Hey there's no rush. It's not important.
I could do that, though I'm not sure how insightful it will be. I haven't played through the Saga series in years (meant to do another playthrough recently but got side tracked) but I'll see what I can do.
So I was looking over that Gears vs. Saga Thread from like a year ago where it was mainly you and NC arguing back and forth and I noticed you seem to like Yuriev? Was he your favorite Saga villain? He's mine and I'm just curious to read your thoughts on him Could post why you love him in the XS Thread if talking through VMs is too much of a hassle.
I hate to say it but I have to disagree. Cloud's character borrows heavily from Cecil's archetype and his story of self-identity is sort of a strange mishmash of Cecil's journey of redemption and Terra's struggle to find her place in the world. Granted, I do feel Cloud takes some elements from Fei (Masato Kato did work on both projects as a writer) such as a heavier emphasis on psychological issues and both games play with Disassociation Personality Disorder but I wouldn't go so far as to say that Cloud is necessarily unique from other main characters anymore than they are to begin with. Cecil was the first villain protagonist who turned good, Terra was the first protagonist who struggled with issues about identity, Squall was the first character that players truly got into his head and got to see his complete character, and Tidus was the first character whom the player experienced his early and later incarnations simultaneously through the use of narration and clever use of in median res. What makes Cloud unique is that he's the Anti-Bartz, Bartz was a nobody who learns that he is a somebody and his heroic deads are sort of a familial destiny. Cloud on the other hand, thinks he's somebody only to learn he's actually nobody, but the point is to give the message that even nobodies can be heroes if they put their minds to it (and get genetically modified by the bad guys to gain super powers). Fei's story is... well its complicated and I don't want to fill this page with another wall of text to get my point. Still I feel its a good topic and there is nothing wrong with making another Gears thread if you ask me.
I wanna make a topic about this but I have already made a couple Xenogears topics lately and I do talk about it too much... Doesn't it seem like Cloud is "out of place" in the FF series? That he has very little in common with any other Final Fantasy protagonist? As we both know, Xenogears was once supposed to be FFVII and it seems they took some of the ideas and concepts from early Xenogears and put them in VII. As a result, Cloud is much more like Fei than Cecil or Squall or any of them.
Yeah, a combination of family over the holidays and working this weekend has left me pretty tired so I haven't gotten around to it yet. Course, now that The Crystal has started posting in there, I'm probably going to have to post cause we got into this debate awhile back, so this should be amusing. I'm happy you finished FFIV and you are not so frustrated with it that you've actually started a new game. IV is a flawed game but one I keep close to my heart
I haven't seen any of your trademark tl'dr posts so maybe you're still busy with assignments like you said. But just wondering if you remember my Kefka/Kuja thread. Gotta say I am eagerly awaiting your reply. Same goes for FFIV. I'm playing through it a second time before I post all my thoughts on the story and whatnot but I really appreciated your responses to my FFXII topic so I'd like to see the same again. If you have the free time of course.
Nah, no worries, I only pointed out your thread cause I love Xenosaga and it drove my point home. I feel at this point, the two threads have become something different from each other.
Why don't you just merge my Xenosaga thread with that other one? My thread http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-g...-xenosaga.html Other one http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-g...a-battles.html Just read your post in the "sections not needed" thread and I did totally goof on making a very unnecessary thread.
Thanks a lot. ^^
