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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: etiolate on December 12, 2006, 12:34:58 AM

Title: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: etiolate on December 12, 2006, 12:34:58 AM
Since square is in the habit of making a multitude of spinoffs and sidequests, they could be nice and give my generation a shout-out with a Shadow or Locke FF game.  You could have Locke and Celes post-FF6 or Locke and Rachel pre-FF6.  Shadow is the same way.  His past is interesting enough you could make a game out of it, or you could have him decide to finally take in Relm and begin a new path from there.

Any other ideas for spinoffs?
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 12, 2006, 12:57:26 AM
FF6 sucked. I have no idea how you could get anything resembling depth out of it's trite plot and barely-developed characters. Leave it forgotten.
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: etiolate on December 12, 2006, 01:07:33 AM
The charactesr in 6 were more interesting than any FF game I've played since.

And you know Shadow had a whole secret backstory right?
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 12, 2006, 01:08:58 AM
yeah, and it was stupid and underdeveloped, like the rest of the game! Dude, I beat that bitch twice, although I really only remember killing loads of Brachiosaurs and Tyrannosaurs to snag Economizers. :(

What a yucky FF. :(
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 12, 2006, 01:25:24 AM
Quote from: Drinky Crow on December 12, 2006, 01:08:58 AM
yeah, and it was stupid and underdeveloped, like the rest of the game! Dude, I beat that bitch twice, although I really only remember killing loads of Brachiosaurs and Tyrannosaurs to snag Economizers. :(

What a yucky FF. :(

Doug, I don't think we can be friends anymore.  :(

Srsly, I luuuurved me some FF6 back in the day.  Characters had charm and I enjoyed the story; this was pre emo-fication of FF characters that started with VII.
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Diablos on December 12, 2006, 01:27:47 AM
I want S-E to fuck off and die
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 12, 2006, 01:30:48 AM
FF6 was totally emo, dude -- it was the beginning of the end. The stupid opera sequence; Celes going all MySpace kid; Terra in general; the outta-fucking-nowhere Rachel/Locke arc; OMG SHADOW; lengthy albeit wibbly cutscenes; WHERE AM GAU'S PARENTS?

FF5 was the last good FF. No plot; just JOB TWEAKIN' and STAT BOOSTIN' and TOUGH FUCKIN' BATTLES.
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 12, 2006, 01:34:56 AM
Quote from: Drinky Crow on December 12, 2006, 01:30:48 AM
FF6 was totally emo, dude -- it was the beginning of the end. The stupid opera sequence; Celes going all MySpace kid; Terra in general; the outta-fucking-nowhere Rachel/Locke arc; OMG SHADOW; lengthy albeit wibbly cutscenes; WHERE AM GAU'S PARENTS?

FF5 was the last good FF. No plot; just JOB TWEAKIN' and STAT BOOSTIN' and TOUGH FUCKIN' BATTLES.

Well, we can at least agree that PSIV is better than any FF game... right???
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 12, 2006, 01:51:23 AM
We can indeed!
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: etiolate on December 12, 2006, 01:54:48 AM
emo?

The characters were like twice the age of recent versions.  The characters had kids, while current versions starred heroes who were touching girls for the first time.
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 12, 2006, 01:56:38 AM
how could you tell? they were little big-headed weeble folk! I assumed they were all five years old and tryng too hard.

(FF5 had Galuf and Krile, if you wanna play that card. Tellah in 4 had his daughter.)
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: etiolate on December 12, 2006, 02:04:54 AM
Tell through the instruction manual and story, ubless they were all babies having babies.  Cyan's concept art makes him look at least 40.

Most of the characters were dealing with a loss of family.

Locke: dying lover
Terra: Loss of parents
Sabin and Edgar: Loss of father
Relm: has a deadbeat dad
Shadow: IS that deadbeat dad
gau: abondoned by father
Cyan: loss of wife and children

Exceptions are Celes, Mog and the airship guy, and the two extra characters.
Title: Re: I want a Shadow or Locke FF spinoff game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 12, 2006, 02:05:33 AM
hence, emo

and grossly simplistic to boot