on pointless bullshit to get there.
Also, I think I just have a huge distaste for stamina systems. I don't like games that want me to structure my life around them.
Still, I do kind of miss it. Had a pretty fantastic dream team, with the BSBs for Celes, Cecil, Refia, Gilgamesh, and Eiko, among others.
Yeah the experience curve is a bit absurd (though the game practically shits growth eggs at this point), and any stamina system will rankle on me by default. I think what surprised me most is that it's one of the only such games I've played that ended up being actually playable instead of hitting a de facto paywall where you could play for literally seconds a day without shelling out tons of cash -- and by extension, one of the only ones I'd be inclined to actually give money to. If more mobile games were like this, I'd detest the genre on principle a lot less.
They have their two-year anniversary going on, it's been showering everyone with mythril and special draws, and realm dungeon stamina is halved so you could basically play the non-elite ones continuously from start to finish if you hadn't already and speed-farm even more mythril. And yet I'm still failing to get a healing BSB every time it was available, even on repeated draws. The only healer I have with a burst is Selphie, and she has a fucking offense burst for some goddamn reason. At least I have Wall and Shout natively so I can leverage a roamer for healing burst.
Also there are always fun and weirdass stories of raid groups. I ended up fighting one of the 160's in a group with three Tyros, two healers, Gilgamesh, a Terra spamming Chocobonk of all things, and our main DPS was a Yuna who was very clearly abilitied for being a third healer but just went summon spam instead. Took bloody forever, but we won quite comfortably and Wall never EVER fell off. Most of the Tyros spent their turns staffing Gilgamesh for free counterattacks.
Oh, I wasn't talking exp curve, that's actually not that bad. I was talking more the orb grinding to get reasonable ability levels. Especially when you're only first starting to get 5 star abilities. The amount of time between crafting your first 5 star ability and actually managing to get it up to a usable level is like, a month or two.
And god forbid if you want to use a 5 star summon.
I mean, where I'm at now I have a bunch of 5 stars that are at least rank two, but man, for a while it was rough.
Oh that. I've been able to pick up some 5* rank 2+. Granted, I joined shortly before the Monty Haul Christmas event and this one is even more generous. Full Break is the only one I've gotten a whole lot of use out of.
Even so I figure 200+ level is the only thing I've yet to break into at this point, and the 6* Nightmare abilities are mostly bragging rights crap. Even then, the only one I'm seriously worried about is "beat a 160 boss using only summons" and I figure for that I might as well just shoot for Yuna BSB or something.
Palenque, Baphomet, and Tiamat down. They're all kind of clusterfuck fights, especially Tiamat. I thought I was missing something obvious just face tanking all her unpredictable shots, but I just watched a hard mode video afterward and and nope, that's what you're supposed to do. Also weird that even though Palenque is #6, getting to him is this massive production spanning half the dungeons in the game, but for Baphomet you just poke a bit into one place and split the entire Twin Labyrinth wide open.
I don't know how anyone was supposed to figure out the thing for the Dimensional Key. Like, one of the tablets makes you expect an infinity lock and it's fine your contrast lets you see it, but the two altars are so nondescript and it's not at all obvious what you're supposed to put into the right one. And the less said about breaking down a wall from the opposite screen, the better.
Now all I have to do is figure out this wedge business. Also suddenly death tentacles wiped out one of my save points.
IJBM: a major Dota 2 tournament is called "The International".
The International...What? The International Cupcake Bake-Sale? The International Toilet-Flushing Contest? The International Effort To Build A Bionic Bear?
Not to mention there's already a play, two movies, a golf tournament, and a number of political organizations already using that name, according to Wikipedia. Of course, this doesn't excuse _their_ behavior either -- I'll excuse the play and movies, and the political organizations are usually not just "The International", so they get a pass. But the golf tourney is also guilty.
Y'know an interesting thing about Dota 2 is that despite how big it is it rarely has its players straggling into the general Steam Community forums asking questions about their game -- a strong contrast with CS:GO. This still holds even when I exclude posts about CS:GO item scamming/betting/raffling/etc.. There are occasional Dota 2 stragglers, but they are few and far between.
I wonder if it's because the game has less of an English-language following, since the Steam Community forums are in English.
Comments
(Omega's part of the new 8 man raid, and Shinryu's probably gonna be the final boss of 4.0 or something.)
I don't know who this programmer is, but man do I hate him
In any case I'd fire that fucker
(which is to say, i can imagine the code being too obfuscated or just twisted to fix in time)
But that story is still fake as fuck.
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Ultima_(ability)#cite_note-0
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/20/final-fantasys-first-ultima-spell-useless/
http://www.highriskrevolution.com/gamelife/index.php?e=370 (in Japanese)
it's much more plausible that somebody fucked up and they didn't test it enough, and then the director made up a funny story (or someone else made up a story and attributed it to him)
Shrugs? I don't really see any adequate reason to just not believe the story.
I won't file it in the "definitely true and I'd bet my life on it" pile but I also won't file it in the "this can't possibly be true at all" file pile either. This isn't exactly an uncommon place for things to be.
also me: I just tried Titanfall 2 and I liked it a lot, and plan to get the full version of it when the money is right
Ended up quitting because as fun as the high level boss fights were, there was still too much grinding on pointless bullshit to get there.
Also, I think I just have a huge distaste for stamina systems. I don't like games that want me to structure my life around them.
Still, I do kind of miss it. Had a pretty fantastic dream team, with the BSBs for Celes, Cecil, Refia, Gilgamesh, and Eiko, among others.
yup (and that is one of the reasons I enjoyed it more)
same creators tho, a lot of the team that started the franchise jumped ship from Activision a few years back to form the studio
And god forbid if you want to use a 5 star summon.
I mean, where I'm at now I have a bunch of 5 stars that are at least rank two, but man, for a while it was rough.
The International...What? The International Cupcake Bake-Sale? The International Toilet-Flushing Contest? The International Effort To Build A Bionic Bear?
Not to mention there's already a play, two movies, a golf tournament, and a number of political organizations already using that name, according to Wikipedia. Of course, this doesn't excuse _their_ behavior either -- I'll excuse the play and movies, and the political organizations are usually not just "The International", so they get a pass. But the golf tourney is also guilty.
I wonder if it's because the game has less of an English-language following, since the Steam Community forums are in English.
every Doom mod made in the past decade or so assumes you do it.