6 things you may not have known about FFVI

[Hollycat]

a shop, a place to sleep and another shop.

[champagne supernova]

a shop, a place to sleep and another shop.

That seems kinda arbitrary.

[Hollycat]

2 seperate shops and a place to sleep = town

[champagne supernova]

2 seperate shops and a place to sleep = town

No, I got what you meant. But why is this the definition. I wouldn't classify Balamb Garden as a town because there aren't any houses and everybody in there is an employee or a student of an organisation.

[Hollycat]

its a school so it doesnt count also, whereas tons of people live in figaro

[blackmage_nuke]

I agree, your definition of town is arbitrary, is Zozo not a town because it doesnt have a working shop (besides that one guy selling rust rid) or a resting place?

[espritduo]

Balamb Garden is a town as much as Figaro Castle. A town is a town if it is treated as such in the game, simple as that. I think the main central idea of a town is that it is a place where a group of people live together as a community. Applying any further rules beyond that is completely arbitrary.

Mobliz has no shop after its destruction, yet it is still a town because people still live there. Bevelle in FFX has no shop or place to rest, yet it is the largest city in FFX. Conversely, you can rest in the crazy old man's house in FFVI, and even buy supplies from a merchant there. Does that make it a town? Oh wait, you need two shops to be a town.

People live in Balamb Garden, and while it is not a town in the traditional sense because it is primarily a school, neither is Figaro Castle, which is primarily a castle and seat of power, not a town. But people live in these places as a community, so it is not incorrect to call either of them a town. Furthermore, South Figaro and Figaro Castle could be consider part of the same over-arching political region known as "Figaro", and thus one town with two different locations. Baron and Baron Castle fit this just the exact same way, but Baron Castle just happens to be much closer to Baron than Figaro Castle to Figaro. Places like Cornelia(FFI), Fynn(FFII), Salonia(FFIII), Baron(FFIV), and Walse(FFV) all have castles separate from the main town on the world map, but they are all generally consider one town.

EDIT: And I guess I should point out the obvious fact that the two places in question don't have the same name to begin with. One is called Figaro Castle and the other is South Figaro. Saying they have the same name is like saying Virginia and West Virginia have the same name.

[Greatermaximus]

Without complicated legal dispute, you can say places without the same name. There has been more than one FF where the party visits that has almost an identical name as another location.

255. There are similar situations about the first and last part. Terra fights Espers and becomes knocked out after the events. Though how relevant is some of this stuff?

[Flying Mullet]

The spirit of this thread's been lost. Honestly, only two dozen or so of these items are list worthy. The rest are obvious details you don't consciously register when playing because they're obvious. I could add 200 more items like "FFVI is the only Final Fantasy to have a main character with the name of Celes." or "It's the last Final Fantasy to br produced on the Super Nintendo/Famicom." The goal was to list "wow-worthy" things, not inane details.

And to the Balamb/town argument, I'll quote the immortal HOOTERS, "You can argue about which piece of poo is better, but at the end of the day they are still pieces of poo, " a.k.a. who cares?

[blackmage_nuke]

I thought some of the "this is one of the three ff's to do such and such" were a bit blah.

[Wolf Kanno]

The spirit of this thread's been lost. Honestly, only two dozen or so of these items are list worthy. The rest are obvious details you don't consciously register when playing because they're obvious. I could add 200 more items like "FFVI is the only Final Fantasy to have a main character with the name of Celes." or "It's the last Final Fantasy to br produced on the Super Nintendo/Famicom." The goal was to list "wow-worthy" things, not inane details.

And to the Balamb/town argument, I'll quote the immortal HOOTERS, "You can argue about which piece of poo is better, but at the end of the day they are still pieces of poo, " a.k.a. who cares?

Says the guy who runs and FFVI fansite, I find the inane details to be amusing and fun. Things players may not notice, but are still interesting. This thread isn't really for the die-hard VI fans, its more for the casual fans. So stop being so nitpicky unless you want to actually add some things you consider to be truly "worthy" of the thread.

For the most part, I've been trying to avoid the major obvious ones, hence the reason why the SNES one you mention hasn't shown up.

I thought some of the "this is one of the three ff's to do such and such" were a bit blah.

They can't all be gems. Its 240+ on the list, I'm surprised we haven't started repeating ourselves.

As for the Figaro.South Figaro thing, I'm not counting it cause its still the Kingdom Figaro. According to the supplement materials, S.Figaro was created as a temporary establishment when Figaro castle was badly damaged during the first test run of the submarine function. Overall, I like to think of S.Figaro as the "town" portion of the Figaro Kingdom to Figaro Castle being just the "castle". It's like how in FFIV, their is the Kingdom of Baron, but its split into a castle portion and a town portion, whereas no other country does this.

[blackmage_nuke]

but where does it end? FFVI allows you to name all of the permanently playable cast, only around 50% of ff's allow you to do this!

[VeloZer0]

As for the Figaro.South Figaro thing, I'm not counting it cause its still the Kingdom Figaro. According to the supplement materials, S.Figaro was created as a temporary establishment when Figaro castle was badly damaged during the first test run of the submarine function. Overall, I like to think of S.Figaro as the "town" portion of the Figaro Kingdom to Figaro Castle being just the "castle". It's like how in FFIV, their is the Kingdom of Baron, but its split into a castle portion and a town portion, whereas no other country does this.

Across a desert and through a monster infested cave? That has to be the single worst instance of urban planning I have ever heard of.

[Flying Mullet]

White flight knows no bounds.

[Slothy]

Across a desert and through a monster infested cave? That has to be the single worst instance of urban planning I have ever heard of.

Well you're not going to build the town in a desert or a monster infested cave are you? Really, with Narshe to the north where the hell else are you going to put it.

Granted we're talking about urban planning done by the same company that builds houses without bathrooms despite the fact that they clearly have the technology to build indoor plumbing. Can we really expect that much from them?