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OdradekOdradek
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If the "suplex a train" thing happened in a modern Final Fantasy game, people would call it dumb anime bullshit and complain endlessly about it.

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  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Final Fantasy is all dumb anime bullshit. It always has been, and it always will be.

    You've either made your peace with that, or you haven't.
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I want to play the boyband Final Fantasy and I want to suplex everything.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
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    Baldanders said:

    If the "suplex a train" thing happened in a modern Final Fantasy game, people would call it dumb anime bullshit and complain endlessly about it.

    It isn't a train, but in Final Fantasy XIV a man suplexed his son into the ground hard enough to bury half his body, and killed a chimera with a goldsmithing hammer. Everybody loved it.
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I think I saw that! It was great.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    vidya games
  • LOAD CherryLOAD Cherry
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    Section42L said:

    Final Fantasy is all dumb anime bullshit. It always has been, and it always will be.

    You've either made your peace with that, or you haven't.

    I'll buy that from SNES onward, but the NES FFs, really?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Even up through FFIV the FF games have had more in common with D&D than with stereotypical anime.
  • TitleNameTitleName
    in fact, FF1's enemy roster was pretty much taken from D&D's monster list at the time.
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Knightess Cerise said:

    Section42L said:

    Final Fantasy is all dumb anime bullshit. It always has been, and it always will be.

    You've either made your peace with that, or you haven't.

    I'll buy that from SNES onward, but the NES FFs, really?
    I suppose that was a bit mean of me, sorry. You're right on the NES FF games. I also always mentally excluded Tactics from that.

    That said, the "suplex a train" thing is dumb anime bullshit through and through, and you either like it or you don't.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-02-01 19:36:54
    Knightess Cerise said:

    Section42L said:

    Final Fantasy is all dumb anime bullshit. It always has been, and it always will be.

    You've either made your peace with that, or you haven't.

    I'll buy that from SNES onward, but the NES FFs, really?
    FF2 and even much of FF3 were pretty dumb anime bullshit too, tbh

    The only reason FF1 wasn't was because it was so bare-bones to begin with.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Section42L said:

    That said, the "suplex a train" thing is dumb anime bullshit through and through, and you either like it or you don't.

    It's not really specifically "dumb anime bullshit" as it is "something that just appeals a lot to people who have a taste for the outlandish and crazy", which includes a lot of anime fans but also fans of various other nerd-stuff media.

    Incidentally, when I played FF6 the first time I didn't even try suplexing the train.  I had trouble getting suplex to work in the first place so I just pummelled it.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-02-01 19:40:54
    Also suplexing the train wasn't really a big intentional overdone setpiece like it would've been in a modern game.  It was just a silly result of an oversight in game mechanics and animation and that was immediately clear to players.

    Rest assured if that happened in FF13 onwards it would've been an obnoxious DBZ-style ordeal.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    edited 2016-02-01 19:43:43
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    On the other hand, this was the plot of FFIII: 4 children find out that they live on a floating continent created when a wizard goes mad after being given mortality, and floods the world with darkness. The children turn out to be 4 chosen warriors who are the only ones who can stop the darkness, and the imbalance between light and darkness physically manifests a being called the Cloud of Darkness.

    Also darkness no longer looks like a word.

    More importantly: Sabin can suplex himself.
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Fossilmaiden said:

    On the other hand, this was the plot of FFIII: 4 children find out that they live on a floating continent created when a wizard goes mad after being given mortality, and floods the world with darkness. The children turn out to be 4 chosen warriors who are the only ones who can stop the darkness, and the imbalance between light and darkness physically manifests a being called the Cloud of Darkness.

    Also darkness no longer looks like a word.

    More importantly: Sabin can suplex himself.

    Okay, I take my last post back.

    That is some dumb anime bullshit.
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-02-01 19:58:43
    FF2's plot was basically just proto-FF4, complete with killing off or incapacitating most of your interim party members until you finally got back the shady childhood friend who backstabbed you several times throughout.

    ^ that...might be the most Japanese thing I've ever seen.
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