FF Crystal Bearers: Wherein NonCon can't see a goddamn motherfucking thing

[Kim]

I'm at the butt bouncing.

I'm pretty sure I want to go back and time and murder this game in its infancy.

Can I borrow a TARDIS?

[Great Cartoonist]

I think the moment when they started doing 3D games was when Square started to suck.
FFVI was probably the highest point they ever gotten. After that, things started to go downhill from there.

Also, to future game developers: Don't give us any mandatory minigames we have to play in order to progress through the game. ESPECIALLY if said minigame contains any sort of timing that nobody can manage without slowdown tools, horrendous controls, and/or infuriatingly cheap enemies/AI this side of Mario Kart Wii. This can apply to the main gameplay as well.

Also, unskippable cutscenes + mind-numbingly long loading times = RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE


This probably has nothing to do with Crystal Bearers; I just wanted to get that off my chest.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Great Cartoonist

I think the moment when they started doing 3D games was when Square started to suck.

Naw man. As much as I like to diss on Square, mostly for what they've done to Kingdom Hearts, FFX was pretty great and FFXII was awesome. The PSX games are a bit overrated, but even VIII wasn't their worst game. And heck, going back to Kingdom Hearts, it combined Nomura with Disney and, despite all probable odds, the result was fucking awesome. That series has gone drastically downhill yeah, but Squeenix is bringing me DQVI DS and DQIX so I really can't get too mad at them.

[Loyal]

Plus they're doing Lufia now, which gives them at least a grace period of however long it takes for the game to come out.

Re: voice acting; I agree regardling Layle and Belle, but Jegran had a pretty decent VA. Amit... amida... Goldenrod isn't bad as far as actual voicing goes, but I'm not entirely sure it's appropriate for a Yuke as is (though it's still a million times better than that asshole in Ring of Fates god I just want to punch him in the visor)

[mauve]

Yeah, okay, Jegran was pretty decent as far as voice acting goes. But he sounded a lot like Zhang Liao from Dynasty Warriors 5 and the narrator from Bobobo Bo Bo-bobo, so every time he spoke I kept picturing a mixture of those two characters. That kind of ruined him for me. Or maybe it made him better..?

[MSperoni]

Zhang Liao rules.

No that has nothing to do with anything to do with Crystal Bearers cos I will never play it and don't own a Wii and pretty much hate Final Fantasy now.. I was just checking this thread oh a whim (I always like reading people sinking their critical teeth into a game).

Saw ol' Zhang Liao mentioned and just had to say somethin'

[phil_]

I actually like Layle's disaffected, uninterested voice over. I felt for him as this guy in a world full of retarded people trying to just get by with his solid 100 IQ. Plus, every time Belle's like "ur stalkin me" he's like "Err, no. Why the heck would I give two shits about you outside of the crystal idol you obviously stole?" I'm like, yeah Layle, that's how I feel; get her off the screen as fast as you can, hero.

So I like the guy.

[Loyal]

He's fine at it when he's actually being disaffected and uninterested.

But when he gets a bit excited or impassioned about something he totally blows it. For instance, fast forward to about 1:50 here, and especially at 3:25 (spoilers within, of course). His voice cracking is almost audible.

Might as well throw this in as well, to highlight Belle's horribleness, and the fact that such an excellent actor was wasted on a throw-away boss.

[Kim]

Those of you who don't follow my Twitter might enjoy this little revelation I had earlier.

You guys remember how a year or two back Squeenix was trying really, really hard to get their hands on Tecmo?

That Xtreme Beach Butt-Bouncing being in the game makes sense now.